Roman beauty secrets revealed in 1,800-year-old tin of make-up
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this was the foundation that fashionable women in Roman London would put on their faces before an evening or day out. Scientists
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Valerie Steele's "Glamour: Fashion, Film, Fantasy" at the Fashion Institute of Technology lends particular importance to the golden age of Hollywood.
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An ancient coin's unflattering images suggest that both Roman general Mark Antony and his lover Cleopatra may not have been the beauties portrayed in books and film.
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Nicholas Ostler's history charts Latin's rise and fall. Harry Mount's short primer makes a passionate case for studying the language.
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The Shroud of Turin is much older than suggested by 1980s radiocarbon dating, a new chemical study suggests.
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A show within the show: puffed hair, masked faces and even a light sculpture.
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Wine, the elixir of the gods, may be as old as human history, and a team of archaeologists who combine their science with chemistry has found evidence that Chinese were already enjoying sips of fermented rice, honey and fruit in the late Stone Age, more
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A shopping list written around 300 years ago has been discovered in an 18th-century Chinese vase in Britain, the cleaner who found it said Thursday.
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Humans evolved into the way they look today probably because of the need to cover long distances, scientists said today.
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A study of a 2000-year-old calculator, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, reveals more about its use
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Bulgarian archaeologists have found what they claim is Europe's oldest skeleton, which they have named "Julia Roberts" because the woman was a "rare beauty" with a nearly flawless set of teeth.
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LONDON - Fashionable women in ancient Rome applied a beauty cream that wasn&#39;t all that different from today&#39;s cosmetics, researchers say.
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A Bulgarian archaeologist has unearthed an ancient gold mask and a ring featuring an "Olympic" rower in what he called an unrivalled find in the study of classical antiquity.
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Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
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Archaeologists say they have unearthed jewels dating back 5,000 years, possible proof of Europe's earliest civilisation.
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New findings suggest that some Neanderthals were fair-skinned and redheaded.
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Ancient Roman women had beautiful skin, apparently, they had a foundation skin cream which until recently, no one knew how to reproduce.