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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In its golden age, Hollywood excelled at manufacturing stars, large and small. This book explains how the machine worked.
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The image of Neanderthals may be in need of a makeover: scientists say at least some of these extinct hominids could have had fair skin and red hair.
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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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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece as seen through the eyes of Hyperides, an important fourth-century Athenian orator and politician.
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Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.
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Scientists have pieced together how a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator was built, revealing an astounding level of craftsmanship for its time.
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The stunning sale of a tiny antiquity has increased interest in the once-overlooked market for ancient coins, sculpture and pottery
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A show within the show: puffed hair, masked faces and even a light sculpture.
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In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
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The number of kinds of louse that people can carry sheds light on when humans lost their body hair, and when they first made clothing.
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"Permanent makeup" -- a kind of tattoo of the lips, eyelids and eyebrows undergone by more than 8 million U.S. women -- can for years disfigure patients who suffer allergic reactions, federal researchers said on Wednesday.
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Archaeologists in England have uncovered a treasure trove of Roman artifacts, including a 1,700-year-old "curse tablet" that asks for divine vengeance for a stolen cloak.
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So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the celebrated queen of Egypt as a sharp-nosed, thin-lipped woman with a protruding chin.
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The Jacopo Tintoretto show at the Prado Museum in Madrid is a model of connoisseurship and smart editing.
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A British biochemist says women who use make-up daily are absorbing almost five pounds of chemicals a year.  Richard Bence, who advocates the use of organic beauty products, said people should question the products they put on their skin, The Telegraph newspaper said Thursday.
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Life & style: Gallery:  Don't underestimate the power of these little shiny details.