Skin Deep: Behind a Mysterious Balm, a Self-Made Pharaoh
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A product named Egyptian Magic, sold mainly by word of mouth, attracts celebrities.
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A cosmetic face cream used by fashionable women in ancient Roman times has been analysed by scientists at Bristol University, UK, and now reproduced.
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The face of a man who died and was mummified in Egypt 3,000 years ago has been modeled, using special CAT scans and without unwrapping his bandages, Italian researchers said on Wednesday.
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The intense motivations of a bizarre NBA superstar
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Egyptologists say they have identified the 3,000-year-old mummy of Egypt's most famous female ruler.
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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The story of an enslaved African royal who became a key figure in the abolitionist movement has remained largely obscure. But a new documentary has rediscovered it
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Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a 3,500-year-old corpse as female pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut, scientists are still analyzing the DNA to try to back up the claim aired on TV.
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A. J. Jacobs is a specialist in dubious achievements. This memoir details his reality-show version of living by rules set forth in the Bible.
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A new body is set to regulate a range of complementary therapies such as homeopathy and aromatherapy.
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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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Egyptologists say they have identified the 3,000-year-old mummy of Egypt's most powerful female ruler.
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An ancient native American cancer treatment is shown to have a beneficial effect, despite scepticism.
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For 13 years, mountaineer Helmut Simon had basked in the glory of his unique encounter with history. In 1991, the 67-year-old German discovered Otzi the Iceman, the perfectly preserved body of a Neolithic
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The first analysis of a rare Roman skin cream shows that it is similar to modern equivalents and suggests that women went to the same lengths to look beautiful two thousand years ago as they do today.
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Egypt&#39;s antiquities chief on Thursday revealed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza&#39;s three giant pyramids, containing 400 pinkie-finger-sized statues and six coffin-sized niches carved into granite rock.
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One undervalued drug developer may be on the cusp of greatness.