Roman cosmetic secrets revealed
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The fashion conscious women of Roman Britain used a tin-based foundation to get a pale and appealing look. The evidence comes from a sealed pot of ointment found at an archaeological dig in Southwark, south London, last year.
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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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The Metropolitan Museum's show is a sumptuous assemblage of animal products used to keep humans warm, make them look good and ratchet up their social status.
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These cosmetics makers have the ability to work investors into a lather.
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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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The billions of microbes that live on human skin also appear to change composition as quickly as shifting fashion trends, a new report reveals.
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Key graphics product touched up with tools to mimic oils and watercolors.
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an ancient Roman beauty cream made of refined animal fat and tin-oxide -- have recreated the formula. They found that contains
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Some are made with clay, others with colourful tin foil, and a few carved in wood. One includes human teeth, and two of the rarest were worn by revellers who often collapsed dead after days of dancing, drinking and sex.
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ROME - One day a vandal, the next an artist. That is the story of the baseball-capped culprit who dumped a bottle of dye into Rome's famed Trevi Fountain on Friday, turning the waters blood red.
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A 1,800-year-old sealed pot of ointment found in London last year was most probably a cosmetic foundation, say scientists.
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SHIPKA, BulgariaA Bulgarian archaeologist has unearthed a 2,400-year-old golden mask in the tomb of an ancient Thracian king  a find he says is unrivalled in the study of classical antiquity.
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Opening a show on body decoration through the ages at Paris's Musee Dapper is a series of giant black and white photographs of modern-day body art -- implants under the skin, scarring, tattoos and piercings.
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A chemist who worked on testing of the Shroud of Turin says new analysis of the fiber indicates the cloth that some say was the burial linen of Jesus could be up to 3,000 years old.
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Cosmetic face cream used by fashionable Roman women was discovered at an ongoing archaeological dig in London, in a metal container, complete with the lid and contents.
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About a half-dozen Web sites have emerged in the past few years to cater to interests of those immersed in the world of classical men's clothing.
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Pencil and paper are so last-century. New software developed by international researchers can create and manipulate 3-D models of ancient inscribed artifacts.