Women of ancient Athens used clothing pins as weapons, prompting a shift in Ancient Greek fashion and societal control.

Editor’s Note: This feature is part of a wider CNN Style series on how culture in China is evolving in the Xi Jinping era. Beijing, China CNN — When Zhang Lingshan was a child, she would watch the ...

Even thousands of years ago people wore clothing with colorful patterns made from plant and animal-based dyes. Chemists have created new analytical methods to examine textiles from China and Peru that ...

Ochre is an iron-rich mineral pigment that was used by many ancient civilizations for color, decoration and practical tasks such as preserving animal hides and tanning clothing. Recent analysis of ...

The bone fragment from four different angles, with a white scale bar representing one centimeter. The flat side of the bone contains puncture marks that suggest it was a punch board used for tailoring ...