Around 1,700 years ago, a reindeer hunter lost a well-worn, patched up tunic. It turned up recently in Norway, after sections of the quickly melting Lendbreen glacier retreated. As glaciers around ...

In Scanno, a medieval village deep in the wild mountains of central Italy’s Abruzzo region, one woman dresses as if time has never moved on. At 94, Margherita Ciarletta — witty, fiercely independent ...

A model poses for a photo in a recreation of a Tang Dynasty (618-907) outfit by the Shanghai-based costumes restoration team. Photo: Courtesy of Hu Xiao A team member is tiding up a performer's attire ...

Mythical ancient creatures carved in gold and linked together to form an otherworldly necklace; mismatched emerald studs that look endearingly off-canter, and a grinning Pegasus with old-mine-cut ...

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 ...

Throughout her career, New York-based Angel Chang had worked with internationally acclaimed designers such as Chloé, of See By Chloé, and Donna Karan, and has written for publications from V Magazine ...

If you buy clothes in modern Japan, you can get cheap T-shirts for a few hundred yen. However, in times of ancient and medieval times when there was no mass production technology, clothes were ...

AN ANCIENT Egyptian teenage girl has been found buried with her ‘bridal jewellery’. The treasures buried with the mummy in the 3,600 year old coffin are thought to be a dowry of expensive items that ...

Numerous legends of the mummy's curse are whispered in archaeological circles, most without any substance behind them, but a team of Chilean researchers may have just discovered evidence to back it up ...