Chinese and Italian volunteers dressed in hanfu in a parade at the Venice Carnival. XINHUA VENICE, Italy — Chinese traditional clothing made its debut at the Venice Carnival amid deepening cultural ...

Long before modern sunscreens, Homo sapiens may have found natural ways to protect themselves from the sun’s dangerous rays. Around 40,000 years ago, during a time of environmental upheaval, early ...

Pompeii casts showing victims in heavy wool clothes prompt researchers to question the long-accepted August timing of the AD ...

What did the Etruscans really look like? They lived in Italy, but the evidence suggests they came from elsewhere.

Throughout ancient times, bamboo products were favored as effective tools for staying cool during the summer. Bamboo mats and bamboo pillows provided reliable comfort. People also used small bamboo ...

She was a star of London’s post-punk D.I.Y. fashion, art and performance scene, and dressed a generation of rock stars in her ...

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language.

Cinema, which arrived in Tamil Nadu in the 1930s as a modern, technology-driven art form, was used with remarkable ...

Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio by Elizabeth Currie. It releases in December from Reaktion Books. More than any other ...

The Bustling World is an open world RPG game set in ancient China. You can farm, breed, craft, build, fight, kill, establish a regime, run a country, conduct diplomacy, wage war, create a city… ...