Merit's head covering was made from real human hair and was buried with her in its own wooden cabinet.

Around the time when Barbara Zucker cofounded the country’s first all-women cooperative gallery, which opened in 1972 in New York City, her work took two turns. She started “excis[ing] the male model ...

A woman who grew up in Kennewick was featured Thursday on the front page of The Wall Street Journal for her work researching and recreating ancient hairstyles. The paper dubbed Janet Stephens "a ...

In ancient Indian sanskrit, the word "sneha" means "to oil," as well as "to love"—and that's no coincidence. As the 5,000-year-old Indian science of Ayurveda has fast gained traction within the modern ...

Archaeologists in Tunisia have uncovered an ancient marble mask with a Phoenician-style hairstyle at the Tophet site in ...

Researchers in Peru found a buried mummy that could date back a millennium. The body was found in a shallow grave sitting up right and buried with ancient artifacts. The remains were discovered at an ...