For fashion-setting entrepreneurs on more distant islands, the white shells would have seemed a rare treasure, one worth the lengthy travel to Tahiti to bring back live tree snails and raise them.

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 ...

Did Neanderthals wear clothing, jewelry or other accessories? There's not much in the archaeological record to suggest so, but researchers are turning to indirect evidence for clues about ancient ...

Since Otzi the Iceman was discovered on a glacier near the Italian-Austrian border in 1991, his mummified body has been a constant source of study, with researchers working laboriously to discover ...

The rare and remarkable relic of ancient fashion history discovered in Egypt’s Tarkhan Cemetery, south of Cairo. The Tarkhan Dress dated between 3482 and 3102 BC being the oldest known complex ...

As Fashion Week winds down in New York, scientists continue their own search for the very latest in ancient fashion—latest meaning oldest. They're asking one seemingly simple question: Who invented ...

‘You can’t go home again’ — goes the expression popularised by American author Thomas Wolfe’s eponymous novel. When we return to a place from the past it’s never the same as we remember it. Things ...