The world's oldest cosmetic face cream, complete with the finger marks of its last user 2,000 years ago, has been found by archaeologists excavating a Roman temple on the banks of London's River ...

Make-up used by the "footballers' wives" of Roman times is on display at an antiquity festival in south Wales. At the Roman "military spectacular" in Caerleon cosmetics expert Sally Pointer will show ...

The 2,000-year-old tin of face cream found in Roman ruins The first analysis of a rare Roman skin cream shows that it is similar to modern equivalents and suggests that women went to the same lengths ...

BRISTOL, England, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Scientists at Britain's Bristol University have analyzed and reproduced a cosmetic face cream used by ancient Roman women. The researchers found the cream was made ...

Fashionable women in ancient Rome applied a beauty cream that wasn't all that different from today's cosmetics, researchers say. Archeologists in London found a rare pot with a lid containing a ...