In the town of Cotacachi, Ecuador, which bustles with more than 50 leather artisans and shops, one family still holds on to a centuries-old tanning recipe. A strong smell of salt, leather and wet fur ...

Found at the Roman fort of Vindolanda, this piece of leather was cut into the shape of a mouse. The Vindolanda Trust Researchers at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in northern England recently discovered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists excavating a Roman-era fort in northern England have unearthed several enormous ancient leather soles that measure ...

Rare leather fragments uncovered recently in the depths of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square will help Egyptologists to solve the mystery of the Pharaohs’ leather chariots During routine ...

The phylacteries Jews used in the Holy Land over 2,000 years ago were probably the color of their natural leather, not dyed black as mandated by Jewish Law today, according to a PLOS ONE study ...

The 2.5 metre, 4,000-year-old artefact, containing spells and depictions of gods, is both the longest and oldest leather manuscript from ancient Egypt A leather manuscript more than 4,000 years old ...

In the 5th century BCE, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (ca. 484 – 420 BCE) described the nomadic Scythian peoples living in the Eurasian steppes. Like a lot of written history, things can be ...

Forgotten drawers in Egyptian museum yield 'astonishing' leather find. The beautifully preserved leather trappings of an ancient Egyptian chariot have been rediscovered in a storeroom of the Egyptian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo of a quiver next to an illustation of it above . The ancient Scythians — nomadic warriors and pastoralists who flourished ...

Rare leather fragments uncovered recently in the depths of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square will help Egyptologists to solve the mystery of the Pharaohs’ leather chariots During routine ...