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Theophrastos (ca. 270–285 BCE; On Odors), Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE; Natural History), and Dioskourides (ca. 40–90 CE; On Medical Material) all discussed perfumery. A temple to Athena in Elis, near Olympia, was said to have saffron blended into its wall plaster, allowing the interior to remain fragrant for 500 years. [13]
Flip-flops — Thong sandals have been worn for thousands of years, dating back to pictures of them in ancient Egyptian murals from 4,000 BC. Ancient Egyptian sandals were made from papyrus and palm leaves. [253] Hair gel — Analysis of ancient Egyptian mummies has shown that they styled their hair using a fat-based gel. The researchers behind ...
Image Year No. Description Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah epic 2008 00075: Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah is an epic oral poem that recounts the tale of the journey of the Bedouin tribe of the Banu Hilal from Najd in Arabia to Tunisia and Algeria via Egypt. Tahteeb, stick game 2016 01189: Tahteeb is a traditional stick-fighting martial art.
Egyptian artifacts dating to this era have been found in Canaan [13] and other regions of the Near East, including Tell Brak [14] and Uruk and Susa [15] in Mesopotamia. By the second half of the 4th millennium BCE, the gemstone lapis lazuli was being traded from its only known source in the ancient world— Badakhshan , in what is now ...
Sold for: $2.5 million Albert, Texas, is tiny — its population was listed at a whopping seven people in 2015 — but that didn’t stop a private investor from dropping two and a half million ...
The ancient Egyptians created a remedy for burns by mixing the cheek and lip stain with red natron, northern salt, and honey. [9] The Ebers Papyrus, a collection of Egyptian medical recipes dating to circa 1550 BC, shows the usual galena pigment could also be combined with specific ingredients to create eye paints that were intended to treat eye infection. [10]
Drugs and weapons abound on the black market -- but one commonplace household item is also traded like a commodity.
Early ritual texts from Egypt show that incense was being brought to the upper Nile by land traders, but perhaps the most spectacular evidence of this trade is provided by the frescos dated to around 1500 BC on the walls of the temple at Thebes commemorating the journey of a fleet that the Queen of Egypt had sent to the Land of Punt. [6]