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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]
The Bull Palette (French: palette célébrant une victoire) is the fragment of an Ancient Egyptian greywacke palette, carved in low relief and used, at least in principle, as a cosmetic palette for the grinding of cosmetics.
Egyptian Museum, Cairo Hunters Palette: 30.5 x 15 cm (12 x 6 in) British Museum (smaller fragment in Louvre) Libyan Palette (original, approximated: 70 x 25 cm) (ht x width) Egyptian Museum, Cairo (surviving dimensions: ~18.5 x ~21 cm, (7 x 8 in)) (ht x width) Min Palette El Amrah Palette – Narmer Palette Great Hierakonpolis Palette: 64 x 42 cm
Cosmetic palettes are archaeological artifacts, originally used in predynastic Egypt to grind and apply ingredients for facial or body cosmetics. The decorative palettes of the late 4th millennium BCE appear to have lost this function and became commemorative, ornamental, and possibly ceremonial.
Nearby the ancient Temple of Amarysia Artemis on the country’s second-largest island, archaeologists discovered another temple—this one from the 7th century BC.
Migrating Eurasian birds exhausted from their long journey come to rest in the wetlands of the Nile delta. Ancient Egyptians capitalized from the large flocks of birds and hunted them either for food, offerings to the dead and gods. Bird hunting through fowling with sticks was considered to be a sport practiced by royalty in ancient Egypt ...
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 ...
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