Egypt
New Scientist (Cian O'Luanaigh)
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/840/eg2.htmhttp://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/840/_eg2.htm (image of the hair)"There was excitement at the Egyptian Museum on Tuesday when dozens of Egyptian and foreign journalists and photographers crowded on the first floor...
- Off To The Land Of Punt
Two ancient baboon mummies will be examined to see if samples from their hair will reveal the location in Africa from which they were collected. There is hope that the results will point to the ancient land of Punt where Hatshepsut and other kings of...
Egypt
Ancient Egyptians believed in coiffure after death
New Scientist (Cian O'Luanaigh)
Ancient Egyptians wouldn't be caught dead without hair gel. Style in the afterlife was just as important as it was during life on Earth – and coiffure was key.
To this end, men and women alike would have their tresses styled with a fat-based "gel" when they were embalmed. The evidence of their vanity has been found in a community cemetery dating back 3000 years.
Tomb paintings depict people with cone-shaped objects sitting on their heads, thought to be lumps of scented animal fat. "Once we started looking [for these], we found interesting hairstyles," says Natalie McCreesh of the University of Manchester, UK. "The hair was styled and perfectly curled."
She and her colleagues examined hair samples from 15 mummies from the Kellis 1 cemetery in Dakhla oasis, Egypt, and a further three samples from mummies housed in museum collections in the US, the UK and Ireland.
- The Mummies And Their Age-old Tales
JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Egyptian Mummies As Commodities
Suite 101 (Jenn Ostrowski) From medicine to entertainment, many ancient Egyptians did not get the peace they sought after death despite their efforts to preserve their dead. Ancient Egyptians believed that after death their souls would survive, and that...
- Hair Extensions From Hierakonpolis
Pop Omnivore This post on the National Geographic's blog Pop Omnivore actually dates to October, but it is one of the items featured in the inaugural edition of the Carnival of Curiosities Blog Carnival (for an explanation of blog carnivals see the...
- More Re Ramesses Ii Hair
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/840/eg2.htmhttp://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/840/_eg2.htm (image of the hair)"There was excitement at the Egyptian Museum on Tuesday when dozens of Egyptian and foreign journalists and photographers crowded on the first floor...
- Off To The Land Of Punt
Two ancient baboon mummies will be examined to see if samples from their hair will reveal the location in Africa from which they were collected. There is hope that the results will point to the ancient land of Punt where Hatshepsut and other kings of...