Ancient Egyptian Art: Difference between revisions
From WikiDemocracy
Jump to navigationJump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 247: | Line 247: | ||
[https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ancient-egypt-beauty-ritual-artsy by Julia Wolkoff 3/3/20 CNN] | [https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ancient-egypt-beauty-ritual-artsy by Julia Wolkoff 3/3/20 CNN] | ||
The mysteries of the ancient Egyptians are vast, but their beauty tricks are no secret. Makeup might seem like a modern phenomenon – one that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry – but cosmetics were equally important to daily life in the ancient world. From the earliest era of the Egyptian empire, men and women from all social classes liberally applied eyeliner, eyeshadow, lipstick and rouge. | The mysteries of the ancient Egyptians are vast, but their beauty tricks are no secret. Makeup might seem like a modern phenomenon – one that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry – but cosmetics were equally important to daily life in the ancient world. From the earliest era of the Egyptian empire, men and women from all social classes liberally applied eyeliner, eyeshadow, lipstick and rouge. | ||
=====Unraveling the mysteries of ancient Egypt’s spellbinding mummy portraits===== | |||
[https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/egyptian-mummy-portraits by Alexxa Gotthardt 17/4/19 CNN] | |||
While ancient Egyptian mummy portraits have long been objects of curiosity, only a minimal amount of scholarship exists about them. Many questions have lingered since they were uncovered by archeologists around the Egyptian city of Fayum in the late 1800s. | |||
