Ancient Egyptian cosmetics: 'Magical' makeup may have been medicine for eye disease Date: January 12, 2010 Source: American Chemical Society Summary: There's more to the eye makeup that gave Queen ...

Artifacts and documents from ancient Egypt show that everyone, man or woman from servant to queen, wore black and ... ancient Egyptian manuscripts, the eye makeup was believed to have a magical ...

The elaborate eye makeup worn by Queen Nefertiti and ... and X-ray diffraction to analyze 52 samples from containers of Egyptian makeup preserved at the Louvre. They found that the makeup was ...

The ancient Egyptian royals sure loved their eye makeup. Look at Queen Nefertiti up there. The ancients believed their makeup not only looked good, but protected them against health problems.

Coming of age as a Muslim with Lebanese and Egyptian ... cured eye infections, warded off evil spirits and honored the gods. I considered kohl my most important makeup item in that it offered ...

The earliest eye paint in ancient Egypt was a thick, bright green paste made from the mineral malachite. By the time Queen Cleopatra came to power in the 1st century BC, Egyptian women had at ...

Guyliner is nothing new: Egyptian pharaohs streaked their ... just a little bit, above his eye… [Elvis] loved eye makeup." In the 1970s and '80s, rock stars like Mick Jagger, David Bowie and ...

When Queen Nefertiti’s bust was revealed ... Vogue had already taken an interest in ancient Egyptian fashion. “The art of makeup, too, is as old as Egypt and played an important part in ...

Sponsor Message This deep dive into eyeliner begins in the 14th century BCE, with the singular Egyptian Queen Nefertiti ... fascinating themes about the way makeup serves as a mechanism to ...

Scientists have discovered sealed jars of wine from 5,000 years ago in an Egyptian queen's tomb. The find, one of the oldest ever, was among the "grave goods" for Queen Meret-Neith in Abydos ...

More than two millennia ago, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra found herself in a ... as politically correct,” he told Middle East Eye. “My understanding is that the Egyptian backlash is less ...