The remains of a 3,300-year-old woman who wore a complex hairstyle with 70 hair extensions was discovered in the ancient city of Armana. Credit: Photo by Jolanda Bos and Lonneke Beukenholdt
Posted on 09/21/2014 12:13:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
More than 3,300 years ago, in a newly built city in Egypt, a woman with an incredibly elaborate hairstyle of lengthy hair extensions was laid to rest.
She was not mummified, her body simply being wrapped in a mat. When archaeologists uncovered her remains they found she wore "a very complex coiffure with approximately 70 extensions fastened in different layers and heights on the head," writes Jolanda Bos, an archaeologist working on the Amarna Project, in an article recently published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.
Researchers don't know her name, age or occupation, but she is one of hundreds of people, including many others whose hairstyles are still intact, who were buried in a cemetery near an ancient city now called Amarna.
This city was constructed as a new capital of Egypt by Akhenaten (reign ca. 1353-1335 B.C.), a pharaoh who unleashed a religious revolution that saw the Aten, a deity shaped as a sun disk, assume supremacy in Egyptian religion...
"Whether or not the woman had her hair styled like this for her burial only is one of our main research questions," said Bos in an email to Live Science. "The hair was most likely styled after death, before a person was buried. It is also likely, however, that these hairstyles were used in everyday life as well and that the people in Amarna used hair extensions in their daily life."
...As Bos analyzed a selection of 100 recently excavated skulls (of which 28 still had hair) from the Armana cemetery, she noticed the people who lived in the ancient city had a wide variety of hair types. They range "from very curly black hair, to middle brown straight," she noted in the journal article, something "that might reflect a degree of ethnic variation."
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
The remains of a 3,300-year-old woman who wore a complex hairstyle with 70 hair extensions was discovered in the ancient city of Armana. Credit: Photo by Jolanda Bos and Lonneke Beukenholdt
What? Another one of *those* topics?!?
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Yeah, saw her in NYC not too long ago.
Helen Thomas never looked better.
Hair extensions just like the women in HollyWeird!
What?! We didn’t discover wigs, or hair extensions, or sex?
Really, you’d think the pharoahs popping on fake beards would give us a clue. There were even a couple of female pharoahs who donned “the beard”.
the original hair hatted hooligan...
Obviously a candidate of the Whig Party.
3,300 years and women haven’t changed a lick....still worried about their hairdo in this life and the next....
Did she have an EBT card in her well-manicured hand?
Queen Nefertiti - Greatest Mystery of Ancient Egypt
FOR SURE!
“There were even a couple of female pharoahs who donned “the beard”.”
There’s a current American president who married a beard.
Her hairdresser told her, “Lady, I do good work. These hair extensions will outlast either of us.”
(Originally Luxor hair extensions ;)
Wow.
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