Even the Ancient Egyptians Loved Their Hair Extensions
Ancients: They’re just like us! Archeologists have discovered the remains of an Egyptian woman from around the time of 1335 B.C. whose hair was styled with more than 70 extensions. No word whether her hairdresser took her secret to the grave.
LiveScience reported on the finding, the work of archeologists on the Amarna Project, a big dig at the site of a capital city built three-thousand-plus years ago by Pharaoh Akhenaten (which was promptly abandoned once he’d kicked the bucket). The woman (who wasn’t mummified) was found wearing “a very complex coiffure with approximately 70 extensions fastened in different layers and heights on the head.”