The most refined beauty rituals were carried out at the toilettes of wealthy Egyptian women. A typical regimen for such a woman living during the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1650 B.C.) would have ...

One of the arguments is that the veil represents the entry of the women into the public sphere. It is what allows them to be political beings. All of our standards of beauty and anything that is ...

amassing millions of followers for their video snippets set to catchy Egyptian club-pop tracks. In their respective 15-second clips, the women wearing makeup pose in cars, dance in kitchens and ...

Yet women enjoyed extensive legal rights. Egyptian culture recognized a wife ... and they had access to makeup. This involved grinding minerals to make a paste. Ground serpentine made a green ...

Egyptian women rarely report being harassed ... saying they provoke harassment by wearing tight clothing or too much makeup. Others who have influence in the society -- including Egypt’s ...

Activist Maissan Hassan talks about trying to secure the place of Egyptian women in the history ... witty are attached to male characters, while beauty and physical appearance are attached to ...

A recent discovery has lead researchers to believe that ancient Egyptian women were adorned with lower ... who ruled over love, beauty, revelry, fertility and pleasure. “The hypothesis is ...