Sunday, September 18, 2011

What was the concept of beauty during the Ancient Egyptian times?

I am writing a report about the concept of beauty and how it has changed over time. For some reason i can not find out about the Ancient Egyptian times.


does anyone know?|||In Egyptian art, the ideal form is a youthful and slim figure with narrow hips, which anthropometric studies of pharaonic mummies have revealed is a fair representation of reality, at least in the case of Egyptian women. Furthermore, their hip to shoulder proportions are not greatly different from those found in male Egyptian mummies. While both sexes may be depicted in this way, representations of males are more likely to vary from the ideal.|||Best source is tomb paintings.|||They hated body hair - they considered it filthy.

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