A mural from a tomb in Zhengzhou, China, depicting two ladies from the Han dynasty
Historical Chinese language artists of the late Jap Han interval (Public Area)
Unusual individuals in China could have been augmenting their appears to be like with make-up some 2000 years in the past. An evaluation of two residues discovered with a grooming package within the tomb of a commoner from the Han dynasty hints that there was a complicated beauty trade on the time.
Historical texts present a wealth of data on the lives of normal individuals from later dynasties, together with on the composition and value of cosmetics, says Meng Wu at Shandong …