The World’s Oldest Face Cream

The World’s Oldest Face Cream

This little tin pot is 2,000 years old. The lid still bears the fingermarks of the person who last used it. The World’s Oldest Face Cream Archaeologists discovered the world’s oldest face cream in 2003 when they excavated a Roman temple on the banks of the...
Ancient Beauty II

Ancient Beauty II

Wealthy women treasured their cosmetics and implements 1500 years ago as we do today. Below is a wood, bronze and carved bone cosmetic box that was excavated from Pompeii. You can see a mirror on the left and other implements and jars. The cosmetic box shown below is...
Ancient Beauty

Ancient Beauty

Women who lived 1500 years ago (the time period of my second novel) were just as concerned with beauty as women are today. They used combs and mirrors, cosmetics and the implements to apply them, and wore jewelery. In the time period of Eleri’s Tale, only...
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