It turns out, she says, that "there's much more to eyeliner than meets the eye." Hankir's account starts in ancient Egypt and spans much of the world, where people of all genders line their eyes. In ...

In southern Iraq and in Egypt, men and women alike painted kohl around their eyes to make them look larger as well as to protect them from the evil eye. This thick black ointment, made of ground lead ...

Pots like these were used to store make-up and cosmetics. Ancient Egyptians decorated their eyes with black kohl eyeliner. Both men and women painted their eyes. Lamps in Ancient Egypt burnt oil ...

Her character's intricate eyeliner, traced all the way to her temples, became quickly iconic. While ancient-Egyptian eyeliner, called kohl, would have been used for cosmetics, it wasn't its only ...