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 ...

For centuries people have used cosmetics to enhance or decorate the human figure for aesthetic or religious purposes. The earliest archaeological evidence of the use of cosmetics can be traced back to ...

Ancient Egyptians decorated their eyes with black kohl eyeliner. Both men and women painted their eyes. Lamps in Ancient Egypt burnt oil made from plant sources such as castor, sesame or linseed.

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 ...