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In Ancient Egypt there was almost no record of footwear. The main evidence that shows there was footwear was the pictorial stories (more commonly known as Heiroglyphs), the Heiroglyphs showed every class of person, fom the rulling pharaoh to the lowly worker, going bare foot. This means that footwear was of very little importance.
 * __Ancient Egyptian Footwear:__**

Historians are not sure why sandles were suddenly wew suddenly introduces, but at the start of the new kingdom peiriod of Egyptian history about 1500 B.C.E, sandles suddenly began to appear on Heiroglyphs.

Egyptians developed an advanced skill in shoemaking, they created sandles from woven reeds or leather, quite similar in design in many modern sandles today. Though the design were simple, wealthy people still found ways to adorn them. Some had buckles on them made from precious metals, others has jewls embedded in the woven soles. Some other designs had turned up at the toes, most likely to keep the sand out of their shoes.

There is very little evidence of the use of covered shoes in Ancient Egypt, there were a few that have been found, which were woven from palm fibres and grass. They seemed to be prized possesions. Sometimes travelers removed them to keep them safe and put them back on at the journeys end, Other shoes were found in tombs indicating that they were important items to the dead in the afterlife.

**__Ancient Egyptian Hairstyles:__** In Ancient Egypt, hairstyles established a persons rank in society. Egyptian Children, boys and girls, had their head shaved off with the exception with one lock of hair on the side of their head. With the onset of puberty, boys would shave the rest of their heads, girls on the other hand would wear their hair in plaits or a ponytail style down the middle at the back of their heads. Hair could be weighted with accessories that would adorn the hair, also it would keep it hanging straight.

The same as modern women, Ancient Egyptian woman could maintain a hairstyle that was either short or long. They preferred hair smooth with chin length bobs. For women in the New Kingdom who had longer hair, they would wear wigs which would usually be decorated with flowers or ribbons.

**__Ancient Egyptian Jewelry:__**

Jewelry has played many roles in Ancient Egypt. In addition man's natural attraction to beautiful items, jewelry had a magical and religious significance in the Ancient Egyptian world by protecting the one that wears it from evil. Egyptian jewelry has been around for over 3000 years. The most popular pieces were made in the New Kingdom, but they were making jewelry from the start of their civilization.

At first, jewelry was made from natural stones and wood then it went to making it from bones and branches, after that they would paint it and they started using gold. Jewelry was worn by both men and women. Jewelry was used for decorative adornments and religious significance. Egyptians did not feel the need to change the shapes of their gems, they considered it to be undesirable to make any changes.

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