Remains of Egyptian woman with 70 hair extensions found

The remains of a woman who lived 3,300 years ago in the ancient Egyptian city of Armana has been found, complete with an elaborate hairstyle made up of 70 hair extensions.

She was not mummified, her body simply being wrapped in a mat. When archaeologists uncovered her remains they found she wore “a very complex coiffure with approximately 70 extensions fastened in different layers and heights on the head,” writes Jolanda Bos, an archaeologist working on the Amarna Project, in an article recently published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.

Researchers don’t know her name, age or occupation, but she is one of hundreds of people, including many others whose hairstyles are still intact, who were buried in a cemetery near an ancient city now called Amarna.

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Story: Owen Jarus, LiveScience | Photo: Jolanda Bos and Lonneke Beukenholdt