QUICK FACTS
Name: Merit's wig
What it is: A styled wig made from human hair
Where it is from: Luxor, Egypt
When it was made: Circa 1425 to 1353 B.C.
In 1906, archaeologists discovered this wig of an Egyptian woman known as Merit when excavating her tomb, which she shared with her husband Kha, in Luxor (known in ancient times as Thebes). Archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli wrote that the wig, made from dark-brown human hair, was still shining from the perfumed oils that had been applied to it more than three millennia before it was found.
