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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;elarnia, post: 1142731, member: 159&quot;]Christmasjoy - your story reminded me of a passage from one of my favorite books of all time - Will Cuppy&#039;s &quot;Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody&quot; on the subject of early Egypt:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><i>It seems, though, that Hetepheres II, one of Khufu&#039;s daughters, was a blonde, perhaps the first of actual record. She is shown with bright yellow hair, striped horizontally with red, in a wall painting in the tomb of Meresankh III, and certain scholars draw the conclusion that she must therefore have had a mother with the same coloring – probably a foreigner, since all the Egyptian women were brunettes.I am afraid those are the only facts available at present. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>If you want to make trouble, of course, you can say the picture does not prove either that Hetepheres II&#039;s hair was like that in real life or that her mother was a blonde who was buried in G I-b. It does prove, rather neatly, that the artist who decorated the tomb of Meresankh III had some red and yellow paint. <b> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></b></i></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Cheers[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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