Household hacks and a Babylonian horse tale
The text offers tips for cleaning plaster statues with starch paste, painting springs to avoid rust marks, ivory cleaning with soap and salt, lemon juice on glued pieces, moleskin or felt to protect surfaces, and glass beading for mirrors. It closes with Kassite traders introducing the first known horse to Babylon around 2000 B C in the market.
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Marble cleaning recipe with salsoda and Fuller's earth
A strong solution of salsoda is prepared and mixed with Fuller's earth to form a paste. The marble should be coated with this paste and left undisturbed for at least twenty four hours before removal.
Ancient Sumer Women Used Tweezers By 3000 B C
The aged critic who dismissed modern fashion once viewed tweezed eyebrows as bold. Yet findings show women in ancient Sumer, a cultured Asiatic civilization, carried tweezers in vanity kits as early as 3000 B C.
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Sumer
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