I've been trying to look up the history of hairbrushes for this, but while the internet is full of evidence for hair combs dating to Paleolithic times and being common in Classical civilizations, the first modern hairbrush began manufacture in the 1700s, and is often claimed to have been a new invention then (for use on human hair being new, supposedly inspired by brooms) at that time. All the easily-found online references to hairbrushes being found in Egyptian tombs seem to go back to a single blog post about hair care, and not to any museum or Egyptology site.
If we elect this prompt, I may look into consulting better resources more directly...
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Date: 3/17/25 02:27 pm (UTC)I've been trying to look up the history of hairbrushes for this, but while the internet is full of evidence for hair combs dating to Paleolithic times and being common in Classical civilizations, the first modern hairbrush began manufacture in the 1700s, and is often claimed to have been a new invention then (for use on human hair being new, supposedly inspired by brooms) at that time. All the easily-found online references to hairbrushes being found in Egyptian tombs seem to go back to a single blog post about hair care, and not to any museum or Egyptology site.
If we elect this prompt, I may look into consulting better resources more directly...