How Has Modern Civilization Impacted Ancient Egypt?
Here is the answer if you mean ‘How has modern civilization been impacted by Ancient Egypt?’. Modern civilization hasn’t really impacted Ancient Egypt because that society has long gone. Though, modern civilization has destroyed and ransacked ancient tombs, grave robbers destroyed tombs way back when and mummies have been destroyed as I will mention later on. Modern Civilization has been impacted by Ancient Egyptian in many ways. Make up made out of natural dyes and elements that they found in nature, in modern times, the ‘natural’ make up trend and the whole ‘cat eye’ look has roots in Egypt. The Egyptians used Kohl (a mix of galena and soot), green eyeshadow (malachite crushed and turned into a paste), henna was used as a hair dye (and is one of the ingredients in modern hair color to turn hair red) and was also turned into a paste to paint the nails. The ‘cat eye’ look worn by those such as Amy Winehouse and other famous people is very very similar to the Egyptian ‘Eye of Ra’ that t
