1800 years old Roman bronze tweezers and manicure rasp found in Turkey
By ANIThursday, July 29, 2010
ANKARA - Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman personal care set at Myra-Andriake in Antalya’s district of Demre, Turkey.
Professor Nevzat Cevi, an academic from Akdeniz University’s Archeology Department and colleagues excavated an 1800-year-old pair of bronze tweezers and a manicure rasp at Andriake Port.
“Now, we are aware that the Lycian women of the Roman period 1,800 years ago were living well-groomed by using a pair of tweezers, rasp and mirror,” The Hurriyet Daily News quoted Cevi as saying.
Meanwhile, a team of Swedish scientists have unearthed a dildo-like object, about 4 inches (10.5 cm) long and 0.8 inches (2 cm) in diameter, according to LiveScience.
“Your mind and my mind wanders away to make this interpretation about what it looks like - for you and me, it signals this erected-penis-like shape,” said archaeologist G�ran Gruber of the National Heritage Board in Sweden, who worked on the excavation.
Gruber suggested that in addition to its obvious use, the object might have been used as a tool, such as to chip flakes of flint. (ANI)
