their artists idealized them in painting the men red, the women yellow; perhaps these colors were merely cosmetic styles.
The man of the people, however, is pictured as short and squat, like the "Sheik-el-Beled," formed by heavy toil and an unbalanced ration; his features are rough, his nose blunt and wide; he is intelligent but coarse.
Perhaps, as in so many other instances, the people and their rulers were of different races: the rulers of Asiatic, the people of African, derivation.
The ancient egyptians appearance of the hair was dark, sometimes curly, but never woolly.
Women bobbed their hair in the most modern mode; men shaved lips and chin, but consoled themselves with magnificent wigs.
Often, in order to wear these more comfortably, they shaved the head; even the queen consort (e.g., Ikhnaton's mother Tiy) cut off all her hair to wear more easily the royal wig and crown.
It was a matter of rigid etiquette that the king should have the biggest wig.