In a message dated 7/18/2003 4:48:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Were there scissors in Roma? I saw Gabrielle's hair > being cut in Xena's Episode _When Fates Collide_ > > Alberto Monteiro I would bet there were scissors in Egypt. And yup.... http://f.about.com/z/js/spr08sm.htm >From "Emar, Capital of Astata, in the Fourteenth Century BCE" By Jean-Claude Margueron: "Besides ceramics, occasionally collected in large quantities, the houses produced stone and metallic objects illustrating both day-to-day needs and the activities of city merchants: beer filters; containers; arrow and javelin heads; scales of armor; needles and scissors; long nails; bronze scrapers; millstones; mortars; many kinds of grindstones; pestles; various tools; and stone rings." William Taylor -------------------- Veni, vedi, Velveeta _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
