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27 Temmuz 2021 Aakash Nair
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6000 x 4000 İndir

Making balls of kyphi

The dough has been rolled into pellets

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Ancient Egypt and the culture of perfume.

The use of smelly components in Egyptian daily life: Kyphi, incense and other perfume.

Incense was considered the “Fragrance of the Gods” in Ancient Egypt. Making incense meant in a mysterious way creating the body of the gods and communicating with them. Do you know that the...

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