How Sharp Is The History Of Scissors? with Teresa Collenette
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
00:00
The History of Scissors
There's a kind of mystery about scissors, which i love. And the same could be said about how they can af came to be. Do we know an like, the first scissors wigwins or first evidence of scissors? I think originally they probably had to. If they were going to cut their hair, t would be with a knife. But definitely, in ancient egypt, they did have scissors. For sure, we can say a thousand years b c, for sure, there were scissors. The other definite bit of brief a date that we can totally rely on is third century. We know that because a very famous egyptologist called flinders petrie unfound them and
Transcript
Play full episode
