The History of Menstruation in Ancient Egypt

The long standing global taboo around menstruation means that we actually have very few records about what people used before relatively recently. Medical records from ancient egypt describe tampon shaped devices made from like softened papyrus plant nowhere. The natural approach really dominated the ancient human world Obviously ancient africans used rolls of grass or grass mats as like a sanitary napkin Romans used wool and other cloth paddings. We had quite a bit from ancient history and then nothing for a long time because men write history and They didn't feel that menstruation was worth Documenting.

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