Egyptian Cotton Towel: A Royal Luxury
An Egyptian cotton towel is made from the long, silky threads of pima cotton. Pima cotton is known scientifically as Gossypium barbadense and generally as extra long staple cotton. While cotton originally came from Ancon, a site on the Peruvian coast, and was domesticated before 4200 BC, it has thrived in many places around the world and has adapted to many different tropical and subtropical climates. As early as the first century, Arab traders sold cotton from India. The name cotton, in fact, comes from an Arabic word the English adapted around 1400. Cotton was brought to Egypt in the 19th century by Mohammad Ali Pasha, the founder of a royal dynasty that ruled Egypt and Sudan until 1952. In Egypt, the full sunlight produced a particularly gorgeous cotton fiber that has long been favored for use in luxury cotton products, like Egyptian cotton towels.
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