Amazing Facts About Ancient Egypt – Interesting Facts About Ancient Egypt
* The use of cosmetics dates from around 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt. Their original use was to protect skin from sunlight, rather than for beauty care.
* Ramses the Great had 8 official wives and nearly 100 concubines. He was over 90 years old when he died in 1212 BC.
* Egyptians were among the very first people to invent writing, along with ink and paper.
* Egyptian soldiers were used as an internal police force. Additionally, they collected taxes for the Pharaoh.
* Egyptian children wore no clothing at all until they were in their teens. The temperature in Egypt made it unnecessary. Adult men wore skirts while women wore dresses.
* The art of painting on plaster was invented by ancient Egyptians.
* The pyramids of Egypt, the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world, are the only one of those wonders to survive to the present day.
* The true pyramid shape may have been inspired by the spreading rays of the sun.
* Ancient Egyptians knew how to cure meat and preserve food using natron, sodium bicarbonate, also used in the mummification process.
* The “Book of the Dead” was not an actual book but a collection of up to 200 chapters or spells
* Egyptian’s believed that the earth was flat and round (like a pancake) and that the Nile flowed through the center of it.
* The Egyptians did not invent beer, but left us with the best documentation of ancient brewing practices.
* To keep away the lice and other insects, it is said that ancient Egyptians would shave most of the hair off of their bodies.
* In every temple in ancient Egypt the pharaoh was supposed to carry out the duties of the high priests, but his place was usually taken by the chief priest.
* In order to deter flies from landing on him, Pepi II of Egypt always kept several naked slaves nearby whose bodies were smeared with honey.
* Ancient Egyptian mathematicians delved in equation solutions, geometric series, fractions and the decimal system.
* The women in ancient Egypt enjoyed legal and economical equality with men. Nevertheless, they never enjoyed social equality with men.
* Ancient Egyptians didn’t have some of the supplies that we are used to today. Because supplies were limited, they slept on pillows made of stone.
* Egyptian’s believed that the earth was flat and round (like a pancake) and that the Nile flowed through the center of it.
* In ancient Egypt, slaves are known to have been murdered to accompany their deceased owners to the afterlife.
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