Fun Facts About Egypt
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It is always interesting to find out more about ancient civilizations. In this piece we will be finding out more fun facts about Egypt the home of Pharaohs and Pyramids. For instance did you know:
- -egypt was an advanced civilization
- -egypts population tops 74 million
- -popular religion is Muslim
- -Egyptians were the first to invent writing
- -Egyptian were the first to practise holistic health
- -the 365 calendar year and 24hrs in a day are egyptian inventions
- -cement was invented in egypt
- -egyptians held the first labor strike
- -earliest known wine cellars were discovered in Egypt
- -hieroglyphics was the egyptians kind of writing
Some other interesting facts:
It is said that Egyptians used to shave most of the hair off thier bodies. They did this to keep away lice and other insects!
Which God guided people to thier afterlife? That was the jackal-headed god Anubus. He would guide them into the judgement halls of Osiris.
The outside layer of Tutankhamuns wrap was melted paraffin-wax. During the removal of the layers there were 97 groups of items removed!
What did the Egyptians use to build thier homes? They used mud brick.
- -pharoahs never let thier hair be seen
- -men and women wore makeup- it was said to be protectant from the sun
- -children wore no clothes until they were teens
- -egyptians believed the earth was flat and round
- -ramses had 8 wives and 100 concubines and died at over 90 yrs of age
As mentioned earlier the Egyptians were quite advanced in thier culture. In fact they invented eye liner and toilet seats. Along with that they were the first to use anesthesia and set broken bones.
They also invented scissors, toothpaste, potters wheel and the calendar. However, it doesn't stop there they were also responsible for key, clock, loom, ink, egg hatchery, carpentry joints and metal pipes.
So along with thier great inventions they also had some gross and disgusting practises. Can you guess what they used for a contraceptive? They actually used crocodile dung!
Some people killed themselves with asps. It was thought dying from a snake bite would bring them immortality. Somehow I don't think so.
They treated balness in a strange manner by the fats of crocodile, hippo, lion, snake, goose and ibex.
Egyptians ground up mummies bodies and drank it in a potion thinking they were medicinal in some way. Okay, that one is really disgusting! Can you imagine drinking a concoction with ground up bones in it!
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I hope that my Mom would let me wear clothes.
i like the picture above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i wish i could go to Egypt
Egypt, my country, is amazing.. i just love it.. :)
i have bin to Egypt
i always thought chinese was responsible for inventing scissors weird
i am pretty sure they didn't grind up their mummies
I HAIL YOU EGYPTIANS! YOU ARE THE GREAT FOUNDERS OF EYE LINER! I WILL HAIL YOU ALWAYS!
i have to do a project on egypt
Wow, that's pretty weird about the not wearing clothes till your a teenager. And the potion of ground-up bodies... ew.
Good, but that one fact about the clothes.... ackward. But the info was still good for my project. Egyptians rock!
Good, but that one fact about the clothes.... ackward. But the info was still good for my project. Egyptians rock!i did the one abouve me 2. pretty kewl. i Rock as do the egyptians
i really want to go to egypt but GREECE IS SO MUCH FREAKIN BETTER GOSH GREEK PEOPLE ARE THE BEST!!!!!!
I agree with SOPH Greece is better!! ilu Greece!
wow this is cool stuff right here but the stuff that they don't wear clothes until their teenagers is weird!!
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Wow thats acutally really gross that the children did get to wear clothes that would be really scary if we did that now like with all the rapists around and like blaaaah grossss.
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im doin a project on the egyptians and if my class sees that thing about grindin mummies their all gonna be absent the next day :p
thanks a lot i got a lot of info 4 my project egypt sounds interesting even tho i hate the clothes part egypt rocks
i think this is one of the best articles i hav read guys hre is a tip read through it slowly
egypt is so much a beautifull if u visit it you will love it too much and nw all people wear there clothes
wow im a school kid looking up interesting fact and this is great it is telling me every thing that i need to know about Egypt
hi im Egyptian but i swear i wore my clothes since i was born or may be alittle after that :)
about grinding mummies this doesn`t make any sense because you mummy mummy to keep it for next life not to use it as spices ! about slaves army i believe you need 3 armies to control such a slave army ! i think they made it because they believed in it some how
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i am doing a report on egypt and this has so manny awesome facts thanks who ever maid this page
(p.s i cant believe the could not wear cloths 'till they were teens ! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww
Cool im doing a report on Egypt thats due today and i just read that!
lots of info
thanks this really helped my school progect!!!
Actually, writing was invented in Mesopotamia. Around 3200-3000 BC in the Jemdet Nasr period.
Hi i'm egyptian too. Some of these facts are not real and the others were during ancient egypt not now.
ewwwww teens didnt wear clothes till 13
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I wanna go to egypt! haha!
I'm doing an art project on egypt in art class! my teacher rocks, and so does Egypt!
Have any of you been to Egypt?
I like the info it will
is this info real? some of it probably, but not all of it I went to egypt and they dont grind up mummys. Still i used this info to do my essay and I found it usable.
i gotta write a riddle on egypt and this helped alot
Im getting all the answers of my report on this website in only in 6th grade
I LUV EGYPT!!!!!!!!!!
The fact thst the Egyptian chilfren didn't were any clothes until they were teenagers tht was uber gross.
This website helped me so much when I had a huge project to do on Egypt!
im doing a report on egypt and its going good
Um, wow that would be really awkward not wearing any clothes... I dont think I would leave home! And, drinking ground up mummies? Ew...
lol hmm thats umm cool
i love this web page it gives me facts for my report thing and it helps a lot.
eww!!!! i can't believe they used crocodile crap!!!!! disgusting!!!
Alyssa says:
10 months ago
wow, the fact about children not wearing any clothes untill they were teeagers...thats disgusting