ancient egyptian, n.Trivia

The Great Sphinx of Giza was first restored as far back as 1400 BC, when it was already a thousand years old

An Egyptian necklace dated as being 5,000 years old has been found to have been made out of meteoritic metals.

Sail boat. . . was first built in Egypt.

The mummy was made by the Ancient Egyptians by first removing the brain by inserting a hook through the nostrils.

The 2700BC Egyptian, Merit-Ptah, is the world’s first known female physician.

Cats were culturally important in Ancient Egypt--- people would shave off their eyebrows when their cats died

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs made slaves fan their wine all night to cool it down.

King Tut was mummified with an erect penis.

In Ancient Egypt, men would get time off of work to care for menstruating daughters and wives.

In Ancient Egypt, killing a cat was punishable by death.

Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.

Most Ancient Egyptians died by age 37

Cleopatra’s last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek rather than Egyptian.

The ancient Egyptians domesticated cheetahs to be house pets. Farmers also tamed and trained them for hunting.

In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey so flies would flock to them instead of the pharaoh

The ancient Egyptians believed that the brain's only purpose was to produce mucus.

The ancient Egyptians had 12 months of exactly 30 days each, with five days of partying at the end of the year to bring the total to 365.

Peppercorns were stuffed up the nose of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II's mummy.

Ancient Egyptians used to put dead mice into the mouths of people to treat toothaches.

In ancient Egypt, there was an event in which the Pharaoh would ceremoniously ejaculate into the Nile to encourage the fertility of the river.