Does anyone know anything about Egyptian History.?

Question

Their beliefs and secret society,Cultural practices and the foods that they may have eaten.

Answer 1

The history of Egypt is the longest continuous history, as a unified state, of any country in the world. The Nile valley forms a natural geographic and economic unit, bounded to the east and west by deserts, to the north by the sea and to the south by the Cataracts of the Nile. The need to have a single authority to manage the waters of the Nile led to the creation of the world's first state in Egypt in about 3000 BC. Egypt's peculiar geography made it a difficult country to attack, which is why Pharaonic Egypt was for so long an independent and self-contained state.

Answer 2

Jeez, they had already started building pyramids between 3,000 and 2,500 B.C., and you want a summary in no more room than we get?!? They believed in many gods, including Ra, Isis, Osiris, Mut, and a plethora of others. They believed that the afterlife was merely an idealistic extension of their life on Earth (they liked it here), so it was necessary to preserve their bodies, or they wouldn't be able to live on there. That's also why they left food, tools, clothing, jewelry, etc. in their tombs, and built such elegant tombs--after all, they were going to be there a lot longer than they were going to be here on Earth. Also, they believed the dead had to answer certain questions posed by the gods before they could enter the afterlife, so they provided them with the Book of the Dead, which gave answers to those questions, in case they needed a cheat sheet.

When the pharoahs first started out with pyramids, they were more or less a public works project when the Nile flooded, so farmers had other work they could do. But eventually they figured out that the pyramids were just a magnet for graverobbers, so they started burying pharoahs in the Valley of the Kings, which has a mountain which looks like a pyramid nearby. (They could post guards there more easily, too) It still didn't work. As for food, they ate many types of fruit and game. They didn't have pork yet, and beef was very expensive, so the average man mostly made do with bread and fruit. The wealthy drank wine, but EVERYBODY drank beer, though I've heard that it was very weak and not that good.

Most Egyptians shaved their heads to prevent lice, and wore all types of wigs, instead. They sometimes perfumed them by using a headpiece which held a solid perfume which melted over the course of the night. They didn't use pillows for the most part, also to prevent lice. They used raised wooden pieces which kept their heads off the ground.

Even the poor wore jewelry, and makeup was almost a necessity. It's been suggested that the reason they wore so much dark eye makeup could be the same reason football players wear dark lines under their eyes--to help keep the sun out.

Children were prized in Egyptian culture, especially the firstborns. There's even a theory that this might be the reason for the 12th plague, the killing of the firstborn. A few years back, a lake in Africa turned blood red from iron deposits being shaken up by earthquake activity. It also stirred up carbon monoxide from the bottom of the lake, which would have created a temporary poisonous gas before it dissipated. Many people who lived in the lower areas near the lake were killed, but people who lived on higher ground were unaffected, because the gas dissipated before it got to them. In the Egyptians' case, the firstborn son was given a great honor--because he was the heir, he was allowed to sleep inside the house at floor level. Everyone else slept on the rooftop. If the same gas had come from the Nile when it turned red, it could have killed the firstborns, who were sleeping downstairs, but not the others, who slept upstairs.

I hope this helps.

Answer 3

The Egyptians were magicians. In the Bible, they did the first
three curses the same as Moses and Aaron. Read it!
I had a past life dream I was an initiate of Thoth. The god
who was the keeper of records. I also have an elemental
being around me, like magicians called up to guard things.
And a psychic said it has something to do with something like the
Rosetta Stone, which was used to learn how to read Egyptian
picture writing.
Then my Dad came out of the blue one day and said our
family bloodline was traced back 900 years to Egypt.
So I've read up on them a little. Some think they created cats
through some type of genetic engineering. That's why they treated them like they were holy. Mummifying them just like people.
They were originally Egyptians. Then Aryans from the Cuacas
Mountians took over. That's why Whites are called cuacasian.
We come from the Cuacus Mountain region.
Egypt was also ruled by Blacks for about 64 years. Some think
they advanced so much suddenly at one time because people
from Atlantis came there after Atlantis starting falling apart.
Today, women still are the one's who own the land. Not the
men. Last I heard. (National Geographic).
Hope I got your interest up?

Answer 4

THE CULTURES OF THE NILE WWERE AS VARIED AS ANY OTHER GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF SIMILAR SIZE...there were many regional gods,which were generally and smooth amalgamated into a composite worship with each given charge or suzereignity over different non=conflicting areas of belief!!!!the principle gods were ammon,ra,nut,tefnut and geb!!!other gods who once waled the earth were isis and osiris and their children horus and nepthys and osiris's brother bes!!!apis,hathor,sekhmet and anubis were animal headed gods serving various functions!!!the consolidation of upper and lower egypt was a long and bloody process of petty warring regional groups ,tribes and city-states....a cohesive melding and joining always seemed to be the result!!!more later

Answer 5

Well, rich egiptian coul eat meat, fruits an vegetables every day, but poor egiptians had differente food, their breakfast was made by datils, bread a beer. They considered beer as a nutritive drink, it was very different fron our beer. They didn't ate many meat because of the climate, it would rot quicky so they waited for special ocasions when they could consume the complete animal the same day. hope that helps.

Answer 6

Not much, other than the fact that Egyptian history actually pushs back the 'supposed' date for Noahs flood several thousand years.

Answer 7

Go to EternalEgypt.com

Answer 8

Yeah, Egyptian people, Dah !!

Answer 9

They built these pointy stone buildings in the middle of the desert....

Answer 10

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_history for more info!