Do you have any interesting Ancient Egyptian facts?

Question

hello to you all! I know just a little bit about Ancient Egypt and I would love to know more. Give me some interesting facts. The best one will get my vote.

(btw, I'll be researching you're answers just to make sure they were real, so don't give me any crap!)

Answer 1

Egyptians used honey in the mummy embalming process because honey doesn't decay and bacteria can't grow in it. Mummies that have been exhumed after over a thousand years have been found to have honey in them that is still "good".

Answer 2

One of the best books on this is called Stolen Legacy . By Dr.George G.M. James. He outlines all of the contributions of those people and show how there society ,culture,medical,education,etc. Can be shown in our culture today. He also goes into great detail on how there system of know-how was shared and how the greeks came in and stole the information and told the world that they invented alot of this stuff . Example :aristotle has been given credit for being the author of over 1000 books,ranging from every subject know to man,when it is clear ,all this knowledge was stole from the library in Lexor. Taken back to Greece ,study ,translated ,understood and told the world that they were the authors. aristotle is a thief !

Our college education system is set up by them . The only differents is you had to get a degree in all of the sciences ,not just the subject you like. They also gave us the Fraternity system and where the orgin of hazing started. Before you could go thru to learn the knowledge ,The teachers put you thur a battery of test to see if you scare easy , if you did ,you couldnt be trust with the knowledge ,you would tell a fool. If you pass the test ,then you could be trust with the knowledge.

One last thing ,Imhotep was one of the world first multi-genius and is credit as being the father of modern medicine. The oath that the doctors take to help the hurting comes from Imhotep,you would never know that because of the greeks.

Answer 3

Early Dynastic Period 2920-2575 bc
Djoser=1st Dyn. 2920-2770
2d.Dyn. 2770-2649
3d.Dyn.2649-2575
Egyptian Civilation, 9000bc Nile Region
5000bc 2 distinct Regions, Lower Egypt in the Delta, Upper Egypt along the river's green corridor.
3000bc Upper Egypt conquered its northeastern neighbor unifying the nation & giving rise to the 1st dynasty.

Old Kingdom 2575-2134bc
Khafre= 4th Dyn. 2575-2465
Khufu
Khafre
Menkaure
5th Dyn.2465-2323
Unas
6th Dyn. 2323-2150
Pepi 1
Pesi 11
7th Dyn. 8th Dyn. 2150-2134
The cutture bloomed during the 4th Dyn, a wealthy, stable period that ushered in the country's first great age, The Old Kingdom.
The Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx-- which bears the face of King Khafre. Unparalleled architactual feats of the era; trade and the fine arts flourished as well, and a written language expressed in Hieroglyphs was now used extensively by the elite. During the 5th Dyn, the crown began to lose its aurs of authority as the cult of the Sun God grew, diluting the pharaoh's power. By the end of the 6th Dyn. the nobility had expanded and became independent and eventually the Old Kingdom disintegrated into rival baronies.

Answer 4

What would you like to know? Nobody is really sure how the egyptians actually built their pyramids ( personally, i like the Stargate SG1 explanation!!!), they had hundreds of gods, most of them being half human half animal, or completely animal; they were considered the most advanced and civilized culture in the known world at that time; their sworn enemies were the Hittites, they were at war a lot of the time. Nefertari, Chief wife of Ramesses the Great, was Nefertiti's niece, Nefertit was considered a heretic by the ancient Egyptians because of her and her husband Amenhotep IV's (more commonly known as Akhenaten) introduction of a new religion worshipping only one god, instead of many, called Aten (a sun god).

Answer 5

The workers on the monuments had a basic diet of bread beer and onions.
They used wooden or rock pedestals for pillows.
They sent an expedition to sail around Africa.
They had a very slow population growth, with the population doubling is size in about 1000 years.

The best Egypt website I know of is
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/index.html

Answer 6

I watched a documentary about ancient Egypt.Though science,
they proved a mummy that was sold at the turn of the century then kept in a museum.It was confirmed that the 1st Pharaoh
Was Ramses 1.That mummy turned out to be Ramses 1.
If science didn't interviene we would never have know who the mummy was.

Answer 7

-Egyptians shaved their eyebrows when their cat died.

-King Tut is not listed on the wall of Pharaohs.

-In Abu Simbel, when the sun sets on certain days, the sunlight shines throught the corridor and lights up the Pharaoh at the end of the passage.

-Many people believe their is a secret chamber under the Sphinx.

-The pyramids are 3 degrees off from a perfect alignment when Egyptians used stars.

Answer 8

Did you know that in the corridor of one of the pyramids, (I forget which one now), that the last date, (year), inscribed is the year 2012?
And that wherever a major date in history takes place, this corridor makes a turn and changes direction?

Answer 9

well lets see.... fact#1, in past life i was a Egyptian Queen, first wife of Tutankahmen, and wealthy beyong ur wildest dreams, n we did have jets in those times, even though the media doesnt comment on this, its hush hush, ....so we jet setted from country to country, doign lunch inparis, skiing in aspen, ahhhh the good life...those were the days...actually now i am a wealthy entrepeneur, w/ many pc companies all ove the world, n enjoying life to the fullest.....lol jk...well, u could go online or library, you will get accurate info, for sure, besides here u cant really go into detail

Answer 10

I don't know if it's ancient, but I saw somewhere that some peoples used to use mummy's for medicine or something.