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"Very strange" facts about ancient Egyptians


Ten amazing facts about ancient Egyptians

1. Pharaoh Baby II had a system to avoid insects, where slaves were naked with honey to gather flies around them and leave him in peace.

2. The first execution was recorded in ancient Egypt, and it is likely that the accused was executed by poison or using magic.


3. The ancient Egyptians first identified the type of the fetus by pissing the women on the seeds of wheat and barley. If barley grows, they think it is a girl. If wheat grows, they think the baby is a boy.



4. Ancient Egyptians first to dissect the body, and used embalming operations to save body organs.


5. The French authorities extracted a passport to the body of King Ramses II in 1974 and wrote in the job field ( Dead King ) for his journey to France. He was greeted there like the living kings.

6. Ancient Egyptians practiced a brutal sport in which rival teams collided with each other by boat, falling into a crocodile lake, and the winner was the one who could sink everyone.

7. Incest was common in the family of King Tutankhamun, and his parents had two brothers, so Tutankhamun was born with genetic defects.

8. The ancient Egyptians used a bottle full of lettuce, plus a seminal fluid as an aphrodisiac. The Egyptians also believed that the onion caused lust and forbade the priests to eat it.

9. Women used crocodile manure as a means of non-reproduction and feces with mud, grass and honey to cover sensitive areas.

10. Tutankhamun is the only mummy discovered with an "erect penis".


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