The Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt are calling for the unraveling of their secrets and the flight of our imaginations! But let's leave aside, for now, the question of the connection between the pyramid builders and aliens and the most sophisticated technologies and artifacts inherited by us … For example, a Jed Tuning Fork is supposedly capable of influencing and improving the structure of DNA with its sound in resonance! And this is only one of the possibilities available and discovered by science … But besides the "traces of paleocontact", Ancient Egypt has something to surprise us with. Don't believe me? Let's check it out!
Pharaohs never allowed others to see their hair. They constantly wore a crown or a headscarf "nemez" (this is a striped cape on the world famous mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun).
The Egyptian Pharaoh Pepi II did not like flies. Therefore, several slaves smeared with honey were constantly next to him. And the flies are full, and the Pharaoh is pleased. Nobody was interested in the opinion of the slaves.
In ancient Egypt, not only women, but also men wore makeup. Eye paint was generally green (made from copper) or black (made from lead). The Egyptians believed that makeup had healing properties. Initially, makeup in Egypt was used as protection from the sun's rays and only secondarily as decoration.
The use of antibiotics began in the 20th century. But in the folk medicine of ancient Egypt, moldy food (for example, moldy bread) or just moldy soil was used to treat infectious diseases 4 thousand years ago.
In ancient Egypt, children did not wear any clothes at all until adolescence. The warm climate made clothes unnecessary. Adult men wore skirts and women wore dresses.
The wealthy Egyptians wore wigs, the hair of the lower-class Egyptians was long and sometimes braided. Children under 12 years old were shaved, only one braid remained from the hair on the head. They did this with children for one single purpose - so that lice and fleas would not start.
It is unknown who beat off the nose of the Sphinx. There is a depiction of the Sphinx without a nose, dating back to 1737 - 60 years before Napoleon landed in Egypt, whose enlightened soldiers practiced firing cannons on the Sphinx. The name of only one person who harmed the Sphinx is reliably known - the Islamic cleric Saim al-Dahr. He was hanged for this in 1378.
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The ancient Egyptians believed that the earth was flat and round, with the Nile flowing through its center.
The soldiers of ancient Egypt performed the functions of internal police forces, and also collected taxes for the pharaoh.
Each temple of ancient Egypt had a special place for the pharaoh, from where he could lead the service. But the pharaoh was naturally not enough for all the temples, so the high priest of the temple occupied a holy place.
The first pyramid (the step pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser, built around 2600 BC) was originally surrounded by a 10 meter high wall. There were 15 doors in the wall. Only one of them opened.
Women and men in ancient Egypt were equal before the law, and equally participated in the economic life of the country. But on the social ladder, men were much higher than women.
Brigades of construction workers in Egypt had names like “friends of Khufu” or “drunkards Menkaur” (Khufu and Menkaur are the names of the pharaohs for whom the largest tombs were built).
A distinctive feature of the culture of ancient Egypt is complex, multi-pass funeral rituals, the most important part of which was the mummification of the body of the deceased. The brain was taken out of the head through the nostril. All internal organs were removed from the body and placed separately in special jugs. Only the heart was left in its place, since the Egyptians believed that the human soul lives in the heart, and it cannot be removed from the body. The tool kits used in the mummification look very sinister and are crafted with great skill.
Ramses the Great - one of the most famous pharaohs of ancient Egypt, officially had 8 wives and about 100 concubines. He died at the age of about 90 years. Whole generations of Egyptians lived in the belief that the Pharaoh was immortal.