Strange Ways of Life

Get ready for the odd ways of life! The Ancient Egyptians practiced. we often think that we are completely different from ancient people. They had these weird traditions. They spoke unknown languages and so on but archaeology shows that we are quite wrong what kind of operations could the ancient Egyptians perform. what games did they play?

Unbelievable facts about the life of Ancient Egyptians including maybe how to walk like one you. Know walk like an Egyptian . The most important inventions ever without a way to record information . There would be no way to store and pass on knowledge to the future generations . The Egyptians used pictograms which simply depicted words later they added characters that look a lot like modern alphabets which help them to write down some abstract ideas maybe like how to build a pyramid.

They invented tables. This might not sound impressive but before the Egyptians . There were no tables as far as we know. so they made this simple piece of furniture to keep the food off the ground and also for gaming purposes. This is how board games started who Egyptian monopoly.

However, some people wanted to have some kind of hair on their heads but still be able to feel comfortable so when they felt like it . They used wigs and when it was very hot ,they simply took them off and here comes the gross part the richest and noblest people wore wigs made of actual human hair whereas common folks had wigs made of sheep wool.

They extracted iron from meteorites. Archaeologists found metal beads in an ancient Egyptian tomb. In 1911 pretty small beads were found in the north of egypt but why were these beads so unique. The thing is the Egyptians started to smelt iron only 2 000 years later . so how did they get metal beads chemical tests show that they were made from meteorites and another argument for this point of view is the hieroglyph that the Egyptians had which means iron and can be translated as metal from the sky.

They invented toothpaste. There are several proofs that the egyptians have been producing toothpaste,since 5000 bc as it turns out . They needed toothpaste not only for romantic dates. The egyptians probably had very serious trouble with their teeth because they ate food with a lot of sand in it and of course this their enamel so they needed. something to keep their teeth clean and healthy so, they invented one of the first versions of toothpaste. It consisted of ashes of burnt eggshells and ox hoofs just the kind of stuff you want to put in your mouth right this doesn't seem like a good start of a day anyway archaeologists even managed to find some guides on how to mix these ingredients to make the right paste.

Another fascinating dental discovery were toothpicks that were buried together with mummies . Probably the ancient egyptians cared about their teeth so much that they even took some tools with them to the afterlife.

They used breath mints as you already know the egyptians cared about their mouths very much. In the ancient times bad breath was as unpleasant as it is today even though their medicine was quite advanced. They didn't have any dentists who could help them with their bad teeth. scientists examined mummies and found several worn out teeth. Even in young people so to do something about the unpleasant smells from the mouth . They invented, the first mints. They used myrrh and cinnamon, they boiled them with honey and made some kind of pellets. yum!

They used antibiotics in treatment . Yes, the Egyptians kind of invented antibiotics way before the 20th century. But it looks like they didn't know it. They used moldy flatbread to cure festering wounds. They fermented something that looked like porridge that had very high levels of tetracycline which we know as an antibiotic. However, there is no indication that the Egyptians understood. Why this recipe worked so is it really a discovery when you don't know what you discovered.

They invented eye makeup. You've probably seen some movies about ancient egypt both men and women in egypt wore makeup and it was a symbol of nobility. The more makeup you had the higher your social status was most of the time they had black eye makeup but they were also able to create green eye makeup using malachite.

They formed the world's first police. They were formed during the middle kingdom period years 2050 to 1800 bc it included the most loyal warriors and foreign mercenaries. The Egyptian police didn't have guns or cool badges but they were armed with staffs and accompanied by dogs and trained monkeys. The ancient Egyptian police had to protect tax collectors. Police officers forced the citizens to pay their taxes on time. They even had detectives who investigated the most popular kind of robbery of those times.

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