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| Today is: Sunday January 28, 2001. |
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Trivia: Egyptians |
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 About 300 years ago, most
Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Egyptian men never became bald. The reason for
this, Herodotus claimed, was that as children Egyptian males had their heads shaved, and
their scalps were continually exposed to the health-giving rays of the sun.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
Dead Egyptian noblewomen were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days to
ripen, so that the embalmers wouldn't find her too attractive.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were
cut off.
In ancient Egypt, the apricot was called the egg of the sun.
In ancient Egypt, they paid their taxes in honey.
In Egypt, around 1500 B.C. in Egypt a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine
beauty. Egyptian women removed every hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and
polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.
Moses Maimonides, 12th century physician to the Egyptian Khalif, prescribed snow as a cure
for the hot Cairo summers.
On some mummies that have been unwrapped, the total length of the bandages has been about
1.5 miles. The Egyptians believed that you can't take it with you, but you can sure wrap
it up nice before you go.
The Egyptian hieroglyph for 100,000 is a tadpole.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C. |
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