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FUN FACTS!
1. The bread the Egyptians ate was so hard and rough that it caused their teeth to wear away.
2. Most people bathed daily, often in the River Nile.
3. The inside of the houses were often painted with scenes from nature or colourful patterns.
4. The average peasant girl married young, around the age of 12.
5. A false beard was a symbol of royalty because they were thought to be worn by Egyptian gods. Pharaohs wore them, even female pharaohs (!) as a symbol of royalty.
6. Tomb robbers were sometimes the same men who had built the tombs in the first place as they knew where the secret chambers full of valuables were. The could make a fortune from selling what they stole, but if they were caught, they suffered an excruciating death impaled on a sharp wooden stake.
7. During embalming, the stomach, intestines, lungs and liver were removed, but the heart was left in place. It was thought to contain a record of past deeds, and therefore it could determine who would be admitted to the afterlife.
8. Egyptians believed that the hearts and souls of those who did not pass into the afterlife would be consumed by Ammut, the Devourer of the Dead.
9. The insides of pharaohs' sandals were sometimes decorated with drawings of their enemies, who would be crushed underfoot symbolically with every step.
10. Pharaohs could have several wives, but only one of them could be Queen. Many pharaohs married their sisters, both to reinforce their dynastic claim to the throne and to echo the behaviour of the gods, who were believed to favour this practice!
1. The bread the Egyptians ate was so hard and rough that it caused their teeth to wear away.
2. Most people bathed daily, often in the River Nile.
3. The inside of the houses were often painted with scenes from nature or colourful patterns.
4. The average peasant girl married young, around the age of 12.
5. A false beard was a symbol of royalty because they were thought to be worn by Egyptian gods. Pharaohs wore them, even female pharaohs (!) as a symbol of royalty.
6. Tomb robbers were sometimes the same men who had built the tombs in the first place as they knew where the secret chambers full of valuables were. The could make a fortune from selling what they stole, but if they were caught, they suffered an excruciating death impaled on a sharp wooden stake.
7. During embalming, the stomach, intestines, lungs and liver were removed, but the heart was left in place. It was thought to contain a record of past deeds, and therefore it could determine who would be admitted to the afterlife.
8. Egyptians believed that the hearts and souls of those who did not pass into the afterlife would be consumed by Ammut, the Devourer of the Dead.
9. The insides of pharaohs' sandals were sometimes decorated with drawings of their enemies, who would be crushed underfoot symbolically with every step.
10. Pharaohs could have several wives, but only one of them could be Queen. Many pharaohs married their sisters, both to reinforce their dynastic claim to the throne and to echo the behaviour of the gods, who were believed to favour this practice!