Ancient Egypt stood as one of the most advanced civilizations for over 3,000 years and has created a culture so rich that it has spawned its own field of study... Below are some facts that we didn't know apart from knowing about their brutal burial methods...
- Ancient Egyptians loved board games.....After a day of work in Nile river they relaxed by playing board games like "mehen" " dogs and jackals" but the most popular was a game of chance known as "senet".
- Egyptian women had a wide range of freedom and rights..While they have been publicly treated inferior to men in the public but they really enjoyed a fine deal of legal independence... They could buy sell a property and could make their own decisions...
- Both Egyptian men and women wore makeup - eyepaint usually green (from copper) or black ( from lead) They had a belief that makeup had healing power and it was also used as a protection from sun rather than makeup...
- Due to that ever presiding hot temperature children never wore clothing till teens and men wore skirts while women wore dresses
- Since the use of antibiotics came in only after 20th century in Egypt soil and mouldy food were used to treat infection!