Interesting Facts
- Ancient Egyptian worshiped over 1,400 different gods and goddesses.
- The World's Oldest Dress was found in Egypt and it is 5,000 years old.
- Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.
- The pyramids were built by paid laborers. Not slaves. That's a myth by Herodotus, the Greek historian.
- The lost Egyptian city of Heracleion was found after 1200 years under the sea.
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stones.
- The world's largest pyramid is not in Egypt but in Mexico.
- The first sailing boats were invented in Egypt.
- The tradition of exchanging wedding rings goes back to ancient Egyptian times.
- Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
- There are still unexplored passageways in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
- Ancient Egypt King Tutankhamun died at the age of 18.
- In the Land of the Pharaohs of Egypt, beer was the national currency.
- In Ancient Egypt, killing a cat, even accidentally, incurred the death penalty.
- Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, was actually Greek, not Egyptian.
- Cleopatra was the first, in the dynasty of Greek rulers of Egypt, who could speak Egyptian.