Sudan has more pyramids than any country, with 255. They outnumber Egyptian pyramids by twice the amount.
100 Mind-Blowing Egyptian Facts
Onions were found in the eyes of an Egyptian mummy. Pharaoh Ramses IV of ancient Egypt had his eyes replaced with small onions when he was mummified. The rings and layers of onions were worshipped because people thought they represented eternal life. This aligns with the reason for mummification: to allow the pharaoh to live forever.
Pregnancy tests date back to 1350 B.C.E. According to a document written on ancient papyrus, Egyptian women urinated on wheat and barley seeds to determine if they were pregnant or not, reports the Office of History in the National Institutes of Health. If wheat grew, it predicted a female baby. If barley grew, it predicted a male baby. The woman was not pregnant if nothing grew. Experimenting with this seed theory in 1963 proved it was accurate 70 per cent of the time.
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows. This was discovered by translating ancient texts from Egyptian ruins. The Egyptian word for headrest was roughly translated to a stone pillow.
Local legend believes that there is a secret in this chamber due to the gold Egyptian hieroglyphs that are decorated on the door. This has led others to believe that it may be a time machine or a time chamber of some sort.
Shaved heads were a symbol of extreme beauty in 1500 B.C. Egypt. Egyptian women would remove every strand of hair from their heads using gold tweezers. They also polished their scalps to a high sheen using buffing cloths.
Cleopatra was not Egyptian. Despite being portrayed as an Egyptian beauty, Cleopatra was Greek. You’d best brush up on your history.
The world’s oldest football player was an Egyptian called Ezzeldin Bahader who played at age 75 in 2020.
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are thousands of years old and still perfectly edible.
Cleopatra wasn’t Egyptian—she was Greek.
Ancient Romans left graffiti on Egyptian pyramids that said, “I didn’t like anything but the sarcophagus,” and “I can’t read the hieroglyphs.”
The Woolly Mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built.
There are twice as many pyramids in Sudan then there are in Egypt. When most people think of pyramids, they instantly think of Egypt, but this couldn’t be more wrong! Sudan has somewhere between 200 to 255 pyramids, while Egypt is home to just 118 to 138 of them. So how did so many pyramids end up down in Sudan? From 3,000 BC, Egypt’s armies were sent south to conquer whoever they found, reaching as far as modern-day Sudan. There they lorded over the locals until the Egyptian empire collapsed in 1,070 BC, but their influence remained for much longer. Less than three hundred years later, the new rulers of this region, the Kush, still believed in the Egyptian Gods and started constructing pyramids en masse.
The oldest prosthetic. In 1997, an excavation near the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes revealed the oldest prosthesis ever discovered: an engraved wooden toe, fitted to the right foot of an Egyptian noblewoman who lived 3,000 years ago. The ‘Cairo toe’ was practical, modified over time to accommodate the woman’s gait. But it was also designed with aesthetics in mind, intended to be worn in open-toe sandals, not concealed.