egypt – Exact Fact

Braces go all the way back to ancient Egypt. In fact, archaeologists have found several mummies with crude metal bands wrapped around their teeth.

Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.

The Statue of Liberty was intended for Egypt.

Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, was actually Greek, not Egyptian.

Ancient Egypt King Tutankhamun died at the age of 18.

The world’s largest pyramid is not in Egypt but in Mexico.

The first sailing boats were invented in Egypt.

In the first version of Cinderella, she was a greek slave that lived in a colony in Egypt.

There are still unexplored passageways in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

Egypt is the most populated country in Middle East and has the world’s largest Arab population.

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.

86% of people surveyed in Egypt are in favor of the death penalty as a punishment for abandoning Islam.

In Ancient Egypt, men could take time off of work to care for menstruating wives and daughters.

Cleopatra was the first, in the dynasty of Greek rulers of Egypt, who could speak Egyptian.

During a visit to Egypt in 2012, Hillary Clinton was pelted with tomatoes and shoes, while the protesters chanted “Monica, Monica”.

Anwar Sadat made Egypt the first arab nation to achieve peace with Israel in 1979. For this, Sadat won the Nobel Peace prize, Egypt was suspended from the Arab League and Sadat was assassinated.

2200 years ago, Eratosthenes estimated the Earth’s circumference using math, without ever leaving Egypt. He was remarkably accurate. Christopher Columbus later studied him.

Inscribed pottery from the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt list 3 human genders. The reason is uncertain.

Scatomancy is the act of telling the future through someone’s poop. It was popular in ancient Egypt.