-
With over 95.5 million inhabitants as of 2019, Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world and the third-most populous in Africa.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Ancient Egyptiansworshiped over1,400 differentgods and goddesses.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
-
In the border between Egypt and Sudan, there are795 sq miles (2,060 km2) of land unclaimed by neither.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
-
-
The pyramids were built by paid laborers. Not slaves. That's a myth by Herodotus, the Greek historian.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Gypsyis short for "Egyptian."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Egypt is the most populated country in Middle East and has the world's largest Arab population.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
-
No Egyptian president has left office without being arrested or dying, so far until 2015.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
A woman in Egypt disguised herself as a man for 43 years in order to make a living for her daughter.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
86%of people surveyed in Egypt are in favor of the death penalty as a punishment for abandoning Islam.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
In Ancient Egypt, men could take time off of work to care for menstruating wives and daughters.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Cleopatra was the first, in the dynasty of Greek rulers of Egypt, who could speak Egyptian.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
During a visit to Egypt in 2012, Hillary Clinton was pelted with tomatoes and shoes, while the protesters chanted "Monica, Monica".♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
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.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
2200 years ago, Eratosthenes estimated the Earth's circumference using math, without ever leaving Egypt. He was remarkably accurate. Christopher Columbus later studied him.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The Egyptian Kahun Papyrus (1850 B.C.) suggests crocodile feces either for preventing conception or as an abortifacient.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The current library at Alexandria has a copy of all the web pages on every website on the Internet since it started in 1996.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Inscribed pottery from the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt list 3 human genders. The reason is uncertain.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
-
Scatomancy is the act of telling the future through someone's poop. It was popular in ancient Egypt.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Many ancient Egyptian Pharaohs were overweight and unhealthy, in contrast to their typical depiction, due to a sugary diet of alcohol, bread and honey.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
91%of Egypt's women aged 15 to 49 have been subjected to genital mutilation, according to the World Health Organization.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The ancient Egyptians respected dwarfs, and did not see them as having a physical handicap.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
An Ancient Egyptian cure for blindness was to pour mashed-up pig's eye into the patient's ear.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The Ancient Egyptians were the first to make a sweet treat from the marshmallow plant, when they combined its sap with nuts and honey.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
Immediately opposite the main ticket gates to Giza's Great Pyramid enclosure, you can find both Pizza Hut and KFC.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The world's oldest prosthetic limb belongs to an Egyptian woman, that was outfitted with a wooden toe prosthesis in approximately 1000 B.C.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Granite blocks used for the King's chamber of the Great Pyramid, weighing as much as 60 to 80 tons each, were quarried nearly 500 miles away.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
Wealthy ancient Egyptians slept with neck supports rather than pillows to preserve their hairstyles.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The Persians, fully aware of the reverence that Egyptians paid to their felines, rounded up as many cats as they could find and set them loose on the battlefield.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Ancient Egyptians used 12 months of exactly 30 days, with 5 days of festivities at the end to add up to 365.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
Ancient Egyptians had a 70% accurate method for detecting pregnancy: a woman would pee on some seeds. If they sprouted, she was pregnant.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
-
-
