A long-handled spoon was shoved up the nostril cavity to pull out the scrambled brains.
The leader was over 90 years old when he died in 1212 B.C.
They were often given high ranking positions such as personal assistant to pharaohs or jewel keepers.
People often made little balls out of the scents and shoved them in their armpits.
The accused person and witnesses would be tortured until a decision was made.
If a man didn’t have any blood in his urine, he was considered sick. This sounds backward, but most Egyptians had a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis that came from infected water. It was so common that if they weren’t bleeding, they thought they were sick.
The agreements often included what would happen if the partnership ended.
These games have been seen in paintings and found in the tombs of pharaohs.
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