Did you know - Ancient Egypt

[DJKeefy]

The Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first?

Only about 4% of Egypt can be used for agriculture?

A group of Egyptian tombs is called a Necropolis?

Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian, she was Greek?

The only one of the Seven Wonders that still survives is The Great Pyramid of Giza?

The first sailing boats were built in Egypt?

The Great Pyramid at Giza plateau is made up of about 2,500,000 stones. These stones weighing between 2-70 tons each?

The Great Pyramid at Giza holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit?

The Average Egyptian man was about 5 feet tall?

Egypt was conquered many times before the Romans came?

The first man ever to be mummified was probably Osiris?

At the age of about 13 years old you were considered and adult?

Priests removed all hair from their bodies including eyelashes and eyebrows?

Mummies are wrapped with about ten layers of linen, sometimes more?

The real name of Egypt is actually Misr. It was the Greeks who named it Egypt after it's fall?

Almost all of the Egyptians were clean shaven?

There are two kinds of constructions to pyramids, step pyramids and true Pyramids?

In Ancient Egypt there where just a few who knew how to read and write. About 99% did not?

The longest river in the world is the Nile (4000 miles)?

The Egyptians where the inventors of the calendar. Every year the Nile flooded its banks for three months so the Egyptians set their calendars after it?

The color of the pyramids were originally white but over the years the color has changed?

Some doctors where 'skilled' and even performed brain surgery?

Lettuce was grown in ancient Egypt?

[Horus]

Keefy wrote:

The color of the pyramids were originally white but over the years the color has changed?

Not quite most were originally clad in a white 'Tura' limestone casing, but this has either fallen off, or been robbed in antiquity, revealing the blocks underneath

[LivinginLuxor]

Just a few corrections:-

Any collection of tombs is known as a necropolis - which literally means city of the dead

The Assyrian calendar predates the Egyptian calendar

The Egyptian name for Egypt was Kemet - meaning the Black Land. Misr comes from the Hebrew name for Egypt - Mizraim.