In order to deter flies from landing on him Pepi II of Egypt always kept several naked slaves nearby whose bodies were smeared with honey.

The oldest recorded death sentence is contained in the Amherst papyri, dating to 1500 BC, which listed Egyptian state trials. A teenage male convicted of "magic" was sentenced to kill himself by either poison or stabbing.

Before Egyptians practiced mummification they used to bury their dead in desert cemeteries where certain conditions often turned the dead body into a natural mummy.

Egyptian Dads built the biggest structure in the world!

The Great Pyramid of Khufu was the tallest building on earth for nearly 4,000 years.
It reached 481 feet into the sky which is 176 feet bigger than the Statue of Liberty! It was only beaten by the English when they built Lincoln Cathedral in the 14th century which topped 525 feet.

The Great Pyramid of Cheops, built around 3,000 BC, used 2,300,000 huge stone blocks weighing 7 million tons in total.

Even though the Egyptian pyramids are the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, they are the only one of those wonders to survive to the present day.

 

The Ancient Egyptians played a game like bowling using larger stones set up as pins and smaller stones as a ball.

 

Some Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made out of stone or wood.

Both rich people and poor people wore jewellery. In fact, so did some sacred animals; the only difference was what it was made of.

The jewellery that the wealthy people wore was made of expensive metals and rare stones. The jewellery the poor people wore was made of faience, a material that looks like glass and is made by heating quartz or sand.