15 Fascinating Facts About Ancient Egypt

When I surfed the net to find something interesting, I was appealed by a special article about some amazing facts about Ancient Egypt. Ever since childhood, I have been fascinated with everything relating to Ancient Egypt. Some amazing facts are as follows:

1. A Pharaoh never let his hair be seen – he would always wear a crown or a headdress called a nemes (the striped cloth headdress made famous by Tutankhamun's golden mask (pictured above).  I loved approaching those kinds of nemes in some Ancient Egyptian exhibitions, although sometimes they would scare me when I was little.

2. Egyptian men and women wore makeup – eye paint was usually green (made from copper) or black (made from lead). The Egyptians believed that makeup had healing power. Originally the makeup was used as protection from the sun – rather than for adornment. Sometimes I would be curious about the reason for making up their faces in ancient Egypt. But, after I looked up this fact, I finally knew that this culture was just like the jade worn in ancient China.

3. It is unknown who destroyed the Sphinx's nose (pictured above). There are sketches of the Sphinx without a nose in 1737, over 60 years before Napoleon reached Egypt and hundreds of years before the British and German armies of the two World Wars. The only person known to have damaged it was an Islamic cleric, Sa'im al-dahr, who was lynched in 1378 for vandalism. Some people would think that was destroyed by aliens or such awesome nature stuff, just like the Crop Circles.