Ancient+Egypt

=__//**Ancient Egypt**//__= The ancient Egyptians were fascinating people, and thanks to the movies, are often misunderstood. **The ancient Egyptians were not in love with death, but with life!** They enjoyed their life to the fullest. They worked very hard, but saved time to enjoy family, friends, music, parties, swimming, fishing, hunting, sailing, and especially their children, all of which were very important to the ancient Egyptians

=Cleopatra was not Egyptian=

====Along with King Tut, perhaps no figure is more famously associated with ancient Egypt than Cleopatra VII. But while she was born in Alexandria, Cleopatra was actually part of a long line of Greek Macedonians originally descended from Ptolemy I, one of Alexander the Great’s most trusted lieutenants. The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt from 323 to 30 B.C., and most of its leaders remained largely Greek in their culture and sensibilities. In fact, Cleopatra was famous for being one of the first members of the Ptolemaic dynasty to actually speak the Egyptian language.====

=The pyramids were not built by slaves.=

The life of a pyramid builder certainly wasn’t easy—skeletons of workers commonly show signs of arthritis and other ailments—but evidence suggests that the massive tombs were built not by slaves but by paid laborers. These ancient construction workers were a mix of skilled artisans and temporary hands, and some appear to have taken great pride in their craft. Graffiti found near the monuments suggests they often assigned humorous names to their crews like the “Drunkards of Menkaure” or the “Friends of Khufu.” The idea that slaves built the pyramids at the crack of a whip was first conjured by the Greek historian Herodotus in the fifth century B.C., but most historians now dismiss it as myth. While the ancient Egyptians were certainly not averse to keeping slaves, they appear to have mostly used them as field hands and domestic servants.

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Did you know that ancient egyptions liked board games?
This is just 1 game

//Senet//, an ancient Egyptian board game for two players, is played on a 30 square board with 3 rows of 10 squares each. At the beginning of the game, alternating colored markers are placed on the squares in the first row. The object of the game is to move your pieces off the board by moving them in a zigzag pattern to the 30th square. Egyptians used four flat sticks that were dark on one side and light on the other. Depending on how the sticks landed, you could "roll" a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6. If you roll a 1, 4, or 6, you get another turn. Your goal is to move all your pieces off the board.

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 * You can't land on your own pieces.
 * You can land on an opponent's pieces and switch it with your previous position if he isn't on a safe square, if he doesn't have more than 2 pieces in the same row, or if his pieces are "paired" or next to each other.
 * There are safe squares in which you can't swap out pieces and there are danger squares which place you back on a previous row.