Ointment spoon swimming girl, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
In a country largely dependent on the Nile, swimming was not only a favorite pastime, but often necessary for survival. The Ancient Egyptian word for "being in the water" or "swimming" is mehie. The determinative of this word is a sign representing a swimming man. Egyptian swimming is somewhat similar to front crawl. Probably the oldest representation of this determinative can be seen in the famous Narmer Palette, which dates from the Early Dynastic Period.
The oldest textual reference to the ability to swim is found in a Middle Kingdom biography. The text was placed in the tomb of shire prince Chety from Asyut. He states that the pharaoh had already encouraged him in his youth to learn to swim with the royal children. From this it can be concluded that swimming was part of the upbringing and physical training of princes and princesses. Several representations in Old Kingdom mastabas show that sailors usually could also swim. In the tomb of the Middle Kingdom lord Khnumhotep II at Beni Hassan, a scene can be seen in which two men in a boat lift a drowning man out of the water.
Windcatcher on the top of Palace of Alfi Bey, 1809, via Edition-Originale.Com
A prominent feature of the ancient Egyptian house that could have helped keep it cool was a structure known in Arabic as a malqaf. While we don’t have any archaeological remains of such structures from pharaonic times, there is a depiction of some on a house in a tomb in Thebes and on a funerary papyrus in the British Museum. They consisted of a triangular-shaped windcatcher on the roof open towards the north, which drew the cooling north breeze down into the home
The Egyptians seem to have considered this natural air-conditioning method to be one of the most effective ways of cooling for millennia because when Napoleon invaded Egypt over 200 years ago, his artists drew the houses of Cairo, and nearly every single house had one. Several still exist on historical houses you can visit in Cairo today.
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The mud bricks
The ancient Egyptians built these homes from silt mixed with sand and some sort of chaff such as straw. They mixed the mud with their feet and formed bricks in wooden frames. After they laid out the bricks to dry in the sun, they would have stacked the dried bricks in layers, one on top of the other. Then they spread layers of the same mud mixture between layers to get them to hold together. In order to protect the bricks and provide a smooth surface, the walls are usually plastered with a mixture of mud and chaff, and possibly painted with a lime wash.
Egypt’s climate today is roughly the same as that in ancient Egypt. Most of the year, it is extremely dry and hot. The low humidity along with the lack of rain, meant that mud houses could stand the test of time. Moreover, mud is a poor conductor of heat, so as long as the house was kept closed up during the hotter part of the day, it was less affected by the hot weather outside. Likewise, in the winter, mudbrick homes are warmer.
Ancient Egyptians had uncovered and used the medicinal properties of cannabis even beyond what modern medical science has been able to do so far. The Ebers Papyrus was written roughly around 1550 BC and is one of the oldest finished medical textbooks to have been found so far. It mentions a number of formulas which make use of hemp to alleviate pain and inflammation caused by various diseases and injuries. Apparently, women in particular used marijuana as a way to waive off depression and other psychological problems in the early days of Egypt.
Ebers Papyrus from National Library of Medicine, Found in Egypt in the 1870s.
This prescription for an asthma remedy is to be prepared as a mixture of herbs
heated on a brick so that the sufferer could inhale their fumes.
The oldest medicinal use of the herb in the region may date back even further, to 2000 BC, when it might have been used to treat glaucoma, cataracts, hemorrhoids, vaginal bleeding, and even cancer. It can be estimated that cannabis was probably not a cure, but an alleviator of the symptoms in most cases. Modern medical science on the other hand, is only beginning to establish the fact that cannabis has some truly remarkable pain-relieving properties, along with being a very potent calming agent for the imbalanced nervous systems of patients suffering from Parkinson’s Disease.
Cannabis in Egyptian Religion and Culture
When the mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II was uncovered and examined back in 1881, traces of cannabis in the remains was the last thing anyone was expecting, but it was there. Since then, a lot of the uncovered mummies have shown similar traces of the herb in their systems, confirming the suspicion that cannabis was indeed a part of the regular culture in ancient Egypt.
Practical Uses of Cannabis
Although it may sound strange if you have not heard about it before, cannabis was actually used in the production of ropes, sails, and fabric in particular. In fact, research suggests that ancient workers used a meticulous technique with the cannabis fiber to break down larger rocks before transporting them to constructions sites. The technique generally involved hammering down the dry cannabis fiber into the cracks of the larger rocks, before soaking them thoroughly in water. As the fabric began to expand it was strong enough to fracture the giant rocks.
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unfortunate this journalist was arrested and set free he decide to move to another country.
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