As ancient civilizations go, the Egyptians are by far one of the more well known. Their pyramids still stand to this day, and their mummies and sarcophagi pepper our museums.Turns out,

Some aspects of our modern life found their start in Egypt.



Source: http://listverse.com/2016/08/06/10-ways-ancient-egyptians-influenced-modern-life/

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1. Mathematics.


The Egyptians were remarkable at mathematics. The earliest records of geometry come from Egypt, as their geometry specialists were called “arpedonapti.” The arpedonapti used ropes to calculate the area of lands, eventually passing this knowledge to Greece. Egyptians also worked out efficient ways of performing multiplication and division. While we have various ways to perform such calculations, Egyptians used a more computation-friendly method that involved doubling numbers, a technique we still use in modern-day computing.

Priests used the measurement of the depth of the Nile to decide how many taxes would be charged among the working and peasent classes.

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2. Alphabets.


Of course, we don’t use any Egyptian alphabets today, but the idea of a phonetic alphabet (where each symbol represents a sound rather than a whole word) came from Egypt. Egyptian hieroglyphs used a symbol for each word, but 24 uniliuteral signs were phonetic to pronounce loanwords and foreign words.

It caught on with Egypt’s neighbors, including the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians would make it their own with an alphabet, simply called the Phoenician Alphabet, which spread around the Near East and Greece through trading. This acted as the foundation for alphabets around the world.

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3. Wigs.



The Ancient Egyptians had a little bit of a dilemma. They didn’t like to have a full head of hair under the heat of the Sun, but they also didn’twant to go totally bald due to both the head skin being roasted by the Sun’s rays and for personal fashion reasons.

They needed a temporary head of hair that didn’t trap heat as much as normal hair did but still looked good. The answer, of course, was the wig. Keeping the heat away wasn’t the only reason the Egyptians adopted the wig. It also protected against head lice. As for what the wigs were made from, the rich and influential could afford to wear wigs made from the real thing hair, either from themselves or someone else.

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4. Paper and Writing.



While the Egyptians didn’t discover the paper we use today, papyrus was a huge step up from carving words into stone, both in terms of ease ofwriting and being lighter to carry around. The Egyptians discovered papyrus (and the reed pen, so they could actually write on it) in 3000 BC, but it would take until 500 BC for papyrus to catch hold in the Mediterranean and West Asia. Papyrus would become one of Egypt’s best exports; it was very expensive, and the secrets on how it was made was heavily guarded.

Inspired by Egypt’s work, Europe would eventually move on to parchment, and China would invent paper in 100 BC using mulberry bark and hemp rags, using a method that would evolve into the technique we use today. While Egypt’s grand invention fell out of use, it gave the world the idea of moving away from stone tablets.

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5. Mummification/Embalming.


A mummy is a dead body that has been carefully preserved, or mummified. Workers removed organs that might rot, then dried thebody with natron (salty crystals) and wrapped it in resin-soaked bandages.

Anubis was the god of mummification. He had a human body and the head of a jackal. Anubis was the son of Nephthys. His job was to prepare the bodies of the dead to be received by Osiris.

The first Egyptian mummies were bodies of people who had been buried in the desert. Their bodies dried out and remained whole. Later rich Egyptians were mummified after death. This procedure was a way of preserving the body for the afterlife. The procedure involved cleaning the body inside and out.

The earliest ancient Egyptians buried their dead in small pits in the desert. The heat and dryness of the sand dehydrated the bodies quickly, creating life like and natural 'mummies'. Later, the ancient Egyptians began burying their dead in coffins to protect them from wild animals in the desert. However, they realised that bodies placed in coffins decayed when they were not exposed to the hot, dry sand of the desert.

Over many centuries, the ancient Egyptians developed a method of preserving bodies so they would remain lifelike. The process includedembualmingthe bodies and wrapping them in strips of linen. Today we call this process mummification.

During the Fourth Dynasty Queen Hetepheres was the first royal Egyptian believed to have her organs dried out and preserved. First the body was cut open and the organs were removed. All the major organs were taken out except the heart and the kidneys. The brain was removed through the nose with an iron hook. In her tomb a chest with compartments was found. In the chest were the remains of Queen Hetepheres's stomach and other organs. In later years the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines were placed in canopic jars. The organs were carefully removed from the body and driedwith natron. The brain was not considered an important organ and was not preserved. Egyptians believed thoughts and reason came from the heart.

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6. Recorded Medicine.


People were treating wounds with all kinds of herbs and ground-up animal parts for a long time. Due to their new and convenient writing methods, however, the Egyptians produced someof the oldest logs we’ve found of both medical procedures and medicine recipes. So far, we’ve found nine separate papyrus logs that talk about how the Egyptians performed their medicine.

7. Surgery.


To go with their new-fangled recorded medicine, the Egyptians hold the title for the civilization with the earliest discovered surgical tools. They were found within the Tomb of Qar, who was known as “the Physician of the palace and keeper of the secrets of the king.” Kept next to Qar’s head were several bronze surgical tools, each of which sported a hole as if intended to be hung up on a hook. Of course, given how Egyptians were now writing down their methods and procedures, we can also see written logs of surgery. They detail the removal of cysts and tumors, but more major surgeries that are performed today were probably never performed back then. Given how it was in the very early days of human biology study and anesthetics were very crude.

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Egyptian Ancient Medicine.


*. The earliest evidence of ancient dentistry dated 2000BC by archeologists. This work shows intricate gold work around the teeth.
The mummy was found with two donor teeth that had hole drilled into them.


*. Wood and leather prosthetic toe was used by an amputee to facilitate walking.



Source: Wikipedia, slideshare. net

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8. Door Locks.



The Egyptians didn’t invent the door lock, that credit goes to the Assyrians. But the Egyptians are believed to be the ones who made the door lock popular and improved upon the original design.
The Egyptian designs are surprisingly similar to the ones we use today, except the mechanisms would be made out of wood or brass. Eventually, the idea of locks caught on with other countries it certainly was a lot cheaper than to hire a guard. It would eventually spread over to Greece and the Roman Empire, and from then on,the pin lock would be adopted as a convenient way to secure belongings.

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Thumbs up, Explorer! I love the fact that the Egyptians were able to preserve these history like the Greeks. I'm sometimes amazed at how the Egyptians were able to record all these feats.

They must have placed a priority on record keeping. This is one of the reasons why Africa's history is lost. Our ancestors depended on the use of the oral method of history keeping.

The gap in our history is responsible for the low standard we give to ourselves and our heritage.