Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks? Don`t bet your afterlife on it. Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5, 000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies & ponder over its pyramids. It`s easy to forget these people once lived & laughed, loved & breathed.. .though not for very long. These were dangerous days for princes & peasants alike. In Ancient Egypt
- a world of wars & woes, poverty & plagues
- life was short. Forty was a good age to reach. A pharaoh who was eaten by a hippo ended up as dead as a ditch-digger stung by a scorpion. Unwrap the bandages & you`ll find that the Egyptians` bizarre adventures in life were every bit as fascinating as the monuments they left to their deaths.