In the twelfth week of our classes in history, we got to learn plenty of facts about the Egyptian civilisation. Such as how the river Nile, one of the longest rivers in the world, also manages to irrigate the land it passes through.

We learned about the Egyptian symbol which is a circle with a line above it that represents life. The circle represents mortal who die whereas the line symbolises the gods and immortals.

Scarabs were dung beetles that the Egyptians considered to be very sacred.

Faience is a type of pottery art and ceramic art that involves the use of glaze which include delftware and maiolica.

The first mummy to ever exist was Osiris who was also one of the gods among Set, Horus and Nephytys.

The deity Set killed Horus into 44 pieces and had strewn him all over Egypt, which parts eventually became temple for the deity Orisis.

They invented Papyrus, which is Egyptian paper created from the pithy stem of the water plant. They often used this texture to create their paintings that are still present to this day.

Astonishingly, the Egyptians were the first to create condoms out of snakeskin and the intestine of sheep.

They were passionate believers in deities and did not believe that once you dies, that would be the end of it all. They believed that you would turn into a god or goddess and worshipped them.