Strange as the story of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt
Pharaoh was the ruler of the high and low lands of Egypt. He owned all the land in Egypt. He was also responsible for legislating, collecting taxes and protecting the Egyptian people from external enemies. He also did the work of connecting the masses with the gods.
Today I am writing about some such pharaohs. Their specialty was some of the strangest things they did in their lifetime. Just as it is impossible not to be surprised to hear about some works, it is also not impossible to be the food of deadly laughter for some works!
Fear of death of Menhkaur
Menkaur sat on the throne of the king of ancient Egypt in about 2,530 BC. He is also known as Mykerinos and Menchhares. Menkaur, who ruled for 18-22 years, is famous for the 'Pyramid of Menkaur' in Giza.
The king was always afraid of death, he wanted to not hear his name in any way, to protect himself from it. Once a priest came and told him that he would live another six years.
Hearing this, the sky fell on Menkaur's head. He started doing various tricks to avoid death in any way. The king thought that if the night did not end, the new day would never begin. If the new day does not start, then time will not continue. And if time cannot go on, then he will not die!
From then on, the strange work of Menkaur began. For the rest of his life, he kept the lights on as much as he could at night so that the night would feel like day. He did not usually sleep at night. He drank and spent every night in the hustle and bustle. There was a fear in his head all the time - 'I realized this, the light went out!'
Amarna of Akhenaten
Akhenaten was the ruler of Egypt for about seventeen years in the fourteenth century BC. The Egyptians worshiped many gods before he ascended the throne. But when he came to power, he banned all of them and continued to worship the only solar god, Aten. History remembers him mainly because of such a groundbreaking step.
In Athena's honor, Akhenaten set about building a new city, named Amarna. About 20,000 people were employed to build the city. The unfortunate ones had to work day and night like inhumans. A study of the skeletons found in the city's cemeteries found that two-thirds of the workers had broken bones while working.
Most of the city dwellers spent half a day on hunger strike. Most of them were malnourished. However, the authorities did not have any headache. They were busy enhancing the beauty of Amarna. If someone broke the line on his stomach and tried to steal some extra food, he would be killed by constant stabbing.
Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person. The Egyptians could not accept Akhenaten from the heart. After his death, many of Akhenaten's statues were smashed and some were hidden. His name was not included in the list of kings. Egypt returned to the worship of many of its predecessors.
Strange memorabilia of Sesostris
Sesostris is considered one of the best military commanders in the history of Egypt. He sent his forces to almost every part of the world at that time. His kingdom at that time was so vast that no one could have imagined it.
After winning each battle, Sesostris would build a memorial at the site. It started with his identity. Who he is, how he defeated his enemies and how he was sure that the gods would be on his side in this attack - all these were written about various boasts. Then the strangest thing was done.
If the enemy had lost the battle with the forces of Sesostris like a hero, the picture of the male genitalia would have been painted on that pillar! And if they could not resist, then the picture of the female genitalia would be drawn!
Ventilation of the second amasis
Amasis II ascended the throne of Egypt from 570-526 BC. This drunken king had a bad habit of hand washing from his childhood.
Amasis's accession to the throne was through rebellion. The then king of Egypt sent him to quell a rebellion. But Amasis realized that the rebels had a good chance of victory. So after a while he joined the rebels and became their leader. Then he did a strange thing to declare war on the king. He was the first to breathe with his legs apart. Then he said to the angel, "Take it to the king!"
The city of the nose-cutters of Actisense
Although he came to power through a revolt, it was this revolt that again overthrew Amasis II. He was the ruler of a very rough mood. The people of the country once ousted him out of anger over his rule. That eviction was led by an Ethiopian named Actisense. He later became the king of Egypt.
As soon as he came to power, Atticence started looking for new ways to punish criminals. Eventually he came up with a way to keep a criminal in mind for a lifetime. Actisense announced that from now on, all the criminals caught in the state will have their noses cut off. Not only that, the criminal will then be sent to a city made only for criminals; Name its rhinocalura. Of course, it would not be an exaggeration to call Rhinoceros the city of nose cutters.
He who has visited this city once has never forgotten about it. Only people with cut noses live throughout the city! Seeing such a scene is like a nightmare. The city environment was also not very conducive to public health. Drinking water was contaminated. Criminals from the civilized society had to live a very inhuman life.
In the present society, we call this punishment quite inhuman, but it can be said to be quite mild as the punishment of that time. The Romans wrote about Rhinoceros that it was a unique sign of the king's kindness to the captives!
Pharaoh's urination
Do you remember Sesostris mentioning the picture of the genitals a little earlier? Ferros was the son of Sesostris. He is thought to have lost his eyesight to a hereditary disease. However, there is a very good story about losing this sight and getting it back later. There is no way to measure how true it is, and how false it is.
It is said that once the Nile swollen in the flood waters, the people of Egypt were in dire straits. Then the Egyptian king Pharaoh ordered the Nile River to calm down. But he got angry because there was no work in it, he threw the spear in his hand for the purpose of the river. The gods could not accept his challenge. So Feroze became blind to their curse.
About ten years later. One day a priest came to Pharaoh's court. He said that Feroze could regain his sight. But for this she has to wash her eyes with the urine of a woman who has never had sexual intercourse with anyone except her husband.
On hearing this, the king first went to his wife. But alas, even after washing his eyes with his wife's urine, his eyesight did not return! This made the king doubt his wife. In any case, he did not pay any attention to it and started collecting urine for the time being. All the women of the kingdom came in the prescribed vessels and began to urinate, and the king began to wash his eyes with them.
After washing his eyes with the urine of dozens of women, the king finally regained his sight. He married the woman who regained his sight after washing his eyes with urine. And he burned his ex-wife for breaking the trust!
The marriage of Ramesses II
Ramesses II was the most popular and powerful of the pharaohs of the Egyptian Empire. He lived for about ninety-one years. Most of the pharaohs of that time would have been killed by assassins. But seeing Ramesses live for so long, the people in his kingdom began to think that he would probably never die! Ramesses II, who reigned for six years, surpassed everyone else in the field of sculpting before his death, as well as in the number of wives.
He left behind nine wives and a hundred children. It is understood that this king has to pay good attention to the management of the state as well as the management of the family. Surprisingly, her own children were not freed from her desire for marriage. Among the nine wives, three were his own daughters. This number can be four. Historians are unsure whether his wife, Henutmaya, was his daughter or sister.
