In early 1998, the Top Ten series was launched with two titles written by Terry, Top Ten Shakespeare Stories and Top Ten Greek Legends. Awful Egyptians (Horrible Histories) is an exciting novel written by Terry Deary and is illustrated by Martin C.Brown.The novel takes place in ancient Egypt where Pharaohs existed.The novel talks about how they mummify a dead (rich) person, only rich can afford to get mummified, others were only buried or given to animals to prey in.The Egyptians believed in many gods such as Anubis, who was the God of Death.He controls whether you should go to Heaven or Hell, he puts your heart on a scale and sees.If your heart is light then you're going to Heaven, if not, you're going to Hell.Cleopatra is said to be an Egyptian, but NO!Cleopatra is from Greek and ruled over Egypt for 100 years, she was murdered by Octavian.

Get EVERY episode of Horrible Histories as well as all the extras at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00sp0l8/horrible-histories BBC iPlayer is the home of Horrible Histories. King Tut’s mummy was buried with an erection. Nobody knows exactly why, but Tut’s the only Egyptian ruler we’ve found so far who insisted on being mummified with a raging hard-on. I do not like reading very much and my Mum is pleased that I have found some books I like so much that I read them without being asked!” Learn all about some of Egypt's most ruthless rulers & their beliefs of the afterlife in this video!

Why did the Egyptians build pyramids?

Would you add Cleopatra on Facebook? Well, Mark Anthony added her on Mummy-Bo and he's beginning to regret it.

Men weren’t off the hook, though. They had male contraceptives that weren’t much better. Men had to rub onion juice onto their foreskins to keep themselves from having kids. Egypt is the land of pyramids and pharaohs, tombs filled with glittering treasures, and powerful men who ruled a country like gods. When we think of ancient Egypt, we think of the wealth and glamour of kings. But we usually leave out the dirty—and disgusting—details. 10 Lice Was So Bad That People Just Gave Up On Hair See how bodies were mummified during the great Egyptian era in this hilarious Horrible Histories song!When a man died in Egypt, he was embalmed right away. Women, though, were a different matter. By law, the beautiful and the powerful weren’t sent to embalmers until they had decayed for three or four days. This was because Egyptians didn’t trust the embalmers to keep their hands to themselves.