What I found interesting about Egypt are mummy's.
I wrote this short story so you can get a better understanding.

Imagine yourself in Egypt 4,000 years ago as a pharaoh, you are suffering from bad malaria. The next morning you take your last breaths. So your slaves decide to mummify you. First what they do is take your brain out with a hook, then take out every organ of your body after, they would put your organs all in the preserved juices. Then comes the preserves on you. And to top it all off they wrap you in paper, until you are completely wrapped up in a certain position which I have displayed.

http://inplacenews.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/egyptian-mummy.jpg
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