**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
and ponder over its pyramids. It's easy to forget these people once
lived and laughed, loved and breathed ... though not for very long.
These were dangerous days for princes and peasants alike. In Ancient
Egypt - a world of wars and woes, poverty and 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
and you'll find that the Egyptians' bizarre adventures in life were
every bit as fascinating as the monuments they left to their deaths.