Ancient World Facts

Egypt, Rome, and the civilizations that built the foundations of modern society.

Ancient Egypt

The Great Pyramid was the tallest building on Earth for 3,800 years.

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Roman Empire

They had concrete better than ours, heated floors, and a road network that lasted millennia.

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Ancient Greece

Hundreds of independent city-states that gave us democracy, philosophy, the Olympic Games, and the alphabet behind these very words.

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Mummies

Egyptian embalmers spent 70 days drying bodies in natron salt and wrapping them in 4,000 yards of linen, but mummification has been practiced on every inhabited continent.

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Pyramids

More than 100 royal pyramids rise from Egypt's deserts, and the Great Pyramid stood as the tallest structure on Earth for nearly 4,000 years.

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