Know Ram Secrets Used by Ancient Egyptians

Egypt is conducting a large project to develop Tahrir square in the Cairo heart.

The Antiquities Ministry is preparing an obelisk and four rams to decorate this ancient square and make it one of the most beautiful squares in the world.

Dr. Magda Abdullah, the history Department head at the Arts Faculty , Kafr El-Sheikh University, said that ancient Egyptians knew two types of rams; they used to eat their meat, especially thighs, but the lamb was not presented as offerings to the dead It was probably seen as a food forbidden to the dead.

Meanwhile, the ancient Egyptians used it in achieving their purposes in the agriculture field, as its shape was often sanctified as sacred animals for a number of deities in ancient Egypt.

The first mummified sheep was found since the 1st Dynasty era as a sacred animal since the prehistoric era.

Dr. Abdullah added that the ancient Egyptians knew the ram under the name "Ba" or "Khnum" and perhaps the last name corresponding to them in the Semitic word "sheep" and collected by sheep. The head and its scientific name is Ovis Longipes Paleoaegyptiaca. This species disappeared in the second millennium BC.

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The ancient Egyptian farmers used sheep as an auxiliary element in the process of sowing grains on the land after the flood. They passed herds of cattle on the seeds in order to trample the seeds and plant them under the fertile soil and hide them from birds. So, the birds did not pick them up before the germination.

Ancient Egyptians were using jars to separate the chaff from the grains.

Also, they did not take advantage of the wool of sheep to make clothes, perhaps because of the warmth of the climate in Egypt, and they were permanently wearing white linen clothes starting from the 5th century BC.

On other hand, the Egyptians benefited from the skins of sheep in making some tools or near keeping water, buoys for use in swimming, in pillows and seat covers for sitting as well as making a quiver or parts of the chariot, horse belts and pouches for weapons.

They believed that the ram had a latent power that helps the living multiplication and has a physical or supernatural force.

Therefore, the centuries showed some of the crowns of the kings to give them strength and to introduce fear in them into the hearts of the enemies.

Around the ears of the type Ovis Platyra, the ram was used as a sacred symbol of the god Amun, the hidden god, the idol of the region of West, Thebes, which is currently Luxor and the protector of the Egyptian Empire.

The empire extended from the headwaters of the Nile in the south to the tops of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, passing through the Levant in the era of the eighteenth dynasty and the modern state.