The discovery of the first zoo in history found before the pyramids and found in Egypt
Despite being one of the oldest civilizations in the world, Egypt was in fact home to a more ancient society that existed before the pharaohs, according to what was published by the British newspaper "Daily Express".
Archaeologists have found something unprecedented in the city of "Hirakonpolis", the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of the prehistoric era, and it is the first zoo in the world in ancient Egypt.
And as long as Egyptian history attracted archaeologists from all over the world, in the mid-eighties of the nineteenth century the Western world began to explore the advanced Pharaonic civilization that arose on the banks of the Nile and attracted the largest Western scholars who
Where they discovered parts of a colossal statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II.
The pharaohs unified Upper and Lower Egypt and began to rule Egypt since 3000 BC and remained in power until 343 BC and were able to dig their names in the history books as immortal kings who crossed this part of the earth, and the civilization of Egypt extends to much further than that.
Since the first human settlement that passed through the Pharaohs, where royal rule prevailed, the American archaeologist “Renee Friedman” found in 2015 the unprecedented remains of animals from different regions of the African continent in the region of Upper Egypt, and they were revealed through the documentary film of the Smichonian Channel entitled “Secrets.” The beasts of the pharaohs.
According to the studies and research conducted by Friedman with her research team, it was found that the existing animals were placed in their own boxes or cages and fed by humans, and this is what Friedman explained that here is the first zoo in the world dating back more than 6000 years, that is, even before the invention of writing and before the existence of Pyramids .
The research team was able to establish specific dates for the times when these animals lived by analyzing what they ate as a last meal, which showed that many of these animals were all buried at the same time, because the dates are almost identical.
It is strange that the animals that were kept did not die of natural causes, but it appears that they were slaughtered and buried all with their owner who died.
Standing over the tomb of one of the rulers, Friedman explained that this ruler, like other rulers present here, had a number of animals (leopards, baboons, deer, crocodile, and ostrich) with him.
The animals were buried with their owner to ensure that the mystical powers of the animals would accompany the ruler to the afterlife. However, the animal carcasses were not the only skeletal remains found at the site, as the remains of women and children were also found.
After his death, Friedman said, the ruler would take almost everything with him, which means that animals and humans would accompany the ruler to the next life.
And throughout the region, the remains of colored wooden columns were found, indicating that the tombs were built in the form of wooden structures. The cemetery as a whole shows the main tomb of the ruler located in the middle surrounded by all his animals that he owned in the form of a belt of protection around the ruler.
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