Archaeologists have found a pregnancy test, which is 3,500 years old

15 August 2018, 20:04 | Science
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Egyptologists from the University of Copenhagen managed to translate the papyrus, which is three and a half thousand years old. In it was a pregnancy test and the sex of the child. This is written by ScienceNordic.

The letters were found earlier in the ancient Egyptian town of Tebtunis. It gives precise instructions on how to determine if a woman is pregnant or not.

The text says that a woman should take sacks of barley and wheat straw, and urinate on them. In dependence on in which of them the sprouts will quickly appear, it was possible to find out the field of the child.

If the shoots were not in one, then the woman is not pregnant.

Look at the photo gallery: Archaeologists have found a pregnancy test, which is 3500 years Experts say that a similar test is mentioned in the German folklore text of 1699.

Earlier, scientists discovered the gene-zombie, which protects against cancer. Also, the correspondent wrote that in Egypt, a cheese of more than 3200 years was found News from Telegram. Subscribe to our channel https: // t. me / korrespondentnet Author: 1.




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