The Ancient Egyptians worshipped more than 2,000 different gods and goddesses.

The pyramids of ancient Egypt were actually tombs, in which the pharaoh could be laid after his or her death, along with many of their belongings and everything they would need in the afterlife.

The Great Pyramid at Giza was the world’s tallest building until Lincoln Cathedral was completed in England in the 1300s.

Each of the gigantic stone blocks used to build the pyramids weighed around two tons, that’s as much as an elephant.

There are more than 130 pyramids scattered around the Egyptian desert. Egypt isn’t the country with the most ancient pyramids. In fact, most of them are now found in neighboring Sudan.

The word pharaoh literally means “great house”, thought to be a reference to the grand palace in which the kings and queens of Egypt lived.

Because of unusual marks on his skeleton, some historians believe King Tutankhamun might have been killed by a hippopotamus or even a crocodile.