Ahmed Fouad II in Switzerland. The 58-year-old Fouad—as he prefers to be called—is the last King of Egypt. The honor was conferred on him when he was six months old by his father as one of his final acts before abdicating in July 1952. Egypt’s government doesn’t recognize the title, or Fouad’s claim to it.

Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the president is also the supreme commander of the Armed Forces, and head of the executive branch of the Egyptian government. The current president is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in office since 8 June 2014.

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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator

The ancient Egyptian practice of preserving bodies through mummification is no longer the preferred method to pay homage to our dead, but it is still alive and well in research labs.

About 2600 B.C., during the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties, Egyptians probably began to mummify the dead intentionally. The practice continued and developed for well over 2,000 years, into the Roman Period (ca.

The oldest known naturally mummified human corpse is a severed head dated as 6,000 years old, found in 1936 AD at the site named Inca Cueva No. 4 in South America.

Fictional mummies can’t feel pain and, like other horror monsters, are hard to kill. The most effective way to send them to a permanent demise is to set them on fire.

Mummies have been around for thousands of years. There are even modern mummies that are being made today. Mummies are real for sure, it’s just the movies that aren’t real. DAVE HURST THOMAS: The most famous mummies come from ancient Egypt.

Mummies are also not zombies because they are not relentlessly aggressive and they do not come to be through a biological infection. Unlike the modern zombie, mummies are not revived through some scientific process, but rather, through the fulfillment of a curse or eternal mission.

Weakness. Fire: The Mummy’s major weakness is fire, a common weakness among the undead. Cats: Cats were considered by the ancient Egyptians to be the guardians of the Underworld.

The 10 plagues in the book of Exodus

• 01 Blood. The waters were turned to blood – the fish in the river died and the Egyptians couldn’t drink the foul water.
• 02 Frogs. Frogs swarmed forth, covering every inch of land and entering houses and bedrooms.
• 03 Lice.
• 04 Wild animals.
• 05 Pestilence.
• 06 Boils.
• 07 Fiery hail.
• 08 Locusts.

The Mummy was afraid of the cat because of the Egyptian belief that cats are the guardian of the dead. Having been risen from the dead, Imhotep probably thought that the cat could possibly send him back, hence being afraid of them.

The cat represents the goddess Bastet, who could also be shown in leonine form, with four kittens. The Egyptians, so afraid of killing the animals and offending the goddess Bastet, surrendered.

Although many believe it was the Egyptians that started the myth of Cats being the Guardians of the Underworld, this is based on a very loose interpretation of their Cat Goddess “Bastet”. She was Goddess of protection against contagious diseases and evil spirits which is not really the Underworld.

Read on for some fun facts about this fascinating and mysterious Sphynx. You’d think, from the name, that this is an ancient breed, hailing from Egypt and the time of the Pharaohs, but they’re not. The breed’s origins actually began in Canada in 1966, when a mutant hairless male kitten named Prune was born.

Several ancient Egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat-like heads such as Mafdet, Bastet and Sekhmet, representing justice, fertility and power. The protective function of cats is indicated in the Book of the Dead, where a cat represents Ra and the benefits of the sun for life on Earth.

“Mau” is literally the ancient Egyptian word for “cat.” (So, calling one of this breed an “Egyptian Mau cat” is a bit redundant!)

Pusheen. Sorry, this content is not available in your location. A derivative of Puisín, the Irish language word for little cat of kit, this has emerged as a term of endearment for a cat, as in “Ah look at the little Pusheen.”

Egyptians believed cats were magical creatures, capable of bringing good luck to the people who housed them. To honor these treasured pets, wealthy families dressed them in jewels and fed them treats fit for royalty. When the cats died, they were mummified.

A study carried out by researchers from six universities and published in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy suggests something that dog advocates may claim they already knew: that dogs could be more intelligent. Researchers have found that dogs have around twice the number of neurons in their cerebral cortex than cats.

Dogs have measurable IQs just like people, new research published in the journal Intelligence suggests. Researchers tested the ‘general intelligence’ of 68 working border collies. They were given various tasks including navigation, retrieving food and following human gestures.