The Twitter Herodotus

2.81 They wear linen tunics with wool cloaks, but they can't bring wool into a temple or be buried in it, as it's against their religion.

2.82 They believe that your day of birth determines your destiny, and they keep track of any portents that occur and note their outcomes.

2.83 There are a number of oracles in Egypt, each practicing different methods of divination. The most revered is Leto's oracle in Buto.

2.84 Egypt is full of doctors, all specialists. There are doctors for the eyes, head, teeth, & belly, & for diseases w/o physical symptoms.

2.85 When a respected family member dies, the women cover their faces with mud and walk around the city with their breasts showing.

2.86 Professional embalmers offer 3 levels of service. The most expensive involves extracting the corpse's brain through its nostrils.

2.87 With the next plan the brain is left intact, but a viscera-dissolving solution is injected into the corpse via the anus.

2.88 The cheapest method involves purging the belly of its contents and embalming it in natron for 70 days.

2.89 The corpses of beautiful or important women are brought to be embalmed only after a few days to decrease the likelihood of necrophilia.

2.90 Anyone who was killed by a crocodile or whose death is somehow caused by the river is buried in a holy coffin and with special rites.