Horrible Histories 시리즈에서 두 번째로 읽게 된 이야기, 이집트. 이집트는 매우 신비한 국가이다. 대피라미드의 비밀로부터, 나일 강의 범람이 가져다 준 찬란한 문명까지 이집트는 각종 비밀들을 가지고 있다. 신화와 이집트 각 계급들의 이야기를 통해 이집트에 대해 알아간다.
The awesome Egyptians had great civilization. Why? Why they could be in the 4 great civilization? All the civilization which had great technology had river beside them. And Egyptians were lucky to have Nile, because this river was special. It flooded regularly, so they could engaged in farming well.
The pyramid is also a great thing. However, we should know about the truth of Egyptian cluture. There were 90% of slave called peasant. They are just like common people in Choson, and they had no pay for working hard to carry bricks to the pyramid.
There is a mythology about mummy. Osiris was a great king and god of Egypt. Osiris' brother, Set was jealous of him, so he killed him and devided his body into 14 parts. He scattled the bodies and became the new king, but Osiris' wife, Isis found every bodies and made mummy to revive him. He became the king of Death world, and son of Osiris, Horus attacked Set and became the new king.
Egypt is a really special nation. They have exotic culture and things that we cannot imagine what it was used for. Than we can call it, Awesome Egyptians.