Thanks for the giveaway, count me in!

A nice fact is that during that era they figured out how to sculpt busts of relatively good resemblance to the original model, basically they were in a process of molding and casting by embedding the face of some lucky person on clayey soil and playing with resins.

Thanks for the nice giveaway, Lifthrasil!
Not int, but I want to share a paragraph I read many years ago and liked much from E.A. Wallis Budge's book Egyptian Magic:

There is a man named Djed-djedi who lives in Djed-djedi-Snefru. He is a man of a hundred and ten years who eats five hunded loaves of bread, half an ox for meat, and drinks one hundred jugs ot beer to this very day. He can join a severed head. He can make a lion walk behind him, its leash on the ground. And he knows the number of the secret chambers of the sanctuary of Thoth.

And the fact that this Djed-djedi's name was translated in Spanish as Teta (which means tit). A friend of mine always laughed at this part, but the book is nonetheless very interesting.

WOW, Lifthrasil! +1 Such positive thoughts. I've been feeling the recent barrage of negativity, making it less and less exciting to check the GOG forums, so I'm glad to notice your giveaway. Personally I've been affected more by the community's constant nitpicking, than by anything GOG has done recently. It just feels like this vocal minority, prefers to viciously complain about insignificant things, rather than play games, so... maybe gifting a key isn't a bad idea... or two ;)

Also, I love how involved the Clarus Victoria team is with their release here on GOG, something about seeing the golden(developer) posts makes me feel good, so rewarding them with a couple of purchases seems right.

Not in!

i am in.

in my language egypt translates " mısır " that means corn. Why the hell corn ı dont know. if that was wheat make sense.

Last chance to enter. Tomorrow I'll close the GA and due to a very generous donor, we will have two winners of Predynastic Egypt, not only one.

Egyptians and Native Americans were the only cultures that managed to figure out how to grow corn on their own. Some people, for this reason and a few others, believe that Native Americans were egyptians who seafared before the continental drift made it impossible, trapping people in the americas.

There was no "corn" as we know it (i.e., maize) in the Old World before the Columbian Exchange began. The word corn existed in English before that (and its ancestor words in other languages well before THAT), but it was just a synonym for grain, and therefore crop-agnostic. (Hence old words like barleycorn and peppercorn.) Any references to "corn" in old writings about ancient times in the Old World -- such as in the Bible (whence a lot of people infer this notion) -- can be safely assumed to be a reference to the dominant local grain crop, not to maize.


Sorry for the off-topic, Lifthrasil. I don't know if you'd consider this a "nice fact or story about predynastic Egypt", but if you want to take it as such, I'll be in. :)

Thank you for giveaway, I am in.

In ancient egypt slaves and servants were sometimes covered with honey to free their master from flying insects.

I'm closing this giveaway now. Thank you all for participating and for your stories and facts and 'facts'. :-)

Shai (the egyptian Goddess of luck) has spoken and the first code goes to:
bjgamer

The second code goes to
BeatriceElysia

and @MadalinStroe: thank you very much for providing that second code!
The codes have been sent. Thanks again to all participants and especially to Madalin.

@all: feel free to keep posting fun facts about predynastic egypt, even though the codes are gone! ;-)

Thank you Lifthrasil.

I will add another story/speculation.

When Nefertiti and her husband - his name escape me, sorry - embraced new religion, and soon perished with their heirs, there was large migration from Egypt. Since Her husband and her were promoting monotheistic religion it was that migration/ cult of the Sun may be base of the story of Moses and his migration.

And thank you Lifthrasil for helping me discover such a great game. Congratulations to the winners!

Her husband was Akhenaten or Echnaton (depending on how you transcribe the hieroglyphs). Interesting theory that that was later translated into Moses.

Wow. Thank you, Lifthrasil (and Shai)! I'm looking forward to enjoying this game. :)
Thank you also to MadalinStroe for donating a second key in support of what looks to be a good TBS game from a friendly dev who also supports Linux. :)

The fact of the hunting partnership with the big cats and pre-dynastic Egyptian ancestors is true according to Egyptian anthropology. The last I heard there were different theories on how exactly it started, but images on pottery, etc. as well as archeological evidence in some pre-dynastic village sites in what was once grasslands far west of the Nile led them to the belief this started well before the Pharoahs.

That's fascinating. I like the idea of domesticating big cats and it's amazing that it is so old!