Saed News: One of the strange pregnancy test methods, found in ancient Egyptian papyrus manuscripts, proves that Egyptians performed pregnancy tests for the first time.
Saed News Historical Service report, quoting Bartarinha: According to information scientists have about ancient Egypt, the medicine of that country was astonishingly advanced. Based on a papyrus kept at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Denmark, to diagnose pregnancy in women, barley and wheat grains were mixed with dates and sand in two separate bags and soaked in women’s urine. The sprouting of the grains indicated pregnancy. If only barley sprouted, it meant the fetus was male, and if wheat sprouted, it meant the fetus was female. If no grain sprouted, the woman was not pregnant.
Tools needed for pregnancy testing in ancient Egypt:
Tools needed for pregnancy testing today:
