Study Reveals Ancient Egyptians Were Vegetarians

1 star Already? must dislike the truth.

LOL. There's a cave in Oregon where they found the bones of an ancient camel dated roughly 12,000 years ago. Every bone contains tool marks where they cracked it open to get at the precious bone marrow.

My God destroyed them

Paleo diet comes from old Stone Age. Before grains were developed around twelve thousand years ago.

So it's a bullshit spin. Of course the Egyptians were eating a lot of grain, especially the poorer classes.

...and now they're dead and wrapped in toilet paper from eating sand salad. I'll take my ribeye medium.

Teeth marks not tool marks.

What about the carvings that show them fishing, plucking and roasting birds and slaughtering cattle and eating them.

Then why are there dozens & dozens of photos & carvings showing Egyptians raising cattle?!?

OP is either a shill or idiot Liberal.

New study reveals ancient Egyptians were mostly vegetarian

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New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science and reported in Live Science has shed light on the ancient Egyptian diet. By analysing the carbon atoms in mummies that had lived in Egypt between 3500 BC and 600 AD, the French research team were able to determine that ancient Egyptians were largely vegetarian.

The analysis was carried out on the remains of 45 ancient Egyptians that had been sent to two museums in Lyon, France during the 19 th century, and involved a cutting-edge technique involving the measurement of carbon ratios taken from bone, tooth enamel and hair.

We had an approach that was a little different," explained Alexandra Touzeau, who led the research team at the University of Lyon. "We worked a lot with bones and teeth, while most researchers study hair, collagen and proteins. We also worked on many different periods, with not many individuals for each period, so we could cover a very long time span.

All carbon atoms are taken in by plants from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by the process of photosynthesis. By eating plants, and the animals that had eaten plants, the carbon ends up in our bodies. Analysing this carbon can actually reveal what a person has eaten.

The results revealed that the ancient Egyptians were mainly vegetarian and their diet was primarily wheat- and barley-based. Cereals, such as millet and sorghum, formed a minor part of their diet (less than 10 per cent).

One of the most unusual discoveries was that there seems to have been little fish in their diet. Most people would probably expect the ancient Egyptians living along the Nile to have eaten a lot of fish, and archaeological excavations have found mummified fish in large quantities. However, at least in the 45 individuals studied, fish was not prominent in their diets.

"There is abundant evidence for fishing in Egyptian wall reliefs and models (both spear and net fishing), and fish shows up in offering lists. There is also a lot of archeological evidence for fish consumption from sites such as Gaza and Amama," said Kate Spence, an archaeologist and specialist in ancient Egypt at the University of Cambridge in England. "All this makes it a bit surprising that the isotopes should suggest that fish was not widely consumed."

In ancient cultures vegetarianism was much more common, except in nomadic populations, and eating meat was a development that occurred more recently.

Egyptians had the worst oral health and highest levels of heart disease due to their over consumption.......of grains.

As we do in magazines, paintings and film the depiction of Egyptians is styled to portray thin fit people...who are FAR the norm.

The so-called paleo diet is grossly inaccurate. SOME peoples consumed very very high levels of meat and fish and were quite robustly healthy.

Most ate wtfever they could get their hands on...often they would over consume items too high in sugars like certain nuts and fruits leading to very poor health outcomes.

Paleo diet.....which has now turned into the "substitution diet" with "paleo pizza" and "paleo sweeteners" in everything.....almond flour is very nearly toxic, agave syrup is BS as is monk fruit. Honey was VERY difficult to come by and acquire. It is annoying that every "diet" tries to replace junk food with some version modified to be keto or paleo or whatever.

Primal paleo would be as much fat, marrow and organs as possible eschewing muscle meat in favour of the above. Mussels, clams, fatty fish produced incredibly strong and healthy bodies.

Most people do exceptionally well on carnivore diets...

Yet they're all dead now. What does that tell you?

>Millions of years

And what does this have to do with me

That's why all the mummies were found toothless or with massive tooth decay. Look it up, it's a simple fact. It's even in a documentary I watched years ago.

Maybe that's why they didn't seem to live very long lives? Many of them died of very small ailments that are curable today quit easily... Who knows.

As long as the Nile flooded yearly and they planted their wheat in the nutrient rich soil, Egypt had the strongest army on the planet...

Bible explains they were Cattle ranchers.

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Yeah? And that’s why they’re not runnin’ shit anymore.

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In the bible....
Destroyed for human slavery.

Ya...Homo Sapien spread from the Indus Valley across Europe because they were chasing broccoli.

Vegans are idiots now faking history to fit their narrative

Veganism is satanism

blah blah blah...

If God didn't want man to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of MEAT!

Of course ghey greentards would say this.


hey lets have a big salad then build a civilisation

This is a Joke. Just, More Spin.

They only way they can surmise what ancient Egyptians ate, was from Mummies. Now who were mummified?
Not the common people, but the rich, mostly the Pharaohs.
So we are not talking the average Egyptian diet, but the Pharaoh's diet.

Just like most Americans don't eat like their Politicians or the Rich do.
The logic of this article is greatly lacking.
There is an added feature that was not included in the article; that based upon these mummies, their average life span was only to about 40 years old.

Different lifestyles between classes, requires different diets.
Both in terms of the physical labor involved in daily life and in terms of cost and personal choices.

You can't believe these people, but the stupid sheep eat this stuff up.

This is to support the "don't eat meat" agenda of the Leftists.

They didn't build the fucking pyramids on roots and berries.

you know

cows are made out of vegetables