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Your history teacher probably got ancient Egypt wrong. Start with the pyramids. For generations, people were told they were built by huge armies of slaves. But archeology tells a much more complicated story. Then there's Cleopatra, she ruled Egypt, but ethnically her royal dynasty came from somewhere else entirely. And even the way we describe Egypt as one single ancient civilization hides more than 3 thousand years of political upheaval, foreign rule and enormous cultural change. But the strangest misconception is what Egyptians actually believed about death. They weren't obsessed with dying, and those are only four of the things we were taught wrong about Egypt. Watch the full breakdown on whispers of the past.

Your history teacher probably got ancient Egypt wrong. Start with the pyramids. For generations, people were told they were built by huge armies of slaves. But…