Ancient Egyptians Peed on Wheat to Test for Pregnancy

Three and a half thousand years ago, Egyptian women took pregnancy tests. The instructions survive on a papyrus. Take a bag of wheat and a bag of barley.

SOURCES
- Berlin Medical Papyrus 3038 (c. 1350 BC) and Carlsberg Papyrus VIII, Egyptian gynaecological texts.
- Ghalioungui, P., Khalil, S. & Ammar, A. R. (1963). On an ancient Egyptian method of diagnosing pregnancy and determining foetal sex. Medical History 7(3), 241-246. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300028386

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