The Ancient Pregnancy Test That Sounds Ridiculous But Sort of Scientific
Who came up with this
During ancient Egyptian times, there wasn’t a dollar store down the road where you could purchase a test for a dollar that would predict if your life was going to drastically change in the next nine months. In fact, to ancient Egyptians, such a stick would probably be considered magical.
Ancient civilizations did not have the advantages of modern medicine or the understanding behind why some women got pregnant while other women never had children. Besides the birds and the bees…well, you know what I mean.
Dating around 1350 BC, ancient Egyptians kept one of the earliest records of a pregnancy “test” that actually worked, sort of.
Women didn’t pee on a stick though, and it definitely wasn’t a rapid test.
Ancient healers came up with a test requiring that women who thought they were pregnant to pee in a bag of wheat and a separate bag of barley seeds. Over the course of days, whichever bag sprouted first would reveal if the woman was having a boy or a girl. The theory continues, if neither of the bags sprouted, then the woman was not pregnant.
Can you imagine being so excited to know if you are pregnant, but you have to wait days for your results?
