In ancient Egypt, women knew they were pregnant with this interesting method! Science says it's 70 percent true

In ancient Egypt, women used an interesting method to find out if they were pregnant. According to scientists, this pregnancy test, which was discovered in a papyrus, was 70 percent accurate.

Ancient Egypt is a place full of secrets. Despite being a civilization that lived thousands of years ago, it continues to amaze us living in the modern age. 3,500 years ago, Egyptian women used an interesting method to find out if they were pregnant.

Some unpublished ancient Egyptian medical texts in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark shed light on this ancient method. According to these texts, all a woman had to do to find out if she was pregnant was to urinate into two different bags, one filled with barley and the other with wheat.

If the grains in the two bags sprouted, she was definitely pregnant and could start planning accordingly. Not only that, they had a way to find out the sex of the child!

To find out the sex of the baby, the woman just had to wait and see which of the grains sprouted first. If the barley sprouted faster, it was a boy; if the wheat sprouted first, it was a girl.

According to the National Institute of Health, a 1963 study found that this method of determining pregnancy was about 70 percent accurate. Scientists think that high levels of estrogen in a pregnant woman's urine may have stimulated seed growth.

But their method of predicting the sex of the baby was definitely wrong. Still, it is impressive that a civilization that lived thousands of years ago used a pregnancy test with such a high level of accuracy.