Subiect: This article tackles the question why mushrooms were represented on the walls of tombs, of temples and in texts written on papyrus sheets and other various manuscripts found throughout ancient Egypt.
The ancient Egyptians referred to mushrooms by several names, such as: “sons of the gods”, or “plants of immortality”. Consuming mushrooms was an exclusive privilege of the Egyptian pharaohs and royalty; ancient scholars and historians also mentioned mushrooms and their use in their writings and books, in the Pyramid Texts and in the ancient Egyptian cult.
Mushrooms and other fungi also had extensive medical uses in ancient Egypt. Furthermore, modern scholars have also theorized the meanings of the shapes of some ancient Egyptian signs, and their relation to the shapes of endemic mushrooms.
