Welcome to One-Minute Dig, your source for quick and fascinating historical facts, presented by Petros Koutoupis of Digging Up The Past.
What if I told you that one of the world’s oldest pregnancy tests was invented over 3,000 years ago? It sounds like something pulled straight out of a bizarre ancient medical manual, but there was actually some science behind it. So how did the ancient Egyptians do it, and could their strange little test really tell if someone was pregnant?
