The severity of punishment in Egypt eloquently testifies to how deeply the excitement virus has penetrated the body of the most ancient civilization. In various collections of antiquities of Egypt, you can see the papyrus with the texts of laws on punishment for avid players: they were sent to “correctional” work in the quarry. Along with the mentioned myth, there are a number of other facts confirming the existence of gambling-driven activities in ancient Egypt: dice, carved of an elephant tusk by an unknown master and dating back to 1573 BC (now they are kept in the British Museum) a fresco (British Museum) depicting two Egyptians playing atep (a game based on the principle of purely random events: two players stand with their backs to one another, and one shows a certain number on the fingers, and the second tries to guess it, and the judge being close to the players, keeps score and makes sure that the guessing person does not peep) a board for the game of checkers, owned by Hatshepsut (1600 BC), which is on display in the British Museum. This story convincingly shows that gambling-driven activities appeared in Egypt long before the construction of the pyramid of Khufu in 3000 BC.

Since Ra’s curse did not extend to the newly acquired five additional days, Nut, without delay, took advantage of favorable circumstances, giving birth to each of her 5 children: Isis, Osiris, Gore, Seth and Neptis. With the help of Nut, Thom defeated his opponent and gave Nut his winnings in the form of five new days of the calendar, adding them to the already three hundred and sixty. The rate in each party was one seventy-seventh of the moonlight. ”But the good god of night, Thoth, felt sorry for the beautiful goddess and thought of what to do. Let it be as empty as the sands of the desert of Hum. But this was not enough for him, and Ra cursed Nut with the words: “You shall not conceive a child in your womb in one of the three hundred and sixty days of the year. Ra, having learned about their marriage, became enraged and commanded to separate cheeky spouses.

Nut, the goddess of heaven, secretly engaged herself with her brother Geb. For example, in the pyramid of Khufu, built in the Giza region, near Cairo in Egypt, a clay tablet was found, narrating in mythological form about the origin of the modern calendar thanks to gambling-driven activities. However, the later history of civilizations has kept countless variety of facts, from the time of the pharaohs to the present day. The basis of our brief review of gambling-driven activities in the period when the world was still young is, of course, mostly guesses and assumptions.

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