One of Sneferu's pyramids: the Bent pyramid. He built the first big pyramids.

How do you entertain a bored pharoah?


Sail a boatload of young women dressed in fishing nets down the Nile and tell him to go catch a fish.




An inscription on a slip of papyrus from the magician Djadjamankh to the paroah Sneferu (2600 BC), believed to be the oldest joke in the world, discovered by the British Museum's Egyptology department.