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The most common wooden toys in early childhood days are the rattles. This has been a part of every child’s play toys. To our surprise these very same wooden toys has been found to be the first ever toy of mankind. Archaeologist have found wooden toys which date around thousand two hundred years before Christ. These were found in Cyprus and are now stored very safely in the famous and exotic collections of British museum. The rattles of ancient Greek has got shapes of different animals and birds such as ducks, rabbits and so on. Wooden toys were also found in the tombs of children in ancient Rome. There were many play toys of ancient world. Archaeologists have also found the Egyptian tiger toy which is estimated to around two thousand five hundred years old. The most amusing part is that the jaw of the tiger is movable and is attached to a string from inside and joined to the tail. So every time the tail is pulled the mouth opens. This clearly shows how wooden toys have always been a part of human life throughout centuries. Another famous play toy of the present world is dolls. But even this has been a part of a very old Egyptian society. This might be the perfect example as to how long dolls have been present as a playing companion to kids. Many wooden toys were found in the tombs of the Egyptians. Though most of them have been very primitive in nature still their very presence is the most significant. Most of these wooden toys were made out of flat boards of wood. To make a good body texture they were painted and also were worn with linen. Of course this toy was no ordinary and it was unique when compared to all others mainly due to the fact that the amount of details added to the toy was very high. It was wearing dress which is white in color. The size of the dress was small which portrayed that the wooden toys resembled small girl. Also the most wonderful part is that the hands are movable. These are the most advanced level of wooden toys which are supposed to be dated thousands of years before Christ. These wooden toys were retrieved from the tombs of the Egyptian pharaoh’s daughter. The doll also had hair which was made out of soft threads and were beaded. The long hair and the traditional way of dress design around the hips shows that these wooden toys were in feminine in gender. These wooden toys had one more important feature. That is the geometrical design over the body. This is denoted to be as the design of dress and jewellery of women. Being in a girl child tomb it can be considered that it was left in tomb as a faithful companion which had always accompanied the child. Also few believe these wooden toys were a part of the ritual of Egyptians as a part of afterlife.
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