Short people were valued highly in ancient Egyptian culture, according to a current article by Chahira Kozma, a pediatrician at Georgetown University, published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics.

Articles about the study appear on BBC News, and at Live Science, which more vividly details the wisdom teachings of the culture. The article features a prayer of dwarve god worship and cites examples demonstrating a general sense of respect in ancient Egyptian culture towards “the sick and the malformed”—