text: how did girls a 1000 years ago deal with menstruation? there weren't tampons 1000 years ago, were there? egyptian people, what'd they do, tie some papyrus around a stick and jam it up there?  i'd appreciate it if you give details, like a timeline or something. i know like a hundred years ago they used rewashable rags and stuff, but do you have any more information? in eygpt women who were on their period would go to a special tent. they would sit around naked and bleed onto special mats.