The oval surrounding their name was meant to protect them from evil spirits in life and after death. The cartouche has become a symbol representing good luck and protection from evil. Egyptians believed that one who had their name recorded somewhere would not disappear after death. A cartouche attached to a coffin satisfied this requirement.
A single mole can construct 200 mounds over the course of a winter. (Drawing by Jenifer Rees.) Moles construct two kinds of tunnels: surface tunnels and deep tunnels, or runways. Surface tunnels are located 1 to 4 inches below the surface.
Following strict proportions means that the ant sized human would travel 1/150 as fast or 18 meters per hour, which would be about 0.5 cm per second. Not very fast. (Not by editor: A typical speed of a large ant is 300 meters per hour - but this varies of course much with the species of ant.