February 13, 2014

The Egyptians had many technological innovations and inventions.  The plow was one of these inventions.  They were built with hand tools and were inefficient.  The Egyptians also invented the lock.  It was a pi hand tumbler lock and a drawback was that some of them were very large.  Finally the use of written language.  Drawings existed for a long time but using them as a form of written language was first done by the Egyptians.

The Egyptian pyramids are amazing structures.  The earliest pyramids were made of stone blocks.  Later they also used limestone.  Each pyramid had a King’s chamber, which had the mummified body of a Pharaoh that was placed in a sarcophagus.  The pyramids were never an isolated structure, they were part of a complex that included a mortuary temple.