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| Ancient Egyptian Inventions |
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While ancient Egypt is
usually associated with
pharaohs,
mummies and
pyramids; a great number of ancient
Egyptian inventions are used in our
everyday lives. It would be quite
difficult to conveniently and
comfortably handle our everyday affairs
without most of these early Egyptian
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The history of the Egyptian
nation spans thousands of years. Even before
they were eventually ruled by one of the
greatest civilizations of the ancient world, the
Romans, the Egyptians were already quite handy
at making their own contributions to their part
of the globe. Some of the inventions of ancient
Egypt are quite well known while other
ancient Egyptian inventions are hardly known
at all, or at the very least, often credited to
other peoples. |
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| List of Inventions in Ancient Egypt |
- Black Ink
- First Ox-Drawn Plows
- 365 Day Calendar and Leap Year
- Paper
- First Triangular Shaped Pyramids
- Organized labor
- Hieroglyphics as an early system of
writing
- Sails
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| One of the inventions before
Christ in Egypt was surprisingly black ink.
The Egyptian people were very talented at
creating not only black ink, but many
multi-colored types of ink and dye. The process
and depth of color utilized in the Egyptian
invention of ink and dye was so marvelous that
these brilliant hued colors can still be seen
today, thousands of years later. While not
thought of in quite the same aspects as the
technology we know today, the first ox-draws
plows that appeared in Egypt as early as
2500 B.C. were; nevertheless ancient Egypt
technological inventions. Skilled metal working
would have been required in order to form a
workable plow, as well as animal husbandry. One
might wonder why the ancient Egyptians would
have even needed ox-drawn plows when the
majority of the Egyptian nation consists of
deserts. While there certainly is a great amount
of sweeping desert land in Egypt, the nation is
also the home of extremely fertile black soil
along the banks of the Nile River. This soil
makes a very hospitable environment for growing
crops such as wheat, in addition to a multitude
of vegetables. Ancient Egyptian inventions, such
as the ox-drawn plow, would have made farming
much easier and more profitable.
The ancient Egyptians also have the distinct
honor of having invented not only the modern
365 day calendar but the leap year system as
well. Ancient civilizations recorded and marked
time using a lunar calendar system. A solar
system established calendar, based on twelve
months of 30 days each, with five extra days,
was first conceived of by the ancient Egyptians.
The Egyptians also devised the leap year
calendar of adding an extra day every fourth
year in the year 238 B.C. |
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One of the many ancient Egyptian inventions
was an early system of writing, now recognized
around the world, known as
hieroglyphics. Not only did the ancient
Egyptians invent a system of writing, but they
also invented the paper on which to place it.
Taken from the fibers of the papyrus plant,
Egyptian paper was the first of its kind.
While there remains speculation regarding how
the
ancient pyramids were constructed, it is
obvious the Egyptians were the first to invent
and employ organized labor on a massive
scale in order to construct these magnificent
stone structures. When one takes into
consideration that the construction of just one
pyramid often lasted several decades, the
magnitude of the organized labor required
becomes enormous. The first truly triangular
shaped pyramids are also counted among the many
ancient Egyptian inventions; although it took
them several tries in order to achieve an idea
model. |
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