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Believing that the soul could live beyond death, the Egyptians buried their dead in the Red Land, with all the goods they considered they would need in what they thought of as the 'afterlife'. While their mud-brick houses have dissolved and their stone temples have decayed, their desert tombs have survived relatively intact, the dry conditions encouraging the preservation of such delicate materials as plaster, wood, papyrus, cloth, leather and skin.
This wealth of objects, of course, creates a highly biased collection of artefacts. The lives and possessions of the poor are under-represented, and we can never be certain that the goods so carefully provided for the dead were representative of the goods used in daily life.
Nevertheless, the contents of Egypt's tombs, supplemented by the illustrations on the tomb walls, have allowed specialists to develop a greater understanding of Egyptian material technology than of any other ancient civilisation.
The pyramid form, in particular, still pays an important role in modern architecture, and can be seen rising above cemeteries and innumerable shopping centres, and at the new entrance to the Louvre Museum, Paris. The original pyramids serve as a testament to the mathematical skill of the Egyptians, a skill that stimulated Greek mathematicians, including Pythagoras, to perfect their work. The Great Pyramid, built by Khufu Cheops in BC, for example, stands an impressive 46m ft high, with a slope of 51degrees.
Its sides, with an average length of m ft , vary by less than 5cm 2in. Higher than St Paul's Cathedral, the pyramid was aligned with amazing accuracy almost exactly to true north. But the pyramids are more than mathematical puzzles. They hold the key to understanding the structure of Egyptian society.
The pyramids were built, not by the gangs of slaves often portrayed by Hollywood film moguls, but by a workforce of up to 5, permanent employees, supplemented by as many as 20, temporary workers, who would work for three or four months on the pyramid site, before returning home.
The bureaucracy that we know lay behind this operation is staggering. Not only did the workforce have to be summoned, housed and fed, but administrators also had to coordinate the supplies of stone, rope, fuel and wood that were needed to support the building work.
Pyramid studies confirm that a pre-mechanical society can, given adequate resources and the will to succeed, achieve great things. Pyramid building would have been impossible without strong government backed up by an efficient civil service. No wonder many archaeologists believe that, while the Egyptians undeniably built the pyramids, the pyramids also built Egypt.
Relief showing a woman of ancient Egypt, giving birth. The goddess Hathor, protector of women during childbirth, assists on either side. Unlike those of other ancient societies, the Egyptians were experienced in dissecting corpses because, believing that their souls needed an earthly body, they preserved their dead as mummies.
Their eviscerated, dried and bandaged bodies were once regarded as useless curiosities to be unwrapped, stripped of their jewellery, then discarded, and the archaeological literature is full of horrific stories of unwanted mummies being burned as torches, ground into pigment, processed into brown paper and even dispensed as stomach medicine for the rich and gullible.
At the bottom of the hierarchy were the scribes, artisans, farmers and labourers. Back to Exhibitions. Ancient Egyptians were quite knowledgeable when it came to understanding different ailments and they were quite skilled at treating them as well.
Several medical texts have been discovered, describing medical procedures and recipes in great detail. The bronze surgical tools and the papyrus logs that have been discovered stand proof of their advanced medical skills, so Egyptians can be considered the precursors to modern medicine.
They also had knowledge in geometry and they made use of these skills to help them take accurate measurements and build their impressive monuments.
Just think about the Great Pyramids and the level of mathematical and geometrical knowledge this civilization had to possess in order to build such massive structures.
Although the Egyptian alphabet is no longer in use today, they were the first civilization to use symbols to represent individual sounds, thus developing written language.
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