The Ancient A/C Built Without Electricity

How did ancient humans live through the heat? In ancient Egypt the desert heat was handled with mud brick, linen, and beer. #AncientHumans #DesertHeat #BeforeFarms You are in Thebes at noon, in a linen kilt, and the sand is hot enough to cook an egg. The pyramids are the easy part. Staying alive in that heat is the work. Daily life in ancient Egypt was built around that noon. Ancient Egyptian houses had thick mud brick walls. A wind catcher on the roof pulled the north wind indoors. The hot months were for sleeping on the roof. Egyptian linen let sweat dry. Egyptian beer, warm beer, stood in for a cold drink, long before air conditioning. All research and sources are linked below. 00:00 The noon 01:11 The ribbon 01:49 Sweat 02:55 The wall 04:30 The scoop 05:39 Linen 07:12 Beer 08:26 Salt 09:14 The shade 10:26 The red land RESEARCH & SOURCES Figures for noon (43°C, 110°F, about 95 percent desert, several million people, a life of about sixty), sweat (two to four million glands, several liters a day, trouble at about 2, 5, and 10 percent of body weight), the mud wall (heat delayed, about twenty degrees from noon to dawn), several jars of beer a day, linen, the work day, and the Nile flood are the video's figures. They are not one named paper. William F. Edgerton, "The Strikes in Ramses III's Twenty-Ninth Year" (1951, Journal of Near Eastern Studies). Year 29 of Ramesses III, about 1155 BCE in the video. The ration was late. https://doi.org/10.1086/371037 The malqaf is the video's reading of a roof scoop in a Theban tomb painting of Nebamun, around 1300 BCE. The British Museum's famous Nebamun paintings, about 1350 BCE, are a different set. Badgirs in Yazd, Iran, are the later towers. A clay jar in that breeze is the video's account of the same idea as a plugged-in cooler. Herodotus, Histories, Book 2, on Egyptian washing, centuries later. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/... Marc Armand Ruffer, "Note on the Presence of Bilharzia haematobia in Egyptian Mummies of the Twentieth Dynasty" (1910, The British Medical Journal). Calcified schistosome eggs in two mummies, about 1250–1000 BCE. The usual path is skin, in snail water. The video tells it as a drink from the river. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.1.2557.16-a Delwen Samuel, "Investigation of Ancient Egyptian Baking and Brewing Methods by Correlative Microscopy" (1996, Science). The mash was heated moist, strained, then fermented. Thick, low in alcohol, nearer a porridge. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5... Worn molars, salted fish, dates, and natron in the house are the video's account of salt. Natron from desert lakes, used to dry a body, is standard. No one paper here ties the whole menu to sodium. The Ebers Papyrus, Leipzig University Library, last quarter of the sixteenth century BCE. Fever, burns, headache, and spells beside honey. Honey slowing bacteria is a later finding. https://papyrusebers.de/en/the-scroll/ Kemet, the black flood soil, and Deshret, the red desert, are the ordinary Egyptian names. The desert as a wall, the dry air that kept papyrus, linen, wood, plaster, and tissue, and embalming as a copy of what hot sand did for nothing, are the video's telling. A window box that dumps heat into the street is the video's comparison, not a cited study. Thebes, 1350 BCE. Deir el-Medina, the tomb workers, notes on limestone, huts in the Valley of the Kings. Nebamun. Yazd. Ramesses III. Herodotus. The Ebers Papyrus. ———————————————————— Next week: what ancient humans did when winter lasted longer than the food. 🎨 Animation by Before Farms ———————————————————— #AncientEgypt #MudBrick #Malqaf #Linen #EgyptianBeer #DeirElMedina #Thebes #Nile #EbersPapyrus #WindCatcher #AncientHistory #DailyLife