How Did Humans Come Up With the First Bed?

Humans didn't invent the bed. Chimpanzees and orangutans were building them long before us. So how did we go from a leafy nest to a mattress, and why did our ancestors burn their beds? In this video, we follow the bed from the treetops to the first tombs: Bed bugs that may have moved in from bats in the caves we slept in Chimpanzees that shop for the best wood for their nests Orangutans that add pillows, blankets, and roofs, and take years to learn how The sleep intensity hypothesis: why sleeping on the ground may have changed how we sleep Border Cave: 200,000-year-old grass bedding laid on ash Sibudu Cave: stacked plant mattresses with a bug-repelling "top sheet" Why ancient people burned their beds Skara Brae: the 5,000-year-old stone box-beds of Orkney Tutankhamun's folding camp bed and the Egyptian headrest Note: several ideas here are leading hypotheses, not settled fact. That includes why the ancient bedding was built the way it was, the sleep intensity hypothesis, and how bed bugs first moved onto humans. Researchers still debate each of them. Subscribe to Inkline for new curiosity-driven history and science explainers every week. #AncientHumans #HistoryOfTheBed #Inkline