How Ancient Egyptians Slept Without AC

It's midnight, it's still too hot to breathe, and there's no fan, no AC and no ice. So how did ancient Egyptians actually sleep through the summer? Episode 2 of Ancient Egypt, No Electricity: mud-brick walls that turn into radiators at night, whole towns sleeping on their roofs, fishing nets turned into mosquito nets, windcatchers that pull the Nile breeze indoors, beds with no pillows, and the midday nap that saved the tomb builders. Would you rather sleep on a roof full of mosquitoes, or inside the oven house? Tell me in the comments 👇 Episode 1: How Ancient Egypt Kept Food Without Fridges →    • How Ancient Egypt Kept Food Without Fridges   CHAPTERS 0:00 Too hot to sleep 0:44 The walls fight back 1:17 Sleeping on the roof 1:59 The mosquito war 3:03 Catching the wind 3:46 Beds that breathe (and no pillows) 4:50 The midday nap 5:16 How they survived the night SOURCES Herodotus, Histories 2.95 (sleeping towers; fishing nets over beds against mosquitoes) Malaria DNA in Tutankhamun: Hawass et al., JAMA 303(7), 2010 Windcatchers on the house of Nakht: Book of the Dead of Nakht, British Museum EA 10471 Beds and headrests of Tutankhamun: Griffith Institute, Carter archive; Egyptian Museum, Cairo Bes on headrests as a protector of sleep: British Museum / Metropolitan Museum collections Deir el-Medina work schedule: J. Černý, A Community of Workmen at Thebes in the Ramesside Period (1973) Visuals are AI-generated illustrations and animation. #AncientEgypt #History #AncientHistory #Egypt #NoElectricity