Part of this significance is that the Egyptians built their pyramids, temples, and tombs with staggering amounts of building material, material was brought to the building sites from distances as far as 900 nautical kilometers away. Aside from the pure beauty of these structures, the technological and engineering prowess that they signify is astounding. These structures were more heavily concentrated in areas like the burial complexes at Memphis and Thebes, not to mention the Giza Pyramid complex on the outskirts of Cairo. Without question, the enduring symbols of Egypt’s ancient power are the massive and beautiful stone structures that were erected throughout Egypt. In this episode I want to go back and take a look at the Egyptians’ use of boats in their monumental building projects throughout the whole of ancient Egyptian history.Īs I’ve reiterated a few times now, the Nile can be seen as the main highway of Egypt, an artery if you will, that made much of Egypt’s civilization as we know it possible. In our last episode, we wrapped up our look at the maritime history of ancient Egypt, at least up through the point where their story merges with the story of the Sea Peoples and the overall collapse late in the Bronze Age. We'll look at the various theories for how objects weighing hundreds of tons were loaded and shipped on the Nile, and we'll see a few depictions of such ships from the pyramid of Unas and the temple of Hatshepsut. Their many monumental building projects required the transportation of staggering amounts of material, and there is evidence from Pliny the Elder and Herodotus that much of this transport was accomplished by shipping up and down the Nile. In today's episode we're going to look at the evidence of heavy-transport shipping throughout Egypt's history.
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