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Shipbuilding was known to the Ancient Egyptians as early as 3000 BCE, [24] [25] and perhaps earlier. [25] Ancient Egyptians knew how to assemble planks of wood into a ship hull, with woven straps used to lash the planks together, [24] and reeds or grass stuffed between the planks helped to seal the seams. [24]
This ancient Egyptian scribe's palette is estimated to be from 1500-500 BCE. The Satire of the Trades is a "schoolboy text", meaning it was used to teach young scribes the values and tasks required for the profession. [8] Scribes in training were expected to memorize and inscribe passages from the text as a pedagogical method.
The ancient Egyptian military was responsible for defending Egypt against foreign invasion, and for maintaining Egypt's domination in the ancient Near East. The military protected mining expeditions to the Sinai during the Old Kingdom and fought civil wars during the First and Second Intermediate Periods.
There was generally a high-level of trade between Ancient Egypt and the Near East throughout the Pre-dynastic period of Egypt, during the Naqada II (3600–3350 BCE) and Naqada III (3350–2950 BCE) phases. [7] These were contemporary with the Late Uruk (3600–3100 BCE) and Jemdet Nasr (3100–2900 BCE) periods in Mesopotamia. [7]
Herodotus emphasized that Egypt is the gift of the Nile and that the Nile River is the source of all aspects of life, including the religion of the ancient Egyptians and Pharaonic mythology. [1] The Neolithic revolution occurred on the banks of the Nile River through the breeding of domesticated animals. [2] Amenhotep III with two crowns
The Land of Punt (Egyptian: pwnt; alternate Egyptological readings Pwene(t) [1] /puːnt/) was an ancient kingdom known from Ancient Egyptian trade records. It produced and exported gold, aromatic resins, blackwood, ebony, ivory and wild animals. [2] Recent evidence locates it in northwestern Eritrea. [3]
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The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE. The King's Highway was a trade route of vital importance in the ancient Near East, connecting Africa with Mesopotamia. It ran from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba, then turned northward across Transjordan, to Damascus and the Euphrates ...