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That moment I learned ancient Egyptians had plumbing blew my mind
I was reading up on the Pyramid of Giza last week and stumbled onto a fact about the drains inside. Turns out they had copper pipes running through the pyramids for water flow way back in 2500 BC. I always figured plumbing was a Roman invention but the Egyptians beat them by like 2000 years. Has anyone else run into a random detail like that which totally shifted how you see a site?
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amymason25d ago
Wait so were those copper pipes for drainage or did they actually have some kind of running water system inside the pyramid? I always assumed the Egyptians just carried water jars everywhere.
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wendy97824d ago
Oh wow, that's actually a really good question! I just read something about how the Grand Gallery in the Great Pyramid might have been designed to move water upward using a counterweight system with those granite plugs. So it wasn't just drainage, they possibly had a primitive pump setup to lift water to higher chambers for purification rituals.
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