Egyptian Headrest (Vatican Museum): Egyptian furniture Did Egyptian houses have furniture? Most Egyptian houses didn't have much furniture in them. The floor was plain dirt or clay. People slept on [...]
History of Straw: loose straw in a pile What is straw made of? Straw is the dried stalks of tall grasses like wheat, millet or barley. After people harvested the [...]
History of baskets: Baskets from ancient Egypt (now in the Louvre) Who invented baskets? Chimpanzees don't weave baskets. But people probably learned how to make baskets very early on, soon after [...]
Han Dynasty model of an outhouse (ca. 100 AD) People in China, like other people around the world, used human poop to fertilize their fields and grow more food. In [...]
History of clay: Clay on a potter's wheel What is clay? Clay is very fine particles of dirt which float in a stream or river and then sink to the [...]
A thatched roof on a mud-brick house in West Africa When did people start to thatch roofs? Most houses in ancient Europe, Asia, and Africa had thatched roofs. People have [...]
Mud brick drying in the sun Most houses in ancient Africa, Europe, Asia, and many in the Americas, were built out of mud brick. You take clay from the riverbank [...]
