How Did Ancient Egypt Accidentally Sleep with Mosquitoes Everywhere ? #ancientegypt #archaeology

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n this video we go through how people living beside the largest managed wetland in the ancient world actually got to sleep: the bed net that gave English the word "canopy," the towers and rooftops people climbed to catch the breeze, the wooden headrest, the fly whisk that doubled as a rank marker, and a mosquito species that carries the pharaoh's name to this day. We also get into the malaria evidence found in Egyptian mummies, why the Nile Delta — where most Egyptians actually lived — is almost invisible in the archaeological record, and how the very engineering that made Egypt rich also built the mosquito the perfect home.

They were right, for reasons they never understood. And it turns out we're still using their answer today, by the hundreds of millions.

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