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From the Vault: Invention of the Bed

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Bed of Hiteperes

The key bed from this period is the bed of hiteperes from around 26 hundred b c e, which was buried with the queen in her giza tomb. It's just a a wooden flat bed with a, like a head. You look at and you you instantly recognize ink. That's a bed. That's the invention. The wood had just decayed to powder. But egypta, egyptologist, george a reisner, was able to reconstruct it from the in metallic parts.

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