21/07/2023
Egyptian egg ovens, considered more wondrous than the pyramids, were devised 2,000 years ago and are still used in rural Egypt. https://bit.ly/2FR209O
This ingenious system of mud ovens is designed to replicate the conditions under a broody hen. With lots of heat, moisture, and periodical egg-turning, an egg oven could hatch as many as 4,500 fertilized eggs in two to three weeks, a volume that impressed foreigners for centuries.
Western travelers mentioned the structures constantly in their writings about Egypt. In 1750, French entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur visited an egg incubator and declared that “Egypt ought to be prouder of them than her pyramids.” https://bit.ly/2FR209O