The ancient Egyptians based their farming around the annual flooding of ... They also invented tools like the shaduf. A shaduf is a long pole with a bucket attached to the end, which people ...

They also invented tools like the shaduf. This was a bucket at the end of a pole, used to move water from onto the land. Farming meant the ancient Egyptian civilisation became very rich.

In the Sinai he also found abundant evidence that the ancient Egyptians mined turquoise and copper, the latter essential for making weapons as well as tools. This, in turn, fit with his discovery ...