Clay in Ancient Egypt
No one is certain how early the Egyptians began using clay. They had become fairly adept at using clay by around 5000 B.C., which was the Predynastic Period. The Egyptian civilization was located along the Nile River, and the annual flooding of the Nile made large amounts of clay readily accessible. There is clear evidence suggesting that the Egyptians were the first civilization to use the potter’s wheel, which they were doing around 2700 B.C. This quickly became a widely-used technique, and by 2400 B.C., statues of potters working at wheels were being used in funerary rites. Even in the Predynastic Period, clay was considered a “primeval material which contained essential li
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Intermediate Period, Predynastic Period, Nile River, , Period Egyptian, Renaissance Bianchi, predynastic period, using clay,
Approximate Word count = 460
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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