Ancient Egyptians Invented World’s Oldest Egg Ovens And They Are Still In Use

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient Egyptian egg ovens are an excellent example demonstrating one should not underestimate how clever our ancestors were. About 2,000-years ago, Egyptians came up with the incredible idea of producing an enormous amount of eggs. They constructed an egg incubator that could produce as many as 4,500 fertilized eggs in just two or three weeks!

Today considered the world’s oldest man-made incubators this hatching system was using artificial heat. The ancient Egyptian mud ovens had been designed to replicate the conditions under a broody hen, and the invention worked perfectly. The largest egg oven had a capacity of 80,000 eggs.

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