THE BRICKS OF EGYPT by Golignani

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 27, 1866

THE BRICKS OF EGYPT.

By Golignani

Professor Unger, the celebrated Viennese botanist and palaeontologist, has recently published some remarks on the bricks of the ancient Egyptians, especially those of the pyramid of Dashour, which was built 3400 years before our era. One of them being examined through the microscope of the professor, he discovered that the mud of the Nile, out of which it was made, contained not only a quantity of animal vegetable matter, but also fragments of many manufactured substances, whence we may conclude, that Egypt must have enjoyed a high degree of civilization upwards of 5000 years ago. Professor Unger has been enabled, by the aid of the microscope, to discover in these bricks a vast number of plants which at that time grew in Egypt. The chopped straw, clearly discernible in the body of the bricks, confirms the description of the manner of making the latter, such as we find in Herodotus and in the Book of Exodus.—Golignani.