#AncientEgyptian ‘#AirConditioning’ could help cool modern buildings

One research team hopes to harness 5,000-year-old ideas to battle rising temperatures.

by Andrew Paul
Published Aug 22, 2023

"By retrofitting their shipping container test chamber with off-the-grid, solar powered battery storage, AL-Hassawi’s team can heat their chamber to upwards of 130 degrees Fahrenheit to test out their solutions while measuring factors such as air velocity, temperature, and humidity. The team is particularly focused on optimizing a passive cooling method involving large towers and evaporative cooling that dates as far back as 2,500 BCE in ancient Egypt. In these designs, moisture evaporates at the tower’s top, which turns into cool, heavier air that then sinks down to the habitable space below. In the team’s version, moisture could be generated via misting nozzles, shower heads, or simply water-soaked pads.

" 'It’s an older technology, but there’s been an attempt to innovate and use a mix of new and existing technologies to improve performance and the cooling capacity of these systems,' explained Al-Hassawi, who also envisions retrofitting smokestacks in older buildings to work as new cooling towers."

Full article:
https://www.popsci.com/technology/shipping-container-test-cooler/

#SolarPunkSunday #AncientTechnology #ModernTechnology #KeepingCool

I think I may have finally figured out how to type Middle Egyptian in Unicode:

𓄤𓊵𓏏𓊪𓋴 (nfr-Htp-s AKA Neferhetepes)

Unfortunately, the formatting (sign arrangement) does not render correctly in normal software when pasted (as above). In this example the t and p uniliteral signs should be under the Htp sign as in the picture.

Still not quite there, yet, so still have to use images for proper display. 😞

#middleegyptian #hieroglyphs #hieroglyphic #ancientegyptian

#Skeleton found in pot is first #AncientEgyptian to undergo whole #genome analysis
Unusual burial of man, thought to have been a potter, in sealed vessel may have helped #DNA survive past four millennia

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/02/skeleton-in-pot-first-ancient-egyptian-undergo-genome-analysis #science #ancientDNA #archaeology

Phys.org: The scent of the #mummy. Research discovers #ancientEgyptian remains smell nice
#history

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-scent-mummy-ancient-egyptian-nice.html