Is wood expensive in Egypt?
Is wood expensive in Egypt? Remembering that Egypt is a desert country one of the rare commodities used by the Egyptians is wood. With a limited number of trees, supplies of timber were regarded as precious and the material was an expensive resource. Wooden coffins were as expensive as buying a luxury car in our civilisation today. Did Egypt have a lot of wood? Although Egypt has no forests today, there were wooded areas in antiquity, and, despite a lack of larger strong timbers, there were active industries of carpentry including boat-making. There is no other ancient civilisation from which...