References
The names assigned to the Egyptian Medical Papyri are ridiculously Eurocentric. In most cases they have been named after a merchant and purchaser who bought or swindled the document in the 19th or 20th century. Even so we can see the
original dates when they were written. We have as many for mathematics, and a few for astronomy, including the Pyramid Texts. Kreamer's African Cosmos has some great references..
I must confess that although I mentioned engineering, what survives are the innumerable engineering wonders in the form of dams, canals, pyramids, temples, irrigation channels, sphinxes, obelisks and stelae etc.- rather than elaborate texts on the subject - as far as I know. Even so, that chapter on ancient Egyptian engineering by Sprague de Camp, in The Ancient Engineers, remains a major contribution.
Incidentally ancient Nubian and Ethiopian engineering is also notable and largely understudied.
GE
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