This week in our online class we travel to Egypt, a true cradle of human civilization that for over ten thousand years has continually found a way to develop, build, learn and, even after so much time, still surprise us all. Early Egyptian scientists, mathematicians, astronomers and architects used written language and a base-ten system of numbers to pioneer or at least greatly further their fields. Since the “Arab Spring” of 2011 extraordinary changes have taken place in Egypt, hurdling the country toward democracy ,and then away, at an almost inconceivable pace. Egyptians are not strangers to change, but today in Egypt changes are happening literally minute by minute rather than over decades, centuries or even millennia as they did in the country’s past.
