Before Aristotle cultivated empirical reason, before Galileo looked at the sky with his telescope, before Newton formulated his laws, and long before Einstein deciphered the universe, the mysteries of nature were already being explored. Those early scientists lived along the Nile, served the gods, and officiated in the temples of Ancient Egypt. Far from being just a belief system, Egyptian religion was the framework in which science began to take shape. From the temples emerged hieroglyphic writing, astronomical calculations, the first mathematical formulas, the principles of monumental architecture, and the secrets of medicine. At the dawn of civilization, in that remote time, science and religion shared the same origin: the gods of the Nile. In this book, Gonzalo Gómez, PhD in History and Egyptology, reveals how, amid the incantations and offerings of the priests of Ra and Amun, the first tools of knowledge emerged and the foundations of scientific thought were forged, a legacy that still sustains our understanding of the world today.
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