Eggs in Ancient Egypt

Eggs production in Ancient
Egypt (Tomb of Nebseni,
New Kingdom)

According to Diodorus, the eggs of Local birds in Egypt were born by the use of artificial heat provided by manure.

For the ancient Egyptians, beings in numerousness issued, by the action of a Demiurge, from the Nun, incarnation of the primordial Ocean. A god sprang from this egg to bring order to Chaos, and in this room held birth to differentiated beings. The god Khnum, born from the Ocean and the primordial Egg, in his turn, creates eggs or seeds of life. Ancient Egypt had various cosmogonies and in Hermopolis it was believed that the earlier Egg was Qerehet, guardian of the life effects of the humankind.