Transportation
Egyptians used boats to get across the Nile River. The boats were used to move images of gods from temple to temple, and to ship mummified bodies of royals and nobles across the Nile to their tombs on the west bank. On the land people walked, rode donkeys or traveled by wagons. They carried goods on their heads, but donkeys and wagons carried heavier loads.
The wheel was introduced to Egypt by the Hyksos, and Asiatic people who invaded the country and ruled it during the fifteenth, and sixteenth dynasties. The Hiksos had hoarse drawn chariots which were used in warfare. New kingdom Nobles and Pharaohs adopted this mode of transportation for hunting expeditions. But the horse drawn chariot was not used by common people.
References: Hill, Dave. Ancient Egypt Sites. February 5, 2001, http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ssc/labs/geary/1P/messages/17.html
