Five Thousand Years in Bed: A Brief History of Where We Sleep

The average person spends about a third of their life in bed, but in discussions of history we seldom ever mention sleeping (unless, perhaps, someone had the misfortune to be murdered while doing it) and even more infrequently mention the place where the sleeping happens. For reasons both illicit and practical, I've always found the bed to be the most interesting of furniture pieces, and yet it is missing from most of history (and from the history of design as well, since a bed turns out to be h...