This depends on what we define by industrial revolution. Building the pyramids must involve a lot of advanced techniques in a cooperative effort involving a lo

This depends on what we define by industrial revolution. Building the pyramids must involve a lot of advanced techniques in a cooperative effort involving a lot of specialists. They didn't have gas or petrol but managed to develop an advanced technology on glass, quarrying, agriculture and bureaucracy. They had literature, and this is an huge step. Any advance towards making machines or doing science would be diverted towards supporting war and religion and kept secret probably