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Around 3400 BC Egyptian pharaohs had their beds moved off the ground and slept on a raised surface.
The Roman Empire brought the beginning of luxury beds. The mattresses were stuffed with wool, feather, reeds or hay. They were decorated with paint, bronze, silver, jewels and gold.
During the Renaissance, mattresses were stuffed with straw and feathers and then covered with silks, velvets or satin material.
The arrival of the 18th century brought bed frames made from cast iron, and mattress that were made of cotton. This quickly did away with much of the vermin that would nest in mattresses that were stuffed with easily decomposed matter. The 19th century saw the invention of the bed spring, also called the box spring.
The 20th century brought the inner spring mattress, futon, water bed (starting in 1960's), air mattresses, foam rubber mattresses and pillows.
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