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Scientists Discovered an Ancient Egyptian Tool 2,000 Years Ahead of Its Time
The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.
I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records ...
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A Mislabelled “Awl” From 5,000 Years Ago May Be Ancient Egypt’s Earliest Metal Drill
In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool ...
It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...
The tombs, discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa site, were complete with shafts and burial chambers. A group of rock-cut tombs ...
A white-out fluid, found on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make a jackal appear skinnier, Egyptologists have found.
The drill’s chemical composition was also surprising, study co-author Jiří Kmošek noted, as it is made up of an unusual copper alloy containing arsenic, nickel, lead, and silver.
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Ancient Egypt mysteries: Exploring pre-dynastic megalithic structures and lost technologies
Explore ancient Egypt through the eyes of researcher Brian Forster as he reviews a 2018 expedition to some of the country’s most mysterious archaeological sites. This video examines massive granite ...
The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD ...
A white correction fluid, identified on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found ...
In reliefs and monuments spanning 3,000 years, the pharaoh holds the heka in his left hand, resting it upon his shoulder. The image encodes a specific claim: Pharaoh is the shepherd of his people; he ...
In July 2018, archaeologists in Alexandria, Egypt, cracked open a colossal 27-tonne black granite sarcophagus at an under-construction site. This huge.
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