The drill’s chemical composition was also surprising, study co-author Jiří Kmošek noted, as it is made up of an unusual ...
A rock shelter discovered in the southern Sinai Desert contains designs and inscriptions spanning a period of 10,000 years, ...
"Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets." ...
A long-overlooked Ancient Egyptian tool is now reshaping what archaeologists know about the origins of human engineering. A ...
Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.
The comparison focused on three-dimensional geometry rather than decoration. This matters because cartonnage masks were often shaped in molds: If two objects were formed in the same mold, they can ...
The artifact comes from a Predynastic cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, specifically Grave 3932 (an adult male burial). It measures about 63 mm long and weighs roughly 1.5 grams, so small it was easy ...
Before picket lines and unionisation, ancient Egyptian artisans learned that collectively withdrawing labour could force even ...
However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it ...
Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...
She haunts ancient Egyptian graveyards, co-hosts a Portuguese podcast called “Three Egyptologists Walk Into a Bar” and keeps a miniature mummy in her office. Last fall, Luiza Osorio G. Silva joined UC ...