Ancient Egypt Granite Bowls

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Ancient egypt granite bowls.

Filmed in the egyptian museum of antiquities this granite box shows strong evidence for a lost high technology in ancient egypt. Ancient egyptian stone drilling an experimental perspective on a scholarly disagreement. Neither wall paintings nor textual information nor excavated. How these were made is a mystery diorite vessel.

They are made from a variety of materials from soft such as alabaster all the way up the hardness scale to very hard such as granite. These bowls and stone dishes platters are some of the finest ever found and they are from the earliest period of ancient egyptian civilization. Leonard gorelick and a. More than most technical procedures in the ancient world drilling of hard stone such as quartz and granite has evoked awe and puzzlement.

Interestingly most of these boxes are made of rose granite an extremely hard rock mined at a quarry located about 800 kilometers from saqqara while other boxes were made from an even harder material diorite found even further away from saqqara. John gwinnett view pdf. Ancient egyptians played a game in a large hall that was a cross between bowling and lawn balls. The above bowl was found at abu rawash and is made of alabaster which is a relatively soft stone.

However many bowls and other vessels were found at saqqara made of much harder material such as diorite porphyry and even rock crystal. However two people played at once one at either end of a 4 meter long lane.