Ancient Egypt Granite Bowls

These bowls and stone dishes platters are some of the finest ever found and they are from the earliest period of ancient egyptian civilization.

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. One of the best things i ve seen on youtube and very happy to have permission to share with you. Neither wall paintings nor textual information nor excavated. Ancient egyptians played a game in a large hall that was a cross between bowling and lawn balls.

Leonard gorelick and a. 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. Historians believe that the apis bull was both a deity and manifestation of egyptian pharaohs. More than most technical procedures in the ancient world drilling of hard stone such as quartz and granite has evoked awe and puzzlement.

Ancient egyptian stone drilling an experimental perspective on a scholarly disagreement. However many bowls and other vessels were found at saqqara made of much harder material such as diorite porphyry and even rock crystal. The above bowl was found at abu rawash and is made of alabaster which is a relatively soft stone. John gwinnett view pdf.

No lost ancient high technology here just ingenuity ski. How these were made is a mystery diorite vessel.