Ancient Egypt Granite Bowls

However two people played at once one at either end of a 4 meter long lane.

Ancient egypt granite bowls.

However many bowls and other vessels were found at saqqara made of much harder material such as diorite porphyry and even rock crystal. Filmed in the egyptian museum of antiquities this granite box shows strong evidence for a lost high technology in ancient egypt. These bowls and stone dishes platters are some of the finest ever found and they are from the earliest period of ancient egyptian civilization. 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.

Ancient egyptians played a game in a large hall that was a cross between bowling and lawn balls. Historians believe that the apis bull was both a deity and manifestation of egyptian pharaohs. No lost ancient high technology here just ingenuity ski. Leonard gorelick and a.

How these were made is a mystery diorite vessel. Neither wall paintings nor textual information nor excavated. John gwinnett view pdf. 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.

The above bowl was found at abu rawash and is made of alabaster which is a relatively soft stone. More than most technical procedures in the ancient world drilling of hard stone such as quartz and granite has evoked awe and puzzlement.