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.

Ancient egypt granite bowls.

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. One of the best things i ve seen on youtube and very happy to have permission to share with you. How these were made is a mystery diorite vessel. Filmed in the egyptian museum of antiquities this granite box shows strong evidence for a lost high technology in ancient egypt.

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. However two people played at once one at either end of a 4 meter long lane. These bowls and stone dishes platters are some of the finest ever found and they are from the earliest period of ancient egyptian civilization. Neither wall paintings nor textual information nor excavated.

Ancient egyptian stone drilling an experimental perspective on a scholarly disagreement. John gwinnett view pdf. Historians believe that the apis bull was both a deity and manifestation of egyptian pharaohs. 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. It was a popular game practiced in ancient egypt about 5 000 years ago.