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  2. Ancient Egyptian technology - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian metal tool kit is well described and it consisted of metal blades of chisels, adzes, axes, saws and drills, used for the work on various types of wood and stones. [18] Also, the ancient Egyptians were apparently using core drills in stonework at least as long ago as the Fourth Dynasty , probably made of copper or arsenical ...

  3. Egyptomania in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The image suggests a special relationship between Egypt as the first and America as the latest civilization. [1] Egyptomania refers to a period of renewed interest in the culture of ancient Egypt sparked by Napoleon 's Egyptian Campaign in the 19th century. Napoleon was accompanied by many scientists and scholars during this campaign, which led ...

  4. Archimedes' screw - Wikipedia

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    The Archimedes' screw, also known as the Archimedean screw, hydrodynamic screw, water screw or Egyptian screw, [1] is one of the earliest hydraulic machines named after Greek mathematician Archimedes who first described it around 234 BC, although the device had been used in Ancient Egypt. [2] It is a reversible hydraulic machine, and there are ...

  5. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America - Wikipedia

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    Sican tumi, or ceremonial knife, Peru, 850–1500 CE. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America is the extraction, purification and alloying of metals and metal crafting by Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European contact in the late 15th century. Indigenous Americans had been using native metals from ancient times, with recent finds of ...

  6. Archaeology and the Book of Mormon - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The relationship between Archaeology and the Book of Mormon is based on the claims made by the Book of Mormon that the ancient Americas were populated by Old World immigrants and their corresponding material culture, a claim that can be verified or discredited by archeological investigations. The Book of Mormon claims to describe the ...

  7. Ancient technology - Wikipedia

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    These machines are the inclined plane, the wedge, and the lever, which allowed the ancient Egyptians to move millions of limestone blocks which weighed approximately 3.5 tons (7,000 lbs.) each into place to create structures like the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is 481 feet (147 meters) high. [17]

  8. Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia

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    In short, the Antikythera Mechanism was a machine designed to predict celestial phenomena according to the sophisticated astronomical theories current in its day, the sole witness to a lost history of brilliant engineering, a conception of pure genius, one of the great wonders of the ancient world—but it didn't really work very well!

  9. Quimbaya artifacts - Wikipedia

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    Map of pre-Columbian cultures Poporo Quimbaya in the Gold Museum, Bogotá Colombia Seated gold figure from the Museo de América (Museum of America). Quimbaya artifacts refer to a range of primarily ceramic and gold objects surviving from the Quimbaya civilisation, one of many pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia inhabiting the Middle Cauca River valley and southern Antioquian region of modern ...