Ancient Egypt – Did You Know?

January 3, 2008 on 11:02 pm | In Ancient Egypt | No Comments

EGYPT 2000 BC

Did you know that the Egyptians bored into granite rock with drills that turned 500 times faster than modern power drills?

400 foot pyramid on the seabed

And how about this?:
* Coin-slot machines
* Steam engines
* Speedometers
* Machine-cut optical lenses
* Screen projectors

pre-historic map of Antarctica

Did you know that Egyptian dentists worked with cement fillings, dental bridges… and inserted artificial teeth?

luxury ocean liners

That William Deiches found working diagrams in Tutankhamen’s tomb (1545 BC) which helped him to build real model plane that flew?

ancient Chinese expedition

That Egyptian doctors performed pregnancy tests, determined the sex of an unborn child, fed nourishment through tubes, and fitted artificial legs and hands? That they used anaesthetic and sophisticated instruments to perform bone and brain surgery?

ancient electrical devices

What about old Egypt’s mysterious moving walls, automatically flashing lights and lamps that shone century after century, non-stop?

ancient electrical devices

And how were sound waves used to open doors in ancient Karnak, Abydon and Thebes?

source: www.beforeus.com

 


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