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03 Sep 2025
Ancient Egyptian artifacts fall into two categories: a primitive industry matching known tools and depictions, and an advanced industry of precision artifacts that cannot be explained by those tools.

I think those are all possibilities here because it just, this is the whole, when you take a step back and look at the whole picture of ancient Egypt, I mean, just you cannot attribute everything that we see in ancient Egypt to our current understanding of those dynastic Egyptians, their capabilities, their tools, their writings, and what we know about them. We know an awful lot. Like they do, we have tools from the ancient Egyptian toolbox. We found them. We have depictions shown on walls of how they did things that were very good about documenting them. So we have the tools, we have the depictions. We also have lots and lots of artifacts that match those tools and depictions, right? We've got these clearly handmade artifacts. And this is across all the categories of artifacts from things like stonework columns, obelisks. Oh, sorry, yeah, obelisks and vases, boxes, pyramids even. And then you have this other category of artifacts that doesn't match, it can't be explained by these tools and techniques. And there's just no depictions on walls of how they made the precision artifacts. There's no...