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I've read/listened to convincing arguments that ancient Egypt had rather advanced lathe tech. https://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/egypt/articles/hrdfact3

• alanbernstein 7y ago
  Fascinating, those granite pieces seem extraordinary even for today's technology. Of course "buried in the oldest of Egyptian pyramids" is the ultimate in survivorship bias... But they still made at least one of them.