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Petrie died in the 40s. He hasn't been at the forefront of archaeology for about a century now. Also, the very first result for me was a UPenn museum article [
by AlotOfReading 6y ago
Petrie died in the 40s. He hasn't been at the forefront of archaeology for about a century now.
Also, the very first result for me was a UPenn museum article [1] from 1983 demonstrating granite drilling with known tools. Again, hardly breaking new ground here.
[1] https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/ancient-egyptian-stone-drilling/ https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/ancient-egyptian-st...
- ncmncm 6y agoIf Petrie was right in the '40s, alive, he is still right, dead. It is one thing to demonstrate crude granite drilling and sawing, and entirely another to actually reproduce observed phenomena. The one is not a substitute for the other. And you can call them sarcophagi if you like, but that is a box for a corpse, and these have all always been empty. So, boxes. 100-ton boxes, machined to such tight tolerance that they seal just by seating the lid.