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With flint, evidently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkQwsBhj8I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkQwsBhj8I
by chris_st 2y ago
With flint, evidently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkQwsBhj8I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkQwsBhj8I
- amai 2y agoThat seems like a very primitive technique. I doubt this was what the ancient Egyptians used to carve e.g. the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone#/media/File%3ARosetta_Stone.JPG https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone#/media/File%3A... or https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Merneptah_Steli_%28cropped%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Mernepta... I sometimes think they might have used some kind of acid (maybe in combination with sunlight) like modern https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolithography https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolithography .