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2. Hand drill (hieroglyph) - Wikipedia

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   The hand drill was a vertical type of weighted, and counterbalanced boring bar, (used today in horizontal lathe-work boring, for example: rifle tubes).The hieroglyph shows the weights used as pictured on temple reliefs; the weight of the stones does the tool work, and the artisan simply supplies the rotational motion of the tool, for boring the hole.

3. Ancient Egyptian technology - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Egyptian metal tool kit is well described and it consisted of metal blades of chisels, adzes, axes, saws and drills, used for the work on various types of wood and stones. [18] Also, the ancient Egyptians were apparently using core drills in stonework at least as long ago as the Fourth Dynasty , probably made of copper or arsenical ...

4. Gebel el-Arak Knife - Wikipedia

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   Mesopotamian king as Master of Animals on the Gebel el-Arak Knife at the top of the handle, dated circa 3300-3200 BC, Abydos, Egypt. This work of art both shows the influence of Mesopotamia on Egypt at an early date, in an example of ancient Egypt-Mesopotamia relations, and the state of Mesopotamian royal iconography during the Uruk period. [2 ...

5. Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger - Wikipedia

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   Since the 1960s, the high nickel content in the blade has been accepted as indicative of meteoric origin. [1] A more recent study published in June 2016 derived from x-ray fluorescence spectrometer analysis shows that the blade's composition is mostly iron (Fe) and 11% nickel (Ni) and 0.6% cobalt (Co).

6. Metals of antiquity - Wikipedia

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   The oldest known iron objects used by humans are some beads of meteoric iron, made in Egypt in about 4000 BC. The discovery of smelting around 3000 BC led to the start of the Iron Age around 1200 BC [ 16 ] and the prominent use of iron for tools and weapons. [ 17 ]

7. Ferrous metallurgy - Wikipedia

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   Those artifacts include, for example, a bead from the 5th millennium BC found in Iran [2] and spear tips and ornaments from ancient Egypt and Sumer around 4000 BC. [12] These early uses appear to have been largely ceremonial or decorative. Meteoric iron is very rare, and the metal was probably very expensive, perhaps more expensive than gold.