These type thingys that the Egyptians used to place in tombs to watch over the dead.
Posted on 02/15/2016 6:24:28 PM PST by jy8z
I saw this question posed by a fellow FReeper in answer to another Freeper today. I thought it would make for an interesting topic. I do not remember who it was so I can't attribute it to them.
LOL!
That’s great. I love looking back at how things were done in the old days.
I do not know, but they apparentl7y knew how to electroplate with it.
An Antioch Tancred, a coin from 1101 AD.
Do you have any evidence of electric storage by the Egyptians?
10,000 year old Mammoth hunters knife I found myself.
Stick and ball parlor table I thought was Victorian but may be civil war.
Civil war era two piece bronze mount for deer antlers.
And the coolest, early 1908-1913 electric motor driving a 1920’s German reform watch makers lathe with a three jaw chuck and round-thane belt. (crow calls)
I have various fossils collected over the years -- a small section of a dinosaur leg bone given to me by a collector (at least 65 million years old -- the bone, not the collector), trilobites (purchased), a slab containing fish fossils and coprolites (purchased at a National Monument and carefully exposed with a tiny pick by me), clam fossils from about 120 million years ago, and crinoid stems of unknown age.
Finally, my son gave me a small piece of the Sikhote-Alin Meteorite (Iron IIAB) from Russia purchased from www.meteorites-for-sale.com. This Russian meteorite fell in 1947, was quite large, and is described in Wikipedia.
It’s about foot long and one of the spikes is still attached. I haven’t seen it since we moved two years ago. My late wife went up north with an embassy group in 1982 and found it when they went rooting around. I had to stay behind in Jeddah.
There is some nuclear evidence that the large stone (diorite, IMS) boxes found in chambers in Egypt were used as capacitors, especially the one in the Kings Chamber of the Cheops Pyramid. The entire Pyramid may have been an energy storage and calculated discharge apparatus. When the structure was covered with polished marble and the water channels below it running, it might have been a huge capacitor charging machine.
Thanks, that is nice and the wood with primitive spike would be quite a treasure!
2nd oldest is my dad’s K bar from WW2 along with his dog tags.
Well, lets leave this thread to finds and keeps that are real.
Excellent suggestion.
:^)
A 1721 copy of the Magna Carta
The oldest man-made things I have are some ushabtiu from around 1075bc.
I’ve got a 10” skillet made in 1863 and appraised at $1400 (and my wife still uses it for eggs and bacon), but the oldest thing I own is a pipe wrench made in 1832 (and I still use it for plumbing).
I have a bible from sometime in the 1800’s that was owned by my great-great great grandmother, Sarah Fletcher Dixon, who was one of the early pioneers to Dallas Texas. It still has inside it the braided hair from several little girls who I will never know the names of.
These type thingys that the Egyptians used to place in tombs to watch over the dead.
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