An ancient rock crystal jar reveals its full beauty -- but keeps some secrets

CNN ^ | 18 December 2021 | Jeevan Ravindran, CNN

[PIF]

Yeah, because according to archeologists, EVERYTHING someone did in the past was for “religious purposes”.
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People back then were way way far more ‘religious’ than today.

Interestingly, the Ancient Egyptians did not have a word for ‘religion’ - indicating they saw the world as a natural process with various forces which they symbolically named and represented as what we call ‘gods’ ; this symbology is how they thought and lived their daily lives - logic and reason were not used for the most part, because to them they were too cumbersome.

Here’s an example : in geometry, we say ‘hypotenuse’; the Egyptians said “Horus on the horizon’. Both mean the same thing, but both are conceptualized differently.

Modern progression is not necessarily progress, as it simplifies everything by omitting what used to be very significant parts. This is true from the underlying principles of scientific thought to the underlying principles religious thought today.

[sauropod]

Very cool.

[RideForever]

And somewhere there is a pile of cracked crystal jars next to a graveyard of artisan workers, waiting to be discovered ...

[ApplegateRanch]

Thank you. Seeing it in 3D, and zoomable really helps.

Also, the annotations filled in some blanks for me.

[mass55th]

You’re welcome.

[Sawdring]

I wanted to see a pic of inside the jar with the lid open.

[tet68]

Amazing piece of work. Considering it was made using
a charcoal block and a blow pipe.