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5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

42 pointsby geoxlast Wednesday at 4:12 AM1 commentview on HN

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toolslivetoday at 12:06 AM

It's what a lot of engineers have been saying for decades: Looking at the surfaces of the artefacts, it's obvious more advanced tooling, than what was claimed by archaeologists, must have been used. Oh irony, the bits were already lying about in the museum's archive for a century.