Masterpieces from King Tut's tomb ...

[dogtag]

San Francisco held an exhibition of the tomb's contents back
sometime in the seventies which I visited. I was awestruck at the
craftsmanship. It had a touch of magic to it. How those ancient
craftsman made these things still amazes me. Their tools, mostly
made of Copper must have needed constant sharpening for no
matter how much hardening you try, they will still go blunt within
seconds, minutes at the most, depending on what you're working on.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/22/these-are-the-most-fascinating-objects-from-king-tuts-tomb/

[Allen]

I read years ago that the exhibits from king Tut had all been replaced with repro's due to wear and tear from the exhibits being constantly on tour and moved around.

The real stuff stays in Egypt now, considered to be too priceless to take out of the country again.

Not to say the repro's are not of the same quality.

[dryheat]

Good post. I don't think every beautiful thing I've seen is a replica, but I am happy to hear that they protect it. I hope there isn't another war that destroys wonderful history.
A little history: I always wondered? When did we become humans? I know we are derived from monkeys. So it was about 70,000 yrs ago. Some weird short in the wiring produced a contact that made us able to utilize our big brains (they call it the cognitive revolution). Language, story telling, religion, fabulous art, you name it, the light. So the stuff that was done 10,000 yrs. ago is awesome. You could take any guy working on a pyramid and send him to, name a college, and he might get a job at Tesla (because that's more hip than NASA). You have to pick the right guy of course. You'd think in those days it would be all you could do to find food and water and somehow stay alive and they could still find time to make intricate art pieces. But they (that would be us) did.

[Allen]

A little history: I always wondered? When did we become humans? I know we are derived from monkeys.

If we were derived from monkeys why do we still have monkeys?

[Major Tom]

A little history: I always wondered? When did we become humans? I know we are derived from monkeys. So it was about 70,000 yrs ago. Some weird short in the wiring produced a contact that made us able to utilize our big brains (they call it the cognitive revolution). Language, story telling, religion, fabulous art, you name it, the light. So the stuff that was done 10,000 yrs. ago is awesome. You could take any guy working on a pyramid and send him to, name a college, and he might get a job at Tesla (because that's more hip than NASA). You have to pick the right guy of course. You'd think in those days it would be all you could do to find food and water and somehow stay alive and they could still find time to make intricate art pieces. But they (that would be us) did.

Monkeys my butt! And it was a lot more than 79,000 years ago. Try at least 4 million years! Only 'Ol Big Ears was a direct descendent of a monkey!

[dogtag]

The Tree of human evolution is huge. Branches galore, most are dead ends
for whatever reason. Now there's us, but the tree hasn't stopped growing.
Makes you wonder what we'll be like in a century or two - if we survive.