User:Hypnôs/sandbox/Ancient Egyptian stoneworking technology
Appearance
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Skills and tools
Materials
Hardness, Arsenic
Measuring tools
Chisels
Pounders and hammers
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Pillar_and_floor_slab_of_the_pyramid_temple_of_Khufu_%28cropped%29_2.jpg/220px-Pillar_and_floor_slab_of_the_pyramid_temple_of_Khufu_%28cropped%29_2.jpg)
Saws
Drills
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/26691-_relief_showing_the_production_of_stone_vessels_%28cropped%29.jpg/880px-26691-_relief_showing_the_production_of_stone_vessels_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Methods and technologies
Quarrying
Polishing
Corners
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Histoire_de_l%E2%80%99Art_Egyptien_by_Theodor_de_Bry%2C_digitally_enhanced_by_rawpixel-com_120_%28cropped%29.jpg/880px-Histoire_de_l%E2%80%99Art_Egyptien_by_Theodor_de_Bry%2C_digitally_enhanced_by_rawpixel-com_120_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Gallery
- Hard stone pharaonic statues
- Hard stone sculptures
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Rosetta Stone
196 BC
Sources
- Stocks, Denys Allen (2003). Experiments in Egyptian archaeology: stoneworking technology in ancient Egypt. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-30664-5.