By ekna on Skatehive
Hello everyone. As we kept walking through the Cairo Museum, we made our way down to the main halls. I think this is where the coolest stuff is. Those pieces really evoke a wow response. The first sarcophagus we encountered displayed an incredible quality of polish. The surface practically glowed. It even featured slots for locking mechanisms, with everything deeply drilled. We can see how they did this with the naked eye. It looks as if these holes were made in an instant. The idea that months were spent on a single lock hole seems a bit crazy. The hieroglyphs here are of high quality, very close to the top tier if not quite there. We took a closer look at Amenemhat III’s pyramidion. This piece is said to have been found near the black pyramid, a very interesting structure with a core made of unfired mudbrick. This Pharaoh reigned for about fifty years, roughly one thousand years before the Iron age. According to the official historical narrative of that period this means that very ha