Technology

Goldwork

joining techniques

• Welding
• Solft-Soldering
• Hard-Soldering
• Brazing

In excavation

• various pieces
• found to be hard-soldering
• range of different alloys
• proof of recycled metals

Quality Varies
Based on the Skill level
of the artisan

Burials

Techniques

• Resins and Burial Cloths
• Used chromatography
• Pine resin, Plant gum/sugar, Plant oil/animal fat
• Burial technology is older than thought

Boat making

Fastenings & Timber

• Copper-strip bindings
• Deep mortise-and-tenon joints
• Various channels
• Steering oar blades

T64

• Roughly trapezoidal
• Outer face identifiable by convex curvature
• Outboard edge identifiable by fastenings
• Inboard edge has gribble and teredo-type damage

Pyramids

Construction

• Limestone
• Granite
• Pyramid of Giza
• Bureaucratic organization
• Time/Patience
• Manpower

Sources