Egyptian craftspeople were ‘ahead of their time,’ study says.

A long-overlooked Ancient Egyptian tool is now reshaping what archaeologists know about the origins of human engineering. A tiny copper-alloy tool discovered all the way back in the 1920s may prove to ...

However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it may rewrite ancient Egyptian history. In a study published in the journal ...

A small copper object unearthed in Egypt more than a century ago is now at the centre of a major rethink about how early the civilisation mastered advanced engineering.Originally catalogued in the ...