The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

The tombs, discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa site, were complete with shafts and burial chambers. A group of rock-cut tombs ...

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The engravings and drawings are divided into several groups, researchers learned in their initial study of the space, the ...

A small copper tool found in a museum drawer is now confirmed as the oldest rotary metal drill in ancient Egypt, dating back 5,300 years.

"Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets." ...

A gold mask of King Amenemope that is part of the exhibition titled "Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs," Nov. 21, 2023.

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.