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Mummies
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Because of the tendency of engineers to focus more on engineering matters rather than on archaeology, history, or anthropology, they are often accused of stripping artifacts of their cultural context and cherrypicking the evidence. Yet as an engineer, I strongly argue that the engineering context is, in fact, a cultural context in and of itself--one that is less susceptible to ambiguity than the cultural context of mummies and potsherds, which can be added decades or even centuries after a build
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― Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs
― Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs
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If Egyptian pyramids were in India, they would become temples and mummies would be prayed as God's
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