Originally posted by Jimcrispi
Gazork I remember that one of the skulls, as there are about a dozen of them if I remember correctly, was declared a possible fake.
Actually, all of them have been found to be fake.
Now... this doesn't mean the ancients can't make things that we have no idea how to do. Here's some things they did that we don't know how to
do:
* Egyptian mummies (we know most of what goes into it but not the exact process)
* Egyptian faience (we know they glazed the stone surface with glass, but don't have the exact formula)
* Samaurai swords -- we come close with some of our steels, but not exactly.
Much of it has to do with the processing. We know what's in there, and we can approximate it. But we don't know (for instance) how hot the
furnaces were when they were mass-producing faience to get the various glazes that they get.