4000 YEARS OLD Coils of Ancient Egyptian Rope found! THEY LOOK AS IF THEY WERE NEW, page 1

Hello ATS,

Just found this news.

The ancient Egyptian's secret to making the strongest of all rigging ropes lies in a tangle of cord coils in a cave at the Red Sea coast, according to preliminary study results presented at the recent congress of Egyptologists in Rhodes.

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The researchers are still puzzling over the material the ancient Egyptians used to make such a strong cordage.

Any ideas what the material of the ropes would be?
Hemp maybe?

BR
PPL

There is a video in this link dsc.discovery.com...


As far as them being hemp. Yes. The tree of life.

Ancient Egyptian boat - hemp rope
The cedar timbers of its curved hull are lashed together with hemp rope in a technique used until recent times by traditional shipbuilders along the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

The unexcavated boat, made from Lebanese cedar and Egyptian acacia trees, is thought to be of similar design, but smaller and less well preserved.

current.com...


You could start a whole thread on the ancient world dependency of Hemp right up to this century. They learned to make oil with it and that competes with fossil fuel. Big no no.

4,000-year-old shipyard unearthed in Egypt
Excavations at an ancient Egyptian shipyard have unearthed remains of the world's oldest seafaring ships.

The 4,000-year-old timbers were found alongside equally ancient cargo boxes, anchors, coils of rope and other naval materials just as old, at what archaeologists are calling a kind of ancient military administration site.

www.msnbc.msn.com...

Amazing. Our concept of a technological civilization should be redifined. Whats cool too is how this proves that the earths waters were much higher then present times.



Edit to add. - Slightly off topic opinion
I believe that these ancients sailed to the americas and vice versa. They had all the capabilities and time to do it. The ancient americas and the ancient middle east/egypt hint at a global community. I will get flak for this but the ancient egyptians are the ones that spoke of atlantis which can only mean the ancient meso americas.

[edit on 21-7-2008 by IvanZana]

reply to post by IvanZana

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Ivan c'mon you know you just want to smoke it


seriously though, could the rope be made out of corn husk?

reply to post by seagrass

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Outside my area of knowledge too

Rope can be made of any type of fiber the longer the stronger.

Originally posted by Fathom
reply to post by IvanZana

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seriously though, could the rope be made out of corn husk?

The cedar timbers of its curved hull are lashed together with hemp rope in a technique used until recent times by traditional shipbuilders along the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

The link said it is made of hemp... ello, is this thing on?
current.com...
www.physorg.com...
www.kuwaittimes.net...


[edit on 21-7-2008 by IvanZana]

[edit on 21-7-2008 by IvanZana]

Originally posted by Fathom
reply to post by IvanZana

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Ivan c'mon you know you just want to smoke it


seriously though, could the rope be made out of corn husk?

Interesting marketing idea there.. "Smoke on a Rope"
But seriously, why are those ropes such an eggplant color?

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