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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2014 12:06:47 GMT -6
Mysterious Piece Of Sophisticated Technology Could Rewrite History - Scientists Are Not Sure What They Are Dealing With16 February, 2014
MessageToEagle.com - Researchers are still not sure what kind of extraordinary object they are dealing with… This peculiar object created 5,000 years ago appears to be part of a component of an ancient unknown advanced mechanism. In January 1936, a strange disk was unearthed at the plateau edge of North Saqqara, approximately 1.7 km north of Djoser's Step Pyramid in Egypt The discovery of the mysterious prehistoric artifact, that many considered as a device, was made in the so-called Mastaba of Sabu (Tomb 3111, c. 3100-3000 BC) by a famous, British Egyptologist Walter Bryan Emery (1902-1971). Sabu was the son of Pharaoh Aneddzhiba (fifth ruler of the first dynasty of ancient Egypt) and a high official or administrator of a town or province possibly called "Star of the family of Horus". The burial chamber had no stairway and its superstructure was completely filled with sand and stone vessels, flint knives, arrows, few copper tools and the most interesting schist bowl in fragments. The unearthed device named the Schist Disk, is approximately 61 cm in diameter (24 inches), one cm thick, and 10.6 cm (4.2 inches) in the center. It was manufactured by unknown an means from this very fragile and delicate material requiring very tedious carving--the production of which would confound many craftsmen even today. Now many important questions arise. What was the original function of the device? Scientists do not think the object is a wheel, because the wheel appeared in Egypt 1500 BC, during the 18th Dynasty. If the Schist Disk is in fact a wheel it would mean ancient Egyptians possessed knowledge of the wheel about 3000 BC during the time of the first dynasty! This would require Egyptologists to re-write some history books. Continue Reading Here- www.messagetoeagle.com/discsabu.php#.UwD61M6haVV
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Post by swamprat on Feb 16, 2014 12:23:47 GMT -6
The Ornamental Tri-lobed "schist" Bowl The ornamental tri-lobed bowl has a maximum diameter of 61 cm and a maximum height of 10 cm. Since originally found crushed it has been restored, and is now on display in the Cairo Museum. Read more: www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/esp_egipto_mist_2c.htm
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Post by auntym on Feb 16, 2014 13:16:08 GMT -6
it looks like a steering wheel to me...
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Post by lois on Feb 16, 2014 23:55:57 GMT -6
I believe it is part of something much larger. It has become detached . Does not appear to be broken off. Probably was joined at the center by the opening. No not a wheel. I see it as a top of some thing tall. It just blew my mind what I seen in my mind when if first gazed upon it. I see it outdoors similar to a windmill device but not a windmill. Something very tall .
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 1:18:59 GMT -6
Frisbee ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 1:32:01 GMT -6
Hee, Hee! From what they say though, the material it is made of is decidedly "ornamental" only. Hmmmmm. So what made them so anxious to put this busted up one back together?
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Post by skywalker on Feb 17, 2014 19:27:54 GMT -6
It's the only one like it they have ever found. Archaeologists are funny about restoring stuff like that.
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Post by harte on Apr 19, 2014 7:20:36 GMT -6
Looks like it's supposed to be mounted on a pole or rod of some sort.
One possible use would be as a holder for three small bundles of reeds.
Oil-soaked reed torches were sometimes used as lamps. Tied bunches of papyrus reeds soaked in oil and lit on each end. The recurved parts would hold the little bundles. Maybe.
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Post by skywalker on Apr 19, 2014 9:13:28 GMT -6
That's as good an explanation as any. I've seen things very similar to that in modern times I just can't remember what they were being used for.
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Post by harte on Apr 19, 2014 21:03:23 GMT -6
I've heard it described as a serving tray for the boss' favorite delicacies.
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Post by plutronus on Apr 20, 2014 0:40:38 GMT -6
it looks like a steering wheel to me... Yep, and they liked chopped salads too...looks a lot like a food processor grating wheel doesn't it? Heh heh. What ever it is, it seems that it may rotate, but not likely very fast. Its seems it must be a slow rotation device, as its mass is obviously misbalanced which would cause significant vibration, likely destructive at rapid rotation. They went to a lot trouble make the openings, which are likely basic components of its general function. I am curious to know its composition material...what its made of? plutronus ps...isn't 'schist' German for 'poop' in English? hee hee. Yep, mystry solved its a sh.it disk!
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Post by skywalker on Apr 20, 2014 7:57:00 GMT -6
It seems to have been carved from a very soft type of rock called metasiltstone. That would mean that it is a very delicate piece that would be pretty impractical for use as a tool or in any type of machinery. It would be no stronger than a thin ceramic bowl. In the past, some Egyptologists have use the term "schist" to describe this artifact (Emery 1949, Aldred 1981); others have identified the object as a slate (Smith 1981). The term schist was not being used in a modern geologic context (i.e. a medium- to coarse-grained foliated metamorphic rock), but was being used to describe a metasedimentary rock called a metasiltstone. This rock is essentially the sedimentary rock siltstone that has been very weakly metamorphosed. It still retains its clastic sedimentary texture and has no visible schistosity. Metasiltstone is similar to slate, but is more coarse-grained and has no fissisity or slaty cleavage, making it a solid rock that does not easily fracture along discreet planes when struck. The weak metamorphism of siltstone indurates the rock and increases the cohesiveness of the mineral grains (i.e. rock hardness), making the rock less susceptible to fracture during carving. www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/esp_egipto_mist_2c.htm
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Post by harte on Apr 21, 2014 17:53:08 GMT -6
Well, as long as they keep the shistosity low, I guess it's okay. High schistosity is undesirable, I would think. I don't allow high shistosity around my house.
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Post by skywalker on Apr 24, 2014 19:35:48 GMT -6
Yeah, shistosity is always a pain. I'm not to fond of fissisity either. They're both buggers to get rid of.
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Post by flyindutch on May 10, 2017 18:33:13 GMT -6
I could see it being used to manipulate the top of a torch. If you spun it while walking, you could be able to venture further into a pyramid with a brighter light and in corridors that lack the oxygen. My second theory is that it is a crude torching system built to spin a flame into a torch.
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Post by swamprat on May 10, 2017 20:48:56 GMT -6
Welcome to TEOR, Flyin!
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Post by skywalker on May 10, 2017 21:44:27 GMT -6
I would say the best way to find out what it was used for would be to make one out of a similar flimsy material (like plastic which would be easy to mold and cheap tp make) then go around testing it to see what potential uses it might have. There is probably a simple explanation for it.
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