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Ancient Egyptian Electricity
There’s a Hathor temple in the city of Dendera on the West Bank of the Nile. Inside the temple, in secret rooms, there is a fantastically preserved bas-relief depicting devices that look like electric lamps with a discharge arc instead of an incandescent filament. Scientists speculate that this arrangement of signs is a warning that the device could be dangerous if used improperly. But it can’t be electricity, can it?
