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Re:Ancient Roman Valves (2013) by MrLeap on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @04:09AM (#22411808)
I've read/listened to convincing arguments that ancient Egypt had rather advanced lathe tech.

https://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/egypt/articles/hrd...

Re:Ancient Roman Valves (2013) by alanbernstein on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:10AM (#22412283)
Fascinating, those granite pieces seem extraordinary even for today's technology. Of course "buried in the oldest of Egyptian pyramids" is the ultimate in survivorship bias... But they still made at least one of them.