The rope is so tight and even it looks mass manufactured.
I dug a bit more to find the origin of the photo and found that it’s from a collection taken by Harry Burton. The series about Tutankhamun’s Tomb can be seen here. Some of them have been colourized.
The description says
3 January 1924 | Harry Burton’s photograph records the intact necropolis seal and cord fastening (Carter no. 238a) on the third (of four) great gilded shrines surrounding Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus in the Burial chamber.
Two photos seem to show doors like this.
This is one of my favorite pictures. The sense of time from it is palpable.
I love what it says about something as mundane as rope, that humans perfected it thousands of years ago and its form has remained essentially unchanged for millennia.
Yeah that was the thing that got me too. That rope looks immaculate. Like factory made even. It made me question if the picture was AI, which immediately annoys me whenever I have to even consider that possibility now.
Seriously cool though.
How are the door handles attached, they also look manufactured. Crazy what humans could do such a long time ago.
Some fun facts are that we’ve been using fire to make stone easier to work with for over a hundred thousand years, and we’ve been making complex adhesive mixtures for just as long. 77,000 years ago, people were making bedding from leaves that they (probably, we cant ask them) chose for their mosquito repelent qualities. It really is astounding how much stuff ancient humans did
