A possible use of the Kha's protractor
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2011-08-01 v1 Popular Physics
Abstract
I have recently proposed that an object, found in an Egyptian tomb and exposed at the Egyptian Museum of Torino, could be a protractor. The tomb was that of architect Kha, supervisor at Deir El-Medina during the 18th Dynasty, and his wife Merit. Considering then the object as a protractor, the architect could have used it to measure the angle of the inclined planes.
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@article{arxiv.1107.5831,
title = {A possible use of the Kha's protractor},
author = {Amelia Carolina Sparavigna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.5831},
year = {2011}
}
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Ancient measurement tools