A demonstration of how an Ancient Egyptian lock would work

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Sorry, but you’re not fooling me again. The ancient Egyptians did NOT have video recorders.

All I can think of is this

Not much has changed

Inaccurate. Everything in ancient Egypt worked with mummy curses.

Y'all talking about how useless this is, but you got to remember, back then it wasn't about keeping other people out, but animals and the environment out.

@ElectroBard Holding their lady’s keys at the club…

People criticizing the design need to take into account how old Ancient Egypt is, locks like those would have been among the first attempts to create such a mechanism, and with almost no access to metals other than very little bronze and copper for most of it's history

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