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A 5,300-year-old Egyptian tool was hiding a surprising drilling mechanism

A small copper-alloy object in a Cambridge museum spent decades attracting little attention. It is only 63 millimetres long and weighs around 1.5 grams, hardly the sort of artefact that might alter the picture of early Egyptian technology.

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