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Engineers have subjected the Sabu Disk, a roughly 5,000-year-old schist artifact housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, to modern material analysis in an effort to determine its original function.

This delicate stone vessel was discovered in 1936 in the tomb of Sabu, an ancient Egyptian official buried in the Saqqara necropolis during the first dynasty period. When it was found, the disk was in ...