paper

A possible use of the Kha's protractor

arXiv:1107.5831

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.

Ancient measurement tools

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