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DID ELECTRICITY EXIST IN ANCIENT EGYPT?

Reliefs in the temple of Hathor at Dendera have revealed the possibility that the Ancient Egyptians
knew about and used electricity. When the figures in this relief are carefully examined, you can see
that, just like today, high-voltage insulation must have been used at that time: A bulb-like shape is sup-
ported by a rectangular pillar (called the Djed pillar and assumed to be an insulator). This resemblance

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between the shape in the picture and electric lamps is astonishing. While analyzing ancient Egyptian
metal objects in 1933, Dr. Colin G. Fink—who invented the tungsten filament electric light bulb—found
that the Egyptians knew a method of plating antimony on copper over 4,300 years ago. This was a
method by which the same results accomplished today by electroplating were achieved. 59

Scientists have experimented with the system depicted in the reliefs to determine whether it could
have emitted light. The Austrian electrical engineer Walter Garn studied the reliefs in great detail, and
reproduced the Djed pillar insulator, bulb and twisting wire. The model he built did indeed work and
emit light. 60

One piece of evidence that Ancient Egyptians may have used electricity is the absence of any traces of
soot on the interior walls of their tombs and pyramids. If—as evolutionist archaeologists maintain—
they used burning torches and oil lamps for lighting, then traces of soot would inevitably have been

left behind. Yet there are no such traces anywhere, not even in the very deepest chambers. It would
have been impossible for construction to continue without the necessary lighting being provided nor,
even more importantly, for the magnificent murals to have been painted on the walls. This strengthens
the possibility that electricity was, indeed, used in Ancient Egypt.

The resemblance to today's
light bulbs of the figures in
these reliefs from the Temple
of Hathor at Dendera has
amazed scientists.

The Djed pillar,
frequently shown
in Egyptian
drawings, may
symbolize a kind
of electrical ap-
paratus. The col-
umn may have
served as a gen-
erator, thus pro-
viding lighting.

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