Sabu Disc: 5,000-year-old Egyptian artifact resembling turbine blade

Necropolis/tombs complex1500 - 500 BC
5 Unexplained Ancient Artifacts Cut from a Single Stone
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The Sabu Disk - a mysterious 5,000-year-old Egyptian artifact with 3 curved lobes, found at Saqqara. Puzzled archaeologists for nearly a century! A 2021 study suggested it was an ancient beer brewing tool 🏺

Key facts claimed:

- Discovered in 1936 by British archaeologist Walter Emery in Saqqara Necropolis

- Found in First Dynasty tomb of high-ranking official named Sabu

- Carved from single piece of siltstone (or metaschist) stone

- Three folded, curving lobes arranged symmetrically around central hub

- Dimensions: 24 inches across, 4 inches high, central hole about 3 inches wide

Key facts

  • Discovered in 1936 by British archaeologist Walter Emery in Saqqara Necropolis
  • Found in First Dynasty tomb of high-ranking official named Sabu
  • Carved from single piece of schist (fragile, flaky stone)
  • Three folded, curving lobes arranged symmetrically around central hub
  • Dimensions: 24 inches across, 4 inches high, central hole about 3 inches wide
  • Unique in Egyptian archaeology with no similar objects found
  • Modern engineers compared design to jet engine and water pump components
  • 2021 study proposed it was a mash rake for ancient beer brewing
  • Airbus engineers tested replica and found it aerodynamically unfit for propulsion
  • Mainstream archaeologists describe it as ornamental bowl or lamp

Site mentioned

📄 Serapeum of Saqqara🌍 Show on the globe

Sources

The Mystery of the 5,000-Year-Old Disc That Rewrites the Pastdailymotion.com
Imagine finding an ancient artifact so strange that even experts can't agree on what it was used for! That's the Sabu Disc, a mysterious ...
The Sabu Disk - Egypt Museumegypt-museum.com
Crafted from schist (a brittle and fragile stone) the artefact features a central hole about 8 centimetres wide, surrounded by three elegantly curved lobes ...
Sabu disk - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
The Sabu disk is an ancient Egyptian artifact from the First Dynasty, c. 3000 to 2800 BC. It was found by Walter Emery in 1936 in the north of the Saqqara ...
Mysterious 5000-Year-Old Disc of Sabu: An Ancient Egyptian Artifact ...historicaleve.com
An intriguing artifact was unearthed on January 19, 1936, by British archaeologist Walter Bryan Emery during an excavation at the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt.
Sabu Disk: A mysterious 5,000-year-old Egyptian stone sculpture ...livescience.com
This unique disk-shaped bowl, found in a 5000-year-old Egyptian tomb, has puzzled archaeologists for nearly a century.
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