Go awl out. Used to punch holes in leather, wood, and textiles, awls have been around since ancient times. The best part of an awl-punctured hole is that it doesn’t leave a cut line, so the hole is ...

A small copper object unearthed in Egypt more than a century ago is now at the centre of a major rethink about how early the civilisation mastered advanced engineering.Originally catalogued in the ...

Egyptian craftspeople were ‘ahead of their time,’ study says.

However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it may rewrite ancient Egyptian history. In a study published in the journal ...

This is the needle-pointed marking tool for laying out measurements.The scratch can be made deep enough to actually be the start of the cut in rougher work, but a knife-edged tool is better for finer ...

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