🔦 In 1802, a French artist published a careful line drawing of a carving on an Egyptian wall. Vivant Denon travelled with Napoleon's expedition and reached Dendera in January 1799. He drew exactly what he saw. He had no electricity to project onto it — nobody did. 🌙 Eighty years later the world got the lightbulb. People have been looking at his drawing differently ever since. ✍️ The part that rarely makes the video: the carving is LABELLED. The Egyptians wrote what they were depicting in the stone beside it — "Harsomtus in the hn-container of the Mesketet-night-barge." Harsomtus is a god, and he has his own chapel a few rooms away. ⚡ So where did the lightbulb reading come from? 1894 — astronomer Norman Lockyer records a colleague's humorous suggestion about the lack of soot on the crypt ceilings. Reported as a joke. In 1982 a book carried the idea worldwide. ⚖️ I'm not calling anyone wrong. Sources are in the description — Waitkus 1997 for the inscription, Lockyer 1894 for the remark. Run them down, that's the point. 👇 Lost Machines IV. As above, so below. 🌙 https://youtube.com/shorts/sVPqnW-qb-4