Decay and the Millennia

        Accident victim's mobile phone (Mario Buildreps after Recovery Divers NL)

More amateurish archaeofallacy

Mario Buildreps @MaartenDeege
This is how a mobile phone looks like after lying 15 years in water and mud. Why are there no tools found in #ancient #egypt? Because it’s much older than we think. All tools are gone due to natural decay, decomposition, and erosion.  

The photo comes from the article Telefoon uit het water na 15 jaar in Den Horn by Recovery.Divers.NL, Dutch metal detectorists who search for lost property, this was a pphone lost in water durring a motorcycle accident. The phone is damaged by the accident, it is difficult to see the condition of the fragments as they are covered by mud, but on the lower left corner of the keyboard, the keys are intact with the printed letters clearly visible.

Of course it is a total nonsense to claim that "no tools are found in ancient Egypt" as that is utterly false - we find them in dumps of building waste, we find them (and their models) in foundation deposits, occasionally they were left in tombs. But of course if you are an amateurish (in the bad sense of the word) conspiracy theorist, mere facts are of no interest if they get in teh way of teh story you want to tell. Of course there is an interesting logical hiatus in claiming "it" [the remains of Ancient Egyptian culture] "is older than we think" and saying that those postulated long-term natural causes ("natural decay, decomposition, and erosion" - note decay and decomposition are the same thing) have removed all the tools, but left the rest. Bonkers. Tools or no tools, the framework and much of the detail of the chronology of ancient Egyptian cultural development are pretty well known - though the amateurs would not have the first idea as they are wilfully totally illiterate in the copious literature where that information can be found.

Buildreps claims some special knowledge on a wide range of topics that he says that scientists are "hiding", but one wonders how much of it that he goes on and on about is the same easily-refuted bollocks and stubborn ignorance.