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OK, that's not as nuts as some of these. So what are the artifacts?
They're made out of wood and the wires are museum mounts.
Per this site, they're furniture decorations.
http://www.joanannlansberry.com/fotoart/brklyn/wud-djed.htmlSorry... you think believing the Ancient Egyptians had electricity because those things look kind of like electrical insulators isn't nuts? Because I have news for you- two things can look alike and be totally different things.
This, for example, is not a petrified screw. It's a crinoid. A once-living sea creature.
I don't know what those Egyptian things are, but it is definitely nuts to assume they're electrical insulators just because they resemble them.
It's nuts that looks like a bolt.
It's the "stem" of an ancient sea creature (an animal, not a plant) from about 400 million years ago that looked something like this:
This is sea lily, one of its modern descendants:
Ah, so that's where screws come from. TIL!
Don't worry, I got your joke!