6: Solve a 13th Century murder!
Lateral with Tom Scott
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The Egyptians Were Very Precise. Is It a Ruler?
The Egyptians were very precise. You don't make a tool with 12 knots regularly spaced unless you're trying to make some kind of standard, but the standard for what? So like a yardstick, like a tape protractor? I might give a clue and this would have it would have been used to help construct things as well. But it's not a ruler. It has to be way more specific than a ruler.
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