It is generally useful to take a closer look at ancient statues. Sometimes they have very strange details that cause associations with technical devices or devices.
For example, a number of statues of pharaohs in the Cairo Museum are accompanied by images of long bars of approximately square cross section, located on the side of the pharaoh. Their size is such that you can compare them with "stilts". Sometimes the statue has two "stilts", sometimes just one. Sometimes the top of the "stilts" is decorated with images of the gods, and sometimes it does without them. Some "stilts" have an additional short square "shoot" extending backward. As a rule, hieroglyphic text is present on the "stilts".
It is possible, of course, that the "stilts" did not have any real prototype at all, but are only an invention of the sculptor who added this detail, for example, in order to have where to put important text. But still, they give the impression of a completely real-life object.
One could count the "stilts" as some kind of royal staff - symbols of power. But for a staff, a square section is absolutely not typical, and even inconvenient. In addition, the "stilts" are too thick - you can't grasp them like a staff. Perhaps that is why there is not a single statue where the pharaoh would hold the "stilt" with his fingers. He only tightly presses the straightened hand to the "stilt" from the outside, as if fixing the "stilt", pressing it to the body. The position in which to hold vertically a certain “symbol of power” of this size is generally simply inconvenient - after all, if such a “symbol” were made even of light wood, it would weigh a lot.
One could assume that the "stilts" played the role of crutches. After all, the pharaohs were living people and led a rather active lifestyle - someone could hurt their legs. But the length is still too big for a crutch. In addition, for “stilts” that have an additional square “shoot” extending backward, on which one could lean with a hand on top, this “shoot” is located not at the height of the armpit, but above the pharaoh's shoulder.
The position of the pharaoh's hands, the size of the "stilts" and their other features caused us only one association. It could be a special latch that secures the body in some fast-moving vehicle and prevents it from falling out of this vehicle. So, as the thrill-seekers are fixed on some dangerous attractions - for example, roller coasters.
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The association is pretty tight, of course. But nothing else comes to mind yet.
There are few such statues, but they exist. As well as doubts - do they represent the pharaohs?..
Sometimes on the statues of the pharaohs there is an image of some kind of decoration in the form of several cobras located nearby with a loose hood. These cobras are located just above the knees. This decoration inspired us with the idea of some kind of remote control with several functional buttons-keys (cobras). While walking, this remote control, however, would be difficult to use - hands almost reach, but in a sitting position fingers fall just on the remote control. It is curious that images of cobras are very common in Egypt, but there are not so many such decorations on the statues of the pharaohs. But it is on those statues that have "stilts". What is this - a coincidence?..
The rather unusual arrangement of the decoration in the form of cobras attracted our attention to such a detail of the clothing of the ancient Egyptians as a strongly protruding skirt. It is believed that the Egyptians wore such skirts to emphasize their masculinity - they say, from the outside it seemed that the owner's skirt had risen with an erect penis.
Such an explanation for the appearance of a rather strange detail in the outfit (which still needed to be provided somehow) seems rather far-fetched. But such a skirt allows, for example, to place on it a flexible and thin keyboard that has a wireless connection with a remote computer, and use it even on the go. We already have such keyboards …
And of course, one cannot ignore such a detail of the pharaohs' clothing as urey. Urey is the accessory of the royal attire of the pharaohs in the form of a cobra in a fighting stance. Urey was worn on a diadem, and since the time of the Middle Kingdom on the crown, and was located on the forehead. For a long time, the king's ureus was known to Egyptologists only from images and statues. It was assumed that this symbol of power passed from pharaoh to pharaoh by inheritance. But in 1919, during excavations in Saqqara, the ureus of Pharaoh Senusret II was discovered, made of a solid ingot of gold with inserts of granite, carnelian, turquoise and lapis lazuli. Another genuine royal urey was found three years later in the tomb of Tutankhamen.
It is believed that the uray is a stylized image of the cobra goddess Uajit, the patroness of Lower Egypt. The image of the kite goddess Nehbe, the patroness of Upper Egypt, was often placed next to the Uraeus. Together they symbolized the unity of the Egyptian state.
In fact, in the interpretation of Egyptologists, everything is reduced only to symbolism. However, the gods also wore urei. And not only those who occupied a reigning position. This means that their urei was not limited to a symbol of power, but could well have a very specific functionality.
In the Strugatsky brothers' novel “It's Difficult to Be God,” the protagonist Don Rumata wore a hoop on his head, on which a special video camera was located, sending a signal to the base orbital station. Due to the fact that the camera was thus located on Don Rumata's forehead, people at the base station could see everything that the protagonist himself saw.
Could the urey carry the same function? Quite. For example, the glare on the lens could well have been mistaken by the ancient Egyptians for the brilliance of some precious stones, and in the future, creating replicas of such a video camera, they could use real precious stones to make them. Confusing a lens with a gem is not so difficult if you have no idea what a lens is. Since the urey was worn by many gods, they could use it as a means of communication with each other.
However, ancient legends allow us to put forward a completely different version. According to these legends, the urey was a snake protecting from all evils, which spewed fire and was therefore called the fiery eye of the sun god Ra. So the gods could have something like a powerful laser, aiming at the target was as easy as shelling pears - you just had to turn your head in the right direction. And with very little training, ensure the effectiveness of the laser hitting the target.
However, the aiming function could also be performed by an additional camera - what Egyptologists consider to be the image of the kite goddess Nehbe. Fortunately, it was located directly next to the "cobra" …