This is the Narmer Palette from ancient Egypt, dated to about 3150 B.C.–insofar as anything that old can be dated with any degree of certainty. The scholarly consensus is 3150 B.C., but consensus is not quite the same thing as solid fact. Narmer–we think!–was the first king of a unified Egypt, and this siltstone palette, … Continue reading What in the World is This?