Ron Eglash used cornrow hairstyle to teach fractals in a math class:
Our first design tool was developed for the "African Fractals" project (Eglash 1999). Mathematics teachers with large African American student populations reported that they could not use fractals -- there was too much pressure to conform to the standard curriculum -- and that they felt that many of the examples were too culturally distant from the students. They all felt that the examples of hairstyles would work well however. Thus our first tool focused on the hairstyles, and used the term "iterative transformational geometry" rather than "fractals." The graphic above shows the result, called "Cornrow Curves."
Well it's not like anyone knows the Great Hymn to the Aten anymore. Whatever archaeologists uncover about ancient civilization will just be regarded as "neat" and with very little seriousness put aside to ogle at later.
How manifold it is, what thou hast made! They are hidden from the face (of man). O sole god, like whom there is no other! Thou didst create the world according to thy desire,
Pretty sure the writing translate to "Insert Tab A into Slot G". Eventually it is going to dawn on Egypt to sue IKEA for stealing their pictograph method of instructing assembly of flat items into various large objects.
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How manifold it is, what thou hast made!
They are hidden from the face (of man).
O sole god, like whom there is no other!
Thou didst create the world according to thy desire,