Bronze Age Espionage: Did Ancient Germans Steal the Pharaoh's Chair Design?

[sysop]

Roughly 3,500 years ago, folding chairs remarkably similar to ones found in Egypt suddenly became must-have items in parts of northern Europe. Scholars are now looking into this potential case of ancient industrial espionage.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...830958,00.html

[hologram]

Probably not, people from the Mediterranian such as the ancient Swedish farmer came to present day Sweden 5000 years ago. see article in Nature doi:10.1038/nature.2012.10541.
It is an evolutenary topic, and not a chair copied. Compared to the farmer the chair is relatively recent.