Channeling Ikea

April 22, 2010  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on April 23, 2010

Archaelogists in Italy have found what might be an ancient temple with what they said are Ikea-like assembly instructions, according to a United Press International report Thursday.

Swedish retailing giant Ikea specializes in ready-to-assemble furniture, and the archaelogists say they believe the temple's components are inscribed with directions for assembly.

The team found a sloping roof with red and black decorations, with "masculine" and "feminine" pieces inscribed with instructions on how to slot them together.

"So far around a hundred inscribed fragments have been recovered, with masculine ordinal numbers on the cymatiums and feminine ones on the friezes," Professor Massimo Osanna, head of archaeology at Basilica University, said in the report.