The Saqqara Bird is the one OOPART I can't fully laugh off

Most 'ancient aircraft' stuff is garbage, fine. The gold Colombian 'jets' are stylized fish, whatever. But the Saqqara Bird gets to me a little. Wooden object, sycamore, about 18cm wingspan, found 1898 in a tomb at Saqqara south of Cairo, sat in the Cairo museum labelled 'bird figurine' for ages. Da……