Posted on 05/29/2022 6:52:53 AM PDT by bert
The UnchartedX Channel Presenter named Ben provides a video study of an Egyptian granite box fabricated with extreme precision. The presumed sarcophagus is located within a tomb far underground that is also a marvel of extremely precise construction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Ejf5etV5U
Ben and his crew chose this particular box for a detailed precision analysis. They don't actually provide any dimensions but clearly indicate the precision of dimensions, flatness, plumbness and squareness. The conclusion is that it is barely possible to fabricate such a box today and was completely impossible using mauls, stone chipping objects, and copper chisels. That is, the academics who so jealously defend their own theories are badly wrong
A trip into the quarries reveals all sorts of tool marks related to cutting stone and some rejected pieces still present after all this time
The problem with this specific video will be that the discussion can quickly go off topic to other closely related UnchartedX videos related to other stone objects fabricated with a precision deemed impossible with the tools known to be available at the time.
I wish I had the old GGG list to ping for others who might have an interest in the topic of an extremely advanced people preceding the historical Egyptian period that is the sole property of jealous academics
It’s galling that those ancient peoples aren’t given credit for their remarkable accomplishments. It’s assumed that only space aliens or fallen angels could have been talented enough to work with stone.
Thanks for posting - I’ll check out the video. I have always been fascinated with how the Egyptians managed to “do” a lot of what they did.
Closer to home (so to speak), I have been involved in a LOT of rock projects maintaining the Appalachian Trail - steps, cribbing, etc. - all dry laid. We also had very little ability to shape the stone - occasionally we could knock off a small ‘point’ with a rock bar, but mostly had to eyeball the shape & figure out how it fit the best. Many times, rocks just wouldn’t work, regardless of how you turned/flipped them. BTW, small rocks do not work - with people tromping over them for decades, they need to be large & solidly placed/seated. No one-person rocks ... a rock requiring two people with rock bars or even three people to move is what we were using.
Because of this, I have great appreciation for and am very interested in how the Incas did their stone work - they had some spectacular walls with impeccable joints.
Here’s an interesting link with some possibilities:
https://www.davideandrea.com/personal/ideas/inca_stones/index.html
The problem is, when you get to discussions of Egyptian precision stone-work....then you get drawn to the same issue in Central/South America, Angkor wat, and several examples in India.
Then the discussion has to revolve around these stone-masons sharing their knowledge and skill around the globe. No one wants to go into that direction.
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Exactly.
But my hope is that a discussion can be restricted setting aside the world outside for the time being. I have that very problem in my own mind but am trying to concentrate on ancient precision stonework in Egypt
I have long accepted that the ancients were as intelligent as modern man.
What I cannot explain is their “art”. Children’s drawings are often more inspired than what, it seems, the ancients produced. It seems that you have to get to Greece to see human forms that actually look human. I can’t explain it.
A trip into the quarries reveals all sorts of tool marks related to cutting stone and some rejected pieces still present after all this time
As a guy who cuts granite every day including the very hard Egyptian granite probably under discussion you need only be absolutely sure of a few angles/lines and you can take it from there. Also, I’d very much doubt that the carvers of antiquity could out perform present day high speed computer guided blades.
Egyptian “art” is not “art.” It’s writing.
It’s not meant to be inspired anymore than the typeface of your local paper. It’s meant to be “readable.”
Just something to keep in mind.
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Even more ‘galling’ in that even today with our levels of technology we can’t duplicate some of the stuff found, yeah?
Try accomplishing that feat with clay, much less granite. The fact that they found thousands and thousands of these vessels suggests that it really wasn't a big deal for them to work granite as easily as clay.
Could you accomplish what you do today with copper chisels and round pounding stones, because those are the tools we are told the Egyptians used.
You are of course correct.
The question becomes how? Setting aside the question of who, how were such wonderfully precise vessels and the numerous rectangular boxes and sculptures created? What tools were used to fabricate with such precision?
Oh, I know about hieroglyphics. But they have paintings of what is supposed to be a funeral procession in a tomb. It is not writing. It is the caricature of the human form that you expect from children.
Somehow, this was “enough” for them. It said what they wanted to say, while they built the Pyramids around it. I find it strange.
I'm wondering whether they used diamond-tipped tools. As far as I know none have been found, but a diamond tool would be able (I think) to create the surfaces and angles we've seen.
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