This is found all over the ancient world. The older stuff underneath is much much more advanced and difficult than all the stuff built over the top of it. How could that happen. it is completely backwards from all present narratives and misguided logic.
I think they were relatively advanced during the time of the pharaos. Then muslims happened.
American Indians worked granite into axes and beautiful atl atl weights.... without iron or any metal for that matter. They had copper, but it wasn’t used in the manufacture of these stones, as it was too soft.
Instead they worked granite by pecking it with quartz and chert hammerstones and by grinding with grit, water and larger flat stones.
The Egyptians were likely able to use a scaled up pecking method and may have used some basic engineering to make a repetitive striker for larger surfaces.
“ However, some of these amazing works could simply not have been made by these people during the time frame that we call dynastic Egypt.”
Says no one who has looked into it.
Chemistry would likely be the answer. Using chemicals that can dissolve stone would also leave no trace of its existence as it evaporated or got used up.
But Coral Castle comes to mind.. Another mystery. I believe he used a gravity eraser device when placed above any object it would erase the effects of gravity below that object, making it very easy to move. But this doesn't explain the CUTTING and sculpting of massive rocks in Egypt.
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“Even the concept of this kind of precision does not occur to an artisan unless there is no other means of accomplishing what the artifact is intended to do. The only other reason that such precision would be created in an object would be that the tools that are used to create it are so precise that they are incapable of producing anything less than precision.”
It strikes me that neither of those statements makes any sense.
Last year I visited a museum exhibit of matchlock and flintlock firearms. Afterward, I decided to check out the new Egypt exhibit and was stricken by the contrast.
I expected the Egyptian stuff to have a high degree of craftsmanship; not Baroque Period quality, but something like the pictures in the Egypt coffee table books.
Instead, everything look shabby and Neolithic.
Very intriguing especially that “famous schist bowl or disk”. Very hard to imagine how it was made or what it was for.
Bfl
I only know of one Origen, the early Christian theologian and Biblical scholar.
Regardless of the jokes one can see that rotary tools were used on many relics. Some are are level as modern truing tables. Such work cannot be done with stone chisels.
More on whom they describe as the original peoples to undertake these magnificent endeavors.
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Sounds like voodoo to me.
I’d be more inclined to believe extraterrestrial intervention.
I’m not sayin’ it was aliens.
But, it was aliens.
Forget about the “unfinished obelisk”:
The project was directed by a woman!
It was never going to succeed an the workers just did what they were told and never tried to succeed.
You can’t argue with a woman. So you go along.
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Seriously, of course it’s astonishing what those old guys did so long ago.
Fascinating counterpoint to orthodox archaeology.
People assume older generations were more stupid than us.
They were just as smart, if not smarter.
When people say Such and such could not be done with the tools of the time, they are usually wrong. We may simply not know the techniques they used with those tools, or all the simple tools they had at their disposal.
When I look into these claims, they usually fail because they make assertions that cannot be proven, such as “this could not be done”.
Or, This is impossible with out advanced technology.
maybe part of the problem is viewing ancient Egyptians as Egyptian.
Consider that Tut’s remains were found encased in a one-piece carved block of red quartzite (iirc his dad’s was of a pure-white quartzite or maybe it was granddaddy.) Quartzite isn’t a material that can be carved easily. It sparks, repels hammer strikes, and when struck it will shed very sharp shards, so eye and body protection would have been essential for the carvers. It’s considered a powerful stone, partly because of hematite content which was considered auspicious, partly because it’s not a stone that degrades down to ‘dirt’, and because quartzite exhibits ‘metamorphism’. It incorporates any sandstone and iron into itself, either structuring around it or, under heat and pressure, changing the physical composition of the sandstone; it can grow itself. Quartzite is one of the most durable and chemically-resistant stones to be found but not so great for tool-making or precision cutting. Red quartzite was found in mountainous China, but not in ancient Egypt, so maybe the Chinese had a larger role in ancient Egypt than we think? At the very least, one must wonder how such a large casing was carved with such precision from a single huge block of a quartz that simply isn’t favorable to being carved at all. Or why such a casing material was chosen in the first place. Or if the legacy of ancient Chinese women as empowered leaders, buried with grave goods just like the men, rubbed off on the ancient Egyptians?
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