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The seeming impossibility of the Ancient Egyptians to work granite into monuments and tombs without modern tools is presented here with choice examples based on the work of a modern engineer
1 posted on 12/03/2019 12:54:33 PM PST by wildbill
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The article mentions engineer and expert machinist Christopher Dunn, author of Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs. I have his book and some videos with Dunn, a fascinating character with some provocative ideas.

He definitely believes some sort of power equipment was sometimes used. He has done scale graphics of stone carvings such as the large Ramses statues and demonstrated that dividing the faces in half and folding the graphic over on itself the two sides matched perfectly such as we would do today but with computer controlled machinery.

Flinders Petrie recorded a stone he claimed had to have been 'grooved' with a saw of some kind

but as far as I know no followup was ever done.

Puma Punku in Peru has grooved stones, some with equally spaced holes drilled right through from inside the grooves. Best to forget all that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapunku

99 posted on 12/03/2019 8:57:27 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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https://www.geopolymer.org/archaeology/pyramids/


100 posted on 12/03/2019 9:05:25 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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Egypt has lots of iron ore. The whole iron meteorite bit is loony.


104 posted on 12/04/2019 1:18:35 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Thanks wildbill, a second time. This has been the best topic in quite a while, long discussions, and bound to be of interest. Hope to get more topics posted next week. Another slow week -- here are the other GGG topics introduced since the previous Digest ping:

152 posted on 12/08/2019 6:05:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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