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Power tools? Odd that there's no sign of ancient power generation, literally anywhere, apart from the Baghdad battery, and the metal power tools have not survived anywhere, not even in a picture on a tomb wall. No metal blades, not even worn out ones, either in ancient rubbish tips or in ancient art, have survived, anywhere. My favorite thing is how the power tools were powered by the Great Pyramid somehow ("Giza Power Plant") without any coherent explanation about A) how that actually worked or B) why can't anyone reproduce the system today, or C) how did the "power plant" Great Pyramid get built without power tools, or for that matter D) why is the oldest one at Giza more massive than all the other Giza pyramids put together? Dunn's just full of it.

At the 10th Geopolymer Camp in 2018, Prof. Joseph Davidovits presented during his annual keynote his last studies on the Tiwanaku / Pumapunku Megaliths. In November 2017, an international team (a geologist from Universidad San Pablo at Arequipa, Peru and a member of the Geopolymer Institute) went on the site to carry on a survey on these stones. After different analysis on thin sections and under the electronic microscope, Joseph Davidovits claims that he has found "organic matter in volcanic rock", which is, by nature, impossible.

Tiwanaku / Pumapunku Megaliths are Artificial Geopolymers | Geopolymer Institute | Published on March 3, 2019

***Power tools? Odd that there's no sign of ancient power generation, literally anywhere, apart from the Baghdad battery, and the metal power tools have not survived anywhere, not even in a picture on a tomb wall...***

It is certainly an enigma; of course it presupposes that they would have used the same technology that we use, and since by evolution we are light years ahead of them they could not know a technology that we have not discovered. BUT also, when I look at Gobekli Tepe, perhaps Machu Picchu and such, I sometimes wonder if they had total recall {of course that is too high a brain function for primitives.}

I don't remember if it was Petrie or Dunn or whoever who says they found slit trenches on the Giza Plateau where large blades {of what?} or thin wheels might have rotated for cutting or grinding or whatever - powered by oxen??? Obviously just speculation.

***Dunn's just full of it.***

:^D See, I said he was provocative. Wun and Dunn.

***Joseph Davidovits claims that he has found "organic matter in volcanic rock", which is, by nature, impossible

...just some unknown technology -- or Ancient Aliens.

{{I'll check out that link ... looks over my head!}}

I watched the Davidovits video - I am stunned - a whole education in one fell swoop.

I had thought to mention in my earlier post about the old legend of using organic material acids to dissolve stone, but thought it would be off topic. Wow! Right on target... and then the main hurdle: what to use as a hardener {re-hardener}.

Well, shet mah mouf! A whole crib of corn there to be shucked. It certainly goes a long way to explain the grey andesite 'H' blocks with the perfectly squared detents; I still wonder how they built the molds and with what to still achieve perfect 90 degree rabbet indentations.

Thanks for the lead on 'geopolymer' technology; I still do not understand the name very well. :^/