Posted on 08/18/2010 1:27:31 PM PDT by rosettasister
The ancient Egyptian toolboxes didn’t have precise, sophisticated measuring instruments like we have today … or did they?
Christopher Dunn examines that question in his new book, “Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs.”
Dunn has made nine trips to Egypt since 1986, and each time he’s amazed at the precision of the columns, tunnels and statues. He brushes aside conventional thinking, and suggests the ancient Egyptians used highly refined tools and mega-machines.
“There’s more going on here than meets the eye,” he said.
A manufacturing engineer by trade, Dunn works as human resources director at Danville Metal Stamping.
His second book, a 400-page paperback, came out in June, but it’s already getting five-star reviews on http://www.amazon.com
And, despite its intimidating title, Dunn said it’s not an engineering textbook. The average reader would be able to follow it.
Judd Peck, president of Danville Metal Stamping, has accompanied Dunn to Egypt three times, and wrote one of the forewords.
“It’s great,” he said of the book.
The traditional explanation of how the pyramids were built, for example — by men rolling 60-ton granite on logs — doesn’t fit the evidence.
“There are huge implications that just boggle the mind — what they were able to do and how sophisticated they were,” he said, referring to the ancient Egyptians.
The idea that the Egyptians had advanced tools disrupts people’s linear view of history, that civilizations get more sophisticated through the years, he said.
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