Archaeologists Finally Explained How Ancient Egyptians Cut Granite

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  @DavidBoura · 3 days ago

  They cut and transported enormous rock blocks, and carved the hardest stones with atomic precision with bananas.

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• FE

  @ferkinskin · 5 days ago

  And then you spend 7 hours cutting a groove in a piece of granite, suddenly notice that you are off, reset, and carry on cutting straight again!? Right!?

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• MI

  @milantrcka121 · 3 days ago

  Cut the stupid noise blast between cuts!

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• ST

  @Stroysmlc · 4 days ago

  Scholars hate saying “I don’t know.”

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• AR

  @arizonajim7375 · 2 days ago

  Love to see a horizonal drill hole explanation. I can say for sure Egyptians would have given up on using copper very quickly as that stuff disintegrates rapidly used as a saw or tube drilling against hard rock, especially diorite.

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• DA

  @danphariss133 · 4 days ago

  Don’t the cores show a high feed rate? Its been pointed out. But people just LOVE to ignore it since it DISPROVES SAND AND COPPER WHICH HAS A FEED RATE NEAR ZERO. How long does it take to make the grooves in the granite with the stone balls. How long would it then take to cut out an obelisk?  How did the thin walled stone jars with small opening get made and by WHO? Since some claim they are older than early Egypt. This is just regurgitation of the same thing from the 1880s which is questionable at best. It goes right to the OBVIOUS feed rate and the NUMBER of stone blocks in the pyramids of Giza. May one, see how long it takes. Make a large granite box with sharp inside corners. Then check the time needed and quality.   Especially the sharp internal corners in the box.

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• WI

  @winterhorse290 · 4 days ago

  We may never know how they did it, but THEY knew.

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• JO

  @johnnyrocketproductions · 4 days ago

  The UnchartedX and Project Unity crew is comin for ya! 😂

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• MI

  @michael-qq12 · 4 days ago

  What it means is that we still don't have answers to these question.  Instead, we have ignorant STATEMENTS perpetuating irrationality.

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• ED

  @edreeves6440 · 3 days ago

  Another point, the dust created held significant quantities of copper. It seems unlikely that they would just discard this copper as waste (they weren't "modern" enough), rather they probably had some way of retrieving it, perhaps using some kind of panning technique.

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• PE

  @petebaker4450 · 3 days ago

  I can&apos;t comment on abrasives or drilling techniques used centuries ago, but I do have a theory on how they shipped those massive blocks from the Aswan quarry. Anyone who ever ventured into water more than a few feet deep knows that heavy objects weigh less in water than out of it. It&apos;s safe to assume the Egyptians would have known this. Now, why build huge boats capable of carrying massive, heavy blocks, obelisks etc, when a number of smaller craft linked together with cross beams, a small distance apart (think two parallel lines of boats) with the stone block slung between them, submerged, is a more practical answer. I expect the course of the Nile was different back then, but still had to be negotiated, the quarry being 600km away. Stands to reason they&apos;d make use of that obvious buoyancy knowledge. Look at that huge unfinished obelisk, then imagine the size of boat it would take to transport it on the river. The trouble is that the so called &apos;experts&apos; keep on saying those great stones were loaded onboard, without considering the problem with that. Maybe some were, but 1,000 ton obelisk? Apart from the very real possibility of capsizing, I&apos;d guess there would be the bigger threat of the obelisk disappearing through the bottom of the boat. No, split the load between a fleet of smaller craft and reduce the weight by submersion. Maybe I’m wrong (and quite happy to be so). &nbsp;The thing is, I&apos;ve not come across anyone else suggesting this method of shifting heavy stuff by water, so hope you don&apos;t mind me doing so here.<br>I enjoyed your documentary very much. Thank you.

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• HA

  @handyandy6488 · 4 days ago

  Did they use multiple bullet point overlays?<br>They would have shout &apos;edit&apos; at just the right time.

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