The idea that someone can use a pounding stone for an hour or so, and then think they can use that to extrapolate an explanation for megalithic ruins just shows how detached many academics are from the real world.
@Za7a7aZ
Жыл бұрын
It is suspicious that all these mainstream academics share this way of working...I think they know better but are afraid to loose their career or access to egyptian excavations controlled by this idiot zahi hawass
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
I've met Zahi...he is not an idiot. He is an a*****e.
@tashuntka
Жыл бұрын
Yep 👍😁👍
@tedolphbundler724
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecture Well, maybe he has something to hide?
@not-normal771
Жыл бұрын
I think that many of them care too much about their egos and their legacy, as if anyone outside their head actually gives AF. The intelligent ones must know.
@Automedon2
Жыл бұрын
I want to see a living human who can pound a rock into perfect 90 degree angles and never chip out a corner
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
And I as well!
@Eyes_Open
Жыл бұрын
What is perfect? Humans have been doing it for many thousands of years.
@jerm22278
Жыл бұрын
You have to think that the more obvious answers are usually the correct ones. The pounders don't make sense as digging tools, but DO make sense as ball bearings to move the obelisk once quarried out.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Quite so. Many have proposed this idea, and I think it has more merit than the pounder concept. Pounders are shown in some relief panels but always in use on smaller scale artwork, as rough material removal tools for human-scale statues for instance. I don't think the Egyptians used them to rough-out enormous ashlars in the quarries. I could be wrong of course.
@richmondraider716
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes I feel that people don't quite understand the incredible scope of the logistics issues these projects present. By conventional explanations you'd need thousands of humans to hand quarry the stone, hundreds to dress the stones , hundreds to move to the river, hundreds to build the transportation barges ( the barges would have had to more massive than anything found so far and built in a reasonable time frame to be of service), hundreds to off load at destination, hundreds to move and erect into final positions....all that plus daily food, water, shelter for all the workers at all the locations , for decades and decades on end.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
I quite agree. There are other factors that almost no one seems cognizant of, such as... (1)population; back then there were thousands of workers, not millions, that could be involved in such projects. Multiple projects were often carried out simultaneously, further reducing the number of workers available for any single task. (2)The workforce was only available during the times that the Nile was not in flood or when the crops did not need harvesting, or when no military campaigns were being waged. (3)There was no artificial light and so everything had to be done within a 10-12 hour daily window. (4)The concept of limitless amounts of time available to work on projects that is so often proposed is a misnomer; temple, tomb and monument creation were expected to take place within a generation or less.
@fishdude666ify
Жыл бұрын
Yep. And to accomplish the great pyramid in the 20 year time frame given by academia they would've had to do all of that every 2-3 minutes, 24-7. But no, we're being bigoted modernists that think dynastic Egyptians were just stupid when we point out the logical and logistic improbability of the academic narrative.
@Automedon2
Жыл бұрын
Not to mention the lack of large trees in the desert to build those massive barges. Palm trees wouldn't do it and neither would the reeds they built their passenger bargers with
@ericylle6597
Жыл бұрын
Forget the barges. What sealed it for me ages ago was the Collossi of Memnon.. These are TWO 1000ton granite statues that were carved, lifted, and MOVED across land for 100s of miles, - not water since no waterway is there-
@icu7834
Жыл бұрын
@@Automedon2 But the Egyptians were well known to import wood as required.
@rossmilner6780
Жыл бұрын
Using a round stone like that to pound the rock is absurd beyond belief. You only have to look at those furrows to realise they were rubbing it away with some abrasive substance that we don't know about. Who knows ? Maybe they just used sand ..... they sure had plenty of that lying around ! Everytime I look at those beautifully smooth and highly polished diorite statues it just about does my head in wondering how they achieved such a perfect finish. We cannot replicate that degree of perfection even now .
@MrWeebable
Жыл бұрын
When the tool feels as a punishment it's the wrong tool and you won't start imagining enormous projects with it.
@feralkid9315
Жыл бұрын
Those stone balls aren't pounders. They are ball bearings used to help in extracting the monolith from the trench. The furrows in the vertical surfaces are tracks for the balls to roll in and the waffle pattern depressions at the horizontal area just outside the trench are to capture the balls under the weight of the monolith after it was extracted from the trench. The balls would settle into the depressions of the waffle pattern providing a degree of immobility to the monolith allowing them to control the positioning with less danger of the monolith rolling out of control. It seems the workers just started carving the waffled pattern area when the stone cracked and they gave up on the project. This is so obvious, how does no one else see this? They probably used crude iron chisels as well, but iron smithing was an art they had very little knowledge of, considering the ethics of a people who would build with megaliths. Iron requires increased effort to produce compared to copper and unlike copper or bronze, will rust rapidly and disintegrate completely within a few months if not cared for. If the ancient Egyptians were to put effort into building something they would want it to last forever. Iron doesn't pass this test so they would forge it only when absolutely necessary.
@Fuzzmo147
Жыл бұрын
Aren’t there iron ore seams in some of the pyramid blocks? Also there seems to have been meteoric iron available in the early days ( Tuts sword)… most probably a gift
@MOEMUGGY
Жыл бұрын
What I want to know is, how did they make all the dolomite balls?
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Diorite. They appear to have been formed in similar fashion to flint nappers shaping tools.
@icu7834
Жыл бұрын
I think they are called Dolerite. Found naturally occurring at some quarry locations.
@SeniorMoostacho
Жыл бұрын
For a long time, I think it's just a tourism industry game for Egypt. The Pyramids are amazing, but, what else do you got Egypt? And they obliged with new, fun, interactive things to do and see. It's about money, not knowledge.
@CreationNtheUniverse
Жыл бұрын
You are definitely on to something with that rapidly spin plunge grinder cutting trenches around the unfinished obelisk...
@FirstForcePerf
Жыл бұрын
Trying to keep a constant grip on such a large stone while pummelling granite would very quickly lead to severely swollen wrists and small bone fractures. As well as getting enough swing within such a small working area to make any progress at all. No matter how many "disposable" workers would be available for this type of undertaking, if such labours were needed to quarry, the sheer amount of time to excavate a multi-ton pillar, would be astronomical.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't it be interesting to forensically examine a few skeletons from the 'workers village' graves at Giza and see what their wrists and hands looked like....
@rogerharley8692
Жыл бұрын
The diary of Merer is a good insight. But drilling a lot of patterned holes in the rock first Before pounding it out with say igneous rock, This would achieve there goals at a faster pace. People that were slaves or punishment Might be prime targets for the harder work.
@Automedon2
Жыл бұрын
Plus, or course they would have to tunnel beneath it to free it from the rock, banging away with their little round stones. Whoever came up with that stupid theory needs their head examined
@Eyes_Open
Жыл бұрын
The idea of holding tightly to the pounder was absolutely refuted by Adel Kelaney due to the stress imparted. You would need to release just before contact and then catch and repeat. Or tie the pounder to a stick and use it like a sledge. And the rounded stones are caused by constant use. The natural sharpened variety would need to be used to break apart the granite. Especially after firesetting.
@Wormweed
Жыл бұрын
The pounding stone theory is so absurd it's hilarious when you look at the massive scale of all the stone that was used in ancient egypt. Sure it could be used on a small building, if it was sand stone instead of granite.
@Eyes_Open
Жыл бұрын
Have you read any published articles?
@ThePolicenaut
Жыл бұрын
I know they never moved it but somebody explain to me how they were intending on moving a 1200 ton stone ,that is a ridiculous amount of weight that we would struggle to move today
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
pls see ancient architecture part 9
@rogerharley8692
Жыл бұрын
I an unable to pick my fridge up But I can walk it on its edges The weight is used against it self, A small scale was done at “Easter Island moai 'walked”. Might be the reason why the obelisk And another big rock at Baalbek Were hewn on an angle.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
pls see ancient architecture part 9
@ThePolicenaut
Жыл бұрын
@@rogerharley8692 interesting point about the angle but is it even possible to walk something of this size? It seems very tall and could be put under a lot of stress walking it for miles and you would need solid ground as well as 100s of men and many months of walking it I would imagine ,it doesn't seem plausible to me
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Indeed. I am fairly certain the Russian engineers in charge of moving the Thunderstone knew about the tilting/corner-walking technique, but I imagine they rejected the idea about 5 seconds after considering it. Too large, too difficult to control, and too prone to breakage/deterioration of the contact surfaces over rough ground.
@gordonmculloch4904
Жыл бұрын
Throughout the world there are quarries with megalithic unfinished stones just abandoned. It would seem that there was some catastrophic event that caused the disruption of the works. Not only that, but I suspect the demise of the people who were responsible for the quarrying. Hence the lost technology. Ps enjoying your no nonsense, factual videos. 👍
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
This is one of the central mysteries, IMO. In Egypt, Malta, The Canary islands, Easter island, South America, Turkey, Lebanon...sudden abandonment / desertion. Any reasoning person must surely see that some agency interrupted the works in progress at all these sites, in the same timeframe. What happened? But even more intriguing...they dropped what they were doing and left, but apparently took their tools with them.
@gordonmculloch4904
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecturethe missing tools are a mystery. Could it be that these megalithic structures where built so long ago that any metal tools would have rotted away long before the stone would. They where definitely not shaped by dolomite or copper tools, if that were the case, there’d still be building the pyramids today. 😂
@gordonmculloch4904
Жыл бұрын
My theory is that the sun erupts causing extreme heat on the surface of the earth causing great extinctions. The Anunnaki according to the cuneiform tablets where mining gold to spray into the atmosphere to protect their planet Nibiru. I’m of the belief that Nabiru and our earth are the same place. but unfortunately there efforts failed and only their art work survived. This has happened not only once but could have happened on several occasions. This is why we see extensive cave systems throughout the world. Sanctuaries from the scorching heat; places to survive. Even the Hopi people have passed down legends of the ant people (those from the underground) who saved them not only from fire but also ice. This is a natural phenomena where the earth moves from extreme heat to extreme cold (ice age). We are in the Goldilocks zone at the moment, moving towards the extreme temperature phase.
@wompbozer3939
Жыл бұрын
It’s more efficient to quarry out a giant stone and cut it into the proper sizes that you actually want. As the size of the blocks increase, the ratio between stone busting and stone production improves. A 1 meter by one meter stone requires that you trench away 4 square meters of material before you can wedge the block out. That’s a 4 square meter:1 cubic meter rate. If you cut a 10 meter x10 meter x10 meter block you have to trench away 400 square meters and you produce a block that’s 1000 square meters. That’s a ratio of 1square meter: 2.5 cubic meters. This is why there are unfinished obelisks laying all over. They’re not obelisks, they’re simply blocks that stopped being quarried for some reason.
@WalterWagner001
8 ай бұрын
the rounded pounding stones that we find are the discarded ones. they start out oblong shape so they have a hard chipping face. eventually, they wear down and no good faces are left for chipping away at the granite. those are the rounded ones. or, at least, that is my opinion. i havent' seen it proposed elsewhere.
@steveclark5357
Жыл бұрын
very well done ,thank you
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Thank you too!
@redcruben
Ай бұрын
When looking at the pounding stones I noted that it was not round, any shapped rock will end up round after long hours of use. Maybe they used rocks with sharp corners which would be more efficient, and descarded them when they became round
@catgray1
Жыл бұрын
There is a guy that figured our how the scoop marks were made. His KZitem channel is called, Steven Tasker. His video is called, The Secret Djed and Dendera Drill.
@StanJan
Жыл бұрын
Very nice. Thank you
@tubedude54
Жыл бұрын
It's quite obvious that the egyptians did not build the pyramids 4500 yrs ago. They did not have the tools needed to quarry, cut and transport the 2.5 million stones just in the great pyramid much less the many others that are there. The effort would have been herculean to say the least! It would have required the setting in place of one block every 4.5 minutes 24/7/365 for the supposed 20 yrs they say it took... Not a chance!
@LoganBiren
Жыл бұрын
I believe that the trap many fall into when trying to figure out how the ancients constructed anything is that we in the modern day are engrained with the belief that everything must be done quickly because of the technological age we live in. The simple answer is that this is not the mindset of humans before great technological advancements of metalworking. The one tool at the disposal of ancient craftsmen that was utilized the most, and indeed much more than us today, is time. Things like granite quarrying, transportation, and carving, was done millimeter by millimeter. And the archeological evidence supports this. We cannot investigate the construction of these great works with a modern lense, but with an ancient one.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Generally I agree, but I think one should keep in mind that there also were deadlines that had to be met, and those were determined by the length of a pharaohs rule; all projects initiated by and for a particular ruler had to be completed within anywhere from 20 to 40 years, especially funerary arrangements. So no big hurry for pots, artwork, statues and modest projects, but definitely under the gun for temples, large public works, military installations and of course, tombs. Then we must remember that a typical ruler had many such projects going simultaneously...
@rifz42
Жыл бұрын
thanks! very interesting. how would you do the undercut and disconnect it?
@JnLsdaddy
Жыл бұрын
I tend to think of this like what is found in Wyoming. Seems like there was a way to soften stone, remove what was needed, then harden it back. It would seem plausible for not seeing any markings along the sides already completed. Smooth it out then start the undercut. Wouldn't worry about a crack in the stone when you could literally mend it back together. But alas, I am merely a pebble in the infinity.
@bardmadsen6956
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the look around of the quarry. I find it amazing the number of cameras that have been to places as such and very few are helpful. I've done my fair share of masonry, my old brick hammer looks like the one on The Shawshank Redemption film, and the 'scoop marks' are still a mystery to me. Every time I see them I'm reminded of a long deceased internet acquaintance that was quarrying pink granite with let's say a rocket, and I imagine it would leave evidence very close to the same, ablation. Ancient monoliths are just a past time and I am not trying to say that is how it was done, my real passion is ancient universal commonalities of comparative mythology and religion. I wonder about those who travel so far and just swish the camera right past the best part. Obviously from the polish they knew how to sort abrasives and thus would know about diamonds, most aren't pretty, and it wouldn't be a leap to embed it into copper. I would be looking for microscopic evidence at the bottom of crags unlike a video I ran across of a hurried recent excavation between the two central figures of Enclosure D in Gobekli tepe, bet they are not looking for extraterrestrial proxies of The Younger Dryas Impacts Theory, especially with the surrounding older sites.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
All the academics have their own conventional axes to grind, and they aggressively protect their explorations to insure inclusiveness in the club, so the grant money will continue to flow.
@cyklop1977
Жыл бұрын
I've been several times in Egypt , visited everything from Alexandria to Abu Sunbul . I saw this unfinished obelisk . "diorite stone ball" - This is not a tool! This is an impurity in granite rock !! Just look around the quarry (i have lot of photo and films)
@GTR003121
Жыл бұрын
Pounding stones being used to create basically perfect symmetry and angles is beyond ridiculous. Can't believe some people can make such a claim with a straight face.
@extrafoxjj
Жыл бұрын
if true, then how many diorite counters would it take and where are all of them?
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
The little buggers are everywhere you look inside the quarry. Early researchers assumed they must have had something to do with excavation and shaping, but recently some have opined that they may have been used as rollers to help move the monoliths after quarrying.
@cognitivedenial5633
Жыл бұрын
I recently heard that a study was done where they heated the stone for hours by a fire and where able to quite easily remove up to 10 inch deep in little time?
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Yes, stone destruction by fire has been demonstrated. Al Mamun's men used the method to help them tunnel into the great pyramid. As to whether this technique was used to do quarry-work at scale, or to help fashion the well-defined shapes of large ashlars, seems debatable.
@cognitivedenial5633
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecture i dont think it would even be a debate, but perhaps it would had the vast amount of material needed to be removed in order to just get the very rough outline in the quary quite easy and with not as much effort as we think. Perhaps clay like mini pots upside down with ventilation holes would provide for intense and locallised heat that could burn during the night, allowing just little work in the morning. However it would explain absolutely nothing about anything close to the end product
@spiritwhirled
Жыл бұрын
They're pissing on our legs and telling us it's raining!
@bnations2000
Жыл бұрын
What is the theory to explain how they drilled the holes for the wooden wedges?
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
The notch-and-wedge technique has been hypothesized by some to be used much later than the dynastic periods, in Ptolemaic / Roman era quarrying.
@bagpuss8960
Жыл бұрын
Either the material was soft like wet sand or they had super unusual technology. The most likely is the logical answer.
@AlaskanInsights
Жыл бұрын
The pounding stone is a silly idea. talking months just to do one stone. my favorite camping spot is a nice square chunk of andesite. we have been pounding on that rock for hour upon hours. just trying to take some lumps off the top . it would make a real nice seat. but as it stands. still very lumpy. and uncomfortable . yah i could go out there with my makita angle grinder and and take care of it in 10 minutes.
@daisydog388
Жыл бұрын
Great vid, too many stone cuts and scoops look like dont with a vibrating tool, like ultrasonic cuttingntools we have today. Maybe even an electrified wire or something, baghdad battery shows ancients knew about electricity, but thats a wild theory lol. Keep the vids comin
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Right on
@rosifervincent9481
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecture Is there an example of a vibrating tool used to quarry stone in the archaeological record?
@donwright3427
Жыл бұрын
Them got them stones on a ropa dope
@patdaveydrums
Жыл бұрын
So how do you think the unfinished obelisk was worked to its current state?
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
I have no idea. I can only look at the smooth sides, that show not the slightest trace of pounding balls, the undercuts, that would require some remarkable contortions in a very small space to pound out, and the overall shape, which is not finalized but in-process, and conclude that the methods/tools remain undiscovered.
@tedolphbundler724
Жыл бұрын
Somehow, the stone was softened to a stiff clay like consistence then scooped out with something like a big spoon. Acid from mining tailings combined with a gluten to make a paste might do it.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Undiscovered means one finds inconsistencies and lacuna in the commonly offered explanations, and so is prompted to explore alternative explanations and try them on for size to see how they might fit. Aliens, angels, demons, magic and the supernatural need not be considered as serious contenders. If there was indeed a high culture extant prior to the Younger-Dryas period, then this might be considered as a possible explanation if enough proof of their existence could be accumulated . Unfortunately, this is quite a challenge because if such a culture existed, 95% of the evidence is now under 400 feet of ocean, assuming that the majority of their cities, harbors, industrial centers and agricultural areas were placed where our own are concentrated; at or near the shoreline.
@jamesvalsquith2042
Жыл бұрын
That's a rounded by use one yes.
@JimmyRJump
Жыл бұрын
The Kufu pyramid is not proof that the people who built it were using stone hammers and copper or bronze chisles. That pyramid is proof of some advanced thinking and capabilities, to the extent that those capable Humans had to have evolved culturally and intellectually to a far more advanced status than we today give them credit for. We're still under the influential thinking of the church where it is said we are the summum of creation and our current status has never ever been surpassed before. Bollox. We are just now lifting veils that uncover stuff the ancients already knew thousands and thousands of years ago.
@Princip666
Жыл бұрын
I find the granite quarrying technique to be one of the weakest spots of the current paradigm. There has been a few serious attempts at measuring the speed of material removal, all of them had results absolutely inadequate compared to what we see in the quarry. Then there's the fire setting crutch, with no comparable experimental results.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
The few demonstrations made have also recorded vastly varying rates of progress, from millimetrs per day to centimeters per hour, written about and not video recorded, with very few exceptions.
@PaulewingStHelens
Жыл бұрын
It’s almost like they were scooping out ice cream. Extraordinary. Then there’s the weight. What did they have that could lift 1200 tonnes? I doubt we could get a machine on that type of landscape today that could do that. Then the idea it would travel down the Nile on a wooden boat is just ridiculous. How big would the boat have to be, how would they get it on there? None of this makes common sense.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
some commenters have mentioned carvings of boats carrying obelisks, can anyone out there post a link to these please?
@OmarHesham
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecture Just saw a few on google images. Not sure if authentic or conceptual drawings of the suggested transport method. It also calls into question if the boat sizes depicted would be buoyant enough to transport such weight.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Here is the only clip I know of that features an actual attempt to transport a block by boat.. kzitem.info/news/bejne/kWxrnnduraphn6w Basically it was barely workable, with a small block weighing only a couple of tons nearly capsizing the boat, and the attempt only rowed across the river, as opposed to the several hundred mile trip that would be required from the actual quarry. One must admit that scaling things up to hundred ton monoliths and beyond and then sailing 300 miles downstream would be a different matter entirely.
@OmarHesham
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecture It's true. That looked unstable for such a long journey. I would imagine that takes decades to transport. Maybe they did invest that time and it was very slow. Although the other evidence of advanced tooling suggests forgotten technology was in use and might also point to similar technology that allowed building boats strong and stable enough to carry more blocks to the destination. Although a lot of the ships that survived don't look that sturdy for the task. Perhaps they constructed ones that were similar to modern day container ships but made of wood or another material. In later eras were deconstructed and their materials reproposed similar to the scavenging of the outer layer of the pyramids. Ship designs that were lost to time and we are only left to imagine.
@Mixologist-fc4sc
Ай бұрын
If you think they pounded, you're beyond high.
@DougieL
Жыл бұрын
Obelisk; it certainly would have required many years of effort from many, many slaves. A sarcophagos, as an example, averaged one every 30 years. (Lots of time to organise the masses to slowly but surely quarry out granite and move it down river and across (1 km max of) flat land to a waiting tomb.) Magnificient to see nevertheless.
@DougieL
Жыл бұрын
If they were transporting those granite loads over mountain ranges, then I might believe that some advanced being was responsible...
@damonl.8224
Жыл бұрын
Pounding stones? I think the so-called academics are pounding themselves hard.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
LOL!
@awalk5177
Жыл бұрын
There are many contradictions in Egypt and the constant underestimation of the available technology that we do not currently understand. How the polished the flat granite and bored holes is clear we are missing some understanding. Even the construction of the pyramids and how long it would take (assumptions), does not follow logic.
@mikev4621
Жыл бұрын
Those evenly spaced 'knee-holes' can be explained thus: A row of twenty men, each with a Dolerite ball fixed to the end of a sturdy wooden shaft, would stand side by side and pound at their own assigned cavity .There could have been a lubricated wooden rail running along the length of the ashlar, for them to slide their pounding staffs on
@richmondraider716
Жыл бұрын
and the under cuts?
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Explanations are not nearly as convincing as demonstrations.
@mikev4621
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecture well it is more effective than a row of guys getting in eachother's way pounding by hand, from poor mechanical positions. Mankind has been fixing stone to the end of wooden sticks for thousands of years before civilisation. I think it pays to imagine the best possible scenario those people could have used. If they had highly advanced technology to do it why did they confine the use of it to just creating stone structures? Where is all the other stuff they must necessarily have had?
@mikev4621
Жыл бұрын
@@richmondraider716 quite a lot of the undercut could have been done by the same method. They only had to cut about a third through on both sides and then used levers to snap the remaining 'neck' of rock
@Automedon2
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget they had to pound through a rock mountain before they even got to the point of shaping the stone. Can you visualize creating those perfect sjarp 90 degree angles in granite like that, and how would they cut under the finished pillar to release it from the rock below?
@ajayvee6677
Жыл бұрын
Have you ever walked along the rocky margins of a creek or river or along a rocky coastline and seen circular bowls, usually 6 to 12 inches across, apparently carved out of the flat surface of the rock strata? There are usually a few pebbles in the bottom. This common phenomenon occurs because the current of the river or repeated wave actions cause small pebbles to swirl around in a small crack or irregularity in the rocky surface, gradually eroding and enlarging the bowl shape, trapping larger pebbles and enlarging the bowl even more. Could ancient hydraulic engineers have diverted flows from the Nile, perhaps though underground tunnels, to direct streams of water around the stone blocks to be quarried, utilising spinning rock chips lodged in ‘starter holes’ to gradually drill downwards on the margins of the block. Little human effort needed, just patience and the eternal power of the Nile River. I think that 10,000 years ago the hydrology of the Nile valley may have been unimaginably different from what we see today.
@tygrahof9268
Жыл бұрын
"Pounding stones"...LOL No way did that create the pyramids.
@umamigo1
Жыл бұрын
#melted
@y_x2
Жыл бұрын
All these video questionning the way they do it but none seem able to give an answer...
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
Put on your thinking cap
@Za7a7aZ
Жыл бұрын
The many hard round boulders present could have been used as rollers instead of pounders...did anybody think about that?
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
see the older comments.
@nightwaves3203
Жыл бұрын
For decades I haven't really chuckled about the level of thinking of experts. Evidently experts like in many fields of "study" is only that, not thinking. Look at the hieroglyphs. and drawings. It's been there all the time. Following morons left the abandoned area conditions. Look at the staffs then maybe you can find the vibration transfer device. It's easy.
@LotsofStuffYT
Жыл бұрын
I seen a vid done by a mathematician years ago that proved Egypt could have provided the man hours it would have taken to do everything that was ever built using stone, sand, and copper tools. His numbers were derived from actual scientists that had done the work and figured how much material you could remove using the tools. The video was old and is probably in the Egyptian archive as proof they didn't use advance ancient technology.
@kingbatman9439
Ай бұрын
😂 The Great Big Lie!! 😂
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Ай бұрын
BTW, visitors to the quarry are now required to endure a 20 minute video presentation on using dolorite pounders as precision granite shaping tools, before they are allowed access to the site.
@josejr.santos4251
Жыл бұрын
Oh yes they were using that to bowl the heads of the egyptian slaves who cannot carry the 1,000 ton granite slabs to be used for making perfect statues & obelisks with copper tools! Nice try brother!
@Eyes_Open
Жыл бұрын
Fire and hammers do lots of damage to granite.
@mikev4621
Жыл бұрын
Using weak old tourists to demonstrate ball pounding effectiveness isn't a fair representation. Strong, well-fed, young men trained to do it could work hard and long with little fatigue.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
A fairly large proportion of the visitors to the quarry are strong, well fed young men and women, and without exception after a few minutes they desist due to extreme joint and tendon stress.
@mikev4621
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecture Even young , well-fed people, if not trained , will experience fatigue. Marathon runners, even young ones, have to train.Sore muscles and tendons are common until fitness arrives. Also, by your own testimony, there are lots of those Dolerite balls lying around - they must have been used for something? Also, pounders would choose a Dolerite ball of suitable size to their strength. The balls would diminish in size over time, which would assure a good supply of variable sized balls.Totally worn out ones would be thrown in the Nile : ) Finally how feasible is that the Egyptians had learned how to embed gems into their copper saws ? They had rubies and maybe even diamonds, and they knew how to melt and shape copper.It is possible they incorporated crushed gemstones into their smelting mix.
@AncientEgyptArchitecture
Жыл бұрын
see, 'the pyramids and temples of egypt' by William Flinders Petrie, chapter VIII
@mikev4621
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecture Thanks ,I'll look
@mikev4621
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientEgyptArchitecture Chapter 19 seems to answer my proposal that the Egyptians had jewelled saws and drills- Petrie seems to take it as fact they had bronze tools with embedded gems
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