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Some Russians were so annoyed about alien theories so they recorded a video how they drill the stone themselves using only ancient instruments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g305wqCdPRs (English subtitles included)




It's obvious Egyptians could carve granite using stone instruments. What is worth more investigation, is how they carved symmetric granite vases within 1/100th of an inch precision.


nowadays, when people need precision to 1/100th of an "inch" (250μm in modern units) on soft materials like unhardened steel, they can use steel tools

but when they need precision of 1μm or better (in medieval units, 1/25000th of an "inch"), or when they're cutting materials harder than steel, they resort to grinding with stone, typically emery (sapphire) for most of the grinding, followed by polishing. poor people who don't have steel tools also commonly do this for lower-precision work in soft materials; you can find all kinds of videos on youtube of people using angle grinders for things that a well-equipped machine shop would do with a bandsaw or milling machine

similarly, to get the dimensional references to measure to, common shop work can use cast-iron straight edges. but, for more precise work, they resort to granite surface plates

the egyptians of the old kingdom clearly had granite surface plates (they built significant parts of the pyramids' interiors out of them) and grinding, though they were evidently using the inferior quartz sand as their abrasive

as for symmetry, the most likely explanation is that they used lathes; the oldest indisputable records of lathes are from new kingdom egypt, but rotationally symmetric work that seems to have been made on a lathe appears as far back as the old kingdom

with respect to granite, while i don't doubt that you can find a granite vase here and there, most ancient egyptian fine stone carvings are from much softer rocks such as schist, alabaster (gypsum), and "alabaster" (calcite)

so i would say the investigation has already been done and found convincing answers


>What is worth more investigation, is how they carved symmetric granite vases within 1/100th of an inch precision.

The thing that gets me is that all of these questions can seemingly be answered with -- lots of time.

If you work slowly, and have lots and lots of people to throw at problems, nearly anything is possible.


So convient to have a steel hammer and chisel to pop the core out.

Egyptians OR ancient aliens is a false dichotomy. There is a third option which funnily enough the egyptians themselves believed.




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