Ancient Egypt, mummies, pyramids - all this is not the first century that excites the minds of researchers and simply interested people.
If we follow the logic of official science, then at the turn of the III millennium BC. e. in Egypt, for no reason at all, there was an inexplicable technological breakthrough. As if by magic, in an extremely short time, the Egyptians erect pyramids and demonstrate unprecedented skill in processing hard materials - granite, diorite, obsidian, quartz … And all this before the advent of iron, machine tools and other technical tools. Further, the unique skills of the ancient Egyptians disappear just as rapidly and inexplicably …
1. The processing quality of these granite sarcophagi is at the limit of modern machine technology.
To work with granite, you only need special tools and equipment.
Yes, only bad luck - in those days, Egyptian craftsmen used only stone and copper butts, which diorite - one of the hardest rocks - was too tough.
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2. Colossi of Memnon on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Luxor. They are made of heavy-duty quartzite, reach a height of 18 meters, and each statue weighs 750 tons. In addition, they are resting on a quartzite pedestal of 500 tons!
3. But they are nothing in comparison with the fragments of a giant statue, resting in the courtyard of the memorial temple of Ramses II. The sculpture, made from a single piece of pink granite, reached a height of 19 meters and weighed about 1000 tons! The monstrous size of the statue and the highest quality of execution absolutely do not fit into the technological capabilities of Egypt known to us.
While the temple itself is fully consistent with the technical level of that time: the statues and temple buildings are created mainly from soft limestone and do not shine with construction delights.
4. A statue carved from a single piece of black diorite. Egyptian Museum.
5. Rock crystal inserts - thoughts of lathes and grinders come naturally!
Like the eyes of a living person, they change color depending on the angle of illumination and even imitate the capillary structure of the retina!
The peak of skill in lens processing in Egypt was around 2500 BC. e. Further, the technology for some reason ceases to be used and is completely forgotten.
6. Most of the giant granite blocks were mined in the Northern Quarries near the modern city of Assuan. The blocks were extracted from the rock mass. It is interesting to see how this happened?
A groove with a very flat wall was made around the future block.
Moreover, the top of the workpiece and the plane next to the block were flattened with an unknown tool, leaving even, repetitive indentations.
This tool left similar grooves at the bottom of the ditch or groove, around the block blank.
There are also many even and deep holes in the workpiece and the granite mass around it.
At all four corners of the part, the groove is smoothly and neatly rounded along the radius.
Full size block blank. It is completely impossible to imagine the technology by which a block could be extracted from an array.
Sectional hole. Userkaf's pyramid.
One more angle. How this can be done is not clear!
Sahura Temple. Hole with evenly repeating thread.
It seems that it was the machine that worked here.
There are no artifacts of any processing methods.
7. Pyramid of Jedkar. Basalt floor.
The leveled floor is made of basalt, the technology is unknown, as well as the technique. Pay attention to the side on the right. The instrument may not have been driven to the edge for some unknown reason.
Basalt is heavy, even heavier than granite and stronger than it.
8. Pyramid of Menkaur. The wall is leveled with an unknown tool.
Pyramid of Menkaur. Another fragment of the wall. The alignment process may not be complete.
9. Temple of Hatshepsut. Profiled facade detail. Good quality of machining of parts, groove sampling could be carried out with a rotating copper disc with the addition of corundum powder and water supply.
10. Mastaba Ptahshepsesa. Spiked block. The quality of the grinding of the edges is quite high; the spikes were probably a structural element.