Of course, that's not the "academic" way, but I agree. Traditional approaches to education are so strange. They strip everything that would pique your interest and truly answer questions for you and instead, repeatedly tell you to take it on faith. Why don't you divide by zero? Because it's undefined. What does that mean? Just do the lesson. Meanwhile, the whole reason why it's undefined is really the fun part. But here's the best example I know of: Modern common core math. They literally spend the first few years now teaching the topics of base/radix, positional notation and placeholders. The entire rudiments of Arabic numerals. BUT, for some reason, the higher ups stripped every single mention of the actual names of those concepts from the curriculum. I've even asked my friends who're currently teaching this stuff. They've never even HEARD of the names of the very concepts they're teaching. And then they wonder why parents are absolutely outraged. It's like teaching reading for hundreds of years by teaching kids to memorize word shapes and never even mentioning the subject of the alphabet. Then, later, trying to fix that by teaching the alphabet and absolutely making certain to NEVER call it by name. :/
I'm not quite following you here, I suspect you accidentally missed a few words. As for what's the point in teaching it, the point of teaching the rudiments of the math that underlies ALL of modern tech is obvious: So that people understand it instead of being clueless and powerless in a technological world. As to why they decided to strip every possible reference to the name of the subjects on the other hand, only the idiots who'd think it's a good idea could tell you why and that's WHY I find it so frustrating. Lots of academic subjects have all kinds of fun and exciting things in them, but educators always seem to want to strip those out. ESPECIALLY at grade school levels. And then people wonder why students find school boring after we strip out all the fun stuff and leave only the boring stuff structured in boring ways. The fact that people wonder what math is even good for when it's the literal foundation of our entire civilization is just one example of why it's a hard fail.
Our ancestors were a lot smarter than we'd like to give them credit for. Look at all the medieval fortresses, sometimes with walls miles long, and cathedrals 300 feet tall (and we have records on their building) -- all done with nothing but brains and muscle.
this was great, really liked this. and it only takes a long time because you are doing it by yourself. now take alot more people, taking turns working 24 hours.....using the info in this vid ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E5pZ7uR6v8c.html and bam you got yourself alot of cool stuff.
there was a great TV series way back in the 1990's looking at different engineering mysteries of the ancients. What surprised me was how simple and incredible clever many of the methods used by the ancient engineers where. Too many people look at our ancestors then automatically think they where stupid, the reality is just as we have incredible clever people today our ancestors also had incredible clever people.
I know someone who used to teach ancient history to middle schoolers. They didn't believe that those huge blocks of stone could be moved with just muscle power... so she took her 8th grade class to a construction site and hitched them to a one-ton iron ballast, and off they went. In fact across wet grass (not near as slick as Nile mud) it got away from them and flew into a ditch. They pulled it back out, then the boys rode on it while the girls pulled. Just eight girls had no trouble pulling that 2000 pound weight plus the several boys. Now, consider that Egypt's workers were mostly off-season farmers used to hard work... not so difficult at all. (The Pharaohs weren't dumb, either. Half a million idle young men need something to do besides sit and drink beer during the flood season. Put 'em to work, and save yourself a lot of trouble.)
@@Reziac I remember one episode of the show where they challenged scientists and engineers to figure out how the Egyptians raised 50 ton obolisks. They could not use winches or any type of crane. None of them figured it out but a engineer in the USA did. All you need is sand, a long rectangular box that you will put the sand in and a long dirt ramp. You place the wooden box vertically at the end of the ramp filled with sand. Slide the obolisk along the ramp and drop it into the top of the vertical box full of sand. What you do now is have two labourers with baskets at the base of the box slowly empty the box of sand via a small door at the wood boxes base . As the sand is removed the obolisk slowly moved into its vertical position. The last step is to tie some ropes to the top of the now slightly tilted obolisk and pull it upright into a true vertical position. So 50 tons of stone over 40 feet high is raised with no winches or machines.
I used to be a mason, too and I'm telling people the same thing, when these alien theories come up. You did it the neanderthalian way with literally rocks and sticks. The ancient Egyptians had centuries to develop specialized tools and methods. I can totally see them building specialized drill presses, lathes and so on. We are so used to having machines for everything, we can't even imagine anymore how our ancestors lived
@@claudemaggard7162There's no evidence that has been preserved, found *and* recognized. Which is something entirely different. Aside from the obvious issue of whether the materials will last for thousands of years what we find is going to heavily biased towards common junk rather than rare or even unique machinery. Think antikythera mechanism rather than amphora. Despite the sturdy materials it's extremely uncommon of a find that took significant effort to reverse engineer.
aliens had nothing to do with it but he don't explain the elaborate carving done on vases or the giant boxes that have actual saw blade markings ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K80JebExyEY.html
I love this so much. I'm so sick of people discounting the ingenuity of the Egyptians and claiming that they couldn't have done what they did without the help of Aliens.
@Kst Kst at least this is a tangible, practical demonstration of how the Egyptians could've constructed the pyramids with the tools and resources available to them at the time. The alien theory is abstract and theoretical. I'll take some proof over no proof.
“It just takes time. No big deal.” I love this no nonsense explanation that proves how ancient stone work was done. It definitely took a lot time but that’s exactly what the ancients had lots of. Makes so much more sense then lasers, acoustics, aliens, etc. Great video!
The problem is the explanation doesn't explain so many things. It's doesn't explain the spiral groves of the tube drills into granite. It doesn't explain the circular saw marks in granite. It doesn't explain the high precision polished granite boxes in the serapeum and other locations. Im not saying aliens did it. I'm saying humans with tools that we don't have record of did it. There is information missing and "It just takes time." Doesn't explain so many things.
@@MichaelEllisYT Nobody have ever proved any "spiral groves" or "circular saw marks". Start with that first. There are "striations" in the tube drill marks. There are marks of pendling weighted drag saws, not circular saws. The Serapeum Sarcofags are far from prefect and the work done on them aren't that difficult to achieve. Certainly not needs "machine tools". It just takes a lot of time and effort and some skills.
And here's another thing... The Egyptian workers were well supplied with beer. It's a whole lot more enjoyable to bang rocks together all day long when you've got a good buzz going.
Great timing, Mike. I'm replacing basement windows in a 1963 house and the block is incredibly hard, but I was reminding myself what you've taught us. No big deal, take my time and it'll give in eventually and break up. Thanks, Mike.
I love this video - it inadvertently makes the case stronger that the current explanation for how the pyramids were built doesn't add up while trying so hard to argue the opposite. Builds a sphynx head - uses electric tool to carve the detail. Builds a notch in a rock, "You can use copper it works" three hammer strikes later the chisel is blunt and bent. Uses flint, breaks flint while taking millimetres off the rock. "It can be done" he exclaims but the same can be said about chimps with typewriters writing the complete works of Shakespeare given infinite time and/or chimps.
I was looking through the comments with people exclaiming how he finally showed anyone who questions the modern explanations and no one was mentioning how he claimed to make a limestone sphinx head with just granite and copper and then he takes it to his friend who uses modern tools! What a crock of shit. Mike I suggest you check out UnchartedX's video on the granite pottery found in Saqqara. It will open your eyes to the level of precision found in the oldest parts of ancient Egypt. You're trying to explain away the most primitive parts of Egypt and said we figured it out but that's bunk science you can't ignore the most spectacular evidence found.
I got to say I been around stone work all my life and all they are saying about how persision they were is nonsense, they had their Michelangelos and leanardos but idont see anything a granite kitchen installer can't do, I got more videos on the way thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck you've been around stone your entire life and yet you can't do anything as comparable to the work done 4000-9000 years ago, perhaps you should choose another vocation. You sound ignorant and at this point it just comes across like you are trolling when you compare the work done on a granite kitchen top with machine tools to work done 4000 years ago without machining tools. You couldn't do comparable work with electric tools and a workshop.
"the laziest guy always finds the easiest way" also an important rule for sysadmins. and engineers have KISS, and need to be constantly reminded of it...
Good Job Mike! You produced an intriguing and very informative demonstration on the very real progress that can be acquired with the use of primitive technologies. Extremely entertaining, thanks!
Thank you for this straightforward demonstration of how simple methods can create seemingly complex shapes in even the hardest of materials. It only takes human ingenuity, time and effort, not alien intervention.
Love it. I literally love the part when you drill the granite and said to yourself "how you did it? I don't know. It was the aliens". I laughed so much.
Hey Like, I have a playlist of dozens of videos working with granite with simple tools, cutting ad drilling in different types of granite and basalt, beginning from making the abrasives from scratch through to polishing. I also have many videos examining the "magical" Serapeum boxes and vases and all those things they keep calling "precision" Hint hint they are not and I show how to tell. If you're interested let me know and i can pass on the videos and sources. I got sick of replying to each individual comment so made video responses to help set them straight without having to type the same thing over and over.
@@MikeHaduck first i am sure you'll really like this one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JZXeQkQVs1o.html here's the playlistof the experiments with granite and "primitive" tools, drilling, cutting a giant circular saw mark with a short copper blade, grinding to a flat surface. I include my first attempts to show how to avoid the mistakes i made and little tricks i picked up along the way to increase speed and quality ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XY6SUTPV018.html Examining the serapeum and not seeing any precision ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bEwxMFDRmek.html I have a bunch on different sites and tech lost high tech stuff but won't bombard you with them for now Love your channel by the way, i think i missed my calling by not taking up the stone craft as a young man. Picked it as a hobby now and absolutely love it.
@@gregwarwick8655 Chris Dunn . I have a couple of videos on him. Including busting him on faking experiments. Mechanical engineers are not divine angels unable to make mistakes or tell lies. Plus a team went to the Petrie museum and properly analysed the core and actually presented their evidence. It’s not a spiral and even by Chris Dunn’s own pictures the striations are all over the place. Yet people just hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe. No one even looked at the old pics. They just accepted it because “mechanical engineer”.
It would be nice if you would disclose exactly how many man-hours it took to take out that corner of granite. It would help in estimating constraints on how megalithic sites may have been constructed. Also, it's a shame your friend didn't just use copper and hand tools to carve the face- kinda defeated the purpose that he used modern tools didn't it?
Hi Jack, it's just stone, anybody who works it gets better and faster and inventive as they go, just like anything else, the pyramids are primitive, as a stone mason, I am far more impressed with the cathedrals, thanks mike
The Inca told the spanish chronicler Cieza De Leon in the 1550s that it took 20,000 men to construct sacsayhuaman over the time span of multiple rulers.
I imagine, they never stopped working. It must taken day n night 24 hrs. a day. Remember, it was slaves building these ancient monuments. I'm guessing 75 years to complete
Get a kick out of these guys online who believe that all intricate masonry was work of the ET's when in reality ancient craftsmen dedicated their WHOLE life to their works, let alone the projects taking years and years to finish. I'm planning on making some limestone pendants and really want to utilize traditional means of stonecutting for the sake of budget and for better replicating an archaic style. Thanks for the video, gained a lot of insight on these old-world methods.
Thanks, I also have a playlist " rockfacing and shaping stone" Mike Haduck, I go through all the old school and new school ways of stone work, thanks Mike
Mike, when you are working the granite corner on the bench by pounding it, seems the bench holding the rock is bouncing around. Is that bouncing causing a loss of energy in the blows?
Hey Mike I'm a Mason myself doing brick block and stone since I was 18 I'm 40 now and the timing of this video was impeccable because I just in the past few weeks been watching all these crazy RU-vid videos on that ancient Egyptians and stuff then blowing my mind I've been saying similar things along the way like in your videos but I got to admit the symmetry is something I can't right my mind around and the perfect 90s they look like they were plasma cut you think they sat there and rubbed Stone against Stone to get those joints so perfectly smooth and tight or they didn't even need any motor they're just look like they were melted together or something I seen some nice tight joints nothing like that so uniform all the way around I don't know does take time I understand all that and anything can be done I feel like they would still be there rubbing Stone together if that's how they did it... I don't know ever meet up my mind yet about all of it 20 years in the trade and I still look at some of that stuff and it bothers me to think that I couldn't do it I'll come some masonry too many things I haven't done or couldn't do myself and a few of those things do puzzle me a little still
Hi Do, you got to put going over there on your bucket list, when you see them.you will know right away how they are not that perfect, only a few areas where they spent time, they are primitive to me , I am a lot more impressed with the cathedrals, but the pyramids are something to see, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck hey Mike. Ive seen people measuring some of these stones and there uniformly flat to "20 thousandth of an inch per square foot". That might be abit off my memory is not perfect, but it was flat to the point where it would be far from impossible to see with the human eye and needlessly precise. Could this be weathering uniformly across the slabs/steps? I'm struggling to find a plausible answer to this honestly
Very interesting Mike. This takes some of the mystic out of the ancient stone constructions. I wonder why other stone masons have not shown how this could be done.
I was in Egypt with Youssef Arywan, also a stone worker and Ben from UnchartedX. Both showed us this kind of work done by the Dynastic Egyptian and described these techniques, so all you ‘hearsayers’ who state otherwise you are wrong.They both agree that much of what we see was possible with the tools discovered. The work not possible by these techniques is extremely old, unaccompanied by glyphs and some of it was so precisely done it would be impossible with such techniques. The Dynastic Egyptians and the Inca were very skilled but the boxes at the Serapeum were not done this way and neither was Ollantaytambo or Sacsayhuaman. Mike, skilled as you, are your technology would never quarry shape or fit some of these massive stones. I appreciate such triumphs of hope over common sense and applaud such extreme efforts to prove an hypothesis! Thank you, Mike.
Hi U took a good look at all their work and as a stone mason they are not as persice as they say, it's only stone and they had their jewelers etc, that shows their skill from that time, to me it's all primitive, I am much more impressed with the cathedrals, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduckso your telling me you could reproduce khafre enthroned? How exactly would you measure the symmetry to 1000th of an inch? And if you said you had to use laser measurements… how did they do it?
@@MikeHaduckand yes they are are precise as they say lol. They’ve used laser technology… which I’m assuming the ancient Egyptians didn’t have… to really show how precise they were. Your rock pounding video was cute but your either being purposely in genuine or you don’t understand the precision necessary to produce some of these artifacts
I think it's also worth saying that there would be group of people overseen by a master mason. With dozen of years of experience between the group working mostly with the limestone and granite found around the Nile valley with stone and copper tools. They probably had intimate knowledge with understanding how the stone breaks, how to hit the stone for maximum effect, which chips might have the ideal geometry for the particular job, etc. They had generations with these techniques to work out the best/fastest/easiest way to work the stone with these tools.
Hi Bull, true, and when I started before the big saws and modern machinery they were still doing it that way, difference was in the 50s , 60s and 70s they had pneumatic tools, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck exactly! Stone mason was most likely THE trade to be in the Nile Valley as well. Like many Bronze Age civilizations, the patronage of the house of the pharaohs and the treasury of kingdoms were THE driving force in the Nile valley economy. And the building of a tomb was most likely the largest building project of that person's life. Imagine you learning the trade as an apprentice but knowing that your work is to be used as the eternal resting place for a living god tasked with keeping the entire world from falling into chaos, as well as a living king (or queen) who will be using the tomb as a flex for all future rulers. I'd imagine it would be pretty motivating.
I'm not even a minute thirty seconds in and had to smack like. I KNOW this is going to be good just by your intro. Thanks for this. I think this kind of thing is more important than we realize.
Mike, by the time you finished the granite you forgot to say you've now been in the business for "60 years." I like how you single handedly destroy all the RU-vidrs who specialize in lost technology theories! #HaduckRules
I would really like to see you debate "Ben" of Uncharted X as he is convinced that everything was done with big machines or something, not sure what, I don't even think he does. They have started a sort of "podcast" discussion but always have like minded people in it so there really is no debate.....I live in an area where a canal was built almost 200 years ago and not only are some of the canals looking almost pristine but show incredible detail and are not out-of-level or line and I know they had no power tools. It is documented in expense reports to the investors....anyway, love your channel and have learned much. Used a star drill and hammer to make a three inch bore through 12 inches of 1930 concrete for a discharge pipe on a sump pump. It used to be a cistern in my parents house. You are right, it takes a long time and I just worked on it an hour a night for a couple of weeks but it worked!
Thanks RK, I appreciate the A+, for the rest you can go to the history Channel and they can tell you how the aliens did it, maybe they will score higher, thanks Mike
" Hi! I'm Mike Haduck and been a stone mason for over 50 years". and he looks 35 years old. This is a great video Mike!!! always love how you keep educating everyone on the art of masonry
Bro NOBODY DOUBTS THEY EASILY CARVED THE SAND STONE, the stuff people are talking about it's the hardest granite the pink and black granites. We want to see you carve that with flawless right angles and perfect sculpting using those same tools and nothing more
No one ever denied that copper and flint can carve limestone; the difficulty comes with carving granite and diorite. Flint chisels CAN carve granite and diorite, but the process is incredibly slow. The Egyptians did have iron, as the metal is mentioned frequently in the Pyramid Texts, and iron artefacts and tools of the Pyramid Age have actually been found. These are rarely mentioned in textbooks because they undermine the whole chronological system beloved by mainstream Egyptologists.
Hi Emmet. I agree, I also got a whole series called " rockfacing and shaping stone" part 13 shows the guy doing demonstration on old school polishing of granite, thanks mike
You know what was the best part? "I'm pretty sure they colud do that with copper tools but I'm gonna use the steel ones" (switches on an electric chisel).
I don't know how many Things were done because they Look Just too good, symetrical. But this is a Joke. You believe your own Dogma. Just Like the other Side. They Had time. Just keep hitting etc. No. Of course you can Hit 3 month in the same Corner. Of course Material will Go away. But giza is something else. Saqqara. Same. But this Kind of. Look. I Hit the stone only 3 days and 1 Inch is gone. Wow
As a lifelong tradesperson , the design of a pyramid is pretty simplistic. Even in its simple form , it was a design reached by trial and error. You can see instances of earlier pyramids that collapsed because the geometry wasn't sound. So they learned from their mistakes and found the proper proportions that were architecturally favorable and stable. You don't need aliens or supernatural powers to figure out any complex geometry although I'm not saying ancient Egyptians weren't capable of figuring out that math. What I am sayin is that with simple tools such as a plumb bob, string lines and water levels, you can eliminate the need for the thousands of masons to understand any complexity to build within the parameters needed. They simply needed to set a plumb line in the center , use water level to set your foundation, using string lines and very basic layout methods bisect your 4 quadrants . From there , string lines would be pulled to the central apex of the pyramid that would be established by building a temporary tower set with a plumb bob to its center from its foundational footprint to the top of the central tower. With plumb and level and the for outside corners Square to eachother, all one needs are stringlines pulled between those points. Then the masons just need to cut the stone and fill in between the string lines. These pyramids were built by skilled masons guided by very intelligent architects who had generational knowledge built upon the successes snd failures of their ancestors. No alien technology needed. As far as how the stones were quarried , cut and moved, there is plenty of information out there on how that was accomplished as well
Design of pyramid is pretty simplistic? Simple form? You better stick to your trade than playing smart. Earlier pyramids collapsed, not correct, some of finest examples of 3rd dynasty stand very much, and their geometry is very much sound and those that collapsed, are like that because other reasons not that they have faulty geometry. Later pyramids "collapsed" as earler prior the 4th dynasty. As for simplicity of Khufu or Khafre's pyramids no further discussion is needed.
Hi Dom, I did video on bent pyramid etc. It's all obvious to a stonemason, not a big deal, don't be listening to all those bedroom archeologist, it's all common sense, thanks Mike
@@domusterra3261 I'm not here to get into random fights with strangers on the internet and use ad hominem attacks on people's intellect or character. So you are welcome to your opinion. However you never really made any concrete argument that discredited anything that I said. Just pure contradiction. I wasn't " trying to play smart" just voicing my opinion, based on real in the field experience. If you disagree with me that is fine. But what are you actually trying to say ?
Hi Mark, I would appreciate you sending me a link to your videos on the subject, when you were there, what you discovered and your opinions , then we can go from there, thanks Mike
Very interesting! All of your patch and repair videos have inspired me to "try" to fix my dad's concrete problems. Wish me luck, he might disown me. Thanks for taking your time to do the videos. They're so informative and I appreciate your helpful comments. *Song "Castle" by Mike Haduck - you're a musician, too. Wow!
If the methods the ancient Egyptians used in carving stones and building structures becomes 100% common knowledge, fewer people will watch documentaries, fewer people will buy their books, fewer people would want to visit the historical sites. Keeping the mystery keeps the money going.
There is a theory that there was a civilisation older than the Egyptians (10 000+ BC) and the Egyptians might have recycled some of the material of that civilisation. Like some superbly polished granite statues. On some of them you can even see that the quality of the writings looks gross (very much unrefined) compared to the quality of the finish of the statue itself. I don't think it's necessarily a proof this older civilisation used a lost carving and polishing technology. It's possible the Egyptians used the same technology but they just recycled some material already available in high quality finish. Probably many civilisations did that, we are even still doing it today.
First off, I'm not in the Ancient Alien mindset by any means, but I am in the mindset of those ancients having some type of tooling other than what we have found and what is shown in museums. I was getting excited when that guy was going to carve out the Sphynx face with only hand tools, but was then disappointed once again when he resorted to power chisels and other modern tools to finish it. I still haven't found a video that shows someone actually finishing something of substance such as a thin walled cup or vase or even a statue or granite box. They always do just a little bit to show, yes, you can chip pieces away, but nothing to the same degree that we see with the gigantic statues and boxes made from granite. I will continue to search for a video of an actual finished replica using only chunks of rock and copper tools , but I'm not holding my breath. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, I am just baffled at how they did this 4K years ago.
Hi Roy, it's all basic, they had their movers, quarry guys, masons jewelers etc etc, everybody shows you a little bit because of the time it would take to do a huge piece ,and then what do you do with it, you can go around old quarries and see the abandoned pieces from days gone by, thanks mike
Great video! I read that the copper mined in Egypt was harder that today’s copper - making an even better case that they used copper chisels and tools.
There must have also been an organised constant supply chain of freshly made or reshaped tools available for each project. The Ancient Alienated must think the poor guy had to stop, sharpen his tool for half an hour and keep going and sharpen again and on and on. 😆 ☀🐫🏝
@@MikeHaduck Thanks for your demonstration Mike, l served a Blacksmith apprenticeship in a Naval Base but the only bronze l handled (1970's) was Beryllium bronze because it doesn't spark so only essential for spanners used inside a ships fuel tanks. A retired stonemason in Australia has his grandfathers chisels and he told me of their hardness which surprised me. You probably know that iron swords replaced bronze because of their weight among the many other advantages which followed. With tools as small as a chisel weight isn't so important and as the Australian guy said to me 'Although made around 1880 they were made to last and keep an edge better than the cheap stuff available now ' Although l suspect as they were family heirlooms he probably only used them on wood , the supposed 'tool steel' of many cheap sets available at the local hardware store are poor quality.
Drilling holes in the rock with copper was done with a bow drill scaled to the job. That reciprocating action speeded up the process of friction in cutting. I also think the ancients cut blocks with giant pendulum saws. Big frames over rock had a log suspended on ropes with pegs on the underside of each end of the log where they stretched twine. That twine would rub back and forth on a pre-scored line and wet grit between rock and twine would cut the rock. As the cut got deeper, chisels were used to pound in the rock cut and it would crack apart.
One aspect that always seems to amaze the ancient technology guys is the really flat and tight seams between the stones. I would guess they would have basically sanded the faces to gat that level of fit between the stones. They never seem to consider that there were by my guess, thousands of men who worked the stone their whole lives. Like any craftsman, they would be using these skills every day all day long.
Hi Jaye ,most of the stones were quarried exactly as they were placed back into place, I will have a part 2 comming out in a couple months explaining it, thanks mike
I love your channel. I'm going to feature it on my channel because there is so much useful information you share. I'll be working with granite soon using old methods, and you've shown me how to get it done. Thank you!
Fire was also used. This will make it easier to do the chipping. This is why you get the scoop marks. Fire, pound it out, fire. The large obelisks were quarried out in 6 to 8 months. When the yearly flood came the ruff obelisks where loaded on to boats and floated down the river to where they were used. I think the finishing work and inscriptions were done where the obelisk were installed.
I struggled with shaping and polishing stone for years, I thought that people was holding out, trade secrets, no one would tell me what I needed to know. But it turns out they just don't know how to do these things, and because they can't do it they say it's Impossible. You know they say they found a corundum axe from 3500 to 4000 BC.
Look up Christopher Dunn. He measured those statues with lasers. He’s an engineer. He said that the precision of the curves is mathematically perfect and we cannot carve those today from. Granite on That scale with precision. And he measured the sarcophagus many. There’s absolute flat surfaces with zero error and perfect angles. Thousands of structures like that. Perfectly smooth. On granite and diorite Not just once time. But thousands of times. Perfect cuts. How long would it take to cut just one limestone two ton block by hand?? There are over two million of them in just the great pyramid alone. Supposedly built in only 20 years. That’s one block every few minutes Not possible by chisels
Hi alas, I been to college for architecture and law. And I never seen an engineer do anything then draw on paper, they are not stone masons quarry men of movers, it wouldn't take any longer to build a pyramid as it did the empire state building, thanks mike
Look up Christopher Dunn, because he dis not measure anything with lasers. He took a photo and put it through photoshop. He measured the flatness of the surfaces with a straight edge, it's box 23 in the Serapeum. You can go to the Isida Project serapeum archives to see many hi res photos of each of the coffers and none of them shows anywhere close to precision flatness, the distortion of reflections gives it away from 10 feet. Anyone who has polished anything can spot it, Chris Dunn isn't much of an engineer You need to double check the things you've been told because someone is feeding you falsehoods.
These corners, so-called "perfect angles" are not even 90 degrees, many are 91-92 degrees. Some cuts are off by a width of a finger. So much perfection! You are dreaming about the superpowers that never existed ;)
Ancient tec was basically man power, local raw or basically worked materials and a strong desaire to do the job and this desaire was powered by religión, extra food or a guy with a wipe.
Mike not sure if you saw the video of the Russian girl recreating vases from Egypt's pre dynastic period? Shes been at it now a couple of years and her technique is improved a lot. Shes now working on a diorite vase showing the ancient lost technology people that yes the pre dynastic Egyptians were capable of making these hollowed out vases with the tools at hand.
In Scandinavia we have found amzing granit axes from the stoneage. They are perfectly symmetric and smooth as glass. However, I think the real mystery is not about precision alone, but rather about how the heck they upscaled these techniques to huge objects and at a high production pace.
@@MikeHaduck yes of course they had many many workers and lots of time, but that makes it even more mysterious. How did they organise the production lines, the logistics, the planning and scheduling, communication between beween parrallell subprojects? And on top of that, if we strech the time period too long then one may expect some architects and leading engineers to pass away during the process. They obvously did it despite all these challenges, but how??
Personally I worked on skyscraper type of buildings it looked like ants building a mountain but they did it, I don't think it took longer to build a pyramid as it did the empire state building, my opinion, thanks Mike
Why assume a high production rate? Just how many Pharaohs do you think needed granite sarcophagus’s per year? One per year would seem to be on the high side of average.
Thanks for showing this and debunking those ridiculous ancient astronaut cultists. Edit: Never underestimate how much can done by teams of workers spelling each other off, and several shifts a day.
@cleanpiecington2319 they cut the stones at the quarries and polish them and send them to the kitchen installers, there but you can buy the machinery from the stone world magazine, I think they still have the publications, and you have to cut and shape the marble with installation, I think they still make sinks and statues and obelisk also,,so not a big deal, thanks Mike
After watching all the navel gazing theories on how ancient mega projects were built, its good to see someone with a bit of horse sense and actual experience explain how you can use simple tools to acheive amazing things!
@@MikeHaduckwell what he seems to simply ignore is the precision with which some of these artifacts are created… yeah you can pound two rocks together to remove material but how do you make two surfaces several feet apart perfectly parallel in relation to each other… these knuckle dragging stone workers seemed to be able to produce precision pieces that Mike couldn’t even dream of reproducing in his shed
When you smashed the granite together with the other granite, it created a fine powder - is this the abrasive they would have then used to smooth their stone carvings?
@MikeHaduck will do. Yeah, I just don't see why people think there is a mystery here. These stone masons were supremely gifted, they had generations of talent, plus they had unlimited time and man power...if you put enough hours in, anything is possible. I don't understand why people seem to want to belittle the talents of our ancestors- they weren't stupid, they just didn't have the depth of knowledge we have. I do think they must have had a lathe earlier than documented though - but still, a water powered spinning wheel shouldn't be too difficult to invent for people who built the pyramids! Considering the massive drop in the quality of Egyptian stone work, the most probable scenario is that either war or disease wiped out the tribe with the stone working techniques - and since they didn't have written information like we have, those skills were lost when the people died out. No big mystery though. Skill, hard work, and a heck of a lot of effort - that's all they needed.
2:00 There even seems to be a sturdy stone pulley. However, sadly, I do not see any ancient levitation devices, forklift trucks, helicopters, power plants, light bulbs or batteries... ;-) Instead, I see a stonemason talking about the stonemason's job and showing as he and other stonemasons do it. I am still just as impressed with the craftsmanship though. Many thanks! PS. They used bronze which is harder than clear copper and they could also use arsenical bronze and tinned bronze. Also, teak wood (one of the hardest hardwoods) is grown in Egypt up to this day and back in the day they were supposed to have plenty of wood too. They also used wooden pegs inserted into drilled holes and soaked with water to split big chunks.
Pre flood people had very long life spans …Some 900+ years . They had nothing but time to chip, chip away.🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿 Thank you for showing us the relative simplicity of it. That was such a comforting demonstration .
I want to see a video making a hollowed out vase and all the other items that were made with perfect precision that we use lathes in order to duplicate the same item in the present. And all the machine marks found on megalithic structures around the world we’re imaginary? They found scientific proof that some of the bore holes were bored out with bits turning at 1100 rpms.
Hi Jades, again, no problem, lots of examples and tools at the museum. we can duplicate them, there are fine jewelers around the world especially in third world countries that do things similar, again, it's going to take time and money to do all this ,so my pay pal account is open, I will need starting cost to get going, if you want to be involved and do your own due diligence that will save you a ton of money, these projects can get expensive, thanks mike
Thanks, Mike, so interesting, using granite to carve granite, I honestly never thought of that :) Wondering what you mean when you say, "a long time"? Hours, weeks, months? I'd also love to hear your thoughts on how the delicate granite objects, like bowls and vases, etc, were created?
Hi, I got a whole playlist " rockfacing and shaping stones" on part 13 the guy from the granite museum shows how it's done by hand, and the channel scientist against myths had a lot of examples, thanks mike
I don't know how cheesecake is made, therefore all cheesecake must be made by ancient psychic ancestors who were taught the secrets of the universe by aliens.
what amazes me is thinking about the sheer amount of manpower needed. The pyramids were not built by slaves like they told us as kids. There was a literal army of trained masons working non stop for God knows how many years. And thats just limestone. The armies of masons pounding through granite a 1/32" at a time is on an entire different level. These guys must have lived and died working on the same project. Just thinking about the time scale and manpower is baffling. Thinking of the andesite, basalt and granite stone structures with perfectly scribed polygonal faces must have been multigenerational projects.
Hi ,I did a couple videos, carving stones with ancient technology, part 1 and 2, personally I worked on huge projects in my masonry union days and I don't see it taking any longer to build a pyramid as it took to build the empire state building, my opinion, thanks Mike
Excellent demonstration. These techniques work great on a small scale, but clearly take a lot of time. Can you do a demonstration on cutting a 20 tonne block of granite and tell us how this was done for millions of large granite blocks
Hi Smith, sure I can, no problem, if you get a 20 ton block at a quarry and want to hire some help for me ,pay for the insurances, permits workers comp,and a fee for my time, etc etc ,let me know, with respect, thanks Mike
Hi Phillip, not A big deal, it all depends on how fast they could supply the stones from the quarry, other than that no longer then it took to build the empire state building, thanks Mike
It’s not just a simple pyramid. It was massive over 2 million blocks. Just one of them. And incredibly precise. And the blocks came from far away It was. It possible to make using copper tools and ropes. Laser precision
Hi Paul, it's not as big a deal as they make it, on my pyramid videos you can see where they filled it with junk stone, anything that would fit, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck cutting huge granite with perfect laser accuracy is NOT possible with old cutting tools. just not. engineers have measured and said this. hard granite with absolutely perfect right angles..... copper tools cannot do that. ever. pyramids are not just stacks of rocks.. many have very sophisticated designs that took couplex math, and drawings. someone super smart did that. must have involved huge numbers of people
It didn't take no longer to build a pyramid as it did the empire state building, everyone had their specific job, I you ever worked on a big project you would see it, they had jewelers, carvers movers, setters, etc, don't listen to all those bedroom archeologist, thanks Mike
