The MOST precisely made granite object of Ancient Egypt - and why it's NOT geopolymer! 

As an ex- aerospace engineer and builder of several houses, I have worked in many materials and with many advanced machine tools. The box with the half round arcitrave got me subscribing to your channel. The unpolished sections made with multiple facets tells me everything. These were made by serious machine tools, not hand tools without any doubt. The big elephant in the room is what happened to them ? and why can't we have TV like this instead of the brain numbing crap they serve up ?

I have NEVER seen the arched room like this ever in the million Egyptian videos I have watched...then the box...best new video on the entire internet Ben. 🌟. Also the video walk through was like I was there. Much respect 🙏. Thanks

They won't allow too much technical analyzing of Egyptology because we'll find out that Egypt only adopted it, they did not build it.

Just discovered this video and I'm utterly amazed by the content. Great work sir.👍

Ive worked with marble & granite for over 25 years. There is absolutely no way that was done with primitive chisels. Even with todays technology and tools, this is incredibly hard to carve out. To get the inside corners so precise is almost impossible. Whatever it was that they used, it was definitely powered by something other than muscle, granite is way to tough to chisel like that. They must of had some power source which was at least equivalent to electricity, and used diamond tipped tools or something even tougher. Great vid, Glad i found this channel- been binging on your vids for a couple of days now. Thanks for the great vids that you produce, i feel as if im there on location. No other channel gives that experience.

Having worked in the granite industry for years I can tell you that even with a modern cnc machine it would be difficult to replicate this in particular the radius in corners are virtually impossible with all but the most specialized equipment, and even today it would usually be much larger radius as the tools need to be bigger so they don't break when cutting. water jet cutting will give a very straight cut but how that is hollowed out is just remarkable. a water jet cuts all the way through. a cnc uses different shaped end cutters to achieve different profiles but quite how this was achieved without modern equipment is beyond me it is very apparent that whoever made this had a level of skill equal if not surpassing our own.

The box was in place and they built the room around it...AMAZING!!!!

This is seriously what I am curious about. Thank you for sharing those footages and insights. This precision box is (one more? ) indeniable proof of some long forgotten highly technical society.

As a stone worker and all things stone fabricstor for the past 20 years, I can say that in my company, we put beveled edges or "eased" edges on stone to prevent them from chipping and damage. Natural stone is most fragile when it comes to accidental damage. With that being said, as a professional Mason, this box was not made with copper chizles and hammers. No. Way. By the way, granite is one of a kind. Melting it down is impossible, as you would not get the same crystal structure anymore, which would just turn it into crumbly lava like rock.

As someone who has worked with manufacturing granite and marble countertops/vanities, in a fairly decent sized fabrication shop, the uniform precision of the beveled edge on the outer lip is extremely difficult to perfect even by modern standards. Never mind the more intricate precision details of a 90° angle on the Y-axis. Truly outstanding…

Great stuff Ben, thank you for all your hard work!

Mate, I want to say a big thanks: your way of presenting is calm and likeable; I appreciate it that you just "open doors" to let us see through for ourselves.

Such a great video! You're a very rational skeptic. I'm a geologist so I know a granite and a limestone when I see one and it's no doubt those are what I see. Here's my 2 cents. A bit long winded but there is a lot to cover and I might as well give it some effort seeing as you've given a lot of that yourself in making this content. The granite stone you show looks like an alkali-feldspar rich plutonic felsic igneous rock. The dominant mineral by far is the reddish orange alkali feldspar and the minor components are the white (quartz & plagioclase) and dark (biotite & amphibole) minerals. Quartz is transparent and plagioclase is more opaque. If you saw more quartz relative to plagioclase then this would be an alkali-feldspar granite. If you found more plagioclase relative to quartz then this would be an alkali-feldspar syenite. It has a porphyritic texture meaning the feldspar crystals are larger than the crystals of the other minerals. Every magma chamber has a different chemical composition because the specific part of the crust that is being heated and melted has its own rock composition and formational history. Therefore it is possible to do a chemical element analysis of the carved stone and match it to the host quarry stone. This is what geochemists would do. Veining appears minor, at least from the footage you showed. Veins are 3D fracture planes created during deformation events after the rock has been formed. The voids are then filled by superheated mineral fluids (generally silica/quartz). These veins represent geotechnical planes of failure for mining engineers. So for this precise engineering work the block was clearly chosen very carefully by skilled labour who knew a thing or two about rock mechanics. To the point of geopolymers: Granite/syenite is the solidified (crystallised) form of magma chambers deep below the surface, made of continental crust melts in this case. The large crystals are created because the minerals have lots of time to grow due to the slow cooling inside the magma chamber. So the minerals have time to crystallise into distinct, large crystals of feldspar, quartz, plagioclase etc. Under a microscope you would be able to see the sequence of crystallisation (the order in which the minerals crystallised). This cooling takes many many years, thousands of years even. The extrusive forms of granite and syenite are called rhyolite and trachyte respectively. These rocks are the same chemical composition as the magma chamber but physically they appear different. They form by the rapid cooling of the magma as it hits the fridge-like temperatures of the atmosphere, going from its liquid phase above 700°C down to 25°C in an instant. It's like a process of flash freezing. The minerals inside the extruding magma have hardly any time to grow before they are cooled below their individual solidus temperatures, where they turn solid. The cooled rock is therefore very fine grained so can be very difficult to distinguish from another fine grained rock and would require a microscope to see the crystals. Felsic rocks like granite and syenite hold more volatile gases like CO2 and are also very brittle when cooled so rapidly so they tend to erupt more explosively than the slushy soft basaltic lavas of mafic magma chambers like in Hawaii. What I'm trying to say is that melting the granite and pouring it in a mold would be very hard. Moreover, the rapid cooling time (even if you waited years at a time) would only produce very fine-grained stones. I also don't see any cemented kind of stones in your footage. Those stones are quite clearly crystalline igneous rocks. As for the limestone, the carbonate sedimentary rock itself is essentially a fossil conglomerate made up of compressed and crushed up shells of dead marine organisms. You'll find large fossils preserved in a cement of smaller fossil fragments which are themselves surrounded by even smaller fossils. The more you zoom in the more fossils you'll find. Again, if you somehow managed to melt limestone and pour it into molds the stone would have zero resemblance to the natural version.

I work in design and drafting for aerospace products. I've read about this box before and it blew my mind. If we were to make something like this today, with modern CNC machines, it would be quite difficult and VERY expensive, and I think we'd have to build some specialized tools to do it. Keeping the features you mentioned to such tight tolerances would not be resultant to the manufacturing process. Meaning, unless we intentionally wanted them to be that tight, they would not be. That means that those who made this were so far advanced of us that this was just easy for them (which is mind blowing for obvious reasons). OR, at the very least they were as good as we are now, in 2021, and intended for those features to be that perfect. If that's the case, we have to ask why? Just to show off? I call BS. Most people would not even notice how perfectly it is made unless you pointed it out, and even then, most would not find it impressive because they don't understand how hard it is to do. No, I think think these features had a functional purpose, an it certainly wasn't to house a dead body. So what was it for? It's crazy how much we don't know about our own past.

Great video Ben! Thanks a lot for your work. You still can show things I haven't seen yet and hang out with Jimmy B Insight, it can only get better! Thanks again ☺️

Brilliant, that’s the first footage I’ve ever seen of this amazing stone box. The precision’s astonishing.

I don't know about anyone else, but the geopolymer theorists are driving me nuts. I've been saying that the geological properties of granite just don't work like that for quite a while, not to mention all the obvious evidence from quarry to finished product virtually littering Egypt. Other places, perhaps there's a case, but in Egypt? Not a chance. Melt down some granite and see what it looks like, you won't end up with granite when you're done.

When ever I see some intricately carved rock my mind blows . As a tradesman I understand the amount of labor that goes into making things perfect. The planning stage is critical. “Perfect” doesn’t happen by accident . You must be a skilled and trained craftsman to produce Any kind of consistency. Let alone thousands of craftsman working together to create GIANT architecture. In FRICKEN ROCK ! Rock is incredibly hard to work precisely in. And somehow “they” whoever the hell they were, have produced precision before precision was a thing . And it’s still standing thousands of years later . Whitworth discovered thou my ass !

Great video, thanks! Here after being in Egypt with Jahanna, very excited for lots more content of yours to explore :)

Thank you for your videos. I love em. You do such a good job of just laying out the facts. Love it!

I appreciate you making a valid point without condemning all other opinions, because who really knows anyhow.

The box is impressive, however I literally shouted HOLY SHIT at the precision arched ceiling and it's beveled! Yikes!😳

Ben is so engaging when explaining the details and varied aspects involved when these areas were built. He is easy to understand and genuinely happy to share his discoveries. Thank you for increasing my knowledge of these ancient sites.

Every so many months I have to come back and watch this episode, it blows me away. Thank you for your research brother.

I was reading Petrie's work " the pyramids and temples of Gizeh" today in the morning and I thought to myself " I wonder if uncharted X will post a new video today" and here it is, thanks! XD

Whoever made this, I see two possibilities. Either it was easy for them to make objects like this (they already had the tech and the precision was a byproduct of using that tech) or they really needed to make it so precisely (they were willing to invest the time and the effort because the box had a function other than just being a storage space).

Geopolymer therory always had this flaw - never really able to expain how the granite blocks could have shaped. As in many megalithic structures we see, it retained ita original striations and layering, a feat impossible when all are proposedly melted to become one consistent mixture. Thanks Ben for continuing doing this great work!

I’m a machinist, and it’s a dream of mine to go in there with a set of calipers, micrometers and all my measuring tools. I would measure everything I could!!

Even if it was created by geopolymer, the mould would still have to meet the high precision levels, so it does not explain the enigma.

I've learnt so much daily the last cpl of yrs about ancient civilisations and learning new things thanks to your channel..only difference is that your actually there videoing it..Cool stuff thanks mate...Ironically I live in Petrie North Brisbane!

It would be interesting to see this surface at a microscopic level and see if there are any striations or scratches

I have a Masters Degree in geology. There is NO way that box is made of powder or molten rock - the crystallinity of the rock is clearly genuine granite; it stems from slow cooling (thousands of years) happening far under ground at some pressure. If you melt granite and pour and let it cool under ambient pressure and temperature, you would get either glass (obsidian) or a very finegrained "volcanic" rock, rhyolite. Forget about powder and molten rock. Super interesting video, just like the other ones. 👍👍👍

I'd give my life to go back and see how all this stuff was built, just imagine watching how this civilization lived for a week in spectator mode

thanks so much for making this brilliant doco, your experience is overwhelming. Its such a mystery how they did all this way back.? very best wishes to you for your great effort to show us .cheers from NZ

Another fine video, done responsibly and professionally well done sir

to me the "gods" of Egypt were the ones who came before, stories of them passed down eventually became religion. These are the people with the skills to make these things

The biggest mystery to me is why modern Archaeologists want to completely ignore these kinds of discoveries!

Very interesting, the precision is amazing on this box of granite. As for how they oriented it I guess they could easily have found out of to make a compass back then since they seemed to have high technologies already. That way they could have oriented the box without having to look at the sky.

I remember a time when every subject could be hypothesized, speculated about, with ideas, opinions, and facts freely discussed in an academic search for the truth, and no fear of being censored because it wasn't "the official story". So far, you've picked a topic that's still OK to think about and speak about. Good luck, I hope it lasts, because it's a highly compelling mystery.

Gotta love the grave robber explanation for the empty King's Chamber, etc. They stole everything including the stars and hieroglyphs covering the walls and ceiling. Damned thorough.

These great pieces of masterful workmanship is a lot older than mainstream academics say they are by thousands of years

Ant walks through an old car engine, enters manifold, explores a cylinder... wonders "Is this the king's tomb"?

Everyone who has some experience with precision machining instantly knows this is 100% impossible with hand held tools, including modern tools. You don't just get lucky on this kind of surface precision and paralell precision.

Amazing, thank you for your work

Ben, as an amateur researcher, deciphering images, etc, I have noticed another thing you may be aware of, that of the stones at Stonehenge and at Sacsayhuaman, that portraits cut in relief were once decorating the outside of the exposed stone blocks. At some point, the portraitures were erased, or destroyed. What really interests me, is that some of the stones show an acid-bath exposure, I assume to help in removing the portraiture. That is story #1. Story #2, I am finding humanoid portraiture in NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos postings of Mars, and even some Moons of the planets, visible in the sourced displays, with no Photoshop necessary. Story 3, by sheer accident, I stumbled across humanoid portraiture on the walls of the Puerto Rican Trench, starting at the shelf level of the Atlantic floor, -19,000 feet, and descending all the way to the floor, at -27,000+ feet now underwater, of course. (Average I am guessing at -22,000 feet). You are looking for clues to previous exceptional technology, I think these are sheer proof examples. Good luck, great work.

The inside of these boxes are incredible. The fact that they made the outer so square and flat are incredible. But the inside angles where the walls meet or the bottom corners are nuts to try and think about how it was done.

Great job Ben.

Great video and dialogue - thank you : )

Its mindblowing. The outside of the box is one thing. The arches. How that box is cored out with such precision with no marking is just mindblowing.

The overcuts in hard stone should be enough evidence for any sane person to rethink what they know.. if the stone was shaped by meticulously cutting the stone over months by master craftsmen then why would they spend days worth of work overcutting into the stone

Why in’s t any of these findings pointed out in school this is beyond mind blowing what they achieved and yet there called primitive

EXCELLENT video..very well done !

That is pretty wild man, cool video.

Im a drywaller, i can do arch ways, but this is some far beyond advanced skill, the craftmanship makes me excited to be human. Its a big reminder of what we can do if we put our heart, soul and mind to creativity. I wish they documented thier work. I wonder if they use some sort of blue print

As an Egyptian, Ive always been fascinated by the pyramid. The mystery surrounding them is almost magical due to the sheer awe that faces you when you contemplate the challenge that is solving some of those enigmas... How did they carved these rock? What purpose served the pyramids? How advanced were they ? Id give everything to go back in time and silently witness a day of the construction of one of those pyramids... The story of human civilization is formidable, Im afraid there are some questions that will be left without answers.

Okay--- This feels like a bathtub to me. The room at one end for servants to add water or some material into the tub. It may also be an initiation or 'baptismal' chamber ? I know its all speculation but it is fun to speculate. The slight tilt seems to make some sense for a tub to be deeper at one end and another. Does this strike anyone else?

Great work thanks.

For some reason, just seeing those perfect arched pieces of granite and of course the box gives me goosebumps. And the tunnel looping around for some reason. Whatever technology the maker had is unimaginable.

There’s a civilization before the Egyptians that we know nothing about. This work is insane. And any Egyptologist who says this was made from copper tools deserves to be slapped on the spot. 😂🥷🏽

I fully agree with you: not a "geopolymer"! Taking a simple 10X jewelers loop magnifying glass and looking closely at granite shows the quartz, feldspar, mica and other mineral grains actually to be individual crystals that have all grown together, interlocking each face into and tightly up against all adjacent mineral faces. This is consistent both with (for example) quartz to quartz grains and quartz to feldspar, mica, and what other mineral crystals present in the specimen. Looking closely at this tight interlocking where (again for example) a quartz grain lies up against, say, a feldspar grain, very clearly shown the two minerals meeting and pushing against each other as their respective crystals WERE GROWING. This very tight kind of meeting between two different substances CAN NOT be accomplished by geopolymer. Whether ground to a powder or some more corse aggregate, when the slurry dries or cures solid (as in modern concrete), 10X magnification will show the individual components relatively tightly up against each other, but there will be no trace of the type of meeting between the grains that only occurs when such grains are crystalizing, and, as they do so begin pushing against neighbor grains...actually inter-locking. At higher magnification this is thoroughly proven as these mate-ing surfaces will exhibit the tiny give-and-take of growing crystals pushing up against each other with much much more pressure than simply liquidized particles can achieve.

Amazing it is still intact after thousands of years of earthquakes. The amount or dirt and rock taken out to create that is impressive and how deep it is. Also, it may be a ritual bath tub. Cleanliness was close to being holy back then and if you look at the video closely you see a water line inside just about half way up inside where it goes from darker to lighter.

Fascinating!

To get the north / south alignment, all I can think of is if the roof was once open before the pyramid was build over top. Also the arched ceiling looks like a perfect radius which in itself is more complex than the box, imagine the difficulty in creating multiple ton radius blocks perfectly joined together. Just incredible!

What I don't understand is why no electron microscope scanning has not ever been done on these boxes to try and find some trace of the tools used to make them. Even after couple thousand years there would surely be some detectable metal embedded in those boxes especially if made of a copper alloy!

Terrific, rock-solid video (pun intended!). As an engineer myself, I super appreciate the discipline, logic and rigor that goes in to this work - it's not easy! And it requires a deep personal restraint to focus on the right way to go through this. Bravo! Excellent work.

I think it's a machine built for function. One guess is that it could have been a healing, meditation, or even a life extension chamber where the occupant would float in the salt water and somehow because of the layout and construction, the surrounding energies were directed in such a way to have been imparted into the tub.

The way you film, and your camera or something, the editing combined with the commentary, I've never seen such great work, and the feeling of being there. Like others have said, I've never seen anything like this on RU-vid or TV before, it's really cool. I'm glad I found this channel!

I'm continually amazed by the sofistication of the artifacts found around the world that are obviously highly engineered

What was used for lighting? Pitch black inside , no smudge marks on ceiling ?

So dang interesting. Thanks for doing what u do..

I work in construction and I’m always fascinated by this subject. What I don’t understand is why some people refuse to believe that there was an ancient civilisation that existed on this planet that were far more technologically advanced than what we are today? It happened, they got wiped out by a global cataclysmic event, Yes we are in awe and clueless about how they did it and who these amazing people were. Thankfully they left amazing structures all over the world for people like us to gaze upon and respect their legacy. These builders were truly awesome. Fantastic work Ben

This is the kind of stuff that should be on the news and front page of every newspaper.

Stunning work, how did they do it ? crazy great video. one love 👊 🙏

Whoever made these artefacts from Granite cut it like butter . Great work Ben fascinating as usual.

Great stuff. As a Chemist (though not a geochemist), I certainly agree about the nature of the granite. The crystal sizes within the rock are very much dependent on cooling extremely slowly underground. It could not be fabricated by humans at the surface in any reasonable time frame.

As a mechanical engineer we use large granite slabs as precision flat reference surface plates. I believe there is a very relevant point to think about, that is the method of how these plates are made. The precision flat surface is created (or at least finished).......by hand. No machines, but just a second flat plate to wear in the work piece. Critically, the more you use the tool plate the flatter the tool becomes. In other words by rubbing two roughly flat objects together they both become flatter and flatter. I believe that is how the surface is finished with the sarcophagus. These precision flat surfaces are used today for creating other flat and straight components. Granite is the perfect material for this purpose as it is both stiff and very stable mechanically and thermally. I have a granite straightedge in my workshop used to setup other precision machine tools. - I would love to explain this more to you and perhaps show you the stone working techniques.

As a tile setter of 30 years, and have worked with so much stone over the years, that work is absolutely insane. Even with today’s equipment you will have a job to do that and not even show a blade mark.

The box is uncanny. The room around is unbelievable too. How does one build this kind of curved sealing in granitic blocks ? The only work know to me, surpassing this are the Barabar caves. A french team made 3D scans of them and precision analysis, even bringing a veteran stone mason on site. Those underground finds are just mind boggling. Thank you so much for sharing.

I really liked the one shot showing a laser Pointed into the corner

Seems like the pyramid was built around the preexisting room containing the box

I appreciate your work.

Great video btw

Just wanted to thank you directly for allowing those of us who really want to tour the real stuff and see what it’s like and try to fathom the true goings on but can’t make it to the sites. Thank you. It’s some of the best material anywhere to actually see what it’s like to be there.

Never clicked so fast, welcome back Ben. How was Egypt? Kindest Regards from the UK.

Is the angle of error in the "discarded" box at the Cairo museum close to the angle of the bottom of this box?

Amazing.Never seen this before.Incredible evidence of superior technique and ability.

There's a little more going on here than primitive people bashing rocks together than praying to it.

Ok, I'll admit it, I'm envious. What an experience, trekking with Uncharted X

Your videos exemplify the best use for the internet and RU-vid- exchanging culturally significant information to any and all. Thank you. At time stamp 21:07, discussing similarities with tomb below Menkaure and the tomb of Illahun...one thing not mentioned in the video is the slant/angle of the floor in Menkaure. Although in the floor, the angle seems to match the angle of the box found in Illahun, which sits on a level floor. Obvious questions arise; why is there a slant, whether in the floor or in the granite box, why was it done with the floor in one location and the box in another and is the box once located below Menkaure in a place where it can be examined? These construction efforts are significant- materials, human effort, finances, time, and indicate a specific necessity/purpose for the chambers and tunnels. The absence of decorative features and hieroglyphics, indicative of burial locations identifying the dead and their accomplishments, and nothing to suggest that this space was used for communal gatherings or living spaces...there must have been a utilitarian purpose. To me, the angles, slants and vast tunnel systems suggest a purpose related to fluid dynamics.

This RU-vid channel is my favorite thing on the internet

I'll just thumbs up this video before watching it. Your videos are always top notch and never disappoint.

Makes me happy when I see people like you in the world. Logical, open minded and not only about money. It gives me hope! Great work and keep it up! 😀❤️

Was there any marks around the top telling if there was any scratches showing marks?

Truly thought provoking

When looking at modern constructions, small alcoves (like the one halfway down the stairs where you came in at the start of the video) are usually added for utilities like air-conditioning controls and/or electric circuitry boxes/panels. Corridors surrounding a chamber are probably also utility corridors for adding whatever the builders needed that corridor for. See extra corridors in metro systems or utility tunnels underneath modern-day cities for access to electricity and gas services. When you have a chamber that contains a major utility that could need repairing or adding things, it's best you have corridors and pathways that give access to that chamber. Planning is what it's all about.

Mind boggling what technique has been used! But what boggles the mind even more why so many intelligent people fail to see whats in front of their eyes, and refuse to see how much there is to be learned from all these clues! Thank you for showing this to us all!

You laid out some very strong arguments about how these structures could not have been melted aggregate. Well done.

Has anyone ever studied the acoustics in this space? Does sound cause any special effects to the surrounding area inside or outside of this supposed burial site?

There are more theories than there are stones in the Great Pyramid 🤔 thanks for the AMAZING video and comments - astonishing footage! 🙏🏽

Great narration! far and truthful to the logic available good job!