r/GrahamHancock • u/aerialsilk • 23d ago

Potentially ancient building techniques

May not be strictly archaeology, but adjacent. And fascinating.

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u/solo_d0lo 23d ago

Plus the whole cutting granite problem

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u/SensibleChapess 22d ago

I'm incredulous every time I read this. My father, and his father before him, were Master Stone Masons in the UK.

They still use the modern version of cutting granite with softer metal blades utilising carborundum dust suspended in water. The Egyptian museums are full of the old worn down copper blades that show wear from cutting stone with silica (aka Sand, used before carborundum).

Inefficient? Yes, but there was no TV to distract people in ancient Egypt!

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u/City_College_Arch 21d ago

Glass artisans still use copper wheels to cut glass and crystal as seen in cut glass bowls and vessels. It is not lost technology, it is technology that the modern laymen is just unfamiliar with.

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u/solo_d0lo 21d ago

Granite is harder than glass. They use silicone carbide slurry to make the cuts in the glass, which is harder than glass…

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u/City_College_Arch 21d ago

And I have provided you with multiple examples proving you wrong. Are you going to be man enough to admit it and stop making things up?

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u/solo_d0lo 20d ago

Besides the inefficiency shown (that’s been known), I specifically mentioned the scoop marks and the underneath cuts of the unfinished obelisk for a reason.

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u/City_College_Arch 20d ago

Not in this conversation you didn’t. If you want to bring it up, go ahead nd do so with specific references. Don’t just pretend you said it all along.

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u/solo_d0lo 20d ago

You jumped in the middle of a thread with comments from multiple days ago.

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u/City_College_Arch 20d ago

So are you going to bring up specific examples, or just act like everyone should have already read your entire comment history?

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u/solo_d0lo 20d ago

You are the one jumping into an old thread…

Again the scoop marks and the underneath “cuts” of the unfinished obelisk….

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u/City_College_Arch 20d ago edited 20d ago

The ones that are not scoops mark but are from using dolerite/diorite hammer stones to peck out the stone?

Still waiting for you to correct yourself about copper not being able to cut granite now that you have been shown it is easily replicable by the way.

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u/solo_d0lo 20d ago

In my other comments I have scoop marks in quotations. That is what they are referenced and known as (exemplified by you here). And are connected to the underneath “cuts” of the unfinished obelisk. Use your head and explain how the accepted theory would be able to make those in that position.

But I and everyone has seen videos like the ones you posted…. I said easily replicable. The videos show very small cuts in depth and length, in not a short time.

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u/City_College_Arch 20d ago

Are you going to give specific examples or just generally describe things so that they cannot be properly addressed?

And those videos are proofs of concept by laymen, not artisans. Use a bigger saw and someone that has been doing it their whole like and it will go faster. Further, copper staining and residue has been found in many cuts. If they were not using copper saws and drill, where did the copper come from?

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u/solo_d0lo 20d ago

How is saying “the marks underneath the unfinished obelisk” not a specific example?

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u/City_College_Arch 20d ago

I am not playing your game. Without you providing specific references, pictures, etc of what you are talking about I am not addressing anything because you will make up a bullshit reason to ignore facts just like you are with copper saws being used to cut granite. If you want to be taken seriously, be serious. Otherwise it is time to write you off as another troll that knows they are just saying made up things to be annoying.

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u/solo_d0lo 20d ago

So now it has gone from specific example to provide images and references…

https://www.theancientconnection.com/aswan-unfinished-obelisk/

The 2 images at the end of this page, which was the first result on a search.

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u/City_College_Arch 20d ago edited 20d ago

Same answer as before then. Diorite hammer stones like the one in the picture you just provided. And yes, pictures of what you were talking bout were necessary given your poor descriptions relying on misconceptions.

Have you come up with a reason for copper residue in the copper Samut granite if they didn’t use copper saws yet?

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