Marcus Allen: Ancient Technology of the Egyptians FULL LECTURE

Subscribe here: In modern times, granite is easily cut and shaped using diamond drills and tungstentipped chisels. In Ancient Egypt, 100 ton obelisks and blocks of granite were cut from the bedrock, and shaped using diorite pounding balls, copper tools and sand. This is the accepted consensus. But these crude methods are so unlikely to have produced the visible results as to be, at best, simply a guess. The elegant and sophisticated artifacts seen across Egypt fr