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originally posted by: Mianeye
a reply to: KnightLight
Was an experiment.
Thousands of people to do it, plenty of time to master, the Egyptians were not idiots.
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
a reply to: FlySolo
Looks like 'Lazer' cutting or 'Diamond' and 'Quartz'.
Were these materials available in the area?
Could the materials have been bought over from a different area?? boat? of course.
Similar to the tools used to slice that Mountain in Peru.
Vein deposits of silica quartz have been identified in about 38 localities in the central part of the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Reserves in the area have been estimated to be about Gt and to range between 98% and 99.3% SiO2.
According to Pliny's Natural History, 37.17, emeralds were extracted from the hills in the vicinity of Coptos, a city of Thebais as was charchedonia, possibly Egyptian jasper (ibidem 37.30); amethyst, beryl, possibly lapis lazuli [9] and other precious or semi-precious stones were also mined and worked.
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: KnightLight
Doesn't that interest you as well.
I marvel at it so often and it seems to be the same thing with
the same people in many other topics. So I have concluded that
they are frightened of a world not being exactly as they were
told it is. I think it's very scary to them for some reason where
it isn't to you and me. The world at a glance is not what we are told.
Some will not go there.
originally posted by: FlySolo
a reply to: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
Don't know. But what I am confident about is, those cuts were done quickly. AND that my friend, and to all ATS members here, is the piece de resistance.
originally posted by: tanka418
originally posted by: Mianeye
a reply to: KnightLight
Was an experiment.
Thousands of people to do it, plenty of time to master, the Egyptians were not idiots.
I've a question:
It seems logical that IF copper saws were indeed used, there would be quite a lot of copper tailings in the soil around these sites...Has that ever been found to be the case?
If not it would seem to indicate that copper wasn't used at all. But, I'm betting that anything like that was never looked for...making the investigation a little less than complete.
Anyway, there should be serious quantity of loose copper around those places...
ETA: One should also expect to see copper imbedded in the granite or basalt where they were cut...
originally posted by: np6888
The pyramids were built before the Hebrews entered Egypt(or at least that's the common date), so there couldn't be
hundred of thousands of slaves.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: FlySolo
a reply to: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
Don't know. But what I am confident about is, those cuts were done quickly. AND that my friend, and to all ATS members here, is the piece de resistance.
Why do you suggest they were quickly done? One thing that they did have was man power and time. The simple fact that they had harder compounds available than the rock they were cutting pretty much sums up the whole question can it be done with simple tools.
Notice how crisp and parallel the edges are. The quality of this work indicates that the blade was held completely steady. Apparently, cutting basalt was not so slow and arduous that extra cuts like these would have been avoided as being an unnecessary waste of time.
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
a reply to: FlySolo
Looks like 'Lazer' cutting or 'Diamond' and 'Quartz'.
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
Similar to the tools used to slice that Mountain in Peru.