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Why do we still think that they were built with chisel and hammer when we know is impossible with these tools to cut the stones from king chamber to laser preci
by givan 11y ago
Why do we still think that they were built with chisel and hammer when we know is impossible with these tools to cut the stones from king chamber to laser precision or cut stones to make a perfectly symmetric pharaoh statue?
- motoboi 11y agoDidn't Rafaello and Michelangelo use those tools to work with rock?
- green7ea 11y agoThere are two things to keep in mind. Rafaello and Michelangelo worked with stone that wasn't nearly as hard as granite (granite being one of the hardest stones). Secondly, we don't believe metals were nearly as developed during the period of dynastic Egypt and some Egyptologists theorise (but I think this is crazy) that stone tools were used to carve the blocks.
- rurban 11y agoGranite? Who crazy would come up with the idea to build pyramids with something as heavy and hard as granite. They were not even carved out of limestone blocks, they were casted by an early form of concrete created using a mixture of limestone, clay, lime, and water. Similar to how they would have been built nowadays. http://www.livescience.com/1554-surprising-truth-great-pyramids-built.html http://www.livescience.com/1554-surprising-truth-great-pyram...
- green7ea 11y agoThe walls of the king's chamber are pink granite. They also happen to be some of the more precise work in the pyramids.
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- mariuolo 11y agoWhat's the alternate theory?
- givan 11y agoAncients could build complex mechanical devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism maybe the technology was even older.
- nightspirit 11y agoAre you suggesting a CNC mill was involved? What's your point? Neither the article nor anybody here mentioned chisels...
- mariuolo 11y agoI'm not sure I get your point. How does one cut and move granite blocks with a calculator?
- marcosdumay 11y agoWell, that is much less ancient, and from a different part of the world.
- easytiger 11y agoHow do we know that?
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