Byrd Wrote:
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> Like others, I do find the "I couldn't do it
> therefore modern man couldn't do it therefore the
> AE's couldn't do it" mindset tiring. It's
> particularly tiring (and indicative of people too
> lazy to research) when others have tried it and
> showed how the AE's were able to do it:
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>
> And, of course, we also have pictures of them
> doing this work and written references to it as
> well.
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>

It's an interesting article but it's more interesting how closely the list of tools ascribed to the ancients are similar to the tools used by the original author to describe how perfect the work is. It's also interesting that they say they can't duplicate the work today but apparently some guy with flint made some sort of headway.

How can we possibly believe that they would spend hundreds or thousands of hours hollowing out a jug from stone when the same shape could be made of wood or soft stone with little effort? If they could drill jars easily enough to make their production economical then surely they had simpler means of working the large pieces of granite as well.

And we always come back to the question of why. Why would they develope technology that had no use? Sure, a craftsman is always going to make something as fine as possible but what drove the culture to work stone like this?



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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.