Giant Underground Stone Boxes Near The Pyramids In Egypt.

[dipsydoodle]

Giant Underground Stone Boxes Near The Pyramids In Egypt? Mysterious giant boxes below the Egyptian sands. More than 20 boxes were discovered. This is interesting and you can see everything very clearly. Watch :

Extensive video. I can only conclude that the Egyptians used methods which were then lost.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Simple explanation, copper tools with sand used to work some of the hardest stone on the planet.

And lots of elbow grease.

Actually, there are no reasonable scientifically plausible explanations for how many of these things were created.

Lost technologies are unarguably at play.

It wasn't that long ago that humankind didn't have the recipe for hydraulic cement, lost to the ancients and rediscovered, now used universally.

We may never know how the ancient wonders of the world were created.

[MFM008]

3. you

have not been watching Ancient Aliens.

[struggle4progress]

9. People don't want to believe that the ancients were every bit as smart as we are and that,

compared to many of us, they worked their frickin heads off

Here's a nice overview of ancient Egyptian stone working: http://www.oocities.org/unforbidden_geology/ancient_egyptian_stone_vase_making.html

Apparently a copper or stone tool, with sand as an added abrasive and a bow-powered drill-shaft, can reproduce the ancient basalt vases found in Egypt in about two modern work-weeks, not counting polishing time. An experienced craftsman, working ten or twelve hour days, might have knocked them off at the rate of one every three to five days

Polishing the bulls' sarcophagi might have taken a team of experienced polishers months, but it wasn't an impossibility

[PeoViejo]

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[struggle4progress]

14. Engineering copper polishing pads for granite would have been well within Egyptian capabilities

though I don't know whether they actually did so

A flat piece of copper worked over a layer of quartz sand could work. Quartz is the hardest mineral in granite, so regularly replenished sand can polish granite. The copper is ductile, so any applied pressure will tend to embed quartz grains into a copper pad, producing a primitive sand-paper. And copper is much softer than quartz, so it can't scratch the granite itself. Such copper pads could be remelted and re-used: quartz is much less dense than copper, so should float to the top of a melt and be skimmed off

[silverweb]

2. Fascinating!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I'm sure we'll be hearing more about these as time goes on and I'm looking forward to it.

[wandy]

4. Things like this make you wonder. Does our civilization rise and fall.......

loosing some knowledge and technology each time, only to relearn or reinvent it the next time around.
Or.
Is the reason we have not as yet found the "Stargate" is only because we have not found the "Stargate". Yet!

[starroute]

5. People of the Stone Age knew an incredible amount about stone

They'd been working with it for tens of thousands of years and they were experts. Once we got into metallurgy, we started acquiring knowledge of metals but lost some of what we'd known before.

So yes, there are lost technologies -- but they're not the same as our present-day technology. They're whatever people were doing at the time and then lost interest in. Heck, there are even certain early computer languages that hardly anybody but a few old men still know how to work with -- which is getting to be a real problem for legacy systems written in them.

[TexasProgresive]

12. A few old women know how to use ancient computer code.

Heck, there are even certain early computer languages that hardly anybody but a few old men still know how to work with

[starroute]

15. If you say so

My impression was that except for Admiral Hopper, programming was kind of an old boy's club until the 1960s. But I'm probably just going by my own experience.

[TexasProgresive]

16. The old boys as usual took the credit.

My mother (RIP) was a scientific programer in COBAL, FORTRAN and I don't know what else. She carried Top Secret and Q level clearances. My co-worker's mother has the same background in those same computer languages and came out of retirement to work correcting the Y2K problems. She and other old timers working behind the scenes fixed all the problems with Y2K so well that most people think it was much ado about nothing.

[starroute]

17. Now that's fascinating

And I'd like to see them get more of the credit that they're due.

[progressoid]

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7. Here's a lengthy article by Christopher Dunn, who's featured in the video

http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/egypt/articles/cdunn-1.php

[dipsydoodle]

10. I've bookmarked that link.

Thanks - looks to be interesting reading.

[struggle4progress]

8. The Serapeum at Saqqara was discovered in the late nineteenth century. Like most other known tombs

in the region, it was evidently robbed in antiquity, but at least one intact bull-burial has been found there. In the mid-twentieth century, similar catacombs were located in the region containing baboon, falcon, and ibis mummies

[Judi Lynn]

13. Maddening the answer is still so far away! Overwhelming. Thanks. n/t

[tclambert]

18. No doubt the proportions of these boxes will involve some magic ratio.

Or something within 10% of a supposedly magic ratio. 1.618 comes to mind.

[dipsydoodle]

19. Probably

In ancient Egypt the Golden Ratio was regarded as being sacred.