Notice the amazing 3D symbols on this

Karnak: the world’s largest temple site. Notice this orange vacuum like hose that surrounds this broken off piece of a massive obelisk. More importantly, check out these deep embedded 3D symbols precision crafted into rose-granite which’s ranks about an 8 on the “Mohs scale of hardness.” How would the dynastic Egyptians of 3000 BC accomplished this with the softer copper chisels & hammers (3 on Mohs scale) that they used according to the archaeological record?

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[TJ-fgvs]

The Orange tube has stood the passage of time remarkably well.

[jinglemyberries]

Its the predynastic granite vase that was analyzed recently which totally blew my mind.
The person or people who made it had a very deep understanding of mathematics and geometry.
I'll post some interesting stuff from the articles written about it:
To explore what kinds of design principles were used in the creation of the object, we started out by measuring and mapping as many features of the object as possible, and looking for repeating patterns of placement and dimensioning, and repeating or mathematically significant ratios.

While we initially did not understand the underlying principles of what we found, it was clear that patterns and persistent ratios were present in overwhelming abundance throughout the object. Not only were they present, but they exhibited such a high degree of regularity, that we suspected them to be derived from well-defined mathematical formulae.

This led us to attempting something, that really should not have been possible, when dealing with a supposedly ancient artefact, made from granite, of all things: We decided to experimentally build a CAD model that would exclusively use mathematical concepts to dimension and place the features of the object, and use no tuning or arbitrary positional adjustments. All features should be placed and dimensioned by interrelation to each other.

We also limited the initial margin-of-error tolerance of the model to 75 μm

, in terms of how well it should map to the features of the actual object. This margin-of-error tolerance was, amongst other criteria, used to discern whether an attempted modelling of a particular feature should be considered for inclusion in the model, or rejected.

*I find it timely to stress how completely ludicrous this actually is.* We are dealing with a stone vessel of supposed ancient origin, and are now proposing, that a purely mathematical CAD model, should somehow map to the actual object within a tolerance of less than 75 thousands of a millimeter.

Yet, I will let the results speak for themselves. Additionally, the CAD model, and all of its constituent equations, are available for verification, for anyone interested in doing so.

Conclusions In Summary

Based on the best understanding we currently have of the object, and on the knowledge of normal fundamental limits of physics and laws of nature, we have to conclude:

That this object was fabricated on a highly sophisticated subtractive manufacturing system, from a solid piece of granite.
That the manufacturing system would require, at the very least, sophisticated mechanical technology and high-precision components.
That the manufacturing system would necessarily have been guided by an automated control system, which could read the design as input, and produce the required motions as output.
That a turing machine, of considerable sophistication, would most likely have been employed to create and operate on the design, and to finally transfer it to the manufacturing system.

There is no way, in which we can attribute the production of this artefact, to anyone who do not possess, at minimum, the level of technological sophistication and capabilities mentioned above. This raises some very interesting questions regarding the origin of the object, which we hope to be able to explore in future work.

[swms]

After 70 plus years on this earth, I think there was civilization well before us. They were very advanced and good intellect. Can't answer what caused there demise before us. However, it's very clear that they were here. Many examples around the world are testimony to their presence.

[JohnBonDorie]

I often wonder if these harder stones were baked into their hardness over time, sort of like what we do with clay. How you can crack open a rock and potentially find a fossil inside of it, it wasn't always a rock, something caused it to harden.

[HEADDYNAMICS]

The orange "strap" is for lifting. Its called an endless strap in the rigging world.

[stevebailey]

I remember Karnak the Magnificent. He could tell you what 3 things have in common. Mostly at 11:30 pm on the west coast.

[johnwalker]

This is confusing he’s gonna reveal the secret of the universe but doesn’t know what we lift stuff with today 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[jimmyDabstract]

No Cable TV - no radio - no books - no internet -A man has got to keep himself occupied.

[vibhashkumar]

Come in india, which is full of mind boggling sculpture and temple, and don't forget to meet "Praveen mohan"

[Vikingisaction]

The lifting sling is called an endless choker. That section has been moved from its original location via crane

[waynejohnting]

Right!! Copper is a 3, this granite is an 8 on the Rockwell scale. Saying copper cut this granite is like saying a plastic butter knife can cut hardened steel😅

[jeffreychandler]

So much style and precision. This object looks like it may have been engraved, and cut with a machine. A fascinating, mysterious, relic.

[rlcuda]

Patience and Persistence, the twin gods of success. Men landed on the moon in 1969 and it's taken us 50 years since then to say that we're actually READY to go to the moon.

[robinstewart]

To me the most mind boggling thing about that granite vase are the two handles. I also wonder how they milled/cnc'd both interior and exterior without it shattering the granite from larger pieces within the granite being caught by the tool, Weird how we have never found the tools they used to cut through basalt, granite and other hardness materials! I wonder if the Vatican or Smithsonian has them hidden from us!

[johnmorrison]

I am a lapidary. Current technology can only do this with high speed diamond cutters.

[mikekanaley]

The thing that’s confusing is when king tut was found he had a steel knife in his sarcophagus lying beside him, so the ancient Egyptian’s had steel! Possibly from a meteor, right?

[ceedub]

Last time I checked, there are a large number of talented sculptors living among us who have made a career creating intricate images out of such stone.
Ask them how it was done!👍

[daviddery]

It's very clear to me they had electricity!!! They had incredible skills in building and carvings 😊

[IbadassI]

Because the rocks were softer before, just like how cement hardens over time, the ancients knew how make rocks that harden over time.

[jamesholt]

Agreed the orange tube is a lifting strap, has nothing to do with the hardness of the stone!