Lost Ancient High Technology In Egypt: Saw Marks And Drill Holes

[brienfoerster]

I will be returning to Egypt in March 2017 and again March 2018. You are more than welcome to join us in March 2018. Full details of that tour will appear at www.hiddenincatours.com

[sebione]

The dynastic Egyptians rebuilt the pyramids, which is another way of saying they looted their original contents. There's no telling what wonders were gutted from the pyramids and other sites, only to be left out in the elements to spoil.

[matthiasschaub]

I have been leading some diamond cutting development tests on Granite. We used diamond cutting segments welded to a Steel cutting blade. This technology is normally only used to cut much softer stone, e.g. Marble. We tried to replicate it to cut Granite with limited success. So I have some experience in interpreting cutting marks in soft and hard stones. To give you an idea of the cutting speeds of a modern machine:
To cut a 2.5 mtr high and 3mtr long block of granite into 1-2 inch thick slabs with diamond segmented blades took the machine about 14 days, cutting day and night. The cutting speed was much lower, and this with advanced synthetic diamond segments and very advanced blade movement.

I believe many of the observations of Mr. Foster are not to be disputed. But I raise a doubt on the argument, that cutting marks of drill bids or long saw blades directly indicate the penetration speed of the tool. Why:
1. In our test cuts, the cut area of the granite slab showed as well grove patterns. Some deeper, some barely visible. From a distance one could as well think that one movement of the blade resulted in cutting 3mm deep with each move. But in-between the deep grooves, if you looked closely, you could find many more smaller and less deep cutting marks. I cannot see this from the angle of view in the video. Would be nice to get a close up.
2. Broken diamonds, remainders of the cutting segments, saw dust and other irritations (as well as vibration of the tool) could potentially cause a more irregular pattern of grooves, which might lead to interpreting "cutting speed" having been much higher than it really was.
3. If the tight fit of stones achieved to fit blocks without space side a side, I would expect this precision was applied to any other part as well, e.g. wholes and joints (e.g. round stick fitted into a whole). Than it seems very likely the final dimension of the whole was not achieved in one single drill but the hole was honed to dimension after the initial rough drilling. Honing, grinding or polishing barely scratch the surface.
4. Think of the grooves like many valleys in different altitudes separating several mountain massives. If you grind off the upper 3000 feet of the mountains (the edgy surface of the cut if you want), all you are left with is the valleys which are very deep. The finishing of the surface of the hole could have left the remaining spirals (the 'depest' grooves) which are not used to indicate cutting speed.
5. The Stone in the base of the whole has a broken and rough surface. This means the drill-bid was hollow. This is the technology used today for core-drilling such types of holes, using a steel tube equipped with diamond segments all around. After cutting out a 'ring', the stone column (core) can be broken off and pulled out. It looks to me those wholes where drilled to take test samples of deeper layers to analyse the stone nowadays. Because again, if we assume the same quality levels form joining blocks to be applied to all manufacturing techniques including drilling a hole, should we not have to expect to find at least one 'finished' hole, where the base was polished as well?

Just some comments indicating the weakness of the argument if not investigated further....

Again, I personally believe we are not the most intelligent ever lived here. It might very likely be possible we are just a lame duplication of a civilization which was extinct by nature... But my engineering mind tells me, just some large distanced grooves are not sufficient to prove superior technologies. (However appealing it might sound)....

[nehapanchal]

When I was a small kid, I have seen my grandmother grind wheat between 2 grinding stones. These 2 stones on top of each other were about 8 inches thick with a diameter of about 3 feet each, the top round stone had a cylindrical hole of about 6-7 inches at the centre, all circles perfectly made, perfect edges
You must visit India, I think no one uses such old methods anymore, but you can surely find it somewhere in the deep untouched villages

[JayBenedictBrown]

The bottom of those holes clearly indicates some kind of hole saw.

I had some concrete cored. They used a diamond tipped hole saw and water. But the cut is perfectly smooth. The cut marks here are different. They seem to indicate cutting thru 2mm of hard stone per revolution as I understand the video. We've got nothing like that now. That's the most amazing thing. If these same kind of holes are found continents apart, that would also imply transportation skills commensurate with today's, because no way would that same cutting technology be arrived at independently.

[jamfl]

Defiantly will be looking into those tours here soon! Everyday I been studying more and more into the overwhelming evidence of high ancient technology and the cataclysm of 12, 000 years ago. You and Graham Hancock and jimmy at bright insight have been presenting this evidence to everyone and showing the truth and honestly it's changed my entire perspective on what I've learned so far in life. Honestly I would love to get into this field of study, I'm only 19 so I have plenty of years of learning, i just can't wait to see the huge megalithic structures of these different civilization and how precise they are and how similar to one another they are.

[fintanoclery]

The diamond blade on my quick cut saw would have quit and gone home attempting those flat cuts.

[tallnrough]

Who's to say they didn't discover diamonds? they could have figured out that diamonds could somehow be used to cut stone. The large circular saw marks are amazing. It would be so awesome to be able to go back in time and see how they did all this.

[dennisxavier]

Today we have YouTube.
When I was a child we had only archeological books and magazines.
I started reading about archeology when I was 10.
I was fascinated about and sought answers that could explain our origins.
By the time I was 15 I already truly believed that there was an world civilization, without even ever hearing about such a theory. Was a genius? Of course not!
I basically acquired information and linking them, then used common sense to conclude what is still obvious in my eyes: The fact that there was, once upon a time, an world civilization prior to ours.

[Burtnoh]

Brien, Have you had some saw marks or drill holes scanned with an electron microscope. If metal was used there would have to be some trace of the metal fragments inbedded in the stone.

[riparianlife]

The inherent problem with circular saw blades cutting stone is that the outer edge heats up, expands, and causes the blade to form a dish shape. This causes binding, putting a great deal of strain on the motor driving the blade, and creates more heat. This can be avoided by putting slots in the blade that run from the outer edge toward the center. These massive blades must have been built this way.

I find it remarkable that none of the art depicts knowledge of this kind of technology.

[specialorder]

fascinating! I can’t help but wonder, where have all the ancient tools gone!? The large saws, hole drilling machines and even assembly lines for which these megalithic stones were moved through!? The machines/ equipment that made these cuts and holes had to be EXTREMELY large and cumbersome. Where could they be??? Maybe they’re still buried under the sand to one day be unearthed..

[FLStoneHunter]

Your tour is #1 on my bucket list Brien!

[ronaldwise]

I was a professional concrete cutter and I see the use of diamond cutting every where I see where they screwed up on saw cuts where the saw blade wobbled and skipped. I’m not sure what he means that we can’t cut those core drills holes. I did it for 10 years thousands of times. Granite is harder and it eats diamond segments and it’s time consuming. But it’s done every day. At the bottom of the core drill holes you can see the circle mark where they stopped. At the bottom you can see the ridge like marks where the core was popped. It looks exactly like that. I know. Don’t talk to engineers etc. talk to professional concrete cutting companies which are located in every American cities. On saw cuts that are there who weren’t shown but are shown on bright insights other videos you can see the skip marks made by a blade when it wobbles. That occurs when your not getting the slurry flushed out with water and the blade heats up and starts to wobble and it skips. I know it’s happened to me. It also can occur when the anchoring system comes loose on wall sawing you can flush cut to the bottom of a structure no problem. When you begin you anchor the tracks down then start with a small blade the progess to larger blades the deeper you get. It’s called step cutting. 18 24 inch 36 to 48 inch and so on. Also if you look at the ends of the cuts you can see where the blade stopped and if you look closer you can see that the end of a cut in some pictures that the cut line is bevels slightly and not straight That’s because the blade is round and when going deep the bevel will be noticeably longer. It’s diamond cutting. On his description of the flat surface that was ground you put a special blade on a device built like s push mower with the blade being level with the surface and start grinding. Also we use shot blasting to smooth out surfaces where you shoot shotgun looking metal pellets with high air pressure and it will smooth and create a smooth surface. We do all this today and with great results. Ask an expert not a scientist

[CoLdFriction]

When I see these types of things at some of the sites you visit I can't help but think of bismuth crystals. The "carving" at the devils doorway is a good example. It's a classic crystal formation and I see the patterns all over

[billknoderer]

Have you borescoped those drill holes to get any type of precise measurement on the diameter and linear trueness of the cuts? Just curious. As a machinist, I am flabbergasted that these issues haven't been addressed by educators.

[ericheydenreich]

Thanks so much for continuing to bring high technology in to view from our mysterious past.

[gangisspawn]

There is a vid on youtube showing you can do this with copper tools and sand as the abrasive

[myvideosshared]

I agree with everything you said in this video. It's about time the truth was told and those telling the truth replace those that lie in Egyptology and many others

[thraherxbs]

It is so much easier to move large amounts of small bricks than it is to move small amounts of huge stone blocks. It's a no brainer, thats why we use them today.