We can see extensive carving practices all over the world; some are pretty unassuming while others are staggeringly beautiful and extremely sophisticated.
Things now spring to mind like the extensive investigation of British Engineer Christopher Dunn into the tool marks around these sites and his comments on Flinders Petrie's observations.
Christopher Dunn has spent a lot of time in Egypt studying tool marks on the ancient granite artefacts and has also conducted experiments using copper tools on these hard granite surfaces that conclusively shows the mainstream idea to be false.
I am not an Egyptologist. I am a technologist. I do not have much interest in who died when and whom they may have taken with them, where they went to or when they may be coming back. No lack of respect for the mountain of work and the millions of hours of the study conducted on this subject by highly intelligent scholars (professional and amateur), but my interest, therefore my focus, is elsewhere. When I look at an artefact with the view of how it was manufactured, I am unencumbered with a predisposition to filter out possibilities because of historical or chronological inequity. Having spent most of my career involved with the machinery that creates artefacts of the modern kind, such as jet-engine components, I am fairly well equipped to analyse and determine the methods necessary for recreating an object under study. I have been fortunate, also, to have training and experience in some non-conventional methods of manufacturing, such as laser processing and electrical discharge machining. That said, I should state that contrary to some popular speculations, I have not seen the work of laser cutting on the Egyptian rocks. Still, there is evidence of other non-conventional machining methods, along with more sophisticated, conventional type sawing, lathe and milling practices.
Petrie studied the sawing methods of the pyramid builders. He concluded that their saws must have been at least 9 feet long. Again, there are indications of modern methods of sawing on the artefacts Petrie was studying. The sarcophagus in the King’s Chamber inside the Great Pyramid has saw marks on the north end that are identical to saw marks I have seen on granite surface plates”.
The ancient pyramid builders used a technique for drilling holes that is commonly known as "trepanning." This technique leaves a central core and is an efficient means of hole making. For holes that didn’t go all the way through the material, they reached the desired depth and then broke the core out of the hole. It was not only evident in the holes that Petrie was studying, but on the cores cast aside by the masons who had done the trepanning. Regarding tool marks which left a spiral groove on a core taken out of a hole drilled into a piece of granite, he wrote:
"The spiral of the cut sinks .100 inch in the circumference of 6 inches, or 1 in 60, a rate of ploughing out of the quartz and feldspar which is astonishing."
After reading this, I had to agree with Petrie. This was an incredible feed-rate for drilling into any material, let alone granite. I was completely confounded as to how a drill could achieve this feed rate. Petrie was so astounded by these artefacts that he attempted to explain them at three different points in one chapter. To an engineer in the 1880’s, what Petrie was looking at was an anomaly. The characteristics of the holes, the cores that came out of them, and the tool marks indicated an impossibility. Three distinct characteristics of the hole and core make the artefacts extremely remarkable.
Excerpt taken from Christopher P. Dunn’s website:
I like Christopher Dunn’s mission statement. He is only interested in the tool marks and the data gathered is evidence of either human capability at that time or the materials/tools they were using, and I, like Christopher Dunn have no vested interest in archaeological, spiritual or religious speculation.
My foundation is purely science based, and when I read things like; “and the tool marks indicated an impossibility”. We can now develop that theory; the tool marks indicated an impossibility if the material hardness rated the same on the Mohs [mineral hardness quality] scale when it was cut as we observe it today.
The Unfinished Obelisk, Aswan, Egypit
The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan (Assuan), Egypt. It was ordered by Hatshepsut (1508–1458 BC), possibly to complement the Lateran Obelisk (which was originally at Karnak, and was later brought to the Lateran Palace in Rome). It is nearly one-third larger than any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected. If finished it would have measured around 42 m (approximately 137 feet) and would have weighed nearly 1,200 tonnes.
The obelisk's creators began to carve it directly out of bedrock, but cracks appeared in the granite, and the project was abandoned. The bottom side of the obelisk is still attached to the bedrock. The unfinished obelisk offers unusual insights into ancient Egyptian stone-working techniques, with marks from workers' tools still clearly visible as well as ocher-colored lines marking where they were working.
According to Egyptologists, Egyptian (Kemettan) farmers were cutting this 1,200 tonnes 137-foot behemoth obelisk using small dolomite pounders, basically bashing rocks together. Didn't they have anything better to do? And then, how were they going to separate it from the bed, extract and transport it in one piece? You could consider a material lighter and more flexible like wood. Egyptology states the work stopped on this obelisk due to it crack appearing during the work; I suppose it ended here as everything ended across the earth and the crack is just a symptom of lithification and time.
Egyptologists also state that Egyptian farmers spent most of their time mending and making tools, farming and looking after animals, yet we expected to believe these farmers achieve all the pyramids, temples, obelisks and many other unbelievable “stone” artefacts with the limited time available to them using copper chisels and bashing rocks together? When you engage your critical thinking and observe the marks around the obelisk at Aswan, the traditional explanation becomes total outrageous.
It appears that a constant scooping motion was used to remove the material around the obelisk. You could liken it to scooping ice-cream, or wood.
In some places across the surface and around the trench, the marks look more like impressions or dents.
Logically the material was not hard like rose granite, it was biological and considerably softer and lighter than granite when the material was being remover, and the impressions left across the surface also support this hypothesis.
Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt
What we see now has lithified to rose-granite, and that would make this object pre-historical and significantly older than the current theory, maybe hundreds of thousands of years. Unless this process can happen a lot faster than we understand? That’s the whole point of this website, understanding how little we know, being able to re-evaluate the situation. It appears we have no idea where we are, who we are, where we’ve been & where we are heading?
Rock Cut Temples, India
About 60 miles from Dharamsala is the ancient rock-cut temples at Masroor. Historians and archaeologists believe the carving took place between the 6th and 8th centuries, but in actuality, no one knows exactly when this temple was carved.
The large reflection pool in front of the temple acts as a mirror, showing us a stunning watery rendition of the entire complex.
When you study the images from around this site, it roughly resembles a surface has slightly melted, almost like wax. Also, you can start to notice that the carving is incomplete it's like the carvers didn't consider that they would run out of material to carve into, it's highly unusual.
Hindu temple of Ravana Phadi in Aihole, Karnataka.
Historians say that Ravana Phadi was created around 550 AD and is amongst the earliest structures in the region. The entrance is located on a platform with some steps that take you up to the opening.
Mahabalipuram, Tami Nadu, India
Kailasa Temple, Ellora, India.
Barabar Caves, India
Below is the "multi-dimensional Doorway" of Aramu, near Lake Titicaca, it appears they were setting this out to be a dwelling, they just didn't get the chance to finish it. We see something very similar at the Barabar caves in India, but it looks like they got a little further with the project, it has rooms inside and finished doorways, maybe the plan was to cover this structure in intricate carvings like the other temples around India.
The Barabar Caves are said by historians to be the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India. Most of the work is credited to the Maurya Empire with a claimed date between 322–185 BCE.
Barabar Hill contains four caves: Karan Chaupar, Lomas Rishi, Sudama and Visva Zopri.
It appears that we are again looking at the tube-like remains of proto and metaxylem, presumably the remnants of root structure or something laying on the ground considering their orientation.
Multi-Dimensional Doorway of Aramu Muru, near Lake Titicaca
The consistency of carving across cultures who had no contact has got to be something to take into consideration. It appears they were all doing extraordinary amounts of carving and all seemed to be experts at moving huge amounts of material with ease. I consider we looking at standard building practices on the pre-flood earth before these massive biological structures lithified?
I wish I had these answers, but I am confident in what the evidence is telling me. At some time in our distant past, it appears that we had a huge ecosystem. People were using these existing structures in various ways for different types of dwellings. The existing structures in these locations were claimed by successive cultures & civilisations who continued to renovate and build upon these places to serve a selected purpose; unsurprisingly sacred places or "temples" seems to be a typical case. The remnants of this pre-historical ecosystem are preserved as stone all around us, and quite literally under our feet.
By comparing the markings of carpenters tools while shaping wood to the unfinished Obelisk you can see a similar process was employed to form the pyramidion or capstone.
Different researchers have noted these markings as a scoop type of process while assuming the people had the ability to soften granite by employing a mysterious process of chemicals of heat.
Alternatively, as purported by Egyptology, we have an ideology of vast numbers farmers spending an obscene amount of time and energy bashing rocks together.
By Christopher Dunn
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