The unfinished obelisk offers compelling indirect evidence regarding the level of technology its creators had reached not so much by indicating clearly what methods were used but by the overpowering indications of what methods.
Christopher dunn measuring pink granite.
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Material aswan pink granite.
According to engineer and expert machinist christopher dunn author of lost technologies of ancient egypt.
Advanced engineering in the temples of the pharaohs.
Foerster films as his colleague christopher dunn measures the interior of one of the boxes.
Location south side outside the.
View from the top of the abu rawash pyramid the compound curved granite stones photographing and measuring the stone chris dunn checks the surface of the stone while.
Contrary to conventional thought for decades.
Land of the pyramids and a vast collection of evidence that like a taciturn teenager is begging for understanding.
The tomb theory is picked apart throughout the book.
Donald rahn of rahn granite surface plate co dayton ohio told me that in drilling granite diamond drills rotating at 900 revolutions per minute penetrate at the rate of 1 inch in 5 minutes.
Christopher dunn has been a mechanical engineer for more than 40 years.
Advanced machining in ancient egypt by christopher p.
Contoured block of granite near valley temple.
Location south corner and 100 yards east of khafre s pyramid.
The pink granite of which the unfinished obelisk is composed has a mohs hardness that sits between the scale of 6 and 7 the maximum being diamond at 10 and thus is more or less the same hardness as dolerite making the latter.
These huge masses of granite once served as very large coffins sarcophagi larger than is necessary to contain the average human body.