Chapter 4 of my Serapeum Series, likely the penultimate edition. To quote from the introduction:
The 24 giant, single piece granite boxes that are housed in the underground alcoves and tunnels of the ancient Serapeum of Saqqara are anything but simple objects. Some of them weight up to 100 tons, and Almost every aspect of their quarrying, their transport and their construction boggles the mind when you really begin to consider what’s involved. The level of planning, effort, skill and technology required to both manufacture the boxes themselves, and to move them to where they have rested, from antiquity until today, is hard to overstate.
This video is chapter 4 of my Serapeum investigation, where we’ll examine some of the best evidence that a form of ancient high technology was used to create these boxes, in particular a technology used to finish them to a smooth, mirror like surface that still reflects light, even after many thousands of years, and a technology that seems unknown to our own advanced modern civilization of today.
Hey man, your doing great work! Is it possible to link up with Yusef for a private tour of the Serapeum?
Hi Dave!
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Ben,
After my recent trip to Giza I has many questions.
I learned this places has been quarry over time and maybe new build up at the Egyptians kingdoms.
But how far was they in machining really ?
I know what I saw there.
Allot of real nice slabs has also nice hieroglyphs and according to Chris Dunn allot of statues is machined.
I saw some in the Museum and the big one in Memphis ( but it might be younger hieroglyphs on it )
But as I read him, this was not older, as it was in the older kingdoms.
From Yousef Awan I heard the time line on this is not very certain either here.
And was the ‘original’ ( if way older ) builders ‘look’ like the Egyptians we know them to look at ?
What is the general idea of the concept if the pyramids might be a burial place long after the original builders, but why is the coffins there ?
I can assume they was build as produce alchemy or vibration to agriculture, but if so why coffins ?
Coffins are also in shafts that has been found and in Serapeum, and my guess there are more of them in Giza, maybe found or not been found.
What is ex Dunn’s idea on that ?
I ‘mean there are many more pyramids than the big one in Giza.
I saw ideas from Brian Forrester he is into some pyramids is of 23 degree of our north, as a indicate of a catastrophe 12.500 years ago.
But if, so, why is not all ( if now older ) moved 23 degree ?
When I saw the machine marks I realise this set up a new standard, but why is not mainstream to see this ?
This guys had not 8 meter circle saw at 4 mm wide cutter tools or could drill 4″ out holes and had a inner core and federate as in butter.
Isn’t that obvisly ? ( I’m a CNC machinist )
Again, you has MORE to dig into here in your research !
I did mention this issue in my earlier replies here on what is what.
Take for example the statue of Ramses Chris Dunn talking about in his book and also is to be found on internet and on his website.
http://www.gizapower.com/LoTeAnArticle.htm
It’s a nice piece in rose granite, so precise that he come to conclusion it must be machined.
But if this now is ‘super ancient’ this person is not Ramses, so it then must be the original builders.
So did then the new kingdom in the dynasties ‘copy’ this older statues look ?
It truly must but be either way here.
Jousef told me ; don’t under rate the dynasties.
-No, they did nice temples in limestone etc and it is showed in their text/pictures, but they did not carve in granite as it is impossible whit their tools.
Look at the ruff carvings at quarry in Aswan then one understand what’s been going on there.
Very few ask this question, if we now discuss a pre-civilisation that newer civilisations reused, but still we has the look of them.
Or simply it was the new kingdom that did all this whit a technique we has not found ?
Today we use size of parts that can be machined and transported, so why even think go megalithic and invest so much time in material as granite.
If pyramids and the boxes had a functional way but new kingdom saw it as ‘power’ it’s to understand they copy it ( reuse it ), but a more normal way is in limestone or in woods.
I’ll simple in my mind can’t see a circle saw at 8 meter in diameter and blade is 4 mm thick as a example.
Another Very strange thing is slabs in Abu Sir that is very nice in shape down to floor size, then its ruff under ( same slab )
How does a machine look like that can do that ?
It’s a impossible machine and proof is still out there in the desert.
See this, we will machine a part and put it in a mill whit the surface up.
The cutter need to go over it, we simple can’t just go to a point and stop, plus this is also vertical position.
How does this machine look ?
Ok, if we see it as hand carved, ok, that will work but not in reality whit flatness, surface plus what tools ?
When I was in school on the 80’s as a toolmaker we learned to do nice stuff by hand as file etc, but it is time consuming and smaller parts.
Ok, this ones had maybe man power, the skill and time.
-But all this stones I can’t see it as a reality especially as we has proof of machining marks.
We at home, check out Brian Forrester that is now on a full trip in Egypt tracing maching marks etc.
( wish one could join in !
I have been. Brien is great, I first travelled with him (and Graham Hancock) through Peru and Bolivia in 2013. Have seen him and interviewed him a couple of times since. I’ve been watching some of his livestreams.
Thanks for all your comments on here Hank, I have been reading them.. I haven’t had a lot of time to respond just yet, but I do intend to!
Cheers
Ben
Is it possible that this liquid polish coating applied to these boxes be a type of pottery glaze? Not only would such a coating be extremely durable but it would definitely achieve the smooth mirror like finish found on those boxes. Perhaps even the small stone pits that each one sits in underground could have been necessary in order to achieve and maintain the high level of heat needed to bake such a glaze on the boxes. This would also make the boxes completely water proof which like almost everything about these boxes point to the finish being functional instead of for aesthetic reasons.
Hi Ben, i found yesterday your videos – and i love them! Something i have to add from my knowledge:
Seen the liquid residues i suggest to look deeper into the topic “tadelakt and soaping”. Tadelakt is a kind of limestoneish material where wetrooms, sinks, wells and bathrooms were built. I know it from morocco and i did it by myself (for a sink). The soaping (= rubbing olive soap in the stone, let it dry and polish then with another stone, 2 or 3 times) causes the final finish (it makes a mirror like smooth finish). It somehow changes the surface and maybe even build the crystal structure over time. It might be worth to investigate this further. This technology (soap and stone) is used for centuries as i know….
Ben your work is nothing short than grounbreaking,,look how far you have come since your first egypt tour…only ten years and you can see wht your doing and the angles and unmatched proffessionalism is nothing short than awe inspiring,,u have taken me through egypt and its many many myateries with your trusty sidekick yousef,,what a gem of a bloke…anyways ill wrap this up just wanted u to know im a fellow aussie and yea my lifes dream is to now come on the journey with you guys…you have pretty much changed my life,,i hope this reaches you,,all the best ANTHONY,,John Anthony WEST would be so proud….keep kicking them from the sidelines mate,,straigt over the black dot..well done Ben.!!!!! please excuse my spelling im only just now got a computer after 35 yrs of never using one lol,,just learning how to use it…
Ben your work is nothing short than grounbreaking,,look how far you have come since your first egypt tour…only ten years and you can see wht your doing and the angles and unmatched proffessionalism is nothing short than awe inspiring,,u have taken me through egypt and its many many myateries with your trusty sidekick yousef,,what a gem of a bloke…anyways ill wrap this up just wanted u to know im a fellow aussie and yea my lifes dream is to now come on the journey with you guys…you have pretty much changed my life,,i hope this reaches you,,all the best ANTHONY,,John Anthony WEST would be so proud….keep kicking them from the sidelines mate,,straigt over the black dot..well done Ben.!!!!!
Ben your work is nothing short than grounbreaking,,look how far you have come since your first egypt tour…only ten years and you can see wht your doing and the angles and unmatched proffessionalism is nothing short than awe inspiring,,u have taken me through egypt and its many many myateries with your trusty sidekick yousef,,what a gem of a bloke…anyways ill wrap this up just wanted u to know im a fellow aussie and yea my lifes dream is to now come on the journey with you guys…you have pretty much changed my life,,i hope this reaches you,,all the best ANTHONY,,John Anthony WEST would be so proud….keep kicking them from the sidelines mate,,straigt over the black dot..well done Ben.!!!!!