Astonishing evidence for an ancient form of sophisticated machining into very hard stone can be seen on one of the artifacts found on the Ancient Egyptian site of Elephantine Island. After several visits to this incredible place, the significance of this particular aspect to the well-known granite ‘shrine’ finally hit home for me. Incontrovertible, and confirmed by a true expert in stone working, there is no way known that the subject of the video could be produced using primitive hand tools, it’s one of the best individual pieces of evidence for ancient advanced technology that I’ve ever seen.
Join me as we explore a little bit of the history of Elephantine Island, and dive into the details and implications of this recently uncovered aspect of the stonework there.
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Ben,
My wife and I strongly interested in the Turkey.
I’ll be sure to check your social media for details and updates, but wanted to let you know we are 95% in regardless.
That said, I do have a requirement to comply with US State Department travel advisories to not travel to Sirnak province, Hakkari province, and any area within six miles (ten kilometers) of the Syrian border due to terrorism. So I wanted to see if those areas are under consideration or not.
Tour is in the Sanliurfa region.
I enjoy your videos and, like you, am amazed at the precision work of the ancients.
Here is an hypothesis for you to consider. Suppose that the ancients, during the times when the precision objects were carved, had an abundant supply of diamonds. These would have been available from many sites in Africa and may well have been brought home for the workshops. Diamonds of various grits, glued into wooden or leather armatures and mounted on sleds, could account for straight edges, both rounded and fluted. The precise work, I hypothesize, was done when diamonds were available, and the rough work was done when they were not. I am not suggesting that all of the precise work you have documented could have been done simply by increasing the ease with which material could be removed, but at least some of it could have been.
What do you think?
discussed it a few times in videos, Petrie also thought diamonds were the logical answer, but there is literally zero evidence for their use in dynastic egypt.
Hi Ben, I have been interested in Egyptian history for a long time and took an initial interest in the ‘alternate history’ story from yourself and others. I must say that after extensive research, reading and listening to ALL points of view and considering EXTENSIVELY available HARD EVIDENCE, the story’s posited by the ‘alternate history narrative’ simply presents NO CREDIBLE bases – whatsoever. I appreciate that there are a number of people making a good living out of this but the bottom line is that what people such as yourself, and others are peddling is simply good old fashion ‘snake oil’. Your statements ignore hard facts, documented over many years – relating to the capabilities & timelines of various civilisations – to advance a spurious line of argument. I will however commend you for providing an entertaining perspective – in the vein of the ‘ancient aliens’ genre!
Thank you for providing a perfect example of the dribble masquerading as an ‘argument’ that I see every day from the shallow end of the comment sections on youtube! Your statement is both vapid and empty – it’s simply an assertion. Not an argument, nor counter point to anything I’ve written or said in well over 100 hours of content. Apart from the empty assertion, it also rolls out the tired old association fallacy with the ‘ancient aliens’ comparison, the same thing Michael Shermer (and countless others) tried to do. I’d suggest some light reading on the definition of ‘argument,’ or on logical fallacies, so you can avoid making an ass of yourself on public forums in the future.
I just watched the video and came here to suggest the same: diamonds. I imagine there were plenty of them at the time and they would have unstood the utility of them for grinding and cutting.
Hi Ben! Keep up the great work man! Quick question, is it possible to download your lidar scans?
yes, I make them available to patrons/channel members/subscribestar people.
Hello, Love the Chanel and the videos! My wife and I are traveling to Egypt in March, we have a free day for the Giza, would you have any recommendations for a guide? Some one who is as intrigued by this structure as we all are ? Any help, suggestions would be very helpful, first time visit, inspired by reading Dunn and your chanel to make the trip. Zanecarter@hotmail.com
I posted a comment on the video — the sharpness of the work, the exactness of all geometric shapes (not free form sculpture or arbitrary ) is truly astounding — I explained how the tube drill holes COULD be done using a bow drill or ‘u joint’ to allow actuation but that does not mean it WAS done by that means and the sheer monumentality of so much of their work defies credibility when purported to be done by hand held ‘pounders’ or bits of flint -let alone soft copper . More questions are raised than even plausible answers but the ‘official line’ is defended despite being indefensible . Dr Miano is a prime example -I have challenged his debunking in great detail and length on his YT channel ‘refuting’ your and Hancock thesis’ — you should do a rebuttal video in return , I will help. regards
Hello! This is Alexander. Good video, good job!
Hi, Great work.
Imagine someone found old manuscripts that speak of an advanced civilization, many thousands of years ago, in which there is mention of a metallurgist, who gave classes in metallurgy. With the same manuscript reporting a cataclysmic event that wiped out all but 8 people? I would assume such an event would reset the level of technology to “horse and cart” level. 4000 odd years after the event, it would be called an old fable, with artifacts from the previous civilization baffling archaeologists and scientists, who might even resort to “alien’s” for an explanation. Now, the manuscript: The Bible:
Genesis 4:22 says that Tubal-cain was the “forger of all instruments of bronze and iron” (ESV) or an “instructor of every artificer in brass and iron” (KJV)… Then the flood.. So it all fits.. Except those who would prefer it not to be true..
Hi, I just watched your video on the drill holes and one thing mentioned was that the feed rate seemed higher than what we might expect and even than what we can achieve today. However, it seems to me that if the tool were oscillating in a rotational manner but being fed with a thread, the markings could be seeming to progress at a fast rate while the actual penetration rate could be much slower.
This puts me in mind of how manual tap and die tools work. You rotate the tool a little to progress the cut of the thread then back it off.
In fact, this imagery makes me wonder if perhaps the tool was threaded. The marks may not be scratches but actually part of way the tool functioned?
Just a thought.
Try making some stone “projectile points” (i.e. arrowheads). Then compare them with examples Ancient Egyptians made (see Obsidian blades). Same thing applies to their other stonework. It’s bloody well impossible to believe, much less figure out, how Ancient Egyptians made such finely crafted ‘wonders.’ “Flintknapping” is the modern jargon for making stone points.
Applying modern terms & standards to historical artifacts and circumstances are fraught with peril. Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, et.al. have made fools of (richly earned) ‘establishment/legacy’ types for doing so (also note nitwits of ‘cancel culture’)…
Thought experiment: What do you think could be accomplished by resourceful people who, for tens of thousands of years, have had no remote concept of modern technology (eg. books, electricity, movies, smartphones, flight, gears, guns, etc., etc.)? See also, Antikythera Mechanism, Ancient Aliens debunked. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9w-i5oZqaQ
Rhetorical question – have you pointed out crude examples in unfinished, abandoned, or errors of other granite artifacts? If memory serves correctly, there is a rather obvious error in ‘machining’ on a granite sarcophagus…
if these objects were formed using machine tools, then it is perhaps logical to assume that the same cutting heads/bits were used on multiple projects (or at least the same size bits when new ones were manufactured to replace the old)
if that is the case, then it seems to follow that there should be multiple objects where parts of them have the same dimensions – for example, the width of the facets on the molding of one box ought to be the same on some of the other boxes (if any are available that weren’t finished), or that the radius’s of part of one box (a molding perhaps) match that of another, or that the diameter of a drilled hole in one object can be found elsewhere, or that the bottom profile of a drilled hole matches that of other holes
lastly, and i’m playing the devils advocate here, it may be possible to carve intricate features, such as the near-perfect facets on these moldings, with primitive tools if a jig is used to guide the tool
Ben,
Your video on the Precision Machining of Stone was very thought provoking, enough so to prompt me to share a few comments – nothing new, just rehashing old thoughts.
Your video leaves no doubt about the use of sophisticated machining. The evidence is abundant. The machines would have been large, rigid and robust with highly precision spindles and bearings. Today, we use iron and alloyed steel for that purpose. Copper does not meet these criteria.
Where are the machines? None have ever been found. This absents is not by happenstance, they were deliberately removed. Or, the noble academias have been looking in the wrong place. Maybe, just maybe, the stones were cut and shaped at another location and transported for the end user to place as they see fit.
Civilizations around the world discovered the secret of cutting, shaping and manipulating megalithic stones around the same time and found it to be relatively easy. During this megalithic era, they produced amazing works by the thousands or tens of thousands. If this task had been difficult and pushed the human effort to its limit, they would have produced few. All these mighty civilizations lost their grand secret at around the same time and thus ending the megalithic era. What a loss to humanity.
What we observe at Gobekli Tepe, et al, is the end results, the placement of the last stone, the final endeavor. Oh how I would like to know the when and where of the first stone to be cut and set in placed. Someone had planned and knew what they wanted the end results to be.
Keep up the good work,
John Marshall
marshall445@charter.net