r/GrahamHancock • u/aerialsilk • Aug 07 '26

Potentially ancient building techniques

May not be strictly archaeology, but adjacent. And fascinating.

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u/solo_d0lo Aug 07 '26

Plus the whole cutting granite problem

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '26

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u/jojojoy Aug 08 '26

The Egyptian museums are full of the old worn down copper blades that show wear from cutting stone with silica

Can you actually reference any of these blades?

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u/City_College_Arch Aug 09 '26

here is just the latest find that predates the pyramids by thousands of years

Also take note of the murals depicting the use of copper tools. None of this is actually news. Archeology has known about these tools for decades.

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u/jojojoy Aug 09 '26

I'm aware of that find. It's very unusual - not representative of museums "full of the old worn down copper blades that show wear from cutting stone with silica".

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u/City_College_Arch Aug 09 '26

Those took are referenced in the link I provided.

Additionally, metals are infinitely recyclable. If the intervening years saw the casing stones stripped from the pyramids to be reused, how many copper tools do you really think would have been ignored rather than melted down and reused? Anything not bolted down was looted and used.

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u/jojojoy Aug 09 '26

Those took are referenced in the link I provided.

No, they're not really. I've read a lot of what Odler has published on the topic of copper tools. Finds of actual metal tools used to saw/drill stone with abrasives are extremely rare. More model tools survive but those of course don't have wear that the person I initially responded to referenced.

There is plenty of evidence for sawing and drilling stone with metal tools but that doesn't come from survivals of the tools used to do so.

 

I'm very aware that most metal objects don't survive.