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A few things I'd consider. 1- In the circular drill holes that have a bottom. I would like to vacuum whatever dust remains at the end/bottom, in hope that some evidence of the abrasive might still exist. Even modern day diamond coring drill bits could leave a clue. 2- Once cleaned of any dust, I'd cast the last point of contact at the bottom, and scan the last moment of contact. That would possibly show the clearest scratches of abrasion. 3- Similarly the huge stone boxes with the perfect right angle interior corners. I'd look to the corners for a microscopic image. Scanned and/or cast to see the last stroke in making those corners. Abrasive? Chisel? Other? 4- And make with our current tools, something to parallel those features for compare. i.e. What does the last stroke from the tools, show. Scratch? Dent? Nothing, even at the microscopic level?

The thing that amazes me about this box is the audacity of the stonecarvers. By cutting all these shapes into the finished object, the carver guaranteed that even one slight error would result in a ruined box. Unless there are hundreds of failed, ruined, partially finished boxes for each complete box, it would seem an impossible task.

Ben!!! Congrats dude!! On JRE finally! I was hoping that would happen. So happy for you. Your very excellent channel will really blow up now. Lol. This is awesome. I think people are really starting to understand that our history is very different that what we have been told. It's great seeing you and Jimmy both on JRE. The more people start looking into it the more the paradigm will start to shift

I'm a lifelong machinist and fabricator. Retired now, but still using CNC mills and lathes. The facets on the edging are without a doubt made with some kind of precision machine. There is no way you could do that by hand. And going a step further there are currently two types of precision machines. Manual and computerized. Manual where the axis controls are turned by hand, and CNC where they are turned by computer. The flared columns while also made by machine were probably computer controlled because it's very hard if not impossible to do those curves on a manual machine. Another thing to think about is the cutting tool. You would need something at least as hard as diamond. Anything else would not be able to cut these long cuts without changing the tool which would invariably leave marks.

Every time I see those pieces at the start it blows my mind...It just looks so modern and precise.

Does anyone else start feeling conspiratorial when hearing previously open sites are now closed to the public? It's tragic enough we'll likely never know exactly what knowledge and technology was lost, but to have investigation artificially obstructed by governments is infuriating.

It's like an archeologist in the far future claiming we first broke the sound barrier in a wood and fabric bi-plane.

I am a self-taught CAD and CNC user for hobby guitar projects. Watching this was like being reminded of the design and machine milling toolpath strategies I have learned in the last six years. 😮

The faceting is exactly how a modern CNC machine cuts hard metals. It makes a series of rough passes with a larger tool before coming back with a smaller tool to remove the final bits of material and get a finished look. It does this because using the smaller tool that can make the clean finish to remove that much material would damage the tool or be way too slow.

Ben, keep making videos my friend 👍.

Man, I cannot begin to tell you how much watching your HD vids along with your excellent commentary and insight blows me away! One of the most frustrating things about Egypt is knowing that we'll probably never know how or who created these masterpieces (it's like having an itch on your back that you can never quite reach). I'll probably never have the opportunity to visit Egypt but at least your high-def videos can give me a close up view as if I was there! Much thanks!

I was 99.9% certain that there have been civilizations that are much more ancient and much more technologically advanced than the ones we normally study in history. But after this video, I have been brought to 100%. Very, very well done!

Really enjoy the direction your vids come from - something lacking in most others.

Ben, this is by far the most convincing evidence yet for ancient high technology. I'll be sharing the video. Thanks!

As an engineer and having a lot of construction work experience I have zero doubt that box made by advanced tools. So there's 2 possibilities: 1. Either advanced, I repeat, advanced civilization existed. 2. Or it's made by modern tools and droped there to attract tourists.

Another great presentation. Having been a machinist for 40 years I feel certain that the features of the structures shown in this video could not have been accomplished with the tools attributed to the Egyptian civilization of this period. Perhaps the builders of all these amazing structures left and took their tools with them. Thanks Ben and keep them coming.

I've worked with marble both with hand tools and with power tools. I've worked with CNC machines and I've done construction work. The work there on those holes are incredible, very difficult to make

The faceted surfaces on the unfinished work is just outstanding just undeniable evidence to anyone who works or has knowledge of machine work

I have been following Graham, Randall and Jimmy for several years now and love the outside the mainstream thinking. Your knowledge on these ancient artifacts and how the technology was lost is so fascinating. Great job on Rogan by the way. Keep doing what your doing man! 👏

Good one Ben. Excellent choice to show precision machining. It’s undeniable Thanks again mate

Wow. That was so interesting. Fascinating. I'm in my late 70s, but this has blown me away! I've subscribed.

Amazing, the boxes look like they've just come off a state of the art machine, like you say the round edging is unfinished but even the markings where its been tooled look perfect to my eye, absolutely mind blowing & boggling 🤯

Excited to see that you are scanning the granite fragments!

Thank you Ben for the incredibly well curated shot and explained footage of the world’s most incredible artifacts. You inspired me to go to Egypt and Peru this year, thanks to you I had a list of artifacts to see for myself, this shrine, the lotus columns, the sphinx, valley temple, serapeum, the hard stone vases, sacsayhuaman, the coricancha, ollantaytambo. Even though I was prepared everything was more incredible in person. I will have to join you on a future expedition.

I find it astonishing that "ancient tech" is ancient, I feel these works of art are way more advanced then we are...

I am a design engineer for a aerospace company and I completely agree with everything you are saying there is mounting evidence of ver sophisticated machining technology present Al over Egypt. I did have a thought as to the apparent missing evidence of any types of tools, if the Egyptians did have complicated and effective stone working tools it isn’t hard to believe they would have been highly sought after and even after the Egyptians could no longer understand or maintain the tools it’s likely they would have been dismantled for their valuable material.

The facets being so consistent and over a large area really does make this artifact invaluable for the technology argument. Excellent work as always!

keep posting Ben . I love watching your channel

Im a stone mason but i cannot imagine making these magnificent granite boxes with extreme precision by using only a chisel or pounding it with a rock its damn impossible.

JRE brought me here! What an outstanding episode with you and Jimmy. You boys killed in on there!! New subscriber here!

Amazingly beautiful. I wish the ones who made these were still among us or would come to visit... that would make for a fascinating conversation ❤️ ✨️ ❤️ Thank you Ben 🙂

This is easily done with a chisel, hammer, one sheet of 1000 grit sandpaper and a bottle of Hennessy.

Thank you very much Ben! You are hands down one of the best channels on YT for these topics! Much love and Merry Christmas to you and yours Ben!💕💕💕

So happy that you went on jre been watching your videos forever ! happy for you ben

I didn’t know any of this stuff and thank you for taking us so close. This is absolutely mind blowing I don’t have any words for what my mind can’t comprehend absolutely mind blowing.

I haven't done much with stone but I've machined other materials and I'm genuinely impressed with the craftsmanship here. Yeah, the faceted part is really important but the shot that to me is most indicative of multi axis CNC machine work is 18:53 This view shows how a complex concave curve transitions around a 90 degree corner. I mean look at it. It isn't just a half circle cut into the profile. It looks perhaps parabolic or logarithmic. This is a pretty complex thing to cut. Furthermore, the size of the piece coupled with the precision of it is REALLY impressive. Making a precision cutting tool is one thing. Making a really big precision cutting tool is something totally different. Whatever they used to make this thing was amazing. When I see all of those core drill holes in the video I can't help but laugh about the idea of some poor slob trying to cut them with a copper tube because I've cut holes like that in concrete when I was an electrician's apprentice. Granite? With a bow and copper tube? Not happening. 🤣 Cutting a 3" or 4" diameter hole 6" deep in concrete (soft as cheese compared to granite) with a big, electric, core drill bolted to the floor with drop in anchors used to take like half an hour to an hour. Granted, we had an old clapped out core drill that wasn't the latest greatest but it took two of us to carry it inside and it must have had at least a half horse electric motor on it.

The mirrored symmetry & accuracy of some of these massive stone statues and structures is simply astounding. The human race is definitely missing some pieces of our/earths past.

I keep coming back to this one. This video amongst many others should be archived. Ben here shows us remarkable precision work that is not even closely explainable by 'egyptologysts'. Even further, he shows us the shrine in Edfu Temple which no one is able to see like this now, again, the corner peice that went missing. Etc. This only gets worse as years go by, Ben is doing the world a serious service documenting these peices and artifacts before they are literally removed from under our noses by other PEOPLE...

The picture @25:09 of the straight lines is just amazing precision - great angle of the photo, Thank you

Fantastic footage and coverage of these sites and manufactured works of the ancients. The rose-granite "alter" or "shrine" defies history books and known technology in the past thousands of years. Also the power/energy of whatever caused such a HEAVY granite box to be thrown into the sand/ground like it is, must of been spectacular to say the least. The perfect circular holes, round-cylindrical trim on the exterior, the sharp edges, the level/flat finish on the surfaces, the 4-faced pyramidal top... it's a Master piece by a master craftsman, who worked on some of the toughest stone the Earth has to offer. It blows my mind every time, and never gets old to me. I love these granite master pieces throughout the old world. They are the truth that a civilization had technology, master craftsmen, and were well organized as to excavate, transport and craft such Granite products is a massive feat. Thanks Ben, you're channel is a treasure.

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I dont see how anyone can deny ancient tech

if robots and lasers were used to carve these stones, imagine the infrastructure needed to support such an industry, all the designers and engineers making the tools to be handed off to the artisans to use. Mind blowing. We're talking high-tech industrial manufacturing on an epic scale unknown to humans. Marveling at the results is great but the culture behind it all must be even more amazing.

Bravo, sir! Your dedication is seriously inspiring, your content is absolutely enthralling...as granite goes.

As a machinist that has machined some of the toughest materials on the planet known to man , I tend to agree with all you have said in the video. One thing you possibly missed was the type of metal guide used for the cutting tool to move along. I have used ultrasonic tools to cut and I am beginning to think ultrasonics was used on the holes. We used the same technique to remove broken taps out of steel hydraulic blocks we manufactured to save the block. A copper electrode would vibrate up and down in water. Have you seen that video of the radioactive stone found in Egypt ,that vibrated violently in water?

What a great insight! Clear proof that shaping the objects is at least a 2 step process. Also one can to a degree see the "resolution" of the rough cut. Or how much material they took away before moving on to the next step.

Absolutely love the commentary it's something that really connected me with the videos otherwise I usually scroll on

Well done Ben. Those boxes are deceptively simple. Our ancestors were absolute masters of their stone-cutting craft. Keep up the good work!

Love these videos!!! Please keep them coming!!! 💞 Merry Christmas

I have been fascinated by this subject for a long time. As a carpenter and craftsman of 30+years I can't begin to imagine what tools were in existence to complete these structures. I know we currently do not have tools to do this work... Not to say we couldn't do it... Just too expensive to create such things in today's times and for what purpose?

It's one thing to have a small number of master stone carvers as there was during the Renaisance even though each carver had a signature style. To produce the volume of work found in Egypt, it would take many thousands of the best carvers the world has ever seen and with a direct standard of size, finish, and style. To duplicate the same items over and over in near perfect duplication, there would have to be precise measuring devices to insure the "standard" is held within specs.

I love the 3D scans! Also fantastic close ups of the precise edges and corners. The stonework is in pristine condition (apart from damage), despite being thousands of years old. It is awe-inspiring. We cannot imagine what machinery was used by 'primitive' craftsmen, and there is not the slightest piece of evidence anywhere. This is pre-Egyptian without doubt!

Wow, I can't believe it also had that edging. Yeah, I've always thought to myself that this was the mic drop of ancient stone work. I remember having to draw it up in steps to help rest my mind because I kept wondering how it was done. You can make this small scale with a block of aluminum. I mean it's possible, but doing it with a giant very heavy block of granite is just next level unimaginably difficult because of the obviously size of the machines and movements needed...and of course tools available. Hardly anyone ever seems to talk about this box. Look at that top, look at how centered it is because if off just a smidgen then it's screwed. It's like how the pyramid's sides all had to line up or else they'd be way off center at the top. It looks as if, if they wanted the top to have a sharp point, they damn well could have. Look at the flatness of everything, especially the sides of the top. Just imagine cutting that with a giant horizontal mill or band saw and traversing a table strong enough to hold that weight into the cutter at just the right speed and rotating the stone to do that 3 more times to get the same result. Then there's sharpness of edges and inside corners and drill holes..(I'm speaking about the Puma Punku H-block holes and others) How the crap are you drilling a tiny hole and in a spot like that with..copper or bronze diamond-tipped bit and a bow drill or whatever contraption people can think up? You need high RPM's for that and a carbide masonry bit..with maybe a hammer drill and the offset attachment in this instance. For the edging to be there you'll have to remove all that material surrounding it, because it's a high relief (like at Gobekli Tepi rather than the low reliefs you see with heiroglyphs) and remove all that material that was inside the box, which in machining you'd use an end mill...then of course square those rounded inside corners up because a spinning cutter only cuts round. You'd now need another machine like a slotter or broach to press down into it and chip away. And even that edging was machined..something you wouldn't even expect. It's round but started square and the cutter ran the length of it in a series of passes at different angles to make it appear round. It was so good that they didn't even need to bother sanding it. You can see the pattern here and many times you can even see how much material was removed with each pass or revolution of the blade. When sanding or grinding or using sand abrasive you won't see any of that. It'll just be smooth and it'll never ever be perfectly straight or flat. Anything done on a lathe will always be perfectly round as well and never perfectly round if done any other way. They had to set up such amazing machines and ways to move and perfectly rotate this stone that they likely made a bunch of them because of all the trouble and complexity, especially since this box has so many features. There's no way this was their first one. I mean the first one was a box..and then someone wanted a better one, and they improved upon it. I skipped over a lot, but you get the gist. Building this stuff with wood would be very difficult and they did it with stone. Why were they so obsessed with sharp edges and straight lines? They had very sharp/hard tools and precise machines. This stuff is just so amazing that it's like looking at something that shouldn't exist.. Those papyrus columns are just ridiculous..

wanted to comment on banding around the box. I own a granite fabrication company and the straight lines are done to save the tools. We use what's called a breaker bit to rough out shape and then more precise bit to start completing finish design. Park Industries has a straight line edge machine we use which does that. make multiple straight passes starting at say 1 pass then diamond moves say 10 or 15 degrees and makes another until finished with only moving the head say around 2 degrees or so but the human eye has a hard time seeing the lines. under a microscope you would see multiple straight lines, if it was a CNC machine the bits we use are basically routers bits impregnated with diamonds thru the shape of the bit. In that case you would see a different pattern but the diamonds will leave a pattern as the bit gets used and degrades from the granite being harder and eating up the bonding material holding the diamonds. I would love to go sometime with your group and actually see it in person and how amazing it really looks etc. hope this helps and this is just what I think may have happened with out touching looking measuring etc. Love the videos ! Please let me know how to be part of your travels etc.

Working with stone for a couple years now, granite is strong but fragile. It wouldn't take well to hammer and chisels because it is a conglomerate. The unfinished side of the bull nose actually demonstrates shaving down as you would expect to see from a pass by a diamond bit of a high speed rotation tool. There is evidence of milling and its another example that we know very little of a time long past !

Finally! I have been waiting for a closer look at this box. Another aspect about these artifacts that really breaks my mind (besides how they were made) is the design they chose for these massive objects. Every lip, every edge, every shape is a decision made in stone. Are they only cosmetic designs or do they have some specific purpose? Do they have a deeper meaning? And why is so much of the stuff they left behind unfinished?

I've been a machinist for over 30 years, What I want to know is who is making all the blueprints for these structures and where are they?

Longtime viewer here. Watched you on JRE. Proud of you, Ben!

Amazing! Please keep doing these videos for as long as you can!

I think it would be awesome to get more people like Alma out to Egypt to look at these artefacts and do some longer form content with their professional opinions

It is undescribable how excited I get when I see that you have created another video. Thank you so much for your amazing work and insight. 🤠👍

Solid! Top KEK! Peace be with you.

The amount of information that you hold on this is incredible

That was an amazing video. Quite frankly while admiring the precision on these stones, my first impression is that all this was cut by a lazer!

This video was good. The first i have watched. I plan to watch many more. I have known these arguments for over 2 decades, but to see the monuments up close explained by the commentary is another experience altogether. I feel like my thoughts about history have been revolutionised.

great show, Ben! Fascinating, want to see the machine!

I drift off in bed pondering these fascinating posts. Rather than the usual stresses of life. Thankyou Unchartered X - (Ben), for returning my sleep pattern to normal.

always an absolute pleasure to watch your videos keep up the hard work

THIS CHANNEL IS SOOO FphUCKIN' AWESOME !!!. ☆☆☆☆ THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION. SINCERIOUSLY, THANK YOU. 🙏😇🌞

So well done, Ben amazing work.

Great video. Machining is written all over the examples shown in your video. The cylindrical shapes have a circular end and centering hole on the opposite side, just like a lathe. These machines had to be enormous.

MAN I AM ADDICTED TO YOUR CHANNEL! Keep it up, mate!

❤️ your channel! Keep up the great work! 👍

Being in granite and marble manufacturing. I can confirm that you could technically drill those holes flush against two axis. The trick would be to reduce the size of the head that the core bit fits too. Love your work Ben keep it up 👍

I really appreciate your video and I believe you are doing a awesome job, what a wonderful treasure it would be to find the true method of the stone work, thank you for your diligence.

You've made another great case for a tale of two industries. I'm not getting any younger(YD) and I hope acknowledgement and research is forthcoming.

While the incomplete artifact should give clues to how it was constructed, I have to think that the waste material might also give important clues. If, for example, the waste material was almost entirely small grains and chips, that could mean grinding and percussion was involved, but if the waste material consists of large scraps with smooth sides, that could mean cutting was involved.

Another great video Ben. Thanks for your work

I’m an engineer in California and I just came across your channel after seeing it on Joe Rogan and this is absolutely insane for them to say this is done with primitive tools is beyond stupid there is no way possible to cut those little holes in the corners with handtools there’s no possible way to do it straight and as precise it’s impossible the edging and the precise corners it’s just impossible to be that precise

Hi Ben. This was so well done and put together. All of the imagery and that transition from a facetted curve to a smooth curve is so impressive. The opinions of expert stone carvers in combination with your well reasoned perspective makes this evidence so amazing. Thank you !

Really interesting piece of engineering. I'm a tradesman with experience in stone and wood work and I can say I could drill a hole in a similar situation with a combination of a right angle drive and a tool bit that is larger in diameter than the diameter of the operating end of the right angle driver head. Of course as you said. you would need really powerful tools to accomplish something like this, especially with precision and accuracy. Here is one idea I have how these holes could have been drilled. If the shaft driving the bit was smaller in diameter than the bit, and a lever was used in the ~90 degree range of freedom available, they could've used some kind of a bearing block with a hole in the middle to brace the shaft exactly centered in the corner. They could've also used such a braced narrow shaft in combination with rope wound around it to generate force somewhere outside the box. No idea what they would've made these tools out of but definitely something tough.

I watched one your vids years ago, then heard you on JRE, and here I am again. Great channel bud.

Ben this is the video I've been waiting for ever sense I first saw this amazing work of granite art about 6 years ago. Watch Tubers wak by it only giving it a passersby look, made me want to be there... I'm truly glad you're spending the time you are on it and not pulling any punches... Kudos Been❤

thank you , the items you show never get shown . they are dumped or hidden . please more extreme close ups of the joins that just disappear and then your not sure if its solid or a extremely precise join , that we are unable to do today. blows my mind . oh and the box is stunning and disserves a place of pride . not dumped and half buried . glad you took a close look.

As a former mold maker its mind blowing how they managed to do this, this would be a hard project to do now. This was 2x thousand years ago amazing.

That box is something we probably couldn't even do today. It looks machined, 100%.

So i stumbled across one of your amazing videos and so the rabbit hole began! Fascinating stuff! How arrogant are modern humans to think we know it all

Excellent work, Ben. Am contributing to help you, from New Zealand. 👏🏼🥰

To me, the faceted edging disproves softening stone to work it. But definitely supports advanced machinery.

Another superb video. Yours are the best at making the case that "conventional" Egyptologists don't have a clue how any of these amazing stone works were made.

This has just completely blew my mind and started a new obsession!

I think the holes in the door frame were not meant for pivoting but rather securing a completely removable door, based on the positioning. A pivot would result in a very odd shaped door on the sides

As fantastic and awe inspiring as this work is ,nobody will believe it's the work of mechanised tooling unless we find the machine that did it

INSANELY awesome craftmanship. I'm just a middle-aged woman looking at these phenomena and not a person on this planet can tell me these objects were carved by hand with prehistoric tools. Totally awe inspiring!

This was awesome. Thanks.

The tools were washed away in the flood. Excellent presentation. Thank you, for the work that this must have taken.

The way the edging on the box is a circle made out of straight lines is super interesting because that’s how 3D printers and cnc machines make circles and it’s how circles look zoomed in in 3D modeling programs. The circles are formed out of a bunch of straight lines in machining and can be smoothed out a number of ways

Thanks Ben ☺️

I completely agree with your opinion about the shaping, boring, core drilling, and finishing work required for these hard stones. You are right, such work can only be accomplished using high-tech and high-precision masonry equipment. Interestingly, the individuals who performed these tasks did not leave behind any equipment, which makes it difficult to identify them. Thus, it seems, we may never know who executed this impressive feat.