Making Egyptian Drill Holes: Lost Ancient High Technology

The experimentalist Nikolay Vasiutin copies the ancient Egyptian technology of granite drilling: a copper tube and a grinding agent (corundum). Evidence of ancient machining?
"It often happens that on various Internet forums and social media I have to communicate with people who do argue that ancient Egyptians had zero skills. Though all of us read about them in schoolbooks and watched some films. In other words, ancient Egyptians allegedly didn’t have tools and technologies necessary to create all those things which are shown to touristsin Egypt nowadays.For even guides in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo say they don’t know how such impressive bores in granite could be made".
The experiment was carried out for the ANTROPOGENEZ.RU (antropogenez.ru).
The video was first presented on June the 5th, 2016, at the "Scientists against Myths" educational forum.
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Experiment participants, apart from Nikolay Vasiutin:
Aleksandr Sokolov, ANTROPOGENEZ.RU editor;
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Valeriy Senmuth (senmuth.com)
Vladimir Morozov (v-morozov.ru).
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Total work time: 8 hours.
Tube diameter: 50mm.
Drilling depth: 50mm.
Tube runout:15mm.
Total weight of the bitbrace: 11kg.
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[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

The experimentalist Nikolay Vasiutin copies the ancient Egyptian technology of granite drilling: a copper tube and a grinding agent (corundum). "Principles of tubular free abrasive drilling" (Oleg Krugliakov): antropogenez.ru/drilling/ ⚠ Olga Vdovina and ANTROPOGENEZ.RU invite you to back a new experiment: creating a diorite vessel with the use of ancient technologies and primitive tools: antropogenez.ru/diorite_vessel/ Become a patron: www.patreon.com/join/antropogenez_world

[@Wolffzahn]

You have very high goals for yourself! An interesting experiment, but not very meaningful, as the viewer does not know whether you really drilled by hand or just made a few turns for the film. Anyway, I suggest a scientific approach to you: 1st question: Which hypothesis should be confirmed or even proven by your experiment? Answer: In the Neolithic or the Copper Age, core holes were drilled with primitive tools. Any modern drilling technology should be excluded. 2nd question: What types of core holes were drilled when and where? Answer: There are various butt and core holes as well as drill cores in axes, temple entrances, dolmen entrances and various building blocks whose purposes are unknown today. Stone materials with a Mohs hardness of 1-7 were pierced. Core holes have been known at least in Central Europe, Mesopotamia and Egypt for possibly 6500-5500 years. 3rd question: Are there records of ancient core hole drilling techniques in words and pictures? Answer: Yes, in ancient Egypt there are reliefs and hieroglyphics that describe grinding bores. 4th Data acquisition through experiment: If possible, look for 4 Neolithic drill cores from each of the above-mentioned regions and carry out comparative drilling in cooperation with an institute for materials science with identical materials and dimensions. The following data should be recorded: Tool: power consumption feeding rate rotational speed pressure on tool wear costs Workpiece: dimensional accuracy surface quality microstructure crystalline changes The auxiliary constructions and their creation effort should also be recorded. Possible attempts and for comparison Ancient: Drills with tendon arches, hand drills with and without guides, with and without abrasives Drill material: pipes made of wood, bone, copper, bronze, iron Abrasives: corundum, quartz, normal sand, dry or wet Modern: Abrasive dry, steel with diamond or widia with or without guide Abrasive wet, steel with diamond or widia with or without guide Abrasive with corundum, rotating water jets Thermal with rotating laser Thermal with rotation maser Thermal with plasma Crushing with ultrasonic drilling 5th Evaluation of the data in cooperation with an institute for materials science and preparation of an official report. I don't understand at all why an engineer named Christopher Dunn hasn't done this for a long time, he has the skills and experience to carry out exactly these tests. Last By the way, your sarcastic way of attempting to refute C. Dunn's hypotheses is extremely unpleasant and seems unprofessional. A sober approach would be appropriate because your experiment too - only clarifies a small part of the problem. Have fun researching and good luck. Cheers!

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

@@Wolffzahn great research program, get busy.

[@vorrdegard2176]

My parents hired some laborers to cut a large rock that is beside my house and a ton shit load of money and they even didn't do the job as expected on to of that they scam us with overprice if we had this thing it would have saved us hundreds of dollars

[@lewismaestas8547]

@@vorrdegard2176 your saying drilling a hole using a copper tube would have been the best way to cut a stone in your back yard? No wonder they ripped you off your not very bright

[@JustinHT]

Core drill 7, enough said...

[@BarnabyBaltimoron]

Someone at the History Channel needs to watch this.

[@paul6925]

Right? Someone should start one that hasn't sold it's soul. The best I have are streaming services that never add any new videos

[@BarnabyBaltimoron]

@@paul6925 I find it so incredibly insulting to ancient peoples, to say that they surely couldn’t have pulled off the awe-inspiring feats of engineering on their own. It must have been ancient aliens! Horse shit!! The History Channel has some serious atoning to do for all the damage they have caused. It is infinitely more fascinating to learn the truth, like these two gentlemen showed us. These guys were EXCELLENT! So meticulous with every detail of explaining exactly what was happening. Plus, both of their t-shirts are bad ass!! Let’s get them a show on a major platform. They would leave the ancient alien technology theorists embarrassed and humiliated, which is precisely how they should feel.

[@paul6925]

@@BarnabyBaltimoron I agree! It is insulting. I hope there is a growing niche market for these guys, because a lot of us are so sick of all the BS

[@vorrdegard2176]

History TV 18 insults it's viewers intelligence

[@erikr968]

Why? It doesn't have aliens or wild conspiracy theories in it... :)

[@Eye_of_Horus]

Now imagine someone doing this who was trained in the arts of the trade, themselves being generations old and perfected over time. That’s most likely what we are looking at when we see ancient Egyptian stonework.

[@xiupsilon876]

Exactly, it seems archeologists frequently make this mistake. Saw a documentary where they tried recreating Polynesians boat building and travel to Okinawa. The archeologists said the workers can't use hammers, even when they complained of lots of pain in their hand of baging rocks against eachother. To me, the hand pain is evidence enough that there would be a strong motivation to quickly innovate some primitive tools to help alleviate the pain. But the archeologists stubbornly thinks that all ancient people were complete morons.

[@xiupsilon876]

They failed. Very funny and extremely cocky of the archeologists to think that they can surpass the ship building skill of these ancient people that worked for hundreds of years perfecting their techniques. I think they can't even come close without relying on modern technology, they can't prove shit without working on the problems for ages like the ancients did.

[@mnomadvfx]

@@xiupsilon876 "innovate some primitive tools to help alleviate the pain" Exactly - which is exactly the impetus for inventing weapons that further and further removed the wielder from the opponent in battle. Power tools just further the evolution of removing operator effort/pain from the work vs more primitive hand tools.

[@jasonshink6589]

Yes that means that skill was developed over 10s of thousands of years. No one is saying aliens with a brain. But there was great floods that wiped out many civilization s. What were the pyramids used for?

[@Eye_of_Horus]

@@jasonshink6589 no, try a few hundred years. We can see from The archaeological record the progression. Egypts technology was essentially unchanged for 70,000 years. We find nothing but flint knapping technology. Then a few thousand years before what we think of as ancient Egypt, we see a slow progression into the granite and limestone work that everyone thinks is something it’s not.

[@TheAngryAtheist]

People on youtube: "aliens and lost technology" Guy with a stick: "i just did it though." People on youtube: "alien confirmed"

[@TheAngryAtheist]

KZbin commenter: No no no hold on there. You did 3 mm per 4.92 hours and 76529.1 microns of oxidization. Over 12 weeks and 42 hours, not including 31.35 hours of accumulated moonlight striking the earth at 20.492 degrees and the sweat generated by 42 muskrats in a desert setting, ive concluded that it must be aliens.

[@bluemamba5317]

Yes a "simple" stick using an industrial extruded copper pipe. And I'm sure they didn't at all use the power drill clearly visible on the bench behind them 😉😉

[@TheAngryAtheist]

@bluemamba5317 oy did someone force you to post that at gunpoint?

[@varyolla435]

Tubular bow drills can be seen in the famous depiction of ancient Egyptian craftsmen at work in the tomb of Rekhmire. Further a stone artifact unearthed at Armana which was fashioned using such a bow drill contained residue in the drill holes. The residue when analyzed showed copper and corundum. Emery corundum was mined on the Greek island of Naxos from antiquity to modern times making it easily obtainable for ancient Egypt. Other possible sources exist in the region as well.

[@mnomadvfx]

Yes there is a corundum source in the eastern desert between the Nile and the Red Sea.

[@allangibson8494]

@@mnomadvfx There is another corundum source west of the Nile as well… The source west of the Nile had been matched to bore hole residue at Amarna.

[@infinitetradecraft1837]

Just like a more modern calyx drill. Everything new is old sgain.

[@davestephens8033]

You completely miss the point. Those hieroglyphs were from much LATER dynasties, when all that technology that baffles everyone was LONG GONE.

[@varyolla435]

@@davestephens8033 😴😴😴

[@ivanivanov-ii6mp]

Was waiting for this video for 20 years ! this is genius level of engineering, so grateful for this demonstration ! you need to publish a scientific article man !

[@bluemamba5317]

Yes, I'm especially impressed by the power drill on the bench behind them, ofc they didn't use it between shots

[@SandyRiverBlue]

What's funny is that there are stoneworkers in Egypt who have either worked out most of these techniques or had them passed down to them during their early training. There are hours of recordings with them on KZbin but they are buried under the algorithm and days worth of conspiracy theory videos. Kudos on getting to the top of the queue.

[@chrissibersky4617]

What is also funny is that those techniques don't leave the same traces/markings. So it can't be how it was done. There are videos about that too but you have to dig even deeper to find those. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXfYl2Cdd9qopNE

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

@@chrissibersky4617 >those techniques don't leave the same traces/markings kzbin.info/www/bejne/foLMZaynoZyMqck

[@chrissibersky4617]

@@ScientistsAgainstMyths That was very well explained! 👍 Thank you.

[@Antiextremistdude]

@@ScientistsAgainstMyths Wondering if they use a continuous loop of rope to run the drill in one direction and the cutting marks correspond to the paths of abrasive particles and the granite powder exiting the hole. It might also be possible to get the 2mm cutting pitch if it's done after an initial rough hole, as in a finishing process.

[@Antiextremistdude]

Ah. Your linked video explains this - Well done!

[@PyroChimp75]

The technology has not been lost just the patience and skill.

[@mrvn000]

Toda la razón.

[@wiretamer5710]

No. We have more skilled people alive today, than have existed throughout the whole of history. What has changed are the cultural expectations of the ruling class concerning the building of mega structures. What are considered 'normal' work practices, and 'normal' project management in the modern world are very different to those in the ancient world. What is considered a 'valuable skill' today, is very different. What is considered 'unskilled' is also very different. National service as religious practice, was a big deal in Ancient Egypt. The use of slave labor on precision engineering jobs during WW2 has proven very informative about what kinds of work you can force people to do, and what kinds of work require a workplace culture of relative civility and respect. Child labourers making watch chains in 19th century were treated like punching bags. But slaves forging foreign currency for the Nazis were treated relatively well. I'm not trying to revive the hollywood myth of slave labor used on the pyramids, the evidence for the working conditions at the Giza pyramids suggest otherwise. In the middle kingdom there is extensive evidence for industrial action. I'm just saying that definitions of productivity and efficiency are not universal, but the definition of a healthy work place culture is universal.

[@PyroChimp75]

@@wiretamer5710 I was talking about stone masons but sure!

[@celebratedrazorworks]

Well said. In just a single nother generation, because of the social atmosphere, most trades will be all but monopolized by industry. Due ONLY to the fact that our children are being subverted by mainstream to think only elitists with advanced tech or aliens making hybrid celb status narcissists that 'look' impressive can achieve anything. Summary, if they can't find a youtube video it isn't real. But dad is just a fool who plays with random worthless artifacts.

[@jk7140]

This is the ultimate respect that can be given to the master craftsmen and laborers of ancient Egypt that are responsible for these beautiful artifacts we have all seen. Thanks for showing your callouses from this process as well. Expertise alongside blood, sweat, and tears are responsible for these structures, no laser beams required.

[@pranays]

Well said

[@supabass4003]

no lost ancient high technology, just good masons

[@arjakezhaz4951]

The drill marks in the granite stone is continues and 500 times stronger penetration than our diamond drill bit,

[@Charlie_Fucsard]

This is impressive but there's a hell of a lot of movement going on, the drill is far from remaining perfectly vertical which would surely be required to make precision cuts. Could you really cut with the incredibly high precision we see in Egypt this way?

[@jamespage3884]

Two supported pieces of wood with a circular hole between the joins, and placed horizontally two thirds up. The drill is then placed within the hole. As the operative rotates the cutting tool, the support keeps the tool straight and prevents the wobble issue… thus preventing a tapered plug/hole.

[@richtomlinson7090]

Yes, and there are some types of wood that are much more slippery and have been used in more modern ships, as the shaft bearings out in the wet areas. I'm not sure what they had in Africa, but I'm sure there would be a type that can be a Lignum Vitea substitute. One could also just lubricate a lesser quality wood. Wooden machines have been around a long time.

[@unpampered]

Yeah but how do they get the circular hole between the joins? Obviously Aliens.

[@ThunderClawShocktrix]

@@richtomlinson7090 and add sleeve to the handel that can spin freely to prevent the blisers or even set up rope belt and pully system linked to waterwheel and there you have full on power drill using only basic tech

[@lawreence13]

I'm particularly impressed the way the egyptians made copper tubing

[@CurriedBat]

Copper was generally too soft... but can still make an effective chisel. Bronze was an upgrade to be sure. Flint = GOAT

[@gabiferreira6864]

You know copper is soft right? You know they could melt and bend this stuff...

[@joeshumo9457]

Copper hardens naturally when worked. It is only “soft” in the annealed condition. Once a sheet of copper is beaten into a sheet it is about as hard as it’s going to get. But it is much harder than soft copper.

[@macgonzo]

They didn't use pure copper though... The copper ore they smelted had naturally occurring arsenic in it, and as a result the end result was an alloy of copper and arsenic - this is called arsenical bronze, and is much, much, tougher than copper alone.

[@ClaudioMartinez-astroturismo]

Guys... congratulations!!! I dedicate myself to the dissemination of science and many times videos like this are necessary! Keep in that way! Greetings from Argentina Claudio

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you!

[@rhouser1280]

Too bad this doesn’t have 10M views. This is awesome, thank you for demonstrating.

[@methylene5]

It's nonsense. The copper abrasion is too high for this to be at all practical.

[@mnomadvfx]

@@methylene5 Who said it was practical? There is a difference between practical and necessary. If the pharaoh/high priest says they want it and are willing to pay, then you just do it. It's good to be the king.

[@methylene5]

@@mnomadvfx If copper was used to cut the stones, the entire desert would be green with copper oxide. You don't seem to understand the scale of the stone cutting. That's what I meant by "practical". Furthermore, they never had enough copper and bronze to account for the abrasion that would occur from cutting tens of millions of precision cut stones in Egypt.

[@Jacob-ed1bl]

@@methylene5 Overexaggerate much lol. I'm sure you're an expert in field 🤣. It definitely not bullshit and I'm 100% sure it not done by aliens, lizard people or power tools 🤣.

[@bluemamba5317]

@@Jacob-ed1bl Just the Great Pyramid of Giza alone, had 2.3 million stone blocks, with at least 6 cuts per stone. Do the math dum dum.

[@2Glock30s]

Next video: How to make a granite vase, that is translucent, and with copper tools... Next week's video: How to make precision cuts on granite, with copper tools, and leave no tool marks... Next month's video: How to move 60 ton granite blocks, that were precisely cut, and put them so perfectly into place that you cannot slide a playing card through a crack and lift that 60 ton granite block about 450 feet off the ground... Please, show us more of that Egyptian ingenuity, while using only copper tools and rope...

[@Zach-sg5uu]

Yes, and do that while smoking, ceremonial, ancient marijuana and ceremonial tobacco mixed!😂 Perhaps we can have an ancient toga party !!😂

[@cCiIcCo]

Next video: Showing you the Fatimid Crystal Rock Ewers to finally make you open your eyes. Fatimid Crystal Rock Ewers are much more beautiful and so much more difficult to carve carafes out of quartz crystal and they used primitive tools. The ewers are the ultimate proof that it was absolutely possible to carve vases😂

[@jimturpin]

Beautiful! Such a great explanation of how holes were drilled. Subscribed! Can't wait to see more of your experiments! :)

[@olorin4317]

Great channel! I have worked stone for about 15 years. I try so hard to explain reality to people who have been fooled by the ancient alien charlatans. It is great that I can point them to your channel now and save myself some time. :)

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Wellcome!

[@carolinapelegrinivillafane3290]

I would like you to make a video with the materials and tools of that time .... which is actually something that no one has been able to achieve .... or make those holes, much less build a pyramid of those ... the mystery is raised and I would love to know sometime how all that happened and who did it !!!!!

[@jemimag05]

But Ancient Aliens are so much more fun! 😁

[@danjones9082]

@@carolinapelegrinivillafane3290 this has been done. No matter how many times people prove it, there will always be people like you. You have demonstrated that

[@jamisojo]

@@carolinapelegrinivillafane3290 drilling holes with the tools of the time is exactly what this video is doing. Why do you ask such a silly question.

[@Cu-Co]

I can't believe i just found this channel, Great work guys

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you!

[@TheHudsonValleyWanderer]

Archeologist Flint Dibble mentioned this channel on the Joe Rogan podcast.. Now I'm here. Interesting video!

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Wellcome!

[@zombietech2010]

Me too!

[@DaumbFauckProduction]

you mean Flint Fib-ble

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

I can't thank you enough for your work. I do have an 'alternative' mindset in regards to the sophistication of ancient mathematics and geometry however for years I have been banging heads with the Lost High Technology crowd who simply refuse to accept that ancient lifting and stoneworking techniques are the basis for modern technologies. No matter how many times i recommend they read Heron, Vitruvius and other ancient texts in regards to these things they just refuse. Also how pantographs can be used to fit polygonal stonework with high precision (restorations at the Parthenon and Joresh used this exact method to fit shattered pieces of the original stonework to fit with new stone) which is much more difficult than fitting the smooth sided blocks. The modern restorers foud this ancient method much more effecient than modern technologies. Again, nothing but denial and angry ad hominems, along with many peole claiming to be masons, chemists and engineers but even with my limited knowledge I exposed their lies all too easily. When I try to tell them this polygonal-cyclopean masonry was used to make the walls of naval forts such as in the Baltic they only dodge the issue by shifting the goal posts to another 'what about this and what about that'. I answer and provide examples but no response. After all those years I can't help but see it as a fundamentalist cult. The methodology and cheap psychological tactics could be copy pasted from the standard play book of Scientology and other such cults. If I could suggest another experiment it would be how the ancient Egyptians lit the underground passages such as the Serapeum. Instead of multiple mirrors (which doesn't work very well) I have read that natron and castor oil creates a smokeless flame thus stopping the ceiling being stained in soot.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thanks for the detailed comment!

[@thehaj5249]

Do you have any information on exactly how sarcophagi were made? I don't contend that the Ancients were intelligent but surely with this method of drilling you would need 6ft x 3ft core drills to even attempt to make all the sarcophagi at the serapeum of Saqarra, not to mention it seems evident most of the difficult work was done prior to moving them to this place. Which seems risky to me. But then there are a couple of impressive ones from later Iron using cultures. Like the Sarcophagi of Helena and Constantina.

[@Cornel1001]

Not necessary, they are some big problems. Do not forget the most advanced technological artefacts belongs to the predynastic time. So the pictograms/hieroglif are real in showing the manufacture method. But in the same time could be an effort for them to achieve the same result having advanced reference in front of their eyes, artefacts made by somebody else in another time. Predynastic mean they did not know the wheel. Anyway it is a very good result. Even in the video they remove the stone using steel chisel. Again steel did not exist at that time, and when existed was very rare, being very valuable and you will not waste this steel manufacturing chisels.

[@lookoutforchris]

@@Cornel1001 the stone core can be snapped off with a simple wooden wedge, as shown in other videos. Ancient Egyptians also don’t wear jeans and appear on KZbin, do you understand my point?

[@Cornel1001]

@@lookoutforchris I am afraid they had other technological approach to solve other problems. Perfect flat surfaces on large areas are huge challenge even today, as example. Or moving 100 tonnes blocks. Stone age from my point of view is not studied enough. Bob Brier made very nice observation on his books, insisting everything is inherited from ancient Egypt is made by normal people but very well organised.

[@phillywister9957]

wow that is certainly very interesting. as someone who had been convinced the striations couldnt be achieved with such a tool im proven wrong. although there are no real closeups of the thing which still has me doubting a bit. i even realized after watching this video that flinders pietries drillcore 7 isnt even thinner at the bottom but at the top! always thought it was the other way around. so it is indeed possible to recreate a drillhole almost exactly like the ancient ones. but how about recreating a whole full-sized drillcore? how long would that take? several weeks? and for what purpose would that even be. they used it as doorhinges at other sites but it seems completely random at giza. i still cant wrap around why you would do such a thing: just because you can? anyways i thank you for you work because youre basically the first people to REALLY test these things and show the results (kinda) more scientifically. but as other people said, we need experiments with several scientists to accurately measure and evaluate the findings, compare to whats found on giza plateau. curious for your future videos

[@kevinmoore9084]

I want to see them wrap a string around the core showing the groove is conical just like Christopher Dunn

[@stripeytawney822]

@@kevinmoore9084 you realize the regularity is a function of rotation speed, right? So 2 dudes, one having never done it before, will have a variance to the speed. The ancient driller was not doing his first one, and the addition of a drumbeat makes it regular. Got anything else?

[@slamrock17]

@@stripeytawney822 Don't be fooled! Christopher dunn did not assert that the toolmark consisted of regularly spaced concentric rings. His assertion is that it is one continuous helical toolmark. That is why the string was employed to verify a singular indention.

[@njones420]

All someone has to do to prove the have a helical groove, is place a core on a rotating base, and it will be obvious...but I've never seen this done. Every core I've looked at appear to have concentric rings rather than one continous groove.

[@theweedycanadianman4845]

They also could have maybe utilized a far bigger drill but the same theoretical design shown here to cut out the larger portions. and then finish up with smaller ones.

[@MadmanBTS]

Great job on demonstrating granite drilling! I'd love to see a similar simple principle for creating the famous scoop marks found throughout ancient Egypt quarries and in many other parts of the world.

[@Eyes_Open]

Adel Kelaney did an experiment on that using dolerite pounders compared to fire setting and then using dolerite pounders on the weakened granite surface.

[@carteunu467]

Cast stone. See the lectures of Joseph Davidovits on geopolymers

[@ohmitered408]

thank you some much for doing these experiments . Keep up your great work

[@slashgee7827]

Thank you for these videos, there is an absolute need to show the depth of scholarship required to re-discover these ancient innovations probably of working people that did not make the ancient record. The deluge of ancient technologists claiming alien or pre-modern civilization is irritating & insulting to the cultures that created all these magnificent monuments worldwide at a huge human costs.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you!

[@jason00121]

I really wish that those fantasizing alien involvement in Egyptian construction would study rigging and lapidary. Neither field shows technology that has changed greatly in thousands of years. Understanding how they built these structures, the monumental task of such a construction project and sheer logistics makes it all the more impressive. It took a lot of very skilled and dedicated people to build the pyramids and temples like luxor.

[@jamentert3450]

@@jason00121 Super cool video, putting it in practice. Some question how do they know how to get the right chemicals, stone and practice. Is there any written method to this or just guess and experience ? Why choose granite and going to the effort. Why do many cultures around the world have the same technique when minerals and knowledge are not available or shared around the world at this time.

[@yeldarb141983]

@@jason00121 probably would help if they consulted engineers, metalurgists, blacksmiths, etc. once in a while, lol. Or hell, just got your average diy enthusiast to give it a go, lmao

[@Dodanos1]

You know that they is now evidence people like you cant dispute, like gobekli tepe around 9-12k years ago that there were a pre-modern civilizations with advanced technology but got wiped out back to the stone age propably by comet? Its insulting to the cultures to say that they were hunter gatherers, you can more clearly see it in recent Göbekli Tepe, start there with not arguable evidence then maybe think again about hunter gatherers building monuments we cant build.

[@alwayscensored6871]

These guys have proved ancient power tools work. I want them to try polygonal stonework next.

[@iGame3D]

Perforate the rock in a line, insert wood, add water, rock splits evenly, now sand for smooth finish.

[@alwayscensored6871]

@@iGame3D gold plated mirrors reflect infrared really well. Good enough to melt rock? Cities of Gold?

[@kevinm9]

@@iGame3D read his message again. And explain how granite Stone is cut to Glass lake consistency into 400 ton blocks raised 300 ft in the air

[@methylene5]

@@iGame3D Get yourself a dictionary, and look up what polygonal actually means.

[@Wonderboywonderings]

Tubular drill doesn't explain precision right angles recessed into granite and perfectly flat surfaces. Also doesn't explain precision cut granite vases.

[@rayberczik7251]

This is just a couple guys messing around. Imagine a guy with years of experience doing it and could do it faster. No big mystery or alien technology needed just sweat and a few blisters. Now show us how to move the huge blocks in the pyramids please!

[@LesterBrunt]

Yeah exactly, like comparing some scientist trying to saw and glue some wood to see if you can built a violin compared to a master luthier who comes from 10+ generations of the craft.

[@davidcorbett1713]

The ancient egyptians had pure hardcore quartz based sand which as been proven. The more abrasive the sand the quicker the cut. Great video guys.

[@nataliee5501]

Diamonds.

[@stevenguy-gibbens4253]

Excellent, this does a better job of explaining this than some high budget documentaries I have seen on this subject, keep up the good work!

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you!

[@NickVenture1]

Interesting. Thank you

[@QuitworkBehappy]

Some of the holes have spiral grooves that allows us the calculate how quickly the blade is cutting the granite...and we cant match that with copper and grit.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foLMZaynoZyMqck

[@Suburbanstoneage]

This was fantastic! I subscribed because I want to know more of your techniques, and try them for myself in some upcoming projects. I would like to cut stone, especially granite, using whatever ancient techniques I can find. Thank you so much for your video!

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you and good luck!

[@marcusjv100]

Surely this offers an explanation for drilling (albeit rather rough looking), but doesn't explain the precision of the right-angle cuts in some of the massive boxes that have been found, or the tight mortarless fit of stones. These mysteries don't imply atlanteans or aliens, it just means there's still much to learn and left unexplained

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Really? Do unexplained things still exist in the world after watching this 20 minute video?

[@cruzgonzalez7061]

@@ScientistsAgainstMyths What? Please make sense.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Corrected. Has it become clearer? )

[@Amash796]

@@cruzgonzalez7061 apparently it’s sarcasm. Classic Russian humour 🤪

[@antonellocossu4319]

You should keep watching some more videos of this channel. They'll show you how it could have been done, with a few hand tools, dedication, and hard work. This is what makes ancient Egyptians so great

[@bobibest89]

The real question is how they made the copper pipe.

[@awatt]

Casting? Investment casting?

[@andrewclifford1932]

Fascinating practical demonstration of a probable technology which explains a puzzling mystery in ancient stonework

[@evbbjones7]

Great video guys! I'm curious about a few things. For one, does it cut faster if you apply more downward force in the form of weight? Does speed make that much of a difference? My mind immediately scales up application. A bigger copper pipe, a log instead of a sapling, and a hundred pound plate instead of a plaster mold. Anyways, thanks for doing this! Been waiting years for someone to just make the damn video and silence all the 'high technology' ideologues. Glad someone finally stepped up! :)

[@pavel9652]

There are probably limits to the technology, like high friction, high tool wear, difficulty operating, perhaps abrasive paste might have a harder time to get into the groove, etc. Although the design looks inefficient and exhausting. Personally, I would prefer a less wobbly device had I had to perform such a task. I think they have demonstrated in the later videos on this channel a larger copper drill with a large and stable handle.

[@wiretamer5710]

@@pavel9652 High tool wear was overcome by real time frequent replacement and refurbishment of the tools. A single copper or bronze age drilling job involved half a dozen support workers keeping up a constant supply of sharpened tools to the coalface workers. As the metallurgy evolved over time, the number of people employed in sharpening was drastically reduced without effecting productivity. Today, high performance steel alloy tools eliminate the need for frequent tool replacement and on site sharpening, just as mechanical drills eliminated the need for a two man tool holder and tool striker team. Two man hand drilling teams were common in underground mining up until WW2. Hot riveting teams for large scale fabrication remain in limited use.

[@Its_Shaun_the_Sheep]

You never convince the idiots! Some people need to believe in the supernatural over the hard work of ingenious humans.

[@rayrivera1830]

Now make a finely shaped figure out of that granite like it was clay.

[@Its_Shaun_the_Sheep]

Melt the granite by magnifying the sun onto the block and pour in a mould.

[@keepitkosher8065]

That I need to know

[@Antiextremistdude]

I believe this is done like a 3d print, except as a subtractive process like cnc cutting. Grab your seat. How would this be done? Well, start with a clay prototype, still wet. Carefully cut the prototype into slices with a horse hair or similar thread, support the thread on both sides so each cut is flat. Now what? Now I believe we make the jump to what the Eye of Divine Providence actually is a representation of and could explain the obsession with pyramids. Once you've got your rough geometry, skilled hands can make it smooth using known methods.

[@keepitkosher8065]

@@Antiextremistdude they aren’t just smooth tho , they are identical , from left to right , precision more precise then humans can eye ball

[@Antiextremistdude]

@@keepitkosher8065 That just means you only have to make half the templates then flip them, makes the job even easier. Their precision is good but attainable. I did similar stuff before I got my CNC machine. I used to work off a pedestal drill loaded with router bits, a slide vice and a tilting table with a slot/channel loaded in the vice. The slot has a bearing at the end, so an MDF template (anyone cluing on - MDF has excellent dimensional stability unlike timber) with a pin in the middle can rotate on the tilting table while being bound to one dimension by the channel. Whatever shape your template, anything mounted and being cut on it will take on the shape of the template. This is probably more complicated than what I've described with the light projection on templates going slice by slice - I didn't have time nor space to make that many templates, so I'd use as few as possible, preferably one or two. It gets complicated with scaling - what happens isn't a scale, it's more like polar addition which is almost the same as using offset path on CAD programs. Going inwards, an oval template collapses in the middle, going outwards, the traced shape approaches a circle off to infinity distance, with only the initial difference between the length and width distinguishing the shape from a perfect circle. Weird twisting effects happen if you don't have the cutter perfectly lined up with the slot, weird things also happen if the centre pin isn't drilled near the centre of the template. And the real fun is machining outwards, toward the edge, because the template has to be the shape modified by polar subtraction. One shape I could make this way was a teardrop and the corresponding template is a kidney shape. I could judge how well I'd done the templates by how close the outward machining matched the inward machining because they were done using different templates. Anyway, what I've described here is the kind of thing the Egyptians could have done manually with enough skill and patience.

[@lancehobbs8012]

PLEASE do one anout the scallop marks on the unfinished obelisk of ashwan ! I have a percussion (simple) drilling technique that can explain almost all of it Its pretty basic stuff , really....

[@walterhernandez6482]

I´ve said it a lot in videos that can not give credit to ordinary egyptians for the marvels they created and jump to extra terrestrial beings and alien machines... EGYPTIANS WERE SMART and solve problems like this with ingenuity and practice.

[@N3onDr1v3]

Ok so with all skills combined, when is a full size granite sarcophagus? We need to know how long this will take. Get olga to do the finishing, and drill out the interior using this technique. I have a feeling that doing such a thing would catapult understanding

[@pranays]

You going to provide the money and labor a pharoah had?🤡

[@alfadvestidvadtzattri8439]

You definitely need two voices for such videos, with only one it's a bit uncomfortable to listen Very cool video anyway, thanks!

[@mikedrop4421]

Yeah, the garage 54 translator would be perfect

[@greenorange752]

These dubs are always uncomfortable to listen anyway. Just leave the original audio alone and do subtitles.

[@excellentcat3878]

Yes, but I'm just grateful there is translation at all. Thanks for such great videos.

[@mrbmp09]

How much did the copper bit wear lengthwise to cut 50mm of stone?

[@rickylaws7766]

Ok after seeing this i am NOT on the ancient astronaut theorist anymore. Cause all the ancient drill holes had my mind boggled an i firmly believed aliens or a advanced civilizations drilled them. But not anymore. Now i can see how it was really made... Amazing. Thank u for opening my eyes to the truth.

[@Darfail]

holy wow Im so happy you said this I needed to see someone change their minds, I'm way too used to incredibly stubborn ppl who present arguments but don't change their minds when they are debunked

[@zchettaz]

Im not an ancient astronaut theorist, but i do work in construction and i can tell you that this hasnt proved or debunked anything, except possibly for debunking themselves, let me explain: The drill holes in Egypt have clear markings/grooves on them that show that it must have been done by some type of machine. We know this because from these markings/grooves we can obtain how fast the drill bit was rotating as it went through the stone and it is incredibly faster than anything a human can do by hand by orders of magnitude. They way they try to explain it off in this video by talking about the pitch of the markings is completely inaccurate and also ourtright false, with regards to both, the markings of pitch they claim to have, as well as, the markings seen in egypt. For argument sake, say the stone they were drilling in this vid was 20cm (thats being very generous) and they claim to have obtained markings with a pitch of 1-2mm obtained with each rotation, they would only need to rotate it 100 - 200 times to get all the way through. They obviously didnt achieve results even remotely similar to those in egypt otherwise they would have clearly shown it to us, not only because the markings wouldnt even be comparable, but because they clearly didnt cut through it at 1-2mm with every rotation. Sorry for the essay, but hopefully this makes you do some more research into this so you can understand and see it for yourself.

[@rickylaws7766]

@@zchettaz That comment was a year old.. My mind was changed then, but im back to believeing they had some ancient machines because there is way too much evidence pointing to that fact... Its ok you wrote an essay.. I love to read..

[@zchettaz]

@@rickylaws7766 Hahah, my bad, i didnt look at how long ago it was posted, it was like the 4th or 5th comment down from the top. Glad to hear you continued to do more research about it. Although, knowing that it was done with some type of machine, raises alot more questions than answers, such as: - where are these machines? - how did they power them? - how is it even possible to have such advanced machines, that use a circular rotation, but didnt think to use it to invent the wheel? Been stuck on these for a while with my research - there are a couple of ideas floating around that try to answer parts of these, but they're very unlikely and just creates even more confusion.

[@rickylaws7766]

@@zchettaz I agree. the more research done into this subject that the more confusion it causes. Maybe they were Beyond making the wheel. or they made it but found no use for it. Who knows and im not as smart as you are. I can tell your pretty smart by bhow you write.. But i Love this subject and love researching things other people deem "pseudo science"

[@xornxenophon3652]

I still do not understand why the Egyptians used those cheap copper tools, even though they had lots of Aliens to help them?!

[@angelprincess4414]

I had never seen a credible demonstration of how granite can be drilled, cut with the technology and tools available in ancient times. However, have you guys thought how the granite statues were so finely made? The absolute precision of the faces on the statues is astounding, to say the least. Wonderful videos, you guys shame the experts who try to gloss over their poor attempts to explain what you have demonstrated.

[@Leeside999]

Flint chisels and dolorite will work the harder stones quite well. The result basically comes down to the skill of the artist/craftsman. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmjMYZiVr9ljj9k

[@barryexit]

I love the way you guys demonstrate how the Egyptians DID drills holes. I have known this for some time. But I would have liked to have seen a close up of the core that you drilled, and if you compared the measurements of the continuous spiral to 'Core 7' that is on display in the Petrie Museum. Sorry, but the demonstration was faultless, but sitting there using the shaft of a calliper and just reading it out doesn't prove anything. I personally can't see how spinning the drill fast and continuously for a couple of days, can lead to one deep spiral groove. Chris Dunn demonstrated this easily by just using a length of cotton. I'm not saying you are wrong, but I believe there are two kinds of drill holes in ancient Egypt.

[@methylene5]

You can say it, he's flat out wrong.

[@HomeDefender30]

@@methylene5 all I know is no matter which way I search for it, I cannot find any information on ancient copper tubes, just chisels and saws. 🤷‍♂️

[@methylene5]

@@HomeDefender30 This SAM channel is a parody for the weak minded and poorly informed, there is no actual science there. Copper was a very expensive utility in the late bronze age, and the waste of abraded copper would be tremendous even when using abrasives to cut granite. However, such methods may well have been used by the later Egyptians to cut softer rocks such as limestone, sandstone, alabaster, etc. The people who lack the ability to simply say "we don't know" in the face of overwhelming evidence, are by definition, fools. There's a good reason why despite the many attempts, no on has succeeded in accurately reproducing the granite statues or rocks using copper saws, sand and water.

[@wompbozer3939]

@@HomeDefender30 You should read the paper that’s referenced in the description of the video, something like “ The principles of free abrasive tubular drilling “. Give it a quick read.

[@cameronsmith9562]

Tube drills with gemstone set in the tube should do the trick, coupled with some sand to set the indention, it should be fairly easy to do. Polish could be achieved with a rudimentary form of sanding achieved by attaching sand or gravel to straps of cloth or leather with pitch or saps.

[@islamsharqawy]

That's amazing work! thank you very much for the great experiment it's really enlightening. I am an Egyptian sculptor and I have been studying Egyptian art and history all my life besides living my whole life in Egypt amidst all these Wonders, a couple of years ago I participated in a similar experiment, we evened a surface of a granite block using a Diorite balls and cut two sides making a perfect corner with copper sheets fastened longitudinally with wooden handles and emery powder and Nile mud mixture as an abrasive, It worked also perfectly and we had a good result in the end.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you! Is there a video of your experiment? Photos?

[@Darfail]

more info please?

[@Balczak]

I think it would be interesting to compare the drill lines on your cores to the drill lines on the cores in egypt. You would need very fine measuring tools, but it would at least give us more insight if they were the same methods.

[@pranays]

It's been done probably before you were born

[@Balczak]

@@pranays probably! I’d love to see the research or content comparing. I’d do it myself but ya know, costs a lot to travel to Egypt and with the appropriate tools 😂

[@joehendrix8442]

@@pranays laser scanners were not available before we were born genius

[@MJIZZEL]

The box on Elephantine island in Egypt has drill holes right up against the sides of the box. In fact its closed off at the top an the hole is surrounded on 2 sides. No way this works there.

[@tr1x243]

​​@@MJIZZEL those holes are surrounded on 2 sides yes, meaning you have 2 free sides for attachment of you pully device (bow, stick etc.) to a spindle drilling a hole. You dont have to have full circular motion as in this video. You can drill holes only going thru one ( up - down, left - right ) or 2 axis ( half circle).

[@kennethjanczak4900]

great Thanks for taking the time to make the video and share it

[@semeabseyoum2623]

Great Work! Gratitude from Ethiopia!

[@AntropogenezRu]

Thanks!

[@Yourmission9]

These guys are phenomenal! Very cool work, and thank you for dubbing in English! I would learn Russian just to watch their videos though

[@elliotw5918]

Thank you for demonstrating some real science!

[@bierdlll]

It does not explain the machining groove marks found inside the drill holes made by the Egyptians.

[@ВсеславВсеволодович]

there are no such traces

[@bierdlll]

@@ВсеславВсеволодович Watch UnchartedX videos, lots of recorded evidence of this. There are also drill holes that are flushed at the edge of a granite box which makes it impossible to apply this method.

[@ВсеславВсеволодович]

@@bierdlll Nope I had enough freaks known in Russia like the ukrainian fomenko with his "new chronology", Chudinov, the romanian florin kurta with his nonsense about how the Slavs were formed in the avar Khaganate or jewish pseudo-scientists. I don't need another one. Things can be rotated and moved at different angles, all kinds of stones, minerals and metals can be processed, sawn, turned and so on. To do this, you do not need to invent things that do not exist and lie that this cannot be done.

[@bierdlll]

​@@ВсеславВсеволодович You don't have to invent anything. We just have to admit that we don't know. Absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence, it does not mean that it does not exist. This is a logical fallacy that archaeologists make over and over again. Denying the existence of spiral drill marks, unwillingness to study it more deeply, or simply saying that "it can be done with copper tools", is lying to ourselves. Many ancient sites show evidence of advanced stone work sitting beside very primitive stone work. Archaeologists simply ignore this. Only 5-10% of the Earth's surface has been investigated. How can archaeologists current models and timelines be remotely accurate in any way?

[@ВсеславВсеволодович]

@@bierdlll I don’t invent anything - we know how the Egyptians and other ancient people processed stone, you and this ucharted troll don’t know it. They used stone, copper, bronze and abrasive. Unless individual particulars can be discussed, but no more than that, the general meaning of how and what they did is clear to us. Archaeologists are fine, unlike all kinds of crazy from the Internet, they know the topic they are studying very well. It is undeniable that there are no spiral grooves and never have been, Petri lived in the 19th century and he was simply mistaken. on the contrary, archaeologists say that it could and was made with a mixture of copper and abrasive, that is, the exact opposite of what you say "Many ancient sites show evidence of advanced stone work sitting beside very primitive stone work." - Archaeologists do not ignore anything precisely because of them you just do know about the existence of what you are talking about. Give at least one example of advanced stone work most of the planet is land under water and it is difficult to explore it, so what? there is nothing that we cannot explain, nothing that speaks of any nonsense like ancient civilizations, aliens and others, you wrote another garbage

[@mitchellbrown1425]

this is amazing I have imagined how they must have done this for a long time. The grooves look identical to the cores from ancient Egypt. Amazing work

[@rayturp6742]

Skill and hard work did everything we see built. Too many people have looked as said they could never do it so no one else could either. The fact is people have forgotten that people used to do the same jobs as their dads and their dads and even their dads before them. Very skilled after generations of learning and teaching.

[@WhereIsTheSpartan]

However, skill and hard work are of little use when you enter the realm of precision. This technique may be able to explain drill holes, but not surfaces with a deviation of thousandths of inches. Nor does "hard work" explain how to align blocks of stone as heavy as school buses to within a few hundredths of an inch. Likewise, it is not a question of "how" our ancestors were able to work with high precision, but rather why invest the extra work in the first place.

[@diamondportal77]

@@WhereIsTheSpartan That's because the of that level precision doesn't exist. Just click bait lies.

[@WhereIsTheSpartan]

@@diamondportal77 I visited Egypt several times and measured a high level of precision at various locations myself. So if you can disproof than show your data otherwise nice assumption.

[@Jack29151]

Technically it isn't a drill, it's a bore saw.

[@tommaguzzi1723]

how did they make the copper tube?

[@MrFraiche]

Seriously…the experiment ends right here. 😂

[@LadyBits2023]

....??? there are literally Egyptian hieroglyphs of tube drilling?? Lots of them... Same with copper saws, same with highly advanced bronze, alloy, chisels that they have in museums same with in a numerable wealth of tools that you probably have no idea exist because you don't do any research before talking out of your own ass

[@parkerw.2155]

They had copper tools and made lots of things with copper. Are you implying they could not bang out a flat sheet and roll it into a tube like this guy did?

[@kevinm9]

We've known for a long time that copper tubes can drill through granite using sand it's the 1/8 mm striations that are continuous through cores that show that it was made with the single spinning drill bit like without stopping. If people think it hasn't been tried and match to the striations that's just laughable

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Of course: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foLMZaynoZyMqck

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

Fantastic, thanks! I hate when people try to act like Egyptians had no clue how to make holes, cores, vases, thin vases, the list goes on. One of my favorite precision drilling is on/in Khufu's coffin, they had intricate stone pins to lock the lid in place.

[@slicedbread9003]

Good job. No myths just some insight and hard work.

[@MrTridac]

While this technique (grinding) was certainly used, there's evidence of actual cutting of stone. Many of the holes and cores that were found in Egypt have regular helical grooves with quite a large pitch (>1mm/rev). As you showed, the grooves in your core seem irregular and horizontal (hard to tell from the video. Can you confirm?). That's strong evidence that many ancient holes were not ground.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you! Watch this video about "regular helical grooves with quite a large pitch", please: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foLMZaynoZyMqck

[@JustinHT]

Core drill 7, enough said...

[@JustinHT]

Core drill 7, enough said...

[@GroberWeisenstein]

@@JustinHT Scientists Against Myths replicated the core hole using depicted manual methods. you need to come up with more to say...

[@ravezoth1186]

All the stories starting with the words "they couldn't..." means nothing more than "I can't"

[@LordLorenSoth]

So basicly the story that you are telling here about such 'stories' is that "They couldn't possibly be right to any degree!"? ... =p

[@ravezoth1186]

@@LordLorenSoth so then your story is as if I've said what you'd like me to say to allow you to pretend to be smarter?

[@LordLorenSoth]

@@ravezoth1186 Calm down, crusader. I was just applying your own 'logic' to your own words.

[@ravezoth1186]

@@LordLorenSoth just take it easy - I'm only trying to get what a type of 'logic' you mean and why it's absent in my messages while you're calling it 'my own'

[@LordLorenSoth]

​@@ravezoth1186 heh - if you don't even understand your own posts then maybe you ought to stop posting

[@keithnoneya]

Here in the United States we hear the same arguments and when I hear the Supposed Experts say our ancient ancestors weren't capable of doing such things I just laugh and say to myself, "professing themselves to be wise they became Fools". I was watching a video on Egypt and someone said the same thing about those holes, I wrote back and said chisels and a round rod and some friction combined with sand or granite dust and water would cut those holes just fine. You just proved my theory but in a different and better way. I like your theory of the copper tube much better. Regarding the building of the pyramids there is an internal ramp theory with physical proof that makes more sense than any other theory out there. Thanks for sharing your fine video. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

[@s.esamawi8193]

Great experiment & makes sense better than the alien technology BS channels. i also would like to add that Egyptians used to cut blocks of stones with water. Yes water, They used to fill the the holes of the rocks with water & with the desert extreme weather at night it freezes & expands & slice the rock.

[@Grunttamer]

Ah yes, ancient Egyptian plywood.

[@steveg3442]

Great experiment, I have no doubt the ancient Egyptians were making the same sort of drill holes

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you!

[@eckyhen]

An excellent demonstration of how this was done with, ingenuity, simple tools and muscle power. The proof of the technique is that the holes and the cores match perfectly those found at the construction sites.

[@erook2019]

Not perfectly which is my issue, the existing drill holes have spiral striations all around, whereas when we try to replicate this process with primitive tools there are no striations, let alone spiral ones.. That's the odd difference.. edit: Another difference that exists is that there are drill holes deep into stone, not on a thin slab like their example.. Now how would you cut out a tube out of that hole without it reaching the other side? You can't unless the tool you are using destroys all the stone inside the diameter of the hole

[@eckyhen]

Did you really watch the video? The holes looked pretty "perfect" to me. They replicated the technique as shown in the drawings left by the people who observed the method themselves. They also showed how the cores were knocked out of the holes and lots of these discarded cores have been found all over the building sites. What more proof do you need?

[@erook2019]

I didn't mean that by perfect.. Sure it is a perfect tube shaped hole. @@eckyhen Show me the spiral striations because on the closeups i didn't see any? The original drill holes were done by a different method entirely, clearly something less labour intensive because we can measure the pace at which it was cut with those striations. You say they showed how those cores were knocked out.. It's not impossible to knock out a drill core from a small block of granite. What is difficult to knock out the core without reaching the other end of that hole. Yet there are examples of exactly that.. I saw drill holes that go deep into stone but dont reach the other end, then the ancient people centuries later used those drill holes as a weakness in stone and cut the blocks in half through the hole to reuse the stone

[@Eyes_Open]

​@@erook2019You are correct that the example does not contain continuous spirals. That makes it identical to the ancient examples, which also do not have continuous spirals.

[@erook2019]

The documented example would be Core Drill discovered by flinders Petrie It's a funny story with that one because it is known to have spiral striations but people reporting on the matter made sure to tamper with the image to make it seem like they are horizontal instead. Idk about spiral but i know most if not all drill holes in egypt are shown to have striations, which is something you wont get by spinning copper.. Infact I'm not too sure but i dont bbelieve you will get striations at all unless they come at an angle.. Or spiral @@Eyes_Open edit: Type 'Core drill seventh of petrie' for a better look of those striations into granite

[@jackdelaney6633]

Appreciate your work very much, your quite correct people need proof in tangible forms, maybe because we are so devorced from manual labour for the most part.

[@yeldarb141983]

well, that, and (I think) most people are visual learners anyhow.

[@Jack29151]

There's still manual labor, only now days you just put the key in, start the engine and gun it and have a hole drilled in under 5 minutes at 20,000 RPMs

[@BSIII]

This is excellent work. You guys have actually demonstrated these techniques instead of just calling everything impossible. The lost ancient high technology grifters always move the goal post through.

[@markogrba1]

Thank you for your blistered hands.

[@willfox1037]

You can watch hundreds of hours of American videos about laser beams and lost alien technology, or watch a couple of Russian blokes answering the mystery in twenty minutes. And without the dramatic music and low brow commentary.

[@willfox1037]

@Cuban-Jo I imagine if one's IQ has dropped below 70, then yes, the US ones are probably more fun!

[@lightcatcher3]

That proves nothing. Because that hole is not accurate. Not precise. And it’s small You cannot cut granite with copper in any precise way And then there is the weight. The biggest modern crane can barely lift a 75 ton block a few hundred feet up! And all this talk does not discuss the amazing accuracy and complexity of the great pyramid They used incredible math and geometry Throughout Egypt. Hundreds of structures we cannot build today Plus all that is deep underground Which is massive

[@MEAT_EATER23]

​@@lightcatcher3the idea we can send a 420 tons space station into orbit and built a 50 km tunnel underground, while we cant built giant pile of rock seems dumb to me. Please touch grass for a while.

[@lightcatcher3]

@@MEAT_EATER23 you do not understand engineering, or ancient history. the great pyramid is NOT just a pile of rocks... every single one is unique, and there are over 2 MILLION of them in just ONE pyramid. and there are many hundreds of them around the world.. Each of those blocks weighs 2 tons, and some of them up to 76 tons, and they are a few hundred feet up. PLUS, inside the great pyramid are amazing accurate shafts, corridors, precisely aimed at certain stars... so who designed that ? where are the drawings ? you cannot build something that large and precise without spectacular engineering skills, and it's lasted at least 5,000 years ! None of our modern structures will last that long,, not even close...

[@MEAT_EATER23]

@@lightcatcher3 @lightcatcher3 i think you need to do some research first. We do have the name of the cheif architect who built the great pyramid he is the nephew of the pharoah khufu name hemeihunu (also just a fan fact, look at his statue that man have some intense moobs). Plus papyrus deteriorate over time, its like commonsense if you study history, that paper and papyrus decayed. Also if you want modern stone structure that was perceice and can last long, take a look at mount rushmore. Scientist believe that mount rushmore can survive for a million year. Because its made out of granite, placed in a stable envierontment, and dry place. Sound like where the pyramid are.

[@Neodymigo]

I must congratulate Nikolay Vasiutin and his assistants on "rediscovering" the drilling technique used in ancient Egypt, and probably other cultures as well. It is very interesting that we had scenes from wall murals showing this type of drilling, used inside of stone vessels, but we did not recognize the effectiveness or universality of the technique. This is different from a "tube drill" using a bow and cord, which one would try to keep the drill from wobbling to achieve maximum abrasion....I think this should be called a "wobble drill". Also clear that the "spiral grooves" noted by so many previous investigators, are actually caused by drilling detritus exiting the hole as the drill "wobbles", not by the abrasive drilling face of the tool at all.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you! What do you mean by "drilling detritus"?

[@jalspach9215]

@@ScientistsAgainstMyths "Detritus" = Waste material from the drilling process. Great credit & respect to you! This is fantastic! I love experimental archaeology. I also have a recent theory that, especially on lager holes, the Egyptians naturally exploited the hollow copper or bronze drill head with a hollow wooden shaft with a funnel at top to introduce water/abrasive, much like modern core drills. And a weighted wheel (capstan) somewhere mid shaft or higher was kept spinning by several assistants stationed around like children at the park whirling a go-round ride. This would require bracing the rig. I then progressed to 2 other adaptations (theorizing ancient trial & error refinement) of this. (1)The capstan (flywheel) is also a tub - weight provided by water -shaft protrudes thru tub with funnel for abrasive. That means progressive weight can be controlled - to start the drilling light with less water. Holes in the shaft in tub for flow down shaft. Hole size controls flow. The empty water tub/shaft assembly would eliminate the struggle to move to other locations as with a stone weighted mechanism. I might make some drawings if you're interested. Let me know. I plan to build a rig like a small Trebuchet tower or pole tripod and try drilling on a larger scale here in Hawaii. (2)Percussion must be explored as well. Either beating the shaft with sticks or mechanical pawls/cams added to the spokes of the capstan. I believe ancients might have quickly discovered the added efficiency of hydraulic shock by needing to beat the shaft if it became clogged with slurry/mud. This would push out "detritus" thru pressure/flow. As you mentioned I too believe the ancients are not given enough credit for ingenuity and don't agree with space alien technology crazy talk. Aloha P.S. Please investigate progression of core tapers. I would expect only smaller cores have a profound taper. The diameter where lager cores have less to little taper might confirm the point where a stationary tower (less wobble) theory begins. Although I understand some wobble is important for introduction of fresh abrasive at point of contact. Also, if there was Egyptian sea trade at the time why not consider they imported their Corundum from the island Naxos, Greece?

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

@@jalspach9215 thank you! Our experiments have shown that everything related to tubular abrasive drilling is simple and low-cost. And there are enough of corundum in Egypt.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

@@AustinKoleCarlisle Take a look: antropogenez.ru/uploads/pics/16-%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BB-%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80_.jpg on the left - the famous Core #7 found by Flinders Petrie in Egypt in the 1880’s "a continuous spiral groove"? Are you shure? on the right - The core obtained in Vasyutin's experiment in 2010th Could you find any difference?

[@MrRecklessryan]

@Prof Myers You have heard of Occam's razor right?

[@oLevLovesLove]

What is the wear rate of the copper tube? A problem I have with copper tools cutting granite theory is that it does not appear to be an economical use of copper, especially since the way it is used the copper is ground into unrecoverable powder mixed into the slurry. Also how do you propose that ancient egyptians fabricate long tubes? The one you are using is seamless waterpipe that is extruded in a factory. While it is possible to forge an ingot around a die, that die is usually made of steel, forging copper on copper is challenging as the die gets deformed. If tube drills are consumed in large quantity on a building project they must be easy to make which suggests it may be just a bent unjoined sheet but those cannot drill deep without flexing.

[@methylene5]

The abrasion rate is very high, that's why the self proclaimed "scientists against myths" conveniently ignore it.

[@BungieStudios]

The same rate as granite.

[@ColinWatters]

Why is the copper unrecoverable? Could you dry it and melt out the copper?

[@ColinWatters]

Are there any long cores surviving? What's the longest? I assumed they used a short tube on a wood pole and broke out the core regularly.

[@dhy5342]

Georgio's hair would straighten out if he saw this.

[@hughgrection3052]

I think you could have use some pipe for the handle also so you didn't get blisters lol. I think the ancients could have impregnated the copper with dolerite or granite dust. It would work like modern diamond impregnated steel blades and drills work. It would just wear faster. However. There is a huge issue many don't address in videos like these. They have found core drill samples that have absolute perfect spirals down the entire length. A string can be wrapped around them to indicate how the cutting tool cut roughly a millimeter per rotation (I'm guessing at size as I'm in America and here it would be roughly 1/32 of an inch lol.) This method of drilling requires hundreds of revolutions per millimeter as you bore. So while yes, this is correct for much of what we see, especially in later dynasties. The ancient people used something very different.

[@Leeside999]

Are you referring to Flanders Peitre's core 7? That does not have a perfect spiral grove. And can be easily replicated. kzbin.info/www/bejne/foLMZaynoZyMqck

[@hughgrection3052]

@Leeside yeah I was basing my statement off of apparently some very well staged misleading information. I have since lost interest in the core and changing my mind after the guy here showed me some real info also on the matter. I'm not one of the guys that beats a dead horse lol. If I see sufficient proof I will concede and admit when I'm wrong. I wonder if they was mislead too. I give them the benefit of the doubt. But if it's the same core that I saw being made to sound like it was a spiral they're pretty well into the liar category. I was seeing them wrap string around the dam thing and whole nine yards lol. Anyways lesson learned. Thanks bud

[@jason00121]

The Chinese traditionally used bamboo for stone drilling.

[@НиколайСмирнов-с7х]

and bone, like all world before before they started using bronze

[@deepthunder1034]

They must have used that on their pyramids.

[@ВсеславВсеволодович]

@@deepthunder1034 there is no bamboo in egypt as far as i know

[@nexusphreez]

Something that I want to point out, yes this technique does very very slowly bore a hole into the granite. What they need to do is do a cutaway afterwards and do a comparison of their borehole with the ones found in Egypt. The big difference they're going to find is that the boreholes in Egypt have a continuous thread. As if the drill bit went into the granite continuously without just grinding. They've actually measured the threading and you can trace the thread all the way around some of the core samples that were left behind. Though this technique that they're using works, I do not believe it's the same technique that the Egyptians used.

[@Eyes_Open]

Yikes. There are a few people who push the claim of a continuous spiral but it simply does not exist. The modern experiments are able to replicate the ancient examples.

[@LesterBrunt]

There are 8K pictures of the column on google image, in 3 seconds you can see for yourself the spiral is not continuous. And yet you won’t even do a basic image search while you keep repeating this nonsense.

[@kifer2594]

Egyptians had advanced technology lost to time, there is evidence of it, like the off center cut on an unfinished granite box, it’s in a museum in Cairo, if Egyptians used copper saws to cut it they would correct the cut days in advance, there are also drill holes that were drilled at a speed that outruns our modern machines, engineers and geologists know that, it’s just the egyptologists that deny the evidence and stick with their 100 year old theories, I don’t know why people are so against the theory that Egyptians had stone saw mills and hole drills that worked by using reduction gears, pulleys and cattle

[@TomLaios]

Brilliant boys.But I bet there are tons of pyramidiots who would still insist aliens or Atlanteans were involved.

[@ErwinTheBolocBoloc]

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[@charlieross-BRM]

It was a great coincidence for me that you included an illustration @2:47 that I accept as an example of how they used this technique to manufacture vessels. Because yesterday I watched one of those channels for thick headed people. A group were allowed to rummage deep inside an Egyptian pyramid and were handling broken pieces of vases that would have looked just like this. The whole point of their video was to show that the vases of hard stones like granite had surfaces that were too smooth, too concentric and cut too thin without fracturing during "chiseling" to have been made by anyone other than some vanished race of people (humans? aliens?) with special tools at least 10,000 years before the commonly accepted origins of the pyramids. Rule #1 to me for me is that people didn't punch a clock to work like we do today. We now say "It will take too long." That wasn't as much of a concept even in medieval times. If something must be done, it was done. Look at the cathedrals of Europe - generations of families - employed, not slaves. Skilled, not grunts.

[@pawfeirefin4048]

Thanks for the effort and dedication to understanding the past. The only question remaining here concerns the smoothness of your cuts conpared to the obvious striations on Egyptian core drill holes. Search for pictures of ancient holes and notice the spiral lines, clear evidence of the feed rate of whatever drill was being employed. Why did it take 40 minutes to cut such a shallow and smoothe core when endless photos from Egypt show what must have been a cutting tool with a feed rate of 1mm/rotation, or whatever it turns out to be? Seek truth and be humble.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

About the spiral lines: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foLMZaynoZyMqck Seek truth and be humble.

[@pawfeirefin4048]

@@ScientistsAgainstMyths I really appreciate the link to those videos with Olga, thanks. This experimental way of challenging the alternative hypotheses about ancient stonework is very interesting. It's amazing what can be done. I'm still confused though - what about the circular saw cuts in hard stone, and the size of those circular saws, and the box in the Cairo museum that is unfinished seeminly because of a slip in the sawing. If one of these pieces of stonework could be discarded because of an entire foot of skewed sawing, how fast was the tool moving?

[@OwO-gr9qx]

I absolutely love your videos, keep up the great work! Conspiracy theorists are just mad in the comments because they refuse to accept that these works took a long time to make and the combined effort of many people. If only they could start looking at things like this instead, they'd realize that there is no "secret technology" except for capable workers, copper tools, abrasive slurry, and time.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you!

[@cruzgonzalez7061]

Haha good one. Is that all you guys can say? Muh conspiracy theorists.

[@Quietriot369]

How were copper pipes made back then? And can you make a video, about how you make such a copper tube?

[@methylene5]

Copper can't be used, it abrades too fast for large scale drilling. People will believe anything these days, judging by the comments.

[@Eyes_Open]

@@methylene5The use of copper alloy tools is not a debate. Copper and abrasive residue long ago found in saw cuts and bore holes.

[@methylene5]

@@Eyes_Open You've missed the point entirely. Only the later Egyptians used copper, since the original tech that cut and machined the millions of tonnes of Aswan granite were long gone. It's not a debate, except in the minds of those who have no clue about the sheer logistics of using copper to cut and shape such a quantity of hard igneous rock and softer rocks also. Just because they found some holes that had copper residues, doesn't just automatically mean that's how all the buildings, statues, pyramids and holes were all cut with throughout the entirety of ancient Egypt. Leave science to the professionals.

[@Eyes_Open]

@@methylene5 You have made a correct statement about leaving science to the professionals. Your mysterious claims about lost tech are the definition of anti-science.

[@methylene5]

@@Eyes_Open Professionals don't lack the ability to say "we don't know", only fools cherry pick information and think they have everything figured out because they lack the ability to understand the sheer complexity of situations. Your thinking is the epitome of the Dunning-Kruger effect. There's nothing mysterious about lost technology, because the evidence for it is overwhelming, in fact most ancient archeology is based on assumptions and circumstantial evidence rather than direct evidence as so much is lost to time, and much of it is by definition "lost technology". You probably hear that and think "alien technology". SMH. Like I said, just leave the science to the professionals.

[@theawkwardobserver8757]

I am glad I came across this vid . It once and for all debunks the miths that ancient Egyptians used primitive technology to build unexplainable superstructures.

[@NORTH02]

amazing work guys!

[@76RSLT]

How much did the end of the pipe wear down lenghtwise? I was surprised at how little the thickness changed. Great demonstration!!

[@zaharib]

Great videos guys! One question though… how did the Egyptians make those copper tubes? Can you make a video showing us exactly how you made the tube shown here? Cheers!!

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Thank you! antropogenez.ru/drilling/

[@zaharib]

@@ScientistsAgainstMyths Thanks so much for the link sir. Much appreciated 🥰

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

@@zaharib wellcome!

[@finley.h]

Whether you agree or disagree, I can't help wondering why you can't see ahtt's claims. "Similar but different" In any case, thanks for all your hard work.

[@ryankaul8620]

I love that he is like "we have too many russian "Graham Hancock's" and it's out of hand."

[@stepnyvlk9695]

Can you do this in a corner with a offset ? Like shown in the boxes? And can you make sutch a copper pipe by the egyptian standards technology used?

[@Bbonno]

Nice work! Has the effect of adding water and new abrasive from the inside of the tube been tested? This would obviously require an access hole somewhere up the tube, but it would also wash these cut clean whenever you added water. It would probably affect the finish :)

[@yeldarb141983]

What's funny is these are basically the same principles behind using cutting oil and/or abrasive edged sawblades/ abrasive tipped drillbits today. People have a hard time understanding that much modern technology is really just the result of slow refinement of older technologies over time. To be fair, though, the ancient Egyptians probably looked down on their predecessors in the same way that our successors will no doubt look down on us 1000 years from now.

[@yeldarb141983]

Also, let's be real, people really want to believe there's something magical in the world, even if it's just aliens, which I'm sure exist, but I've yet to see any direct evidence they visited us, lol

[@Jack29151]

The difference is, them Bore saws have GASOLINE ENGINES. you start it up, rev it and you're done in a few minutes. no one alive today or in the last 10 generations knows the concept of slave labor or working your ass off sun up to sun down with no mechanization.

[@yeldarb141983]

@@Jack29151 yep.

[@ВсеславВсеволодович]

@@yeldarb141983 "people really want to believe there's something magical in the world" I dont

[@yeldarb141983]

@@ВсеславВсеволодович that's fair. I tend to think of magic as a metaphor for something miraculous. wondrous, or simply amazing when you stop to think about it for a moment. An example: making bread. In reality making bread is simply the application of various scientific (specifically chemical and sometimes biological) processes to produce a durable, calorie-dense, often tasty foodstuff, but that process is still impressive, and results in a product that in almost no way resembles the materials used to create it. That transmutation is magical to me, in spite of understanding that it's basic food science and could probably be explained by your average highschool chemistry teacher pretty easily. Knowing it's perfectly rational doesn't take away from the "magic" of it for me. It merely enhances it.

[@drfrank777]

Amazing. I wouldn't have believed it was possible. Great job!

[@williampockoski5029]

Very impressive, thank you for passing this technique on, very well done.

[@stuarthayward2220]

I like that you actually show real examples combined rather than only something you’re read online. Though I still wonder how they drilled the star shaped holes? Also, some holes have a I. D. groove pattern that shows a 1/8th cut per 360 rotation.

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Wellcome: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foLMZaynoZyMqck

[@FirstnameLastname-bn4gv]

"Some holes have a I. D. groove pattern that shows a 1/8th cut per 360 rotation." No, they don't.

[@stuarthayward2220]

@@FirstnameLastname-bn4gv I was in Egypt in the late 80’s when you were still allowed to actually touch much of these areas. I brought clay in which I pressed molds of many stone carvings. I also pushed clay into three holes I suspected were drilled by machinery, some holes had 1/16 cuts per rotation and one had 1/8 per rotation. I was physically there rather than making stupid claims from your couch while on your iPad. I still have all three samples, physical proof, while you’re only repeating something you heard

[@FirstnameLastname-bn4gv]

@@stuarthayward2220 Wrong. I'm observing the high-definition, composite images of the drill cores in question. Not one of them has been shown to have a single, continuous spiral groove of even width. Your claim isn't any more credible just because you vacationed in Egypt 30 years ago 😂

[@stuarthayward2220]

@@FirstnameLastname-bn4gv Who in their right mind vacations in Egypt? I had to be there for a work contract and that’s why I was there. YOU don’t even know which holes you’re looking at, nor their locations. You’re probably getting your “high resolution pictures” from a proctologist. I completed two clay, 180 degree impressions per hole so I know the exact radius and the exact drill patterns from whom ever did the original work.

[@heshamel-sherif4663]

Hi, thanks for this. I think the idea of using clay/sand is convincing. As an Egyptian, I have seen this idea still being applied in some local areas for different purposes. However, This is convincing in case you prove that the ancient Egyptians made "tubes" of cupper. How the ancient forge/extrude tubes of copper? Today, this needs an extrusion machine. Also, how to accurately maintain the outer/inner diameters of the copper tube? Cheers (y)

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

What? Extrusion machine?? Forge a piece of copper into a sheet and wrap it around the stick. To read: antropogenez.ru/drilling/

[@spartacusall]

Flat copper hammered sheet wrapped around a cylinder shape, not necessary to joint it. Just a inset holder at top.

[@ВсеславВсеволодович]

easy - copper is such a fusible material that it can be smelted even on an ordinary fire without a forge, in order to create a pipe you only need some kind of straight planed piece of wood or a clay mold, all this can be done by hand. The processing of the bones of various animals by the Paleolithic Cro-Magnons is a much more complex thing and they easily coped with it.

[@mikedrop4421]

You guys are heroes. Well done. Keep fighting the misinformation!

[@fotoxcite]

This is a piece of cake. Can you scoop granite like icecream ?!

[@bigpumpkin22]

Good on you guys, I have never had any doubt that this was how the holes were drilled

[@ScientistsAgainstMyths]

Wellcome