Ancient Architects | Ancient Technology & the Great Pyramid Basalt Pavement | Ancient Architects @AncientArchitects | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
This year I was lucky enough to visit the Giza Plateau and explore the pyramids and their associated structures and stonework, and on the eastern side of the Great Pyramid, you can’t help but take note of the magnificent basalt pavement.
These paving stones are in fact all that remains of Khufu’s mortuary temple, which was likely destroyed at the same time the pyramid’s casing stones were removed, if not long before.
This basalt pavement is a favourite talking point for those that believe in a lost ancient high technology in Ancient Egypt. It’s a hard igneous rock and we can see specific cut marks on some of the rock faces. So how were they made? How was this rock cut and shaped? Was it possible with Ancient Egyptian materials and technology? Is this basalt pavement still hiding ancient secrets? Just how difficult was it to work?
In this video, I take a close look at the geology of the basalt and offer some suggestion on just how this ancient igneous rock could have been cut. What was the ancient technology used?
All images and video are my own, have been used with permission or have been taken from the below sources for educational purposes only. Please subscribe to Ancient Architects, Like the video and please leave a comment below. Thank you.
Channels Mentioned:
Scientists Against Myths: youtube.com/@ScientistsAgainstMyths
Sacred Geometry Decoded: youtube.com/@SacredGeometryDecoded
Video Footage Used:
Basalt Lava Flow: youtu.be/xFgV6TC3glI?si=SVpf8WawksfrcaQi
Smashing a Diamond: youtu.be/XBjiEsAyNQs?si=_tDTiN4DlObjpiES
Sources:
https://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/images/MFA-images/Giza/GizaImage/full/library/hassan_giza_10.pdf
jstor.org/stable/1359662
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/ancient-egyptian-stone-drilling/
jstor.org/stable/40000832
jstor.org/stable/1359662
rruff.info/doclib/hom/labradorite.pdf
neoskosmos.com/en/2023/05/30/features/new-evidence-reveals-ancient-egyptian-and-greek-trade-extended-to-the-bronze-age
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X23001530?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-9&rr=7cf34d63cad21f5b
https://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/documents/moores_jarce28_1991.pdf
https://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/29-3/Gwinnett.pdf
#ancientarchitects #greatpyramid #ancientegypt
This year I was lucky enough to visit the Giza Plateau and explore the pyramids and their associated structures and stonework, and on the eastern side of the Great Pyramid, you can’t help but take note of the magnificent basalt pavement.
These paving stones are in fact all that remains of Khufu’s mortuary temple, which was likely destroyed at the same time the pyramid’s casing stones were removed, if not long before.
This basalt pavement is a favourite talking point for those that believe in a lost ancient high technology in Ancient Egypt. It’s a hard igneous rock and we can see specific cut marks on some of the rock faces. So how were they made? How was this rock cut and shaped? Was it possible with Ancient Egyptian materials and technology? Is this basalt pavement still hiding ancient secrets? Just how difficult was it to work?
In this video, I take a close look at the geology of the basalt and offer some suggestion on just how this ancient igneous rock could have been cut. What was the ancient technology used?
All images and video are my own, have been used with permission or have been taken from the below sources for educational purposes only. Please subscribe to Ancient Architects, Like the video and please leave a comment below. Thank you.
Channels Mentioned:
Scientists Against Myths: youtube.com/@ScientistsAgainstMyths
Sacred Geometry Decoded: youtube.com/@SacredGeometryDecoded
Video Footage Used:
Basalt Lava Flow: youtu.be/xFgV6TC3glI?si=SVpf8WawksfrcaQi
Smashing a Diamond: youtu.be/XBjiEsAyNQs?si=_tDTiN4DlObjpiES
Sources:
https://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/images/MFA-images/Giza/GizaImage/full/library/hassan_giza_10.pdf
jstor.org/stable/1359662
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/ancient-egyptian-stone-drilling/
jstor.org/stable/40000832
jstor.org/stable/1359662
rruff.info/doclib/hom/labradorite.pdf
neoskosmos.com/en/2023/05/30/features/new-evidence-reveals-ancient-egyptian-and-greek-trade-extended-to-the-bronze-age
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X23001530?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-9&rr=7cf34d63cad21f5b
https://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/documents/moores_jarce28_1991.pdf
https://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/29-3/Gwinnett.pdf
#ancientarchitects #greatpyramid #ancientegypt
