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Originally posted by Power_Semi
Are you all retarded?
Originally posted by ZakOlongapo
In the Cairo museum one can see several examples of simple copper and bronze saws, which Egyptologists claim are like those utilized in the cutting and shaping of the pyramid blocks. These tools present a problem. On the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, copper and bronze have a hardness of 3.5 to 4, while limestone has a hardness of 4 to 5 and granite of 5 to 6.
The known tools would only barely cut through limestone and would be useless with granite
and none solve the problem of how the 50-ton blocks of the main chamber were lifted and positioned using an area where only four to six workers could stand, when the strength of at least 2000 would be needed.
Originally posted by Hanslune
[granite was generally shaped by bashing it with diorite hammer stones
Originally posted by Power_Semi
Would retards be better?
Originally posted by Plugin
So that's how they made this piece (which once belonged to something bigger), with just hammering on it with another stone? If you hammer things, it takes ages, I hammered metal stuff, hammering stone stuff, would just break things off, not shape it and make it smooth?
Originally posted by mblahnikluver
Technology doesn't have to mean the same as it does today.