The MOST precisely made granite object of Ancient Egypt - and why it's NOT geopolymer!

As an ex- aerospace engineer and builder of several houses, I have worked in many materials and with many advanced machine tools. The box with the half round arcitrave got me subscribing to your channel. The unpolished sections made with multiple facets tells me everything. These were made by serious machine tools, not hand tools without any doubt. The big elephant in the room is what happened to them ? and why can't we have TV like this instead of the brain numbing crap they serve up ?

Ive worked with marble & granite for over 25 years. There is absolutely no way that was done with primitive chisels. Even with todays technology and tools, this is incredibly hard to carve out. To get the inside corners so precise is almost impossible. Whatever it was that they used, it was definitely powered by something other than muscle, granite is way to tough to chisel like that. They must of had some power source which was at least equivalent to electricity, and used diamond tipped tools or something even tougher. Great vid, Glad i found this channel- been binging on your vids for a couple of days now. Thanks for the great vids that you produce, i feel as if im there on location. No other channel gives that experience.

Just discovered this video and I'm utterly amazed by the content. Great work sir.👍

Every so many months I have to come back and watch this episode, it blows me away. Thank you for your research brother.

Having worked in the granite industry for years I can tell you that even with a modern cnc machine it would be difficult to replicate this in particular the radius in corners are virtually impossible with all but the most specialized equipment, and even today it would usually be much larger radius as the tools need to be bigger so they don't break when cutting. water jet cutting will give a very straight cut but how that is hollowed out is just remarkable. a water jet cuts all the way through. a cnc uses different shaped end cutters to achieve different profiles but quite how this was achieved without modern equipment is beyond me it is very apparent that whoever made this had a level of skill equal if not surpassing our own.

I have NEVER seen the arched room like this ever in the million Egyptian videos I have watched...then the box...best new video on the entire internet Ben. 🌟. Also the video walk through was like I was there. Much respect 🙏. Thanks

Wonderful video, and outstanding job getting the information you are providing out in a way that is accessible to almost anyone. I will definitely be checking out more of your videos ( this was my first), and I look forward to supporting your continued work and outreach. Please keep up the great work, and good luck on your future endeavors.

This is seriously what I am curious about. Thank you for sharing those footages and insights. This precision box is (one more? ) indeniable proof of some long forgotten highly technical society.

As a stone worker and all things stone fabricstor for the past 20 years, I can say that in my company, we put beveled edges or "eased" edges on stone to prevent them from chipping and damage. Natural stone is most fragile when it comes to accidental damage. With that being said, as a professional Mason, this box was not made with copper chizles and hammers. No. Way. By the way, granite is one of a kind. Melting it down is impossible, as you would not get the same crystal structure anymore, which would just turn it into crumbly lava like rock.

Such a great video! You're a very rational skeptic. I'm a geologist so I know a granite and a limestone when I see one and it's no doubt those are what I see. Here's my 2 cents. A bit long winded but there is a lot to cover and I might as well give it some effort seeing as you've given a lot of that yourself in making this content. The granite stone you show looks like an alkali-feldspar rich plutonic felsic igneous rock. The dominant mineral by far is the reddish orange alkali feldspar and the minor components are the white (quartz & plagioclase) and dark (biotite & amphibole) minerals. Quartz is transparent and plagioclase is more opaque. If you saw more quartz relative to plagioclase then this would be an alkali-feldspar granite. If you found more plagioclase relative to quartz then this would be an alkali-feldspar syenite. It has a porphyritic texture meaning the feldspar crystals are larger than the crystals of the other minerals. Every magma chamber has a different chemical composition because the specific part of the crust that is being heated and melted has its own rock composition and formational history. Therefore it is possible to do a chemical element analysis of the carved stone and match it to the host quarry stone. This is what geochemists would do. Veining appears minor, at least from the footage you showed. Veins are 3D fracture planes created during deformation events after the rock has been formed. The voids are then filled by superheated mineral fluids (generally silica/quartz). These veins represent geotechnical planes of failure for mining engineers. So for this precise engineering work the block was clearly chosen very carefully by skilled labour who knew a thing or two about rock mechanics. To the point of geopolymers: Granite/syenite is the solidified (crystallised) form of magma chambers deep below the surface, made of continental crust melts in this case. The large crystals are created because the minerals have lots of time to grow due to the slow cooling inside the magma chamber. So the minerals have time to crystallise into distinct, large crystals of feldspar, quartz, plagioclase etc. Under a microscope you would be able to see the sequence of crystallisation (the order in which the minerals crystallised). This cooling takes many many years, thousands of years even. The extrusive forms of granite and syenite are called rhyolite and trachyte respectively. These rocks are the same chemical composition as the magma chamber but physically they appear different. They form by the rapid cooling of the magma as it hits the fridge-like temperatures of the atmosphere, going from its liquid phase above 700°C down to 25°C in an instant. It's like a process of flash freezing. The minerals inside the extruding magma have hardly any time to grow before they are cooled below their individual solidus temperatures, where they turn solid. The cooled rock is therefore very fine grained so can be very difficult to distinguish from another fine grained rock and would require a microscope to see the crystals. Felsic rocks like granite and syenite hold more volatile gases like CO2 and are also very brittle when cooled so rapidly so they tend to erupt more explosively than the slushy soft basaltic lavas of mafic magma chambers like in Hawaii. What I'm trying to say is that melting the granite and pouring it in a mold would be very hard. Moreover, the rapid cooling time (even if you waited years at a time) would only produce very fine-grained stones. I also don't see any cemented kind of stones in your footage. Those stones are quite clearly crystalline igneous rocks. As for the limestone, the carbonate sedimentary rock itself is essentially a fossil conglomerate made up of compressed and crushed up shells of dead marine organisms. You'll find large fossils preserved in a cement of smaller fossil fragments which are themselves surrounded by even smaller fossils. The more you zoom in the more fossils you'll find. Again, if you somehow managed to melt limestone and pour it into molds the stone would have zero resemblance to the natural version.

The box was in place and they built the room around it...AMAZING!!!!

Mate, I want to say a big thanks: your way of presenting is calm and likeable; I appreciate it that you just "open doors" to let us see through for ourselves.

I work in design and drafting for aerospace products. I've read about this box before and it blew my mind. If we were to make something like this today, with modern CNC machines, it would be quite difficult and VERY expensive, and I think we'd have to build some specialized tools to do it. Keeping the features you mentioned to such tight tolerances would not be resultant to the manufacturing process. Meaning, unless we intentionally wanted them to be that tight, they would not be. That means that those who made this were so far advanced of us that this was just easy for them (which is mind blowing for obvious reasons). OR, at the very least they were as good as we are now, in 2021, and intended for those features to be that perfect. If that's the case, we have to ask why? Just to show off? I call BS. Most people would not even notice how perfectly it is made unless you pointed it out, and even then, most would not find it impressive because they don't understand how hard it is to do. No, I think think these features had a functional purpose, an it certainly wasn't to house a dead body. So what was it for? It's crazy how much we don't know about our own past.

As someone who has worked with manufacturing granite and marble countertops/vanities, in a fairly decent sized fabrication shop, the uniform precision of the beveled edge on the outer lip is extremely difficult to perfect even by modern standards. Never mind the more intricate precision details of a 90° angle on the Y-axis. Truly outstanding…

Great stuff Ben, thank you for all your hard work!

Great video Ben! Thanks a lot for your work. You still can show things I haven't seen yet and hang out with Jimmy B Insight, it can only get better! Thanks again ☺️

I don't know about anyone else, but the geopolymer theorists are driving me nuts. I've been saying that the geological properties of granite just don't work like that for quite a while, not to mention all the obvious evidence from quarry to finished product virtually littering Egypt. Other places, perhaps there's a case, but in Egypt? Not a chance. Melt down some granite and see what it looks like, you won't end up with granite when you're done.

I appreciate you making a valid point without condemning all other opinions, because who really knows anyhow.

Brilliant, that’s the first footage I’ve ever seen of this amazing stone box. The precision’s astonishing.

Great video, thanks! Here after being in Egypt with Jahanna, very excited for lots more content of yours to explore :)