Of course, that's not the "academic" way, but I agree. Traditional approaches to education are so strange. They strip everything that would pique your interest and truly answer questions for you and instead, repeatedly tell you to take it on faith. Why don't you divide by zero? Because it's undefined. What does that mean? Just do the lesson. Meanwhile, the whole reason why it's undefined is really the fun part. But here's the best example I know of: Modern common core math. They literally spend the first few years now teaching the topics of base/radix, positional notation and placeholders. The entire rudiments of Arabic numerals. BUT, for some reason, the higher ups stripped every single mention of the actual names of those concepts from the curriculum. I've even asked my friends who're currently teaching this stuff. They've never even HEARD of the names of the very concepts they're teaching. And then they wonder why parents are absolutely outraged. It's like teaching reading for hundreds of years by teaching kids to memorize word shapes and never even mentioning the subject of the alphabet. Then, later, trying to fix that by teaching the alphabet and absolutely making certain to NEVER call it by name. :/
I'm not quite following you here, I suspect you accidentally missed a few words. As for what's the point in teaching it, the point of teaching the rudiments of the math that underlies ALL of modern tech is obvious: So that people understand it instead of being clueless and powerless in a technological world. As to why they decided to strip every possible reference to the name of the subjects on the other hand, only the idiots who'd think it's a good idea could tell you why and that's WHY I find it so frustrating. Lots of academic subjects have all kinds of fun and exciting things in them, but educators always seem to want to strip those out. ESPECIALLY at grade school levels. And then people wonder why students find school boring after we strip out all the fun stuff and leave only the boring stuff structured in boring ways. The fact that people wonder what math is even good for when it's the literal foundation of our entire civilization is just one example of why it's a hard fail.
this was great, really liked this. and it only takes a long time because you are doing it by yourself. now take alot more people, taking turns working 24 hours.....using the info in this vid ua-cam.com/video/E5pZ7uR6v8c/v-deo.html and bam you got yourself alot of cool stuff.
Our ancestors were a lot smarter than we'd like to give them credit for. Look at all the medieval fortresses, sometimes with walls miles long, and cathedrals 300 feet tall (and we have records on their building) -- all done with nothing but brains and muscle.
there was a great TV series way back in the 1990's looking at different engineering mysteries of the ancients. What surprised me was how simple and incredible clever many of the methods used by the ancient engineers where. Too many people look at our ancestors then automatically think they where stupid, the reality is just as we have incredible clever people today our ancestors also had incredible clever people.
I know someone who used to teach ancient history to middle schoolers. They didn't believe that those huge blocks of stone could be moved with just muscle power... so she took her 8th grade class to a construction site and hitched them to a one-ton iron ballast, and off they went. In fact across wet grass (not near as slick as Nile mud) it got away from them and flew into a ditch. They pulled it back out, then the boys rode on it while the girls pulled. Just eight girls had no trouble pulling that 2000 pound weight plus the several boys. Now, consider that Egypt's workers were mostly off-season farmers used to hard work... not so difficult at all. (The Pharaohs weren't dumb, either. Half a million idle young men need something to do besides sit and drink beer during the flood season. Put 'em to work, and save yourself a lot of trouble.)
@@Reziac I remember one episode of the show where they challenged scientists and engineers to figure out how the Egyptians raised 50 ton obolisks. They could not use winches or any type of crane. None of them figured it out but a engineer in the USA did. All you need is sand, a long rectangular box that you will put the sand in and a long dirt ramp. You place the wooden box vertically at the end of the ramp filled with sand. Slide the obolisk along the ramp and drop it into the top of the vertical box full of sand. What you do now is have two labourers with baskets at the base of the box slowly empty the box of sand via a small door at the wood boxes base . As the sand is removed the obolisk slowly moved into its vertical position. The last step is to tie some ropes to the top of the now slightly tilted obolisk and pull it upright into a true vertical position. So 50 tons of stone over 40 feet high is raised with no winches or machines.
Great timing, Mike. I'm replacing basement windows in a 1963 house and the block is incredibly hard, but I was reminding myself what you've taught us. No big deal, take my time and it'll give in eventually and break up. Thanks, Mike.
aliens had nothing to do with it but he don't explain the elaborate carving done on vases or the giant boxes that have actual saw blade markings ua-cam.com/video/K80JebExyEY/v-deo.html
I used to be a mason, too and I'm telling people the same thing, when these alien theories come up. You did it the neanderthalian way with literally rocks and sticks. The ancient Egyptians had centuries to develop specialized tools and methods. I can totally see them building specialized drill presses, lathes and so on. We are so used to having machines for everything, we can't even imagine anymore how our ancestors lived
@@claudemaggard7162There's no evidence that has been preserved, found *and* recognized. Which is something entirely different. Aside from the obvious issue of whether the materials will last for thousands of years what we find is going to heavily biased towards common junk rather than rare or even unique machinery. Think antikythera mechanism rather than amphora. Despite the sturdy materials it's extremely uncommon of a find that took significant effort to reverse engineer.
I love this video - it inadvertently makes the case stronger that the current explanation for how the pyramids were built doesn't add up while trying so hard to argue the opposite. Builds a sphynx head - uses electric tool to carve the detail. Builds a notch in a rock, "You can use copper it works" three hammer strikes later the chisel is blunt and bent. Uses flint, breaks flint while taking millimetres off the rock. "It can be done" he exclaims but the same can be said about chimps with typewriters writing the complete works of Shakespeare given infinite time and/or chimps.
I was looking through the comments with people exclaiming how he finally showed anyone who questions the modern explanations and no one was mentioning how he claimed to make a limestone sphinx head with just granite and copper and then he takes it to his friend who uses modern tools! What a crock of shit. Mike I suggest you check out UnchartedX's video on the granite pottery found in Saqqara. It will open your eyes to the level of precision found in the oldest parts of ancient Egypt. You're trying to explain away the most primitive parts of Egypt and said we figured it out but that's bunk science you can't ignore the most spectacular evidence found.
I got to say I been around stone work all my life and all they are saying about how persision they were is nonsense, they had their Michelangelos and leanardos but idont see anything a granite kitchen installer can't do, I got more videos on the way thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck you've been around stone your entire life and yet you can't do anything as comparable to the work done 4000-9000 years ago, perhaps you should choose another vocation. You sound ignorant and at this point it just comes across like you are trolling when you compare the work done on a granite kitchen top with machine tools to work done 4000 years ago without machining tools. You couldn't do comparable work with electric tools and a workshop.
Good Job Mike! You produced an intriguing and very informative demonstration on the very real progress that can be acquired with the use of primitive technologies. Extremely entertaining, thanks!
Thank you for this straightforward demonstration of how simple methods can create seemingly complex shapes in even the hardest of materials. It only takes human ingenuity, time and effort, not alien intervention.
"the laziest guy always finds the easiest way" also an important rule for sysadmins. and engineers have KISS, and need to be constantly reminded of it...
I'm not even a minute thirty seconds in and had to smack like. I KNOW this is going to be good just by your intro. Thanks for this. I think this kind of thing is more important than we realize.
I love this so much. I'm so sick of people discounting the ingenuity of the Egyptians and claiming that they couldn't have done what they did without the help of Aliens.
@Kst Kst at least this is a tangible, practical demonstration of how the Egyptians could've constructed the pyramids with the tools and resources available to them at the time. The alien theory is abstract and theoretical. I'll take some proof over no proof.
Good science and logic Mike.My uncle built a house in the West of Ireland and there was a large whin igneous stone and a 16 pounder just bounced off it.The local lake Conn had various grades of granite sand depending upon what spring or river it came from.The lake was a sedimentary lake and fish liked it.
“It just takes time. No big deal.” I love this no nonsense explanation that proves how ancient stone work was done. It definitely took a lot time but that’s exactly what the ancients had lots of. Makes so much more sense then lasers, acoustics, aliens, etc. Great video!
The problem is the explanation doesn't explain so many things. It's doesn't explain the spiral groves of the tube drills into granite. It doesn't explain the circular saw marks in granite. It doesn't explain the high precision polished granite boxes in the serapeum and other locations. Im not saying aliens did it. I'm saying humans with tools that we don't have record of did it. There is information missing and "It just takes time." Doesn't explain so many things.
@@MichaelEllisYT Nobody have ever proved any "spiral groves" or "circular saw marks". Start with that first. There are "striations" in the tube drill marks. There are marks of pendling weighted drag saws, not circular saws. The Serapeum Sarcofags are far from prefect and the work done on them aren't that difficult to achieve. Certainly not needs "machine tools". It just takes a lot of time and effort and some skills.
And here's another thing... The Egyptian workers were well supplied with beer. It's a whole lot more enjoyable to bang rocks together all day long when you've got a good buzz going.
Mike, when you are working the granite corner on the bench by pounding it, seems the bench holding the rock is bouncing around. Is that bouncing causing a loss of energy in the blows?
I think it's also worth saying that there would be group of people overseen by a master mason. With dozen of years of experience between the group working mostly with the limestone and granite found around the Nile valley with stone and copper tools. They probably had intimate knowledge with understanding how the stone breaks, how to hit the stone for maximum effect, which chips might have the ideal geometry for the particular job, etc. They had generations with these techniques to work out the best/fastest/easiest way to work the stone with these tools.
Hi Bull, true, and when I started before the big saws and modern machinery they were still doing it that way, difference was in the 50s , 60s and 70s they had pneumatic tools, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck exactly! Stone mason was most likely THE trade to be in the Nile Valley as well. Like many Bronze Age civilizations, the patronage of the house of the pharaohs and the treasury of kingdoms were THE driving force in the Nile valley economy. And the building of a tomb was most likely the largest building project of that person's life. Imagine you learning the trade as an apprentice but knowing that your work is to be used as the eternal resting place for a living god tasked with keeping the entire world from falling into chaos, as well as a living king (or queen) who will be using the tomb as a flex for all future rulers. I'd imagine it would be pretty motivating.
Hey Like, I have a playlist of dozens of videos working with granite with simple tools, cutting ad drilling in different types of granite and basalt, beginning from making the abrasives from scratch through to polishing. I also have many videos examining the "magical" Serapeum boxes and vases and all those things they keep calling "precision" Hint hint they are not and I show how to tell. If you're interested let me know and i can pass on the videos and sources. I got sick of replying to each individual comment so made video responses to help set them straight without having to type the same thing over and over.
@@MikeHaduck first i am sure you'll really like this one ua-cam.com/video/JZXeQkQVs1o/v-deo.html here's the playlistof the experiments with granite and "primitive" tools, drilling, cutting a giant circular saw mark with a short copper blade, grinding to a flat surface. I include my first attempts to show how to avoid the mistakes i made and little tricks i picked up along the way to increase speed and quality ua-cam.com/video/XY6SUTPV018/v-deo.html Examining the serapeum and not seeing any precision ua-cam.com/video/bEwxMFDRmek/v-deo.html I have a bunch on different sites and tech lost high tech stuff but won't bombard you with them for now Love your channel by the way, i think i missed my calling by not taking up the stone craft as a young man. Picked it as a hobby now and absolutely love it.
@@gregwarwick8655 Chris Dunn . I have a couple of videos on him. Including busting him on faking experiments. Mechanical engineers are not divine angels unable to make mistakes or tell lies. Plus a team went to the Petrie museum and properly analysed the core and actually presented their evidence. It’s not a spiral and even by Chris Dunn’s own pictures the striations are all over the place. Yet people just hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe. No one even looked at the old pics. They just accepted it because “mechanical engineer”.
Very interesting Mike. This takes some of the mystic out of the ancient stone constructions. I wonder why other stone masons have not shown how this could be done.
Hey Mike I'm a Mason myself doing brick block and stone since I was 18 I'm 40 now and the timing of this video was impeccable because I just in the past few weeks been watching all these crazy UA-cam videos on that ancient Egyptians and stuff then blowing my mind I've been saying similar things along the way like in your videos but I got to admit the symmetry is something I can't right my mind around and the perfect 90s they look like they were plasma cut you think they sat there and rubbed Stone against Stone to get those joints so perfectly smooth and tight or they didn't even need any motor they're just look like they were melted together or something I seen some nice tight joints nothing like that so uniform all the way around I don't know does take time I understand all that and anything can be done I feel like they would still be there rubbing Stone together if that's how they did it... I don't know ever meet up my mind yet about all of it 20 years in the trade and I still look at some of that stuff and it bothers me to think that I couldn't do it I'll come some masonry too many things I haven't done or couldn't do myself and a few of those things do puzzle me a little still
Hi Do, you got to put going over there on your bucket list, when you see them.you will know right away how they are not that perfect, only a few areas where they spent time, they are primitive to me , I am a lot more impressed with the cathedrals, but the pyramids are something to see, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck hey Mike. Ive seen people measuring some of these stones and there uniformly flat to "20 thousandth of an inch per square foot". That might be abit off my memory is not perfect, but it was flat to the point where it would be far from impossible to see with the human eye and needlessly precise. Could this be weathering uniformly across the slabs/steps? I'm struggling to find a plausible answer to this honestly
I was in Egypt with Youssef Arywan, also a stone worker and Ben from UnchartedX. Both showed us this kind of work done by the Dynastic Egyptian and described these techniques, so all you ‘hearsayers’ who state otherwise you are wrong.They both agree that much of what we see was possible with the tools discovered. The work not possible by these techniques is extremely old, unaccompanied by glyphs and some of it was so precisely done it would be impossible with such techniques. The Dynastic Egyptians and the Inca were very skilled but the boxes at the Serapeum were not done this way and neither was Ollantaytambo or Sacsayhuaman. Mike, skilled as you, are your technology would never quarry shape or fit some of these massive stones. I appreciate such triumphs of hope over common sense and applaud such extreme efforts to prove an hypothesis! Thank you, Mike.
Hi U took a good look at all their work and as a stone mason they are not as persice as they say, it's only stone and they had their jewelers etc, that shows their skill from that time, to me it's all primitive, I am much more impressed with the cathedrals, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduckso your telling me you could reproduce khafre enthroned? How exactly would you measure the symmetry to 1000th of an inch? And if you said you had to use laser measurements… how did they do it?
@@MikeHaduckand yes they are are precise as they say lol. They’ve used laser technology… which I’m assuming the ancient Egyptians didn’t have… to really show how precise they were. Your rock pounding video was cute but your either being purposely in genuine or you don’t understand the precision necessary to produce some of these artifacts
Mike, by the time you finished the granite you forgot to say you've now been in the business for "60 years." I like how you single handedly destroy all the UA-camrs who specialize in lost technology theories! #HaduckRules
It would be nice if you would disclose exactly how many man-hours it took to take out that corner of granite. It would help in estimating constraints on how megalithic sites may have been constructed. Also, it's a shame your friend didn't just use copper and hand tools to carve the face- kinda defeated the purpose that he used modern tools didn't it?
Hi Jack, it's just stone, anybody who works it gets better and faster and inventive as they go, just like anything else, the pyramids are primitive, as a stone mason, I am far more impressed with the cathedrals, thanks mike
The Inca told the spanish chronicler Cieza De Leon in the 1550s that it took 20,000 men to construct sacsayhuaman over the time span of multiple rulers.
I imagine, they never stopped working. It must taken day n night 24 hrs. a day. Remember, it was slaves building these ancient monuments. I'm guessing 75 years to complete
I would really like to see you debate "Ben" of Uncharted X as he is convinced that everything was done with big machines or something, not sure what, I don't even think he does. They have started a sort of "podcast" discussion but always have like minded people in it so there really is no debate.....I live in an area where a canal was built almost 200 years ago and not only are some of the canals looking almost pristine but show incredible detail and are not out-of-level or line and I know they had no power tools. It is documented in expense reports to the investors....anyway, love your channel and have learned much. Used a star drill and hammer to make a three inch bore through 12 inches of 1930 concrete for a discharge pipe on a sump pump. It used to be a cistern in my parents house. You are right, it takes a long time and I just worked on it an hour a night for a couple of weeks but it worked!
Very interesting! All of your patch and repair videos have inspired me to "try" to fix my dad's concrete problems. Wish me luck, he might disown me. Thanks for taking your time to do the videos. They're so informative and I appreciate your helpful comments. *Song "Castle" by Mike Haduck - you're a musician, too. Wow!
I love your channel. I'm going to feature it on my channel because there is so much useful information you share. I'll be working with granite soon using old methods, and you've shown me how to get it done. Thank you!
Fire was also used. This will make it easier to do the chipping. This is why you get the scoop marks. Fire, pound it out, fire. The large obelisks were quarried out in 6 to 8 months. When the yearly flood came the ruff obelisks where loaded on to boats and floated down the river to where they were used. I think the finishing work and inscriptions were done where the obelisk were installed.
Thanks RK, I appreciate the A+, for the rest you can go to the history Channel and they can tell you how the aliens did it, maybe they will score higher, thanks Mike
Great video! I read that the copper mined in Egypt was harder that today’s copper - making an even better case that they used copper chisels and tools.
There must have also been an organised constant supply chain of freshly made or reshaped tools available for each project. The Ancient Alienated must think the poor guy had to stop, sharpen his tool for half an hour and keep going and sharpen again and on and on. 😆 ☀🐫🏝
We use, with improved methods, these same materials today. Diamond dust or silca sand abrasive cut off wheels, drills, and saws. Silica, and flint sandpaper etc.
Excellent demonstration. These techniques work great on a small scale, but clearly take a lot of time. Can you do a demonstration on cutting a 20 tonne block of granite and tell us how this was done for millions of large granite blocks
Hi Smith, sure I can, no problem, if you get a 20 ton block at a quarry and want to hire some help for me ,pay for the insurances, permits workers comp,and a fee for my time, etc etc ,let me know, with respect, thanks Mike
Get a kick out of these guys online who believe that all intricate masonry was work of the ET's when in reality ancient craftsmen dedicated their WHOLE life to their works, let alone the projects taking years and years to finish. I'm planning on making some limestone pendants and really want to utilize traditional means of stonecutting for the sake of budget and for better replicating an archaic style. Thanks for the video, gained a lot of insight on these old-world methods.
Thanks, I also have a playlist " rockfacing and shaping stone" Mike Haduck, I go through all the old school and new school ways of stone work, thanks Mike
Mike not sure if you saw the video of the Russian girl recreating vases from Egypt's pre dynastic period? Shes been at it now a couple of years and her technique is improved a lot. Shes now working on a diorite vase showing the ancient lost technology people that yes the pre dynastic Egyptians were capable of making these hollowed out vases with the tools at hand.
Drilling holes in the rock with copper was done with a bow drill scaled to the job. That reciprocating action speeded up the process of friction in cutting. I also think the ancients cut blocks with giant pendulum saws. Big frames over rock had a log suspended on ropes with pegs on the underside of each end of the log where they stretched twine. That twine would rub back and forth on a pre-scored line and wet grit between rock and twine would cut the rock. As the cut got deeper, chisels were used to pound in the rock cut and it would crack apart.
Pre flood people had very long life spans …Some 900+ years . They had nothing but time to chip, chip away.🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿 Thank you for showing us the relative simplicity of it. That was such a comforting demonstration .
Absolutely!! Mike, you have the most positive mindset that makes my Root cellar so much easier. I'm not by any means good at stonework, and it may not be pretty, it will be strong and best of all it will be buried so no one will see it. Thanks again for taking the Pause out of trying.
I had a neighbor who dug himself a basement by hand (under his house). Took him about two months with nothing but a shovel and a wheelbarrow. Time and muscle can do a lot.
Love it. I literally love the part when you drill the granite and said to yourself "how you did it? I don't know. It was the aliens". I laughed so much.
" Hi! I'm Mike Haduck and been a stone mason for over 50 years". and he looks 35 years old. This is a great video Mike!!! always love how you keep educating everyone on the art of masonry
In Scandinavia we have found amzing granit axes from the stoneage. They are perfectly symmetric and smooth as glass. However, I think the real mystery is not about precision alone, but rather about how the heck they upscaled these techniques to huge objects and at a high production pace.
@@MikeHaduck yes of course they had many many workers and lots of time, but that makes it even more mysterious. How did they organise the production lines, the logistics, the planning and scheduling, communication between beween parrallell subprojects? And on top of that, if we strech the time period too long then one may expect some architects and leading engineers to pass away during the process. They obvously did it despite all these challenges, but how??
Personally I worked on skyscraper type of buildings it looked like ants building a mountain but they did it, I don't think it took longer to build a pyramid as it did the empire state building, my opinion, thanks Mike
Why assume a high production rate? Just how many Pharaohs do you think needed granite sarcophagus’s per year? One per year would seem to be on the high side of average.
After watching all the navel gazing theories on how ancient mega projects were built, its good to see someone with a bit of horse sense and actual experience explain how you can use simple tools to acheive amazing things!
@@MikeHaduckwell what he seems to simply ignore is the precision with which some of these artifacts are created… yeah you can pound two rocks together to remove material but how do you make two surfaces several feet apart perfectly parallel in relation to each other… these knuckle dragging stone workers seemed to be able to produce precision pieces that Mike couldn’t even dream of reproducing in his shed
Our ancestors did well.. amazing explanation about the outer casing stones and the way they filled it in.. the drawings made it all understandble.. pleasure beng part of this.. though i don't want to make a big deal out of it.. but i think it is.. :)
You can make pounding rocks together interesting. I liked the part near the end with the guys rolling the stone encased in a wooden frame. Years ago, in a discussion with some coworkers, I was derided when I rendered the opinion that it was how I believed the pyramids were done because it was how I would do it. I'm a DIY'r and at times it takes me longer to figure out a way to do something without help than to actually do the task.
As a lifelong tradesperson , the design of a pyramid is pretty simplistic. Even in its simple form , it was a design reached by trial and error. You can see instances of earlier pyramids that collapsed because the geometry wasn't sound. So they learned from their mistakes and found the proper proportions that were architecturally favorable and stable. You don't need aliens or supernatural powers to figure out any complex geometry although I'm not saying ancient Egyptians weren't capable of figuring out that math. What I am sayin is that with simple tools such as a plumb bob, string lines and water levels, you can eliminate the need for the thousands of masons to understand any complexity to build within the parameters needed. They simply needed to set a plumb line in the center , use water level to set your foundation, using string lines and very basic layout methods bisect your 4 quadrants . From there , string lines would be pulled to the central apex of the pyramid that would be established by building a temporary tower set with a plumb bob to its center from its foundational footprint to the top of the central tower. With plumb and level and the for outside corners Square to eachother, all one needs are stringlines pulled between those points. Then the masons just need to cut the stone and fill in between the string lines. These pyramids were built by skilled masons guided by very intelligent architects who had generational knowledge built upon the successes snd failures of their ancestors. No alien technology needed. As far as how the stones were quarried , cut and moved, there is plenty of information out there on how that was accomplished as well
Design of pyramid is pretty simplistic? Simple form? You better stick to your trade than playing smart. Earlier pyramids collapsed, not correct, some of finest examples of 3rd dynasty stand very much, and their geometry is very much sound and those that collapsed, are like that because other reasons not that they have faulty geometry. Later pyramids "collapsed" as earler prior the 4th dynasty. As for simplicity of Khufu or Khafre's pyramids no further discussion is needed.
Hi Dom, I did video on bent pyramid etc. It's all obvious to a stonemason, not a big deal, don't be listening to all those bedroom archeologist, it's all common sense, thanks Mike
@@domusterra3261 I'm not here to get into random fights with strangers on the internet and use ad hominem attacks on people's intellect or character. So you are welcome to your opinion. However you never really made any concrete argument that discredited anything that I said. Just pure contradiction. I wasn't " trying to play smart" just voicing my opinion, based on real in the field experience. If you disagree with me that is fine. But what are you actually trying to say ?
Hi Mark, I would appreciate you sending me a link to your videos on the subject, when you were there, what you discovered and your opinions , then we can go from there, thanks Mike
When you smashed the granite together with the other granite, it created a fine powder - is this the abrasive they would have then used to smooth their stone carvings?
@MikeHaduck will do. Yeah, I just don't see why people think there is a mystery here. These stone masons were supremely gifted, they had generations of talent, plus they had unlimited time and man power...if you put enough hours in, anything is possible. I don't understand why people seem to want to belittle the talents of our ancestors- they weren't stupid, they just didn't have the depth of knowledge we have. I do think they must have had a lathe earlier than documented though - but still, a water powered spinning wheel shouldn't be too difficult to invent for people who built the pyramids! Considering the massive drop in the quality of Egyptian stone work, the most probable scenario is that either war or disease wiped out the tribe with the stone working techniques - and since they didn't have written information like we have, those skills were lost when the people died out. No big mystery though. Skill, hard work, and a heck of a lot of effort - that's all they needed.
Add sand from the ground as you drill. Sand/quartz/silica is almost as hard as a diamond. Diamond drill. Also a stream of water to clear debris as you drill. A much faster method.
First off, I'm not in the Ancient Alien mindset by any means, but I am in the mindset of those ancients having some type of tooling other than what we have found and what is shown in museums. I was getting excited when that guy was going to carve out the Sphynx face with only hand tools, but was then disappointed once again when he resorted to power chisels and other modern tools to finish it. I still haven't found a video that shows someone actually finishing something of substance such as a thin walled cup or vase or even a statue or granite box. They always do just a little bit to show, yes, you can chip pieces away, but nothing to the same degree that we see with the gigantic statues and boxes made from granite. I will continue to search for a video of an actual finished replica using only chunks of rock and copper tools , but I'm not holding my breath. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, I am just baffled at how they did this 4K years ago.
Hi Roy, it's all basic, they had their movers, quarry guys, masons jewelers etc etc, everybody shows you a little bit because of the time it would take to do a huge piece ,and then what do you do with it, you can go around old quarries and see the abandoned pieces from days gone by, thanks mike
Drive a line of long chisels along a precut shallow line in limestone bedrock. Once you drive them in a short distance = the bedrock will continue to fracture downward. Now repeat this perpendicularly down the sides and add a line along the bottom with spaces to insert wooden levers. Via this method you can break off approximate chunks akin to breaking a section of a saltine cracker. It is not necessary to chisel out an individual 6 sided block. At Giza as but one example the quarries show trenches cut in the bedrock with spaces for levers to break free chunks of stone. Limestone as a sedimentary stone forms in layers like a cake. So you can break these sections free along natural layers in the bedrock. This will give you most of what the pyramids are built from. Very few of the total blocks show more careful cutting and in some cases polishing. Those are only see among the blocks which form the inner corridors/chambers and the last few outer courses of stones to include the polished casing stones. All the rest of the pyramids are basically stacked rubble. p.s. - granite is only seen in pyramids sparingly and then in basic shapes = blocks and sarcophagi. Via gneiss stone tools like flint or dolerite pounders and fire they could hammer through the granite bedrock along natural fault lines to achieve blocks which could be finished after a time via copper tools and abrasives like sand or corundum. Remember that granite sarcophagi were being used since the time of Djoser - and not just for Pharaohs. So quarries as today likely had partially finished or already finished objects on hand having been fabricated previously. That would save an immense amount of time.
@@MikeHaduck Yes. People need to step back and consider the larger picture. This was a industry in Egypt - and not just for Pharaoh. As an example. At Saqqara huge underground caches of mummified animals have been found in the past - literally millions of them. They were for everyday people as well as wealthy ones for offerings or burials. So "death" the same as "life" fostered a huge economy in ancient Egypt. Stone masons worked constantly fashioning things - for Pharaohs or other patrons. Royal craftsmen were provided housing and food as payment for their services so that they need not worry about basic necessities. That allowed them to simply = work. The knowledge was generational being passed down which means after a time they had worked out the kinks and could fabricate based upon proven techniques = shortening fabrication times. The same applies to others things. The Giza pyramids were not the first to be built. So via building previous pyramids - and large mastabas etc. before that - the Egyptians of the 4th Dynasty already worked out the logistics and manpower control mechanisms necessary to build these structures. People assume they were starting from scratch = ergo their supposed "impossibility" rationalizations. Have a nice day.
They should teach stuff like this in schools
Of course, that's not the "academic" way, but I agree. Traditional approaches to education are so strange. They strip everything that would pique your interest and truly answer questions for you and instead, repeatedly tell you to take it on faith. Why don't you divide by zero? Because it's undefined. What does that mean? Just do the lesson. Meanwhile, the whole reason why it's undefined is really the fun part. But here's the best example I know of: Modern common core math. They literally spend the first few years now teaching the topics of base/radix, positional notation and placeholders. The entire rudiments of Arabic numerals. BUT, for some reason, the higher ups stripped every single mention of the actual names of those concepts from the curriculum. I've even asked my friends who're currently teaching this stuff. They've never even HEARD of the names of the very concepts they're teaching. And then they wonder why parents are absolutely outraged. It's like teaching reading for hundreds of years by teaching kids to memorize word shapes and never even mentioning the subject of the alphabet. Then, later, trying to fix that by teaching the alphabet and absolutely making certain to NEVER call it by name. :/
@@GamingHelp I seriously that 99% of school kids would think that doing that would be utterly boring and what point would it have in their in 2023?
I'm not quite following you here, I suspect you accidentally missed a few words. As for what's the point in teaching it, the point of teaching the rudiments of the math that underlies ALL of modern tech is obvious: So that people understand it instead of being clueless and powerless in a technological world. As to why they decided to strip every possible reference to the name of the subjects on the other hand, only the idiots who'd think it's a good idea could tell you why and that's WHY I find it so frustrating. Lots of academic subjects have all kinds of fun and exciting things in them, but educators always seem to want to strip those out. ESPECIALLY at grade school levels. And then people wonder why students find school boring after we strip out all the fun stuff and leave only the boring stuff structured in boring ways. The fact that people wonder what math is even good for when it's the literal foundation of our entire civilization is just one example of why it's a hard fail.
@@GamingHelp Spot on!
Nooo schools about whoever has enough money to put random trash in history books
When labor is plentiful and cheap, and materials are everywhere, it’s amazing what you can do absent of modern tools.
Thanks, I agree, Mike
Mike, you're the best because you're still curious about the thing you've spent your whole life doing. It's beautiful man.
Thanks Milo, mike
this was great, really liked this. and it only takes a long time because you are doing it by yourself. now take alot more people, taking turns working 24 hours.....using the info in this vid ua-cam.com/video/E5pZ7uR6v8c/v-deo.html and bam you got yourself alot of cool stuff.
Oh man Mr. Haduck, you are going to make a ton of ancient alien types angry w/ this video.
Great work !
Thanks, mike
No matter how I try I can't convince alien lovers they have it wrong.
but he didn't prove anything other than making a bunch of limestone dust with copper is inefficient.
Mike proved it's not a big deal it can be done.
Our ancestors were a lot smarter than we'd like to give them credit for. Look at all the medieval fortresses, sometimes with walls miles long, and cathedrals 300 feet tall (and we have records on their building) -- all done with nothing but brains and muscle.
there was a great TV series way back in the 1990's looking at different engineering mysteries of the ancients. What surprised me was how simple and incredible clever many of the methods used by the ancient engineers where. Too many people look at our ancestors then automatically think they where stupid, the reality is just as we have incredible clever people today our ancestors also had incredible clever people.
Thanks Richard, I agree, Mike
I know someone who used to teach ancient history to middle schoolers. They didn't believe that those huge blocks of stone could be moved with just muscle power... so she took her 8th grade class to a construction site and hitched them to a one-ton iron ballast, and off they went. In fact across wet grass (not near as slick as Nile mud) it got away from them and flew into a ditch. They pulled it back out, then the boys rode on it while the girls pulled. Just eight girls had no trouble pulling that 2000 pound weight plus the several boys. Now, consider that Egypt's workers were mostly off-season farmers used to hard work... not so difficult at all. (The Pharaohs weren't dumb, either. Half a million idle young men need something to do besides sit and drink beer during the flood season. Put 'em to work, and save yourself a lot of trouble.)
@@Reziac I remember one episode of the show where they challenged scientists and engineers to figure out how the Egyptians raised 50 ton obolisks. They could not use winches or any type of crane. None of them figured it out but a engineer in the USA did. All you need is sand, a long rectangular box that you will put the sand in and a long dirt ramp. You place the wooden box vertically at the end of the ramp filled with sand. Slide the obolisk along the ramp and drop it into the top of the vertical box full of sand. What you do now is have two labourers with baskets at the base of the box slowly empty the box of sand via a small door at the wood boxes base . As the sand is removed the obolisk slowly moved into its vertical position. The last step is to tie some ropes to the top of the now slightly tilted obolisk and pull it upright into a true vertical position. So 50 tons of stone over 40 feet high is raised with no winches or machines.
@@LinuxGalore I remember that! pretty obvious once you think of it. Apparently power equipment rots the brain. ;p
@@Reziac Is there a video of the process, I can't imagine how this could possibly work.
Great timing, Mike. I'm replacing basement windows in a 1963 house and the block is incredibly hard, but I was reminding myself what you've taught us. No big deal, take my time and it'll give in eventually and break up. Thanks, Mike.
Thanks Brian, that's all, you will get it, mike
You put a LOT of work into this! I guess I'll have to drop my theory about ancient aliens now. Thanks for this!
Thanks Greg, Mike
aliens had nothing to do with it but he don't explain the elaborate carving done on vases or the giant boxes that have actual saw blade markings ua-cam.com/video/K80JebExyEY/v-deo.html
I used to be a mason, too and I'm telling people the same thing, when these alien theories come up. You did it the neanderthalian way with literally rocks and sticks. The ancient Egyptians had centuries to develop specialized tools and methods. I can totally see them building specialized drill presses, lathes and so on. We are so used to having machines for everything, we can't even imagine anymore how our ancestors lived
Hi Timo, I agree, Mike
But there is no evidense of any of and ancient tools so they used basic tool just found ways to make them work faster
@@claudemaggard7162There's no evidence that has been preserved, found *and* recognized. Which is something entirely different.
Aside from the obvious issue of whether the materials will last for thousands of years what we find is going to heavily biased towards common junk rather than rare or even unique machinery.
Think antikythera mechanism rather than amphora. Despite the sturdy materials it's extremely uncommon of a find that took significant effort to reverse engineer.
I love this video - it inadvertently makes the case stronger that the current explanation for how the pyramids were built doesn't add up while trying so hard to argue the opposite.
Builds a sphynx head - uses electric tool to carve the detail.
Builds a notch in a rock, "You can use copper it works" three hammer strikes later the chisel is blunt and bent. Uses flint, breaks flint while taking millimetres off the rock.
"It can be done" he exclaims but the same can be said about chimps with typewriters writing the complete works of Shakespeare given infinite time and/or chimps.
Hi, It's only stone, If you made a video showing why it can't be done I would to see it,
@@MikeHaduck Mike you already made that video
I was looking through the comments with people exclaiming how he finally showed anyone who questions the modern explanations and no one was mentioning how he claimed to make a limestone sphinx head with just granite and copper and then he takes it to his friend who uses modern tools! What a crock of shit.
Mike I suggest you check out UnchartedX's video on the granite pottery found in Saqqara. It will open your eyes to the level of precision found in the oldest parts of ancient Egypt. You're trying to explain away the most primitive parts of Egypt and said we figured it out but that's bunk science you can't ignore the most spectacular evidence found.
I got to say I been around stone work all my life and all they are saying about how persision they were is nonsense, they had their Michelangelos and leanardos but idont see anything a granite kitchen installer can't do, I got more videos on the way thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck you've been around stone your entire life and yet you can't do anything as comparable to the work done 4000-9000 years ago, perhaps you should choose another vocation.
You sound ignorant and at this point it just comes across like you are trolling when you compare the work done on a granite kitchen top with machine tools to work done 4000 years ago without machining tools. You couldn't do comparable work with electric tools and a workshop.
Good Job Mike! You produced an intriguing and very informative demonstration on the very real progress that can be acquired with the use of primitive technologies. Extremely entertaining, thanks!
Thanks you Wayne, you were part of it, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck yeah I think I learned something, a lot can be done be many worker's with primitive tools.
Thank you for this straightforward demonstration of how simple methods can create seemingly complex shapes in even the hardest of materials. It only takes human ingenuity, time and effort, not alien intervention.
Thanks, Mike
"the laziest guy always finds the easiest way" also an important rule for sysadmins. and engineers have KISS, and need to be constantly reminded of it...
Thanks, very true, mike
Keep it simple stupid... oldie but goodie!!
i realize I'm kind of off topic but do anybody know a good site to stream newly released series online ?
@Xzavier Roman thanks, signed up and it seems to work :D I really appreciate it!
@Parker Griffin Happy to help :D
I like your practical approach to working masonry and concrete and banjo!
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Thanks Roger, mike
hee hee dont remember seeing hieroglyphics with a hose bib on them =)
Thanks for all the videos!
Keep up the great work!
Thanks Rocca, mike
Great vids. I'm a new Zealand er but used to work for a stone mason in WI. Loved stone and brick and architecture ever since.
Thanks Dave, mike
I'm not even a minute thirty seconds in and had to smack like. I KNOW this is going to be good just by your intro. Thanks for this. I think this kind of thing is more important than we realize.
Thanks Cobs, Mike
I love this so much. I'm so sick of people discounting the ingenuity of the Egyptians and claiming that they couldn't have done what they did without the help of Aliens.
Thanks Rooster, Mike
Its disrespectful of our ancestors.
Seen the Egyptians lately?
It disproves evolution
@Kst Kst at least this is a tangible, practical demonstration of how the Egyptians could've constructed the pyramids with the tools and resources available to them at the time. The alien theory is abstract and theoretical. I'll take some proof over no proof.
Remind me again how claiming that the ancient Egyptians were actually more advanced than currently recognized equates to discounting their ingenuity
Good science and logic Mike.My uncle built a house in the West of Ireland and there was a large whin igneous stone and a 16 pounder just bounced off it.The local lake Conn had various grades of granite sand depending upon what spring or river it came from.The lake was a sedimentary lake and fish liked it.
Thanks shadrana,, Mike
“It just takes time. No big deal.” I love this no nonsense explanation that proves how ancient stone work was done. It definitely took a lot time but that’s exactly what the ancients had lots of. Makes so much more sense then lasers, acoustics, aliens, etc. Great video!
Thanks Jason, mike
The problem is the explanation doesn't explain so many things. It's doesn't explain the spiral groves of the tube drills into granite. It doesn't explain the circular saw marks in granite. It doesn't explain the high precision polished granite boxes in the serapeum and other locations. Im not saying aliens did it. I'm saying humans with tools that we don't have record of did it. There is information missing and "It just takes time." Doesn't explain so many things.
@@MichaelEllisYT Yeah, doing helps, this video helps if you aren't doing it also, I like my masonry hammer for starters, Technology 1, soft stone, .3
@@MichaelEllisYT Nobody have ever proved any "spiral groves" or "circular saw marks". Start with that first. There are "striations" in the tube drill marks. There are marks of pendling weighted drag saws, not circular saws. The Serapeum Sarcofags are far from prefect and the work done on them aren't that difficult to achieve. Certainly not needs "machine tools". It just takes a lot of time and effort and some skills.
And here's another thing... The Egyptian workers were well supplied with beer. It's a whole lot more enjoyable to bang rocks together all day long when you've got a good buzz going.
Here because of a World of Antiquity video. Great stuff you've got here!
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Thanks Mary Ann, Mike
Can you imagine living next door to the pyramids during construction?
It would clear up a lot of controversy, lol, mike
Would you rather hear 1,000 small rock hammers or 10 pile drivers?
I can see asking , what the hell you building all that for? We want to hide a body in there.
Thank you. You should have a lot more views. You're really educating people, who have fallen for this ancient alien nonesense.
Thanks stau, Mike
"Wayne said they could do it with copper.." as Wayne had just proceeded to use a powered chisel lol
Hi MP, very true, Mike
The History Channel needs to give you equal time with the alien crowd. Wayne does great work and makes it look easy. Another great video. Thanks Mike.
Thanks Guill, Mike
Mike, when you are working the granite corner on the bench by pounding it, seems the bench holding the rock is bouncing around. Is that bouncing causing a loss of energy in the blows?
Hi William, maybe, it was on wheels so I would move it outside to work on it, I just wanted to prove the point, thanks Mike
I think it's also worth saying that there would be group of people overseen by a master mason. With dozen of years of experience between the group working mostly with the limestone and granite found around the Nile valley with stone and copper tools. They probably had intimate knowledge with understanding how the stone breaks, how to hit the stone for maximum effect, which chips might have the ideal geometry for the particular job, etc. They had generations with these techniques to work out the best/fastest/easiest way to work the stone with these tools.
Hi Bull, true, and when I started before the big saws and modern machinery they were still doing it that way, difference was in the 50s , 60s and 70s they had pneumatic tools, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck exactly! Stone mason was most likely THE trade to be in the Nile Valley as well. Like many Bronze Age civilizations, the patronage of the house of the pharaohs and the treasury of kingdoms were THE driving force in the Nile valley economy. And the building of a tomb was most likely the largest building project of that person's life. Imagine you learning the trade as an apprentice but knowing that your work is to be used as the eternal resting place for a living god tasked with keeping the entire world from falling into chaos, as well as a living king (or queen) who will be using the tomb as a flex for all future rulers. I'd imagine it would be pretty motivating.
Hey Like, I have a playlist of dozens of videos working with granite with simple tools, cutting ad drilling in different types of granite and basalt, beginning from making the abrasives from scratch through to polishing.
I also have many videos examining the "magical" Serapeum boxes and vases and all those things they keep calling "precision" Hint hint they are not and I show how to tell.
If you're interested let me know and i can pass on the videos and sources.
I got sick of replying to each individual comment so made video responses to help set them straight without having to type the same thing over and over.
Thanks SGD, sure send me the links so I can check them out, thanks Mike
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first i am sure you'll really like this one
ua-cam.com/video/JZXeQkQVs1o/v-deo.html
here's the playlistof the experiments with granite and "primitive" tools, drilling, cutting a giant circular saw mark with a short copper blade, grinding to a flat surface. I include my first attempts to show how to avoid the mistakes i made and little tricks i picked up along the way to increase speed and quality
ua-cam.com/video/XY6SUTPV018/v-deo.html
Examining the serapeum and not seeing any precision
ua-cam.com/video/bEwxMFDRmek/v-deo.html
I have a bunch on different sites and tech lost high tech stuff but won't bombard you with them for now
Love your channel by the way, i think i missed my calling by not taking up the stone craft as a young man. Picked it as a hobby now and absolutely love it.
Ignore the mechanical engineer that showed the spiral drill hole with equal mm progression for the entirety of the bore hole.
@@gregwarwick8655 Chris Dunn . I have a couple of videos on him. Including busting him on faking experiments.
Mechanical engineers are not divine angels unable to make mistakes or tell lies.
Plus a team went to the Petrie museum and properly analysed the core and actually presented their evidence.
It’s not a spiral and even by Chris Dunn’s own pictures the striations are all over the place.
Yet people just hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe.
No one even looked at the old pics. They just accepted it because “mechanical engineer”.
You aren't the guy who speculated that the pyramid was built from the inside are you?
I followed your advice and got my old hammers and chisels from flea market and yard sales. Now I'll try this 👍
Thanks Wille, Mike
Very interesting Mike. This takes some of the mystic out of the ancient stone constructions.
I wonder why other stone masons have not shown how this could be done.
Hi Bryan, there are a few out there, but a lot who do it everyday don't care on making videos, thanks Mike
Hi Bryan, there are a few out there, but a lot who do it everyday don't care on making videos, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck Well I'm glad you do make the videos because they are very informative and clear.
Hallelujah! A voice of reason.
Thanks julian,, Mike
Hey Mike I'm a Mason myself doing brick block and stone since I was 18 I'm 40 now and the timing of this video was impeccable because I just in the past few weeks been watching all these crazy UA-cam videos on that ancient Egyptians and stuff then blowing my mind I've been saying similar things along the way like in your videos but I got to admit the symmetry is something I can't right my mind around and the perfect 90s they look like they were plasma cut you think they sat there and rubbed Stone against Stone to get those joints so perfectly smooth and tight or they didn't even need any motor they're just look like they were melted together or something I seen some nice tight joints nothing like that so uniform all the way around I don't know does take time I understand all that and anything can be done I feel like they would still be there rubbing Stone together if that's how they did it... I don't know ever meet up my mind yet about all of it 20 years in the trade and I still look at some of that stuff and it bothers me to think that I couldn't do it I'll come some masonry too many things I haven't done or couldn't do myself and a few of those things do puzzle me a little still
Hi Do, you got to put going over there on your bucket list, when you see them.you will know right away how they are not that perfect, only a few areas where they spent time, they are primitive to me , I am a lot more impressed with the cathedrals, but the pyramids are something to see, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck ua-cam.com/video/Mq2KGQajfAo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ScientistsAgainstMyths this woman is dedicated...
Yes, scientists against myths, great channel, I mention them often, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck I think you need to go on Joe Rogan, calm him and Hancock down a wee bit. lol
@@MikeHaduck hey Mike. Ive seen people measuring some of these stones and there uniformly flat to "20 thousandth of an inch per square foot". That might be abit off my memory is not perfect, but it was flat to the point where it would be far from impossible to see with the human eye and needlessly precise. Could this be weathering uniformly across the slabs/steps? I'm struggling to find a plausible answer to this honestly
I was in Egypt with Youssef Arywan, also a stone worker and Ben from UnchartedX. Both showed us this kind of work done by the Dynastic Egyptian and described these techniques, so all you ‘hearsayers’ who state otherwise you are wrong.They both agree that much of what we see was possible with the tools discovered. The work not possible by these techniques is extremely old, unaccompanied by glyphs and some of it was so precisely done it would be impossible with such techniques. The Dynastic Egyptians and the Inca were very skilled but the boxes at the Serapeum were not done this way and neither was Ollantaytambo or Sacsayhuaman. Mike, skilled as you, are your technology would never quarry shape or fit some of these massive stones. I appreciate such triumphs of hope over common sense and applaud such extreme efforts to prove an hypothesis! Thank you, Mike.
Hi U took a good look at all their work and as a stone mason they are not as persice as they say, it's only stone and they had their jewelers etc, that shows their skill from that time, to me it's all primitive, I am much more impressed with the cathedrals, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduckso your telling me you could reproduce khafre enthroned? How exactly would you measure the symmetry to 1000th of an inch? And if you said you had to use laser measurements… how did they do it?
@@MikeHaduckand yes they are are precise as they say lol. They’ve used laser technology… which I’m assuming the ancient Egyptians didn’t have… to really show how precise they were. Your rock pounding video was cute but your either being purposely in genuine or you don’t understand the precision necessary to produce some of these artifacts
Hi, watch part 2, thanks Mike
@@cleanpiecington2319 watch part 2, thanks Mike
That thing you point to at 2:30 is called an azde, a steel version of it is still used for all kinds of masonry work all over the Mediterranean.
Hi TV, now I know what it's called, I have seen carvers using them in the quarries, thanks for the info, Mike
Mike, by the time you finished the granite you forgot to say you've now been in the business for "60 years." I like how you single handedly destroy all the UA-camrs who specialize in lost technology theories! #HaduckRules
Thanks, mike
Well done. I looked up this and other videos specifically to see for myself. Thank you
Thanks Mark, Mike
It would be nice if you would disclose exactly how many man-hours it took to take out that corner of granite. It would help in estimating constraints on how megalithic sites may have been constructed. Also, it's a shame your friend didn't just use copper and hand tools to carve the face- kinda defeated the purpose that he used modern tools didn't it?
Hi Jack, it's just stone, anybody who works it gets better and faster and inventive as they go, just like anything else, the pyramids are primitive, as a stone mason, I am far more impressed with the cathedrals, thanks mike
The Inca told the spanish chronicler Cieza De Leon in the 1550s that it took 20,000 men to construct sacsayhuaman over the time span of multiple rulers.
@@TonyTrupp imagine getting to see that construction at its peak.
Awesome
I imagine, they never stopped working. It must taken day n night 24 hrs. a day. Remember, it was slaves building these ancient monuments. I'm guessing 75 years to complete
@BIGGIEMURUA1982 well slaves didn't build the Egyptian pyramids. No one believes that anymore.
Thank you for this... enjoyed it greatly.
Thanks, Mike
I would really like to see you debate "Ben" of Uncharted X as he is convinced that everything was done with big machines or something, not sure what, I don't even think he does. They have started a sort of "podcast" discussion but always have like minded people in it so there really is no debate.....I live in an area where a canal was built almost 200 years ago and not only are some of the canals looking almost pristine but show incredible detail and are not out-of-level or line and I know they had no power tools. It is documented in expense reports to the investors....anyway, love your channel and have learned much. Used a star drill and hammer to make a three inch bore through 12 inches of 1930 concrete for a discharge pipe on a sump pump. It used to be a cistern in my parents house. You are right, it takes a long time and I just worked on it an hour a night for a couple of weeks but it worked!
Thanks wayne, I hear you, mike
I hate Ben from uncharted x... even Brien forester and jimmy are getting annoying now
Nice job. Add in some water, sand, and it will speed up some of the drilling ;-)
Thanks mrz, check out part 2, thanks Mike
really enjoy your incite...I hope you have many more vacations
Thanks Savio, I hope so, mike
Very interesting! All of your patch and repair videos have inspired me to "try" to fix my dad's concrete problems. Wish me luck, he might disown me. Thanks for taking your time to do the videos. They're so informative and I appreciate your helpful comments. *Song "Castle" by Mike Haduck - you're a musician, too. Wow!
Thanks Kathy, mike
👋🏼 Hey, thanks for the lesson. And thank you for offering your perspective on the subject of ancient civilizations.
Thanks Steve, Mike
Absolutely fascinating Mike, thank you for teaching us these techniques of ancient times.
Thanks Big Moose, Mike
Time and determination. It's no big deal, just get it done! I want your T shirt! Great video.
Thanks Larry, mike
And UFO’s... duh
I love your channel. I'm going to feature it on my channel because there is so much useful information you share. I'll be working with granite soon using old methods, and you've shown me how to get it done. Thank you!
Thanks, I checked your channel out, your pretty too, mike
Love this been waiting to find someone doing this properly!!!!!!!
Thanks again Blake, Mike
Just came across your videos and I absolutely love them. I am now bing watching them! Thank you!
Thanks, Mike
Fire was also used. This will make it easier to do the chipping. This is why you get the scoop marks. Fire, pound it out, fire. The large obelisks were quarried out in 6 to 8 months. When the yearly flood came the ruff obelisks where loaded on to boats and floated down the river to where they were used. I think the finishing work and inscriptions were done where the obelisk were installed.
Hi Stanley, I could agree with a lot of that, thanks Mike
This is great! I've been collecting videos on this subject so that I can share them with people who make "ancient high technology" mistaken claims.
Thanks I agree, Mike
A+ for effort. F- for showing a final product. F----- for the sculpture.
Thanks RK, I appreciate the A+, for the rest you can go to the history Channel and they can tell you how the aliens did it, maybe they will score higher, thanks Mike
Great video! I read that the copper mined in Egypt was harder that today’s copper - making an even better case that they used copper chisels and tools.
Hi Joseph, I heard they added other substances to it, thanks mike
There must have also been an organised constant supply chain of freshly made or reshaped tools available for each project.
The Ancient Alienated must think the poor guy had to stop, sharpen his tool for half an hour and keep going and sharpen again and on and on. 😆
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People have to realize, that THIS IS ALL THEY HAD TO DO. THIS WAS WHAT LIFE WAS ALL ABOUT. They were proud of themselves.
Thanks Jesse, Mike
We use, with improved methods, these same materials today. Diamond dust or silca sand abrasive cut off wheels, drills, and saws. Silica, and flint sandpaper etc.
Thanks again Gary, Mike
Thanks for the videos
Thanks again Alex, Mike
Thanks for this!
Thanks Optimus, Mike
Excellent demonstration. These techniques work great on a small scale, but clearly take a lot of time. Can you do a demonstration on cutting a 20 tonne block of granite and tell us how this was done for millions of large granite blocks
Hi Smith, sure I can, no problem, if you get a 20 ton block at a quarry and want to hire some help for me ,pay for the insurances, permits workers comp,and a fee for my time, etc etc ,let me know, with respect, thanks Mike
Another fantastically informative video. Thanks Mike!
Thanks OP, mike
Get a kick out of these guys online who believe that all intricate masonry was work of the ET's when in reality ancient craftsmen dedicated their WHOLE life to their works, let alone the projects taking years and years to finish. I'm planning on making some limestone pendants and really want to utilize traditional means of stonecutting for the sake of budget and for better replicating an archaic style. Thanks for the video, gained a lot of insight on these old-world methods.
Thanks, I also have a playlist " rockfacing and shaping stone" Mike Haduck, I go through all the old school and new school ways of stone work, thanks Mike
This is a very interesting video and the technique you showed made a big impression on me !! Thank you very much.
Thanks, mike
Great job 👍.
Thanks Michael, Mike
Mike, awesome video! Thank you for
making it.
I just wish more of the conspiracy people could watch it, and watch it with a genuinely open mind.
Thanks dimman, Mike
Mike not sure if you saw the video of the Russian girl recreating vases from Egypt's pre dynastic period? Shes been at it now a couple of years and her technique is improved a lot. Shes now working on a diorite vase showing the ancient lost technology people that yes the pre dynastic Egyptians were capable of making these hollowed out vases with the tools at hand.
Hi Andy, I have, and she is on the right track, thanks Mike
Wow I watch a lot of the ancient alien stuff and my eyes are opened
Thanks, Mike
Drilling holes in the rock with copper was done with a bow drill scaled to the job. That reciprocating action speeded up the process of friction in cutting. I also think the ancients cut blocks with giant pendulum saws. Big frames over rock had a log suspended on ropes with pegs on the underside of each end of the log where they stretched twine. That twine would rub back and forth on a pre-scored line and wet grit between rock and twine would cut the rock. As the cut got deeper, chisels were used to pound in the rock cut and it would crack apart.
Hi William, provably so, a lazy guy would always find a easier way, lol, Mike
Pre flood people had very long life spans …Some 900+ years .
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Thank you for showing us the relative simplicity of it. That was such a comforting demonstration .
Thanks, Mike
Absolutely!! Mike, you have the most positive mindset that makes my Root cellar so much easier. I'm not by any means good at stonework, and it may not be pretty, it will be strong and best of all it will be buried so no one will see it. Thanks again for taking the Pause out of trying.
Thanks Mac, Mike
I had a neighbor who dug himself a basement by hand (under his house). Took him about two months with nothing but a shovel and a wheelbarrow. Time and muscle can do a lot.
This is brilliant 👏👏👏 well done
Thanks, I appreciate it, Mike
Mike Haduck... Crushing stones and crushing dreams 👽🪨
Thanks Kevin, Mike
If you want me to believe that pounding balls were used on the unfinished obelisk..... I guess I’ll take your word for it. Lotta pounding. Cheers
Thanks Jack, mike
Love it. I literally love the part when you drill the granite and said to yourself "how you did it? I don't know. It was the aliens". I laughed so much.
Thanks, Mike
How does this explan the precision geological alignment ect. Them having bateries with no use for them ect.
Hi gripper, watch part 2, it's all common sense, thanks Mike
Love your vid's Mike!!! Whoohoo!
Thanks, mike
You're doing a good job, Mike!
JIM
Thanks Jim, mike
7:06 Had me so on edge with that sphinx on the edge of that table
Thanks, Mike
Another excellent video, Thank You Mike. TP
Thanks T P, mike
" Hi! I'm Mike Haduck and been a stone mason for over 50 years". and he looks 35 years old. This is a great video Mike!!! always love how you keep educating everyone on the art of masonry
Thanks Thor, I appreciate it, mike
Ah, I see the problem. Mike IS one of those ancient aliens. :D
Отличное видео. Инопланетяне не пройдут!))
Thanks, mike
i really liked your video on stone carving please make more
Thanks steven, I will, mike
In Scandinavia we have found amzing granit axes from the stoneage. They are perfectly symmetric and smooth as glass. However, I think the real mystery is not about precision alone, but rather about how the heck they upscaled these techniques to huge objects and at a high production pace.
Hi Holmavik, lot of workers with lots of time, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck yes of course they had many many workers and lots of time, but that makes it even more mysterious. How did they organise the production lines, the logistics, the planning and scheduling, communication between beween parrallell subprojects? And on top of that, if we strech the time period too long then one may expect some architects and leading engineers to pass away during the process. They obvously did it despite all these challenges, but how??
Personally I worked on skyscraper type of buildings it looked like ants building a mountain but they did it, I don't think it took longer to build a pyramid as it did the empire state building, my opinion, thanks Mike
Why assume a high production rate? Just how many Pharaohs do you think needed granite sarcophagus’s per year? One per year would seem to be on the high side of average.
After watching all the navel gazing theories on how ancient mega projects were built, its good to see someone with a bit of horse sense and actual experience explain how you can use simple tools to acheive amazing things!
Thanks Andy, Mike
@@MikeHaduckwell what he seems to simply ignore is the precision with which some of these artifacts are created… yeah you can pound two rocks together to remove material but how do you make two surfaces several feet apart perfectly parallel in relation to each other… these knuckle dragging stone workers seemed to be able to produce precision pieces that Mike couldn’t even dream of reproducing in his shed
@@cleanpiecington2319 watch part 2, thanks Mike
Awesome!
Thanks Mike, Mike
Great experiments Mike.
Thanks Peter, Mike
Thanks Mike.
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Our ancestors did well.. amazing explanation about the outer casing stones and the way they filled it in.. the drawings made it all understandble.. pleasure beng part of this.. though i don't want to make a big deal out of it.. but i think it is.. :)
Thanks again, RJ, Mike
This is I always want to know. Thank you.
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Great Job
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Hey Mike, you need a new sturdy bench before you get hurt. I'll come build you one if you like. Thanks for the carving lessons.
Thanks paul, I know it's on wheels and I was too lazy to study it up, lol, mike
Love your sweater. Gonna buy that soon.
Thanks, mike
Can you explain the tool marks which suggest circular saws several feet in diameter with a 3mm kerf were used?
Hi, they had diamonds and jewelers to make saws you won't see them in the museum because they were too valuable, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck , thanks. Diamond saws were found? Is there a book I can reference?
You can make pounding rocks together interesting. I liked the part near the end with the guys rolling the stone encased in a wooden frame. Years ago, in a discussion with some coworkers, I was derided when I rendered the opinion that it was how I believed the pyramids were done because it was how I would do it. I'm a DIY'r and at times it takes me longer to figure out a way to do something without help than to actually do the task.
Hi 65, I hear you, Mike
As a lifelong tradesperson , the design of a pyramid is pretty simplistic. Even in its simple form , it was a design reached by trial and error. You can see instances of earlier pyramids that collapsed because the geometry wasn't sound. So they learned from their mistakes and found the proper proportions that were architecturally favorable and stable. You don't need aliens or supernatural powers to figure out any complex geometry although I'm not saying ancient Egyptians weren't capable of figuring out that math. What I am sayin is that with simple tools such as a plumb bob, string lines and water levels, you can eliminate the need for the thousands of masons to understand any complexity to build within the parameters needed. They simply needed to set a plumb line in the center , use water level to set your foundation, using string lines and very basic layout methods bisect your 4 quadrants . From there , string lines would be pulled to the central apex of the pyramid that would be established by building a temporary tower set with a plumb bob to its center from its foundational footprint to the top of the central tower. With plumb and level and the for outside corners Square to eachother, all one needs are stringlines pulled between those points. Then the masons just need to cut the stone and fill in between the string lines. These pyramids were built by skilled masons guided by very intelligent architects who had generational knowledge built upon the successes snd failures of their ancestors. No alien technology needed. As far as how the stones were quarried , cut and moved, there is plenty of information out there on how that was accomplished as well
I agree it's not a big deal as everyone thinks, thanks Mike
Design of pyramid is pretty simplistic? Simple form? You better stick to your trade than playing smart. Earlier pyramids collapsed, not correct, some of finest examples of 3rd dynasty stand very much, and their geometry is very much sound and those that collapsed, are like that because other reasons not that they have faulty geometry. Later pyramids "collapsed" as earler prior the 4th dynasty.
As for simplicity of Khufu or Khafre's pyramids no further discussion is needed.
Hi Dom, I did video on bent pyramid etc. It's all obvious to a stonemason, not a big deal, don't be listening to all those bedroom archeologist, it's all common sense, thanks Mike
@@domusterra3261 I'm not here to get into random fights with strangers on the internet and use ad hominem attacks on people's intellect or character. So you are welcome to your opinion. However you never really made any concrete argument that discredited anything that I said. Just pure contradiction. I wasn't " trying to play smart" just voicing my opinion, based on real in the field experience. If you disagree with me that is fine. But what are you actually trying to say ?
Hi Mark, I would appreciate you sending me a link to your videos on the subject, when you were there, what you discovered and your opinions , then we can go from there, thanks Mike
sweet! i just remembered you & wondered if you'd weighed in on this topic! score!
Thanks zszs,,,, Mike
@@MikeHaduck `thank you! i had a feeling that there was a rational take somewhere in the world! ☺️ (& i got to discover your band!)
Thank you very much!
Thanks, I plan to mention your channel and all the good things you prove, mikr
Bravo.
Thanks David, mike
When you smashed the granite together with the other granite, it created a fine powder - is this the abrasive they would have then used to smooth their stone carvings?
Hu Mike , watch part 2, it explains it better, thanks mike
@MikeHaduck will do. Yeah, I just don't see why people think there is a mystery here. These stone masons were supremely gifted, they had generations of talent, plus they had unlimited time and man power...if you put enough hours in, anything is possible. I don't understand why people seem to want to belittle the talents of our ancestors- they weren't stupid, they just didn't have the depth of knowledge we have. I do think they must have had a lathe earlier than documented though - but still, a water powered spinning wheel shouldn't be too difficult to invent for people who built the pyramids! Considering the massive drop in the quality of Egyptian stone work, the most probable scenario is that either war or disease wiped out the tribe with the stone working techniques - and since they didn't have written information like we have, those skills were lost when the people died out.
No big mystery though. Skill, hard work, and a heck of a lot of effort - that's all they needed.
I love this! The question is not that they couldnt do it, just that the current sphinx looks smaller than original. and what was their mortar mix!
Thanks Nathan, Mike
Great video Mike! Shows that those huge projects were done over many years of time and with tons of hard labor.
Thanks Charles, I agree, mike
@@tilleryinnovations592 ALIENS DID IT!!!!
Add sand from the ground as you drill. Sand/quartz/silica is almost as hard as a diamond. Diamond drill. Also a stream of water to clear debris as you drill. A much faster method.
Thanks Gary, Mike
First off, I'm not in the Ancient Alien mindset by any means, but I am in the mindset of those ancients having some type of tooling other than what we have found and what is shown in museums. I was getting excited when that guy was going to carve out the Sphynx face with only hand tools, but was then disappointed once again when he resorted to power chisels and other modern tools to finish it. I still haven't found a video that shows someone actually finishing something of substance such as a thin walled cup or vase or even a statue or granite box. They always do just a little bit to show, yes, you can chip pieces away, but nothing to the same degree that we see with the gigantic statues and boxes made from granite. I will continue to search for a video of an actual finished replica using only chunks of rock and copper tools , but I'm not holding my breath. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, I am just baffled at how they did this 4K years ago.
Hi Roy, it's all basic, they had their movers, quarry guys, masons jewelers etc etc, everybody shows you a little bit because of the time it would take to do a huge piece ,and then what do you do with it, you can go around old quarries and see the abandoned pieces from days gone by, thanks mike
Drive a line of long chisels along a precut shallow line in limestone bedrock. Once you drive them in a short distance = the bedrock will continue to fracture downward. Now repeat this perpendicularly down the sides and add a line along the bottom with spaces to insert wooden levers. Via this method you can break off approximate chunks akin to breaking a section of a saltine cracker. It is not necessary to chisel out an individual 6 sided block.
At Giza as but one example the quarries show trenches cut in the bedrock with spaces for levers to break free chunks of stone. Limestone as a sedimentary stone forms in layers like a cake. So you can break these sections free along natural layers in the bedrock. This will give you most of what the pyramids are built from. Very few of the total blocks show more careful cutting and in some cases polishing. Those are only see among the blocks which form the inner corridors/chambers and the last few outer courses of stones to include the polished casing stones. All the rest of the pyramids are basically stacked rubble.
p.s. - granite is only seen in pyramids sparingly and then in basic shapes = blocks and sarcophagi. Via gneiss stone tools like flint or dolerite pounders and fire they could hammer through the granite bedrock along natural fault lines to achieve blocks which could be finished after a time via copper tools and abrasives like sand or corundum. Remember that granite sarcophagi were being used since the time of Djoser - and not just for Pharaohs. So quarries as today likely had partially finished or already finished objects on hand having been fabricated previously. That would save an immense amount of time.
Hi Vary, I agree, Mike
@@MikeHaduck Yes. People need to step back and consider the larger picture. This was a industry in Egypt - and not just for Pharaoh.
As an example. At Saqqara huge underground caches of mummified animals have been found in the past - literally millions of them. They were for everyday people as well as wealthy ones for offerings or burials. So "death" the same as "life" fostered a huge economy in ancient Egypt.
Stone masons worked constantly fashioning things - for Pharaohs or other patrons. Royal craftsmen were provided housing and food as payment for their services so that they need not worry about basic necessities. That allowed them to simply = work.
The knowledge was generational being passed down which means after a time they had worked out the kinks and could fabricate based upon proven techniques = shortening fabrication times. The same applies to others things. The Giza pyramids were not the first to be built. So via building previous pyramids - and large mastabas etc. before that - the Egyptians of the 4th Dynasty already worked out the logistics and manpower control mechanisms necessary to build these structures.
People assume they were starting from scratch = ergo their supposed "impossibility" rationalizations. Have a nice day.
Thanks Vary, I agree again, thanks for the comment, Mike