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Copper Tools, Megalith Weights & Granite Columns with Ben Van Kerkwyk — Part 4 of 4 | Classics Rotation
Ben Van Kerkwyk challenges the mainstream explanation that copper tubes, sand and simple tools produced Egypt's hardest stonework, and he sets out what he personally counts as evidence for advanced technology. If you follow ancient engineering debates, megalith transport, granite columns or experiments with stone and electricity, this closing part ties those threads together and ends with where to find Ben's work.
Ben says copper tube and sand drilling experiments, including one he attributes to Mark Lehner, have not reproduced the ancient tool marks, that the method would have used up copper…
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