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 th-cam.com/video/E5pZ7uR6v8c/w-d-xo.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.
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.
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.
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 th-cam.com/video/K80JebExyEY/w-d-xo.html
“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.
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.
"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...
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?
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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 TH-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
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 th-cam.com/video/JZXeQkQVs1o/w-d-xo.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 th-cam.com/video/XY6SUTPV018/w-d-xo.html Examining the serapeum and not seeing any precision th-cam.com/video/bEwxMFDRmek/w-d-xo.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”.
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.
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 TH-camrs who specialize in lost technology theories! #HaduckRules
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
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
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!
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!
" 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, Mike, so interesting, using granite to carve granite, I honestly never thought of that :) Wondering what you mean when you say, "a long time"? Hours, weeks, months? I'd also love to hear your thoughts on how the delicate granite objects, like bowls and vases, etc, were created?
Hi, I got a whole playlist " rockfacing and shaping stones" on part 13 the guy from the granite museum shows how it's done by hand, and the channel scientist against myths had a lot of examples, thanks mike
Bro NOBODY DOUBTS THEY EASILY CARVED THE SAND STONE, the stuff people are talking about it's the hardest granite the pink and black granites. We want to see you carve that with flawless right angles and perfect sculpting using those same tools and nothing more
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.
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
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.
You know what was the best part? "I'm pretty sure they colud do that with copper tools but I'm gonna use the steel ones" (switches on an electric chisel).
I don't know how many Things were done because they Look Just too good, symetrical. But this is a Joke. You believe your own Dogma. Just Like the other Side. They Had time. Just keep hitting etc. No. Of course you can Hit 3 month in the same Corner. Of course Material will Go away. But giza is something else. Saqqara. Same. But this Kind of. Look. I Hit the stone only 3 days and 1 Inch is gone. Wow
Mike I love this video. Thank you so much for imparting wisdom. It is beautiful to see you work, and to see you curious. How can one contact you? I am thinking about writing a paper on the pyramids. Thank you, Max.
There is a theory that there was a civilisation older than the Egyptians (10 000+ BC) and the Egyptians might have recycled some of the material of that civilisation. Like some superbly polished granite statues. On some of them you can even see that the quality of the writings looks gross (very much unrefined) compared to the quality of the finish of the statue itself. I don't think it's necessarily a proof this older civilisation used a lost carving and polishing technology. It's possible the Egyptians used the same technology but they just recycled some material already available in high quality finish. Probably many civilisations did that, we are even still doing it today.
No one ever denied that copper and flint can carve limestone; the difficulty comes with carving granite and diorite. Flint chisels CAN carve granite and diorite, but the process is incredibly slow. The Egyptians did have iron, as the metal is mentioned frequently in the Pyramid Texts, and iron artefacts and tools of the Pyramid Age have actually been found. These are rarely mentioned in textbooks because they undermine the whole chronological system beloved by mainstream Egyptologists.
Hi Emmet. I agree, I also got a whole series called " rockfacing and shaping stone" part 13 shows the guy doing demonstration on old school polishing of granite, 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. 😆 ☀🐫🏝
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.
My first impulse is that Brien F., Graham H., That Bright dude and Unsupported X are not going to like this content...then I realized that most of those who like their fantasy stories probably won't even watch this. Or they'll consider it part of the grand conspiracy by BIG Archaeology to hide the real truth...space men! Thanks for the punch lines.
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
Hey Mike another great informative video! I've been in industrial air compressors almost as long as you have been a mason, what kind of compressor does Wayne have? Bring on more truck videos!
One aspect that always seems to amaze the ancient technology guys is the really flat and tight seams between the stones. I would guess they would have basically sanded the faces to gat that level of fit between the stones. They never seem to consider that there were by my guess, thousands of men who worked the stone their whole lives. Like any craftsman, they would be using these skills every day all day long.
Hi Jaye ,most of the stones were quarried exactly as they were placed back into place, I will have a part 2 comming out in a couple months explaining it, thanks mike
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.
I want to see a video making a hollowed out vase and all the other items that were made with perfect precision that we use lathes in order to duplicate the same item in the present. And all the machine marks found on megalithic structures around the world we’re imaginary? They found scientific proof that some of the bore holes were bored out with bits turning at 1100 rpms.
Hi Jades, again, no problem, lots of examples and tools at the museum. we can duplicate them, there are fine jewelers around the world especially in third world countries that do things similar, again, it's going to take time and money to do all this ,so my pay pal account is open, I will need starting cost to get going, if you want to be involved and do your own due diligence that will save you a ton of money, these projects can get expensive, thanks mike
Do you think the stones at sacsayhuaman were carved in this manner given that they fit together so tightly? The shapes are so random that it seems inconceivable that they could be prepared to that degree of accuracy with these methods. The bulges where they fit together seem to indicate that they may have been melted with a lot of heat to squash together so tightly. I know you could get very close with these methods and given enough time but surely there’d be some gaps along every joint?
Hi Josh, I don't see the big deal, just make two patterns and beat the stone till it conforms, I took a good look at those site and they are not all as perfect as they say, a lot of hype is being put into it, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck thanks for the input Mike. I guess talented stonemasons are capable of it then. Even if just the joints that I’ve seen on videos are perfect and the rest are not, it’s an incredible level of skill to fit them so tightly.
Mike, your video contains great clues as to the actual pre dynastic granite shaping. Could tuning forks be employed to shape granite. Forget copper or stone - iron or better - steel. If steel, then perhaps carbide. What happened to all the tools? Hidden by Egyptologists, stolen by collectors?
If the methods the ancient Egyptians used in carving stones and building structures becomes 100% common knowledge, fewer people will watch documentaries, fewer people will buy their books, fewer people would want to visit the historical sites. Keeping the mystery keeps the money going.
I don't know how cheesecake is made, therefore all cheesecake must be made by ancient psychic ancestors who were taught the secrets of the universe by aliens.
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.
2:00 There even seems to be a sturdy stone pulley. However, sadly, I do not see any ancient levitation devices, forklift trucks, helicopters, power plants, light bulbs or batteries... ;-) Instead, I see a stonemason talking about the stonemason's job and showing as he and other stonemasons do it. I am still just as impressed with the craftsmanship though. Many thanks! PS. They used bronze which is harder than clear copper and they could also use arsenical bronze and tinned bronze. Also, teak wood (one of the hardest hardwoods) is grown in Egypt up to this day and back in the day they were supposed to have plenty of wood too. They also used wooden pegs inserted into drilled holes and soaked with water to split big chunks.
I struggled with shaping and polishing stone for years, I thought that people was holding out, trade secrets, no one would tell me what I needed to know. But it turns out they just don't know how to do these things, and because they can't do it they say it's Impossible. You know they say they found a corundum axe from 3500 to 4000 BC.
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.
Look up Christopher Dunn. He measured those statues with lasers. He’s an engineer. He said that the precision of the curves is mathematically perfect and we cannot carve those today from. Granite on That scale with precision. And he measured the sarcophagus many. There’s absolute flat surfaces with zero error and perfect angles. Thousands of structures like that. Perfectly smooth. On granite and diorite Not just once time. But thousands of times. Perfect cuts. How long would it take to cut just one limestone two ton block by hand?? There are over two million of them in just the great pyramid alone. Supposedly built in only 20 years. That’s one block every few minutes Not possible by chisels
Hi alas, I been to college for architecture and law. And I never seen an engineer do anything then draw on paper, they are not stone masons quarry men of movers, it wouldn't take any longer to build a pyramid as it did the empire state building, thanks mike
Look up Christopher Dunn, because he dis not measure anything with lasers. He took a photo and put it through photoshop. He measured the flatness of the surfaces with a straight edge, it's box 23 in the Serapeum. You can go to the Isida Project serapeum archives to see many hi res photos of each of the coffers and none of them shows anywhere close to precision flatness, the distortion of reflections gives it away from 10 feet. Anyone who has polished anything can spot it, Chris Dunn isn't much of an engineer You need to double check the things you've been told because someone is feeding you falsehoods.
These corners, so-called "perfect angles" are not even 90 degrees, many are 91-92 degrees. Some cuts are off by a width of a finger. So much perfection! You are dreaming about the superpowers that never existed ;)
Mike, normally I like your videos, but this one I take exception to. The quality of the stone work wasn't even close to ancient stone work. Particularly when one compares with the stone carving of Mesoamerica. Having your friend come on and complete the job with his steel power equipment undermined the credibility of your thesis. As to the copper, the copper you used had alloys in it. I could tell by the way it looked and sounded. Since we have already discovered the furnaces the ancients used to make the iron they used, why don't we just accept that they used iron tools? As well, there is wide spread evidence that bronze tools were also used for stone carving through out the Americas during that time. None the less I love your videos and will keep watching because I have learned so much about masonry from you. We will just have to disagree on this one. Thanks
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 for showing this and debunking those ridiculous ancient astronaut cultists. Edit: Never underestimate how much can done by teams of workers spelling each other off, and several shifts a 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
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 th-cam.com/video/E5pZ7uR6v8c/w-d-xo.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.
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
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
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.
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 th-cam.com/video/K80JebExyEY/w-d-xo.html
“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.
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
"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!
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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
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.
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.
"Wayne said they could do it with copper.." as Wayne had just proceeded to use a powered chisel lol
Hi MP, very true, Mike
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
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
Thank you for this... enjoyed it greatly.
Thanks, 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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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 TH-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 th-cam.com/video/Mq2KGQajfAo/w-d-xo.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
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
@@MikeHaduck
first i am sure you'll really like this one
th-cam.com/video/JZXeQkQVs1o/w-d-xo.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
th-cam.com/video/XY6SUTPV018/w-d-xo.html
Examining the serapeum and not seeing any precision
th-cam.com/video/bEwxMFDRmek/w-d-xo.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'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
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 TH-camrs who specialize in lost technology theories! #HaduckRules
Thanks, mike
I like your practical approach to working masonry and concrete and banjo!
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Thanks Roger, mike
Hallelujah! A voice of reason.
Thanks julian,, 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
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
👋🏼 Hey, thanks for the lesson. And thank you for offering your perspective on the subject of ancient civilizations.
Thanks Steve, 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
Thanks Mike
Thanks, 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
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
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
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
" 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
Another fantastically informative video. Thanks Mike!
Thanks OP, mike
Thanks, Mike, so interesting, using granite to carve granite, I honestly never thought of that :) Wondering what you mean when you say, "a long time"? Hours, weeks, months? I'd also love to hear your thoughts on how the delicate granite objects, like bowls and vases, etc, were created?
Hi, I got a whole playlist " rockfacing and shaping stones" on part 13 the guy from the granite museum shows how it's done by hand, and the channel scientist against myths had a lot of examples, thanks mike
Bro NOBODY DOUBTS THEY EASILY CARVED THE SAND STONE, the stuff people are talking about it's the hardest granite the pink and black granites. We want to see you carve that with flawless right angles and perfect sculpting using those same tools and nothing more
Hi Ace, send the money to my pay pal account and I will get right on it, It will be taking me some time but i could do it, thanks 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
Nice job. Add in some water, sand, and it will speed up some of the drilling ;-)
Thanks mrz, check out part 2, thanks Mike
Absolutely fascinating Mike, thank you for teaching us these techniques of ancient times.
Thanks Big Moose, 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
I found my problem with carving stone. I need to find a junk faucet with a copper pipe attached. Then, "no big deal"...
Thanks Buckhorn, 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.
Thanks for this!
Thanks Optimus, 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?
Great job 👍.
Thanks Michael, 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
This is brilliant 👏👏👏 well done
Thanks, I appreciate it, Mike
Just came across your videos and I absolutely love them. I am now bing watching them! Thank you!
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
You know what was the best part? "I'm pretty sure they colud do that with copper tools but I'm gonna use the steel ones" (switches on an electric chisel).
Hi Skorrigan, because it faster, thanks Mike
I don't know how many Things were done because they Look Just too good, symetrical. But this is a Joke. You believe your own Dogma. Just Like the other Side. They Had time. Just keep hitting etc. No. Of course you can Hit 3 month in the same Corner. Of course Material will Go away. But giza is something else. Saqqara. Same. But this Kind of. Look. I Hit the stone only 3 days and 1 Inch is gone. Wow
I’m all for explanations that prove it possible.. but I’m stuck on core 7 found by Petrie.. any thoughts/ ideas on that?
Hi, I am not familiar with that , but they had their jewelers, tool makers and craftsman, not a big deal just time and money, thanks Mike
Oh how about those black granite boxes found in egypt?that were so perfect in creation? Would love to hear your input on it.
Hi Tamar, it's all basics, then refinement, thanks Mike
Vadim VeeVoit Dunn is a fraud, go check out scientist against myth
Mike I love this video. Thank you so much for imparting wisdom. It is beautiful to see you work, and to see you curious. How can one contact you? I am thinking about writing a paper on the pyramids. Thank you, Max.
Thanks Max, Mike
There is a theory that there was a civilisation older than the Egyptians (10 000+ BC) and the Egyptians might have recycled some of the material of that civilisation.
Like some superbly polished granite statues. On some of them you can even see that the quality of the writings looks gross (very much unrefined) compared to the quality of the finish of the statue itself. I don't think it's necessarily a proof this older civilisation used a lost carving and polishing technology. It's possible the Egyptians used the same technology but they just recycled some material already available in high quality finish. Probably many civilisations did that, we are even still doing it today.
Hi, it's only stone work, anyone who keeps working with it will learn its ways, just like anything else, thanks Mike
No one ever denied that copper and flint can carve limestone; the difficulty comes with carving granite and diorite. Flint chisels CAN carve granite and diorite, but the process is incredibly slow. The Egyptians did have iron, as the metal is mentioned frequently in the Pyramid Texts, and iron artefacts and tools of the Pyramid Age have actually been found. These are rarely mentioned in textbooks because they undermine the whole chronological system beloved by mainstream Egyptologists.
Hi Emmet. I agree, I also got a whole series called " rockfacing and shaping stone" part 13 shows the guy doing demonstration on old school polishing of granite, thanks mike
Love this been waiting to find someone doing this properly!!!!!!!
Thanks again Blake, 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
This is a very interesting video and the technique you showed made a big impression on me !! Thank you very much.
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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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.
My first impulse is that Brien F., Graham H., That Bright dude and Unsupported X are not going to like this content...then I realized that most of those who like their fantasy stories probably won't even watch this. Or they'll consider it part of the grand conspiracy by BIG Archaeology to hide the real truth...space men! Thanks for the punch lines.
Thanks Russell, 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
Doesn't "fired rock" chip a lot easier as well?
Thanks , 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
Hey Mike another great informative video! I've been in industrial air compressors almost as long as you have been a mason, what kind of compressor does Wayne have? Bring on more truck videos!
Thanks John, it's a industrial, mike
One aspect that always seems to amaze the ancient technology guys is the really flat and tight seams between the stones. I would guess they would have basically sanded the faces to gat that level of fit between the stones. They never seem to consider that there were by my guess, thousands of men who worked the stone their whole lives. Like any craftsman, they would be using these skills every day all day long.
Hi Jaye ,most of the stones were quarried exactly as they were placed back into place, I will have a part 2 comming out in a couple months explaining it, thanks mike
Awesome!
Thanks Mike, Mike
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
I want to see a video making a hollowed out vase and all the other items that were made with perfect precision that we use lathes in order to duplicate the same item in the present. And all the machine marks found on megalithic structures around the world we’re imaginary? They found scientific proof that some of the bore holes were bored out with bits turning at 1100 rpms.
Hi Jades, again, no problem, lots of examples and tools at the museum. we can duplicate them, there are fine jewelers around the world especially in third world countries that do things similar, again, it's going to take time and money to do all this ,so my pay pal account is open, I will need starting cost to get going, if you want to be involved and do your own due diligence that will save you a ton of money, these projects can get expensive, thanks mike
Do you think the stones at sacsayhuaman were carved in this manner given that they fit together so tightly? The shapes are so random that it seems inconceivable that they could be prepared to that degree of accuracy with these methods. The bulges where they fit together seem to indicate that they may have been melted with a lot of heat to squash together so tightly. I know you could get very close with these methods and given enough time but surely there’d be some gaps along every joint?
All your questions about Sacsayhuaman answered:
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Hi Josh, I don't see the big deal, just make two patterns and beat the stone till it conforms, I took a good look at those site and they are not all as perfect as they say, a lot of hype is being put into it, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck thanks for the input Mike. I guess talented stonemasons are capable of it then. Even if just the joints that I’ve seen on videos are perfect and the rest are not, it’s an incredible level of skill to fit them so tightly.
Mike, your video contains great clues as to the actual pre dynastic granite shaping. Could tuning forks be employed to shape granite. Forget copper or stone - iron or better - steel. If steel, then perhaps carbide.
What happened to all the tools? Hidden by Egyptologists, stolen by collectors?
Hi Bruce, watch part 2, thanks Mike
Iron is a stretch, steel is a leap, carbides are a transatlantic flight
If the methods the ancient Egyptians used in carving stones and building structures becomes 100% common knowledge, fewer people will watch documentaries, fewer people will buy their books, fewer people would want to visit the historical sites. Keeping the mystery keeps the money going.
Hi Roonel, I agree, 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!!!!
I don't know how cheesecake is made, therefore all cheesecake must be made by ancient psychic ancestors who were taught the secrets of the universe by aliens.
Hi Jeff, very true, thanks Mike
Love your vid's Mike!!! Whoohoo!
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.
Hi Andy, I have, and she is on the right track, thanks Mike
2:00 There even seems to be a sturdy stone pulley. However, sadly, I do not see any ancient levitation devices, forklift trucks, helicopters, power plants, light bulbs or batteries... ;-) Instead, I see a stonemason talking about the stonemason's job and showing as he and other stonemasons do it. I am still just as impressed with the craftsmanship though. Many thanks! PS. They used bronze which is harder than clear copper and they could also use arsenical bronze and tinned bronze. Also, teak wood (one of the hardest hardwoods) is grown in Egypt up to this day and back in the day they were supposed to have plenty of wood too. They also used wooden pegs inserted into drilled holes and soaked with water to split big chunks.
Hi, I got 2 videos, "carving stone with ancient technology " part 1 & 2, Mike haduck, that should answer a lot of those questions, thanks mike
I struggled with shaping and polishing stone for years, I thought that people was holding out, trade secrets, no one would tell me what I needed to know.
But it turns out they just don't know how to do these things, and because they can't do it they say it's Impossible.
You know they say they found a corundum axe from 3500 to 4000 BC.
Hi Luke, It's like any trade, the more you work in it the more ways you learn to do it better, thanks Mike
Exultant. You've gone and blown my aliens idea outa the water.
Thanks Clyde, Mike
Excellent Mike, bad news is that Mr Hancock has just struck you off his Christmas card list!
Thanks Nick, 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
Look up Christopher Dunn. He measured those statues with lasers. He’s an engineer. He said that the precision of the curves is mathematically perfect and we cannot carve those today from. Granite on That scale with precision. And he measured the sarcophagus many. There’s absolute flat surfaces with zero error and perfect angles. Thousands of structures like that. Perfectly smooth. On granite and diorite Not just once time. But thousands of times. Perfect cuts. How long would it take to cut just one limestone two ton block by hand?? There are over two million of them in just the great pyramid alone. Supposedly built in only 20 years. That’s one block every few minutes Not possible by chisels
Hi alas, I been to college for architecture and law. And I never seen an engineer do anything then draw on paper, they are not stone masons quarry men of movers, it wouldn't take any longer to build a pyramid as it did the empire state building, thanks mike
Look up Christopher Dunn, because he dis not measure anything with lasers. He took a photo and put it through photoshop.
He measured the flatness of the surfaces with a straight edge, it's box 23 in the Serapeum. You can go to the Isida Project serapeum archives to see many hi res photos of each of the coffers and none of them shows anywhere close to precision flatness, the distortion of reflections gives it away from 10 feet. Anyone who has polished anything can spot it, Chris Dunn isn't much of an engineer
You need to double check the things you've been told because someone is feeding you falsehoods.
These corners, so-called "perfect angles" are not even 90 degrees, many are 91-92 degrees. Some cuts are off by a width of a finger. So much perfection! You are dreaming about the superpowers that never existed ;)
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
Bravo.
Thanks David, mike
how did they manage to smooth the sides and make it look like it has a gloss finish? anything on that?, thank you!
Hi Walkman, I got a whole playlist on the pyramids, I show different techniques in each pyramid video, thanks Mike
Another excellent video, Thank You Mike. TP
Thanks T P, mike
vERY nICE!
Thanks for your time and Information!
Thanks, Mike
Great work, you proofed to me that those artifacts indeed could not be made by using these methods.
Hi Naat. If you produced a hands on video proving why it can't be done with simple everyday techniques I would love to see it, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck Why? You already did such a great job of doing just that with this video lol.
Thanks, Mike
Mike, normally I like your videos, but this one I take exception to. The quality of the stone work wasn't even close to ancient stone work. Particularly when one compares with the stone carving of Mesoamerica. Having your friend come on and complete the job with his steel power equipment undermined the credibility of your thesis. As to the copper, the copper you used had alloys in it. I could tell by the way it looked and sounded. Since we have already discovered the furnaces the ancients used to make the iron they used, why don't we just accept that they used iron tools? As well, there is wide spread evidence that bronze tools were also used for stone carving through out the Americas during that time. None the less I love your videos and will keep watching because I have learned so much about masonry from you. We will just have to disagree on this one. Thanks
Thanks David, I wasn't there when they were doing it, we just assume like everyone else, I appreciate it, mike
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
Thanks for showing this and debunking those ridiculous ancient astronaut cultists.
Edit: Never underestimate how much can done by teams of workers spelling each other off, and several shifts a day.
Thanks ,Very true, Mike