Ancient Egypt - lost technologies - lathe turned stone

Ancient Egyptian Stone Technology is a site dedicated to showcasing several examples of Lost Technology from the Very Early Egyptian Empire, or possibly BEFORE. Lathe Turned Stone as hard as granite and friable as schist. Tube Drilled holes through stone blocks and Stone Saws for creating multi-tonne slabs of rock and limestone…

Here’s a great artistic example, a perfectly balanced granite bowl…

This requires that the entire bowl have a symmetrical wall thickness without any substantial error! (With a base area so tiny – less than .15 ” sq – any asymmetry in a material as dense as granite would produce a lean in the balance of the finished piece.) This kind of skill will raise the eyebrows of any machinist. To produce such a piece in clay would be very impressive. In granite it is incredible. [source AEST]

EDITORIAL COMMENT: these amazingly engineered art pieces and drilling/sawing tools don’t even have to have been made by the Very Early Egyptian Empire. Maybe they were IMPORTS from some other location contemporaneous with or before such a time… ancient wares traded via international waters from a technologically advanced people; heirlooms of a Race of Humans who longer exist?

That no trace of the tools used for these artistic/architectural purposes has been found is odd, to say the least. Maybe the craftsmen were freelancers who were drafted into Egypt to do the work, then took their tools away with them? An artisan’s tools being forged from sacred magick, etc.