Much of his research involves how the Egyptians made the pyramids of Giza and there are YouTube videos of him making large blocks using the same materials they had access to.
Welcome, Chris! Yes, I am familiar with the work of Joseph Davidovits. Marcell Foti has been doing ongoing experiments based on Davidovits' theory and has found ways to create natron and water glass at fairly low temperatures, which can be used to cast the granite blocks.
This is incredible, Ken! I will say that there are 5-axis CNC machines with articulated cutting heads that should be able to do this. These are used for tasks like porting cylinder heads and the cutting head can pivot by up to 60 degrees inside the chamber. Having said that, this is a specialized, modern computer controlled tool and will leave tool marks even if microscopic. So what I would like to know about these jars are “are there tool marks inside?” If there are no tool marks I’m thinking something like a water jet, laser, or maybe something ultrasonic was used to do the cutting. Extremely high tech stuff!
Hi Ken! I'm a new subscriber and recently found your work! Have you heard of Joseph Davidovits and geopolymers? He's written several interesting books on the subject, and in one of them he describes how the Egyptians made stone vases/jars with geopolymer cements: https://www.geopolymer.org/library/archaeological-papers/c-making-cements-with-plant-extracts/
Much of his research involves how the Egyptians made the pyramids of Giza and there are YouTube videos of him making large blocks using the same materials they had access to.
Thanks again for all your great work!
Chris Hambleton
Welcome, Chris! Yes, I am familiar with the work of Joseph Davidovits. Marcell Foti has been doing ongoing experiments based on Davidovits' theory and has found ways to create natron and water glass at fairly low temperatures, which can be used to cast the granite blocks.
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This is incredible, Ken! I will say that there are 5-axis CNC machines with articulated cutting heads that should be able to do this. These are used for tasks like porting cylinder heads and the cutting head can pivot by up to 60 degrees inside the chamber. Having said that, this is a specialized, modern computer controlled tool and will leave tool marks even if microscopic. So what I would like to know about these jars are “are there tool marks inside?” If there are no tool marks I’m thinking something like a water jet, laser, or maybe something ultrasonic was used to do the cutting. Extremely high tech stuff!
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He has done the most work to bring attention to this and to get real experts to look at these vessels, to include laser scans.