{"id":405,"date":"2023-05-29T23:14:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/?page_id=405"},"modified":"2023-08-14T19:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:21:36","slug":"prehistoric-machined-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/articles\/prehistoric-machined-artifacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Prehistoric Machined Artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a9 2006 Christopher Dunn<\/b><\/p>

All rights reserved<\/span><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 1.<\/span><\/b><\/span>
<\/span>Pavement<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 2.<\/span><\/b><\/span> This saw cut ends within the joint to
the adjacent block, proving that is was sawn before installation.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 3.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Close up of saw cut. <\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

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Exhibit 4.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Saw marks on side of pavement stones.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 5.<\/span><\/b><\/span> More saw marks on pavement with
appearance of being cut with circular saw.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/strong><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 6.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Distinct saw cuts with clearly defined
steps.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/strong><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 7.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Front view of Exhibit 6.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 8.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Close up of Exhibit 6.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 9.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Large radius saw cut.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 10.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Close up of Exhibit 9 revealing feed
lines of the tool.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 11.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Apparent -V- shaped notches cut into
basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 12.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Parallel striations on relative smooth
surface of basalt. Close-up taken with macro lens<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Basalt.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 13.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Contoured block on the Giza Plateau<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ South corner and 100 yards east of Khafre\u2019s<\/span> pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 14.<\/span><\/b><\/span> End view of Exhibit 9 with overlaying
circles<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ South corner and 100 yards east of Khafre\u2019s<\/span> pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 15.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Front view of Exhibit 9.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ South corner and 100 yards east of Khafre\u2019s<\/span> pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 16.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Precision straight
edge on the crown of true radius.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ South corner and 100 yards east of Khafre\u2019s<\/span> pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 17.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Using forming wax to
check the consistency of the corner radius (see
Advanced Machining in Ancient
Egypt<\/a> for further discussion).<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ South corner and 100 yards east of Khafre\u2019s<\/span> pyramid.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 18.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Contoured block of
granite near Valley
Temple.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ South side outside the Valley Temple.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 19.<\/span><\/b><\/span> End view of Exhibit 18.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ South side outside the Valley Temple.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 20.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Precision straight
edge on the crown of true radius.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ South side outside the Valley Temple.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 21.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Front view of Exhibit 18.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ South side outside the Valley Temple.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 22.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Wall inside the Valley Temple.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~
Diorite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ East wall inside the Valley Temple.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 23.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Core drilled hole.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ West lintel in South East hall inside the Valley Temple.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

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Exhibit 24.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Core broken out of drilled hole.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ University College London, the Petrie<\/span><\/b><\/span>Museum. Discovered at Giza by William Flinders Petrie – 1881.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 25.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Saw marks.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ Abu Rawash<\/span>.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>

\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 26.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Box carved from solid piece 7-1\/2 ft. wide
9 ft. high 13-\u00bd ft. long .<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ Rock tunnels of the Serapeum<\/span>
at Saqqarra<\/span>.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

\"\"\"\"<\/p>

Exhibit 27.<\/span><\/b><\/span> Inspecting the inside
of another box at the Serapeum<\/span> using precision
toolmakers instruments.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>

Material ~ Aswan
pink granite.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Location ~ Rock tunnels of the Serapeum<\/span>
at Saqqarra<\/span>.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>

For additional information regarding the boxes in the Serapeum<\/span> click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0<\/p>

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Prehistoric Machined Artifact \u00a9 2006 Christopher Dunn All rights reserved \u00a0 Exhibit 1.Pavement Material ~ Basalt. Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid. Exhibit 2. This saw cut ends within the joint tothe adjacent block, proving that is was sawn before installation. Material ~ Basalt. Location ~ East of the Great Pyramid. Exhibit 3. Close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1299,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-405","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions\/1679"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gizapower.com\/gizeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}