Anyone who denies that machining and moving of rock that we still cannot replicate happened in antiquity should read Chris Dunn’s books and watch this video featuring Russ Allen.
There are several kinds of evidence, available worldwide.
- The use of huge blocks too heavy even for us to transport and manoeuvre. The trilithon and quarry stones at Baalbeck and Yangshan quarry in China are prime examples.
- Rock that has been cut where the cutting tool has left scoop marks. The Aswan quarry obelisk is a prime example.
- The use of large polygonal stone blocks to build walls. The prime example is Sacsayhuaman but there are examples worldwide.
- ‘Nubs’ on the stones used. Creating the nubs entails the removal of large quantities of rock for no purpose that we know of. The effort involved is not commensurate with this being purely for decorative effect.
- Very high precision in the stone cutting. Prime examples are the granite boxes in the Serapeum and the Egyptian diorite vases. This cannot be achieved by hand and requires a machine of even greater precision.
- Saw cuts and core drill holes. The feed rate is very high, as assessed by the cutting marks on cores and the over-run seen when saw cuts have gone wrong.
Russ Allen points out that many major constructions such as the Serapeum, Osireion, obelisk at Aswan, and large blocks at Baalbeck and the Yangshan Quarry in China are unfinished and that this displays the techniques being employed to create them. Whatever civilisation did this could remove granite as though it were butter. The scoop marks under the unfinished obelisk indicate some kind of of high technology beyond our own. We are gaining hints as to how this might be possible through the work of Malcolm Bendall and Bob Greenyer – harnessing magnetic monopoles and ball lightning can disintegrate matter.
This begs the question of why there is no evidence left of the machines. Large amounts of iron would surely leave detectable iron oxide. Stainless steel would survive many thousands of years. The complete cessation of work on these constructions suggests a major sudden global disaster but the absence of evidence of the machines suggests organised withdrawal.
The younger dryas impact hypothesis can provide the disaster but where did the machines go? Were they removed?