If we go looking for the technology how big might it be and what shape should it take? We can assume, based on the level of perfection and similarity from one object to the next, that it must have been stationary equipment. If that is so then how big would we have expected it to be? Today the size of the equipment might be as much as 50 to 100 times the size of the object being machined. If that is true then we should be able to make a prediction on the outside limits and create a range of size of the object that we might seek to locate. The next blog will be more definitive in this area but this is a good path to take to begin, by inference, to make some educated guesses that might help to locate the missing technology (or at least give us some idea of what might have happended to it).       

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Everyone puts their tools away when finished and I don't think that ancient Egyptians were any different. They would have put them away somewhere that they could have been protected from the elements. That means underground or in some above ground protected space. Since we have done a pretty good job above ground we should try our hand at the tunnels. We need to have a thorough and complete investigation into the tunnel system with a complete mapping project. We need a focus on the lost technologies as we know now that we have so little of the 'story'.   

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On a recent tour of Egypt our guide, who was an archaeologist told us that there was more under the surface than had been uncvered to date. As they have no place to put all of the 'stuff' they simply cover it back up and make note of its location. Could some remenants or suggestions of advanced technology have already been uncovered and not recognized? 

Moving on to the tunnels and looking at them as a possible resting place for advanced technology how would one go about the process. First there would have to be a concerted effort to map the whole of the tunnel system in any given area. We know there are tunnels throughout the Giza Plateau but to my knowledge there had never been an effort to map the whole of them. Ground penetrating radar could certainly be used. The completed map  would give clues to the intent and could then point to potential warehouse spaces for further exploration.

If there are tunnels under the Giza Plateau one could assume that there are probably ones under the temples and their complexes. At Dendara I experienced one that was under the temple and it had a corridor that was well decorated. I did not think of it at the time but I did not ask if anything else had been found in them or if they existed to to greater extent at that temple or others.

             

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When one thinks about underground networks of tunnels the first question to come to mind is the purpose.  Could these lead to and from warehouse areas where one might find proof of the idea that they used more advanced tool technology to construct their artifacts. Is so what is the best way to proceed to pursue this possibility? Since we do not have the abiltiy to go on site and physicaly pursue it we must take a tangential approach to the process. The first one is to explore what has been written about them and then also take a look at what has been found in other such systems built by other civilizations. This then will be the beginning of an exploration by inference. The next post will begin the journey.     

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So which direction will I take to begin to take the next steps in pursuit of the idea that the Ancient Egyptians had advanced manufacutring technologies? There are may trails on which to embark.  I have chosen the trail of  searching for physical evidence of the tools. If in fact more advanced tools, machines  and techology were used where did they all go? Has time merely sent them to the dust bin? My first stop on this trail will be to explore potential places where physical evidence might be fouind now that we have a better idea of what we may be looking for. The first place I would look is in the 'basement'. Here I am referring to the tunnels that we know have been discovered under the Giza Plateau. In my next blog I will discuss what has been reported/ not reported in relation to the tunnels. I will also discuss the paintings that I am working on in relation to these sub terranean spaces.             

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A recent book by Christopher Dunn entitled, Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt, has ushered in a new era of possiblities and exploration into the Egyptian past.  Seeing the artifacts throught the eyes of a modern manufacturing expert brings up both new questions and possibliites in regards to the sophistication and knowledge of those that built the Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Temples. A new light is shed on a potential pathway to answsers to questions that have long eluded the best archaeologists. The problem has been the narrowness of their training and capabiities to see what Dunn so dramatically displays in his book.

The question on the table now is where do we go with these new insights.  If in fact Dunn is correct, and all evidence points in that direction, then what is our next step in unraveling the mystery? This blog, in 2011, will continue to develop this idea and suggest some directions that can be taken.

His book has been an inspiration for me to return to Egypt to see first had the evidence that he has provided that seems to indicated that in antiquity our ancestors did in fact possess the skills to manufacture artifacts at a very high level. It has also motivated me to begin again to paint some of the Egyptian subjects but now with a new appreciation and point of view. The new paintings will be up on the site in the next couple of months and I look forward to your feedback.            

            

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One of the most interesting facts about the Egyptian Pyramids is the 'scale up and scale down' history of pyramid building. In just 60 years, based on historical accounts, the Egyptians went from a pyramid containing 330,000 cubic meters of material t0 one containing 2,600,000 cubic meters of material(Giza/ 4th Dynasty). In addition the complexity of construction progressed on a similar order. In the intervening time frame only two other pyramids were attempted and they were left incomplete both with less than 50,000 cubic meters of material. What happened that would have made this possible? We know even today that technology does not appear magically and certainly even if it did it would not be applied in a short period of time. The human time frame and change does not allow that to happen. What is of more interest is that shortly after the Giza Plateau Pyramids the Egyptinas seem to have, once again, lost their ability to construct. Of the 22 known pyramids that followed the largest is said to have contained about 275,000 cubic centermeters of materal and most all of the 22 are in worse condition than those of Giza.  If one did not know better it would seem that some bit of magic occured during the 4th Dynasty not to be heard from again. Is this like our Space Program that had its 4th Dynasty magic time in the 1960's only to lose its way? Or is it because of some other more profound reason. This is I think worth exploring as within it may lie a key to productivity and progress.        

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Several years ago there was a live TV show from the Giza Plateau that revealed a new chamber beneath the Sphinx. I will discuss the contents of this chamber in a later blog but this one I will dedicate to the underground structure itself.  What amazed me was the quality of the chamber and its construction. It was fashioned from solid rock, and was for stories deep. While it was fairly soft material the walls appeard to be completely square and in a finished or polished condition. This again begs the question as to the origin of the knowledge and tools that would be required to construct something so perfect. And to have done so 4 to 6 thousand years ago seems unlikely if we are to believe that mankind has made slow but consistent progress from that time until today. I have also been waiting for a follow up program or article on this find but to date none seem to be forthcoming.    

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   As reported by Petrie, in his classic book from the 1800's on the Pyramids,  the equisite detail and painstaking pursuit of perfection make these constructions both inspiring and enigmatic. A quote from the book.

" Hence the mean thickness of the joints there is '020'; therefore the mean variation of the cuttting of the stone from a straight line and from a true square, is but '01 on lenght of 75 inches up the face, an amount of accuracy equal to most modern opticians' straight edges of such a lenth."

It is inspiring because it shows what can be achieved with care and attention to detail. It is enigmatic when one wonders why it was considered necessary to dress the stones to this degree of accurracy and how it was done on a such a large scale over a prolonged period of time. Working with businesses today, as a consultant, I can report that to have employees apply themselves consistently over a period as short as one day is an issue. So as we go deeper into the mystery of these monuments we find even more unanswsered questions.     

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 Pythagoras gained a lot of his insight and direction from the Egyptians. One of the most important Pythagorean symbols was the tetractys. It is a pyramid shaped symbol made up of the first four whole numbers. One was for unity. Two was the dyad, the first principle of dichotomy. Three was the symbol of beginnings, middle and end(the process of things in time and space) and fourth was the number of points that it took to construct a pyramid. Togehter these numbers add up to ten which is the perfect number and basis for all of his system and ours.

"I swear by the discover of the tetractys, which is the spring of all wisdom, the perennial fount and root of nature."

If this came from the Egyptians belief system then perhaps we have some more insight into the nature and symbolism of the pyramids.

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