Comments by "Mentat" (@_Mentat) on "Historian Reacts to Evidence for Ancient High Technology in Egypt" video.

I've watched all Unchartedx's videos and he makes some persuasive points not rebutted in this video, viz : 1) how was the schist disk manufactured, 2) some of the overcuts don't seem intentional and would not be made with handtools, and 3) how were the boxes in the Serapeum moved along the tunnels and lowered into the alcoves?
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@armcie5080 I'm not really convinced. The builders seem to have had capabilities we don't yet understand. The schist disk looks like the schist has been cut and folded; impossible for us since schist is brittle. A rock softener would explain a lot of what the builders achieved; especially if they really were using copper tools. And I'm not buying "seaweed". You can't get many people into those tunnels even if the friction is reduced and seaweed is not going to help lower 40 ton boxes by 10 feet into their alcoves. You may have made overcuts with hand tools, but they weren't two feet long. If you're progressing at an inch a day then you will notice an error long before you've gone far wrong. There are buzzsaw type mistakes on some of the statues. A lot of what the builders did, they seem to have done because that was the easiest way. Why carry a thousand one-ton rocks when you can with less effort carry one thousand-ton rock? Assuming you have some easy way of carrying rocks. Why build and bury fifty-ton sarcophagi anyway, unless it was no great effort. They're not full of gold! Those bulls didn't need massive stone boxes. They could have made little pharaoh style tombs if they wanted to bury bulls with ceremony. Everything the builders did, they seem to have done the most difficult way possible - unless they had techniques unknown to us.
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