Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Historian Reacts to Evidence for Ancient High Technology in Egypt" video.

I'm not taking sides in this one way or another. But every time I hear the experts claim that we know how the Eqyptians preforned the work my first instinct is to say. OK, now reproduce it with the same results. With the same tools. Not just boring a shallow hole with a copper tube drill and sand. Not just cutting a shallow groove with a copper saw and sand. I'm not saying they had advanced technology. I do think that they were using techniques that we do not understand.
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@WorldofAntiquity Did I say anything about power tools. I do think that they were using techniques and tools that we haven't quite figured out yet. One thing I'm wondering is if they accidently stumbled on a bronze alloy sufficiently tough enough to be used to cut stone. Not all bronzes have tin as alloying element in the copper. In fact there is at least one bronze alloy* that can be used to cut steel. As to just what happened to the tools. I suspect that most if not all of them were resmelted and used for other purposes. As to the whole power tools or machinery thing that started with Flinders Petrei. As to reproducing the work found in the region with the tools known to have existed would go a long way towards shutting up the woo woo people. *Look into the history of a company named Ampco Metals. They specialize in copper alloys. Specifically aluminum bronzes. Founded in Milwaukee in the early 1900s the first product they brought to market was an copper alloy that could be used to machine steel and outperformed the high carbon steel cutting tools of the time.
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