You think a piece of string and some diamond dust was used to make these pyramids?
No. I think that stone saw made from rope, sand and water was perfectly available for ancient Egyptians. You don't need diamonds to cut limestone and even granite. Sand (SiO2) is harder than granite, suddenly.
Moreover, you could cut stone with abrasive of same hardeness. Diamond powder is used to cut diamonds.
Really, I don't get that obsession with pyramids. People dispute that stuff for few centuries without any practically useful result at all. OK, Egyptians spent a lot of time and efforts and build their pyramids. So what? Yes, it is fascinating, but that's all. We just have pyramids on Earth. In distant future people will look with same attitude at the remnants of roads humans build everywhere. Wow, it is huge! It is 100 millions of kilometers!
Every time when such thing pop up, I look at it as engineer. If it is unknown advanced technology, then, there should be a lot of supplemental technologies, tools, industries that necessary for that unknown technology. If there are no such things, then there are no any advanced technology.
Technology does not exists in vacuum. You can't build huge structures with it and leave no any trace of any supplemental things.
If something was supposedly done with magic wand, then there should be industry for making magic wands. There should be industry for making magic wand blanks, there should be industry for making magic wands from blanks and all other things necessary to make magic wand. There should be literature and art showing magic wand as wide used technology. If there are no any such things found, then, theory about something done with magic wand is unsuitable, and you have to switch to another theory that better fit with the facts.
No. I think that stone saw made from rope, sand and water was perfectly available for ancient Egyptians. You don't need diamonds to cut limestone and even granite. Sand (SiO2) is harder than granite, suddenly.
Moreover, you could cut stone with abrasive of same hardeness. Diamond powder is used to cut diamonds.
Really, I don't get that obsession with pyramids. People dispute that stuff for few centuries without any practically useful result at all. OK, Egyptians spent a lot of time and efforts and build their pyramids. So what? Yes, it is fascinating, but that's all. We just have pyramids on Earth. In distant future people will look with same attitude at the remnants of roads humans build everywhere. Wow, it is huge! It is 100 millions of kilometers!
Every time when such thing pop up, I look at it as engineer. If it is unknown advanced technology, then, there should be a lot of supplemental technologies, tools, industries that necessary for that unknown technology. If there are no such things, then there are no any advanced technology.
Technology does not exists in vacuum. You can't build huge structures with it and leave no any trace of any supplemental things.
If something was supposedly done with magic wand, then there should be industry for making magic wands. There should be industry for making magic wand blanks, there should be industry for making magic wands from blanks and all other things necessary to make magic wand. There should be literature and art showing magic wand as wide used technology. If there are no any such things found, then, theory about something done with magic wand is unsuitable, and you have to switch to another theory that better fit with the facts.