Episode #242: Mysteries of the Ancient Builders
Brothers of the Serpent
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Are You Getting More Granite From the Fire?
There's some evidence that suggested that the dynastic Egyptians were doing some things like that. I think what you would do is heat it and then pour water on it and then pound it out. Are you actually removing more material per hour, uh, than the other way? Yeah. So they found burnt bricks in parts of the quarry. It looks like they made mud bricks and they made areas to contain a fire. There's something, I don't know that there's something there that that unfinished obelisk is not flat. Uh, when you look in quarries and at least in modern day quarries, they don't, we know flat.
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