Granite Quarrying: Techniques and Challenges

We explore over 180 images we took on our recent trip to Egypt, discussing the megalithic stonework of Menkaure at Giza, the Osireion of Abydos, the quarry at Aswan with the Unfinished Obelisk, and the Serapeum of Saqqara. At these sites, there is evidence of anomalous, unknown techniques of stoneworking, evidence of multiple stages of construction with vast amounts of time between them, and evidence that the people doing the work seem to have just vanished in the middle of the job, never to return.

Shout out to Ben from UnchartedX for some of the images from Peru that we show near the end of the presentation.

This is a video presentation, so it is probably better watched than listened to. Below is the link to the video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/EiwW8TipA8o

Executive Producers: Philip Baklamov Matt Shy Peter Shell Zachariah Baker Frank M. Associate Executive Producers: Daniel Gandy Dave Cortes Patrick Hicks