Sophisticated Engineering in Ancient Egypt That Will Shock You — with Christopher Dunn.

Now on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/57DWFx0n8eUmRyAMGTnWIOWhat if the Great Pyramid and the temples of ancient Egypt were not built with the crude methods we have been taught to imagine?In this episode, engineer and author Christopher Dunn, best known for The Giza Power Plant and Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt, takes us inside some of the most extraordinary stonework ever produced. From the immense granite blocks of Giza to precision-cut surfaces, drilled cores and vast monuments assembled from stones weighing tens and even hundreds of tons, Dunn asks whether conventional explanations fully account for what survives.We look at the engineering evidence, the tools ancient Egyptian craftsmen are known to have possessed, the tolerances claimed for certain monuments, and Dunn’s controversial argument that traces of advanced machining may still be visible in the stone itself.Were Egypt’s builders simply masters of organisation, manpower and traditional stoneworking, or have we underestimated the level of engineering knowledge behind some of the ancient world’s greatest monuments?Sophisticated Engineering in Ancient Egypt That Will Shock You — with Christopher Dunn.