1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:24,039 We're heading out of Cairo to a site called Abu Sir, which most tourists never see and 2 00:00:24,039 --> 00:00:29,440 most tour companies never go to because it's not thought of as being significant. 3 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:38,640 However, it's part of what the commission people call the Buwizer, which means the l... 4 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:44,480 So this site we're going to is one of the most ancient in all of Egypt. 5 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:49,120 Older than the Pharaoh, older than the dynastic Egyptians. 6 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:56,760 It's at this site where we will see many examples of lost ancient high technology, 7 00:00:57,399 --> 00:01:03,599 which most archaeologists dismiss or don't even recognize as existing, 8 00:01:03,599 --> 00:01:10,200 but which engineers such as Christopher Dunn have seen with their own eyes. 9 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:15,719 We're going to see core drilling by high speed drills. 10 00:01:15,719 --> 00:01:20,079 We'll see saw marks, which could probably only have been done by machines. 11 00:01:20,079 --> 00:01:24,359 And that's what's intriguing about this whole Buwizer area. 12 00:01:24,519 --> 00:01:32,079 So much evidence of lost ancient high technology thousands of years before it wa... 13 00:01:32,079 --> 00:01:41,640 the technology of any form that we understand existed beyond that made with the human ha... 14 00:01:54,359 --> 00:02:02,719 These walls are made from basalt. 15 00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:05,920 And the gate is made from granite. 16 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:07,920 Oh, here are hieroglyphs. 17 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,039 So you think the hieroglyphs come later than that? 18 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:13,039 Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is not the ancient. 19 00:02:13,039 --> 00:02:15,039 It's beautiful though. 20 00:02:15,039 --> 00:02:18,240 But there is more ancient than that. 21 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,439 Oh, and this is the paint that was put on on the top. 22 00:02:22,439 --> 00:02:24,439 It seems like here too. 23 00:02:24,439 --> 00:02:26,439 Oh, yeah. 24 00:02:28,439 --> 00:02:30,439 Maybe somebody used it later. 25 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:32,439 Ha ha ha. 26 00:02:32,439 --> 00:02:34,439 We never know. 27 00:02:34,439 --> 00:02:36,439 Look at the paint. 28 00:02:36,439 --> 00:02:40,439 There's a propeller here, which proves that all this had a ceiling. 29 00:02:40,439 --> 00:02:42,439 Oh, yeah. 30 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:44,439 It's not open to the air. 31 00:02:44,439 --> 00:02:48,439 All these are blocks from basalt to stone. 32 00:02:48,439 --> 00:02:50,439 Wow. 33 00:02:52,439 --> 00:02:59,439 These reeds are sharp enough to draw blood. 34 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:08,439 This basalt surface is incredibly smooth and flat. 35 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:12,439 You can see how flat that surface is basalt. 36 00:03:12,439 --> 00:03:14,439 Very, very hard stone. 37 00:03:14,439 --> 00:03:17,439 Very ancient. Ouch. 38 00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:19,439 Being stabbed. Sight. 39 00:03:19,439 --> 00:03:21,439 This is the name. 40 00:03:21,439 --> 00:03:23,439 Before the cartouche. 41 00:03:23,439 --> 00:03:25,439 Oh, before the cartouche. 42 00:03:25,439 --> 00:03:29,439 So how come it's existing in the 5th dynasty complex like this? 43 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:32,439 And they say that Khufu's name is in a cartouche. 44 00:03:32,439 --> 00:03:34,439 It's supposed to be in the 4th dynasty. 45 00:03:34,439 --> 00:03:37,439 So how come you still find a Sarak in the 5th dynasty? 46 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:40,439 And the cartouche, supposedly from the 4th... 47 00:03:40,439 --> 00:03:42,439 For Khufu. 48 00:03:42,439 --> 00:03:45,439 This is one of the things also that it's like... 49 00:03:45,439 --> 00:03:47,439 Doesn't make any sense. 50 00:03:47,439 --> 00:03:49,439 This is a cartouche. 51 00:03:49,439 --> 00:03:51,439 Oh, okay. 52 00:03:51,439 --> 00:03:55,439 Or probably for Nusra'a, this one, or Nefer-efra'a. 53 00:03:55,439 --> 00:03:58,439 Yeah, we'll see a better one. 54 00:03:59,439 --> 00:04:02,439 But let's take a walk on the causeway of this pyramid. 55 00:04:02,439 --> 00:04:06,439 Okay. And there's Saqqara in the background. 56 00:04:06,439 --> 00:04:08,439 Yeah. We're so close. 57 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:10,439 Oh, it's amazing. 58 00:04:10,439 --> 00:04:13,439 And the Saqqara, remember when we were at the Serapium, 59 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:16,439 we came that direction from Saqqara. 60 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:18,439 The Serapium is so close. 61 00:04:18,439 --> 00:04:19,439 Oh, yeah. 62 00:04:19,439 --> 00:04:20,439 It's all connected. 63 00:04:20,439 --> 00:04:21,439 Sure. 64 00:04:21,439 --> 00:04:22,439 No doubt. 65 00:04:22,439 --> 00:04:23,439 It's all one huge complex. 66 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:25,439 The marking of quarry. 67 00:04:25,439 --> 00:04:26,439 Yeah. 68 00:04:26,439 --> 00:04:29,439 So we know that this didn't collapse from a cataclysm. 69 00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:32,439 So Yousef Awian just pointed this out. 70 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:34,439 Look at that difference. 71 00:04:34,439 --> 00:04:38,439 See the right side, where the stone is broken. 72 00:04:38,439 --> 00:04:42,439 The left side, where clearly it's been cut. 73 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:45,439 And if you look carefully, 74 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:49,439 the spacing in between each one of those striations 75 00:04:49,439 --> 00:04:53,439 is at a guess, two to three millimeters. 76 00:04:53,439 --> 00:04:57,439 So that means every pass of the tool 77 00:04:57,439 --> 00:05:01,439 had to move into the stone by two to three millimeters. 78 00:05:01,439 --> 00:05:04,439 This stone is basalt. 79 00:05:04,439 --> 00:05:08,439 And you notice that there's a curve to the cut. 80 00:05:08,439 --> 00:05:12,439 So this could very well have been a circular saw. 81 00:05:12,439 --> 00:05:16,439 And if it was, it would have to have been 82 00:05:16,439 --> 00:05:19,439 somewhere in the order of minimum, 83 00:05:19,439 --> 00:05:22,439 one would guess, five meters across. 84 00:05:22,439 --> 00:05:26,439 So nobody in modern times is going to come here 85 00:05:26,439 --> 00:05:31,439 with a five-meter diameter diamond saw 86 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:32,439 and cut this stone. 87 00:05:32,439 --> 00:05:38,439 This looks like it's evidence of lost ancient high technology. 88 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:41,439 And here, this could have been pounded by 89 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:45,439 Dolarite stone pounders to create that shape. 90 00:05:45,439 --> 00:05:49,439 You can see the bruise marks in the stone, 91 00:05:49,439 --> 00:05:53,439 but not on that socket we saw back there. 92 00:05:53,439 --> 00:05:56,439 And it's not isolated. 93 00:05:56,439 --> 00:06:00,439 There are so many core drill holes in this area 94 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:04,439 that that's what really intrigues me with Abu Sir. 95 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:08,439 You see case after case of core drilling happening, 96 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:12,439 most likely in the very, very distant past. 97 00:06:12,439 --> 00:06:16,439 Because again, why would somebody come here in modern times 98 00:06:16,439 --> 00:06:20,439 with a massive core drill just to take a sample of the stone? 99 00:06:20,439 --> 00:06:27,439 So here we have black granite and more of these core drill holes. 100 00:06:27,439 --> 00:06:32,439 And you can see that clearly, you can see the striations, hopefully. 101 00:06:32,439 --> 00:06:36,439 There. 102 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:44,439 And again, a ballpark guess is two to three millimeters per revolution. 103 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:49,439 And here are my fingers to show you that these are not little things. 104 00:06:49,439 --> 00:06:54,439 These are big core drills going in, 105 00:06:54,439 --> 00:06:59,439 at least as far as my hand goes in. 106 00:06:59,439 --> 00:07:04,439 And in this case, we can't really see, but in other examples, 107 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:09,439 you can see that it's a drill which is hollow. 108 00:07:09,439 --> 00:07:14,439 It's only maybe an eighth of an inch in diameter, 109 00:07:14,439 --> 00:07:19,439 or in the walls, about an eighth of an inch boring through. 110 00:07:19,439 --> 00:07:24,439 And so I would guess if we have any people watching this video 111 00:07:24,439 --> 00:07:30,439 that work with stone, but I would guess a two to three millimeter 112 00:07:30,439 --> 00:07:37,439 per revolution boring into blackish granite would be a pretty fast speed 113 00:07:37,439 --> 00:07:41,439 and definitely not something you're going to be doing by hand in ancient times. 114 00:07:41,439 --> 00:07:46,439 This, I think, is definitely an example of a drill. 115 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:51,439 This, I think, is definitely an example of lost ancient high technology 116 00:07:51,439 --> 00:08:00,439 here at El Sir, Abu Sir, sorry, in Egypt. 117 00:08:00,439 --> 00:08:05,439 So next to Abu Sir, we have a stone that's been quarried, 118 00:08:05,439 --> 00:08:09,439 but what's really quarried, obviously, after. 119 00:08:09,439 --> 00:08:13,439 Here you have casing stone. See the flatness of the surface? 120 00:08:13,439 --> 00:08:18,439 More casing stone here from what's left of a pyramid. 121 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:21,439 But what's very cool is this. 122 00:08:21,439 --> 00:08:24,439 You see that when they were quarrying this stone, 123 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:29,439 they split right down through where an ancient core drill hole is. 124 00:08:29,439 --> 00:08:33,440 You can tell it's a core drill because look at, 125 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:38,440 you can see the thickness of the wall of the tube drill that was used. 126 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,440 Right next to what's another one, right there. 127 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:50,440 Again, you can see where the core drill went into and where the core was broken off. 128 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,440 And again, I don't know if you can see the detail, 129 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:06,440 but around 2 to 3 millimeters is each turn or each cut of the core. 130 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,440 Pretty amazing. They're more over in the distance there. 131 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,440 Go check those out next.