It actually didn't work. They were barely able to scar the surface with a jagged janky cut after many hard hours of hard work, and they weren't even attacking the hardest types of stone we see things created from. It's just not possible these tools were used to create the amazingly accurate pieces you find in Egypt, fashioned in some of the hardest materials we know.

Ben addresses these experiments and compares the results to actual artifacts. https://yewtu.be/KFuf-gBuuno?t=462

Utterly spurious. The toolmarks don't match the experiment and therefore it was another civilization? Just stupid. They may have used a different type of grist for their drills. They may have had a technique for smoothing them after the hole was cut. They may have just been so practiced in their art that they were just better at it than anyone who tries to replicate it today by guessing. We have unequivocal evidence that cutting and drilling granite with available material was totally possible. We don't know and probably never will know for certain how exactly they worked. But it's 100% plausible they did it themselves with technology and resources available at the time that matches all the correlated evidence. There are carved granite and schist artifacts in Egypt spanning thousands of years during which they kept lots of written and artistic records and interacted with dozens of regional cultures all of whom are well-attested. Accusing the scientific mainstream of being to stuck in their orthodoxy to accept an alternate theory is rich coming from someone who believes a wildly implausible theory with nearly religious fervor and rejects all the physical evidence in front of his face in favor of blind faith. Bring some proof beyond pure conjecture and then maybe we'll be convinced. Go read about pre-Clovis people in the Americas. The orthodoxy that had stood for decades was upended pretty quickly when new evidence was uncovered.

> It's just not possible these tools were used to create the amazingly accurate pieces you find in Egypt, fashioned in some of the hardest materials we know.

The pyramids are almost entirely made of limestone. Limestone is around a 3.5 on the mohs hardness scale.

The scale goes up to 10 (diamond).

Granite (king's chamber, sarcophaguses, plugs) is around 6, 6.5.

Guess what's above that? Quartz. AKA your common desert sand.

Not possible? https://youtu.be/L3A_kItgymQ

Very impressive, but the Egyptians supposedly didn't have the ability to form steel; also the holes were not chiseled, they were drilled leaving spiral striations that witness an incredible feed-rate.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KFuf-gBuuno

They don't need steel to work with these materials though, as copper is enough for even granite. https://youtu.be/yyCc4iuMikQ

World of Antiquity has debunked several unchartedx videos, including the supposed spiral striations. https://youtu.be/n_NguZUDku4 https://youtu.be/Wcl82hQr8xc

Yes, it's interesting isn't it, how everyone is debunking eachother, and that hasn't changed much from the days of Petrie. Doesn't seem like the "science", after all these decades, is solid and settled yet whatever timeline you believe.

One side has scholars and educated people and the other are charlatans and grifters.