I thought it had already been established that these ancient "cultures" utilised low-frequency sound waves to shape and move these massive lumps of rock around. Y'know, a dozen priests and a bunch of drummers arranged in a particular formation.... Then, on a given signal from the Head Priest, they all do the old "Ommmmmmmm" chant and bang their drums to a particular rhythm, depending on result required. Isn't that why we have conductors for orchestras today? To keep them all on beat? It's a good job we don't know what the relevant frequencies are now or we'd be constantly having to replace the Albert Hall roof. London's O2 Arena is okay, it's just a big tent, so it isn't effected; it just flaps a lot!
Quote ; I thought it had already been established that these ancient "cultures" utilised low-frequency sound waves to shape and move these massive lumps of rock around.
"yeah but not mainstream"!..."Mainstream is stuck in the (wooden roller R us) mentality"?
And on the first day GOD dideth createth thy WOOD..(Not just any old WOOD but Hard Wood yeah!), and GOD did sayeth
go forth and multiply, Become stronger than steal my beauties lol
Ancient Egyptian Hardwood Trees
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The timber, its uses, the craftsmen.
Wood
The timber
Egypt did not have any great forests nor many tall trees. Its native timber was mostly of low quality and could only be cut into short planks. Acacia [6], carob [7], juniper [8], doum palm, sycamore [10] and some other local wood were used, hardwoods like ebony were imported from eastern Africa [5], and cedar and pine from the Lebanon. The Palermo Stone records of Snefru's reign:
Bringing of 40 ships filled (with) cedar wood
J. H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, Part One, § 146 <
Carpenter wielding an adze The dependence on import for a raw material vital to trade, defense and some religious practices was one of the reasons for Egypt's involvement in the politics of Phoenicia. While the pressure of competition from other maritime nations was small, the traditional Egyptian way of sowing short planks together in order to build keelless vessels may have been sufficient, but from the middle of the third millennium onward, and certainly during the turbulent times of the later Bronze Age, Egypt imported significant amounts of cedar wood from Byblos to maintain its fleet. That they managed for centuries to build sizable seaworthy ships without keels points to the ingenuity and ability of Egyptian shipwrights.
During the occupation of Syria under Thutmose III the Egyptians exploited the mountain forests to the fullest extent. Cedar (ash) was valued for its straightness, as was the red pine mer. They were used for the construction of a major fleet. Carob (sesnejem), and uwan (perhaps juniper) were also extensively cut. The Egyptian soldiers did the felling, the local rulers were in charge of transporting the timber to the coast.The importance the Egyptians attributed to timber [9] is reflected in the fact that its supply was one of the duties of the vizier:
It is he (i.e. the vizier) who dispatches to cut down trees according to the decision in the king's house
The Instruction of Rekhmire
J. H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, Part Two, § 697
Its uses
The building industry did not use much wood, as houses were built of adobe bricks and temples and tombs of rock. Still, some wood was needed for roofs, second storey floors, shutters and doors, and the pillars supporting the ceiling were often trunks of palm trees.
Furniture - beds, chairs, stools, tables, cabinets and chests - musical instruments, boardgames and toys were generally made of wood, and, when in the possession of the affluent, often with inlaid decorations and mostly painted.
Vessels, originally rafts made of bundles of papyrus, were built of wood since the latter part of the fourth millennium and were at times of remarkable size. These great ships and barges were often constructed of Lebanese cedar wood, while the smaller boats were generally made of local timber.
Excerpt from a picture by Thierry Benderitter Carpenters
Excerpt from a photo by T. Benderitter [3]
As a cheaper alternative to stone, tombs were at times built from wood, and so were coffins. Originally, these were simple boxes, but with the passage of time they began to receive painted decorations and their shape reflected that of the mummy buried inside them. Wood was also not infrequently used for other burial equipment such as statues or canopic jars.
Chariots, both for war, hunt or travel were mostly built from wood, even the tyres, for which metal was never used, while the axles were covered with metal sleeves. Chariots were intricate artefacts, one list enumerates about fifty of its constituent parts.
Sceptres and staffs, the insignia of dignitaries, were often decorated with carvings, as were their weapons of hunting and war. Wooden tools, on the other hand, were rarely embellished.
Wood, turned into charcoal was needed for achieving high temperatures, critical in the manufacture of glass and the extraction of metals from ores. Firewood and charcoal figure in the donation lists of Ramses III, though at times it is difficult to know what the amounts listed mean, for instance for new feasts founded by the pharaoh the lists show
Fire wood 11500
Charcoal gs-rA 2300
J. H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, Part Four, § 295
Ancient Egyptian raw materials: Wood
The timber, its uses, the craftsmen.
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