TSigns of advanced technology in ancient times is a subject that always seems to be current to write about at the same time as there is consumers that are willing to swallow everything that's written on the subject.
What is it then that makes this issue ever so interesting?
Why is it that were dying to know if there was knowledge of advanced technology i our ancient history? And is it realistic to belive that there ever was such a knowledge?
To start with the first question, it is natural that there is an interest to know if there ever was a "knowing" of various things in ancient times that we could have use for today. Second question is not that easy to answer and I'm gonna give you a small description in this article to circumstances that may imply as signs of technological that could be interpreted as signs of technical skills on a high level in ancient times.

By Anders Persson.

Remnants of such things can be found a number of places across our planet. But the question is if not the area around the Nile holds the biggest and best riddles from pre-history. The pyramids at Gize belongs to one of the most known remnats, not only to this area but to the whole world. Due to its size the pyramids makes an impressive monument over ancient time engineering-skill. However, there is much more than size to be impressed about. If we look in to one of the big pyramids, namely the big Cheopspyramid, we should find that it is completely overwhelming of constructions that leads us the conclusion that there have been a very impressive knowledge about stonecarving.
The Kings Chamber, for example, is supposed to be made of blocks of granite with a weight of up to 80 tons (!) and with a fittness against the blocks which seems to be extreme. It says that öthe average thickness of the joint between the blocks is about 1/50 inch, and the average variation in the cutting blocks in straight and complete cubes are 1/100 inch in a length of 75 inch. A measure that is so exact that only optician in our time had the possibility to do such a work. The surface of a area of 35 squarefoot is not only treated with such precision but also cemented over the hole surface. Despite the fact that the stone is lying so close as 1/500 inch from each other, or with other word, in absolutely contact with each other has the builders manage to fill the joint with cement despite the large area and the weigh of more than 16 tons. The task that making such big blocks in contact in every side is a problem for the first but then put cement in the joint seem to be almost impossible.ö
Another source describe that öthe joint is so tight that the edge of the surface of two stone and the cement between them can be contain in a piece of hair.ö

In the pyramid of Khefren there is a chest who seems to provide an extraordinary knowledge in stone carving. Chris Dunn has writen an article, who handles hi-tech during the times of the pharaohs, that tell us about his visit in the pyramid where he took the opportunity to discover the precision of the chest who is inside the pyramid. Dunn had for the purpose taken with him a so called öparallelö. It is about 6 inches long and ╝ inch thick. The edges are ground flat within 0.0002 inch. Now Dunn went inside the chest(!) and he was surprised about the amazing finish of the surface. Dunn describe it as follows: öI clamed inside the box, and with a flashlight and the parallel, was astounded to find the surface on the inside of the box perfectly smooth and perfectly flat. Placing the edge of the parallel against the surface I chine my flashlight behind it. There was no light coming through the interface. No matter where I mowed the parallel, vertically, horizontally, sliding it along as one would a gauge on a precision surface plate, I couldnÆt detect any deviation from a perfectly flat surface.ö
The question is: how could it, in that time, be possible to grind a surface to a precision that belong to a period of space age! It seems more or less impossible to accept that this could be done by hand. One more thing, the corner inside the box seems also to have had a high level of precision!

Another thing that concern stone carving is artifact of drilling-hole in diffirent material, granite for example. The size of the hole can be from 1 centimeter up to 1 decimeter in diameter. In some cases there is a rest of a broken conical core in the middle of the hole where some sort of pipe drill seems to have been in work. To construct such a drill is not so bad of a people who lived in a stone age society. But there is more. If we look at, and follow, the spiral groove who follows the inside of these hole, you can estimate the sinking speed of the drill to 0.1 inch per revolution even in such hard material like granite.
Surprisingly there seem to be a higher sinking speed in harder material such granite then materiel like feldspar! A method who can explain these circumstances is a method who use ultrasonic motion of the drill. Such drilling goes faster in hard material than in softer. The only problem is that such technics was developed in the late of THIS century!

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