Polygonal Stone Walls with a Saw: Ancient Techniques with Primitive Tools

#polygonal #stonemasonry #egypt

How to make polygonal walls as seen in ancient Egyptian Temples. The paper and experiment conducted by Antoine Garric and Emmanuel Laroze deals specifically with the Ptolemaic era and the Iron Age.
However bronze age tools and construction has all the same hallmarks and the tools that exist in the record, and at the locations matches as well.
Copper tools (actually the Egyptians had ARSENICAL BRONZE which is much like mild steel) work fine when it comes to sandstone and limestone.

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La technique du sciage des joints dans la maçonnerie ptolémaïque en grès
Emmanuel Laroze, Antoine Garric

https://www.jp-petit.org/science/SCIA...

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Emmanuel Laroze - discussing the fitting of stones in Egyptian Temples
It’s in French but contains additional images.
Emmanuel Laroze

Additional links
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hals...
https://chantiers.hypotheses.org/403
https://books.openedition.org/momedit...

Christian Ubertini
ETUDES SUR LES TECHNIQUES DE CONSTRUCTION DE L'EGYPTE ANTIQUE
http://www.christianubertini.net/fr/p...

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