Ancient Egyptians just revealed how they cut granite, and the method challenges everything we thought we knew. For decades, experts assumed massive stone blocks were shaped with copper tools and brute force.
Workers serving the pharaoh Djoser were nearing completion of one of the largest construction projects of the ancient world: a pyramid. A single discovery has led to the collapse of decades of academic dismissal. For years, researchers such as Graham Hancock were ridiculed for suggesting that ancient peoples possessed advanced technology. However, new surveys of drill cores taken from ancient site…