Ancient Egyptian Stone Working with "primitive" flint chisels and dolerite pounders.

Mirrored clip from the original upload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acWbVCu9fkc&t=8s The title "Travail des pierres dures dans l'Egypte Antique" and the description are in French and might be difficult to find so I'm reposting it in English.

Excerpt from the documentary "Burying King Tut" broadcast in 2013 as part of the program "National Geographic Explorer".

A modern trained sculptor switches to ancient tools to try and replicate a portion of quartzite sarcophagus relief carving. Yes, later sarcophagi included detailed relief carving rather than just a plain flat surface. The boxes did get better with time though you can just classify any nice piece as a relic of the lost civilisation. Including the higher quality inscriptions, only the lower quality inscriptions count for some reason.

More experiments like this need to be done. Sadly though those who are most invested in the arguments (lost ancient high technology) are ye to this day to do a single experiments, or contribute anything of note at all. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7i0e_zt0Yw