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The Serapeum in Egypt
near the pyramid of Djoser in Sakkara
is one of the most mysterious places on earth. It is a sort of underground bunker, first entered by
Auguste Mariette in 1851. It is hundreds of meters long with
24 large side-chambers. These side chambers contain enormous granite
sarcophagi. Their typical size is +/- 4 x 3.4 x 2.3 metres.
Thet were cut from a single piece of rock and weigh between 60 and 80
tons, and about 20 tons for the lid. It is believed that these
sarcophagi were intended as final resting places for sacred bulls, but
there is no evidence for it, see f.i. ref. Daniken. All but some
sarcophagi were empty. A few contained a smelly mass of
smashed bone fragments wrapped in bitumen.
Apart from the mystery of whether these giant
granite boxes served as last resting places for sacred bulls or not, a
greater mystery is how people ever fabricated these
monstrous things.
They are so large and so
smoothly finished that even today there is hardly any equipment
anywhere in the world to cut such huge blocks out of a mountain, hollow
them out with sharp interior corners and polish the inner and outer
sides to astonishing evenness. C. Dunn proved this evenness to be in
the order of 0.05 mm, see
website
of Dunn. But there is more. The lid, also extremely even,
is perfectly square with the inside walls of the sarcophagus.
To be square, these inside walls must be perfectly parallel at a
distance of 1.5
m and 4.5 m.
What's more, the topside of the box is a perfect plane that is
square to the sides.
This precision, in combination with the
gigantic proportions, is beyond comprehension. The equipment
isn't available yet and it would cost an enormous effort to build these
– it makes no sense! Extreme high-tech precision
stone cutting, drilling and polishing technology was applied here. Who
did this, how and why?
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