Post by Don Barone on Apr 12, 2021 15:26:41 GMT -5
The Master Masons of Ancient Egypt: ... who were they and were they really that good.
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There has been something festering in me for many years and it started when I visited The Royal Ontario Museum many years back. What started me off was when I was looking at a replica, although faithfully rendered of an ancient carving from Egypt. It was supposedly in stone and I just felt that it was too perfect. That is to say the image of the bee was too delicate and the wings and well just everything seemed way too perfect as I said . Along with this I noticed a grid pattern on the background and have wondered ever since if all works of art used this age old play of drawing by grid lines. However I started to think that this delicate a pattern would surely have been impossible to chisel into a block of stone and I started formulating a possible answer,. I reasoned that some sort of paste or "concrete" was applied to the large stones and columns and then while still wet the patterns and drawings were made but into wet and not solid stone. Over the years I have tried getting answers on Ma'at but they have always claimed that what I see is the work of repair and that the "surface" isn't flaking off. Well after watching the YouTube video about Egyptology being a pseudoscience I began to think maybe I was correct. Coupled with that was some amazing images I found last night while searching Pinterest and Flicker and found some images there that made me almost convinced I was right. And then I started to think, Steven Myers had called Egyptology a pseudoscience and that they did not follow the scientific method and so I started to think. No one has ever, to the best of my knowledge, ever demonstrated that what we see carved into the outer walls of Ancient Egypt were actual carvings or as I contend just stenciled or drawn in a paste like substance. Now I am not an artist but I still have always doubted that this is how it was done. Here are a variety of images to illustrate my point:
Now I don't know about you but it sure looks like thin blocks of carvings were somehow affixed to a brick wall. If it happened here I contend it happened all over.
Here is an image of a relief. I may be blind but you want to tell me that the artist carved all the background down level leaving the image to stand out in relief. I would like to see that done. Can it be duplicated today ?
I will post many more examples as I find them. Feel free to post your own if you find some.
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