04/16/2024
This is interesting.
Here is a basalt statue in the city of Tell Halaf,Syria however this isn't just an average run of the mill statue, this statue is made from Basalt which is of course a hard volcanic rock which has a hardness of 6 on the Mohs scale but here's the kicker, iron has a 5 on the mohs scale so I would love to know who possessed tools harder than Basalt during the time of carving.? As I and many stone masons have shown you in the past, quite simply put the tool you are working with generally has to be harder than the surface you are working on, Iron was considered to be the hardest metal of antiquity and was known in the Middle East from around the 1200 B.C. timeline but these Tell Halaf statues date from the sixth millennium BCE for heavens sake so go figure.
A very important aspect to all of this is the fact that without adequate alloy the iron has only a hardness of 3 so it would be almost impossible to work basalt with an iron tool. Things just don't add up when we swallow the scholarly history books and their ludicrous ideas regarding our ancient past and what was being built with the tools they supposedly possessed at that time. I think it's safe to say by now that advanced machining took place and that sophisticated tools in the sense of modern day level tools existed throughout the old world to accomplish countless numbers of megalithic sites seen all over the planet. When we start to accept that very notion then things start to make sense. I have heard many say "Well if advanced machining did take place then why haven't we found evidence of such in the sense of finding remnants or parts etc.?" It's a great question and I always answer it in the same way, we have found countless numbers of out of place artifacts which suggest that they were part of a much larger mechanism but overall how many builders/construction workers do you know leave their tools and heavy duty machinery at a building site following completion.?⚙️