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For what seems like every 100 YouTube channels that speculate on everything from lost civilizations to aliens there are some mundane channels that actually set out to demonstrate and reproduce technologies and works like the ancients.

One of the more well known channels is scientists against myths, here is a link to one of their videos reproducing granite drill holes how the Egyptians might have: https://youtu.be/yyCc4iuMikQ?si=oUkmF122iHIklvuz

I really like their videos making granite and diorite vases, while the YT algo will tend to take you down the must have been lost technology/lost civilization/alien rabbit hole, sometimes you get lucky and they suggest other channels doing amazing work. The comments are fun too, no matter how well done anything is there’s always someone demanding demanding the small channels recreate the great pyramids at scale.

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