The Serapeum in Saqqara Egypt holds a puzzle as great as the pyramids themselves. However. At least with the pyramids, there are a couple suggestions on its possible construction methods. But the serapeum has none. Zero! Not a single theory has ever been speculated to describe the incredible feats that were achieved in connection with the serapeum.
First, let's start with the amazing 24 giant granite sarcophagi found within. They line the long corridor of the serapeum tucked into their own separate hollows. They measure 4 meters long 2 1/2 meters tall and wide roughly. They consist of solid stone box carved from a single piece of granite along with a lid to match also craved from a single piece of granite A feat today that is impossible even with modern machines.
We could only make the box from separate pieces then bolt them together. And if one were so inclined if you wanted a box made from separate pieces of granite sent from the stone quarry in Aswan to Saqqara 500 miles away the cost of the materials, man hours and shipping would be close to 20,000,000 dollars. The boxes are so perfect in their construction that the walls are to 2/10,000th of an inch flat. And after polishing, it gave them a mirror-like reflection.
The lids are so perfectly flat and level with the top of the box that they are in fact air tight! Meaning if you were too drop the lid on top and it didn't break, it would force the air out of the box creating a vacuum inside! (for you kids that means you could drop a hammer and a feather inside it and they would hit the ground at the same time:) together they have a combined weight of 80 tons!
So we already find a manufacturing method of an indescribable nature. Now we find a transportation method of the same. It's one thing to argue man power, levers, jacks, pulleys, rollers, or cranes when it comes to temples or pyramids. But it's another when its underground and these options become obsolete. There was a modern attempt to move one of the smaller stone boxes but failed after a meter or so. the box still sits in the middle of the corridor forcing tourists to squeeze by.
Then comes the date. the serapeum is said to date from the 18th dynasty with Amenhotep lll the new kingdom circa 1388-1350 BCE. Now how did they reach this date? from a papyrus from the king ordering the construction additional rooms to the catacombs. to bury an Apis bull. Which is what the accepted belief is for when it comes to what are the boxes for? that being sarcophagi for the sacred animal
. but when we look at the design and materials used in sarcophagi you find the designs of the 18th dynasty do not match. At that time the designs were anthropomorphic showing the look of the mummy inside. made from wood ,limestone, and terra cotta. but plain solid granite sarcophagi date from early and predynastic Eygpt? and the fact that no mummies were found inside the giant boxes . there were some other sarcophagi found inside where Amenhotep ordered their construction. but there was only one bull inside a wooden sarcophagus. in the kneeling position and the box matched the size. So what's the egyptologist explanation for this? well, it was robbed. Really? Did it have gold and diamonds? No... What did it have?. Well, it had a real heavy lid and a dead fucking bull.
That's what they expect us to believe. once again tomb raiders and grave robbers broke in moved the lid's that we can't move today and stole the mummified remains of an Apis bull then moved some of the lids back in place and on their way out decided to completely seal off the entrance with gigantic stones so large that we used dynamite to open it in modern times. WTF??? There was one stone box that had not been opened its outside was very rough-hewn stone. As we broke through the side of the rough granite wall of the box we found it was completely empty? So that doesn't make sense already but if you keep going it gets even weirder.
Because the inside of that stone box we still get the measurements of 2/10,000th of an inch flat with mirror like finish.
How the hell does that make any sense at all? It was sealed?why was the inside finished? It appears to be one giant boulder of granite with the top portion sliced off then the bottom hollowed out and the top put back on making a perfect seal
So what's that leave us with? another case of "Occam's Idiot" sorry that was a typo I mean "Occam's Razor" The simplest answer tends to be the right one? Now Usually we use two thought processes. Theories and common sense to reach conclusions in archeology. However, egyptology only seems to need one of these to reach a conclusion.
