Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt

Customer Reviews

• This is a real winner!!

  This book was well researched and clearly grounded in fact -not theory. Though tools that would further support the conclusions of the author have yet to be found, the precision that the author personally discovered time and again in ancient statuary in temples, palaces and the pyramids at Giza leaves little doubt that ancient Egyptian engineers and artisans had rather advanced tools at their disposal. In fact, from all accounts it seems that it would prove difficult for modern day engineers and machinists to duplicate the precision found in the Great Pyramid at Giza.

• A Voice of Reason and Fact in a Speculative Field

  When it comes to the study of ancient technology,there are a lot of far-out theories vying for attention. Many (some would say most) are too far out, consisting of speculations with no foundation in fact, and often no internal consistency.
  
  Chris Dunn has always been a refreshing voice of reason in this field, a man who doesn't just speculate. Prepared with physical facts and on-location research, Dunn demonstrates exactly how and why his concepts of ancient technology work. He brings the technologies of the ancients to vivid life.
  
  Dunn also proves to be a talented writer. His prose reads smoothly as he provides succinct explanations of how (ancient) things work, never talking down to or lecturing the reader. In addition to being informative, Chris Dunn is an entertaining read.
  
  Buy Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt and prepare to be amazed, even enthralled by what once was.

• Extremely Interesting!!

  In the north, there were the pyramids. In the south, there were temples. Both very mysterious in more ways than one. What were they for? Why were they built? Who built them?
  
  Well, Christopher Dunn an engineer, has asked these questions for years. Now, he has done something about the lingering questions. He has studied and written about them.
  
  How did the Egyptians get this marvelous technology to build with the precision of our most competent engineers? Who taught them the technologies? Were the techniques carried down from the earliest Eygptians? And, how did THEY gain the skills?
  
  With his 280 pictures included in the book, Dunn makes a convincing case that the technology was precise and exact.
  
  But, there exists no records of how Egyptian builders got it.
  

• "Just the facts, ma'am"

  Anyone old enough to remember Jack Webb's Dragnet from the days of radio and early television, will appreciate the infinite attention to detail, the passion for accuracy, the unwavering patience, and the steadfast resistance to wild speculation, that characterize Chris Dunn's second and latest book, "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt." It is almost as if Joe Friday's mantra were somehow inspiring Dunn in the same way it admonished his Dragnet witnesses: "All we want are the facts, ma'am."
  
  It is indeed "just the facts" that Dunn gives us in his extensive and exquisitely meticulous study of the desert artifacts that so fascinate us, and about which so much of questionable value has been written by others. It is as if these ancient Egyptian structures are the only remaining witnesses to a civilization of incredible technical prowess, and that Dunn is able, like a Sergeant Friday, to tease out from them critical information that has eluded so many for so long. These facts--this information--is presented in the form of color plates, annotated photographs, line drawings, and skillfully written prose which, while not always "lite", enabled even this non-technical reader to appreciate the story that these artifacts have to tell.
  
  A most significant--and refreshing--quality of Dunn's writing, which distinguishes it from that of many others on the topic, is his unwavering insistence that hypotheses follow from the facts. His approach is measured, scrupulously non-confrontational, thorough to a fault, and scholarly without being pedantic. The result is a presentation that was for this reader altogether spellbinding.
  
  Good science and good research always raise more questions than they answer, and "Lost Technologies" is definitely good science. It should come as no surprise then that the reflective reader will inevitably put the book down still searching: Who, really? When, really? Why--can we ever know? How?--how indeed! Continuing global research by Chris Dunn and his ilk may yet unravel these and the host of other tantalizing unknowns that are our human past.
  
  

• This book gives glory to the geniuses who created the temples in ancient Egypt!

  Christopher Dunn has created a masterpiece in his quest to understand the extreme precision and high technology used in stone cutting in ancient Egypt. This book is at times highly technical but it needs to be because so is the subject matter. His book gives glory to the ancient but extremely advanced engineers and stonecutters who created the sculpture and temples of the Nile valley.
  
  Reading Dunn's book will change your understanding of our distant past. At the very least after reading his book you will have to understand that the stories told by Egyptologists are wrong. You will understand that the books written by Egyptologists which are in the libraries around the world are filled with errors, unscientific storytelling presented as fact, and disingenuous information. This book will compel you to come to the realization that virtually everything Egyptologists say about how the temples were made and the stones were cut is incorrect.
  
  If you are interested in breaking away from the myths and fables of Egyptology and want to replace those falsehoods with a truer understanding of the high technology possessed by people in ancient Egypt than you must read this book!