> we're not that good at cutting stone anymore
Current methods of cutting pretty much anything including stone are absurdly more precise than what Incas and Egyptians had. We can cut stuff like diamond lenses down to 10-100nm roughness.
Current methods of cutting pretty much anything including stone are absurdly more precise than what Incas and Egyptians had. We can cut stuff like diamond lenses down to 10-100nm roughness.
We also don't build carriages as well or have an army of craftsman doing it, but it's lost/regressed because there's no economic incentives.
There are a few that know how to do it by hand, but mass production has evolved.
https://youtu.be/uR-hY7hUsaY?t=79
I have nothing but respect for the skill and professionalism of the ancients, but I find it extremely distasteful when someone tries to express this by putting down their modern counterparts.