Christopher Dunn

The Engineer’s Eye

What if we’ve been looking at the Great Pyramid through the wrong lens? Egyptologists see a tomb. Tourists see a monument. But when a precision engineer with decades of experience machining aerospace components looks at Giza, he sees something else entirely: machine tolerances that shouldn’t exist.

Christopher Dunn spent his career in manufacturing, working with state-of-the-art equipment used to produce jet engine components. He knows what precision looks like. He knows what it takes to achieve flatness to within thousandths of an inch. And when he examined the artifacts of ancient Egypt, he found precision that rivals - and in some cases exceeds - modern industrial capabilities.

The question isn’t whether the ancient Egyptians were skilled builders. The question is: how did they achieve tolerances that challenge our best machine tools using only copper chisels and bronze saws?

Precision Beyond Explanation

The official narrative claims the pyramids were built with copper tools, wooden sledges, and unlimited manpower. Dunn’s engineering analysis reveals this explanation cannot account for what we find.

The casing stones of the Great Pyramid were fitted with joints averaging 1/50th of an inch - tighter than a human hair. The base of the pyramid is level to within 2.1 centimeters across 13 acres. The sides are aligned to true north with an error of only 3/60th of one degree.

In the Serapeum at Saqqara, Dunn measured the granite boxes that supposedly held mummified bulls. These 70-ton precision containers are flat to within 1/10,000 of an inch across their entire surface. The corners are square to the same tolerance. The inside surfaces are finished to optical quality.

Modern granite fabrication shops struggle to achieve this precision. We have diamond-tipped tools, laser measurement systems, and computer-controlled machining. What did the ancient Egyptians have? According to Egyptology: copper chisels, stone pounders, and patience.

Dunn doesn’t claim to know exactly how it was done. But he knows what it takes to achieve these results today - and it requires technology.

The Power Plant Theory

In The Giza Power Plant (1998), Dunn proposes that the Great Pyramid was not a tomb but a coupled oscillator designed to convert Earth’s vibrational energy into usable power.

The theory synthesizes multiple anomalies into a coherent engineering framework. The Queen’s Chamber shafts were chemical input conduits. When hydrated zinc chloride (from the northern shaft) combined with dilute hydrochloric acid (from the southern shaft), the reaction produced hydrogen gas. The Pyramid generated hydrogen.

The Grand Gallery, with its corbelled walls and resonant architecture, functioned as an acoustic amplification chamber. The gallery’s 27 pairs of slots along its walls once held Helmholtz resonators - precisely tuned acoustic devices that amplified specific frequencies to enormous intensities.

The King’s Chamber, constructed entirely of granite, served as the power conversion chamber. Granite contains quartz crystals, which are piezoelectric - they convert mechanical stress into electrical charge. The acoustic energy from the Grand Gallery, transmitted through the granite beams, generated electrical output.

The Pyramid coupled with Earth’s natural resonance. The limestone structure, saturated with water from the underground aquifer, created a massive capacitor. The entire edifice functioned as a piezoelectric transducer, converting planetary vibration into transmittable power.

Evidence in the Architecture

Every anomaly in the Pyramid’s construction supports the machine hypothesis. The features make no sense as tomb architecture but perfect sense as functional components.

The Queen’s Chamber: Rough walls contrast with the precision elsewhere. Salt deposits cover the walls - residue from chemical processes. The “air shafts” don’t reach the outside but instead connect to sealed chambers. Not ventilation. Chemical delivery.

The Grand Gallery: An architectural mystery as a passage - why 28 feet high for a walkway? The corbelled walls form an acoustic horn. The slots for resonators. The benches along the sides for equipment mounting. This is a resonant cavity, not a hallway.

The King’s Chamber: Five granite beams above the ceiling, each weighing up to 70 tons. Above these, four more chambers with rough floors but smooth ceilings. Egyptologists call them “relieving chambers” to distribute weight. Engineers note that granite’s piezoelectric properties would be activated by acoustic pressure waves - and the rough floors would scatter sound while smooth ceilings would reflect it directionally.

The Subterranean Chamber: An unfinished room deep in the bedrock, supposedly abandoned. Or a resonant cavity designed to couple with Earth’s seismic activity.

Machining Evidence

In Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt (2010), Dunn documented evidence that the ancient builders possessed machine tools - not copper implements.

Tube drills that cut through granite at rates impossible for hand-rotated tools. The spiral grooves descend at a rate of one-tenth inch per revolution - faster than modern diamond drills can achieve in granite without destroying the bit.

Core samples showing the drill advanced through quartz crystals in granite without deflection. Harder inclusions would deflect a hand-operated drill. Only a machine with constant feed rate could maintain trajectory.

Saw marks on basalt and diorite (among the hardest stones) showing no evidence of the wandering and variation characteristic of hand sawing. The cuts are straight, parallel, and consistent - signatures of mechanized operation.

Vases carved from single pieces of schist, with walls too thin for any known tool to have shaped them. The interior surfaces are polished smooth despite being inaccessible to any straight-line tool. The precision defies explanation.

These artifacts suggest a manufacturing infrastructure, not individual craftsmanship. The ancient Egyptians - or whoever actually built these things - possessed technology we don’t fully understand.

The Resistance

Mainstream Egyptology dismisses Dunn’s analysis. This dismissal reveals more about academic politics than about evidence.

The objections follow a predictable pattern. Dunn lacks formal archaeological credentials. His engineering expertise is treated as irrelevant despite engineering being exactly the relevant discipline for analyzing construction techniques.

Alternative theories threaten funding. The tourism industry depends on the pyramid-as-tomb narrative. Universities depend on grants that flow through established paradigms. Publishing careers depend on peer review controlled by the orthodoxy.

Experiments demonstrating copper-tool capabilities under ideal conditions are cited as proof - while ignoring that laboratory demonstrations don’t scale to millions of stone blocks at industrial precision.

Dunn’s response is simple: show me how it’s done. Replicate the precision of the Serapeum boxes with copper tools. Cut granite with the feed rates shown in the ancient drill cores. Produce a schist vase with the techniques claimed. Until then, the “primitive tools” narrative remains theory, not fact.

Implications

If Dunn is correct, the implications extend far beyond Egyptology.

The Great Pyramid represents technology we have lost - or that was deliberately hidden. A civilization capable of building a planetary-scale power plant possessed knowledge we’re only beginning to rediscover.

Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower and the Great Pyramid share conceptual DNA: both attempted to harness Earth’s electrical properties for power transmission. Tesla may have been rediscovering rather than inventing.

The destruction of ancient knowledge - the burning of Alexandria, the suppression of mystery schools, the sanitizing of history - takes on new meaning. Not ignorant destruction but deliberate erasure of technological heritage.

The Pyramid stands as evidence. The precision is measurable. The anomalies are documented. The machine is still there, waiting for us to understand what we’re looking at.

Timeline

1946 - Christopher Dunn born in Manchester, England. Begins career path in engineering and manufacturing.
1960s-1970s - Works as machinist and toolmaker in the UK, developing expertise in precision manufacturing and metrology.
1977 - Emigrates to the United States, continues career in precision engineering for aerospace manufacturing.
1984 - First visits Egypt. Examines pyramid construction and ancient artifacts with an engineer’s eye. Notes precision inconsistent with primitive tools.
1986 - Publishes first article on ancient Egyptian machining evidence in Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine.
1990s - Multiple return trips to Egypt. Extensive measurement and documentation of artifacts, drilling cores, and precision surfaces.
1998 - Publishes The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt. Proposes the Great Pyramid as an ancient power station utilizing piezoelectric properties and Earth resonance.
2000s - Continues research, lectures internationally, faces predictable academic dismissal while gaining following among engineers and alternative researchers.
2010 - Publishes Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs. Documents extensive evidence of machine tool use in ancient artifacts.
Present - Continues research and advocacy. The artifacts remain. The precision is measurable. The questions persist.