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What's odd about a lot of this stuff is the cutoff at the edges.
When you decide to just "carve" something like Petra, it makes sense to rough it out from a design and then, once you've got the proportions and shape right, smooth down to a final finish.
But in a lot of these monuments, they appear to be finishing sections of the build to an astonishing degree of perfection whilst ignoring the fact that they are creating the pre-historic equivalent of Lourdes inches away from a building site of rough rock face.
It's almost as if it was easy-peasy for them to work rock like this.
Pic related is carved from solid chertz, a very hard quartz rock. Egyptologists say it was a holder for a reed lamp. A fucking reed lamp! They could do this to rock, but lit their rooms with greasy grass!
