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Still a neat mystery though. Those stone sarcaphogi of the serapeum are highly flat, square and well polished. What was left of their contents after multiple years of looting were mummified bull remains. They weighed 80 to 100 tons and were moved into their chambers via narrow tunnels. Making those and moving them into place would be an incredible feat 200 years ago, let alone 2500. If anything, it should impress upon you that knowledge can indeed be lost, that skilled stone masons at that level may not even exist anymore and certainly no longer exist at the scale necessary to complete and move those boxes with what the Egyptians had at the time.
Could we make them now? Absolutely. We could make them better and faster. But you're still left with so many questions, how many people worked on it? How did they maintain flatness? What were they using to polish it? Could this be completed in one workers lifetime or did he never see the end result? What was the point of spending perhaps multiple generations of skilled masons employed in creating an elaborate coffin for a bull mummie.