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Modern researchers have demonstrated how to saw through stone with the tools that were available to Ancient Egyptians, but I'm pretty sure they used alien tech because that sounds like fun.
Social media lets stupid people spread their dumbass ideas and makes the whole of society stupider.
Its basically a copper tube or a lumberjack style copper 'saw' (which does not actually have teeth) + a guy consistently adding sand.
The tube drills were used with a contraption resembling an archery bow somewhat, with the string looped around the tube, such that you could draw the bow back and forth to 'drill'.
There are multiple, detailed, hieroglyph inscribed picture/diagrams showing how this was done, made by people commemorating the construction itself.
Archaeologists have even reconstructed and tested these methods in our time, and big surprise, they work.
Primitive Technology has a great video showing a couple ways string was used to drive tools. Great channel in general for seeing not only old tools, but how each one was experimented on and refined over time.
https://youtu.be/bS4_K5_tHbg?si=y7AnPJU17DPK5kZu