About Us

A podcast in which two brothers explore the mysteries of the ancients, the ages, and the modern day.

Brothers of the serpent

The Team

Meet our Hosts

Russell Allen

Host & Researcher

Kyle Allen

Host & Researcher

The Watcher

Co-Host & Researcher

Master of the internets, quantum yoga, and hypersleep.

Our Guests

Dedication. Expertise. Passion.

Ben, Russ and Kyle at the Explorers club, New York.

Episode 349 and many more

Ben van Kerkwyk

We recorded this in a hotel room right next to the Giza Plateau in Egypt, and we spend the first hour discussing the results of the now-famous Synthetic Aperture Radar scans of the Khafre Pyramid.

Episode 334

Marty Garza

Prompted by the upcoming congressional hearings on the new whistleblower information about a possible program called "Immaculate Constellation", Marty leads us through more than 5 decades of history to provide a much more clear understanding of this program.

Episode 317

Matthew Shy

Matt Shy joins us in studio to discuss his research and reading into the evidence for ancient giants around the world. In this episode we cover the mounds of North America and the mythology and oral traditions of Native Americans.

Episode 355

Dr. Trevor Lohman

Dr. Trevor Lohman is an assistant professor and researcher into the neuroscience of aging. He joins us in this episode to give us a crash course on the physical functions of the brain.

Episode 351

Marc Young

We are joined by Marc Young to discuss the Khafre Scans, the credibility of the conclusions from the scan data, and the future of this type of technology if it is viable.

Episode 359

Peter Chesbrough

Peter Chesbrough joins us to discuss his research into the pervasive legends of King Arthur. Is this person a true historical figure? What is the basis for the myths and stories?

Episode 348

Adam Young

Adam Young is the owner of the "OG Vase", the original ancient egyptian stone vase that was scanned with a high precision structured light scanner. Adam has since formed the Artifact Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to doing research on these ancient objects.

Episode 354

Seriah Azkath

Seriah, the host of the excellent show "Where Did the Road Go", joins us this week for a swapcast conversation about all the topics we're interested in. We talk UFOs, ancient civilizations, pyramids, Gobekli Tepe.

Episode 340

Andrew Collins

Author and explorer Andrew Collins joins us for a fascinating conversation about the origins of civilization, agriculture, and megalithic construction in the deep past, as evidenced by sites like Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, and others in modern day Turkey.

Episode 346

Károly Póka

We are joined by Károly Póka from the Ancient Technology Podcast to discuss the ongoing project to get high resolution, high quality scans of artifacts from Ancient Egypt in order to determine if there really is anomalous, anachronistic precision in these objects.

Episode 343

Mike from Wandering Wolf

We have Mike from Wandering Wolf on to discuss his recent travels to Michigan, where he was investigating another strange feature that looks like a constructed wall, similar to Sage Wall in Montana.

Episode 352

Dan Friday

Dan Friday, a Native American craftsman and professional glassmaker, joins us to talk about his fascination with glass artifacts of ancient Egypt. Dan was with us on one of our Egypt tours a few years ago, and shared some of his fascination.

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Cart Ruts - Mysteries NOT Solved!
Watch our full episode on YouTube

It was truly an honor to speak at the legendary @the_explorers_club in New York with @unchartedx7 , @karolypoka , and Adam Young from @artifactfoundation .
One day we will earn one of these flags!

Join us, Ben from @unchartedx7 , @karolypoka , and Adam Young of the Artifact Foundation for an afternoon at the NY Metropolitan Museum, where we will explore the ancient Egypt section, then retire to the Explorer’s Club for presentations and conversation! Tickets are limited

Some short drone clips of groups of the Phrygian Valley «cart ruts» in Turkey.

We walked around in this area for several hours; the ruts are everywhere. They are only visible in the parts of the «volcanic tuff» stone that protrudes above the soil.
Would be interesting to find out if they continue beneath the soil cover.

Visited some of the cart ruts in the Phrygian Valley in Turkey. There are hundreds of well-preserved ruts in volcanic tuff scattered throughout the valley. We visited several different groups, some of them are very deep.
Several sets cut so deeply through the surrounding stone that there is scraping on the walls to the sides of the ruts. Possibly from the passage of the axels of the vehicles?
We also got some drone footage and some lidar scans, will be adding those to this thread after we get home.
I also want to see if I can use Maps, now that I have some confirmed spots, to figure out the full extent of the ruts, and if they have a clear origin/destination.

What is common between the Stepped pyramid and Abu Ravash?
Watch our full episode on YouTube: “Anatomy of the pyramid”

Just visited a place in Turkey, near Harran, that looks a lot like the Longyou Caves in China.

It is an enormous complex of underground quarries, possibly used to build ancient Harran and maybe Sogmatar. Not much archeology has been done here.

What is beneath the Stepped Pyramid?
Watch our full episode on YouTube „Anatomy of Pyramids“

Original pics followed by photoshops from our Discord and @unchartedx7 's Discord

Did ancient builders leave these scoop marks on Egyptian walls? #ancienttechnology #brothersoftheserpent
Watch our full episode 289 „Unfinished“ on YouTube

Mysterious features of outer walls in Osireion
#ancienthistory #ancienttechnology

The more we see about this “new discovery” under the Khafre pyramid, the more skeptical we become. First of all, the interpretation of the scanning does not seem to show the KNOWN passages and chambers beneath the pyramid. Reading the paper from 2022, it seems they take multiple leaps in logic to describe what they already want to believe.
Perhaps this new technique of scanning could be worth something, but I would like to see a control scan of a known set of underground structures, like a cave system or a subway. Compare the results using the same method to an existing map.

Meanwhile, we are here in Cairo, if there are any entrances to this “lost city” we will certainly try to find them 😁

Osireion, Abydoss, as a possible example of megalithic structure, is showing different stages of construction, possibly built with ancient technology at very different times.
Watch our full video on YouTube (Episode #289: Unfinished)

Full video available on YouTube #brothersoftheserpent #ancienthistory #ancienttechnology

3D scan of mysterious “Hotep” object in Abu Ghorab, Egypt.

Visited the megalithic complex at Avebury with Megalithomania in October 2024. Absolutely amazing. The enormous scale of the stone circles and the henge blew our minds.
You don’t do all this work for nothing, there must have been some purpose. What could it have been?

A scan of two beautiful ancient Egyptian stone vases from the British Museum. The vase on the left is brecchia, on the right is porphory.

Scanned using Luma by @karolypoka, follow him and check out his excellent channel, Ancient Technology Podcast

Massive megalithic statue/stele/column of Viracocha in the Tiahuanaku museum #ancienthistory #incaruins

Matt Shy joins us in studio in episode #317 to discuss his research and reading into the evidence for ancient giants around the world. In this episode we cover the mounds of North America and the mythology and oral traditions of Native Americans, as well as confirmed accounts of findings of large skeletons by the Smithsonian. We also discuss the differences between normal humans with „gigantism“ vs large human skeletons that show no signs of such a „disorder“.

Puma Punku is an amazing site filled with fantastic and completely baffling stonework. The shapes and surfaces appear to be extremely precise, almost perfectly executed.

Here is a short video inspecting a beautiful example of this strange stonework, with @unchartedx7

More on this same corner of megalithic wall in Cuzco. There is a section just to the right of the corner blocks, where the stones have separated about an inch, revealing the amazing complex surfaces of both blocks, and how they fit each other perfectly.

It is difficult to capture with a camera, but this short video shows it pretty well.

Have spent a lot of time looking at sections of this wall with @unchartedx7
There are many interesting features, but the exposed areas that would have been fitted against other blocks is truly amazing

Scanning some of the original granite megalithic wall remnants in Cuzco.

Note the exposed surfaces that would have been fitted against adjacent blocks. They are beautifully carved, the fit would have been perfect all the way through the thickness of the block.

Have some more Akhenaten. This is Kyle's scan of the statue at the Sharm El-Sheikh museum.

Chanting above a tomb in the Mohammed Ali mosque. Beautiful.
Be sure and listen to the audio.

Kyle's scan of part of the Sphinx Enclosure walls. Our group had special access into the enclosure today!

Kyle's scan of the megalithic alabaster "hotep" object at Abu Ghorab, Egypt.

Kyle's scan of the row of strange alabaster "bowls" at Abu Ghorab, Egypt. Russ is standing at one end, for scale.
These objects are definitely odd; they seem like parts of a machine.

Kyle scanned most of the interior passages and chambers of the Bent Pyramid at Dashur. This is a zoomy trip down the scan of the descending passage.

Kyle's scan of the amazing single piece granite "shrine" on Elephantine island near Aswan. There is some interesting evidence for sophisticated machining work on this object.

(The wierd marks on the side are the shadows of Kyle's phone and gimbal)

Scoop mark sets from the famous quarry at Aswan with the Unfinished Obelisk.

We met the (in)famous Zahi Hawass.

He was not very excited to take a picture with us. 😄

The flattened area at the entrance of the Menkaure pyramid at Giza, and the flattened area on one of the interior wall surfaces in the Osirieon.
Both of these have the appearance of unfinished projects.

Looking at the west side of the middle pyramid(Khafre) from the northwest corner.
The bottom courses at the corner are not built with blocks, they are formed from the bedrock itself. The difference is easy to see in this photo.
#pyramids #ancientegypt

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
We took our Contact at the Cabin group through this amazing geological site this past Saturday.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of enormous fossilized tree trunks of extinct tree species from roughly 225 million years ago. They are completely crystallized and still retain visible organic structures.
#geology #fossils #outdoors #nationalparks #petrifiedforest

In studio working on the mixdown for the Precession album.

Exquisite high-relief carvings from the tomb of Seti I. Follow-up to the previous post.
#egypt #ancient #ancientegypt

For you #artists, these pics are from an unfinished chamber in the tomb of Seti I. You can see the work of the ancient scribes and artists, as these were never carved and finished.
#egypt

Unbelievable and mysterious #megalithic stones of the #Osirieon. This place is truly awe-inspiring. Photos can't capture the sheer size of these granite blocks.
#egypt

"The Dragon's Breath" in #yellowstone National Park

Boiling cauldrons of sulphur mud in Yellowstone

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