Episode #341: Scanning in Egypt

We went live to discuss Kyle's trip to Egypt to do scanning and photogrammetry. Lots of interesting details and observations!

 

We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here: 
https://unchartedx.com/turkey2025/

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Episode #338: Scanning Vases and Cores in the Petrie Museum

We recorded this in the UK while we were there to scan vases and cores in the Petrie Museum. Learn about the process, the amazing technology of the structured light hand scanner, and the preliminary findings!

This is a swapcast with the Ancient Technology Podcast. Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyP%C3%B3ka 

We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here: https://unchartedx.com/turkey2025/

We will also be back in Egypt in 2025! Join us and Ben from UnchartedX for one of the most amazing experiences of a lifetime in Egypt: https://unchartedx.com/site/egypt2025/

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Episode #333: UK and the Petrie Museum

We traveled to the UK to participate in a project to scan artifacts from the Petrie Museum, including the famous Core #7 and many vases. In this episode we discuss the project in general; eventually we will be able to discuss it in detail and the massive amounts of data that were captured will be released to the public.

 

Thank you all so much for watching and supporting the show! We intend to do much more like this in the future, this is exactly the kind of thing we feel that helps better understand the mysterious past, and ancient human achievements.

 

Many thanks to the following Producers for this episode: 

Executive Producers: 

Robert Dresel

Philip Baklamov

Matt Shy

Peter Shell

Zachariah Baker 

Laura Coutu 

Chandra Chell

Chris James

Alessandro Rovati

Anne who Knits

 

 

Associate Executive Producers: 

Hagen Thomann 

Captain River Rat 

Dave Cortes 

Patrick Hicks 

Luka Rajčević

Alexander Lane

 

Join us for an afternoon at the San Antonio Museum with Luke, dinner and presentations after!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afternoon-at-the-museum-tickets-1025270661147

 

We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here: https://unchartedx.com/turkey2025/

 

We will also be back in Egypt in 2025! Join us and Ben from UnchartedX for one of the most amazing experiences of a lifetime in Egypt: https://unchartedx.com/site/egypt2025/

 

 

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Episode #306: Precision in Ancient Technology

We have Ben from UnchartedX on to talk about the latest research and information on the ancient stone vases from Egypt.

Clearly, someone was capable of high tech, high precision work in the deep past.

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Thanks to Troy for the episode art!

Episode #279: Written in Stone

Ben from UnchartedX joins us to discuss the amazing high quality scan data of a pre-dynastic Egyptian stone vase. Ben has discussed this object, the data from the scan, and the implications of the staggering precision evident in the manufacturing process several times on his channel.

Since the STL file of the data has been made available for download on the UnchartedX website, many people from around the world have been performing their own analysis of the vase, and we discuss some of the results of that on this episode, as well as some interesting results that Kyle has discovered on his own in his attempt to better understand the initial analysis techniques used by professional metrologists Alex Dunn and Nick Sierra.

There is a lot of visual data being referenced on this episode, so be sure to check out the YouTube version(it should be out within a few days of the publishing of this audio).

Ben's website:
https://unchartedx.com/

Mark's article we read from on the episode:
https://unsigned.io/granite-artifact/

Also see the work Marián Marčiš is posting to Twitter:
https://twitter.com/mariusderomanu3

Link to download the STL file:
https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Vase.stl

Links for the initial vase report:
https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/VASE-REPORT-INCHES.pdf
https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/VASE-REPORT-METRIC.pdf

Episode #267: The Mysteries of Egypt - Part 1

We're back from our epic three week trip in Egypt! We learned so many things and explored many new places. We have Ben from UnchartedX on with us to discuss some of the sites we visited and our evolving thoughts on what we learned.  There is so much to discuss, expect more Egypt episodes in the coming weeks!

 

UnchartedX website:
https://www.unchartedx.com/

Episode #210: Down the Rabbithole

Every once in a while we decide we need to make an episode that can serve as an "entry point" for new listeners, and also to talk about our current state of mind and ideas on all the topics we discuss, and how they're connected.

We first tried this in Episode 82, at the request of a listener. It was a good idea, and we now think we ought to do it every so often, to talk about these subjects broadly, and to work out where we stand now.

So this episode is a rambling, free-form conversation that hopefully can serve as an overview of some of the topics we explore on this podcast, and a bit about why we explore them.

Episode #182: UnchartedX Swapcast - Serapeum

We join Ben from UnchartedX in the first of a series of swapcast episodes where we go through some of his amazing footage of ancient sites he's visited. In this episode we focus on the Serapeum of Saqqara in Egypt and the mystery of the massive, precision stone "boxes" in that site. How did they make them, what were they for, how did they move them into place through those small tunnels? How old are they really?

We look at a lot of the little details in Ben's footage that shows us how deep the mystery of these artifacts really is.

Since this is a visual episode, there will be video of the entire conversation that includes the clips Ben showed us. So look for that on our YouTube channel, or on Ben's. But we did our best to provide descriptions for audio listeners.

Enjoy!

Episode #127: The Giza Power Plant - Part 2

We continue in our exploration of the history of discovery in the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau, and in Egypt in general, by way of Christopher Dunn's book, "The Giza Power Plant".

We make some corrections from part one, then dive into the mysterious "Well Shaft" feature that connects the Descending Passage to the bottom of the Grand Gallery. We also read through Dunn's consulting with various experts in stonework, and his own experiences inside the Great Pyramid, the second(Khafre) pyramid, observations at Aswan, and inside the Serapeum.

Episode #121: Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt - Part 3

We conclude our deep dive into Christopher Dunn's excellent book, "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt" in this final episode of a three-part series by looking at Dunn's work and observations in Dendera, at the Temple of Hathor, and the ultra-precise machining evidence there. We also read some of his quotes from Flinders Petrie, the "father" of Egyptology, about the evidence for anomalous cutting of very hard stones in ancient Egypt.

And we conclude with a reading of part of Chris' conclusion of his book, where he lays it all out and basically says the standard model is wrong, whoever built these monuments and carved these objects had machine tools, and more importantly, machine-guided tools.

Enjoy!

Episode #120: Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt - Part 2

This is part two of what is now obviously going to be a three-part series on a detailed look at engineer Chris Dunn's book, "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt". In this part, we go back to the beginning of the book where Dunn is studying aspects of the many enormous monolithic statues that can be found in temples all over Egypt. Again and again, his studies find evidence of advanced planning, advanced machining, and the ability to check precision to a very high degree of accuracy.

We also read some very interesting accounts from the book, taken from the writings of explorers from previous centuries who delved into the Serapeum tunnels when the entrance was still concealed under sand.

There is so much information in this book! Part three coming next week.

Enjoy!

Episode #117: The History of Precision

Archer joins us again in the Tangent Cube to give a slideshow presentation about precision. What does it mean to do precision work? How do you get a perfectly straight edge, or a perfectly flat surface? How do we do it in the modern day, and what does that mean for highly precise work done in ancient times?

This was an awesome conversation. We really recommend watching the youtube video so you can see the slides.

Enjoy!




Here is the YouTube Video:

Below are some of the slides from GMA's presentation:

Episode #080: Impossiblocks

GMA of LateNite fame joins us in the Tangent Cube for the 2019 inaugural episode, bringing his engineering expertise to the subject of impossiblocks, and also recounts a snake expedition he took into the mountainous wilderness of New York State to look for an ancient serpent effigy aligned to the constellation of Draco. 

LOTS of pics for this show! Click to enlarge, as always:

Aurora Borealis by Alexander Kuznetsov via spaceweather.com

"Serpent Effigy" boulders and dry-laid walls on Overlook Mountain, NY

 

 

  

  

Museum of the American Indian. Obsidian Mirror is the black circle on the upper right

Demonstrating the reflectivity of the mirror

Granite-carved object, said to be a "yoke" of some kind

Note the difference in quality between the sculpture and the "yoke"

'Em'r ducks
From Lovelock Cave

Overhead map of the Serapeum, with Serapeum Box locations marked and numbered

Serapeum Entrance

One of the Serapeum boxes

Serapeum box with "relative size people"

Rough hewn box still in the tunnel. Not much room to get hundreds of slaves and ropes around that thing

Christopher Dunn, measuring precision inside one of the boxes

Precision between box and lid

The infamous "Core #7", note the feed rate lines circling the core

Feed rate lines inside a core bore

Another core bore with visible feed marks

Zoom in on this image to see the incredibly thin core drill width that is being pointed out

More evidence of advanced Computer Numerical Control(CNC) machining on Giza

...and still more evidence

  

"Ramses II"(if that's who this really is) colossal statue facial symmetry

  

Facial symmetry evidence of tool diameter symmetry

  

Tool diameter symmetry in the z axis

  

Giza plateau basalt sheathing slabs

  

Flat basalt slabs cut to fit eroded limestone below

Basalt sheathing

Ba'albek Trilithon - The three blocks marked in red. Note relative size people on the ground below

Ba'albek Trilithon - the weights listed are way on the low end of possibility. These blocks are probably closer to 1100-1200 tons

More impossiblocks at Ba'albek

"Stone of the Pregnant Woman" in the Ba'albek quarry, 1 kilometer from the site. Until recently was the largest known cut stone ever made

Stone of the Pregnant Woman, relative size people

Another perspective on the Stone of the Pregnant Woman

The EVEN LARGER blocks found below the Stone of the Pregnant Woman

Another enormous cut stone, partway between the quarry and the site

Someone was MOVING this block through the mountains, when they suddenly dropped it, left, and never returned. It has not moved since