We catch up on listener emails and comments and open a couple of 1up Boxes. Then Kyle reads a story about recent cattle mutilations in Oregon and we spend some time discussing the history of this strange phenomena and what the "popular" explanations are.
For the second half of the show, we dive into Christopher Dunn's excellent book "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt", looking at the Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan, an anomalous piece of granite with strange tool marks in Abu Roash, and the infamous "Core #7" found by Petrie. All of these objects hold clues as to the methods for working stone that were used by the ancients, and Dunn does an excellent job investigating them.
Two brothers explore the mysteries of the ages, the ancients, and the modern day
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Episode #118: Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt - Part 1
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| Split-end on the sun |
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| Obelisks |
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| Detailed Hieroglyphs carved into the granite |
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| Add caption |
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| The glyphs are so similar they are like stamps |
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| Very fine three dimensional work on the glyphs |
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| Unfinished Obelisk, Aswan |
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| The obelisk would have been enormous |
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| Deep troughs and cut marks |
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| Linear cuts along the side, with noticeable horizontal striations |
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| Cuts in the trough |
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| Cutting around corners? |
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| Sharp inside corners in trough cuts |
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| Cutting around corners |
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| Diorite quarry stone |
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| Modern quarry excavator saw. Imagine this, but with a chainsaw bar instead of a circular blade |
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| "Unfinished Pyramid" at Abu Roash |
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| Granite block with strange evidence of cutting on it |
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| Curved in this direction |
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| Curved in this direction as well |
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| Broken edge, curved horizontal cut edge, and step indicating curved vertical cut |
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| Could there have been enormous saws mounted in these? |
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| Petrie's infamous "Core #7" |
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| Cut marks, spiral or horizontal? |
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| Wrapping the core with string along the cuts |
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| Ancient stone vases, machined on a lathe |
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| Vase made of diorite |
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