This video is a recent swapcast and conversation with my good friends Kyle and Russ Allen, of the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast, getting into the details around the vase scan project that I’ve been a part of this year.
If you’re looking to hear more details and discussion around these remarkable artifacts and their recently uncovered and entirely astonishing attributes, then you’ll likely enjoy this conversation!
I picked up a howler. There was no Czechoslovakian ambassador to anywhere in the late 19th century, because Czechoslovakia did not exist as yet. The country was only created after WW1, so not until 1918/19. Perhaps the reference is actually to the Austrian ambassador?
Probably. good question for Adam, I’ll ask him, it’s his vase.
It was exported from Egypt in the 1930s. It came from the collection of Stanislav Kovar. He was a Czech diplomat, born in Prague in 1889. At that point, it was part of the Austro Hungarian empire. He brought vases out of Egypt in the 1930s.
Czechoslovakia was formed in 1918, but the word Czech is older. from Google:
The words “Czechian”, “Czechish”, “Czechic” and later “Czech” (using antiquated Czech spelling) have appeared in English-language texts since the 17th century. During the 19th-century national revival, the word “Czech” was also used to distinguish between the Czech- and German-speaking peoples living in the country.
Ben – is it possible the handles of the vases housed some form of electrical rod or metal tubing? Could there have been any substance or liquid inside of the vase that when charged would have some type of function. Illumination, or something of the sort. After reading Dunn’s new book – could these vases somehow have been linked to the function he speaks about – or could they have received some of the electrons or power harvested?
I think they were functional yes, but there are many vases without holes in the lug handles. I think a lot of those holes were added in later times with primitive grinding methods.
Hi – I find the vase results very compelling. One thing that occured to me is that if the measurement data was taken at regular time interval between measurements, one could do a
FFT analysis and look for high frequency evidence of machining. I would think manual methods would just show noise.
Maybe you’ve already done this or thought of it. A high resolution photo might also work if you know how the CCD is filled.
Just an idea to try…
Hi a follow up thought: an Fast Fourier Transform if the data is spaced equally would show physical components that are periodic and very difficult to make manually. This can refute the null hypothesis that the vase was carved manuall. Comparing to a known manually made vase would highlight the difference