The last month or so has been a busy time, for a bunch of reasons, like traveling for the Vase Scan project (video in the works!), but also for several podcast appearances. As a reminder, I have put all my podcast appearances (at least those I can find) on the ‘podcast appearances’ page that is linked at the top of the site.
While in Florida inspecting a private vase collection, I had two, in-studio chats with Danny Jones on his podcast, formerly known as the Koncrete Podcast. My solo show is here:
I also had the chance to share the studio with the great Randall Carlson, for a joint appearance with Danny:
Also, if you’re interested in the vase scan project, I was a guest on my friend George Howard’s (of cosmictusk.com fame) new podcast, ‘The Foxhole,’ along with the engineers and metrologists who have been leading the charge on analyzing ancient hard stone vases, Alex Dunn and Nick Sierra:
Also, I joined my good friend Matt Beal on his new ‘Limitless’ Podcast:
My live presentation from the stage of the Cosmic Summit, 2023! I get into the premise behind the ‘Tale of Two Industries’ and into the details of this year’s Ancient Vase Scanning Project – with a bit of a ‘latest news’ update before the video kicks off.
The mighty Karnak Temple, the largest religious complex in the world – ancient or not – is found alongside the Nile River in Upper Egypt, once part of the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes. Today, this site, along with the connected Luxor Temple, are located inside the modern city of Luxor. Incredible stonework, huge pylons and hypostyle halls were built here by dozens of rulers over 1000’s of years during the Middle and New Kingdoms of the Ancient Egyptian Dynastic Civilization.
However, the mysterious possibility for a far longer past is hinted at by a close examination of the sites. In the core of both ‘temples’, huge structures and objects made from granite show the tell-tale signs of advanced machining and stone cutting, and share a deep similarity with structures of the Old Kingdom found on sites like Giza, Saqqara, or Abu Sir. The evidence for deeper, older and more sophisticated construction, as well as tremendous levels of erosion are examined in this video, along with the signs of advanced stonework, and the remnants of massive, single piece artifacts.
I hope you enjoy this investigation into the megalithic mysteries of Karnak and Luxor Temples! Let me know what you think in the comments – and please consider supporting UnchartedX via the value-for-value model at https://unchartedx.com/support .
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I was contacted earlier this year by someone in a company with a high-end CT machine, offering services to scan the ancient granite vases. While I’ve had several such offers, and I have all those contacts, I have somehow lost this particular email, or message. I even responded, and got a message back, but for the life of me I can’t find this thread. I have no idea how that happened, but despite my best efforts over the last 3 hours I can’t find it.
If that was you – please do reach out. I have a screenshot of a part of the message:
I’ve received a few enquires about a STL file for the pre-dynastic granite vase that would be suitable for 3D printing. Many thanks to Bill Seiler for both creating this resource and for sending me a few copies of the vase!
Check out my three posts containing videos discussing this remarkable artifact, if you haven’t seen them already:
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It’s here! Our next Egypt trip is available and it’s going to be a special one.
Join myself (Ben van Kerkwyk from UnchartedX), Kyle and Russ Allen from The Brothers of the Serpent Podcast, as well as expert guide Yousef Awyan from the Khemit School on an epic journey exploring the varied mysteries of ancient high technology across the iconic sites of Egypt, with an optional extension trip to Lebanon to visit the astonishing megalithic site of Baalbek!
This tour will be the trip of a lifetime! It’s a packed itinerary, 16 days, built around 7 ‘special access,’ visits into normally closed areas, 5 star hotels, and a 4 night Nile Cruise. Come explore the mysteries of Ancient Egypt with a friendly and fun group of interested, open minded people. As has become tradition, our tours will also feature live music from your hosts!
In a rarely seen part of the ancient granite quarry in Aswan, Egypt, there is evidence for a gigantic block, possibly larger than the unfinished obelisk being extracted in ancient times. What’s more, there are strong indications here that this was done in pre-dynastic times, before the Ancient Egyptian civilization ever begun their own quarrying operations on this site.
Join me as we investigate the so-called ‘harbor’ area of the quarry, and examine the evidence for pre-dynastic quarry operations, and the removal of a massive block of granite in antiquity.
Many thanks to Simon Reynolds of Kinetik for the awesome new intro animation!
I recently sat down with Gary from Nerdrotic and crew to talk all things ancient mysteries! I was pumped for this as I’ve been a fan of the Nerdrotic channel for years, I hope you enjoy the podcast!
Join me as well as Kyle and Russ Allen from the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast as we review our recent trip to Turkey – and the observations made at sites like Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Sogmatar, and Mt Nemrut!
Hope everyone is doing well – I’m back from a month of travel and am excited to get out this next video! It might be a big claim – but it’s definitely not clickbait, and it seems to be exactly where the evidence is leading us in this remarkable investigation into the predynastic ancient egyptian granite vase.
Were forms of computers and sophisticated machining processes used in deep antiquity? Startling new evidence is leading us to some very interesting conclusions along these lines. This video is further analysis of the Ancient Egyptian, pre-dynastic granite vase that has been the previous subject of some of my recent work – and the outcome of this work is, frankly, revelatory, and fundamentally challenging to everything we think we know about the history and capabilities of ancient civilizations on this planet.
A mathematical and geometric analysis of the structured-light scan results was performed by Mark (and colleague) of the https://unsigned.io website, who reverse-engineered the vase to reveal not only the mathematical system most likely used to design the vase, but the very algorithms that define it, and the depth of mathematical interrelation encoded in it. Using purely the mathematical design he created a CAD model and found it conformed to the actual artifact with microscopic levels of precision.
Want to find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes on the topic of ancient technology? Join me in this video as we explore and explain the amazing results of this most recent analysis of this remarkable ancient object.
