{"id":104,"date":"2019-03-11T01:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T01:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unchartedx.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2019-03-30T00:08:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T00:08:24","slug":"serapeum-series-chapter-4-evidence-for-liquid-polishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/2019\/03\/11\/serapeum-series-chapter-4-evidence-for-liquid-polishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Serapeum Series, Chapter 4: Evidence for Liquid Polishing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-PgvvdIBI8E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 4 of my Serapeum Series, likely the penultimate edition. To quote from the introduction: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 24 giant, single\npiece granite boxes that are housed in the underground alcoves and tunnels of\nthe ancient Serapeum of Saqqara are anything but simple objects. Some of them\nweight up to 100 tons, and Almost every aspect of their quarrying, their transport\nand their construction boggles the mind when you really begin to consider\nwhat&#8217;s involved. The level of planning, effort, skill and technology required\nto both manufacture the boxes themselves, and to move them to where they have\nrested, from antiquity until today, is hard to overstate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video is\nchapter 4 of my Serapeum investigation, where we&#8217;ll examine some of the best\nevidence that a form of ancient high technology was used to create these boxes,\nin particular a technology used to finish them to a smooth, mirror like surface\nthat still reflects light, even after many thousands of years, and a technology\nthat seems unknown to our own advanced modern civilization of today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 4 of my Serapeum Series, likely the penultimate edition. To quote from the introduction: The 24 giant, single piece granite boxes that are housed in the underground alcoves and tunnels of the ancient Serapeum of Saqqara are anything but simple objects. Some of them weight up to 100 tons, and Almost every aspect of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/2019\/03\/11\/serapeum-series-chapter-4-evidence-for-liquid-polishing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Serapeum Series, Chapter 4: Evidence for Liquid Polishing&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}