{"id":403,"date":"2021-01-10T19:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T19:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unchartedx.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2021-01-10T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T19:44:10","slug":"the-most-precisely-made-granite-object-in-ancient-egypt-and-why-its-not-geopolymer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/2021\/01\/10\/the-most-precisely-made-granite-object-in-ancient-egypt-and-why-its-not-geopolymer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Precisely Made Granite Object in Ancient Egypt &#8211; and why it&#8217;s not Geopolymer!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The MOST precisely made granite object of Ancient Egypt - and why it&#039;s NOT geopolymer!\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d8Ejf5etV5U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An examination of the most precisely made granite object that has come from Ancient Egypt! A precision carved box housed deep underground, we get into the details of the site, the box, its history and discovery by Flinders Petrie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also give you some thoughts as to why I don&#8217;t believe this object, nor any of the granite objects of ancient Egypt, are made from geopolymer, or some form of ancient concrete! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many thanks to Mark and Jahannah from the UnchartedX Egypt trip for sharing some of their footage and images with me! Check out Jahannah&#8217;s channel, she is making excellent vlogs from the trip: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCN2Z_nuG5XtVnE998unA3PA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy&#8217;s great channel, Bright Insight: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BrightInsight <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other links: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawara\/Labyrinth video: https:\/\/youtu.be\/PADK6Qq2hgk <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mastaba 17 at Meidum: https:\/\/youtu.be\/s4MYdkCIia0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Meidum Pyramid: https:\/\/youtu.be\/oG_Vnn8QkzQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An examination of the most precisely made granite object that has come from Ancient Egypt! A precision carved box housed deep underground, we get into the details of the site, the box, its history and discovery by Flinders Petrie. I also give you some thoughts as to why I don&#8217;t believe this object, nor any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/2021\/01\/10\/the-most-precisely-made-granite-object-in-ancient-egypt-and-why-its-not-geopolymer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Most Precisely Made Granite Object in Ancient Egypt &#8211; and why it&#8217;s not Geopolymer!&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","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\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unchartedx.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}