Episode #118: Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt - Part 1

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Advanced engineering in the temples of the pharaohs.
0:07.6	You are listening to Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
0:19.0	And welcome back.
0:20.7	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, angels and demons and demons and monsters to Brothers of the Serpent Podcast, episode 118.
0:27.6	Yeah.
0:28.6	Coming to you, not live from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science, nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the Edwards Plateau.
0:37.6	All true.
0:39.0	It is finally cooling down here in Texas.
0:44.0	I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt.
0:45.5	I'm wearing long sleeves.
0:46.5	That's not I was going to say.
0:50.5	Yep, the cold is rolling in from the north, finally, getting some rain.
0:56.1	Some cool.
0:57.5	But what we don't have is the watcher because he's having technical difficulties as usual.
1:05.7	So.
1:06.0	Nothing new here, folks.
1:07.6	Right.
1:07.8	No secrets.
1:09.6	No secrets are being disclosed. Right. No. No secrets. No secrets.
1:11.3	Are being disclosed.
1:16.0	Yeah.
1:16.7	So we just want to take this opportunity to tell the watcher to up his technical game.
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