Matt Beall presents his stone vases along with scans, analyses, and discussions on the prominence of some of these vases. The material is truly fascinating, and some of the scans suggest the vases were made with lathe-like precision, 2000 years before the lathe was invented. Additionally, they delve into a project where someone attempted to recreate a vase using methods similar to those of the Egyptians. After two years, they still couldn’t produce a vase as beautiful or even close to the same level of accuracy as the originals.
I also wanted to mention that I am not a fan of Danny Jones at all, but the discussion was fascinating nonetheless and delved into a few topics I hadn’t heard before.
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> egyptologists or historians people who think that they have that we have the exact right story of the history of mankind and that there’s no tools that we don’t know about outside of the archaeological record
Why don’t we look at what Egyptologists are saying here?
> Some tools have been located by archaeologists at different sites in Egypt, but various tool marks on artifacts, together with tomb depictions of working techniques, indicate that key industrial tools are unknown^1
> Several important areas of ancient technology remain shrouded in mystery, particularly those concerned with stoneworking: our ability to assess the development of ancient Egyptian technology, despite finding many tools, artifacts and tomb illustrations of manufacturing processes, is frustrated by an incomplete knowledge of important crafts, and virtually no knowledge at all of significant tools missing from the archaeological record…We do not know, with reasonable certainty, how particular materials were worked in any given situation^2
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1. Stocks, Denys A. *Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology: Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt*. Routledge, 2003. p. 19.
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Matt Beall presents his stone vases along with scans, analyses, and discussions on the prominence of some of these vases. The material is truly fascinating, and some of the scans suggest the vases were made with lathe-like precision, 2000 years before the lathe was invented. Additionally, they delve into a project where someone attempted to recreate a vase using methods similar to those of the Egyptians. After two years, they still couldn’t produce a vase as beautiful or even close to the same level of accuracy as the originals.
I also wanted to mention that I am not a fan of Danny Jones at all, but the discussion was fascinating nonetheless and delved into a few topics I hadn’t heard before.
> egyptologists or historians people who think that they have that we have the exact right story of the history of mankind and that there’s no tools that we don’t know about outside of the archaeological record
Why don’t we look at what Egyptologists are saying here?
> Some tools have been located by archaeologists at different sites in Egypt, but various tool marks on artifacts, together with tomb depictions of working techniques, indicate that key industrial tools are unknown^1
> Several important areas of ancient technology remain shrouded in mystery, particularly those concerned with stoneworking: our ability to assess the development of ancient Egyptian technology, despite finding many tools, artifacts and tomb illustrations of manufacturing processes, is frustrated by an incomplete knowledge of important crafts, and virtually no knowledge at all of significant tools missing from the archaeological record…We do not know, with reasonable certainty, how particular materials were worked in any given situation^2
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1. Stocks, Denys A. *Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology: Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt*. Routledge, 2003. p. 19.
2. Ibid., p. 2.