Astonishing Results! More Ancient Egyptian Granite Vases Analyzed! More STL's available.

A small correction from Adam on the provenance of his vase. It was exported from Egypt in the 1930s. It came from the collection of Stanislav Kovar. He was a Czech diplomat, born in Prague in 1889.  At that point, it was part of the Austro Hungarian empire.  He brought vases out of Egypt in the 1930s. Czechoslovakia was formed in 1918, but the word Czech is older.  from Google: The words "Czechian", "Czechish", "Czechic" and later "Czech" (using antiquated Czech spelling) have appeared in English-language texts since the 17th century. During the 19th-century national revival, the word "Czech" was also used to distinguish between the Czech- and German-speaking peoples living in the country. Vase STLs, reports and the report from the Danville metrology inspections are available at unchartedx.com/ . If you liked this or my other work please consider supporting UnchartedX via the value-for-value model at unchartedx.com/support

This is mind-blowing. I am a machinist in a cnc shop making precision components for the auto industry. People need to realize how incredible this is. Having the handles built in adds levels of difficulties to the manufacturing processes that just don't make sense. The concentricity readings they show rival what we do, using a harder material in granite. If these were made with hand tools - it was done by the hands of God. This is 100% evidence of ancient high technology. People can tell themselves whatever they want but the facts are carved in stone. Thanks for the video. I'm going to share this with all my shop buddies!

I am a Production Machinist of 35 years. Watching the Spinner Vase spinning away LITERALLY brought tears. A short list of causal emotions: wonder, amazement, incredulity, profound loss (for that civilisation and knowledge), anger (at the nay sayers and sceptics), and gratitude to Ben and all these gentlemen investing their time and effort to bring this stupendous data to light.

I started studying Geology at eight years old ,I am now 63. I was a union Metrologist for 11years.chief inspector. You are correct on all counts. I have waited so long for someone to cover this Thank You so much.

I am a tool and die maker. That means I work with ultra precision processes to construct ultra precision components and assemblies. I watch the process of inspecting this vase and knowing what it takes to hold those tolerances in a controlled environment I am to say the least impressed. There are so many things in this world that simply to not add up to the sum of their parts. Maybe in my lifetime the entities that are responsible for these will reveal themselves. Possibly coaxing us out of the test tube? I am a person that chooses not to go through my life with blinders on and dutifully listening to the powers that be to simply not look at the obvious. This is a great post.

I'm a 10 year manufacturing engineer for a CNC medical manufacturing company. This is single handedly the greatest discovery of ancient history in our lifetimes. I am so proud of you and your team Ben! Keep up the great work!

Archaeologists are not engineers, architects, or geologists. The archaeological community should be thanking you and others for your hard work and detailed evidence supported analysis.

My friend who is a mathematician watched this and noticed something special in your table of error. "The smallest error is at pi/phi ratio, and it is amazing... For me, it is a real challenge to imagine that the occurrence of two fundamental mathematical constants is just a quirk of fate..."

I spoke with a client of mine today. He’s a lifelong stone artist, sculptor etc. he says he rarely if ever uses power tools, carving everything by hand. I showed him the clip with the flashlight and translucent sidewall and he was stunned! He literally said it’s impossible, plus you would probably need to do it underwater or have a high volume of water to cool, lubricate and flush the dregs away. I asked him if money was no issue how much would it cost me to pay him to make me one. He said that it would take the rest of his life to learn how to just be ok, not even close to the level of precision of the sloppiest example.

Absolutely incredible! You've got 3 dynamic processes here to create these things...1 - Some very advanced mathematical skills resulting in jaw-dropping precision. 2 - An advanced understanding of the material utilized in these pieces. 3 - A palette of tools to cut extremely hard material, yet material that is comprised of varying minerals with varying hardness. You "goof" on any of this, and you produce an 'inferior' product. The fact that whoever made these things had all of the above capabilities is leaving my jaw on the floor. I am seriously at a loss for words. And Ben, you do an absolutely bang-up job of summarizing what can be difficult-to-understand material, especially the mathematics behind it. Just WOW.

I am a mechnical engineer and design and build race engines where tolerances are down to +/- 0.0005 inch in critical bearing dimensions with high quality and consistent steels and this is the best achievable and measurable with the best avaliable equipment outside a measurement calibration lab. To achieve similar tolerances in granite even today is outside current technology, achieving it 100 years ago impossible, achieving it 5000 years ago incredible

I am shaken to my core. This video changes the world. I'm not a machinist but I've been building and cutting with stone for 20 years. Stone tolerances in construction usually don't go past the 1/16" range because it's prohibitively difficult to get that precise with stone. Inclusions and different densities mean cutting and chiseling is always a bit of a guessing game. This is so far beyond what is possible with hand tools or even mechanical lathes it is astounding. Maintaining a 2/1000" variance in the thickness of the granite in an irregular shaped object is only possible today with computer control. This might be the most profound ancient discovery of the century. Bravo!

I have years of experience in metrology and GDT in the modern manufacturing sector. Holding tolerances of plus or minus as little as 12 microns on the manufacturing line. This level of precision is on par with the best equipment we have for working in metals today. I can't imagine trying to do it in a material as hard and brittle as granite. Planar grinding for flatness, sure, no problem. But compound angular relationships and radii.... just blows my mind.

As a toolmaker this is fascinating. Hardened metals can be a pain to machine, i can only imagine machining granite with differing hardness and density.

The science of measurement and engineering is fascinating, and often totally misunderstood. My grandfather was a precision engineer in the automotive industry, I went into scientific research and worked using SEM to investigate metal microbe interfaces. I am used to thinking in terms of um or nm, but it is rare in the archaological fields. The new discpline being brought into the whole area of the science of measurement in archaeology is a huge step foward - this team has started a new chapter.

Doesn't the meer fact that these artifacts have to be studied in such a manmer that they have to be so precise in the instruments used speak volumes itself ?

Been following your site and others for many years. I began my carrer in 1966 as a machinist and progressed over the years to tool and die maker, tool designer, machine designer, structural designer. I worked on oil field machinery, machine design, aerospace, medical, the f-22 the space station you name it. Mostly involved in precision machining at extreme levels. I think most people cannot comprehend the precision you are measuring here. The concentricity of the inner and outer surfaces is an amazing feature. This would require either performing both operations in the same setup or precision setup requiring instruments such as dial indicators. Machining this material at these thicknesses cannot be done with hard tools like lathe bits. The force required is too high. This would require some sort of abrassive tool or some other process I cant imagine. Like with other stone work such as the big boxes, try to get someone today to make one of these with any tools or machine. I believe the civilization that created these things and the rest had a sort of religious interest in geometry. These things are all very similar meaning they had a representation of some basic truth to an entire culture. This likely involved the geometric ratios they present. Ither wise why do it repeatedly.

Wow! As a retired toolmaker I'm just very grateful my Gaffer never dropped a drawing of one of these on my bench, followed with the precious words "We need twelve of these by Friday. " 😮 Surely the product of a lost technology.

As a Precision machinist by trade, the 4 dial indicators on the vase moving only a couple thousandth of a inch is impressive. That is precise even when making someone on a cnc lathe.

i was a machinist for a long time. the runout on those things are incredible. mind blown