Graham Hancock
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786 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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That looks like a piece of an engine. It does, doesn't it?
Yeah. It looks like part of something else.
Yeah.
Exactly. Exactly. And what is its function if it isn't something else? It's difficult to see what function it could have.
Some kind of offering bowl?
Mastaba S311. Those are sort of tombs which have got two levels. What an incredible piece. It is an incredible piece.
And there it is, First Dynasty. And of course, you can't actually date the object itself. So they're dating it from context. What they're saying is that it was found in a First Dynasty context, but it may have been a legacy even then. It may have been an old object even then. We just don't know that. Because you can't carbon date it. Exactly. But it's at least that old from the context.
Oh, excuse me, 3,000 BCE.
I don't know either, but I would have thought that if that was your project, you could do it without carving schist into that. Click on that thing.
It clearly had a function. Nobody would go to the trouble of creating something as complex and difficult to make as this unless there was a useful function. What is it made out of? Schist, which is a hard stone. That's crazy that that's made out of stone.
I've never seen a satisfactory guess. But those like Chris Dunn, who are studying the technology of ancient Egypt, are confident that we're looking at the traces of a lost technology. We don't know how this was done. Like so much else in ancient Egypt, we don't know how the 70-ton blocks were raised to become the roof of the king's chamber either.
There's so much that we don't know and that's not explained and that is easily written off by abusively arrogant experts who say there's no mystery here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
No, there's one original. I've no doubt people have tried to make copies with modern materials.
Yeah, it is. I think that's the way we're looking at a recreation. Okay. Whatever it is. The thing is, where you come to this, there's thousands of objects that defy explanation. What are those, Jamie?
It's wheels. 1,500 BC, basically.
No, they definitely had the wheel. They definitely did? Whether they had the wheel in the old kingdom is another question. But certainly by the new kingdom, by the time of Ramesses, they had wheels. They had chariots.
Well, it's actually not clear to me when the wheel was invented.
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