Chris Dunn: Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt

A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments

Presents a stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statues of Ramses II and the tunnels of the Serapeum

Reveals that highly refined tools and mega-machines were used in ancient Egypt

From the pyramids in the north to the temples in the south, ancient artisans left their marks all over Egypt, unique marks that reveal craftsmanship we would be hard pressed to duplicate today. Drawing together the results of more than 30 years of research and nine field study journeys to Egypt, Christopher Dunn presents a stunning stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statue of Ramses II at Luxor and the fallen crowns that lay at its feet. His modern-day engineering expertise provides a unique view into the sophisticated technology used to create these famous monuments in prehistoric times.

Using modern digital photography, computer-aided design software, and metrology instruments, Dunn exposes the extreme precision of these monuments and the type of advanced manufacturing expertise necessary to produce them. His computer analysis of the statues of Ramses II reveals that the left and right sides of the faces are precise mirror images of each other, and his examination of the mysterious underground tunnels of the Serapeum illuminates the finest examples of precision engineering on the planet. Providing never-before-seen evidence in the form of more than 280 photographs, Dunn’s research shows that while absent from the archaeological record, highly refined tools, techniques, and even mega-machines must have been used in ancient Egypt.

Christopher Dunn is a master craftsman and engineer with thirty-five years of experience. In the last twenty years, he has published a dozen magazine articles on his theories about ancient technology,
including the much quoted Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt in Analog.

https://gizapower.com/

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Thank you, thank you very much, thank you, thank you
very much. I really appreciate the thoughts and the roundom applause.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
That's very nice.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
A few days ago we received notice that Earth Ancients
had won Best Ancient History Podcast by the Parapod Events
of Los Angeles. And it's always nice to be remembered
and thought about. And we were up against hundreds of people,
and you know, I didn't even put a submission and

(01:07):
they just called me up and said, hey, Cliff, Earth
Ancients is a good deal, it's a good podcast and
we like to recognize you. And I was like wow,
and of course, you know, I mean, you go about
your business and you don't think about it. But I
guess we're a form of entertainment. Entertainment. So thanks to

(01:28):
Parapod and I really appreciate it. You can see the
award on the Facebook page go to Cliff dunning my profile,
or go to Earth Ancients International, which is the public
page or the private pages they're posted there. I do

(01:50):
want to mention that it's just not me alone. There's
a lot of work that goes into this thing. And
I also want to thank our producer, Gail Tour. She
has been working diligently to pull together really good material,
not only for Earth Ancients, but for Destiny and also
the special edition Earth Ancient Special Edition, sometimes from the archives.

(02:14):
But lately we've been really just pushing and promoting new
voices and that's a lot of fun. Also Mark Foster,
who is a researcher and also the designer for all
our banners and fais Ol Parvey. He is our YouTube
channel producer and he is coming to us from Pakistan.

(02:39):
And by the way, Mark Foster's in London, England. So
this is what I really love. I love the eclectic
environment that we have here at Earth Ancients. I love
the fact that everybody's all over the planet. It's just
a great vibe. And again thanks to Parapod for the award.
It's always nice to be Hey, we have a good

(03:03):
show today. Chris dun is back and we're talking about
ancient machining, I should say, we're talking about advanced machining
in ancient Egypt. And it's really becoming quite obvious that
the Dynastics the Pharonic period of Egypt are not the

(03:23):
builders of the pyramids, obviously, but not only that, it's
looking like many of the buildings were repurposed. And what
this means is that they were survivors the Pharonic period.
Our survivals if you remember a few, I think it
was about a year ago we had Karacooni on the
show who wrote a book on recycled death. It's called

(03:46):
Recycle for Death, and she spent an entire four hundred
page book describing how these various periods, the Old, Middle
and New Kingdom of the Pharonic period, they were reusing
each other's burial goods, and they were reusing each other's

(04:07):
jewelry and clothing. And it's not a very good picture.
It's kind of a sad, depressing picture when you realize
that these guys weren't as dynamic as we all think
they were. And this kind of bleeds into and moves
us into pharaohs like Ramsey the Second, who turns out

(04:28):
to be this narcissistic, egotistical pharaoh who's literally asking his
artists to erase the names of previous pharaohs and kings
and rulers and putting his name his cartouche on literally
hundreds of sculptures. And we're going to talk about this

(04:48):
today with Chris is there's a very famous sculpture that
was cut from a probably about a two hundred and
fifty to three hundred ton block of granite. It's in
the Memphis this Museum in Egypt, and this considered Ramses
the second. But what we're discovering is it has nothing

(05:08):
to do with Ramseys, It has nothing to do with
his period of rule, and it has everything to do
with the previous people who were these genius, technologically advanced
people who carved this sculpture. I was so blown away
by this sculpture when I first saw it a few
years ago that I was like, this is out of

(05:29):
this planet. It's so well done. It's a monster. It's
forty feet tall, almost forty feet tall. It's thirty seven
point seven or eight or something, but it's huge, and
it's so elegantly carved the face, the arms, the chest,
the legs, and you have to see it. I have

(05:51):
a whole group of photographs that I will post on
the Facebook page. You'll also be able to see him
on the YouTube channel if you watch Chris and My interview.
But this is something that is coming to light more
and more and more, and I think the Egyptological community

(06:11):
has to pay more attention to the fact that this
is not something just to consider as a rare occurrence.
These statues have all the same space, style, all the same.
We're talking about Ramseys too, And by the way, they're available.
You can see them at Karnak, you can see them
at Lukxer, you can see them in Valley of the Kings.

(06:36):
These sculptures all look the same, their machine all the same,
and they all have this strange smile. And what we're
beginning to and we'll hear about this today, what we're
beginning to discern is that it was almost like a
image of man. This was the ideal man, this gorgeous

(06:57):
statue that is all over the place, and it's not
Ramsey's face.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
We don't know really what was.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Going on during the reign of Ramsey's a second, there
is some writing, but it's looking more and more like
he's just claiming hundreds of artifacts and also temples and.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Buildings. So this is really something we have to pay
attention to.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'm going to have Robert Shock on the program with
his wife Katie in a couple of weeks, and they
have some startling new discoveries uncovering temples, pyramids and buildings
that were protected prior to the great catastrophic event that

(07:53):
befell the entire Earth. And you know, when we talk
to people like Randall Carlson and and Mark Young and
others who are catastrophists and also very much in line
with this nine thy five hundred BC event, we have
to be very plain about it and just basically say

(08:15):
what it is. It was a terminating event. I don't
think Randall says it's eighty percent death rate, but it's very,
very high, and it was so devastating that when we
look at Egypt, when we look at Middle America or
meso America, which are the Maya, probably the Chinese, there

(08:37):
were very few survivors and the vast majority of minds
and scientists and engineers were killed. And so when we
look at these temples, we had to consider them as
the relics of this predynastic, advanced culture likely to have

(08:59):
come from all over the planet, but specifically from a
place known as Atlantis. So today's program is advanced machining
in ancient Egypt. And my guest is Chris Dunn. So

(10:01):
much in the news lately the SARS team scanning the pyramid.
There are bits and pieces coming out about both the
Caffrey and the Cufu pyramids. I've been talking on the
show about these megalithic sculptures and just how in the
hell they were cut because of their monstrosities. They look

(10:24):
fake to me, they look artificially cut to me, and
there's so much more. I've been wanting to touch base
with it. It's time to bring back Chris Dunn on
the program. It's been a couple of years that we've
had him on the show. If you're not familiar with
Chris Dunn, he is kind of the godfather of the
whole machine movement, the advanced science, the Advanced machining, and

(10:47):
Ancient Egypt. Wrote three books. The most famous that I
would think of, the most well researched and referenced, is
The Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt. He also wrote a
book called The Giza power Plant. His most recent book
is Giza The Tesla Connection, and that's came out a

(11:07):
couple of years ago. So Chris, good to see you.
Welcome back to Earth.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Ancients. How you doing.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
I'm doing okay, Cliff, how are you doing.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'm doing fantastic. I got you on the show. I'm
gonna be able to work you over a little bit,
ask you those YEA, yeah, but I'm a friendly face.
I'm totally on your side and totally believe what you
have written is the real McCoy. And I'm curious on

(11:39):
your take on this. Stars a synthetic aperture radar scan
that the team in Italy put together.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
We had all of.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Them on the show a few months ago, Felipo Bioni
and Armando may Corianda Malanga was also no, he was
not on the show. He didn't speak English, so we
had two out of the three. But I'm curious when
you see these scans, Chris, and they're purported to go deep,

(12:09):
deep under the ground. What what's your feeling on that?

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Ye? Well, I actually went through different phases of feelings
about it, right the first My first was, oh no,
that can't be right. And the one thing that really
put me off the first time was the the the

(12:34):
CAD drawings that were were extracted out of the out
of the raw data, and I didn't quite understand how
they could extract such clean cat drawings out of it.
I mean, but I'm not the expert. And as I
said I wrote, people were pushing me and saying you
need to you need to talk. People want to know

(12:55):
what you what you think about this, because you know
this the potential to really support your theory on the
on the Great Pyramid or the other pyramids. And I
was like, well, okay, I'll respond, And so I responded
and posted on Facebook and I also have that on

(13:19):
my website zapower dot com. But my response was essentially
non committal. At first. I was like, I'm not an expert.
I'm not qualified to say whether this right or wrong.
I know that there are elements here the overlapp with

(13:42):
what I have written, and one particular was going back
to my third book Giz of the Tesla Connection, and
I am examining the the work of John Cadman and
the the pump the post generator being in the in

(14:05):
the subterranean chamber under the Great Pyramid, and not finding
an outlet for that, I resorted to my original idea
in the Gezer Popland that perhaps it was some kind
of Tesla earthquake machine, an oscillator that caused the vibrations

(14:27):
to be forced into the pyramid and also into the earth. Uh.
But then I commented that with with the knowledge that
there are the Giza Plaza is riddled with the shafts
and tunnels. It seems that there is the possibility is

(14:51):
that they there is what I call the big, big
Daddy of post generators is actually under the Giza Plateau,
deep under the Giza Plateau. So that's what I wrote
at the time. Uh. And these chefs seem to kind

(15:18):
of lean towards support for what I had written in
the in Geezer the Tesla connection, though I was still
conservative in my in my response, and and I just said, well,
I think that just the raw data, we'll just look
at the raw scans, that is sufficient to me to

(15:42):
warrant further exploration and hopefully you know, be able to
physically access that site. And and I think now that
they are there is a movement happening in Egypt where
they're going to start cleaning out one of the chefs
on the on the Giza Plateau. And so hopefully you know,

(16:05):
by the time you and I are there next year, uh,
you in April, May and March, they may have found something.
But since then, very interesting developments. I got a call
from you know, my new Safe to day. Have you
talked to him? Sure on the show. Yeah, yeah, he's

(16:27):
a great guy. So he calls me up and he said, hey,
you know, I have been working on this, uh the Sarascans,
and and I think you need to take a closer
look at at this because there is a correlation between

(16:48):
the Giza power plant and the the size of these chefs, okay.
And so he went through it with me, and basically
what we have is a shaft or a column going
down deep into the earth. It's about six hundred and

(17:08):
forty eight meters deep.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Is this the Caffre or the Cufu Pyramid?

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Well, it's Caffre, right, But there's also we have the
same thing under the Great Pyramid, Kufu's pyramid now and
I think the same the same depth, the same diameter

(17:35):
columns exists under that one too. So what okay, So
what is significant about it? If you if you look
at the the columns going on going deep into the earth,
you have a like an organ pipe, okay. And the

(17:56):
organ pipe has a particular fundamental free andy and that
fundamental frequency is a harmonic of the frequency of the
ascending passage in the Great Pyramid. And so those two
actually coupling together and functioning is kind of like, you know,

(18:16):
a musical instrument where you have all these different parts
that are playing and it gets really gets really loud
really quickly. But the significance of why it's that deep
is what it's really important to me. And it's not

(18:38):
necessarily so much that, yes, the harmonics is one thing. Yes,
to have features that are served as a pulse generator
underneath the pyramids, that kind of supports the whole concept
of the Geezer power plant. M But the fact that

(19:03):
they they reached through the sedimentary layer of limestone and
then into the igneous rock, probably another two hundred meters
into the igneous rock, which is remarkable, uh remarkable feed

(19:25):
of engineering for one thing. But you know, when you
consider what else the ancient Egyptians did, you know, to
find something like this is mildly surprising when you consider
what's on top, right, the Great Pyramids, the pyramids themselves,
but we're used to those, right, It's like there's no

(19:45):
surprise here. Yeah, they've been there forever and now we've
got these huge shafts reaching down into the earth. So
what's so significant about them being embedded in the igneous rock? Well,
you go back to we go to Freedom and Freund's
research on earthquake lights and the underlying physics behind earthquake lights.

(20:10):
And basically what he proposes that igneous rock, the minerals
in igneous rock have these peroxy defaults that create positive
charge carriers that if they're expressed, then those peeholes are
positive charge carriers will shoot to the surface and they'll

(20:31):
ionize in the air and create earthquake lights. So essentially
what he's done is pointing a way to a source
of electrons right under our feet. And he actually states
that the Earth is just a huge battery. You know,
it's a potential battery. All you need to do is

(20:52):
rest the rock and you've got a source of electricity.
And the ancient Egyptians and now I'm convinced Egyptian we're
tapping into that. That that that physics that the Freud described.
But Freund didn't just speculate, it didn't just you know,

(21:18):
put out a theory on the paper. In terms of,
you know, working the math and the physics. He did
laboratory experiments on different different rocks, and he took a
granite beam and put it in a hydraulic press and
pressed down on one end and electrons flowed from one

(21:40):
end to the other when it was under pressure. So
he essentially proved out his theory. And so now you're
asking the question why are those shafts going so deep,
because they're actually going where the source of the electricity
is to stimulate it out of than driving a pulse

(22:03):
through hundreds of meat is limestone in order for it
to tickle the granite, so to speak, it will be
just they don't want to just tickle the granite, oh,
the the igneous rock. They want to hammer it real hard.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
When you look at the.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
The renderings, though, I mean I think in I see
two shafts, and there's staircases around the outer perimeter of
these shafts, And I'm like, is that taking license and
creating those or do you think they actually have staircases
that go all the way down to the bottom of

(22:43):
this thing? Because there's two and then there's two big
rooms at the very bottom. And I you know, you're
looking at a a scan, a star scan, and of
course it's the it's the operator who's who's rendering this
in three D according to some pattern. I mean, how

(23:05):
accurate do you think that is?

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah? I don't know. You see, that's it. I'm all.
I'm all about getting physical measurements, you know, rather than
than you know, taking that taking that data from like
a point cloud. I mean you take a point cloud
like the point cloud of the the scan Pyramid mission.

(23:30):
Whether they did the muography, they detected that large void
above the Grand Gallery, I mean that is very very
low resolution, very rough. I mean, you couldn't really define
what kind of shape is there. We just know that
there is a void there. They can't even tell if

(23:52):
it's not an angle or not. So you know, uh,
I think it does require having physical access to inspect
it before being sure of what you got. But you
mentioned the spirals, and I was puzzled by that too,
And basically I opened up a chat with AI and

(24:17):
started feeling information into AI. And this is what man
who was safe today had been doing, right, He had
opened up a chat with AI and he was inquiring
a PI all these features and putting them together. Yeah,
and I was like really confirming the whole relationship between

(24:43):
what is under the pyramids and the pyramids themselves. So
I opened up a chat with AI and started to
inquire about the purpose of spirals and I should qualify
before I continue on that along that thought I did.

(25:07):
I was at a conference in Chicago with Filipo, Beyondy
and and Amanda May and Trevor I see in September.
And it was actually sitting down with them and talking
to them and and and actually receiving more information from

(25:29):
Filipo and examine him more closely his his scans that
I became convinced that what he had was was correct
or close correct. I mean, I don't know what you
would call precise in terms of measurements. If he's within

(25:51):
an inch, I would say that would be pretty precise.
But the as far as the spirals go, and what
I saw, but he showed me uh uh yeah, I
became a believer in totally. And and it's it's like
right now, I can't It's like I can't, I can't

(26:13):
imagine the I can't imagine the system. I've called him
this the whole system. It's not just a great pyramid.
It's Caffres pyramid, Mankarah all the way down to the sphinx.
That's got one right. But I kind of imagine the
system functioning without these chefs, without these columns.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
So it proves your theory of energy production. Is what
you're suggesting is that these gonna I just call them
introls because that's what they look like to me.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Even though there are shafts, it's more like.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
You know, they're part of this machinery, right that is
being uh defined in these not only your theories, but
also in these scans.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Did you have a chance to look at.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
The CUFU scans of twenty twenty two and the three
three D rendering of all the shafts and rooms, and yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
I kind of tuned that one out because it was
really too good, you know, it's like and too radically
different from what we knew about. And then also knowing
that they had the mooography scanning going on before then

(27:42):
with nothing like that being being detected, that kind of
raised a bit of a red flag for me. Now
I am like, I'm not totally against it, but I
would wait for the proof really before all of that,
all of that that precise geometry is correct. Yeah, you know,

(28:08):
be hard, It be hard to be how to say, yeah,
to say that right now? I can't say that right now.
And similarly, I mean they he's also detected like five
kings chamber of complexes inside Cafris pyramid, you know, the
another one, the multi a granite beams above it. Yeah,

(28:31):
and that was surprising to me, and I was like,
whoa uh, because you consider that that that information is
a shock to my system. Yeah, imagine what a shock
it is to zaihuas well.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
He doesn't he doesn't acknowledge anything. He just the few
this is hogwash. I mean that's his I don't know, Yeah,
I mean that's his.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
That's his usual go too yeah, and has been forever forever.
I don't know him to be any different. So he
was that way with the Carbon fourteen, he was that
way with the Scam Pyramid mission, is that way with
the sascan.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
So, you know, I think he embarrassed himself on the
Joe Rogan program when he said he questioned what is
as a zep teppy? He didn't know what that was,
and he didn't know what go Beckley tepp he was.
And I think people were shocked that he was. So

(29:36):
I don't know if he forgot or he just wasn't
part of his vernacular.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Well know, he knew. I think he knew what go
Beckley tep he was. I mean I thought that he
had commented on that way back when it was first discovered.
But you know, well he and I about the same age,
so I can forgive a certain amount of forgetfulness.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
One thing and then we're going to move on one
thing about the stars technology that I didn't realize, and
I was shocked. I had a retired special Ops service
men call and not come. He emailed me and said
that the service that the military was using these scans

(30:28):
and had been for decades.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah yeah, I mean, and Filipo had been using them
on various installations around around the world. So yeah, and
in Italy, so that you know, it's not like he
didn't He was an amateur. He didn't know what he
was doing. All that the technology had not been qualified.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, I mean, we must be under top secret level
types of usage. You know, no one really knows about it.
And maybe SARS exposed the military's use.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Of it, you know, I don't know. Well, it suddenly
exploded across the planet like a wildfire, didn't it. Totally amazing,
talk about a fading frenzy.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
We're going to take a short commercial break to allow
our sponsors to identify themselves, and we will return shortly
with my guest today, Chris Dunn, discussing advanced machining in
ancient Egypt. Will be right back. The articles we're discussing

(32:25):
on this podcast are available on Chris don dot com,
his website as well as Earthagents dot com, and you
also can find them on our Facebook page. I'll post
two of the most important articles, one dealing with the
synthetic aperture radar question, and also a couple of others

(32:46):
having to do with the Ramsey sculpture. Talk real quickly
about what you think the future holds for the star scan.
I don't see the Antiquities Department spending a lot of
time looking for shafts in new rooms and deep under.

(33:08):
They don't have the technology to start digging, and it
feels like it they wouldn't allow that to happen. But
what do you what do you think the future holds
for the analysis that the stars scans presents.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Uh? Yeah, I think it's going to take a long time.
That you know, because I think you have you have
the technology, the science, and then you have the politics
and so you know, sometimes dealing with the science and

(33:47):
the and the math is the easiest part. But they
but the politics is a little more tender and sensitive.
So I would say that over time, I mean, there
are young, younger Egyptologists coming up. There are young engineers

(34:10):
who are now studying the the antiquities with the same
kind of perspective that you and I have on them.
And uh and you know, I mean our friend Muhammad
has been carrying the torch now for quite a few

(34:30):
years and does a great job. Yeah. Oh, you know,
it's kind of like, yeah, there's a a ground swell
of interest in Egypt and throughout the Arabic world on
the on the heritage of that of that area of
the world, because they're now waking up to the fact

(34:51):
that their history needs to be rewritten. Yeah, not by
Westerners this time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
So you're you're probably have prophesied correctly, Chris when you're
saying that it's probably going to be fifty or a
couple of generations away from really digging in deep and
getting the permissions, which is what has to happen to
dig underneath the Giza plateau.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Right, Well, it's not going to be in my lifetime.
I don't think the you know, the when I look
when I look at it, Yeah, I look at it
from a kind of like a ten thousand foot view.
It's I came along and published Advanced Machining in Ancient

(35:46):
Egypt one hundred years after William Flynno's Petrie published and
Temples of Visa.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
That's hope. It's not going to be one hundred years.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
God, so it could be one hundred years, my friend.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
No, I don't want to hear that. I'm hoping that we.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
No, no, no, I think that you know, the cats
Flinders Peachey was definitely constrained in his writing. I mean
for obvious reasons. I mean, the the culture at that time,
and it wouldn't have allowed him to have the same

(36:27):
kind of freedom that I have had to you know,
publish my thoughts. Right. In fact, you know, the Geezer
Power Planet barely got published. If it wasn't for Barbara
han Klow, who were believed in it, they wouldn't have
been published because her everybody at Baron Company were going,

(36:48):
you've got to be crazy published book.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
I'm so glad that she did.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
I interviewed a each of timelogists about two years ago.
Her name is Karacuney. She is a professor at UCLA
down southern California. She wrote a book called Recycling for Dead,
And what was as absolutely fascinating about this book is
that Egyptologists have begun to understand that recycling and repurposing

(37:21):
and reusing temples, death masks, entire burial sites. It was
the norm during the Faronic period, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom,
Late Kingdom. And one of the things that I didn't

(37:42):
realize is that they also understood that Ramses the Second,
who was known as the Great Usurper, who was constantly
reusing things, wasn't the only one who was reusing pyramids
and statuary and other items for their dynasties. And the

(38:06):
point I'm trying to make here is that these guys,
I'm really beginning to think and want your opinion about that,
that they weren't so great. After all, they didn't have
the brilliant engineers and scientists and whatever they inherited it
a great deal of it. We'll talk about the statuary

(38:26):
in a minute, but I'm curious, after you've written your books,
do we have a better sense of the pre dynastic people.
Do we have a better sense of I mean, you
show us how brilliant they were in constructing the pyramids
and making them generators. But have you come any closer
to an understanding of just who these people were. We

(38:51):
know that their science base is on earth energies, but
I mean, these guys are completely unique. They're nothing close
to who we are today or who the pharaohs in
the Furonic period was.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Right, Well, yeah, I that's hard to say. I mean,
you know, when you look back sixty seventy years and
you see the culture and the way it was functioning.
Then if you had presented them with a view into

(39:30):
the future where we're living and how we're operating, what
we look like and yeah, walking around with our cell
phones and they it will be foreign to them, right,
Who are these people? Who are they? Who are these people?

(39:52):
And yeah, I'm looking back, you know, into the forties
and fifties, it's totally different culture. But to your point,
I'm I've always been pretty much on solid ground in
terms of uh, my thinking gone, who these people were?

(40:17):
And well, it's hard to know what any individual is thinking,
what their belief systems are, or you know, what they
carrying around in their head most of the day. Though
these days, sadly we find out what was on their

(40:38):
minds if we log into X or Facebook. But that's
another matter, right, But the but the the issue for
me is not necessarily you know, what their religion was
or what they they believed in, but about the afterlife.
But there's one aspect of the thinking is is very

(41:01):
very clear. They were thinking like engineers and they are
working within with three dimensional materials, shaping them with the
HUT to a high level of precision, and that requires
certain skills and tools in order to accomplish that. So

(41:26):
at least we know that it's unambiguous, regardless of what
an archaeologist might tell you, it's unambiguous the fact that
they had access to sophisticated machinery. And you know, the
question is to what level if we compare our machines

(41:52):
today to the machines that were I was operating sixty
years ago, then there's a big difference, you know, because
of the advances in computer science and computer numerical control
machines and stuff like that. We didn't have anything back then.

(42:14):
So I know today that's very popular to say, well,
you know it, take for instance, the bases, the pre
dynastic bases that show this remarkable accuracy and precision and
geometry they have you have modern machinist too. It was

(42:41):
only concept of doing any of any work similar to
that would be a CNC machine. And so you'll you'll
read people who are arguing, no, it had to be CNC,
you couldn't do that manually. But I was a manual
machinists for many years. In fact, I was a journeyman

(43:04):
later and I can and I made parts that you know,
you would run on a machine CNC machine today. But
back when I was working in the shops, it was
like we used three dimensional profiling equipment that worked tough

(43:24):
of models or templates and those were Keller machines and
UH true trace hydraulic tracing equipment and even manual tracing equipment.
So as far as the culture in terms of UH

(43:47):
what else, what what did these engineers do when they
went home right after they had what? What did? What?
What did they have access to? Uh? And we can
only leave that to our to our imagination, because I
think most of the most of the material gods that

(44:11):
have not survived over the millennia, and you know we
are talking millennium going back thousands and thousands of years,
and so archaeologists are now studying the remains of more
recent settlements, I think, and.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Which is kind of boring if you ask me, It's
like digging up wooden coffins.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Is this is big?

Speaker 1 (44:37):
This is Aahi Hawas's big claim of famous publishing Sakara
coffin and the wood paintings are so boring to me.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Well, you know, I could not I could not be
an archaeologist. You know, I don't have I don't have
the patience to do the the and so and it's
is it's not as uh, it's ambiguous, and I think,

(45:14):
and it's open to interpretation. In fact, I was reading
an article about the Pompeii and the the analysis of
Pompeii and the you know, the the plaster forms where
they went in and they filled these cavities and then

(45:37):
relieve them, and they shows.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
How the people, oh, how the people died during the earthquake,
the volcanic eruption.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Of volcanic eruption right right, And I found it fascinating.
And that the the narrator was talking about how introducing
how using AI to interpret the evidence, we uh revealed

(46:08):
the more accurate result because they didn't have that human
kind of prejudice or you know somebody who is a
good point I'd been taught one way and is they're
going to interpret something along those lines, and it's a
little more nuanced. And AI is looking at a wider database,

(46:34):
is pulling things in and crunching numbers and coming up
with a more accurate picture. And so you know, I
think with the use of AI like that such as
I mean, I think POMPEII is a is a prime
is a prime example of where it would be beneficial.

(46:56):
So I'm the two people I know are three well
I know who using Well, for now, we've got Philippo Beyonder,
he's using AI. My news say today he is using AI.
I'm using it a little bit. And there's a guy
Austin Moore who is an engineer in Detroit who has

(47:19):
created a paper because he was querying the functionality of
the Geezer power plant using AI and and so yeah,
it does. It does kind of take the the emotions
out of it and the prejudices out of it. So

(47:43):
you know, I think you were shocked when I mentioned
one hundred years into the future, you know, one hundred
years since Petrie and now we're going to go one
hundred years. Uh, the way things are, the way things
are going right now, I think it's going to be
a a lot faster than that. Yeah, I know things

(48:03):
are changing so fast, so I can't keep up.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
It's funny because one of the reasons I wanted to
talk to you about the previous civilization, the pre Dynastics
or pre Egyptians. I don't know if we can even
call them Egyptians. It's in Egypt. But if these early
people came from another part of the world, who knows
what we call them. But when I was in Memphis, Egypt,

(48:33):
two years ago, Muhammad took us to an outdoor museum
that had this Ramses sculpture laying on its back, and
it was thirty five almost I think forty feet tall.
It had been found previously half buried, but it was

(48:58):
such a work of alliance, Chris, and from my eye,
there's no way in hell it was carved by hand.
And in your book on Lost Technologies, you describe how
to determine hand and this is what I want to
get to hand carved versus machine carved sculpture sculptures. This

(49:24):
thing not only was elegantly carved, it was beautiful, but
it was not carved by And I'm an artist, I'm
training the illustrator, and I could tell there wasn't anything
that was hand a human touch, a chisel or perhaps
some kind of electric chisel. But what makes it fascinating

(49:46):
and why there's so much confusion on these Ramseys sculptures
is that the guy sticks his cartoonshe on it, puts
his signature on it, and the Egyptologists, not looking at
the actual form of the sculpture, they accept the fact
or they think it's a fact that this was carved
during Ramsey's period. Talk a little bit about why precision

(50:11):
sculptural work is machined over hand carved.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
You actually you started right at the genesis of my
my work on the Ramsey statue.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Yeah, let me get stop you real quickly. Talk about you.
I think you're at the Ramsey Ramsey in looks or
when you saw that one Ramsey's head and that was
kind of like something something's off here. You're you're kind
of going, something's off here. I gotta look a little closer.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Yeah. No, it was actually in the first time I
went to Egypt and I went to the the Memphis, right, Yeah,
and so I was an interest that in temples or
statues or anything like that. I was, you know, I

(51:05):
was just interested in mechanical engineering stuff, right. But I
was looking down the length of this statue that you're
referring to, and indeed, it's a beautifully carved statue, gorgeous statue.
And the one thing that I noticed that struck me

(51:25):
was the symmetry. Right away, I know symmetry, and that
is the It was the nostrils. They seem to be perfect.
I was like, no, no normal person has, you know,
identical nostrils, right, yeah, So that was that's what I
first noticed, and I put that in my memory banks

(51:47):
and just moved on. Right, that was nice. But then
to your point, actually trying to determine whether something it
has been machined or been hand tooled. For me, it

(52:10):
is about geometry and precision. And so when you consider that,
there are different ways to create a three dimensional object,
Like if you're a sculptor, you would you may draw
an outline on a piece of rock and then start

(52:30):
chiseling away until you reach your final form. And then
you know, if you want to create some symmetry, you
may use a pointer from one side to another, but
to within what accuracy? That is the question, what precision?

(52:52):
And so when my first attempt at determining symmetry and
precision in Egypt was not on the statue, not on
the face of the statue, but on the crowns and
the white crown of per Egypt, which is like a

(53:16):
it's like an ellipsoid shape.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Is that the headge yet they called the hedge yet?

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Yeah, the head yet, right, and it kind of leans
back like a bowling pin. It's got a top knot
on it, but it's like like a beautifully curved ellipse right, right,
And so they were when I first went to the

(53:43):
Luxo Tempo was in two thousand and four, and I
was noticing these these white crowns at the feet of
the Ramseys statues, the standing the walking statues in the
in the Ramses, and everybody was off chatting about the

(54:05):
hieroglyphs on the wall and the reliefs on the wall,
and I was running my hands over the surface of
this granite that is like, wow, that's that's smooth. No, no,
no wrinkles, no, yeah, like that's really fine workmanship. And
that stayed with me until two thousand and six, and

(54:29):
I went over in February of two thousand and six
with John Anthony West and so we were in the
again in the Ramsys Hall, and he's talking about swallowedy
lupics and I wanted to learn about shwallowed dalubics.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
But then my attention was drawn back to the Crowns
and I had I had a digital camera with me
that time, so the photographs and what I I had
my computer too, with my graphics software, I was capable
of manipulating, you know, the images so that I could

(55:10):
compare one side to the other to see if they
were symmetrical. And so that was the first time that
I actually did the reverse transparency comparison right and came
up with just like a perfect match on the Crowns.

(55:30):
I mean, it was just and that All those are
in my book and on my website. If people want
to go to my website, look up some look at
the photographs I have up there. So the that was
the start. It's kind of like, you know, like you're
peeling off you're peeling off layers of an onion. You go,

(55:51):
you go down one layer, and then you know it's
kind of like, well, Okay, I've done this, so I
wonder what's going to happen if I do this? And
so after after photographing the crowns, then I was like, well, okay,
odds against odds, I've got to do you the face,

(56:12):
I've got to do the heads right. And so they
had this bust of Gramses out front next to the
the obelis and unfortunately they mounted that bust on top
of a body. Now it's a part of the standing
statue nearby.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
But you're lucky to see it down at the eye
level too, weren't.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
You right right? Yeah, he was right there in front
of me. I mean, you know you could go out
and touch it, and you did. But anyway, so I
took a couple of photographs of there and took that
in my into my laptop and I'm going, wow, Okay.

(57:00):
So I had a situation where I could line up
the jaw line. So you've got to remember, now you've
got this is I'm looking at a two D image
of a three dimensional object, right, and so the jaw
line is coming down, it's moving in three dimensions, and

(57:24):
it's showing that it matches from both sides, right, And
I would going Okay, that's remarkable. Now to what accuracy
that is another question, you know, is it within ten
thousands of an inch? Five thousands? I don't know. But
then there was another aspect to another feature, which was

(57:44):
the nose, and the nose was slightly off center, so
you know, you had to My camera was evidently just
rotated just a little bit so that I didn't get
the nose directly centered between the jaw, and so I
did more of it than you know, when you're on tour,

(58:07):
as you know, you're in and you're off, and then
you're on the bus or you're on the plane or
you're going somewhere, right, and it's all great fun. But
the uh, but the uh. But the real work came
when I got home and I started examining those photographs

(58:29):
at home at my leisure and doing a deep dive
on them, and and then I was like, crap, I've
got to go back to Egypt.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
We're going to take a short commercial break to allow
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my guest today, Chris Dunn, discussing machining in ancient Egypt.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
Will be right.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Back, Okay, I guess today is Christan. He has written

(59:51):
a number of books, most notably Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt.
Today we're discussing a number of topics having to do
with what look to be machine cuts in statuary. So
you got into it so heavy that you needed to
have confirmation of your theories.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Right, I mean I had to have I understand. I
need to go back. I need to have a good
a good tripod. I need to be able to photograph things.
And and so I went to my boss and I said, hey,
I need to go back to Egypt. And he's like,
why you just got back? Why are you going back there?

(01:00:37):
I left something there? Well do you leave. I'll I'll
bring my laptop in tomorrow and i'll show you. So
the next day I brought my laptop in and I
was showing him the what I had, you know, the
not quite perfect image of Ramses and what I was

(01:00:57):
how I was analyzing it. And he his eyes open
and he goes, oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, okay,
I get it all right. So but you put him
for your time. And then the following day he comes
in there you going alone, He said, this is jud Pack.

(01:01:17):
He was the CEO of the company that you're going
over there alone. I said, yeah, I was planning on it. Well,
can I carry your tripod?

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
You never told me your boss went with you?

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Yes, Oh yeah, I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
Yeah. So he was the CEO of Damvill Metal Stamping
and still is. So is like really keen on going
over and actually being a part of it. And so
we went went back in May and I spent like

(01:01:58):
I don't know, six hours inside Luxe Temple, uh, and
multiple a couple of days in the in the Dender
Temple because that's another amazing, amazing place. But the work
in the uh, the Luxe Temple uh was I think

(01:02:24):
very significant, and and I think, like you said, I
don't think it has been given enough attention. Uh. That
may be because of uh, some misinformation that has been
put out because you've got you've got my book, and

(01:02:47):
you've got the information from my book. Most of the
knowledge of the symmetry of Ramsay's that that has been
presented by other people on on the internet, on YouTube
videos and and so, and they don't have the full

(01:03:08):
and including myself, without accessing the source material and knowing
you know, the methods and the observations of the the
author of the you know, the the person who has
made this discovery, then you may come to the wrong conclusion.

(01:03:29):
And and so that wrong conclusion was that I had lied.
I was dishonest in not in not pointing out the
lack of symmetry in parts of the statue. And so

(01:03:50):
it was kind of like, uh, wait a minute, I did.
It's in my book. And so, you know, but the
you know, when somebody you get these people who for
some reason, there have been a few out there that

(01:04:10):
are really taken or dislike to me and my work
and have been actively work talking against it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Yeah, well they must be threatened, though, Chris.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
They must be.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Threatened by your clarity that there was an advanced science
behind the cutting of these statues. Because if we talk
about the Ramsey two at Memphis, that eighty two ton
statue was cut out of a block that was probably

(01:04:42):
one hundred and fifty or two hundred ton, and it
was done with such level of precision that no one
pays attention to it. They just think it's a beautiful statue,
but they're not looking closer. Talk about the precision aspect
and why that is so important. And if you want
to give the z to head that you saw it

(01:05:02):
looks for as an example, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
Yes, Well, the essentially, you know, from my background in manufacturing,
I'm fully familiar with three dimensional machining of products such
as you know, parts for car bodies or you know

(01:05:28):
airplane parts are and aircraft engine where you are machining
dyes over which metal will be stretched and formed and
stuff like that, and so those dyes have to be
precise when you have a when you have a dye

(01:05:48):
that has symmetrical parts to it, you have programmed just
one half and then mirror it to create the other
half and then which was together to give you complete
complete shape. And so all of this was in my

(01:06:10):
background in terms of how I look at product. And
if you consider that I was looking at the Ramsey
statue as a product. And so it's just like you're
looking at the vases that are precise to within two

(01:06:33):
thousands of an inch, or you're looking at the boxes
in the serapium and the surfaces that are flat with
you know, some parts of the boxes not so flat,
but the majority of the surfaces are are very flat

(01:06:55):
and uh and square. And so you have all of
these products different products, right, that are displaying that underlying
knowledge and and craftsmanship, and it's being applied in different ways. Right,

(01:07:20):
It's not a fluke, it's not a one off. It's
not a coincidence, which you know, a lot of people
would like to say, oh, well, you know, they just
got lucky. No such thing as luck here. I mean
this is this is a tightly controlled discipline. It's like
our manufactured items are tightly controlled. We have standards that

(01:07:43):
we have to hold, and we have a measurement system
that we use, and so it's obvious in their artifacts
that they had to have had the same thing. So
when when I look at when I think of decision
for me, it's the photographs are basically a bell. I'm right, okay,

(01:08:11):
I'm ringing the bell here. This needs to receive a
little more attention in terms of basically it appears to
be very symmetrical and very precise. So the next step
would be to give it some metrilogical inspection using a

(01:08:36):
state of the art tools like laser scanners and CMM
kind of machines, you know, things like that, and then
to do to do some analysis in the computer. The
same thing I did, except in three three D software
which will reveal not just the outline of the jaw,

(01:08:58):
but the whole surface of the cheeks and you know,
the face, and then compare one side to the next
to see how much variation you get between the two.
That's when you would say, Okay, yeah, this had to
have been machined, because the human hand is not capable

(01:09:23):
of holding that kind of precision, such as like the
pre dynastic vases. You can't make one of those by
hand and achieve the same kind of precision. It's just
impossible to do. Oh anyway, that's not basically it. And
we're I don't know if we're in stage one, two

(01:09:45):
or three right now. We're in. The book has been
out since twenty ten, it's now twenty twenty five, so
fifteen years, and it's it is getting more attention, and
you know, a lot of the controversies are dropping away.
I'm trying to respond to the critics in a way

(01:10:08):
that I'm not arguing with them or arguing past them
on the internet, you know, But to publish something that
is a reasonable person could understand. Yeah, And you know
the other part is that I'm a serious researcher and
I have written a book and when you tell somebody

(01:10:31):
that there is a more detailed response to your questions
in my book, it seems they get upset because you
are telling them read my book. You know. It's kind
of like all the criticism the Haas received of Joe
Rogan when he says it's in my book.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Yeah, exactly, totally weird.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
It's in my book. So that seems to be a
negative these days for people who don't like to read
books to get their information on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
So at this point, after years of the book's been
out and you've had a chance to sit and maybe
ruminate on this whole thing, do you think that they
had something like a software application that had a that
was cut, what was attached to some kind of cutting
device that would create such perfection do we have Do

(01:11:29):
you have any sense that you could grasp onto without
you know, I mean it's all obviously, it's all theory.
But when you look at these Ramsey two faces that
are so perfectly cut and with such symmetry and such elegance,
there's a human there's a human element to it. But

(01:11:53):
then when you look at the actual cutting, there's no
human hands involved. It's all some kind of machine.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean if I was to say
how far by, how far backwards would we go in
you know, in our civilization or development of technology. If
you start out back in the the Industrial Revolution in

(01:12:26):
the eighteen hundred seventeen hundreds, we didn't have the capability
to make those statues. Yeah, you know. And so then
moving forward with the combination of mechanical templates models to

(01:12:50):
trace from, does that bring it into range? I don't know.
I think even if what what you had was, uh,
it was just mechanical machines, I don't think you I
wouldn't attempt it, you know. Yeah, And so we are

(01:13:11):
moving forward to an era where uh the guidance of
machine tools is uh programmed into the machine rather than
uh so that a human has no kind of interaction

(01:13:31):
except just to set it up and style it, start
the machine, let it run.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
Do you have any sense of that, though, Chris? Do
you think that when I look at this Ramsey head
and the beauty and the and the precision of the
nostrils and the eye and the ear and the mouth,
and you talk a lot about the mouth and your book,
is it like somebody said, Okay, here's a block of granite,
red granite. I'm gonna set up, I'm gonna place it

(01:14:00):
in this machine. I'm going to press a button, and
I'm not going to see it until it's done. Is
that Is that the sense you get out of that?

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
Really? That's that's pretty amazing. Then.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
So it's like, I think years ago you use the
term like garden variety sculpture. It's like it's made for
the garden. You know, there's no human element in there
at all, except.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
Well, you know the Ramseys. Though if you look at
the Ramsey's face, it's consistent. Uh, you recognize our face
for wherever you see it, and it has the same characteristic.
So you know, it's kind of like they had they
had a template or some kind of template, whether it

(01:14:48):
was a physical template or electronic template. Uh. But they
were basically replicating that same shape over and over again
because you know that they have already had the program

(01:15:08):
and anybody could run it. Right. Yeah, But now now
that you see that, think of it this way though,
Think of it this way. These are the these are
the people that built the pyramids and dug them holes
deep into the earth, right, I mean, they were doing
some pretty amazing ship back then.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
Exactly right.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
It's kind of like we we are, we are, we
are living with all of these modern mudd and things
all around us and looking into the past, and we're
seeing a civilization that already determined that coal wasn't the answer,
that they were going to grab the electrons from under

(01:15:50):
their feet.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Way ahead of us, ahead of us, right. Yeah, but
you know, it even makes less sense that Ramsey would
put his cartoush on anything that looks like that. We
now define that that look that face that lips the
nose of the ears, the eyes of the sculpture that

(01:16:11):
we claim as Ramses. The second it could be the
Predynastics version of man. This represents man and and the
Egyptologists not having anything to go on, and Ramsey is
cartoush on everything. They claim that this is Ramses. It's
not Ramses, is it?

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
No? I don't think so. I mean, they definitely did
did some work, did some adjustments to the face. They
exaggerated the smile, all right. So the yeah, the mouth
is uptowned like this, right. The reason for that is
because this statue is what twenty feet tall looking down? Yes,

(01:16:59):
and if the normal mouth you know, which is basically
straight across, right, uh, it would look down to that mouth,
would look down and you won't get the smile if
you're looking up at it from below. And so you
have these optical trickery, this optical trickery on on the

(01:17:21):
on the face. Also the engineering that went into the
design of the statues where they strengthened the head by
giving it a beard or a gusst from here down here,
and then they have the headdress strengthening attached to the shoulders.

(01:17:44):
The elbows were attached to the thighs, which is an
unnatural a condition for a human. Uh So, yeah, I
mean there's just a lot of a lot of different
features on the on those statues. Plus there's there are
these mistakes. You know, you can still look when you

(01:18:08):
look really really closely, you can find you can see
the tool marks on the statues. The statue the one
in the British Museum which came from the Ramaseum, it's
got an error where they dug too deep in the
in the mouth right the corner of the mouth, and

(01:18:35):
so all of these and that is kind of like
an indication of a machine or the workpiece of shifted somewhat,
and you know there's an error and so they tried
to machine out the air by by cutting the lips deeper, right,

(01:18:57):
and so there's a shock right at the vermillion border
where they cut the lips deeper. So they you know,
I mean, they were using uh tran standard machining practices
when they when they machined those faces, they were using
a larger tool to cut the open areas, and then

(01:19:19):
they switched tools to uh a more you know, finer
point to cut the fine detailing in it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
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my guest today, Kristen, discussing advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt.
We'll rejoin you shortly speaking with Christun today. He is

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the author of Advanced Engineering in Ancient Egypt, and we're
looking at a number of machined temples, pyramids, and statuary.
Do you think that the use of microscopic lenses to
look really deep into these cuts would determine the cutting tool?

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
Uh, you mean, as far as whether they were used,
what kind of media that they were using, like diamond
or something of that nature.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
Yeah, or if you can tell if it's even laser cut,
which you would be really a mind blower.

Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
I generally avoid lasers because I was, like, I worked
with lasers for about thirteen years and they are very
limited in the work that they can do. So and
also they're not cheap to run. It's not a very

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cost effective way to remove material. Compare that to a
regular machining or even vibratory machining. If you're using like
a ultrasonic machining or something like that, yeah, that would
be a little more efficient than using lasers. Lasers was

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the magical two that just was just looking for a
place to happen. I read that in a trade magazine
many years ago. I was fascinated with lasers though, I
mean I just loved them, and I got involved with
with them as a company in Indianapolis and run in
a laser job shop for a while. But the it's

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a thermal process. So lasers is a thermal process, and
you know, you you may ablated the material, but you
can't really cut clean cleanly with it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:31):
Because it's too hot and you can't control the heat levels.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
Right, I mean, you can control the heat level, but
the finishes that you get that you're not going to
get the same finishes that you on the y, that
you get that you see on the statues or in
in these other artifacts. So I would just dismiss laser

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out of hand. I'd be like, no, no way. There
was a guy who came in. He wanted to know
if he was having trouble with his blades. He had
a company that made English muffins, and he put raisins
in the muffins, right, and so he was having a
problem with cutting these muffins because the blade kept dragging

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on the on the raisins and he was tearing up
the muffins. And so he brought in a box of muffins.
Wanted to know if I could laser them. It was like,
oh my god. I was like, I think that's the
wrong application, O man, And he said, well, right, anyway,

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so I had to try it. And so basically I
put it in the cabinet, set up the machine and
let it run, and then opened up the cabinet and
took out a toasted muffin.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
Jesus, that's funny. Kind of a weird use for that
high tech machinery. So, in concluding on the cutting side,
your your feeling is it was some either vibrating tool
or high revolution blade of some kind that was cutting
this granite.

Speaker 3 (01:24:15):
Well, I mean not necessarily high revolution. You know that
there's basically the biggest thing to watch or principle that
you have to be aware of in any kind of
machining is heat, because heat will degrade your cutting tool.

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And basically it's a matter of the kind of action
that you're empowering on the tool, whether it's rotary or reciprocal. Right,
If it's a rotary, you don't want depending on the

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diameter that you are rotating, you don't want to have
too high a revolution because you're going to burn up
the tool. It was with Granted i'm talking with granite now,
not limestone, So I mean there is you know, it's
kind of like the Patrichor number seven, which is which

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had those spiral grooves around it. The feed rate was
is five hundred times greater than a regular diamond diamond drill,
at least it was in nineteen eighty four when I
did my research on it. I mean, the improvement in tools,

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they may be doing it a lot faster now, are
a lot greater now. But a lot of people have
interpreted that to mean that the tool was spinning five
hundred times fast, which is not what I meant. So, yeah,
there's can be some confusion. Some of the confusion I

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take credit for others, you know, I people can be
confused for all kinds of reasons, nothing to do with
what I said. Oh did right? Gotcha? Gotcha?

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
Let's finish up with these I call them the Sakara
uh vases, dishes plates. I actually was in the pyramid
there at Sakara, and I I Muhammad introduced me to
a local archaeologist and he sold me a part of

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a vas not as good as Mark Young or Bell's vases,
but it was enough. It was enough to get a
sense of just how they cut these things. Talk about
the your son Alex and Mark Young's research on these
stone bulls. Adam Young, Oh, Adam Young, excuse me, Adam Young.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
Yeah. Yeah, Alex was on my tour in twenty eighteen
and Adam was on that tour, and so they met
at that point, and Alex offered to do a love
inspection on his vases. You know, he's discussing his vases,

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and of course the big the question has always been, oh, look,
how precise those vases are? I wonder how precise they
really are. Yeah, right, I mean myself, I go into
you know, the number of times I've been to Egypt.
I mean there have been times when going into the

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the Cairo Museum, you couldn't even take a photograph. You
had little leavy camera outside, you know. And yeah, and
so there's a lot there was certainly no chance for
me to get one of those vases. And uh yeah,

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but anyway, so well, Alex, uh yeah, Adam came to Indianapolis.
I was up there. It was at a company, a
military contractor Alice was working on as a quality engineer,
and they put one of these phases, I think it

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was the OG or the Collee OG, the original granite phase,
put it upon a rotary table and inspected it. Were
using conventional inspection equipment, you know, dial indicators.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
And.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
It kind of blew me away. I was. I was
shocked by what I saw was within two thousand and
seven inch of the being precise. And so that was
the first indication that hey, I think we've got something here. Adam.

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Then with Alex, Adam actually went to capture three D
I think in Connecticut and had them scan it three
D scan it and I got the point cloud. He
sent that to Alex. Alex and his friend Nick Sierra,
they both work at Rolls Royce. Now, they took that

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data and created a STL file, which is a file
that you can create C and C code with, so
basically takes a whole bunch of points and then renders
it down to a file that is that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
The three D file that you can manipulate on your computer.

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
You can basically apply a tool path to it so
and model it. Yeah. So anyway, that's what they did,
and they were sitting on it for quite a while,
you know, not knowing what steps to take next. Yeah,
it's kind of like, yeah, what do we do here now?

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And then Alex, you know, he was He's like, I
think maybe Ben van Kirkwick would be a good guy
to put this information out, And so he and Adam
decided that they would do that and went over to

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Ben and Ben bean with it and and so that's
how it got out into the public square.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
Yeah, talk a little bit about the last bit of
data on this, because Kirkwook is now kind of considering
them less less utility home use and possible function of
a of a machine of some kind these these what
we think are vases and plates and things. Because of

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the precision, they may be used as some form of
application on technology, an engine or something. I don't know,
but is that your feeling as well, or are you
Do you feel that it's simply.

Speaker 3 (01:31:35):
Yeah, I mean I'm I love exotic ideas and I
love to speculate, right and certainly I've come up with
a few myself. Uh, but they're just it's just speculation,
and and then generally I try to try to follow

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them rules of OCAM's raiser, right like, so the the
all else considered, the simplest solution is probably the correct one.
So I you know, there's no way I don't think.
Maybe eventually there will be, but I don't think there's

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any way to support that idea at this time or
to give it more strength than the simple Well it
was just a nice little item to put on your shelf,
right yeah. Or it was something that we gave apprentices to,

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you know, before they graduated, because they had to do
some fairly significant work. So that's pretty much yet, I mean,
in terms of taking that research further, and that research
is continuing, I mean, that's the good thing about it

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is that Adam and Matt continue to to work hard
forwarding you know, their investors, pursuing their investigation further.

Speaker 1 (01:33:19):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:33:20):
I think Adam and a a an associate went into
the Peach Museum and measured one of their vases. Oh yeah,
they're still trying to make them by hand, even though
they are. There's one group I think in Russia they

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are they try to make one by hand and they
resorted to using a potter's wheel in order to achieve
the achieved the concentricity and the aroundness, but I'm not
sure as far as you know the accuracy of it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
I had been on the show a few months ago
and one of the things he describes is the cut
is so great that you can shine a light inside
of it and see the light.

Speaker 3 (01:34:22):
One of those phases. Yeah, well, I think it's one
that Matt Bell has that you can shine a light
and you know that that was another aspect too. That
whole research was that after Ben had promoted it on
his website, then that's when Matt Bell got involved and

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started buying up all of these pre dynastic vases. Yeah,
and then we did an inspection events at Danville Metal
Stamping and so Adam came in with his vases, Matt
Bell came in with his We set them up on
the rotary table and just started measuring them. I was

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measuring the wall thickness of them. God, we were like,
it was just like totally blown away by the precision
of them. Imagine that using modern day tools, measuring the
wall thickness and the wall thickness of this one wase
I think it was the one the way you could
actually see the light. Yeah, it was. I think that

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it was within like no more than two thousands of
being a thickness all the way around it, And it
was like I was just I was just floored. I
was blown away by it. I mean it's like, yeah,
this is this is really good work.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
And you got to wonder why would they had to
why would they cut at that thin?

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
And maybe this is where Ben gets his idea that
these objects that we consider kitchen items are perhaps machine parts.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
So yeah, no, I don't know. I mean, you know,
it's always good to stretch your imagination. Yeah, you never know, Yeah,
mark something in somebody else that turns into something different. Yeah,
I'd say, you know, you can't you can't you can't

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suppress human ingenuity and imagination.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
No, that's what's mix it interesting and fun. Hey, Chris,
tell everybody where you're going to be in March. You're
going to be part of a tour with my friend
Muhammad Imbrahem will be there April twentieth, but you're gonna
be there March sixth.

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
What's the ooh, I think March fourth. Yeah, I think
give us the in general.

Speaker 1 (01:36:49):
I know you don't have it in front of you,
but what's the itinerary? You guys going to go look
for anomalies or what's up?

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
Well? The first thing, of course, this will be the
first time that the first tour I've done in a
few years. I wasn't going to do any more tours,
but I there is a couple of things that I
I would like to do. I definitely want to uh

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be with Filipo BEYONDI and Armando and travel when they
do their presentation and add my voice to them, which
I also did up in Chicago and supported supported their
their findings. I climbed off the fence on their side,

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if you will, right. So, yeah, but it's got the usual,
I mean the usual tour private accesses. You know, the
the Geezer plateau, Saicara Dash sure, but Aburu wash hopefully

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and then you know down to look so will go
all the way down to obosite symbol I think in
the tour. So it'll promises to be absolutely unbelievable, a
wonderful time that people are I think, you know, Amando

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and Philippa are are just incredible people. Traver is just
a wonderful guy too. So you know, I can see
that this will be an amazing trip for anybody who
wants to join.

Speaker 1 (01:38:40):
Fantastic All right, give us your website again, and then
what you're up to latest. I don't think there's a
book in the works, but you never know.

Speaker 3 (01:38:49):
I have to ask. Well, I guess you'll just have
to be surprised. Oh website, and thank you for asking,
is uh geezerpower dot com. That's g I Z A
p o w e R gizer power dot com. And

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there's a lot of links in the articles section. There's
some headline news on the front page. In the article section,
there's pages on the machined artifacts that we discussed today.
There's an article on the stone at Abaroash, the Ramsey statues.

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There's all kinds of photographs of those two, so I've
had it, enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:44):
Yeah, I should mention that Chris is fairly good at
writing articles and he has a whole bunch of I'm
going to post an article that where he responded to
inquiries about his book Lost Technologies of the Ancient Egypt,
So good place to see his articles. Chris is always

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a pleasure. Great to see you, and I appreciate.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
Thank you very much. Yeah, it looks like you're getting
a little gray up top there. Yeah, yeah, but that's okay.
At least you've got a.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
Lot of it left, all right, buddy, you take care.

Speaker 3 (01:40:24):
Yeah, take care. I now bye.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
I'm gonna show a number of images on the Facebook page.
You can also go to Chris Dunn dot com and
see his latest articles. And I'll post the article that
he recently submitted his take on the t SARS synthetic
aperture radar imagery of the Kufu and Caffrey Pyramids, So

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that's something to consider. Always good to have him on
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