Hermione Wrote:
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> Hans_lune Wrote:
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>
> ...
>
> > Just a thought - that would explain the machine
> > like exactness - because it was made on a
> machine.
>
> Confusingly, there are two videos:
>
> The title of the first one is
> Scanning a
> Predynastic Granite Vase to 1000th of an Inch -
> Changing the Game for Ancient
> Precision!.
>
> The title of the second is
> Ancient
> Egyptian Vase Scan Update! STL file, More Analysis
> - and Between the Lug Handles.
>
> The vase appears in the first video after some
> general context shots of other ancient vases (from
> the Cairo Museum? The Petrie? It wasn't clear).
>
> The example in question is described
> [youtu.be] (0:36) as
> predynastic, and carved out of one slab of igneous
> granite (for more on granite,
> see
> here): possibly from the Mesolithic
> [en.wikipedia.org],
> so perhaps ca. 5,200 years old or more. In the
> second video [youtu.be]
> (about 19:20), there is a section on "Vase
> Provenance and Background," which, despite its
> length, provides little helpful information,
> besides implying that it might possibly have been
> recovered from
> Saqqarah
> (20:50).


Yeah, I am skeptical but will wait until they measure more vases and urns from known sources and also have readings done by non-baised parties.