Episode #338: Scanning Vases and Cores in the Petrie Museum

Summary

This podcast episode explores intriguing discoveries made in the Petrie Museum, focusing on the technology used for scanning ancient vases and cores. The hosts discuss their experiences in the UK and tease future expeditions to Turkey and Egypt. Listeners can anticipate fascinating insights into ancient technology and archaeology.

Key takeaways

• 1Structured light hand scanner technology used for scanning artifacts.
• 2Preliminary findings from scans in the Petrie Museum.
• 3Upcoming joint expedition to Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef.
• 4Future plans to return to Egypt in 2025 for archaeological exploration.

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Transcript excerpt

The entire setup has just changed because we are in London, on a journey, trying to prove some measurements on the ancient vases in the PG Museum. But it was very cool to see, just to talk a little bit about what you're actually doing, and the prep work that you did for this, and just thinking ahead about it, practice runs, all of that kind of stuff, was really awesome to watch. Take place. So it's not just like, yeah, we're going to go in there and done. It was, the process of scanning itself was, in some ways, an engineering project. The most difficult part of it was that this is really cutting-edge technology, which we are trying to bring into a very tiny museum. So the space you have in the museum, it's small, and you need a very powerful computer to process all this data. We were not only bringing in the scanning equipment, we were bringing in endoscope, which you had. And also we had gauge calipers to measure basically the wall thickness all around the rays that was handled by our precision expert, Chris King. A guy from Florida, Max, who, he said, he basically was like, I have access to electron scanning microscopes, and I would love to look at some of these vases. Vases. So if copper had been, at any point, used as an abrasion, or even to carry an abrasive, there should be tiny, tiny remnants of copper caught in the stone in the tool marks. They came from beneath the step pyramid. A couple of things that we noticed. Number one, no copper. At all. And we looked at like five or six different pieces. But two of them had tin, or zinc. And a strong titanium return. Action.…

Excerpt from Brothers of the Serpent, Dec 6, 2024. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.