Episode #382: Searching for Traces of a Lost Civilization with Ben from UnchartedX

Summary

Ben from UnchartedX joins Russ and Kyle Allen to argue that ancient Egypt shows evidence of two separate industries: a primitive one matching dynastic Egyptian tools, and a far more sophisticated one involving machining, precision, and massive logistics. They propose that the dynastic Egyptians inherited monuments, statues, and precision stone vases from an older lost civilization, possibly one that flourished during the African Humid Period or earlier. The conversation covers erosion on the Giza plateau, the precision vase scanning debate, academic resistance to alternative ideas, and advice for future archaeologists.

Key takeaways

• 1Ben's recent video examines a granite block at Abu Rawash with machining marks he says cannot be explained by the standard model; the site is attributed to Djedefre based largely on one cartouche fragment
• 2A granite statue foot found at Tanis by Flinders Petrie implies a single-piece statue of at least 1,000 tons, with the stone sourced about 1,000 km away in Upper Egypt
• 3Predynastic hard-stone vases appear alongside hand-formed pottery painted to imitate granite; a British Museum plaque says the clay imitations gave the same 'magical benefits'
• 4The Artifact Foundation (Adam) offered $25,000 to anyone who can make a vase by hand matching ancient precision; it has also scanned vases at the British Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
• 5Petrie said stone hammers found at sites 'speak more of destruction than of construction' and proposed jewel-tipped tools; Ra-wer's 5th dynasty tomb at Giza reuses older calcite column bases
• 6Works cited include Graham Hancock's 'Fingerprints of the Gods' (1995), 'Hamlet's Mill', Velikovsky's 'Earth in Upheaval', Cremo's 'Forbidden Archaeology', and Herodotus on the Hawara Labyrinth; Egyptian king lists reaching back more than 40,000 years through Zep Tepi and the Shemsu Hor

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Transcript excerpt

and welcome back ladies and gentlemen this is brothers of the serpent podcast i am russ allen coming to you from my studio where i am hiding from sam squanch and eldritch horrors in the foothills of the appalachian mountains and my brother kyle joins us how's it going everybody the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science actually i should not be saying anything while the music's playing but that's okay i was actually uh showing him like one of the you know we get some we're using riverside and sometimes like riverside will give you these little ai summaries of sections it was telling us like one of them is in a studio in the appalachian mountains and the other one is in a studio in a unique scientific environment yes the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science is a unique scientific environment and we are also of course of course joined by ben from uncharted x hello sir gentlemen good to see you buddy how are you bro indeed good yeah good good also not in my studio uh also in the foot of the appalachians and he has a remote undisclosed location yep yeah it's totally undisclosed he's actually he's nearby i was going to have him in studio but it turned out i didn't quite have all the the gear that i needed to have a guest little one yes thing i didn't have neither of us had so yeah totally prepared zero mistakes classic snake bros but yeah so ben's ben's been in town we've been hanging out and i was we were discussing like dude let's let's podcast while you're here yeah so here we are he we could have done this while he was in his studio...

Excerpt from Brothers of the Serpent, Aug 18, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.