The astonishing precision of ancient Egyptian stone vases motivated me to put forth a nuclear machining hypothesis, which I decided to test by measuring gamma spectra of two stone vases from Matt Beall's collection using high-precision germanium spectroscopy. For this ... Read More

Background Adam Young and Ben van Kerkwyk made interesting claims that certain ancient Egyptian stone vases are astonishingly precise. This motivated me to conduct an independent metrological study of similar artifacts, including: 22 purportedly predynastic Egyptian stone vases from Matt ... Read More