These types of vases have been found across the region, some dating back 14,500 years. Qadan culture, particularly, has anyone come across these before? These hard stone vases meticulously crafted from materials like diorite, granite, and alabaster represent one of the hallmark luxury items in ancient Egyptian and Nubian material culture. They were widely distributed and found across a range of elite tombs, royal burials, temples, and ceremonial caches.
"Modern laser scanning and profilometric measurements on predynastic and early dynastic stone vessels (especially diorite and granite) have revealed: Many vases have axial symmetry with deviations of less than 0.02 mm, comparable to modern lathe-work. Some exhibit concentric groove patterns inside the walls consistent with rotary motion. Wall thickness varies by fractions of a millimeter, even in tall, narrow-necked vessels. Suggests precise control, possibly using measuring techniques we don’t yet fully understand.
At the UCL Petrie Museum in London, several vessels have been scanned, showing lathe-like spiral grooves inside narrow vessels. Flinders Petrie's Observations (1880s–1910s) even Petrie noted the “impossible” symmetry for the time.
“It would require modern machinery to produce such work today, and it’s inconceivable it was done without.”
Engineers like Christopher Dunn and Stephen Mehler have cited such data to support alternative theories (e.g., "lost technologies"), but these are not supported by archaeological evidence. Egyptologists maintain that."
"Modern laser scanning and profilometric measurements on predynastic and early dynastic stone vessels (especially diorite and granite) have revealed: Many vases have axial symmetry with deviations of less than 0.02 mm, comparable to modern lathe-work. Some exhibit concentric groove patterns inside the walls consistent with rotary motion. Wall thickness varies by fractions of a millimeter, even in tall, narrow-necked vessels. Suggests precise control, possibly using measuring techniques we don’t yet fully understand.
At the UCL Petrie Museum in London, several vessels have been scanned, showing lathe-like spiral grooves inside narrow vessels. Flinders Petrie's Observations (1880s–1910s) even Petrie noted the “impossible” symmetry for the time.
“It would require modern machinery to produce such work today, and it’s inconceivable it was done without.”
Engineers like Christopher Dunn and Stephen Mehler have cited such data to support alternative theories (e.g., "lost technologies"), but these are not supported by archaeological evidence. Egyptologists maintain that."
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