Episode #242: Mysteries of the Ancient Builders
Brothers of the Serpent
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How Fast Can I Remove Granite With the Dollar Right?
He was born in 1888, worked with Flinders Petrie as his assistant for quite a while. He did the first excavation and detailed study of that obelisk in 1922. And he's like, well, I found, we found all of these dollar right pounding stones. The only thing left to us is like, there's these balls laying around here. This must be what caused these marks. It takes an hour of pounding to remove half the volume of a golf ball's worth of granite.
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