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It was a different processthat was much better known and much easier to docalled fire...

It was a different process
that was much better known and much easier to do
called fire gilding, which would have achieved
the same effect of plating
these metal objects with gold

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It was a different process that was much better known
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and much easier to do called fire gilding,
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which would have achieved the same effect
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of plating these metal objects with gold.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:06:40
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Season
1
Episode
3
Genres
documentary
Production
A+E Networks,Blink Films

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From a piece of meteorite found in Tutankhamun's tomb to the Crown of Thorns, explore some of the most perplexing and unusual objects lying hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms.
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The Kensington Runestone may hold the answer.
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Using weak codes had pretty much
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[narrator] Fifty thousand years ago,
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[narrator] The Roman technique for casting hollow bronze ite...
S01 • E01 And they analyze it and demonstrate - Strangest Things 00:05
And they analyze it and demonstrate
S01 • E04 Price has been right all along. - Strangest Things 00:04
Price has been right all along.
S01 • E08 This means that the gold from the whole hat - Strangest Things 00:06
This means that the gold from the whole hat
S01 • E06 If you look at the name of the man - Strangest Things 00:07
If you look at the name of the man
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It's a physical object, the information is stored on it
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[Philip] What this device is basically designed to do
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For example, in California, in historic times,
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Piltdown man cannot be the missing link.
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In January 1917, German Secretary of State,
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[Narrator] It is definitive proof, the scarab is made of gla...
S01 • E03 In fire gilding, what you do is - Strangest Things 00:05
In fire gilding, what you do is
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These objects were found by people
S01 • E08 [narrator] It's already an incredible achievement - Strangest Things 00:06
[narrator] It's already an incredible achievement
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So that's the five planets, the sun, and the moon
S01 • E03 You apply that to the metal surface, and then you heat it up, - Strangest Things 00:09
You apply that to the metal surface, and then you heat it up...
S01 • E02 In the wax, you carve the intricate details, - Strangest Things 00:06
In the wax, you carve the intricate details,