Ancient mysteries, field notes, and stubborn questions.
Brothers of the Serpent follows Russ Allen and Kyle Allen through ancient architecture, lunar oddities, dragon traditions, and field-trip aftermath. The mood is curious and rowdy, with serious research sharing space with live-chat chaos, winery updates, and jokes that wander into the point.
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Brothers of the Serpent is a talky, digressive, enthusiast-led search for strange patterns in ancient history, archaeology, astronomy, and myth. Russ Allen and Kyle Allen are the named Brothers of the Serpent, and their rhythm is closer to a workshop conversation than a studio lecture. The show starts loose. There may be live-stream setup trouble, a chat window that refuses to dock, harvest work at the winery, travel fatigue, or a joke before the subject fully arrives. Then the conversation locks onto a question and keeps turning it from different angles. Episodes range from lunar anomalies to dragon kings, Sacsayhuaman, flood traditions, prehistoric pillars, Giza pyramid scans, and precision artifacts from Egypt. The moon episode works through reports of crater glows, flashes, color changes, and central peaks that seem to disappear. The dragon material brings in Professor Shy for a run through serpent-like rulers, fish-headed figures, scales, helmets, goggles, and old stories that may be symbolic, technological, or both. The Peru coverage is unusually tactile. Stones, nubs, jagged retaining walls, and andesite courses are treated as design choices that reveal how ancient builders solved hard physical problems. Egypt sits near the center of the show. The hosts discuss Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Helwan points, limestone cutting, scanned vases, pyramid shafts, spiral structures, and the contested meaning of SAR-based imagery beneath the Giza Plateau. Interviews add another mode, especially with Adam Young of the Artifact Foundation and with Filippo and Armando around pyramid scanning. The editorial stance is not cautious academic summary. It is a curious, sometimes blunt conversation about anomalies, evidence, and the places where standard explanations feel incomplete. That makes the show best for listeners who like ancient-world speculation with real site details, not just vague mystery branding. It is also very much a hangout show. The live chat, recurring sign-offs, technical mishaps, travel stories, and in-jokes are part of the texture. The result is messy in a deliberate way: serious enough to follow data and artifacts, informal enough to let uncertainty stay visible.
Made for: For listeners who like ancient-civilization mysteries, archaeological anomalies, mythic traditions, lunar oddities, and long conversational reasoning. It especially fits people who enjoy field anecdotes and technical details without a polished lecture tone.
What sets it apart: The show mixes hands-on travel reports from places like Peru and Egypt with live, banter-heavy analysis of scans, stonework, artifacts, and old astronomical reports. Its strength is the blend of informal chemistry and obsessive attention to physical details.
Two brothers explore the mysteries of the ages, the ancients, and the modern day.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ancient mysteries become concrete through artifact comparisons, field observations and conversations that test how far unusual evidence can reasonably carry a claim.
Brothers of the Serpent puts ancient sites, unusual artifacts and disputed claims into lively conversation, moving between prepared presentations, guest interviews and close discussion of visual evidence.
The moon starts flashing, the tomb stays missing, and your inner armchair archaeologist cancels bedtime.
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A return from Egypt leads into lunar flashes, strange glows, and an open-ended look at missing shadows.
Brothers of the Serpent comes back from a month in Egypt with its attention fixed on old Moon observations and what they might suggest. The discussion moves from reports in 1947 into the 1951-60 run, circling flashes near craters, reddish glows that held for fifteen minutes, and…
A loose, curious conversation about dragon rulers, serpent imagery, and ancient details that invite bigger theories.
Dragons and Dragon Kings brings the hosts back to dragons and serpents with Professor Shy, narrowing the focus to dragons imagined as rulers, founders, and builders of society.
Sacsayhuaman becomes a lively mix of ancient engineering, possible puma-shaped stonework, and questions the hosts keep turning over.
A live return from five weeks in the Andes turns Sacsayhuaman into a grounded tour of stonework, retaining walls, and the stubborn construction questions around the site.
A measured exploration of possible stoneworking links between early Anatolian sites and Egypt.
Stoneworking becomes the route into a larger question: might Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and Egypt share more than a loose resemblance? Kyle Allen revisits a presentation on stoneworking technology, with archaeological research, the Helwan point, limestone carving and the immense…
A pyramid-scan interview works best when its scientists separate vivid renderings from structures still awaiting exploration.
Italian scientists Filippo and Armando discuss the pyramid scans through SAR data, satellite detections, and renderings that point toward possible underground structures.
A Turkey-focused live mystery tour where Nemrut's missing tomb meets geophysical investigation.
Turkey shapes this live single-episode review as Brothers of the Serpent and Uncharted X move through Nemrut, Sogmatar, Katrats, and the Phrygian Valley.
A careful, speculative look at the Helwan point and possible stoneworking links between Gobekli Tepe and Egypt.
Kyle Allen returns to his New York presentation with a patient look at possible links among Gobekli Tepe, Egypt, stone vessels, carved pillars and bedrock cutting.
Colorado stories with patient civic context.
Space ambition, argued from the inside.
Science and nature journalism, read aloud by Kelly Taylor.
Kyle brings his “Pillars of Civilization” presentation back from a New York event.
Brothers of the Serpent and UnchartedX go live to explore the cart ruts and ancient mysteries of Turkey's Phrygian Valley.
The Brothers of the Serpent podcast hosts Michael Collins from Wandering Wolf to discuss his travels and experiences, including a recent trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Brothers of the Serpent opens with space weather news on the FCC's authorization of Reflect Orbital's mirror satellite, which would cast a five-kilometer patch of light as bright as the full moon.
Brothers of the Serpent Episode #372 opens with a return from Egypt, including a two-week tour, a six- or seven-day extension, Sharm el-Sheikh, and a stop at KV5.
Brothers of the Serpent Episode #371, 'Dragons and Dragon Kings - Dragons Part 2,' is a live Zoom talk with Professor Shy about rulers, serpent lineage, and dragon kings.
["Brothers of the Serpent's Peru return episode centers on Sacsayhuaman, where Ben and Kyle talk about roughly 20,000 feet of seams and limestone blocks with calcite layers.", "Ben, Kyle, Chris, and Rogelio come up in the travel recap, with Chris as the beer runner and Rogelio as the guide describing the Chinkana excavation at Sacsayhuaman.", "The show also pauses on Arthur Posnansky's Tiwanaku volumes, found in mint condition on a Bolivian restaurant bookshelf outside Tiwanaku.", "From Cusco, Ollantaytambo, and the Urubamba River bridge to geopolymer, acid treatment, and vibration-lapping ideas, the episode keeps returning to how the stones were actually made."]
The hosts discuss upcoming travel to Peru and archaeological sites like Sacsayhuaman, while reflecting on their current location and wine bottling schedule.
The hosts of Brothers of the Serpent Podcast discuss technical issues with OBS and welcome listeners to a live stream about aliens, black holes, and harvest.
“Where are all the frickin burn?” and why are there so few stone-working tools at Gobekli Tepe?
Filippo Biondi says SAR data can image "up to two kilometers" underground with "20 seconds" of acquisition.
Adam Young, founder of the Artifact Foundation, discusses precision in ancient Egyptian artifacts and his work scanning them.
The Brothers of the Serpent podcast introduces guest Karoly Poka to discuss scanning ancient Egyptian artifacts with the Artifact Foundation.
The host introduces guest Michael Collins from Wandering Wolf, discussing his recent travels and the upcoming topic of lost megaliths in Peru.
Ben and Russ from UnchartedX and Brothers of the Serpent discuss mysteries of Turkey including Nemrut, Sogmatar, and cart ruts in the Phrygian valley.