Ancient Engineering That Kept One of the Driest Cities Wet
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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2017
- The ancient Nabataeans' water storage and irrigation system was a marvel of engineering. It was the biggest reason they were able to thrive in the harsh desert for hundreds of years.
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Best of all, it was a sustainable system with no burden on ecology and environment.
Yes! and water rich with minerals!
That’s not very capitalistic of you. We’ll have none of that thinking
Yet the pipes were produced by man from nature, thus the environment..... you forgot a few steps there but hey....
@@RTStx1 ._______.
So true, so true
I'm amazed by the resiliance and innovation of ancient people's, I truly believe that some of these civs would never live in today's world
wish this was more detailed, like how did the cistern collect those winter rain
By,,, raining..
@@outwiththem but did they carve them or....
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I may be mistaken, but assuming it was gravity fed then I imagine it was simply dug at the most efficient intersection of local catchment/highest point.
The placement of the cistern is more a feat of geological surveyance than engineering.
I love this video! What brilliance! I wish we had a system like this today, I bet that water tasted good! Makes me thirsty!
IT STARTED!!!! AT THE HILLTOP!!!! OH THE DRAMA!!!!
Truly amazing
Lucky to observe such videos....collecting water and storing water from rain is very attractive interstung important beautifull
incredible.
amazing video
MORE! I WANNA KNOW MORE!
usernamenaw
buy to support the show :) that's the trick. and only seems fair tbh.
you wanna know more ? watch the link in my reply to this video .
great video
awesome!
more on ancient ingenuity
that's pretty friggin cool, man
If you think that's cool check out the qanats, an even more impressive feat. Plus they had passive cooling for their buildings and much of the city was underground. Such a remarkable place.
I wonder if the swimming pool constantly had new water entering and leaving like the tides. Otherwise it would become contaminated.
true, good thought.
this was part of a very long process of development, and it is brilliant!
Without electricity or power generation of any kind. What amazes me is there are things ancient peoples accomplished we cannot replicate today. Come to think of it, what amazes me even more is we have multiple examples of sheer brilliance throughout history we can replicate, yet we do not, the majority of which come from Romans. Not just in what we should do but what we should avoid. There are some spooky parallels between the fall of Rome and the United States of today.
power was generated by gravity
Wtf i want to know more about how these people lived
Brodie Wheldrake okay I want you to type (the people of thamud and trust me you will get all the info you need )
CounterStrike I can't speak for Mohammed. I can only speak for myself and so I say 🖕
you want to know more ? watch the link in my reply to this video .
The whole place was different back then..just like the grand canyon also was full of water ...latterly a gaint empty lake ..
Good intro. Is this a trailer? Where’s the rest of the show? How can people outside of the US watch it? 🤷🏼♂️
These kinds of practices were all over the world, including Southwest Indigenous of USA, and the Indigenous of South America all the way to Asian cultures.... probably other places that simply have not been found or understood. If a person simply watches water after a rain.... a person gets ideas.... and with help... anything can be done!
Perhaps CA should send Governor Moonbeam to Petra so that CA could learn how to store water. CA has about 840 miles of coastline and NOT ONE desalinization plant. Not one new dam.
@Sherri Daniel--Run for office.
Really!! ha ha
who would've thought an open canal would be an inefficient way to transport water long distance in an arid region?
Wow
You don't drink , you die .
is desalinated water some kind of energy storage if we produce it with surplus solar energy? 🤔or would it be the wrong term?
if someone is watering a field to let plants grow, is this putting energy to the field or is water just an activator for the plants to take the ingredience from the ground and the sunlight?
i mean, if we would pump seawater to a higher level and make energy with turbines this would be a classic enery storage
but desalination? I am just a Thinker not a Knower 🤗
we don't have a water generation problem, we have a water waste problem. The first step is to regulate ag and commercial uses of water. Desalination is already extraordinarily energy intensive and so pumping it would make it infeasible. The way to go is dew catchers which you can find plenty of examples on youtube.
363 CE
And people are wondering how they can get water now adays..SMFH
The Nabataeans???
Are we still doing this??
I'm confused.
@@momo-cchi5978 that's ok ... History will always be a little opaque! Can you see a group of nomads jumping off their donkeys with their primitive tools with little history of architectural prowess completing a 12 km long city?
Show me where they were before they moved here?
Qasr al Farid one of theirs too?
Nomadic sheep herders strategically positioned on trade routes and they don't even make the charts in the bible.
Success can come to any people but somebody else was involved when geometrically perfect cities were carved out of bedrock.
Arabs didn't get to India till the 7th century. in Qur'an Thamud is the only reference to nabataeans and God sorted them out with an earthquake.
"The people of the Rock also rejected the messengers. We gave them Our revelations, but they turned away from them. They used to carve homes in the mountains, feeling secure. But the Shout struck them in the morning. "
٨٠ وَلَقَدْ كَذَّبَ أَصْحَابُ الْحِجْرِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ
٨١ وَآتَيْنَاهُمْ آيَاتِنَا فَكَانُوا عَنْهَا مُعْرِضِينَ
٨٢ وَكَانُوا يَنْحِتُونَ مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا آمِنِينَ
Bit of a mixed bag these Nabataeans!
Is there one ounce of proof that suggests the nomads didn't simple find these carvings and squat? Show me the tools?
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The Nabateans were probably a group of city dwelling Semitic people that had little to do with the Arabs. And they didn't live that far from Egypt and the Greeco sphere, so they must've picked up a trick or two from their neighbours when it comes to architecture. Also, there's a lot of similar, albeit less impressive, rock structures all over the deserts of Arabia so... it is also a possibility that Petra was created by either the Arabs or their ancestors and they simply lost that knowledge over time. Maybe? 🤷🏾♂️
@@momo-cchi5978 you may be correct but the page should be blank then. Yet to be filled. I just think these space fillers are misleading.
This type of architectural work seems to be more prevalent in the Americas and India. I realize a step can evolve in different parts of the world and therefore logically a pyramid might possibly but there are too many of these 'coincidental' anomalies around the world. Usually when a 12km architectural wonder is not in the history books it has been most likely removed from the history books or it predates them.
Putting on my tinfoil hat for a second, and it's Just a personal observation, I can't help but notice Petra is invisible from the sky!
Another characteristic I always check is it's height above flood level. 880 m .
Anyhoot you can't age rock so putting a date on Petra is quite tricky. There's a cave near my house with evidence of fires been lit, tobacco and some drinking vessels too. The 'cavemen' in this case are all in the local tennis club but like the cave as a gathering point. They are not cavemen though! They never lived in the cave!
Food for thought ... I have given up this rubbish btw. 99% of people too happy to accept what ever their history teacher handed them. I think there is more to this site than meets the eye. That's the only message I'm leaving!
@@momo-cchi5978 they spoke arabic vernacularly… aramaic was only used for business.
where is it?
Badhon Ebrahim it's between madina and mecca. ..type the people of thamud
Badhon Ebrahim pretty sure its in Jordan
Badhon Ebrahim it is in jordan , my country, in the middle east
Jordan....
@@MohamedAhmed-bh6ht
Someone doesn't know their geography 😂
Iraq and Jordan area.. Nabateans..
4 inches of annual rainfall.
Now where's the water?
Why is there no water now tho
just what i was thinking
Looks like the pipes have deteriorated meaning it’s seeping out and furthermore over time climate naturally changes so it’s likely that the water just stopped falling in this area, or at least less often likely leading to its abandonment
The main source were qanats which needed to be regularly maintained to avoid siltation (getting clogged up).
Nabataeans were a nomadic Bedouin tribes that roamed the Arabian Desert. Where did they have picked up the skills to do such precise engineering? Which high-impact rock-cutting technologies did the use? Why do the tool marks resemble those made by a powered mechanism?
They settled on that area.
1. They were traders rich from the spice trade, who concentrated their wealth into a fortress than then controlled the local trade routes. They bought or traded for the skills that they needed.
2. Standard iron age tools of the time.
3. Form follows function.
shout out to the (nabateans) the original "dunes Arakis fremen"
Why all that things are not working in our time?show us example with water flowing from top down to the valley?
Earthquakes. Erosion. Time. Money. Maintenance.
But, absolutely, that would be really cool. I imagine they could at least make a section work for the tourists. It might be too expensive and damaging, though.
Send this to those sad commercials that want 10 cents to raise money for those unfortunate regions.
Their story detail in quran.
*Humanity has declined ever since*
Ali Makaveli
not really. you wouldn't be able to be here if it had
No Abrahamic religions back then, limiting human freedom
@@SSchithFoo Abrahamic religions built the world's greatest empires, lol what are you rambling about. If it weren't for those religions you'd still be sacrificing babies and abandoning em in the forest, oh wait you kinda still do that, it's called abortion.
Mm
Then the Italians go all over the place saying "The Romans created the aqueduct". Liars, Dam Liars..
If you are familiar with Roman Empire history you know they say Romulus and Remus, two boys,
were raised by a female wolf, with the nine hills of Rome also being part of this creation myth.
The Roma were the only tribe living around the Mediterranean who used that salt water for irrigation.
After many generations they couldn't grow enough food and began raiding other tribes, how it began.
We've found an ancient Assyrian Aqueduct built by Sargon II of Assyria recently, Debunking this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
sobhan allah on dirait la ville de mecque , selon histoire de la meque. Eau partout . la ville de la meque les chameaux des commercants reposent .
lol at a flamer spending time in the middle east
Question is?
Where GOING THE CLOUD IS??,.. IT'S NO LONGER EXIST?,..
But they killed the vegetation to cook food, which expanded the deserts. Overpopulation kills all progress
How the fuck the voice over speak?
Ancient Egypt ( Kemet) wasn't always desert land.
Ancient people left magnificent things on the earth for us to marvel about. What have we got to show for today? Just crappy skyscrapers, iPhones and endless piles of litter. It's sad...
+Nick Making Drinkable water out if shit and piss is nothing compared to that, because it exists in the same time in which Handheld Computers and Great Iron Buildings exist.
Although, we do have the largest particle accelerator... Even though it may destroy the universe one day, I'd say it the best we have to show.
+Penguinssss Why do we have clean extremely smooth sterile surgical tools? Why don't we use the ingenious methods of the ancients?!
People like you make me sad. Aren't skyscrapers a big deal? Yeah, we don't have pyramids, but they didn't have - planes, GPS, the internet at their fingertips, cars, washing machines, fridges... you name it! All of these things make your life easier.
And a fckn Large Hadron Collider will not destroy Earth let alone the universe. Stop with all this smart ass shit you don't know nothing about.
no wonder why they were able to make so many babies
Dumb Comment I wanted that lifestyle! I'm sick of this modern society and we need more money to have babies.
you're not expected to live longer than 40years
I sense ancient aliens have given a helping hand to construct aqua-ducts. Got to have those aliens participation.
😅
wag wan lads
sym gabriel
This geography hw do be dead tho
They drink water that taste like soil
Azto this people were intelligent trust me the quran explains it all ..type the people of thamud
ur ancestors did the same too. and they were more healthier than u.
@@azto9374 You never tasted water from springs it taste better than tap water and it is cold as well.
@@azto9374 do you realize you are a SJW against SJW's?
Stop getting these guys to generate fake excitement
or... conventional wisdom is completely wrong
The Garden of Eden is at the center, GET THERE.
This narrator is annoying 😬