7 Ancient Technologies Far Too Advanced For Their Time

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  • @WATOP_VIDEO
    @WATOP_VIDEO  Před 3 lety +867

    Enjoy the video friends!

    • @robertopesenti1173
      @robertopesenti1173 Před 3 lety +7

      0.33...You enjoy the italian coffee released by the italian De Longhi coffee machine!! But a true espresso coffee should be much less in quantity. It should be much more concentrated.

    • @commissargab6181
      @commissargab6181 Před 3 lety +3

      You're underrated
      I think

    • @your_mother849
      @your_mother849 Před 3 lety +6

      I am frem Egypt sory if me English bad I can the onely undresttand English

    • @AnilKumar-uv5bf
      @AnilKumar-uv5bf Před 3 lety +1

      Yes sir

    • @dudesjir74
      @dudesjir74 Před 3 lety

      💏 😍 😍

  • @castleromeo3150
    @castleromeo3150 Před 3 lety +3600

    The invention of shovel was really ground breaking

  • @Hephzibah...
    @Hephzibah... Před 3 lety +1336

    We tend to underestimate people from ancient times more than we should.

    • @Timothymogger.
      @Timothymogger. Před 3 lety +13

      Ancient people had powers the followers of lord god jesus christ

    • @Aaronit0
      @Aaronit0 Před 3 lety +132

      @@Timothymogger. How is that any relevant? Pretty sure the Egyptians were not Christians. Same goes for Greeks, Romans, Celts, Chinese, etc etc. In fact a vast majority of humanity wasn't Christian for the vast majority of history.

    • @Timothymogger.
      @Timothymogger. Před 3 lety +12

      @@Aaronit0 not about christian any one who believe in god can have that power but he will decide if your worthy to take it by prayer

    • @Timothymogger.
      @Timothymogger. Před 3 lety +6

      @@Aaronit0 also he said ancient people not Egyptian

    • @Timothymogger.
      @Timothymogger. Před 3 lety +1

      @@Aaronit0 btw wats your religion if you have one that is

  • @jdmz1103
    @jdmz1103 Před 2 lety +761

    This was cool and all, but how do I get one of those hologram hand thingys

    • @vonRubbentroph
      @vonRubbentroph Před 2 lety +43

      Idk man but looks so expensive to me

    • @blanco0949
      @blanco0949 Před 2 lety +56

      Probably a green screen ngl

    • @Not_Devilish
      @Not_Devilish Před 2 lety +27

      That was just on my mind and I accidentally clicked the comments and saw this 😂

    • @sheahingan
      @sheahingan Před 2 lety +7

      It’s a holographic projection funded by the government bc that hit of teh video was scientists

    • @KingRT5
      @KingRT5 Před 2 lety +4

      Why was this my question too? I here do we get one?

  • @Catseye189
    @Catseye189 Před rokem +39

    0:41 crossbow in China
    2:11 hydraulic hammer China
    3:15 big ass boat, Ancient Egypt
    5:03 battle chariot, Egypt
    6:23 pulley system Archimedes
    7:27 swiss army knife, sort of
    8:35 saws for rocks, Egypt
    You are welcome!

    • @scorps192
      @scorps192 Před rokem

      You're welcome. Not you are.
      Spamhead

  • @Steventheknight
    @Steventheknight Před 3 lety +876

    Wow the first vending machine cool!

  • @aarondesilva7456
    @aarondesilva7456 Před 3 lety +426

    We jus not gonna talk about the hologram glove kol

    • @maiomango
      @maiomango Před 3 lety +13

      Its fake. (Hope i dont get wooshed)

    • @shmurai06
      @shmurai06 Před 3 lety +5

      @@maiomango no

    • @Aaadapro
      @Aaadapro Před 3 lety +11

      @@maiomango r/wooosh
      I am kidding

    • @specagent999
      @specagent999 Před 3 lety +20

      imagine full scale holograms that can fake an alien invasion in broad daylight

    • @garrv7182
      @garrv7182 Před 3 lety +7

      @@maiomango r/woosh
      I ain't

  • @Kuhmuhnistische_Partei
    @Kuhmuhnistische_Partei Před 2 lety +88

    Those repeating crossbows were able to shoot fast, but their drawweight was really weak. So the crossbow itself would not kill anyone and it was also very short-ranged. They had to use poison to make them deadly and it was primarly a self-defense weapon for untrained people. So it wasn't really superior to later medieval crossbows and bows which had a lot more reach and force. But there was a cool story about a guy with the name Yang Xuan in 180 AD. According to the story he managed to defeat rebel forces by wagons full of lime. The wind blew the lime in the direction of the rebel forces and it blinded them. Then they set rags on the tails of the horses of some other wagons in fire so the horses would run at the enemy without the need for a driver and there were mounted crossbows on the wagons with a mechanism connected to the wheels so the crossbows were basically automated and shot randomly. And the rebel forces tried to shoot back, but just wounded each other. But it really sounds just like a tale without much evidence that it was true. But at least it shows that they were able to imagine a mechanism like that.

    • @goldwolf0606
      @goldwolf0606 Před 2 lety

      I dare you to back up your claim and stand in front of one of those automatic cross bows manned by an untrained fool and prove to us that they weren’t deadly… dumb azz…
      (Warning* Do not try this at home or anywhere for that matter 😂)

    • @tclanjtopsom4846
      @tclanjtopsom4846 Před rokem

      I have a replica of a repeating cross bow and it would 100% kill you, I think you should re-evaluate your Theory. Repeating cross bows where also used in the fictional era to defend Gondor, perhaps you were thinking of those ones. 😄

    • @breakfast917
      @breakfast917 Před rokem

      Was you there aswell ?

  • @wittwittwer1043
    @wittwittwer1043 Před 2 lety +246

    NO invention is "ahead of its time;" it enters the "time-stream" as a sometimes stunning innovation by a (usually) brilliant thinker or artificer. Then, it changes society, often in dramatic ways.

    • @QuackersMcCrackers
      @QuackersMcCrackers Před 2 lety +23

      Daaaaaaamn. This comment is really ahead of it's time O:

    • @WanderingYankee
      @WanderingYankee Před 2 lety +14

      An invention arrives precisely when it means to.

    • @MoNehNeh17
      @MoNehNeh17 Před 2 lety +2

      obviously……
      figure of speech: noun
      a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.

    • @wittwittwer1043
      @wittwittwer1043 Před 2 lety +6

      @@MoNehNeh17 wrote, in regard to my comment on "ahead of its time": "figure of speech: noun
      a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect." ........ Like many figures of speech, it is a tired-out, meaningless cliché, and its effect is neither rhetorical nor "vivid;" it is trivial and unimaginative.

    • @kentbenedict2005
      @kentbenedict2005 Před 2 lety

      Wow, well said.

  • @ibcasalin9590
    @ibcasalin9590 Před 3 lety +685

    Those people used their minds to think...unlike us who rely on history

  • @animedaisuke4802
    @animedaisuke4802 Před 3 lety +254

    I love that this channel doesn't click bait its viewers.

    • @carriegrasty8852
      @carriegrasty8852 Před 2 lety +18

      But he does click bait

    • @Grasshopper7649
      @Grasshopper7649 Před 2 lety +1

      @@carriegrasty8852 He was joking

    • @hfcxhf3
      @hfcxhf3 Před 2 lety +1

      @@carriegrasty8852 it does? I've watched alot of videos and... I've never been click baited.

    • @shadowdeslaar
      @shadowdeslaar Před 2 lety +1

      Half of these aren’t even ground breaking. Chi-Ko-Knu WAS not as powerful as a gun. It had a weak draw weight. Otherwise you physically couldn’t cram it down fast enough if it was a heavy powerful crossbows
      Building a large ship that didn’t do anything is NOT amazing.
      It is awe inspiring. But not history changing.
      Chariots where easily defeated by Roman Infantry. It is called tactics.

    • @indigenousaquarian3112
      @indigenousaquarian3112 Před 2 lety

      Lol 😂

  • @IamKlaus007
    @IamKlaus007 Před rokem +21

    All this proves is that human intelligence has been around for a long long time.

    • @rob5197
      @rob5197 Před rokem +1

      Stupidity even longer

  • @psubramaniachetty659
    @psubramaniachetty659 Před 2 lety +7

    In South India there are large number of temples built by chera chola Pandian kings . One such temple is in Thanjavur . A single stone weighing hundreds of kilos was placed by building a slop way four or five kilometres long . It is called the Pragadeeswara temple. From Burma huge chunks of teak woods were throughen into the ocean . Due ocean currents they were transported to southern India. Souther Indian kings conquered the Indonesia and surrounding areas and built many temples one is Angorwat . Indian kings did had a big ships sailed from India to Indonesia and srilanka Buddishsam was spread to other countries .

  • @thehighlander333
    @thehighlander333 Před 3 lety +483

    “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”
    Ecclesiastes 1:9

    • @PamiiG
      @PamiiG Před 3 lety +37

      The ps5 is new under the sun
      Update: I said this 5 months ago and don’t remember it, I wake up today to see some people getting offended about it… today’s a new day under the sun, this update/comment is new under the sun, I took a new piss under the sun. The day that I don’t take a piss will be new, I’ll update you in 5 more months😂

    • @spectate0074
      @spectate0074 Před 3 lety +8

      @@PamiiG is it really though?

    • @Timothymogger.
      @Timothymogger. Před 3 lety +5

      @@PamiiG yeah ?????????????

    • @Timothymogger.
      @Timothymogger. Před 3 lety +1

      Who said this

    • @spectate0074
      @spectate0074 Před 3 lety +6

      @@PamiiG Its realy not new. Its a gaming console we have those already.

  • @kurtdemesa3388
    @kurtdemesa3388 Před 3 lety +48

    "It was supposed to demonstrate the power and wealth of Egypt, and obviously, the amount of wood they have to spare"
    Man, that one got me hahahha

    • @Hambone571
      @Hambone571 Před 3 lety +1

      Sounds impossible. How’d they support all the (4,000} rowers and troops, food, weapons, etc...

    • @FloChee
      @FloChee Před 3 lety +1

      You should get out more.

    • @karamelflan1838
      @karamelflan1838 Před 3 lety +1

      @@FloChee there's covid outside

    • @FloChee
      @FloChee Před 3 lety +1

      @@karamelflan1838 you are absolutely right.

    • @michaelbonds6881
      @michaelbonds6881 Před 3 lety +1

      Ptolemaic Egypt included Syria and Lebanon and part of turkey, plenty of wood

  • @cristalmyth09
    @cristalmyth09 Před 2 lety +12

    People confuse intelligence with time, same with wisdom and age. Humans will always be ahead of their time. All they need will be someone who is capable of bringing it forward.

    • @JacySanjunXiao
      @JacySanjunXiao Před 2 lety +1

      Thats a fact, technology increases when people who is capable are working together and sharing better ideas. Not only that, this era where living will give us advantage because we have internet and books that can help us improve more information, knowledge and system wether if its from the earth, things, humans and etc.

  • @nigelrg1
    @nigelrg1 Před rokem +7

    A fun video. I was actually hoping for major scientific discoveries or technologies that came out of nowhere and could spark explanations anywhere from alien intervention to time travel into the past - you know, really crazy stuff.😂 There definitely were a few - Leucippus/Democritus' atomic theory, around 4-500 BCE comes to mind. It was remarkably accurate, wasn't based on any prior work and wasn't experimentally confirmed and improved until the 19th century.

  • @dinogeek4149
    @dinogeek4149 Před 3 lety +69

    About the thumbnail, ah yes, it was too advanced for the time, the ability to drag rocks

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 3 lety +9

      Find them, cut them, ship them, move them again and place them exactly where you want it.
      Back in the day they were no talkers, they get # done.

    • @GG-jn4dx
      @GG-jn4dx Před 3 lety +1

      Um, rocks that are as heavy as heck. Not a easy feat when there’s no trackers or trucks

    • @ddobefaest9334
      @ddobefaest9334 Před 2 lety +3

      It's called slavery, dudes.

    • @reuben8779
      @reuben8779 Před 2 lety +1

      But the fact that the rope didn't break

    • @jgmagic398
      @jgmagic398 Před 2 lety +1

      Actually, it is a pretty well excepted fact among Egyptologists now that slaves did not build the pyramids. The workers were respected members of society who were paid with meats and spices and worked in three month shifts during the off seasons when they weren't working the farms. They even had tombs and crypts dug for them next to the pyramids.

  • @ethan1036
    @ethan1036 Před 3 lety +187

    The circle in the thumbnail basically circled a random thing

    • @m.b.82
      @m.b.82 Před 3 lety +13

      that was a clue to the quality of this vid

    • @jonathan-zo9nh
      @jonathan-zo9nh Před 3 lety +8

      They circled the planks that make the giant brick slide

    • @ro4eva
      @ro4eva Před 3 lety +2

      Even funnier are videos where they end up circling the whole screen.

  • @notyou1178
    @notyou1178 Před 2 lety +48

    I truly believe that we underestimate “ancient Egypt” and other ancient civilizations. I feel they were by far more advanced that what we believe them to be. I think we are living in time where we are catching up to what used to be on this planet.

    • @goldwolf0606
      @goldwolf0606 Před 2 lety +5

      We have touched the moon, we have air conditioners, iPhones… They put big rocks on top of other big rocks 😂

    • @sergikoms9611
      @sergikoms9611 Před rokem +1

      Egyptians used technology unknown to science

    • @Lachdonin
      @Lachdonin Před rokem +2

      @@sergikoms9611 citation needed.
      Oh, right... You don't have one, because you're wrong.

    • @sergikoms9611
      @sergikoms9611 Před rokem

      @@Lachdonin - Egyptians used technology Unknown to Science.

    • @Lachdonin
      @Lachdonin Před rokem +2

      @@sergikoms9611 a claim made without evidence, can be rejected without evidence.

  • @MeneerHerculePoirot
    @MeneerHerculePoirot Před 2 lety +3

    As a self-contained touring cyclist I gotta say that Roman multi-tool was pretty sweet. Also, there's no doubt in my mind what the shovel was for. lol

  • @ga7853
    @ga7853 Před 3 lety +12

    I can not express enough how great this channel is, superb work, you are the best

  • @lomax343
    @lomax343 Před 3 lety +38

    The Romans also invented a milometer. This was a device fitted to the axle of a cart, which, through the action of a series of cogs, dropped a pebble into a wooden box at the end of each mile. To find out how far the cart had travelled, you just opened the box and counted the pebbles.

  • @sasugashogun
    @sasugashogun Před 2 lety +10

    We will never know what we lost when The Great Library was burned, but I suspect it was a lot. I could never understand, while growing up, why people would do such a thing, but now as an adult, I see people who hate science and think that people with knowledge need to be brought down, instead of the people without knowledge trying to increase their knowledge.

    • @sasugashogun
      @sasugashogun Před 2 lety +2

      @Warren Mandy In my experience, people don't believe the leadership or the wise, and are will destroy knowledge that they don't understand, and then place a leader who is as dumb as they are.

    • @vanhattfield8292
      @vanhattfield8292 Před 2 lety

      Written pun;ications would have contained information regarding the government, and religions and the culture of the country or people being conquered. To make it easier for locals to assimulate into the ways of the conquerors, everything from the past would be wiped out which was fairly effective. Sad but true....

  • @quacker3588
    @quacker3588 Před 2 lety +4

    me just fascinated in the hologram glove like how did they make that

  • @astrophile4466
    @astrophile4466 Před 3 lety +20

    Hi Derek! 08:08 Folks say the world is so small. Good to see you there.

  • @kerilososcar2523
    @kerilososcar2523 Před 3 lety +5

    I'm Egyptian lived in Egypt all my life and still do and u made me feel so proud

    • @1Kalvin_
      @1Kalvin_ Před 3 lety +1

      nice a fellow African

    • @1Kalvin_
      @1Kalvin_ Před 3 lety +1

      @@uc49842 no but he's associated with it automatically by being Egyptian so that's pretty cool

    • @kerilososcar2523
      @kerilososcar2523 Před 3 lety +1

      @@uc49842 no but at least my Ancestral made the oldest and the biggest civilization in the world .by the way what your ancestral did ?

    • @kerilososcar2523
      @kerilososcar2523 Před 3 lety +2

      @@1Kalvin_ thank u

  • @JegenthRaj
    @JegenthRaj Před 2 lety +7

    i've always hated the idea of aliens helping the ancient civilization in building giant building back in the day. we've always underestimated our ancestors. they were brilliant in inventing stuffs like this and they had their own 'technology'.

    • @pyhead9916
      @pyhead9916 Před 2 lety +1

      Thousands of people 2,000 years ago knew more about the objects in the sky than you do! So, who's the dumb one?

  • @ericarose1979
    @ericarose1979 Před 2 lety

    Lots of previous inventions I had never seen before, just keeps getting better. From amazon car hop trays.

  • @spex9262
    @spex9262 Před 3 lety +7

    I’m addicted to these videos

  • @vincenttooles1415
    @vincenttooles1415 Před 2 lety +102

    That small shovel In that Roman knife was definitely for coke 😂✌🏽

  • @uekiguy5886
    @uekiguy5886 Před 2 lety +5

    btw -- In regards to the Egyptian toothless, copper stone-cutting saws: they sprinkled sand into the groove which provided the cutting abrasive.

    • @goldwolf0606
      @goldwolf0606 Před 2 lety

      Wrong…. Aliens used lazers and forced stupid humans as slaves to mine the gold. They left after they took most of the gold. And today, dumb asses like you think the Egyptians cut stones the size of houses With sand… go try it and see if you can built a perfect pyramid with just sand as your blade 😂 !!!

  • @jeffmejia3556
    @jeffmejia3556 Před 2 lety +7

    The Moors who occupied Iberia (present day Spain) in the 8th century had indoor plumbing and is said to have had hot and cold water faucets. They even had paved roads that were lighted at night.
    Primitive people weren’t so primitive.

  • @wavemaker2077
    @wavemaker2077 Před 3 lety +44

    Here is what I know, the invention of the saw was a cutting edge technology during its time. The invention of the pick-axe was a groundbreaking technology then.

    • @angiecat845
      @angiecat845 Před 3 lety +5

      I'm gonna tell my Mom this one. I will credit you for the jokes Wavemaker. Brilliant 😆😆.

    • @ddobefaest9334
      @ddobefaest9334 Před 2 lety +1

      @@angiecat845 I'll credit you for pointing out that it was a joke. That was so subtle, I just assumed it was another random comment that people tend to make. Nice.

    • @kiandemonteverde4121
      @kiandemonteverde4121 Před 2 lety

      Yes

    • @vanhattfield8292
      @vanhattfield8292 Před 2 lety

      And aviation tech was something that was over their heads...

    • @jimmarvel7888
      @jimmarvel7888 Před rokem

      Punneeee🤣

  • @inshorts8794
    @inshorts8794 Před 3 lety +16

    Anything invented in any particular era or time can never be "far too advanced " for that time.

    • @Danuxsy
      @Danuxsy Před 3 lety +2

      Yeah these kind of videos are a bit silly.

    • @Minamee9
      @Minamee9 Před 3 lety

      I require explanations, don't leave me confused

    • @-vaseline-1229
      @-vaseline-1229 Před 3 lety

      @@Minamee9 example, in 1880 they made airpods, which is far too advanced for that time, but it's not.
      Something like that

    • @-vaseline-1229
      @-vaseline-1229 Před 3 lety

      Made = *invented*

    • @1_atlas_7
      @1_atlas_7 Před 2 lety

      Indeed. But, I still get the point of the phrase. That being, “when this item was invented, the relative level of technology at the time didn’t seem to match up with the ingenuity of the new invention” and other equivalent scenarios. But yeah, inherently, nothing can be “ahead” of its time without time travel

  • @PoetGorman
    @PoetGorman Před rokem +4

    I admire your decision to investigate ancient technology with an open mind. Most western scholars faced with sophisticated artifacts, come to the same conclusion the nuns in Catholic school came to whenever we asked a question they couldn’t answer: “It’s a mystery!” Social Darwinism is largely to blame for this "confusion" about old artifacts and history in general. Social Darwinism is a remnant of the now-outdated and simplistic Darwinian theory that makes the assumption that we moderns, simply by virtue of our survival, are the pinnacle of a long, unbroken social and technological evolution of our species, therefore anything and anyone who came before us in time was by definition more primitive than we are. But everything we humans in 2022 know of technology, from antibiotics to internal combustion engines, to airplanes to moon landings to laser surgery to computers, all of it, we developed in less than 2000 years despite serious and sometimes deadly opposition from the Church, perhaps the most powerful cultural institution of that period. Modern humans with their big brains have existed on the planet for 200,000 years at least, which is 100 times longer than our entire period of technological advancement. Our belief that humans discovered fire, made a stone hatchet, invented a bow and arrow, and then cowered in fear of the darkness around a campfire picking their noses for another 199,000 years is so ludicrous as to be insane. Our willingness to cling to Social Darwinism is a definitive testament to our contemporary arrogance, and, ironically, to our sad ignorance of history resulting from that arrogance. Pride may “goeth before a fall,” but it also goeth before a breathtaking level of willful stupidity!

  • @johndodson8464
    @johndodson8464 Před 2 lety +7

    2:25 hydraulic hammer is cool, but its contemporary, the mill stone, was better in many ways. Particularly, a mill stone accurately controls grind consistentcy of the flour.

  • @cigarettesmokingman_GR
    @cigarettesmokingman_GR Před 3 lety +13

    Tessarakonteres (Greek: τεσσαρακοντήρης, "forty-rowed"), or simply "forty" was a very large catamaran galley reportedly built in the Hellenistic period by Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt.
    It was described by a number of ancient sources, including a lost work by Callixenus of Rhodes and surviving texts by Athenaeus and Plutarch.
    The trireme, a three-ranked galley with one man per oar, was the main Hellenistic warship up to and into the 4th century BC.
    At that time, a requirement for heavier ships led to the development of "polyremes" meaning "many oars", applied to "fours"
    (tetre- in Greek, quadri- in Latin) or more and "fives" (penta- in Greek, quinque- in Latin) and later up to "tens", the largest that seems to have been used in battle.
    Larger polyremes were built, with Ptolemy II Philadelphus eventually building a "twenty" and a "thirty", and Ptolemy IV Philopator building the "forty".

  • @thibui335
    @thibui335 Před 3 lety +4

    We appreciate for sharing your great video, Sir
    It’s very interesting to our children
    🥰👏👍

  • @djjam4340
    @djjam4340 Před 2 lety +1

    People from 3022 will call us Ancients.
    3022 Kid: Ancients never experience moon field trips.

  • @Goblinsharkhundredsofthem

    Something interesting was the invention of one of the first '"tanks" in 15th century Europe. It was a armored vehicle pulled by two horses and held a cannon inside of it. The reason for such an invention was so cannon's can be put at an effective range without the crew being killed.

  • @al3x_10m
    @al3x_10m Před 3 lety +6

    so nice to see Derek from Veritasium in your video :3

  • @jackdixon372
    @jackdixon372 Před 3 lety +3

    This channel has such good content

  • @johnriggs3143
    @johnriggs3143 Před 2 lety +26

    Also, the first known irrigation system was used in Egypt. Though Egyptian history and hieroglyphs do not speak so much of their slaves or an Egyptian governor named Zaphnotpanah which was the Biblical Joseph their historical records show he actually existed. He also designed the first water systems for irrigation for food.

    • @vanhattfield8292
      @vanhattfield8292 Před 2 lety +1

      The first pictoral representation was found in Egypt in 3100 b.c. but the first archeological evidence was found in the Jordan Valley and dates back to 6000 b.c.

    • @messianic_scam
      @messianic_scam Před rokem

      stop lying Joseph = Yosef was never ever mentioned in hieroglyphic , biblical mizraim doesn't equal egypt

  • @daviddonaghy6494
    @daviddonaghy6494 Před 2 lety +3

    The repeater crossbow would not have been very accurate because there were no feathers on the bolts. But against packed enemies it must have been very lethal.

  • @fojo24
    @fojo24 Před 3 lety +7

    Tbh I wasn’t paying attention about the Ted but that hologram glove is cool

  • @jalapenoandbanana
    @jalapenoandbanana Před 3 lety +3

    The zudge crossbows are so awesome!

  • @AmBabyWonDoesALittleTrolling

    3:49 im sorry but i don't think a wooden ship can destroy the ENTIRE front wall of a castle in less then a second just by bumping into it

    • @towatchvideos5592
      @towatchvideos5592 Před 2 lety

      Well it also had a metal battering ram at the front, a technique commonly used by the Romans, before cannons and large guns were placed on ships the primary way seafaring battles would take place is by ramming into the opposing force's ship with a reinforced metal front.

    • @AmBabyWonDoesALittleTrolling
      @AmBabyWonDoesALittleTrolling Před 2 lety

      @@towatchvideos5592 ye but in the animation the whole castle just dissolved the moment the ship touched it

    • @towatchvideos5592
      @towatchvideos5592 Před 2 lety

      @@AmBabyWonDoesALittleTrolling well it also depends on the material at the time, if it was solid sandstone like the pyramids then it would not survive, but if it was made out of clay and mud bricks like most buildings at the time were then there would be a pretty good chance in my opinion.

  • @cretudavid8622
    @cretudavid8622 Před 2 lety +13

    "The best archer can shoot 10 arrows "(in a min)
    Lars Anderson : Hold my beer!!

    • @lumauve7807
      @lumauve7807 Před 2 lety +1

      My thoughts exactly!

    • @albundy7133
      @albundy7133 Před 2 lety +5

      Lars Anderson is a performer not a real archer. You have to consider actual field conditions. An actual war bow, actual targets, and actual arrows meant for war and not practice.

    • @cretudavid8622
      @cretudavid8622 Před 2 lety +3

      @@albundy7133 an english warbowman was expected to shoot 16 arrows/min if im correct

    • @Hilman_Faiz
      @Hilman_Faiz Před 2 lety

      @@albundy7133 IIRC he stated that he started learning archery not from young age unlike medieval people.
      He surely can teach young people to be a real archer and can use actual war bow, shooting actual targets, using actual arrows meant for war, and not just practice.
      But I'm not sure he can teach you considering your attitude..

  • @rmisrael
    @rmisrael Před 3 lety +3

    love your content :D

  • @masteryoda2918
    @masteryoda2918 Před 3 lety +92

    Sad - comparing Facts to rumours, and then passing it off as factual.
    This is not acceptable.

    • @benito2056
      @benito2056 Před 3 lety

      Fr

    • @samuelelder9434
      @samuelelder9434 Před 3 lety +8

      I know, its disgusting. I dont know if thay do it on purpose or are just ignorance. Either way I wish thay would stop but thay make to much money from these content farm youtube channels. Its very sad and frustrating

    • @shikiroro
      @shikiroro Před 3 lety +3

      Rumours or Facts it dosent matter it still made me dream

    • @rogerjack9053
      @rogerjack9053 Před 3 lety +6

      welcome to modern "science "

    • @bryann5230
      @bryann5230 Před 3 lety +10

      what’s the problem ? you clicked on it, and watched it ?!? what are you complaining about if you don’t like it just head out.

  • @retluoc
    @retluoc Před rokem +2

    It's true, we underestimate ancient technology. So much of it was lost. If we had kept that knowledge, think of where we'd be today. We've theorized how Stonehenge was built. It was grueling, but quite innovative.😀

  • @onelove8810001
    @onelove8810001 Před 2 lety +15

    It’s amazing how we lost more than we have yet to re designed

    • @vanhattfield8292
      @vanhattfield8292 Před 2 lety

      At what point in history do you feel we had more technology and easier life styles as a result than now? (Asking for a friend)

  • @shanmacugay3391
    @shanmacugay3391 Před 3 lety +9

    I love that you don't clickbait and everything is true! And you make everything entertaining!

  • @renojayputhezath996
    @renojayputhezath996 Před 3 lety +14

    Hey WATOP, what about Indian technology? You should do a part two including that too. Thanks!

    • @mohdadeeb1829
      @mohdadeeb1829 Před 3 lety +2

      Ruler 📏 is from India.

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 3 lety +6

      I know that they preserved much ancient wisdom after the colapse of west roman empire and even developed it further. Later the arabs took over and then the european found this after the conquest of the iberian half island.
      There is even a rumor about working steam engines in 100 A.D. in north india based on the earlier work of heron of alexandria which did amazing things with steam, but they were destroyed in a war.

    • @Minamee9
      @Minamee9 Před 3 lety +3

      @@molybdaen11 That's super interesting, where did you get this information from? I've scoured the internet and found nothing about it.

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Minamee9 There is a old, British documentary series from 2003 called "ancient discoverys".
      And about the steam engines I only read jears before in the pm magazine.
      Might be exaggerated I do not know.
      But Heron of Alexandria existed as well as Indian and Arabic scholars during the "dark ages".
      Much of our modern technology is based on surprisingly old base research.
      Or as Newton stated it: "We are standing on the shoulders of giants".

    • @vanhattfield8292
      @vanhattfield8292 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mohdadeeb1829 It was first used in the Indus Valley Civilization, which was also known for developing the first known system of weights and measures.

  • @wolfgangh.7027
    @wolfgangh.7027 Před 2 lety +14

    This makes me laugh: cutting stone with a copper saw! It is possible, yes, but you need ten saws to cut one stone.

    • @ourtime-downhere6931
      @ourtime-downhere6931 Před 2 lety

      Not if the stone is softer than the copper

    • @onestate7734
      @onestate7734 Před 2 lety

      He said sand and limestone, both are quite soft.

    • @wolfgangh.7027
      @wolfgangh.7027 Před 2 lety +1

      listen to Christopher Dunn! He can give a possible answer to the technology used.
      It works, of course, if you use sand as an abrasive. you must have plenty of time, and plenty of copper.

  • @miroirfbm6288
    @miroirfbm6288 Před 2 lety

    Nice video.. thanks ... Need to know one thing the holographic type projection .. is it graphic or any real device..

  • @DevinCastellanos.
    @DevinCastellanos. Před 3 lety +4

    That item at the end looked like a dab tool. They was already cutting up 3000 years ago and here we are thinking we did something in the modern era lmao

  • @kinyuanjeri
    @kinyuanjeri Před 3 lety +33

    9:03 "nothing is new under the sun" Ecclesiastes 1: 9

    • @davidoman8188
      @davidoman8188 Před 3 lety +3

      this reality doesn't fit with the evolution theory however we know man was created as an intelligent being as he was able to name all the animals.

    • @kinyuanjeri
      @kinyuanjeri Před 3 lety +1

      @@davidoman8188 thank you for affirming this truth

    • @NewBaldwin
      @NewBaldwin Před 3 lety +2

      Nothing is new under the sun only what has been forgotten.
      Ancient Egyptian saying

    • @joshuajames1998
      @joshuajames1998 Před 3 lety

      @@NewBaldwin maybe.. but ancients borrowed sayings and wisdom fron each other.. most did from talmud and torah..

    • @No7thinghere
      @No7thinghere Před 2 lety

      it's night in my country lol

  • @angleofshadow9818
    @angleofshadow9818 Před 2 lety +1

    That "swiss army knife" is clearly a early version of spork. We use very similar equipment in camping/military these days.
    Spoon, fork, knife, toothpick, oyster opener and rapuveitsi(couldn't find english), it's basicly a knife/tool you use to open and eat crabs and lobsters. I might be wrong, but it's the most logical in my mind.

  • @HispleMedia
    @HispleMedia Před rokem

    The animations here are topnotch... I enjoyed every bit... Thank you.

  • @jmichna1
    @jmichna1 Před 3 lety +4

    If you are interested in ancient cartography (map making), check out "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings" by Charles Hapgood. It presents evidence that even prior to the ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks, some peoples had knowledge of, and had explored both Americas, Greenland and Antarctica... and their maps survived through copying and re-copying into the European Middle Ages. Some of these maps seem to show glacial features and land areas no longer present since the end of the last Ice Age, with resultant sea level rise. These unknown ancients also seem to have knowledge of spherical geometry and the accurate size of the Earth. The book can be a bit dry, but it is still an amazing read.

    • @JohnWick_897
      @JohnWick_897 Před 2 lety +1

      Woah! That's interesting. People always credit Greeks and Egyptians for everything. But reality shows different

  • @da_pawz
    @da_pawz Před 3 lety +44

    Like Pablo Picasso said, "“We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years." LoL

    • @guillermotoro2342
      @guillermotoro2342 Před 3 lety +1

      I doubt he said that.
      It would have being more close to "No hemos aprendido nada en doce mil años".

    • @Abyzzol
      @Abyzzol Před 3 lety +2

      @@guillermotoro2342 whos gonna tell him😬

    • @thedumbcat2138
      @thedumbcat2138 Před 3 lety

      @@guillermotoro2342 r/woooooooosh

    • @guillermotoro2342
      @guillermotoro2342 Před 3 lety +1

      @@thedumbcat2138 bruh

    • @guillermotoro2342
      @guillermotoro2342 Před 3 lety +3

      When you dont understand spanish so you think I didnt got the joke:

  • @yatripatel8119
    @yatripatel8119 Před 2 lety +1

    its like history repeating itself again and again. the inventions we forgot we rediscover them and think that its a 'new' discovery. its like a loop.

    • @elysian95
      @elysian95 Před 2 lety +1

      King Solomon once said, there is nothing new under the sun

  • @brett174
    @brett174 Před 2 lety +5

    The sad fact is that everybody who has died, or who dies, takes their knowledge to the grave. No two people have the same knowledge/experience/know how. I think that is the reason knowledge is lost.

    • @justinmiller5280
      @justinmiller5280 Před 2 lety

      I mean...this isn’t really true. Our entire world construct is just knowledge stacked on top of knowledge across generations.

  • @dubravkomatijasevic7312
    @dubravkomatijasevic7312 Před 3 lety +5

    Great video, only one comment. "Many scientific discoveries were made thanks to the desire to defeat the enemy", may be that scientific discoveries are made earlier but only weaponized in wars. May even be that weaponize-ability of some scientific discoveries served as an alibi to pull people in wars. Love the channel

    • @gabrielandradeferraz386
      @gabrielandradeferraz386 Před 2 lety

      Tech only stays if it gets remembered, and to be remembered it needs to be used by a lot of people... in war investments are bigger, as are production runs, more people get to know about the awesome power of iron weapons and how sturdy they are, and then they go to that one blacksmith they served with and go "hey joe you think you can make sum hoes out of that fancy sword-stuff? Im starting to think my wooden one is really bad) and bam iron farming tools take over the world. If it had stayed as just fancy sword-stuff that only one or two people know how to make, or jewelry (which it was used as for quite a while) it might have been forgotten. The best way to make sure something stays in peoples minds, is to fuck some shit up with it.

    • @pyhead9916
      @pyhead9916 Před 2 lety

      "defeat the enemy" - No, it was the desire to survive. That's not the same thing.

  • @theyoungdisciple2925
    @theyoungdisciple2925 Před 3 lety +4

    People think that at those times, people were dumb, they were smarter back then

    • @davidsamudio3899
      @davidsamudio3899 Před 3 lety

      Don't take this as a 100% accuarate fact, but its said that the fire in the library of Alexandria caused humanity progress to delay 3000 years

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 3 lety

      @@davidsamudio3899 It is a famous misconception.
      Surely the wars destroyed much but the most knowledge had already spread to other countries.
      I would call the collapse of the bronce age (famine) and after that the fall of rome (pestilence and politics) as two of the main reasons why we see ancient technology with unbelieving eyes.

  • @milindmm222
    @milindmm222 Před 2 lety +2

    So I m from india and proud of Indian vedas which are even older than the era showed in this video.
    All these had been identified even before Archimedean era in Indian civilisation
    Probably little more knowledge gathering was needed by this video creator to look at right details in past

  • @jasonridgeway128
    @jasonridgeway128 Před 2 lety

    I would say that we are not getting any smarter today. We are just improving on the inventions of ages gone before us. Great video

  • @Xy_1
    @Xy_1 Před 3 lety +6

    2:36
    "And it doesn't need to check their instagram feed", This is where I'm amazed!

  • @TheCaveman080
    @TheCaveman080 Před 3 lety +5

    No wonder Egypt became a desert , the amount of wood they used 🌳🌲

    • @jaymiegg2681
      @jaymiegg2681 Před 3 lety +1

      Not all part of Egypt is a desert. There's also jungle in Egypt because there's water in there, flowing in Nile River. There's also desert in China and India.

    • @TheCaveman080
      @TheCaveman080 Před 3 lety +1

      @@jaymiegg2681 There's deserts all over the world due to deforestation. I was just making a comical comment about the region of the topic discussed 😋, seeing that they used a lot of wood for the massive ship they built.

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 3 lety

      Actually the Nile is the main reason egypt existed at all.
      Like the ganges in india the jearly floods manuered the soil and allowed the people a stable harvest.
      Sadly they forgot what the holy river did for them and polute it and stop it flow with dams.

    • @meli4535
      @meli4535 Před 3 lety

      @@molybdaen11 electricity

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 3 lety

      @@meli4535 unfortunately this dams threaten the stability of the countries around.
      And they have hundreds of km of hot dessert - perfect for solar panels.

  • @pederstrand8349
    @pederstrand8349 Před 2 lety +1

    I'm sure they had quite the go-around inventing the wheel.

  • @parshasis
    @parshasis Před 2 lety +3

    Thanks for sharing such wonderful information. However, missed some of them. The 1st chariot was used in battleground, not in Egypt but in India. History can be re-written! 🙏🏻

    • @sophiasteil473
      @sophiasteil473 Před 2 lety

      Hello parsha dad?

    • @rishabh.5376
      @rishabh.5376 Před 2 lety +1

      @@sophiasteil473 during the battle of mahabharata

    • @zackoophilip
      @zackoophilip Před 2 lety

      He completely missed the Indian history. Many things are still a wonder.

    • @manpreet9766
      @manpreet9766 Před 2 lety

      @@zackoophilip like aeroplanes and nuclear bombs in Mahabharata. Lol

    • @kalithechamp1412
      @kalithechamp1412 Před 2 lety +1

      @@manpreet9766 really?

  • @patozky7517
    @patozky7517 Před 3 lety +16

    Imagine you gave whole life to cut block of a stone

    • @dplumpkin
      @dplumpkin Před 2 lety

      I imagine the half-life given to uranium isotopes.

    • @ourtime-downhere6931
      @ourtime-downhere6931 Před 2 lety

      @@JayRebel not true, the aliens built them

    • @kevintheseacucumber3785
      @kevintheseacucumber3785 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ourtime-downhere6931 no.

    • @ourtime-downhere6931
      @ourtime-downhere6931 Před 2 lety

      @@kevintheseacucumber3785 it's true, they built the pyramids, Stonehenge, Easter island, the Empire State Building, Machu Picchu, The Great Wall of China, Miley Cyrus and the internet.

  • @royalvideos5463
    @royalvideos5463 Před 3 lety +18

    That was funny -"don't need to check their instagram feed". 😂😂

  • @jereykobalt8874
    @jereykobalt8874 Před 2 lety +1

    So let me get this right. One dude with a copper saw cut each giant limestone in near perfect cuts and two guys with a wooden made hand drill build the pyramids? Ok. Got it!

  • @Very_horny_rapists_meiteis

    My biggest question even till now is , "How do the Egyptians build those pyramids during those times,and put every single block on top of another which weight more 1000kgs each?

    • @user-do6uj5nq1v
      @user-do6uj5nq1v Před 2 lety

      Yeah,not even with a lot of servants..it does not make any sense.

    • @indigenousaquarian3112
      @indigenousaquarian3112 Před 2 lety

      They had hidden advanced technology! The man Ed Leedskalnin who built coral castle at Florida said he built it the same way the pyramids were made!!

    • @indigenousaquarian3112
      @indigenousaquarian3112 Před 2 lety

      They built the pyramids with an old ancient acoustic levitation device using electromagnetic frequencies!! Research this & look it up!!

  • @mwaniki9
    @mwaniki9 Před 3 lety +5

    Watching this makes me wanna dog more about Davinci, Nikola Tesla and annunaki

  • @starcrafter13terran
    @starcrafter13terran Před 3 lety +11

    You forgot the ancient batteries in clay pots.

  • @manolispapadopoulos3692

    There is another spectacular machine attributed to Archimedes: The Anticyhtera mechanism, the firts analog computer / calculator. I guess it should be added as eighth.

  • @Cosmosis462
    @Cosmosis462 Před 2 lety

    Nice video! But you forgot a little detail, they threw sand down on the limestone and grinded it with the copper saws in order to cut through

  • @penguinart5196
    @penguinart5196 Před 3 lety +11

    My eyes are wide open

  • @dewaynemoore314
    @dewaynemoore314 Před rokem +1

    I just came back from Egypt; and learned that coating sandstone with water, makes it alot easier to dig into; according to a Bedouin, who explained how they can dig out a tomb, in just a couple of weeks, for a family member, that just died.
    .

  • @emmanuelokenwa67
    @emmanuelokenwa67 Před 2 lety

    Ancient Chinese army gangsta until gunpowder was discovered.

  • @owenmills3517
    @owenmills3517 Před 3 lety +51

    So basically ancient Chinese were the dwemer from Skyrim, making insanely advanced technology while other races were hitting each other with sticks.

    • @ninnikins4768
      @ninnikins4768 Před 3 lety +3

      Yes

    • @Intranetusa
      @Intranetusa Před 3 lety +2

      @@rocky_wang The Zhuge crossbow was actually invented during the Warring States period and then later misattributed to Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms period. The Han Chinese were probably not actually close to extinction either, because the "recorded" drop in population was also heavily due to the lack of central government and the lack of reliable census takers.

    • @Intranetusa
      @Intranetusa Před 3 lety +3

      No, there were advanced civilizations from all over the world. Egypt, ancient Greece, Northern China, MesoAmerica, Mesopotamia, etc

    • @Intranetusa
      @Intranetusa Před 3 lety

      @@rocky_wang Source on which part, the repeating crossbow or the recorded of the population drop during 3K?

    • @Intranetusa
      @Intranetusa Před 3 lety

      @@rocky_wang First of all, you didn't provide a credible source for any of your claims so it's strange that you want my sources when you didn't provide any for your own claims. Your claims are also hypothesis if you don't have any credible sources. Second, the idea that Zhuge Liang invented the ChoKoNu is folklore, and historians often state that the early Jin's census study immediately after the end of the Three Kingdoms lacked sufficient resources and/or was poorly implemented and missed a significant number of households. See sources in the next comments.

  • @tvoommen4688
    @tvoommen4688 Před 3 lety +5

    After 2000 years, historians of that day will say : Ancient people had invented things which they called aircrafts, nuclear bombs etc.......They were able to do that after observing things in nature like birds, volcanoes...............

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 3 lety

      And nobody would believe them, even after discovering the remains of steel alloys in high orbit :)

  • @tysonjones8251
    @tysonjones8251 Před 2 lety

    Best desk made documentary I've seen,narrative is a little obnoxious but pretty informative and accurate lol

  • @vincentchase3100
    @vincentchase3100 Před 3 lety +41

    Dark fans be like: "Everything is connected."

  • @lauramahnken5549
    @lauramahnken5549 Před 3 lety +8

    just found your channel between ZeFrank and WATOP, my brain is on happy information overload

  • @trueaussie9230
    @trueaussie9230 Před rokem

    I never cease to be amazed by the arrogance of people who don't realise / refuse to accept how intelligent and inventive humans have been even since before recorded history.

  • @jovy105
    @jovy105 Před 2 lety +2

    Funny how they build roads and buildings without any kind of modern technology and last for thousands of years, now we "claim" to have the best modern technology and buildings and roads don't last even 5 years.

  • @EleikoEU
    @EleikoEU Před 3 lety +7

    8:08 Hey Derek!!!!

  • @prehistoricpaddock9013
    @prehistoricpaddock9013 Před 3 lety +63

    God: So how advanced do you want to be??
    CHINA: YES

  • @mauricio8983
    @mauricio8983 Před rokem

    Truly enjoyable. Thank you.

  • @larkefedifero
    @larkefedifero Před 2 lety +2

    Amazing - all of those ancient technologies shown in "Indiana Jones" really COULD have been designed and implemented the way they're shown in the films! :-O
    Same thing with the ancient Aztec / Mayan / Incan technologies and designs often associated with the "lost" city of Atlantis! 8-O

    • @pyhead9916
      @pyhead9916 Před 2 lety

      "Indiana Jones" was a fictional MOVIE, not a depiction of real life.

  • @JoonBeh
    @JoonBeh Před 2 lety +4

    I’m just thankful that I’m living in this era..

  • @mohamednehal4103
    @mohamednehal4103 Před 3 lety +5

    I am a Egyptian and i have just made a good discovery ...
    This channel

  • @FelisRomanus
    @FelisRomanus Před 2 lety +5

    What he says at 9:05 reminds me of an excerpt from Ecclesiastes:
    What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
    Ecclesiastes 1:9‭-‬10

  • @craigriglin
    @craigriglin Před 2 lety +6

    The ancient Greek’s Antikythera mechanism beats these other technologies hands down! The more scholarly studies have been done on this device the greater the amazement revealed. You need to revise your video to “8 ancient technology ahead of their time”

    • @terblogsandgams2341
      @terblogsandgams2341 Před 2 lety

      Yeh India too

    • @abdibarri9012
      @abdibarri9012 Před 2 lety

      NO LAIR GREEK COPY EGYPT LEARN FROM SUDAN NUBIAN READ HISTORY

    • @pyhead9916
      @pyhead9916 Před 2 lety

      The Antikythera was not ahead of its time, it was appropriate for its time.

  • @astrophile4466
    @astrophile4466 Před 3 lety +3

    I feel underwhelmed. Where’s antikythera? 🤕 I love this channel though. My new favourite indeed.