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  • Ancient tech was a lot more advanced - and a lot stranger - than you might know. Check out today's insane new video to find out about some of the craziest ancient inventions scientists STILL can’t explain!
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Komentáře • 846

  • @benedictsalako9754
    @benedictsalako9754 Před 2 lety +898

    So we people of today have technology that would astound people of the past and those from the past have technology keeping us pondering today. Interesting!

    • @hecticplayer3928
      @hecticplayer3928 Před 2 lety +18

      Very perspicacious

    • @luyandzabavukiledlamini4693
      @luyandzabavukiledlamini4693 Před 2 lety +6

      Truly astounding your comment

    • @sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046
      @sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046 Před 2 lety +31

      During the collapse of civillitations often knowledge is lost

    • @rolandomontana1389
      @rolandomontana1389 Před 2 lety +8

      Yes and its crazy that they knew alot about space...and we only know about space cause of technology

    • @Syv_
      @Syv_ Před 2 lety +17

      @@rolandomontana1389 While that is true, they also had a lot of incorrect beliefs. Who knows, we probably do as well.

  • @tristanmitchell1242
    @tristanmitchell1242 Před rokem +169

    Roman concrete, we HAVE the recipe for. For centuries, we tried to replicate it. Finally, a random college student managed to figure it out; use seawater. Literally, the recipe just says "water" so we were using, like, pure water, but that purity of water came from wells and the aquaduct system, and so was too expensive to use in construction. If you use seawater from the coast near Rome, it works perfectly.

    • @valentinvernier2322
      @valentinvernier2322 Před rokem +10

      it is made at high temps with bigger pieces of limestone which "melts" when in contact with water thats how it heals

    • @eliboyer9207
      @eliboyer9207 Před rokem +6

      @@valentinvernier2322 yep, you and I must had seen the same video about it.

    • @nikocentauri7027
      @nikocentauri7027 Před rokem +8

      Basically, modern concrete is made with Portland cement (a mix of slaked lime and clay), but by adding "quick lime" or calcium oxide, the mix is "hot" due to exothermic reaction with moisture. The mix sets almost instantaneously, but because of the quicklime, especially in the case of aqueducts, any cracks self-heal in the presence of moisture, as calcium carbonate migrates to the cracks, sort of a self-healing concrete.

    • @jamesrivera3806
      @jamesrivera3806 Před rokem +1

      The main ingredient was volcanic ash that doesn't come easy to get in large production

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo Před 2 lety +215

    11. The calendar of warren field.
    10. Roman concrete
    9. Ulfbhert swords
    8. Phaistos disc
    7. Codex Gigas
    6. Sumerian king list
    5. Pyramid of hellinikon
    4. Tuwanaku and puma punku
    3. Oracle room of Hal safleini
    2. Lycurgus cup
    1. Antikythera mechanism

    • @bluntslt8023
      @bluntslt8023 Před 2 lety +4

      Thanks i now found the cup

    • @pattmyn
      @pattmyn Před 2 lety +8

      Knew the mechanism would show up on the list.

    • @brahdleessr
      @brahdleessr Před rokem

      Thank u now I know this video had mothinh valuable😊 for me

  • @SoCalGuitarist
    @SoCalGuitarist Před rokem +176

    Watching this video today, January 7th, scientists have announced they've figured out the secret of Roman Concrete was the type of lime they used that would "heal" the concrete when moisture would get in. Pretty cool stuff!

    • @totlynotaskemergeorg2649
      @totlynotaskemergeorg2649 Před rokem +3

      I read that 2

    • @TheFoxkin
      @TheFoxkin Před rokem +14

      And today, January 8th, we have new findings that may suggest an even earlier iteration of written language dating back to the Paleolithic!

    • @legendcolt45
      @legendcolt45 Před rokem

      woah

    • @gunslingersymphony5015
      @gunslingersymphony5015 Před rokem +6

      I read that it was heat used in the mixing process, both causing the longevity and durability and drastically decreasing curing times. I also read they're looking into how to commercialize it. The race is on.

    • @william3228
      @william3228 Před rokem

      Was just about to type this.

  • @jamesbradshaw8332
    @jamesbradshaw8332 Před 2 lety +684

    2 videos a day has gotta be a grind. Not only you, the host, but the whole script/animation team. Thanks for all the daily info

    • @kentakicheeken4471
      @kentakicheeken4471 Před 2 lety +18

      It’s a huge team and they make videos in advance.

    • @9n9i9c9k9
      @9n9i9c9k9 Před 2 lety +53

      @@kentakicheeken4471 in advance or not, they have to keep up with nthe demand, and two videos posted a day would be the same amount of work as if they were making them daily.
      Stop trying to belittle their grind.

    • @jq7323
      @jq7323 Před 2 lety +11

      @@9n9i9c9k9 In order to put out 2 videos daily, they have to make atleast 2+ videos daily even in advance.

    • @maximus1992a
      @maximus1992a Před 2 lety +12

      Lot of these vids are recycled and reuploaded under a slighlty diff title

    • @ItsMe-zs3iy
      @ItsMe-zs3iy Před rokem +1

      That’s exactly what that person said pretty much

  • @AustinJASMR
    @AustinJASMR Před rokem +124

    Another one that could go on this list is Damascus steel. It's a type of ancient steel used in the far east that scientists agree having a heck of a time trying to reverse engineer it. The weirdest part about it is that, upon analysis, it was found that the makeup of the steel included *carbon nanotubes*, which has baffled scientists as to how ancient civilizations made it. (Though, I personally think it was by mistake. I.e. they had a special process for forging it that they knew made it strong but didn't know why, or they had a cultural explanation. I mean, the vikings would forge extremely strong swords that they thought was because they were infused with an animal's spirit, but it turned out the carbon in the bones they forged into the swords was combining with the iron to make rudimentary steel, so it's clear ancient peoples knew how to make it but not how it 100% worked)

    • @gunslingersymphony5015
      @gunslingersymphony5015 Před rokem +1

      That was covered. The Ulfberht swords were made of wootz ("damascus" steel). They've also figured it out and duplicated the process.

    • @FPVShogun
      @FPVShogun Před rokem +3

      My favorite was the egytian sword made from a meteor that baffled scientists for decades because they only had bronze

    • @nikocentauri7027
      @nikocentauri7027 Před rokem +2

      @@FPVShogun The Tibetans were also fond of using meteoric iron for ritual implements. Perhaps because an iron meteorite simply needs to be melted, not smelted from ore, it was not too big a stretch for them to work with it?

  • @bright_and_free
    @bright_and_free Před rokem +41

    The moment I saw the Antikythera mechanism, it immediately reminded me of the modern aviation flight computer, only a lot more advanced. I think it was likely a highly advanced 'nautical computer' used to measure speed/distance, tides, ocean currents, time, and a whole lot of other things I can't even begin to imagine. We know the ancient Greeks were highly accomplished at mathematics, so I don't think this idea is too far out of the realm of possibility

    • @thirtythreeeyes8624
      @thirtythreeeyes8624 Před rokem +3

      I would say a modern flight computer that can literally pilot the plane is a bit more advanced. The Antikythera mechanism is an astronomical device that predicts the position of the sun moon and 5 planets it was likely used in combination with a sextant to navigate maybe for date tracking as well.

    • @alexandre007opa
      @alexandre007opa Před rokem +1

      All that from a gear? Lol really

    • @myyoutubename1756
      @myyoutubename1756 Před rokem

      What? No its not more advanced they didn't have computers saying hey this is messing up or working at 100%

  • @mrkiky
    @mrkiky Před 2 lety +188

    The Antikythera mechanism is pretty well explained I think. There's even a youtuber trying to reconstruct it with methods that would have been available at the time, and he's even making his own files, chisels, drill bits and other tools from materials that they would have had at the time.

    • @bussinwithbutch6873
      @bussinwithbutch6873 Před rokem +2

      Was he there at the time?

    • @mrkiky
      @mrkiky Před rokem +12

      @@bussinwithbutch6873 yes

    • @jacobott3382
      @jacobott3382 Před rokem +7

      @@bussinwithbutch6873 yes

    • @nwm55
      @nwm55 Před rokem +1

      you can buy one. made with parts from ancient china

    • @vanhattfield8292
      @vanhattfield8292 Před rokem +4

      Massive floods still occur today. Back in those times when communication and travel was limited, having a region experience a massive flood would no doubt seem like he world itself had been flooded.

  • @Yatezylad
    @Yatezylad Před rokem +105

    When talking about Gilgamesh, you mention that the great flood was very similar to the story of Noah’s Arc. While this is true, many ancient cultures including that of ancient Mesopotamia have their own accounts of some kind of great flood. If this is something which you find interesting or strange take a look at the number of examples of a great flood story in different cultures :)

    • @369frequencyandvibration
      @369frequencyandvibration Před rokem +4

      More than just the Mesopotamian region

    • @LaylaVaughan
      @LaylaVaughan Před rokem +7

      First flood story we have record of is in the Nippur tablets, belonging to the Sumerian culture. Dates to about 1600 - 1800 BCE I believe. Then the Akkadian stories Atra-Hasis and the Epic of Gilgamesh borrow from that. The book of Genesis is thought to have been written down a few hundred years more recently than either of those. Estimates I can find range from 1400 BCE - 600s BCE. The Hindu Shatapatha Brahmana which contains a similar flood story dates from around 500 BCE. Plato's references to a big flood are from around 360 BCE. So, it seems less like a case of multiple contemporaneous cultures recording an event and more like a case of the spread of a story through cultures geographically near each other over time.

    • @LaylaVaughan
      @LaylaVaughan Před rokem

      I made another comment in response to the original that I think would answer your question

    • @mauldin128
      @mauldin128 Před rokem +11

      Ancient apocalypse documentary explains it really well. The great flood was documented around the ancient world. Different civilizations and religeons, same time period. So either god made sure to help not just noah, but all people of all religeons or we are just following the human habit of trying to explain what we dont understand by saying the sky wizard musta done it.

    • @711desmond
      @711desmond Před rokem

      Lol I learned about this a few months ago in my history class and basically, in Mesopotamia they had a story call the epic of Gilgamesh and in it was a similar story to Noah’s ark

  • @shadowdragon3521
    @shadowdragon3521 Před 2 lety +36

    You forgot to mention that several of the kings on the Sumerian Kings List were listed as having reigns lasting hundreds or even thousands of of years

    • @wolfetteplays8894
      @wolfetteplays8894 Před rokem +1

      Aliens?

    • @TheNylter
      @TheNylter Před rokem +2

      @@wolfetteplays8894 No. Just mythic time. Plenty of cultures record pre-writing history in mythic time.

    • @craigime
      @craigime Před rokem

      @@TheNylter was it mythic time, or was it just another way of reckoning time?

    • @TheNylter
      @TheNylter Před rokem +3

      @@craigime Given the similarities between the Sumerian pre-history king list and other pre-history kings list (see Chinese and Egyptian pre-literate eras), it's pretty clear that mythic time is in play. When there's an oral tradition, it's very easy to exaggerate how important people were or how long they reigned.
      The Old Testament has its own list of mythic time for people's lifespans. It's all in the same category, no matter how much some people want to claim the Old Testament is "real", and everyone else is false. *snort*
      The Sumerians had enough astrology to understand calendar years, and how not to confuse days with years. Occam's Razor applies--mythic time is the simplest (although not simplistic) explanation. That's one reason it's very hard to accept.

    • @clownindan
      @clownindan Před rokem

      20,000 year reigns of some of the kings.

  • @titussit7349
    @titussit7349 Před rokem +14

    Could you imagine if the clay disk was not something more than a home made board game lol

  • @WowUrFcknHxC
    @WowUrFcknHxC Před rokem +5

    "How did prehistoric people make a lunar calendar?"
    Oh idk, maybe they looked up at night? And then kept track of what they saw every night?

  • @diversejoe617
    @diversejoe617 Před 2 lety +42

    What's fascinating is that some of them still function today

  • @loseweightusingketo
    @loseweightusingketo Před 2 lety +141

    I think ancient civilizations wwre much more advanced than what we might think - most of their advancements have been lost to time - but I suspect they used similar basic scientific bases for their technology. We might just have a different understanding of these things.

    • @LucianTSkeptic
      @LucianTSkeptic Před 2 lety +4

      Well I think you're wrong.

    • @saaddagoat
      @saaddagoat Před rokem +26

      @@LucianTSkeptic No, chances are he's right. Different societies DID have different understandings of science, even though the basic principles are similar to today. It's probable that these peoples also used local materials, and knowledge of such was just passed around a select group of individuals (ex. blacksmiths). Once those materials ran out, and the blacksmiths moved on, the "how-to" was lost, leading to today

    • @KjtheGreatPro
      @KjtheGreatPro Před rokem

      @@LucianTSkeptic cavepeople are a myth. Check it out! We have always had crazy strong tech. Turns out. Lost technology is a common problem for humanity! Did you know, the USA doesnt know how to visit the moon anymore? The technology has been lost. Crazy right?

    • @LucianTSkeptic
      @LucianTSkeptic Před rokem +4

      @@KjtheGreatPro Aristotle thought that a cannonball would fall faster than a grape.

    • @basedtortellini
      @basedtortellini Před rokem +8

      @@LucianTSkeptic wait who asked?

  • @TheAllSeeingEye2468
    @TheAllSeeingEye2468 Před 2 lety +64

    How funny would it be if the phaistos disk was just a normal collectors dinner plate

    • @xe-wf5iv
      @xe-wf5iv Před rokem +1

      Exactly, its just art on a plate and we have groups of morons trying to decipher it.

  • @sh4d0werr0r4
    @sh4d0werr0r4 Před 2 lety +33

    The first computer in the ocean means the first rage quiter .

  • @mattysheehan9786
    @mattysheehan9786 Před 2 lety +4

    I’m surprised you didn’t make the point that
    A mummy or pharaoh had NEVER been found in any pyramid in Egypt. Ever. In any of them.

  • @willsonpena8696
    @willsonpena8696 Před 2 lety +10

    In the past or present. It just takes 1 person with a revolutionary idea to change the world.

  • @arcatacompany
    @arcatacompany Před 2 lety +28

    The disk could be a piece of ancient scratch papper to practice symbols for students

    • @craigime
      @craigime Před rokem +2

      that would be funny

    • @Thechildishmandingo
      @Thechildishmandingo Před rokem

      Yeah that’s the one I kept thinking scientists might be overthinking. Could just be a decoration or a bored creation. Each of the glyphs could just be something the artist enjoyed or something with no super complex translation.

  • @mckraken8274
    @mckraken8274 Před rokem +12

    The pyramids you skipped past to talk about the ones in Greece are equally if not more baffling

  • @barbiquearea
    @barbiquearea Před 2 lety +116

    Damascus Steel is another alloy used for swords in the ancient and medieval world, which were not only of high quality but also sported beautiful patterns. Knowledge of how they were made has been lost despite modern efforts to recreate this them.

    • @3thundermonkey
      @3thundermonkey Před 2 lety +7

      Yeah all we know how to do is get the look

    • @mrillis9259
      @mrillis9259 Před 2 lety +9

      It's been recreated.
      By American blacksmith.
      Even down to the specific element? That made the Damascus, mine so specific.

    • @EC-dz4bq
      @EC-dz4bq Před 2 lety +5

      @@mrillis9259 by element, if you mean by carbon content and layering of the steel, folds etc... then yes.

    • @mrillis9259
      @mrillis9259 Před 2 lety +9

      @@EC-dz4bq original Damascus, steel, was wootz, where the steel was boiled in a zero oxygen environment, then flattened not layered.

    • @mrillis9259
      @mrillis9259 Před 2 lety +2

      @@EC-dz4bq there was a specific element? Canadium or something similar to that.

  • @unknown_kingzzz4120
    @unknown_kingzzz4120 Před 2 lety +9

    this stuff is so entertaining for 2AM moments

  • @ovni2295
    @ovni2295 Před 2 lety +32

    Great Flood myths are found in lots of cultures, but the timeframe given for the flood varies from "Thousands of years ago" to "Dude, it was just last week I swear", which makes it unlikely that all the myths are talking about the same flood.

    • @saaddagoat
      @saaddagoat Před rokem +7

      Imo the best possible explanation is that various flood stories got passed around by different cultures (esp in early human civilizations around the fertile crescent), which eventually mixed together and became exaggerated, resulting in the Biblical flood. For ex., a group of people 6000 years ago witnessed a flood that covered an area of let's say 15 square km. For them, that could've been their whole world, especially if they weren't exploratory. Such stories got heightened over time to be the literal entire world.

    • @wfcoaker1398
      @wfcoaker1398 Před rokem +6

      Well, living on river banks puts you at risk of flooding, so does living by the sea. I figure it'd be hard for a culture to develop in those environments and NOT have a flood myth.

    • @mrfancypanzer549
      @mrfancypanzer549 Před rokem

      @@wfcoaker1398 indeed, my local river has flooded several times, there is a monument marking the dates and water levels of the floods, the highest point would nearly drown a two story house.

    • @gunslingersymphony5015
      @gunslingersymphony5015 Před rokem

      @@saaddagoat At the same time, and forgive me for playing devil's (God's? lol) advocate, it also seems that people who lived on flood plains would be used to not only regular, predictable flooding, but also to the occasional larger, more devastating flood. We also know that they were aware of each other, and not just completely insular, backwards societies. This would mean it would take something truly extraordinary for them to say that the entire world had flooded.
      Edit: responded to the wrong person, at first. Apologies.

  • @GrizzFlips
    @GrizzFlips Před 2 lety +840

    Fun fact you haven’t seen the whole video yet

  • @crimsonguy8696
    @crimsonguy8696 Před 2 lety +55

    In regard to a devastating flood in ancient times, Meltwater Pulse 1B is well known as a disaster of the Younger Dryas, occuring about 13,000 years ago. This was, needless to say, a flood.

    • @craigime
      @craigime Před rokem

      meltwater pulse 1b is a hypothesis- not a "well known disaster"

    • @crimsonguy8696
      @crimsonguy8696 Před rokem +4

      @@craigime Not a hypothesis, it's a well documented historical event with direct and proxy evidence; I will concede though that it is perhaps not well known.

    • @clownindan
      @clownindan Před rokem +2

      That was when mother earth had a wap

  • @_Katya_Snow
    @_Katya_Snow Před rokem +8

    Speaking of small adorable wild mammals living in school walls, I was in Spanish class one day my sophomore year when a ceiling tile seemingly exploded out of nowhere and pieces of the broken tile rained down on a couple of my classmates seated directly below, creating a thick cloud of dust and debris in the air that made it difficult to identify the source of the frantic scuffling and chattering noises we now heard coming from the back corner of the classroom. Then people began screaming and fleeing to the opposite corner of the room… turns out an absolutely SPASTIC squirrel had literally smashed through the ceiling tile and fell into my Spanish class and then freaked tf out when it realized it had trapped itself in a room full of people and proceeded to run around in a panic and leap onto and throw itself off of various shelves and windowsills and cabinets and such in a desperate attempt to find its way out. They built a new high school a couple of years later (“they” meaning my hometown, not the squirrels).

    • @Dawg2005
      @Dawg2005 Před rokem +1

      "not the squirrels" 🤣🤣

    • @CeruleanStar
      @CeruleanStar Před rokem

      My school had a squirrel fall through the ceiling when I was there too. I wasn't in the class, but everyone was talking about it for quite some time. We'd also get the occasional squirrel or dog who found their way into the school hallways.

  • @caicai491
    @caicai491 Před 2 lety +17

    Where the pits are pointing to actually is not where they were 10000 years ago. The earth orbit has been changing always during 10000 years.

    • @hornback86
      @hornback86 Před 2 lety +2

      People forget that our reference point to the stars doesn’t stay the same. Even the way we orbit the sun isn’t the same as it was then. 🤷‍♂️

    • @mrkiky
      @mrkiky Před 2 lety

      I'm guessing they took that into consideration when they determined where they were pointing.

  • @dens790130
    @dens790130 Před rokem +3

    One major difference with Roman concrete with it's not reinforced concrete. The metal bars that we put today make it stronger, but less durable, as the metal rusts it expands, causing cracks. Romans don't have metal in the concrete, they wouldn't be able to make a 100 story building, but it will last forever.

  • @themysterious4578
    @themysterious4578 Před rokem +5

    The cup is already been explained. It is the effect when nano (very small) sized grain of metal can be observed in different color related to the size and the angle of light reflection (this only applies when a material is in really small size). In this case, the cup contain small sized gold particle in the material and can be observe as red or green from gold nano particles. The point is whether is effect is intended to be made by the cup maker is unknown. Some believe that the metal (not sure about material) used isn’t at the most purity from the undeveloped mining and refining process which it contained the gold particle in it and with the right heat and pressure applied when crafting the cup (either intended or just by luck), it create this effect.

  • @litneyloxan
    @litneyloxan Před 2 lety +8

    I feel like yall look at my random late night search history over time with these topics

    • @litneyloxan
      @litneyloxan Před 2 lety

      its a joke im sad i have to explain that

  • @tylersummers725
    @tylersummers725 Před 2 lety +16

    I had read and watched a team of scientist say they combined the ashe with the nearest area's sea water in the concrete mix and they se to have thought they had recreated Roman concrete

    • @-_._._-
      @-_._._- Před 2 lety +3

      This. I'm fairly certain we know how to do Roman concrete.

    • @martenkrueger8647
      @martenkrueger8647 Před 2 lety

      That simply makes sense!!

  • @alexamg6675
    @alexamg6675 Před 2 lety +5

    The Viking swords is probably the makers mark it make sense the guy may have been world renowned for his quality

    • @psydrith1
      @psydrith1 Před rokem

      The Gucci of Medieval swordmakers.

  • @stillhammered3060
    @stillhammered3060 Před 2 lety +39

    Our modern technology is just a drop in the bucket compared to humans civilizations that we have found. Who knows how many others there have been that we will never find due to how much time has passed. Those people's were so much closer to nature so why wouldn't they figure out metals and masonry, healing and astronomy.

  • @grrrniss17
    @grrrniss17 Před 2 lety +4

    I love CZcams for vids like this

  • @josephmatthews7698
    @josephmatthews7698 Před rokem +2

    Just had a major breakthrough on roman concrete yesterday! Pretty sure we understand it now, science always marches forward. Gotta love it.

  • @Night-qk2tv
    @Night-qk2tv Před 2 lety +7

    Phaistos disc might be a journal. Just a rock where he keeps his daily routine or what happened or something similar to it

  • @marcusbergman6116
    @marcusbergman6116 Před rokem +5

    I'm sort of disappointed you didn't talk about Göbekli Tepes. A temple 2000 year older than our oldest civilisation.

  • @champfriend524
    @champfriend524 Před 2 lety +7

    Love your videos please don’t stop posting love these 💙💙💙

  • @epelly3
    @epelly3 Před 2 lety +3

    A guy doodles some neat shapes he likes on some clay and now the Robert Langdons of the world tryna decipher it

  • @MateusMeurer
    @MateusMeurer Před rokem +3

    11:39 if bodies found inside is your metric to knowing whether the pyramid was a tomb or not then you're up for a surprise if you ever research the Giza ones.

  • @stevenkarmazenuk2540
    @stevenkarmazenuk2540 Před 2 lety +12

    Re: the Phaistos Disk. You ever watch a toddler with a piece of paper and a few crayons, stamps and stickers? Now, think about how ubiquitous clay was in ancient times, and how often writing implements or decorative glyphs might find their way into the hands of children - or be designed specifically for them.
    This might be history's only surviving example of early "fridgeworthy" art.

    • @MrKeeyt-jm3ji
      @MrKeeyt-jm3ji Před rokem +1

      Being that I’m now a father of a toddler my first thought was, maybe some mom or dad just pressed some clay and said “here, draw on this”….we just so happened to find a 2-5 year olds handiwork all these years later 🤷🏽‍♂️😂

    • @saaddagoat
      @saaddagoat Před rokem

      Yeah but you're thinking from a modern lens. Ancient people would not have had these materials around children because only the elite and highly educated would've been capable of affording the glyphs needed to make such things. Chances are, it's probably just a local script or maybe a coded message, whose meaning we've long since lost

  • @ricardoelizondot
    @ricardoelizondot Před rokem +3

    The fact that a lot of ancient civilizations had similar tales and stories about apocalyptic floods and events and even share similarities between their deities and constructions and much more leds me to believe that it cannot be a coincidence right? Maybe there were advanced civilizations that lived way more back in time that we think of and that knowledge was passed on to the ancient civilizations we know. I saw this documentary on Netflix called ancient apocalyps and it makes a lot of sense actually.

    • @tigerboy4705
      @tigerboy4705 Před rokem +1

      I would just assume:
      What happens often if you live near water?
      Floods
      Who lived near water?
      Everyone
      Whats a scary but obviously possible thing?
      Big flood.

  • @Andy3339
    @Andy3339 Před 2 lety +2

    Cool video thxs 😊✌️🧘‍♂️❤️👣

  • @fsmoura
    @fsmoura Před 2 lety +10

    Yes, for one, the internet. As the ancients died, they left us this series of tubes we use everyday; and yet no one knows how it works.

  • @xelasc
    @xelasc Před 2 lety +4

    You guys should make a video about "burning man" and its history.

  • @Arcademan09
    @Arcademan09 Před 2 lety +6

    Is this channel subscribed to Qxir? I swear I haven't heard of the Codex Gigas until he talked about and they (infographics) go over the same points as he does or maybe they used the same source

  • @AveryChristy
    @AveryChristy Před rokem +1

    Just to be clear, Gilgamesh had nothing to do with the flood. Gilgamesh desires eternal life and so sets out to find Utnapishtim, "He Who Saw Life", who is the last surviving king (or possibly a priest, or maybe a priest/king) of the world from before the flood and was granted immortality by Ea, "Fire", the god who spoke to him at a temple from behind a screen while taking the form of a living flame and told Utna to build a big boat and take aboard his family and household and those animals which would be sent to him. In the epic, Gilgamesh finds Utna, who tells him the story. Utna, fearing the destruction of humanity's knowledge, borrowed the collected works from the library at Sippur to take aboard his ark, thus when his family recolonized the middle east, they had the knowledge of the world before the flood to give them a head start.

  • @Xraythesmall.
    @Xraythesmall. Před 2 lety +14

    i absolutely love your guys videos keep up the great work guys! 🖤❤

  • @markusskram4181
    @markusskram4181 Před 2 lety +3

    Another great video as always!

  • @Aoekin
    @Aoekin Před rokem +16

    Love this channel, have so much good content. also now it's debatable that they were simply just hunter and gatherers with site's and agriculture presence dating well over 10 thousand years... including structures.... even the black boxes or coffins(even though no human remains in any) have been explained with tools used in that time period... they are precisely cut as if engineered by machine and you can see the differences between people using the tools they had for making boxes and those black boxes.... some technology was lost for sure, well anyways can't wait to see what we uncover the more we dig and the more we toss out these dumb digging rules that have been in place with "seasoned" archeologist.

  • @alexolivers9476
    @alexolivers9476 Před rokem +5

    I actually did a project on the last artifact when I was in 3rd grade and my teacher said it was the best one she'd ever seen lol

  • @joelellis7035
    @joelellis7035 Před 2 lety +12

    Or Ulfbert could have been a brand of sword that was made by particularly trained sword makers. Possibly, the swords that bore the brand were of special quality that were sought out.

  • @lutherd
    @lutherd Před 2 lety +4

    A battle can’t be “particularly pitched.” It’s a binary state; a battle either is pitched, or is not.

  • @sphereslip
    @sphereslip Před 2 lety +3

    The world didn't flood. It was basically around the Euphrates and the middle east. Which was their world at the time.

    • @scorpioneldar
      @scorpioneldar Před 2 lety

      then why do the Navajo and anasazi Desert Tribes of north America have similar flood myths from around the same period when they do NOT live in a flood basin. in fact most of the world has a local version of the same world ending and restoring flood.

    • @miguelatkinson4007
      @miguelatkinson4007 Před 2 lety

      Exactly

  • @GalacticHero_
    @GalacticHero_ Před rokem +1

    All I know is that a lot of civilizations throughout history have had some form of great flood, it's also possible that a flood bigger than any other flood ever may have happened

  • @kordellcurl7559
    @kordellcurl7559 Před 2 lety +9

    Here’s my explanation for the warren field calendar is that they realized that the moon and the sun always comes back to similar points in the sky and then they mapped it. Anyone could do that.

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore Před rokem +1

    We do have roman concrete. Indonesians have been mixing volcanic ash in their concrete for decades. It's actually cheaper than using wood there.

  • @monkeymoo87
    @monkeymoo87 Před rokem +2

    Sometimes real life is crazier than the movies. Some of these inventions are perfect examples of this.

  • @noerosasramirez5118
    @noerosasramirez5118 Před rokem +1

    Imagine having a gun when your opponent throws rocks

  • @fredross3089
    @fredross3089 Před 2 lety +3

    Even more interesting is the reason why those massive stones in Bolivia were so widelydispersed?

  • @anitashupe5448
    @anitashupe5448 Před 2 lety +2

    Mr.Ballen touched me in my " no no " spot.

  • @cerb1221
    @cerb1221 Před rokem +1

    Imo the Ulfberht swords were likely made by a shop rather than a single person. If they were esteemed enough and maybe owned by an extremely wealthy family line. they may have had extremely strict skill requirements and may have adopted techniques brought in through travelling sword makers, or they may have hired the travelling sword makers for several weeks to learn their techniques. The name Ulfberht may refer to the possible last name of the family line which owned the shop.
    It could NOT be one person, as the swords have been dated to 8th-11th century, so unless it was some immortal sword smith its impossible to be one person. Its also possible that they didnt travel, or employ travellers, the steel they used may simply be imported.
    Either way they were very skilled. Its a possibility that they made burial swords only though, since i dont think we ever found any on battlefields. Strange we cant find writings of them.

  • @idoalittletrolling4867
    @idoalittletrolling4867 Před rokem +7

    The Phaistos Disk could be an ancient example of Conlanging (Making one's own language for whatever reason).
    Could just be personally created sigils for magickal use age or something too.
    Also, book-writers in history before the printing press was introduced are heavily overlooked IMO.
    Just sit down and imagine you have a blank stack of papers and a feather pen or some older writing form. If I had to write a whole bible or something like that I'd simply die on the spot.

    • @TheNylter
      @TheNylter Před rokem +1

      I wonder if the disc was used in divination like the ox shoulder bones un ancient China.

    • @idoalittletrolling4867
      @idoalittletrolling4867 Před rokem

      @@TheNylter Could be

  • @WillDa713
    @WillDa713 Před rokem +1

    Here's my two cents about the Phaistos disk: it could just be a piece of art someone made and it got preserved til today. We can't find anything else like it, can't decypher it, can't find any meaning or accompanying text with it, and that's probably because it never had and never needed any of this. No forgery or religious text or anything, it's just like the lid of a box i decorated a couple years back. It's got a big All Seeing Eye in the center, very ornate, and all around it i've engraved runes and symbols and glyphs. I did this with a blank mind, drawing and scratching at the rudimentary wood with basic tools. The ONLY goal was to decorate my box with visuals i liked for my own enjoyment during my lifetime. Oh what i would give to see the scientists trying to decypher it in two millenia, this is so funny.

  • @alex.thedeadite
    @alex.thedeadite Před 2 lety +4

    The lycurgus cup doesn't change colour based on angle. It changes depending on whether it lit from behind or in front.

  • @rohanbaviskar6324
    @rohanbaviskar6324 Před 2 lety +7

    You should make video on Indian ancient technology they are also very interesting

    • @litflame4033
      @litflame4033 Před 2 lety

      Back then it was Britain and other random countries not india

    • @rohanbaviskar6324
      @rohanbaviskar6324 Před 2 lety

      @@litflame4033 No Hindu civilization is one of oldest civilization
      You fool European

    • @rohanbaviskar6324
      @rohanbaviskar6324 Před 2 lety

      @@litflame4033 see our temples and read our then you will understand what we are

    • @rohanbaviskar6324
      @rohanbaviskar6324 Před 2 lety

      @@litflame4033 Sanskrit is oldest language and Hindu religion is oldest religion

  • @symon3304
    @symon3304 Před rokem

    I like to hear our ancestors were cleverer than we thought they were. It gives me hope for the future because it shows people had and will have brilliant ideas.

  • @ARKGAMING
    @ARKGAMING Před rokem +2

    10:28 the Greeks had a story similar to noah's as well. Stories like these seem to be quite common

  • @HappyCookie001
    @HappyCookie001 Před 2 lety +3

    For the Sumerian king list in the Torah/bible it says that the god Hashem told Noah to build an ark and after he would flood the world.

  • @Nsinger998
    @Nsinger998 Před rokem +2

    The Uthbert Swords would have made an interesting episode of highlander the series.

  • @thebatman2604
    @thebatman2604 Před 2 lety +3

    What about Greek fire?

  • @kinikininandy8287
    @kinikininandy8287 Před 2 lety +2

    I'm actually learning about Mesopotamians, Sumerians, Assayrians and the Egyptions

  • @Amigafur
    @Amigafur Před rokem +1

    The Egyptian pyramids never had bodies either. This idea was thought of by British egyptologists of the 19th century. The Egyptian pyramids aren't tombs, though what they are is also unknown

  • @robertcahoon5278
    @robertcahoon5278 Před 2 lety +2

    A lunar calendar that tracks the sun.....doesn't make sense.

  • @robertcahoon5278
    @robertcahoon5278 Před 2 lety +5

    Chemical compounds have changed over time.....no! They may have been unknown but they haven't changed.

    • @tyebbink9083
      @tyebbink9083 Před 2 lety +4

      They are talking about the composition of the ash the volcano produces, those compounds are different than 10k years in the past based on atmospheric gas distribution and other factors.

  • @korthosen949
    @korthosen949 Před rokem +1

    i enjoy this channels videos
    i have to admit i am missing abit more real life pictures here thou
    animation is nice but u can show it in real life too whichs even more impressive :)

  • @972CHENZO
    @972CHENZO Před rokem +1

    The secret sauce in the Roman concrete has been figured out. It's volcanic ash and lime. When it cracks, the lime hardens and heals itself.

  • @charlotteillustration5778

    A very interesting and well researched video. My only suggestion is that I would have preferred to see more photos of the original objects/buildings, rather than 98% animations.

  • @juliamelone8109
    @juliamelone8109 Před rokem +1

    I thought scientists deduced that Roman concrete was so strong because it used salt water in combination with the volcanic rock?

  • @tylerlemler127
    @tylerlemler127 Před 2 lety +2

    Is that was cool, hard to think. Nice vid keep up the good work

  • @timbergoat2568
    @timbergoat2568 Před 2 lety +2

    How is a book a technology that scientists haven't seen

  • @INFERIORPLAY
    @INFERIORPLAY Před 2 lety +4

    Ide love to learn more about the Smithsonian Infographics

  • @alesiaparis792
    @alesiaparis792 Před 2 lety +2

    "Ulfbert tm" Sword Trading Company later known as Thyssen Krupp 🙂

  • @kaiseri6772
    @kaiseri6772 Před 2 lety +2

    I hope you guys create a video about the Library of Alexandria.

  • @DubzCo
    @DubzCo Před rokem +1

    Ulfbhert was the first of the big military armouries, he guessed where he profit is

  • @datastorm75
    @datastorm75 Před rokem +1

    We just figured out Roman Concrete. It isn't the ash at all. Its the hot mix process.

  • @fggyoutube
    @fggyoutube Před rokem +1

    Crazy how they can come up with a back story for the Codex Gigas but can't decipher it nor accurately trace its origins.

  • @TheRealNaika
    @TheRealNaika Před 2 lety +11

    Its actually known how roman concrete works and how its made. Its secret ingredient is limestone or something like it that is exlusive to italy thats why it cant be mass produced in current time.

    • @terrafirma5327
      @terrafirma5327 Před 2 lety +2

      The secret is volcanic ash, in a certain concentration.

    • @lukez9721
      @lukez9721 Před 2 lety +2

      Limestone mixed with a certain kind of volcanic ash.

    • @terrafirma5327
      @terrafirma5327 Před 2 lety +1

      @@lukez9721 Indeed, all concrete is made with limestone mixed with other ingredients. We have hundreds of limestone mines where I live.

    • @clarisaxpianist
      @clarisaxpianist Před 2 lety +4

      Wasn't there a researcher who recently discovered that Roman concrete needed sea water instead of fresh water?

    • @terrafirma5327
      @terrafirma5327 Před 2 lety

      @@clarisaxpianist correct, with the right dissolved minerals

  • @theloniousscalliwag
    @theloniousscalliwag Před rokem +3

    I love how the history says one thing and the clear evidence suggests otherwise but yet we just mostly carry on with the acceptance of someone else's story based on mostly very loose data interpretation. Amazing.

  • @someperson7
    @someperson7 Před 2 lety +2

    Needs chapters please

  • @princeofpokemon2934
    @princeofpokemon2934 Před rokem +1

    This is making me want to go back to school just to take history class again...

  • @physicsnotesa.k.s5369
    @physicsnotesa.k.s5369 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you for the information

  • @bobwade9530
    @bobwade9530 Před rokem +1

    Where you mention the story of the Great Flood, being that nearly every culture has their own version, I genuinely believe that there was, in fact, a great flood, so terrible and on such scale that it made it's way into history *prehistorically*, passing on through oral tradition before the invention of the written word.
    But then to think.... there was a MASSIVE global event/flood that we do *know* happened. At the end of the last Ice Age, when glaciers melted, raising shorelines, sinking continents like Doggerland and Zealandia (and probably much other coastline at the time [where many people tend to live]) and creating many modern geographic marvels like the Great Lakes in North America.
    I genuinely believe, the melting of the last Ice Age *was* the "Great Flood" spoken of not only in the Bible, but in cultures across the world.

  • @Allahu_Akbar_the_one
    @Allahu_Akbar_the_one Před 2 lety +1

    History Channel: ahh-Aliens, ancient Aliens!

  • @timothycox7331
    @timothycox7331 Před rokem +2

    I believe I saw a program that indicated they do know the formula for roman concrete. The ash was from a specific location in Italy from Mt Vesuvius. I will try and find the program and post it.

  • @gardenlifelove9815
    @gardenlifelove9815 Před 2 lety +3

    I wonder if anybody has ever realized that the phaistos disc has spirals on it. The words all spiral down towards the center... or outward away from it. There is a clear mark that shows a starting point or ending point on the outer edge of the disc. I bet it is a story or commandment from someone back then. Some kind of royal decree maybe?

  • @ZeoViolet
    @ZeoViolet Před 2 lety +3

    6:23 I see even the 05 Council is involved in that one!

  • @byzantiumballmapping
    @byzantiumballmapping Před 2 lety +2

    Let’s be grateful for what people we have in the world today

    • @trybunt
      @trybunt Před 2 lety +4

      For thousands of years we had much less. We can always look to improve our current situation, but I think you are right, we should be grateful for what we have

    • @mrvideocamera1
      @mrvideocamera1 Před 2 lety +1

      i think like what if the world today is why we cant figure this stuff out, like we think we're so advanced and then we cant figure out how these ppl did things so long ago

  • @mr.g354
    @mr.g354 Před rokem +1

    The secret was salt water. They used saltwater in the mix of their concrete

  • @jypsridic
    @jypsridic Před 2 lety +7

    9:59 So you say the tablet talks about gilgamesh, then say that it has a flood myth similar to noah's arc, but noah's arc is a ripoff of the flood myth that is giglamesh's story.