Ancient Technologies Scientists Still Can't Explain
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- 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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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
It’s a huge team and they make videos in advance.
@@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.
@@9n9i9c9k9 In order to put out 2 videos daily, they have to make atleast 2+ videos daily even in advance.
Lot of these vids are recycled and reuploaded under a slighlty diff title
That’s exactly what that person said pretty much
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!
Very perspicacious
Truly astounding your comment
During the collapse of civillitations often knowledge is lost
Yes and its crazy that they knew alot about space...and we only know about space cause of technology
@@rolandomontana1389 While that is true, they also had a lot of incorrect beliefs. Who knows, we probably do as well.
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!
I read that 2
And today, January 8th, we have new findings that may suggest an even earlier iteration of written language dating back to the Paleolithic!
woah
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.
Was just about to type this.
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.
Was he there at the time?
@@bussinwithbutch6873 yes
@@bussinwithbutch6873 yes
you can buy one. made with parts from ancient china
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.
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.
it is made at high temps with bigger pieces of limestone which "melts" when in contact with water thats how it heals
@@valentinvernier2322 yep, you and I must had seen the same video about it.
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.
The main ingredient was volcanic ash that doesn't come easy to get in large production
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
Thanks i now found the cup
Knew the mechanism would show up on the list.
Thank u now I know this video had mothinh valuable😊 for me
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
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.
All that from a gear? Lol really
What? No its not more advanced they didn't have computers saying hey this is messing up or working at 100%
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)
That was covered. The Ulfberht swords were made of wootz ("damascus" steel). They've also figured it out and duplicated the process.
My favorite was the egytian sword made from a meteor that baffled scientists for decades because they only had bronze
@@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?
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 :)
More than just the Mesopotamian region
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.
I made another comment in response to the original that I think would answer your question
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.
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
What's fascinating is that some of them still function today
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
Aliens?
@@wolfetteplays8894 No. Just mythic time. Plenty of cultures record pre-writing history in mythic time.
@@TheNylter was it mythic time, or was it just another way of reckoning time?
@@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.
20,000 year reigns of some of the kings.
Could you imagine if the clay disk was not something more than a home made board game lol
this stuff is so entertaining for 2AM moments
In the past or present. It just takes 1 person with a revolutionary idea to change the world.
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.
meltwater pulse 1b is a hypothesis- not a "well known disaster"
@@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.
That was when mother earth had a wap
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
The disk could be a piece of ancient scratch papper to practice symbols for students
that would be funny
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.
The pyramids you skipped past to talk about the ones in Greece are equally if not more baffling
How funny would it be if the phaistos disk was just a normal collectors dinner plate
Exactly, its just art on a plate and we have groups of morons trying to decipher it.
Just had a major breakthrough on roman concrete yesterday! Pretty sure we understand it now, science always marches forward. Gotta love it.
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.
Yeah all we know how to do is get the look
It's been recreated.
By American blacksmith.
Even down to the specific element? That made the Damascus, mine so specific.
@@mrillis9259 by element, if you mean by carbon content and layering of the steel, folds etc... then yes.
@@EC-dz4bq original Damascus, steel, was wootz, where the steel was boiled in a zero oxygen environment, then flattened not layered.
@@EC-dz4bq there was a specific element? Canadium or something similar to that.
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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.
I feel like yall look at my random late night search history over time with these topics
its a joke im sad i have to explain that
I love RUclips for vids like this
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.
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. 🤷♂️
I'm guessing they took that into consideration when they determined where they were pointing.
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).
"not the squirrels" 🤣🤣
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.
The first computer in the ocean means the first rage quiter .
Lag kills
Another great video as always!
A guy doodles some neat shapes he likes on some clay and now the Robert Langdons of the world tryna decipher it
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
This. I'm fairly certain we know how to do Roman concrete.
That simply makes sense!!
Phaistos disc might be a journal. Just a rock where he keeps his daily routine or what happened or something similar to it
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.
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.
Fun fact you haven’t seen the whole video yet
I hate that this is true
its call turn it on 100x speed
Fun fact, yes I have.
2x user
Yup.
Imagine having a gun when your opponent throws rocks
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.
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.
The Viking swords is probably the makers mark it make sense the guy may have been world renowned for his quality
The Gucci of Medieval swordmakers.
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.
Cool video thxs 😊✌️🧘♂️❤️👣
I'm sort of disappointed you didn't talk about Göbekli Tepes. A temple 2000 year older than our oldest civilisation.
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
Sometimes real life is crazier than the movies. Some of these inventions are perfect examples of this.
Mr.Ballen touched me in my " no no " spot.
You have issues
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.
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.
i absolutely love your guys videos keep up the great work guys! 🖤❤
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
You guys should make a video about "burning man" and its history.
Let’s be grateful for what people we have in the world today
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
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
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.
Is that was cool, hard to think. Nice vid keep up the good work
Thank you for the information
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.
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.
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 🤷🏽♂️😂
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
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.
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.
Hello Sir! Love Your Videos!!
Ulfbhert was the first of the big military armouries, he guessed where he profit is
This is making me want to go back to school just to take history class again...
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
The lycurgus cup doesn't change colour based on angle. It changes depending on whether it lit from behind or in front.
so based on angle?
Even more interesting is the reason why those massive stones in Bolivia were so widelydispersed?
Cool stuff! Thanks.
I'm actually learning about Mesopotamians, Sumerians, Assayrians and the Egyptions
10:50 everyone knows what the pyramids are there . Burial ground for the pharaohs accept there has never been a Pharaoh found in any pyramid,.
We do have roman concrete. Indonesians have been mixing volcanic ash in their concrete for decades. It's actually cheaper than using wood there.
A battle can’t be “particularly pitched.” It’s a binary state; a battle either is pitched, or is not.
10:28 the Greeks had a story similar to noah's as well. Stories like these seem to be quite common
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.
I wonder if the disc was used in divination like the ox shoulder bones un ancient China.
@@TheNylter Could be
The Uthbert Swords would have made an interesting episode of highlander the series.
We just figured out Roman Concrete. It isn't the ash at all. Its the hot mix process.
They know what we don’t know so any thing can be possible and be ready when the man comes
dude Dr wondertainment is back with the Ulfbert
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.
Always good videos
The secret was salt water. They used saltwater in the mix of their concrete
I do recall for the Roman concrete that aside from volcanic ash limestone and it’s chemical responses with volcanic ash had contributed to some of the unique features we see from their architectural durabilities
Needs chapters please
The world didn't flood. It was basically around the Euphrates and the middle east. Which was their world at the time.
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.
Exactly
I hope you guys create a video about the Library of Alexandria.
You really sat there and just explained a handful of these.
What about Greek fire?
I think magic, creatures and gods were around back then but they were all wiped out.
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.
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.
Most myths have a kernel of truth. Schliemann found Troy, and the glacial meltwater at the end of the last ice age drowned the coastal planes where most people lived. Who's to say the legends of Gilgamesh weren't created around a real person?
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.
Funnier still, if it was a promotional toy from a cereal box
Plot twist: the phaistos disc is just a work of art. Similar to doodles.
I will eat my left foot before I die if we don't discover for sure that there was a past civilization that got absolutely destroyed without a trace other than some of these weird "high-tech" anomalies and myths and stories passed down. There is so much evidence building now. I'm still not fully convinced but it's definitely an exciting (and also maybe quite scary) thought.
I don't think it's out of the question but not very likely. I also know what I'll be doing this summer (trying to decipher the disks and or the manuscript), I am a novice at this but have a i7 12700k cpu and 32gb of ram, I intend on making good use of that.
I thought scientists deduced that Roman concrete was so strong because it used salt water in combination with the volcanic rock?
I just got a content warning. Going to mock the gigas guy. Lol, thank goodness for the Renaissance
Ide love to learn more about the Smithsonian Infographics
6:23 I see even the 05 Council is involved in that one!
"How did the civilization known to absolutely depend on the yearly floods come to the idea of a great flood? 😱😱😱" Gee, what a mistery.
I’m Ireland we have a Neolithic tomb called new grange that does the same this with the seasons but it predates pyramid of Giza by 4,500 years or so
How is a book a technology that scientists haven't seen
I like how linguistic, cultural, or intention translation difficulty counts as technology we can't explain. The others are just technology ahead of its time BUT not ahead of us.
It would be funny if the pyramids in Greece are like the eiffel tower in Las Vegas. For tourism. Or the disc was created by someone to teach their child about something.
Egypt but yes if they were actually like fun parks and so on
In sure everyone swam in the Nile and there definatley was a hire a boat to get to quieter areas for couples
A similar glass formula is made nowadays called CFL Glass or “Shifty Glass” that changes color depending on the type of lighting illuminating the Glass. Reminds me very much of the Lycurgus Cup 🧐