5:21 it has proven many times that "stair" is a farming land that was build like stair to get more sun light and easy farming

The first computer is still in use in the DMV, and accounts for its stellar efficiency.

Our ancient ancestors have been grossly underestimated. Unfortunately, some discoveries require such a large rewrite of human history that they're literally ignored and swept under the rug.

One of the ancient technologies that I wish we still had today is Roman cement. That stuff is crazy strong and still stands today thousands of years later. We can barely get a cement sidewalk to last 5 yrs before you start to see cracks in it.

Those lines cut in the stone column look like something that I would do to practice using a scroll saw. Maybe it had no purpose, and was just someone learning how to use the saw, and practicing by cutting lines through a scrap piece of stone.

Something I remember Mike Loades saying during a documentary with Tony Robinson on the Peasants Revolt was something to the effect that "Historians loved recording what happened but not the how it happened" in the example Mike and Tony were trying to explain how the Peasants during the revolt got to London in the time they did. I think this comes from people back then thinking that something would be universally understood later but not accounting for changes in technology, geography and other factors.

Expanding on the glass dichromic nanotechnology, I think they were on to something with nanotechnology. Roman concrete uses techniques similar to carbon nanotubes to give it it's extremely long lasting properties. Maybe it was 2 coincidences because the formula just was lime, volcanic ash and seawater, which seems simple enough for anyone to do however.

This was fascinating. I studied British Prehistoric Archaeology and it is incredible what our ancestors could do, especially when compared to today. Stonehenge as we see it now with the stones was the final part of what took several thousand years to build. You have the earthworks, the avenues, the causeway enclosures all rich around there. The UK is so rich still with phenomenal structures and so many other countries have their own magnificent structures too 😊 Great viewing, thank you very much 😊

Fun fact one of the gates at Stonehenge points directly to another neothaic site in New Hampshire.

Definitely liked this one. Very interesting stuff here. I think I might know how a couple of these things might've been done, but definitely very interesting to say the least. Thank you for the awesome video.

Stonehenge makes sense. Never doubt the power of human boredom.

There is another example about swords: Around the year 0, Norikan swords were popular in ancient Rome. About 300BC, there was an explosion of a meteorite in mid-air above the Noriker's homeland in southern Bavaria, near the nowadays austrian border. That meteorite scattered a healthy amount of iridium across the landscape. For 300 years this displaced the population, but when they returned they unknowingly used PROTOSOLAR MATTER that hardened their sword blades. At that time it was normal that swords were bending during battles and needed to be straightened. With their harder to bend swords the romans had a clear edge! (Ha, pun...)

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The Ancients don't get nearly enough of the recognition and respect that they deserve. It seems bonkers to us for a people to drag enormous monoliths 100+ miles on wooden runners from a quarry to a specific site, only for them to set them upright and atop one another. But one thing I always keep in mind is WHAT ELSE ARE THE GOING TO DO? Obviously they have to keep themselves alive with clothing, shelter, and food from hunting, gathering, farming, etc. Aside from that, there were no streaming services, video games, or even books (in many cases) to keep them entertained day in and day out. Instead, they carefully watched the cycles of earth's seasons, the moon's phases, and the movement of the stars. Over and over. Every single day. For their entire lifetime. I have a feeling that their perception of passing time was very different from ours. The giant "steps" were almost certainly used for terraced farming. They still use terraces for crops right there in the same valley to this day! You can easily see them from the giant steps by simply turning around, hahaha. The Nazca Lines could have easily been formed by first precisely drawing a much smaller image, then meticulously scaling it up. With ropes and stakes and one hell of an understanding of dimension, they were etched in the soil for whomever to see. They didn't need to be able to see it from above to know what it looked like. As to why? Who knows, but I'd bet a dollar they were intended for gods or maybe a calendar or something. Maybe even several different uses.

Okay but the giant stairs are actually terrace farms. Traditional farming wasn't possible where they lived thus terrace farms. 😅

The batteries would have put out DC voltage. AC voltage is used for relaxing/messaging muscles.

I don't wanna be nitpicking but the Nazca lines weren't made by the Incans, but a pre-Incan civilization called the Nazca. BTW good job on the vid, I really enjoyed it!

This is the best of these BE AMAZED I seen.

The Chameleon cup is a wonder because its colours depend on nano-particles, and the speaker speculates (at 4:31) how they could have mastered the techniques without computers or microscopes. My understanding is (correct me if I'm wrong) that the micro-particles are too small to see with a microscope even if you had one - but in fact, stained glass windows use the same techniques, and they have been around for a long time too, in old churches. Perhaps this glass technique has been pased down from the Romans - that's a possibility - but a lot of what was known in those days was NOT passed down. For example, until the Anti-Kythera mechanism was found, examined and decoded, we believed that the earliest mechanisms using cogwheels in that way, were clocks, which were invented in the 13th century - yet the Antikythera mechanism was much more sophisticated than any early clock - and it comes from the time of Archimedes!

My main query about the giant steps being terraced farming is the solid flat surface - not sure much would grow on or through that.

"It was believed that the Nazca lines were meant to be used as a symbol to ask the gods for help...help with drawing the Nazca lines. Bazinga! ...All jokes aside, I am obsessed with the famed historical drawings and I hope to see them for myself someday!

I am addicted to your video intro, especially the "WOW" part.

I wonder if the NASDAQ lines, the spiral in particular, if measured reveals that it matches the golden ratio 🤔

The Greeks are the key to Western Civilization. The Romans just took everything and gave it new names, and took credit for them.

11:07 The narrator conveniently forgets to mention the blocks are made of the hardest granite known but have no tool marks.

Excellent video, Be Amazed! Your videos always brighten my day!

He's right about Wootz steel. Only Japanese swordsmiths ever truly use anything like the old ways anymore. The bands come from folding and twisting of the steel to drive out impurities and smoothen the carbon content throughout. Modern Damascus is more of a statement, because it simply layers different types of finished steel bars or rods, which does not improve upon the performance of a single piece of well-made, well-forged steel.

Black iron is the patina from heating it up to critical and slowly cool it off, the oxidation turns black instead of into rust and is weatherproof to an extent. Then heat it up slightly and coat with beeswax

I feel like back then we were the kind of stupid that we were smart *proceeds to realise that I haven’t evolved at all*

The mysterious non-rusting iron pillar of India is definitely not magic or really that advanced at all. I've heard the pillar contains a high level of phosphorus, which will not allow the iron to rust. This can be done accidentally by not purifying the iron during smelting, or added accidentally from the fire used to make the metal. Also, I've also heard the pillar was regularly coated in butter (or ghee) for centuries, which will obviously stop the iron from rusting. Also, the pillar used to be much deeper in the ground, and contrary to its mythical status, isn't actually non rusting, as the first few feet (that used to be in the ground) has quite a lot of rust on the surface. Therefore, it would have been much easier for people to oil (butter?) the upper metal and stop it from rusting. The pillar was then dug up and moved at a later date, and not sunk into the ground as much, which is why the lower half (which was buried) is rusty. EDIT: About the sword of Goujian, if the edge of the blade was genuinely made of tin, or somehow tin plated, that would explain how it is still sharp and resistant to "rust" (actually, tin oxidizes but is the same process as rusting). Tin basically does not break down like iron or steel does due to oxidation, because the oxygen does not penetrate the thin layer of oxidized metal created at the surface. Iron and steel continues rusting beyond the surface due to molecular physics (that I will not go in to). Basically oxygen transfers from the surface atoms of iron to the next layer down, which is then replaced by more free oxygen in the air until the entire piece of metal is rusted all the way through. Tin and copper don't have this occur. Copper also has the same properties as tin, which is why copper water pipes don't "rust" through and stay intact for a LONG time. The surface layer of oxidation protects the copper (or tin) below.

There is another you tuber (click spring) who made an antikythera mechanism by hand. took him years, and he goes into great detail about it's many functions, not just the eclipses.

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9:05 The iron contains phosphorus which forms on contact with air iron phosphate which prevents rusting. BUT this iron-phosphorus-alloy is so brittle that it can't be used for machinery!

awesome info again ty

The Inca steps are built to be able to cultivate plants on the slopes of the mountains. We find the same at Machu Picchu.

Your video has so many good moments, I didn't waste any time relaxing with it

Our ancestors were more developed in math, engineering, and social development than us.

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The secrets for wootz steel are a very small percentage of vanadium and the forging process involving making crucible steel from the ore.

5:45 those are farming steps... Because of the angle of the sun, flat farms wouldn't get light evenly, the steps help fix the problem by raising each level above the crops that would block the sun.

21:00 Stonehenge isn't in an empty field, the field has Stonehenge in it making it not empty.

Great video👍

@Clickspring is recreating the greek mechanism. Using tools from that period. It is quite amazing all the little parts and the precision that the ancient greeks were capable of.

While I don't know much about that pole... could be something similar to bluing. Bluing is essentially intentionally causing a rust finish which is rust resistant with a black color. The finish looks quite similar.

The Bagdad batteries have been tested, and they found that the max power one of them could put out was maybe strong enough to light a light bulb for like a minute.

I read a book summarizing Plato which was written before the discovery of the mechanism. The author took some stuff Plato said about progressing into the future and rewinding to the past and said he thought Plato had seen a geared mechanism which showed planetary positions. The author was trying to disprove an allegation often made that Plato hated practical matters in science in favor of his favorite emotional abstractions.

remember, back then it wasn’t a lot of distractions and only a few entertaining events. So they had nothing but time to focus on complex inventions especially if needing to conceal secrets and track everything in the world.

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at 9:51, the correct term is "oxidation". The term "OXIDIZATION" does not exist. Iron found at the sea bottom does not rust if there are lots of impurities in it such as silicon. This 1600 year old piece of iron likely had lots of silicon impurities in its' alloy of iron.

These days people all around are using phones and tablet but we did not have nothing like electricity

You can never underestimate the human spirit and Enginuity of our ancestors. I am still amazed at all the structures that was built without any of our modern technology that we have today.

Give him some credit he has done so much reserch to 3-5 hour prob

Some of these inventions look incredible and so mysterious and almost alien for how out of the world they look.

The beat in the background is in my SoundCloud playlist. For years now. BE AMAZED😮

I suppose we'd know these things if not for the many "great resets" that took place throughout history; we're in the middle of one right now.

The "Baghdad Batteries" were actually found just outside of Bagdad, and they were most likely used to hold papyrus scrolls. The electroplating theory is very unlikely as there is no evidence of electroplated artifacts from that place and time.

Damn youtube is really getting away with two unskippable ads in a row

this dude's definition of computers is comical

12:44 It is extremely peculiar how they were able to get all of the different sized and shaped stones to fit so perfectly. They knew exactly where each stone needed to go. People today couldn’t do it - certainly not without computers.

The 'Steps' are for agriculture to reduce food importing.

Terrace farming. You can see the real stairs.

The Incan steps are in fact not stairs but rather stepped planting terraces that enabled the Incan empire to grow crops on a mountain side, land that would otherwise be unusable for crops due to their steep angle.

There is always the "fall back" position to explain these things --- "ancient space alien visitations."😅

Generation to generation

Much of this lost ancient technology was probably explained in texts at the Library of Alexandria. What a monumental loss of knowledge! 😮

I'm not tired saying this love your voice!!!! 😊😊 Another mistery of incan people how could they cut with such precission the rocks for the buildings??? Also how Aztec could design drainage system back then?? 😮

Those "giant stairs" arent actually stairs. Its a farm. Edit: as in terraces

Well, instead of saying "how on earth did these people with primitive means do these things?", the REAL scientific approach should be to say "maybe our view of these people's means is completely off". These building, computing and metal-making techniques (I didn't go to the end of the video, there may be more) were very efficient - why think they arrived at all these things "by accident", "without knowing what they were doing"? If these skills were lost, it's probably because of stupid domination or conquest sequences. For example, if the conquistadores had been less primitive (and stupid), they could probably have asked how the citadels in the Andes was built and got an answer. Same for the crusaders and Damascus steel.

Google Titanium/Gold Alloy... That sword, is clearly an early metallurgy Wonder, but not a mystery.

Wait, there's toilet golf ! ?

it has been proven that you can cut even granite using sand and a copper blade. So that's how they did these cuts in the column

I think the Bagdad Battery (although functional as one) was never intended to be a source of electricity. I think it was more important to the romans what the reactions did to the liquid inside the pot than the charges they produce.

12 mil already? Its only been 1hour

It would be so cool if time travel was possible i would love to see how the pyramids were created

Nice one

Peru is mentioned several times. That country was on another level!

I want to make a video about It toooo 😮😮😮

the two - colored cup. something people should be questioning is "How did the Romans produce something as small as a nano-particle?"

Look at what the Egyptian’s ,romans and greeks built, they are still standing , that tells me they knew something we don’t.

Amazing stuff

it is only Grice and Paru, there more out their

The Mayan and Incan civilizations are truly fascinating.

I didn’t now that toilet golf existed.

For the simple fact that many of us can't survive in the wild, I'd say a lot of our ancient ancestors are 10 times smarter than a lot of us

If our ancestors could meet us they'd say people got lazy, after being amazed by current tech.

Huge stairs? Terraces for agricultural production . . .

I've been told, it Elijah and his firey chariot that helped with the Nazca Lines, the rest, is a bit beyond me.

The 4 exact cuts in the slab could be for movement, like you do in a sidewalk.

It's ironic when the Stonehenge segment started you displayed a photo of the Rolling Stones but failed to ask Kieth Richards how he and other people actually built it....🤔....🤪🤣😅

First 12 seconds: Probably think of ancestors being a dumber version of us. They didn't invent smart phones. My brain: that proves that they were more intelligent than us. 😊

Incan steps 100% for growing crops. No doubt. Not really a mystery whatsoever as the incans are literally known for forms like this

Which technology do I wish I have? "How to handle a woman? There's a way said the wide old man......". Camelot (Richard Harris). An oldie but still a good question.

Now I’m convinced that in the past the romens had witches and anime powers to make these

I feel like dichroic glass made by the Romans was probably accidental and they were just trying to decorate the glass with silver and gold, especially considering there's only about 50 pieces and the cup is the only one that's really whole. Or only one Roman glass blower/maker knew how and died keeping it a secret.

Random but I don’t know how I feel about the new intro. It’s something about the little synthy melody from the original intro that just does it for me

It could be like a wedge that prevents putting fingers in or a distance wedge to stop another piece getting cut to far down. There being more than one because you match it up with the other line so the real art piece that they were working on isnt there.

3:10 Julian calender is so complicated, even today we can't comprehend how many days in a month.... 28? 29? 30? 31? It's fascinating.....

Ollantaytambo! forgot its name, just googled and realized that I have been there few years ago when visiting Machu Picchu.

Many different groups lived in Peru before the Incas. They ruled the land when the Spanish arrived, so they got credit for everything. Many of the stone creations you show were built before the Incas and simply used by them.

The Antikythera Machine, also called the Antikythera Mechanism, is considered the first ancient calculator for calculating astronomical positions. Its not computer!