7 Ancient Technologies Far Too Advanced For Their Time

[castleromeo]

The invention of shovel was really ground breaking

[Hephzibah...]

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

[Catseye]

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

You are welcome!

[thehighlander]

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

[jdmz]

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

[ibcasalin]

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

[aarondesilva]

We jus not gonna talk about the hologram glove kol

[wittwittwer]

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

[animedaisuke]

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

[Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

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

[IamKlaus]

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

[kurtdemesa]

"It was supposed to demonstrate the power and wealth of Egypt, and obviously, the amount of wood they have to spare"


Man, that one got me hahahha

[Hornybonker]

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

[psubramaniachetty]

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

[vincenttooles]

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

[ethan]

The circle in the thumbnail basically circled a random thing

[cristalmyth]

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

[kerilososcar]

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

[lomax]

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

[notyou]

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