MYSTERIOUS Ancient Technologies

These remarkable inventions and techniques showcase the ingenuity of ancient civilizations, revealing their advanced understanding of the world and their ability to manipulate it in ways that seem almost modern. Join us, as we count down the top 15 most mysterious ancient technologies.

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[noelmcauliffe]

The reality behind The Saqqara Bird.
Picture the scene, 2000 years ago, two mates
"Look what I made"
"What d'ya call that?"
"Well it's a bird, obviously!"
"Nope, looks nothing like it, people will mistake it for something else"
"LIKE WHAT??...Alright then, you tell me what else has wings and flys and looks suspiciously like a

[josephbrownjr]

In Ballbek, the trillathons that are visible in the foundation of the platform. However their weight is closer to 800 tons each and they are lifted over 20 feet up from ground level. The 1, 100 ton pregnant woman megalith is not only worked into shape but, its liberated from the bedrock and placed on top of an even larger set of megaliths, and finally on the other side of the quarry area is a final 1, 350 ton megalith that is even bigger than the other ones. So how daft were the original engineers and builders whom were capable of such feats of building but us modern people struggle with working together or even performing simple tasks without creating chaos

[bazra]

The bird looks more like a flying fish, Those waves on the walls and deckhead were made by machine far too regular to be hand cut.

[johankellgren]

How to work with stone was shown in a documentary about Hanibal on the Discovery channel.

[moneybags]

The Saqqara Bird looks like a weather vane to me.

[jamesbarisitz]

If the Egyptians had knowledge of flight, I would imagine the images of flying planes would be engraved all over the place. A child toy.

[mattematsson]

Did they use torches? Where are the sootmarks?
If so, they must've suffocated due to lack of oxygen.

[jonathanhughes]

The Inca claimed that the didn’t build them. They had only been living there for about 100 years. If you look at the lowest stones are way more precise than the highest ones. You don’t make your bust work earlier, people get better at their jobs and not worse.

[Eric-qovv]

It’s a representation of a BIRD. Period.

[garywheeler]

The technology came from The Fallen Angels

[jasonsmith]

There was a tail on the back, but it fell off

[Rob_Mike_Litterst]

those ADJECTIVES get MYSTERIOUSLY changing the caps lock key on a keyboard

[WorldDiscoveryAii]

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[jonathanhughes]

The message system was just dumb and telephone cups with a string attached to both.

[TrivettTurner-eerp]

Yea, Giza, on the coast of the Mediterranean, isn't on the equator...

[osbornlim]

Could it be that ancient people are build stronger?

[sbar]

I liked this channel a lot more before you used fake AI images as the thumbnail. Now I don't dont even want to click on em.

[atomatman]

THATS MAGNETS STUCK TOGETHER I SEE THERE GLOW MAGNETS LET OFF IR GLOW RADIUM. THERE FORMS

[LockRockRCs]

Why didn't you show what's on the thumbnail? Maybe be honest?

[MJnr_]

Excuse me Saksaywaman can I get your number? 😂