Building the Impossible: Engineering Marvels | Ancient Discoveries (S1, E5) | Full Episode
In 2004 the American School of Classical Studies in Greece made a surprising discovery of two limestone coffins which dated …
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Ya think Noah built the Ark without a crane?
Simply turn the column blocks one on the other. They will grind to a perfect mating surface. No different than lapping engine valves.
How come all the machines from old tyms are made of wood? Werent they in bronze age? why wouldn't all this be made of metal. 😅
"…and a place to stand on…"
Just a bigger lever won't work.
Watch the old Gemini videos.
A lever won't work. unless you
can hold yourself from moving.
steve
Is this the narrator from Modern Marvels? That Guy is part if my childhood 😊
9:57 when you say it's a perfect technique my brain went to "they mighta just rubbed it together"
Iron saw blades would have worked on stone in the Iron Age. But what about the much earlier Bronze Age of Ancient Greece and Classical Ancient Egypt. Would bronze saw blades work at all without wearing out very quickly? Just wondered how that would work.
you think in a thousand years they will be making these kinds of videos about what we take for granted every day?
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Very interesting.
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not even black granite (the toughest granite) has the compression strength to withstand a 500-600ft structure, let alone pink granite; which is the major limiting factor for ancient structures.
the foundation blocks would simply have fractured & crumbled under the immense weight. 150-200ft would be a more reasonable estimation of height
So, were these builders able to do all this with vegetable fibers instead of wire ropes? I don’t doubt they had the physics but wood and vegetable fibers are somewhat limiting.
Ah, back when the history channel was about history.
Hmmm ship shaker = 1 ship & done… not a deterrent. Send in a dummy first .. then pillage & plunder. Other devices are genius
@36:04 Nope, the tower of babel was the tallest, nothing today even reaches as high as it was, the Bible said it reached into the heavens.
Keep saying the "ancient world", but the narrator should use "ancient Europe" (plus Egypt) instead.
why would you lower a heavy, expensive, and breakable stone box with ropes and complicated wooden cranes when you can place it where you want it then dig the dirt out from underneath? remember occam?
Aliens?
Germans are smart enough to rebuild the thing but not enough to figure out livestock does the work? That's like a useless feature in an amazing new product…
What material was their rope made out of?
This must be really old. I didn't hear a single suggestion of aliens
I'm not sure why people ever doubted the ancients. They are men and god gives the ability to think and co-create
By cutting in sections while it's still laying down, and then when they go to stacking up it up, they fit because there from the same cut.
¿Why do most of the University types have British accents?
When it’s about the Roman’s they have all the answers but when it’s about the Aztec and Egyptian it all comes down to aliens 👽
This current society that we today are part of- and as far back as ‘we’ know- are not responsible for the invention or creation of most of the ancient stone structures . Especially the pyramids- IF it was humans that created that/ it’s not the current species of humans.
these guys who are saying, ""oh now we know how they did it" – no they don't. If you have it all figured out, show us how to move the 1200 ton stone. just try it. even with modern equipment. you can't.
aliens
Is the model of crane shown at 8:15 on display somewhere? If you know where, please post in reply. Thanks.
Where's the inverted water wheel ???
Terrible! Best of luck!
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