What’s way more interesting, imo, are the theories about lost civilizations.
Allegedly, some advanced civilization(s) existed before recorded history. I heard they found some artifacts in Egypt, seemingly made with tooling and techniques too advanced for the old Egyptians. Moreover there appear to be records suggesting some pyramids where there before the Egyptians build their own.
Very cool stuff, definitely more plausible than aliens, but I never looked into it any deeper.
More advanced than Egypt but not enough to have surviving art/writing/or any stone artifacts.
Seems unlikely, without any more information I would guess that they were either wrongly dated or the Egyptians were at the time more advanced than we knew
Entirely possible, or they existed so long ago there’s not much of anything left. What’s the possible time span since humans spread over the world? Thousands of years?
Edit: I just realised that it’s probably tens of thousands.
I love to think of an ancient Egyptian stone mason who has spent the last 40 years of his life honing and perfecting his craft, until one day he puts his efforts into making a supreme piece of work.
Then some chucklefuck who has never handled a hammer and chisel in their life tries to replicate it. Gives up after a week and is all: “The technology used was way too advanced!”
Any word on which tools or techniques were “too advanced” and, more importantly, why they were considered so? I understand that the tech that gets developed natively will vary greatly from region to region, but any group that has active trade with outside groups could get access to tools and knowledge they wouldn’t have developed themselves.
I think it was something along the line of their stonework seeming almost too good to be true. Historians apparently dismissed the idea, but some engineers insisted that it seems near impossible to shape (some specific types of) rock as perfect as they supposedly did without precision tooling. There are explanations historians came up with, but apparently these were dismissed by the engineers and no one replicated and mastered the proposed methods.
But maybe the Egyptians were just amazing craftsmen that invested crazy amounts of ressources/time into a very intricate manufacturing process. I’m no expert on these things. I just like the idea that they found a random Pyramid in Egypt and spend the rest of their days building geometric shapes in the desert, because they thought it was pretty neat 😄
People still haven’t figured how exactly the Incas (or whoever came before them), without access to iron tools, piled up HUGE stones into walls either, so it’s more like we, modern folk, really don’t give the due credit to ancient folks in certain aspects.
What’s way more interesting, imo, are the theories about lost civilizations.
Allegedly, some advanced civilization(s) existed before recorded history. I heard they found some artifacts in Egypt, seemingly made with tooling and techniques too advanced for the old Egyptians. Moreover there appear to be records suggesting some pyramids where there before the Egyptians build their own.
Very cool stuff, definitely more plausible than aliens, but I never looked into it any deeper.
More advanced than Egypt but not enough to have surviving art/writing/or any stone artifacts. Seems unlikely, without any more information I would guess that they were either wrongly dated or the Egyptians were at the time more advanced than we knew
Entirely possible, or they existed so long ago there’s not much of anything left. What’s the possible time span since humans spread over the world? Thousands of years?
Edit: I just realised that it’s probably tens of thousands.
I love to think of an ancient Egyptian stone mason who has spent the last 40 years of his life honing and perfecting his craft, until one day he puts his efforts into making a supreme piece of work.
Then some chucklefuck who has never handled a hammer and chisel in their life tries to replicate it. Gives up after a week and is all: “The technology used was way too advanced!”
Any word on which tools or techniques were “too advanced” and, more importantly, why they were considered so? I understand that the tech that gets developed natively will vary greatly from region to region, but any group that has active trade with outside groups could get access to tools and knowledge they wouldn’t have developed themselves.
I think it was something along the line of their stonework seeming almost too good to be true. Historians apparently dismissed the idea, but some engineers insisted that it seems near impossible to shape (some specific types of) rock as perfect as they supposedly did without precision tooling. There are explanations historians came up with, but apparently these were dismissed by the engineers and no one replicated and mastered the proposed methods.
But maybe the Egyptians were just amazing craftsmen that invested crazy amounts of ressources/time into a very intricate manufacturing process. I’m no expert on these things. I just like the idea that they found a random Pyramid in Egypt and spend the rest of their days building geometric shapes in the desert, because they thought it was pretty neat 😄
People still haven’t figured how exactly the Incas (or whoever came before them), without access to iron tools, piled up HUGE stones into walls either, so it’s more like we, modern folk, really don’t give the due credit to ancient folks in certain aspects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacsayhuamán