The mysterious structure on this Sumerian tablet closely resembles a working Tesla transformer.
Automatic devices
The ancient world left behind a gigantic legacy: philosophy, mathematics and democracy. But despite all these achievements, the Greeks and Romans lived in a pre-industrial era. At least that's what we used to think. But the ancient era also had a completely different side. Antique works reveal to us this world more daring than one can imagine. It seems to us that we live in an age of amazing machines, but in the same way 2000 years ago the ancient world admired ingenious mechanisms.
Traces of an ancient war. New facts
A brief report by a famous researcher of ancient civilizations on the results of an expedition to Uzbekistan in the fall of 2015. During this expedition, possible traces and artifacts of a global war in ancient times were discovered.
Incredible technologies of the ancient Slavs
Unique finds from the country of cities - Gardariki - completely change ideas about Slavic civilization and the ancient Slavs.
Amazing Ancient Telescope Images
It is believed that telescopes were invented in the 17th century in Holland, and Galileo became their first active “user”. However, ancient lenses were created much earlier. For example, the Cairo Museum houses a carefully crafted lens created before our era (pictured). The same photo shows a piece of ancient Greek mosaic depicting a man with a telescope. Have telescopes really existed since time immemorial?
In this picture we see a stone found in Peru.
Mysterious hole in an ancient Roman city
In this photo we see a hole, a storm drain, through which rainwater enters the sewer. It is located in the Italian city of Ancient Ostia. The amazing thing here is that this hole and sewer date back to the times of Ancient Rome.
By the way, it is in this city that the famous ancient Roman public toilet is located.
Amazing holes in megaliths
There are many megaliths in the world, inside of which there are perfectly smooth and carefully processed holes. It is believed that they were made by hand in time immemorial. But, looking at these photographs, you are convinced that special equipment and high technology were not used here. For example, some holes are so deep that even the length of an arm is not enough to stick it into the stone - i.e., they clearly worked here with the help of perfect tools.
Portland Vase - the secrets of ancient masters
The Portland Vase is a mysterious glass vessel from antiquity, exhibited in the British Museum. The vase is believed to have been made at the end of the first millennium BC. This decorative vessel is made of double-layered dark blue and white glass, which depicts figures of gods and mortals. The vase was found in the Middle Ages near Rome and for a long time belonged to the Dukes of Portland, which is where it got its name. It is curious that many craftsmen tried to reproduce this vase, but the most skilled carvers and glassblowers were never successful. The technology for its creation has not yet been clarified.
West Baray - a mysterious reservoir in Cambodia
Western Baray is an artificially created reservoir in Angkor (Cambodia). The dimensions of the reservoir are 8 km by 2.1 km, and the depth is 5 meters. It was created in time immemorial. The accuracy of the boundaries of the reservoir and the enormity of the work performed are striking - it is believed that it was built by the ancient Khmers..
Nearby are no less amazing temple complexes - Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. Pay attention to the precision of the layout of these complexes.
High technology in the Vedas
The Vedas are numerous ancient Indian treatises created many centuries before our era. But they contain knowledge to a level to which modern science has risen only recently by historical standards or has not yet reached it. What can we learn from the Vedas that have come down to us from time immemorial?
Ancient Siberian surgeons operated with perfect instruments
TASS reports that Novosibirsk archaeologists have found that 2.5 thousand years ago, surgeons in Southern Siberia performed complex surgical operations, including craniotomy. At the same time, they had tools that did not yet exist in Europe.
In the photo - ancient Roman medical instruments
“In the arsenal of a surgeon at the end of the first millennium BC there was an operative knife for cutting bone, a saw, a cutting instrument, tweezers, medical probes and an analogue of a modern scalpel - a lancet. Most of these instruments are similar in shape and functionality to the instruments of European surgeons of the same time. The only thing is the exception is saws, which are not found in Europe during this period,” said Pavel Volkov, leading researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS.
The scientist studied artifacts from the collection of the Minusinsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. N.M. Martyanova. Ancient surgical instruments were found in monuments of the Tagar culture dating back to the period of the 4th-3rd centuries BC. He also examined traces on the surface of trepanned skulls (IV-III centuries BC) and compared them with traces of wear on a number of artifacts that could have been used during medical operations in the Early Iron Age in Siberia.
Thus, the scientist discovered that ancient surgeons used special surgical knives for cutting bone. “Tools of this type leave marks when cutting bones, similar to those observed on trepanned skulls,” Volkov explained. Also, among the arsenal of ancient physicians, special saws were discovered that have no analogues in European archaeological collections.
The scientist also discovered in the collections of the Minusinsk Museum of Local History tweezers and instruments that could be used as medical probes.
“The totality of these tools can be considered quite sufficient, probably typical, instruments of a surgeon who practiced at the end of the last millennium BC. The morphology and function of the tools is close to European ones,” the archaeologist noted. He added that the ways in which medical experience was exchanged between people living so separately is a reason for more detailed archaeological research.
“But it is obvious that the inhabitants of the south of Siberia during this period had complex knowledge in surgery, not inferior to the ancient Roman and Greek surgeons,” Volkov concluded.
The Tagars lived in the 8th-3rd centuries BC in the steppes of Southern Siberia, on the territory of the Khakass-Minusinsk Basin (Republic of Khakassia and the southern regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory).
http://www.chronoton.ru/paleokontakty/hirurgia-tagary
Lycurgus Cup - nanotechnology of antiquity
The British Museum houses a rare antique glass vessel known as the Lycurgus Cup. It is so named because it depicts the death of the Thracian king Lycurgus, who was entangled and strangled by grapevines for insulting the god of wine Dionysus. The unique feature of the cup is that it can change color depending on the lighting and the drink that is poured into it. Scientists have long tried to unravel the mystery of the cup and found that the glass is literally “impregnated” with particles of silver and gold, the size of which is about 50 nanometers in diameter. Neither historians nor physicists have any idea how nanotechnology was used in ancient times.
Ancient pipes in Mount Baigong
In the Chinese province of Qinghai there is a mysterious low mountain Baigong, located on the shore of the Toson salt lake. There are three caves in this mountain, two of which have collapsed, but one is accessible to researchers.
An amazing discovery was made in this cave - iron pipes of different diameters, rusted and almost “dissolved” in the surrounding rock. The pipes form a complex system and are interconnected.
The most interesting thing here is the age of these pipes - according to experts, they were created several thousand years BC.
Baghdad Battery - the most famous artifact
In June 1936, a mysterious “battery” was discovered in Baghdad - a 13-centimeter vessel, the neck of which was filled with bitumen. Inside the vessel was a copper cylinder with an iron rod. The battery's discoverer, Wilhelm Koenig, suggested that it could create an electric current of one volt.
Koenig looked through other exhibits at the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities and was surprised to see silver-plated copper vases dating back to 2500 BC. e. As Koenig suggested, silver was deposited on them using the electrolytic method.
Koenig's version that the find was a battery was confirmed by the American professor J.B. Perchinski. He created an exact copy of the “battery” and filled it with wine vinegar. A voltage of 0.5 volts was recorded.
The secret of the priests of Ancient Egypt
Many researchers claim that the priests of Ancient Egypt knew the secret of obtaining artificial gold from copper. But the appearance of surplus gold could undermine the economies of countries and empires, so this knowledge was destroyed in every possible way. The Roman Emperor Diocletian in 296 issued a decree ordering that all Egyptian manuscripts on the artificial production of gold be burned. It is possible that the Alexandrian and Carthaginian libraries were destroyed precisely for this purpose.
Ancient planes can fly!
One of the most popular articles on our site is “Ancient Airplanes,” which talks about mysterious figurines that look very much like airplanes, although they were made thousands of years ago. It’s interesting that after reading this article, one of the fans of flight simulators became interested in the question - what will happen if you construct an airplane in a flight simulator with the same proportions as the ancient figures - will it fly or not? And the ancient Colombian plane took off and showed its excellent flight qualities! Look what it looks like!
Unidentified fossil objects - artifacts from the past
Is the Rod of God a tool from the future?
The Bible contains many descriptions of miracles. For example, the mysterious rod of Moses, given to him by God himself. This rod could turn water into blood, cause hail, carve water out of rock... Interestingly, in our time, many of these miracles can be explained with the help of science! It turns out that the rod was just a tool, although so perfect that it has not yet been invented in our civilization...
Vajra - the weapon of the ancient gods!
The theory of paleocontact is making itself known more and more loudly - more and more evidence is emerging that our planet once had high technologies. With the development of technology, we suddenly understand that the objects depicted in ancient frescoes or rock paintings are actually spaceships, airplanes, etc... One of these mysterious objects of the past are vajras - strange products that have survived to this day - in in contrast to many evidence of paleocontact that has disappeared over millennia...
Interest in everything related to the Roman Empire is always high. This ancient state was able to unite thousands of people and nationalities, keeping the entire Mediterranean under control for centuries. Great scientists and wise philosophers, invincible commanders and iron legions, legendary politicians and unsurpassed orators, skilled architects and experienced engineers, honor and glory, triumph and a laurel wreath - all this is the Eternal City.
The fall of the Roman Empire in 468, without exaggeration, plunged Europe into chaos for a long time and set back the development of mankind hundreds of years ago. Many technologies used during the imperial era were forgotten for many years.
Of course, the Romans did not have computers or aircraft. But people had to go centuries or even millennia in order to, in some industries, again reach the level that had already been achieved once.
The quantity and quality of lost or forgotten technologies and the subsequent failure of civilization are so astounding that you begin to wonder what history would have been like if Rome had survived. Perhaps we would live in a much more technological and developed world. But, as they say, history does not know the subjunctive mood, and we can only marvel at the skill of the Romans and fantasize what heights man would have achieved if all his discoveries had been used in a timely and effective manner and had not been forgotten.
Glass
Although the technology of making glass has been known to man since ancient times (the oldest glass jewelry found in excavations in Egypt dates back to the 5th millennium BC), it was the Romans who were able to develop the production of glass utensils to an unprecedentedly high level. Roman craftsmen learned to blow glass objects, giving them the desired shapes, to make transparent glass and mosaics.
The Portland Vase is one of the outstanding works of ancient glassblowers that has survived to this day. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the quantity and quality of glass produced in Europe fell sharply. Local glassblowers could make only the most basic items. Only Byzantine masters preserved and passed on the secrets of glassmaking from generation to generation. Hundreds of years passed before glass making was revived near Venice in the 13th century.
Roads And bridges
The main purpose of all roads in the Roman Empire was the rapid transfer of troops over long distances, as well as control of territories. Second in importance was the postal service, followed by trade. Usually roads were laid from one settlement to another, but large roads (in modern highways) could be connected by smaller roads (in modern country roads).
Before laying a new path, engineers carefully checked all the parameters and then the workers cleared the path of trees and plants and supplied material for construction (. Difficult places on the road that required expansion were noted in advance, where caravans traveling towards each other could collide with each other. It is noteworthy that Roman roads had a convex shape, allowing rainwater to flow to the edges into specially dug recesses.
Stone bridges or, less commonly, wooden bridges were laid across the rivers, signs were installed at forks, and every 15 kilometers a station with overnight accommodation and replacement horses awaited the traveler. Surprisingly, in mountainous areas you can even find tunnels in the rock, made by Roman craftsmen for the smooth continuation of the road.
The stone bridge in Alcantara, Spain (Caceres province) is one of the masterpieces of ancient engineering. Built in the early 2nd century AD under Emperor Trajan To better understand the Roman road system, just remember the saying “All roads lead to Rome.” Indeed, the so-called “zero kilometer” for all roads of the empire began in the Eternal City. And any traveler could get to the capital from anywhere following a simple rule: at a fork in the road, choose the widest road.
Concrete
In Ancient Rome, concrete was poured into the cavities of load-bearing structures. It is thanks to the widespread use of concrete that many Roman buildings have survived to this day. And the Romans massively used a combination of concrete and metal reinforcements, achieving great stability of buildings, so that they could easily withstand a strong earthquake.
During the construction of the Roman Colosseum, concrete was widely used as a fastening agent. As you can see, Roman engineers knew their job - the greatest monument of ancient architecture stood for almost 2000 years After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, the technology for making concrete was lost. Europeans were able to rediscover the production of concrete only after a thousand years.
TO BE CONTINUED…
subscribe to our T
Nowadays the Internet is a great thing. Andrei “Kolymchanin” had an idea about cannons as a former super-weapon, but there was only one detail left - to combine what we now know about progressive weapons and apply to what was used in not so distant “antiquity” .
Part 1
And so, what do we have, comrade kadykchanskiy ?
1. Old bronze cannons or guns containing a large amount of copper - made of quite, I dare say, a relatively viscous material.
2. The cannon is collapsible - with a large thread, a super-heavy cannon, and even with an incomprehensible recess in the rear part. We can say that such colossuses were collected and dismantled somewhere in specialized places. It’s not on the battlefield to dismantle this hulk.
The question arises: why does a relatively simple design have so many incomprehensible elements? Everything falls into place after viewing this material:
We simply have a huge and cumbersome prototype of this “new and progressive” weapon. The question is that a relatively soft barrel directly provides the necessary density in the formation of charges. The principle of the “Roman candle” is essentially:
A Roman candle is a long cardboard tube. The wick is placed at the top of the tube. Inside the tube is filled with alternating layers of slow-burning pyrotechnic composition, stars and gunpowder. The candle burns from top to bottom and successively shoots up burning stars. The number of stars in a Roman candle can be from 4 to several dozen pieces.
A tubular magazine, most likely with a multi-charge, was densely thrombosed into such a gun, as a filler for that very incomprehensible narrow hole in the rear part of the collapsible structure, and the charges themselves were possibly supplied separately, as the shot was needed. This, by the way, explains some differences in the diameter of the stone core and the diameter of the gun barrel - with a dense arrangement of several charges, most likely, a compactor was used.
But, I will drive away a stingy tear of melancholy that I will not find confirmation of my “hypothesis” in the next hundred years, and I will reflect on the stone processing technology of our Architects.
Nowadays there is a popular opinion that in order to saw and cut out super-large stone pillars from a mountain, super-huge granite saws are needed and it is unlikely that in the next millennium we will use the very technology of the “gods” that our Forerunners used to process the walls of the sarcophagus at low speeds entered the stone with a thick drill:
But nothing like that! It turns out that if you have direct brains and hands, it is possible, using a vibrating tool, to create equally complex work with a small working area. Grinding? Cut the stone inside at a right angle so that the marks from the circular saw are not visible? It’s as simple as shelling pears, the main thing is to know the principle, well, and some money to buy a multi-tool:
And if you pay attention to the artifacts that ambiguously say that in Egypt there was still a concept of electricity, batteries and lamps, then the existence of such a “renovator” is quite acceptable.
Yes, and by the way, the ultrasound generator connected to the scalpel makes it super-easy for the surgeon to use. Why not admit that our Ancestors knew much more about the generation of sound and the use of technologies based on vibration than we do today?
The question remains open - what kind of greedy mug confiscated all the progressive instruments from our eyes? Where is the technology of former Architects stored? Who is responsible for the fact that we began to consider people as “gods” who, simply in a technological solution, have long gone through everything that we have only just begun to touch? Moments of description of events fall out of mythology a little, if we consider them from a technocratic perspective. I will continue to compare the “moments” of previous technological solutions and move them into a direction that is familiar to us.
Part 2
I remember an excerpt from “The Argonauts” and their meeting with the Stymphalian birds:
For many days and many nights they sailed along the southern coast of the Euxine Pontus, passing various kingdoms of peoples hitherto unknown to them. Finally they began to approach the island of Aretia. As they swam to the shore, a huge bird rose from the island. Flying over the ship, she dropped her feathers on it - pointed like arrows; one of them hit Oileus in the shoulder. From pain, Oiley dropped the oar from his hands; The Argonauts looked with amazement at the strange weapon that struck their associate. Oiley's neighbor took the feather from the wound, washed it and bandaged it.
The thing is that, in my opinion, there is a slightly “corrected” story about this incident on the Internet. At least I came across an old book in which this meeting of the Argonauts with the “birds” was different. There were two attacking birds, they rushed across the sky with a characteristic noise reminiscent of a continuous scream, before taking off these birds screamed wildly, scaring the Argonauts half to death, and the Argonauts themselves did not engage in battle with them, and, moreover, they could not shoot any one of the “birds”, simply covering themselves with shields and sailing to a safe distance from the island on which they lived. It is also interesting that these birds were described as solid metal.
And so what we have:
1. The Argonauts’ ship approached a protected object, in this case it is an island;
2. The warning system has triggered (alarm signal);
3. Two fighters took off into the air and fired at the ship until it left the protected area;
4. The weapons used by the defending side matched those described in the Mahabharatha.
It seems that it is more believable to depict these same birds something like this:
Moreover, they knew about supersonic aircraft (the most stable form in the air at this speed) in, for example, Peru (I wonder if Peru is called Peru only because the Peruvians themselves called themselves that, or the letter was simply lost over time " N"? Perun sounds more plausible):
And more than enough has been said about all kinds of gadgets in fairy tales, for example, the description of the “fairy tale about a poured apple on a silver saucer”:
There lived a man and his wife, and they had three daughters: two were dressy girls, entertainers, and the third was simple-minded, and her sisters, and after them both father and mother, called her a fool. The fool is pushed everywhere, pushed around in everything, forced to work; She doesn’t say a word, she’s ready for anything: flying grass, splitting splinters, milking cows, feeding ducks. Whoever asks anything, the fool always says: “Fool, go ahead!” Look behind everything, you fool!” A man goes to the fair with hay and promises to buy gifts for his daughters. One daughter asks: “Buy me, father, some kumac for a sundress”; another daughter asks: “Buy me a scarlet Chinese shirt”; and the fool remains silent and watches. Even though she’s a fool, she’s a daughter; I feel sorry for my father - and he asked her: “What should you buy, fool?” The fool grinned and said: “Buy me, dear father, a silver saucer and a pouring apple.” - “What do you need?” - the sisters asked. “I will begin to roll an apple on a saucer and say the words that the old woman taught me - because I served her a roll.” The man promised and went.
How close, how far, how long, how long was he at the fair, sold the hay, bought some gifts: for one daughter a scarlet Chinese dress, another for a sundress, and for the fool a silver saucer and a juicy apple; returned home and shows. The sisters were happy, they sewed sundresses, but they laughed at the fool and waited to see what she would do with the silver saucer and the pouring apple. The fool does not eat the apple, but sat down in the corner and says: “Roll, roll, apple, on a silver saucer, show me cities and fields, forests and seas, and the heights of the mountains and the beauty of the skies!” An apple rolls on a saucer, poured on a silver one, and on the saucer all the cities are visible one after another, ships on the seas and shelves in the fields, and the height of the mountains and the beauty of the skies; the sun rolls after the sun, the stars gather in a round dance - everything is so beautiful, it’s amazing - no matter what you say in a fairy tale or write with a pen.
How artists have imagined this device:
But what do we have in this case?
1. Flat screen surface (saucer);
2. A kind of “stylus” in the shape of an “apple”, possibly a prototype of some kind of external “mouse”;
3. Activator words, which, like Apple’s patented device unlocking technology, respond only to specific commands (in Apple’s case, this is simply a unique symbol that a person writes on the touch screen);
4. The ability to view current events in real time without spatial restrictions and bypassing physical barriers. That is, “without surveillance cameras.” So to speak - spatial technology, which we may still get to.
In general, this “saucer with an apple” looked more like this:
In a certain kingdom there lived a merchant. He lived in marriage for twelve years and had only one daughter, Vasilisa the Beautiful. When her mother died, the girl was eight years old. Dying, the merchant's wife called her daughter to her, took out the doll from under the blanket, gave it to her and said:
Listen, Vasilisa! Remember and fulfill my last words. I’m dying and, together with my parent’s blessing, I’m leaving you this doll; always keep it with you and don’t show it to anyone; and when some misfortune befalls you, give her something to eat and ask her for advice. She will eat and tell you how to help the misfortune.
But in fact, if you dig into this “fairy tale”, many moments become not just interesting, but super-technological and fascinating:
1. A robot doll is described that, in dialogue mode, gave specific solutions in specific situations. In fact, it is a “super-Wikipedia” in one device;
2. The “doll’s” knowledge base went beyond a simple statement of the situation; it involved forecasting and understanding the situation;
3. The doll ran on organic matter, and when activated, its eyes glowed. Why describe in such detail the fact that the doll’s eyes glowed “like two candles”? Probably we have a direct clue about the principle on which this doll worked;
4. The pupa performed a fairly wide range of work, such as simple cleaning of the territory or painstaking sorting of small seeds;
5. The fairy tale mentions that “from the pins” and “from the knitting needles” there was light. At least it’s enough to see what you’re doing. These are something like biochemical lamps or gadgets that were powered by the energy of the action itself (which, in principle, is not so fantastic if we have long ago developed watches powered by human thermal energy);
6. At Yaga’s hut, the principle of using a “frightening hologram” is painted, guarding the territory in the form of a black, red and white horseman;
7. The skulls on the Yagi fence are exactly similar in principle to our modern lighting of the object. But in addition to the simple lighting function, they also had their own logic (which, for a second, still had to be built into this device, and someone else was doing this too), and this logic was based on evaluative actions and made independent decisions. How else can we explain that the “skull” was “following” with a fiery “gaze” those who essentially “framed” Vasilisa? And such a “fire” was probably of a wave nature;
8. The “smart home” principle implemented in Yagi’s hut directly recognized voice commands and carried them out. A simple order to “grind the wheat” was enough to call three manipulators at once and process the grain in some kind of built-in multi-harvester;
9. Yaga herself was in no hurry to spread all the devices she had at her disposal to people. That is, in fact, she was engaged in a sort of “accumulation” of unique technologies like a “flying stupa” and so on.
What is also noteworthy is that in this “fairy tale” household chores are called “lessons”. That is, a craft, in essence, is comparable to what a person acquires throughout his life, that is, “lessons.”
Levashov describes Finist Yasny Sokol very well (we must give him credit for this - he raised such a layer that many simply cannot do): http://sv-rasseniya.narod.ru/levashov/sk az/19.html
But this, in theory, is not the limit for the technologies of the previous civilization. The question remains open - where are all these super-gadgets now and for what reason did the super-civilization experience a total collapse, not only technological, but also spiritual. I don’t believe that the fragmentation shot from Lelya or Fata caused such damage - people who, like Yaga, would have used everything they could find, would still have survived. In any case, the survivors would have included techies who would have restored the techno-complex faster than people multiplied again on the planet.
It seems that the reason for such a “total shutdown” on the scale of an entire civilization was indeed provoked in a targeted and selective manner. Essentially we are talking about biological warfare. But more on that later.
Guys, we put our soul into the site. Thank you for that
that you are discovering this beauty. Thanks for the inspiration and goosebumps.
Join us on Facebook And In contact with
In ancient times, many knowledge and discoveries were passed strictly from teacher to student. And if this chain was broken, then the principle of operation of the invention could be lost forever.
Delving into history, website I have collected for you 6 technologies from the past, the secret of which has not survived to this day.
Lycurgus Cup
This ancient Roman goblet, which depicts the death of King Lycurgus, has an interesting feature. He changes its color depending on the lighting and the liquid that is poured into it. For example, in the shade it is green, in the light it is red. If you pour water into it, it glows blue. If there is oil, the color changes to yellow-red.
Scientists believe that the cup was used to determine impurities in drinks. The bowl is made of tiny nanoparticles of gold and silver. This means that the ancient craftsmen were familiar with what we today call nanotechnology. However, no one has been able to repeat this until today.
Free energy
Nikola Tesla was a brilliant inventor and designed many fantastic things. In 1901, he built the Wardenclyffe Tower, which was capable of transmitting electricity anywhere in the world and providing people with free energy.
Unfortunately, Tesla's laboratory was no longer funded, and the tower was soon destroyed. After his death, part of the invention drawings was captured, and the other part disappeared mysteriously.
Spirit Sound
The hypogeum of Khal-Saflieni is the oldest underground sanctuary. The most interesting part of it is the “Oracle Room”. The sounds uttered in this room by a low male voice are amplified many times over and spread throughout the entire structure, while all other sounds are inaudible.
Scientists are still trying to figure out how the ancient amplifier works. It is known that sounds resonate at such a frequency that people feel the vibration throughout their entire body. This effect causes a change in consciousness and the appearance of hallucinations.
Flexible glass
Between 14 and 37 AD. e. there lived a glassblower who discovered a substance called flexible glass. The master made a glass from this material for Emperor Tiberius. When Tiberius drank from the cup and threw it on the floor, it did not break.
The emperor decided that the amazing material could devalue silver and gold. He ordered the glassblower to be executed so that the secret of flexible glass would die with him.
