Building the Impossible: Engineering Marvels | Ancient Discoveries (S1, E5) | Full Episode

I think ancient people were just able to do more because it’s all they had to do, imagine we all turn our phones off go outside and everyone start working together.

My wife is the greatest engineer that I've ever known, as she is always raising my wood or getting me to make/build anything she wants without even lifting a finger pretty much, all she has to do is.........

It’s amazing what people can accomplish with two hands and a few simple tools.

I used to be in the Burial vault business a long time ago and we used a version of that a frame crane to lower concrete burial vaults into the ground. The main difference was we used a block and tackle and had it mounted on a trailer with a extendable set of legs. Otherwise very similar.

This must be really old. I didn't hear a single suggestion of aliens

Looking at these machines it’s amazing no one applied them as paddle wheels for ships

Simply fascinating

Crazy how advanced our ancestors was. Modern buildings/homes will never stand for thousands of years like some of these buildings have

If large pieces were cut on the ground before placing them together then the crack would be easy to put together again when building the structure buildings. That might be why he could not get a filler gage between the stone Pillers.

This is ABSOLUTELY incredible!!! Greek people WERE the "alien builders". Were all starseeds, whether sumerian or egyptian or mayan or chinese etc.

This was excellent

I'm not sure why people ever doubted the ancients. They are men and god gives the ability to think and co-create

This is why I believe we are just a different generation of humans entirely. This planet has wiped us out before and will do so again sometime. We get knocked down and rebuild back up. People love to believe we are the most advanced in today’s standards but the sheer power those people had was insane. I really wish we could could ever see in real life how those buildings looked and not just on a computer. History is far more fascinating than the world we have today.

It's always the "experts" who doubt our ancestors. Not me.

The Corinth limestone coffins were not carved or moved. They were molded in place in the burial pit using limestone concrete. Show me the inevitable chisel marks that would result from chiseling such things into existence. Where are they? Nowhere, that's where. Just like the poured limestone floor of one of the circular rooms of Karahan Tepe, limestone concrete was nothing unknown to the ancients... which was about 9,000 years earlier. But everything else is fantastic and historical or at least highly possible and probable.

Archimedes ship shaker????? Never heard of it.

❤ love looking at the show gave more

Why would you use a cran to set an Obeless? You rase it 1/3 of it hight. Teeter-totter style. And then you use Anchors, pulleys, and ropes to raise it the rest of the way.

I want to make a very cultural point: The greatest invention of Humanity is the Symphony Orchestra!

The Acropolis was NOT the work of the Romans....it was the Caninities who built it ! !