These Ancient Relics Are so Advanced They Really Shouldn't Exist

I don't think we give ancient humans enough credit.

Imagine how many genius humans weren’t ever famously known for their inventions we just know a few people that were most talked about

Given that the Library of Alexandria was built in 283 BC and wasn't burned until 270 AD, the knowledge of this device (perhaps a blue print) may have been stored in Alexandria during the time of its creation. The scrolls or parchment related this device could have been one of those lost knowledge in Alexandria.

I'm sure that the Antikathyra mechanism was preceded by simpler computers, making it not the first computer, but the oldest surviving computer.

Imagine how advanced humanity would be if that artifact would’ve reached its destination.

"This technology could not have existed at that time." Rather than this approach, how about we now start saying, "This proves our ancestors were FAR more advanced than we ever thought possible." (Spoken in the man's British accent of course)

I'm amazed that there is no mention or link to Clicksprings channel on YT. He's making/reproducing the Antikythera machine and exploring the methods most probably used to make the original. Very informative, very relaxing and amazing workmanship.

When I was a child I remember reading in a newspaper ‘5000 year old spaceship found’. I have tried looking for that article but cannot find it now. I remember it to be 100% true and not a memory cuz until recently I had a paper-cut of the headline which I lost when moving to a different city for studies. Also, I believe it is too egoistic to think that just because we are really smart, ancient humans were dumb af. I mean we have 100s of pieces of evidence that point to them being extremely smart. The pyramids, this book u talked about, the gadget u mentioned, some cave paintings depicting extremely advance stuff. I’m not an expert but I’m sure Ive heard a few mythological stories talking about crystals or mirrors that were used in the stories to talk to other people 100s of KMs away. What if we are stuck with the language and all those crystals or mirrors are nothing but devices that can videocall? There are so many texts and illustrations that are considered fictions and mythological fictions just because we think the things they mention shouldn’t exist in ancient times. But what if its just a language difference but ancient humans were almost as advance or even better than us? There are mentions of spaceships in all kinds of mythologies, mentions of advanced gadgets too. Certain mythologies even say that the life on earth works in a cyclic way where after a certain amount of development, the life on it ends due to whatever reasons like diseases or astrological phenomenons. This is also believed to be true in modern world. There is a theory on how and why the most dominant species on the planet dies in a cyclic fashion after certain time. Considering ancient people stupid or not capable of doing what we can do today is utterly egoistic and ignorant imo. We dont even have 1-2% of proper documented history of our world since we humans evolved here. How can we just pass something old as a prank, impossible or too advanced to exist after that percentage of factual knowledge of the past?

"Yo bruh where is my computer?" "Sorry sire it has sunk."

We for sure are missing a HUGE part of history.

i'm sure someone already considered this possibility, but the fact that there are no mistakes or corrections in the manuscrips could mean that it's a copy and the original is much older. back then many old books were preserved in monasties, where monks rewrote them page by page even if they couldn't read them.

if a time machine ever gets invented, what if we go back in time to create a technologically advanced antique that plays a rickroll when decoded

The book has always intrigued me. Not one mistake…..not an ink blot, scratched out word or letter, coffee stain….nothing. It could be older than the parchment it was written on, in other words …… it was copied from a far more ancient text. Even so, whoever hand wrote this book or copied it from another, did so perfectly….almost robotically. Amazing.

It is remarkable that the book has no mistakes, and everything written inside the book is articularly done.

It's not that ancient people couldn't make these things, it's that people continually destroyed science and history they didn't like. Something they are still doing now.

What if the Antikythera Mechanism is actually able to decode the Voynich Manuscript, and this is just the start of a National Treasure movie?

After watching this video, I think if we ever managed to successfully travel back in time, we would find a whole new past that will shook our present and history we have known all along.

Really makes you wonder what we lost when the library of Alexandria burned

I know that this is a very old video but a thought occurred to me while watching this about the manuscript. They state that the carbon dating doesn't match too far back for it to be further than the 18th century. Now this is a theory and it might be a stretch, but what if this manuscript isn't the original? Thoughy2 says there are no correction errors in the pages. In that case it sounds like it might have been copied by a source. Now two ideas come to mind here. Either this book was once stored in the Vatican, where they transcribed some old texts that have collected and it somehow ended up in an auction. Or, this could be a copy from a surviving remnant of the library of Alexandria. It was told that this library had many manuscripts and when a new manuscript was donated they would make a copy and send the copy with the donator and keep the original. Now I am not saying that this is one of those original copies, but what if it is one of the ones that is a copy of the copy. Thay could explain the age and why we don't have record of the language. Because if it was one used by Alexandria, thinking if they used a certain code when transcribing or if there was an ancient language that was lost, this could explain why we don't know about it. But like i said its just a theory.

I absolutely LOVE videos like this, but at the same time they are infuriating. I enjoy the history and the interesting finds but I’m dying to know what they are really all about.