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They hired Mexicans to do that shit... Da.....I get cold sweats looking at inca stone walls, how they perfectly fit irregular stones. This is a culture that did not even have iron tools. Any theories why they chose to carve these stones this way, rather than into standard shapes that easily fit into each other?
(Really that shit is fucking cool)..Ive machined inconel. I bet its worse. How long have you been machinin?
Have you ever "machined" stone?
The quartz in the granodiorite is 7.0
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3,700-year-old Babylonian stone tablet gets translated, changes history
They were doing trigonometry 1500 years before the Greeks.
As for cutting stones or hard stones, water wind and sand have been doing it for years and they are not "hard" materials. I don't think their process was a quick one. But when you have a huge workforce time may not be that important.
So it's decoded and simple, but the article can't tell us what it is3,700-year-old Babylonian stone tablet gets translated, changes history
They were doing trigonometry 1500 years before the Greeks.
Simple theory. Some people knew math/science and how to use it. Those that did got stuck dragging rocks around.
Gets back to that other teacher thread about how much could we actually accomplish if more people were well versed in math and science.
As for cutting stones or hard stones, water wind and sand have been doing it for years and they are not "hard" materials. I don't think their process was a quick one. But when you have a huge workforce time may not be that important.
1950 called, they want their history back.
For a long time, popular belief concluded that enslaved people built the pyramids, in particular the Pyramids of Giza.Writing by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, misinterpretations of the biblical book of Exodus, and Hollywood films have all contributed to the idea.But in reality, most archaeologists and historians today think that paid laborers, not enslaved people, built the Pyramids of Giza.A few archeological findings support this theory.Deceased builders were buried in a place of honor: tombs close to the pyramids themselves, furnished with supplies for the afterlife.It’s unlikely that enslaved workers would either be buried in close proximity to pharaohs or be prepared for burial with such care.Archaeologists have also discovered the remains of communities on the Giza plateau where large gallery-style buildings are thought to have served as barracks for rotating groups of builders.
Who Built the Pyramids of Giza?
Learn about the people who built the Pyramids of Giza.www.britannica.com
All archaeologists have their own methods of calculating the number of workers employed at Giza, but most agree that the Great Pyramid was built by approximately 4,000 primary labourers (quarry workers, hauliers and masons). They would have been supported by 16-20,000 secondary workers (ramp builders, tool-makers, mortar mixers and those providing back-up services such as supplying food, clothing and fuel). This gives a total of 20-25,000, labouring for 20 years or more.BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: The Private Lives of the Pyramid-builders
Dr Joyce Tyldesley reveals the people behind some of the world's most famous strictures.www.bbc.co.uk
The workers may be sub-divided into a permanent workforce of some 5,000 salaried employees who lived, together with their families and dependents, in a well-established pyramid village. There would also have been up to 20,000 temporary workers who arrived to work three- or four-month shifts, and who lived in a less sophisticated camp established alongside the pyramid village.
Thus the city of the workers was discovered in 1988 only, by Mark Lehner, archaeologist. Mark Lehner is American, he has behind him a past of 30 years of excavations in Egypt. Former director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates,The workers' village
The workers' village in which the workers of the Egyptian pyramids, the largest and best preserved of the country, have resided, symbols of the ancient Egyptian Empirewww.wonders-of-the-world.net
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Excavations conducted by the American archaeologist Mark Lehner since the 90s made it possible to make an urban representation of the city. The latter was organized along three large parallel streets facing east-west. The houses that bordered them were intended primarily to house the workers, to allow them to eat and organize for everyday life. This city was surrounded by a great wall whose vocation is unknown, and even more so if this vocation has evolved over time. Maybe it was a way to secure this crowd of workers against the elite, or did the wall have a role of religious protection of the future tomb of the pharaoh?
For the moment, no one really knows it. It is also in this city that were the craftsmen necessary for daily life: Baker, for food, boilermaker, for copper work (the main tools of the workers were made of copper), doctor, etc.
I think we are soo dumb compared to who really made these structures that we dont even comprehend how they made them.
First I have heard of them. Ya have a link or pic ? Fascinating shit for sure.
That looks like an abrasive rope cut.The saw cut I think of, might not be the one Bunk was talking about,
The Unfinished sarcophagus in Cairo Museum
Hey, are you suggesting that those ancient primitives had rope? Check your preconceived privilege, Modern Man!
Rope? My first thought was that it looked like an overheated skill saw blade wandering all over the place!
Same aliens, different hemiaphereThe thread title is Inca. None of that has any relevance to curved Inca shapes. 1950s aside.
Amazing. Cavemen were not idiots, who knew?
Does the complexity of the mechanics of the Antikythera mechanism imply that it was not unique and there were other devices?
Answer (1 of 7): Believe it or not … This thought is a logical one. How in the whole world a so complex and advanced mechanism can be a single and only one of its kind in the whole world ? How the Greeks managed to make a so complicated mechanism without to find other mechanisms that could be t...www.quora.com
Historians note that there are records which likely relate to similar devices around this time, but the Antikythera mechanism is the only example found.
My own view is that the periods used by the mechanism are known in Minoan times and there is a simpler non-mechanical device called the Minoan Moulds of Palaikastro
which is over a thousand years older. It establishes an interest in such devices and I think it likely that the Antikythera mechanism is the culmination of improvements in mechanics and astronomy.
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Why no other similar devices have survived from antiquity
The only reason why no other examples of devices like the Antikythera mechanism have survived from antiquity to modernity is because devices like the Antikythera mechanism were extremely rare and expensive; they were not the sort of thing your average man in ancient Greece just had sitting in his closet.
You have to add onto this the fact that almost all the artifacts that existed in antiquity have been lost or destroyed. Indeed, it is especially rare for metal devices from ancient times to survive because, in most cases, such devices were eventually melted down for their metal.
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Coverage of similar devices in the writings of Cicero
The popular science writers and news outlets keep claiming that scholars had no idea that devices like the Antikythera mechanism even existed before the mechanism was discovered in the shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera in 1901. In reality, it has always been well known among classical scholars that these kinds of devices existed in classical antiquity. Classical scholars have known about the existence of these kinds of devices since long before the Antiktythera mechanism was ever discovered, because these kinds of devices are actually discussed quite extensively in surviving classical sources.
Notably, the Roman orator Cicero (lived 106 – 43 BC) mentions several devices similar to the Antikythera mechanism in his treatise De Re Publica 1.14. Here are Cicero’s own words,
“But what appeared very admirable in this invention of Archimedes was, that he had discovered a method of producing the unequal and various courses, with their dissimilar velocities, by one revolution. When Gallus put this sphere in motion, the moon was made to succeed the sun by as many revolutions of the brass circle, as it actually took days to do in the heavens. From which the same setting of the sun was produced on the sphere as in the heavens: and the moon fell on the very point, where it met the shadow of the earth, when the sun from the region…’”
Clearly, the device Cicero is describing here is one very, very much like the Antikythera mechanism. And, again, this passage was certainly known long before the rediscovery of the Antikythera mechanism in 1901
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In reality, it is certainly possible that some forms of ancient technology may have been more sophisticated in terms of some specific aspects and functions than what historians now believe them to have been. For instance, we might, say, discover that ancient Roman building methods were somewhat more advanced than we previously realized or that the ancient Greeks knew a bit more about astronomy than we once thought.
Nonetheless, it is highly, highly unlikely that we will ever have to completely revise our entire understanding of what kinds of technologies existed in the ancient world; we almost certainly aren’t going to discover that the ancient Romans built the Pantheon using ultrasonic levitators or that the ancient Greeks built a rocket ship and flew to the Moon.
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Antikythera mechanism
Dated as far back as 205 bc.
Fuckin thing has machined gears and variable gear ratios.
From 205 bc!
Antikythera mechanism
Dated as far back as 205 bc.
Fuckin thing has machined gears and variable gear ratios.
From 205 bc!
