Advanced Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Human Civilization
vs
Modern Human Civilization

Stupid to Smart

or

Smart to Stupid

Behold the Magnificent Achievements 
from the Past

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Parthenon_from_west.jpg
The Parthenon

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Mecanismo_de_Anticitera_2.JPG
The Antikythera Mechanism has been discovered
to be a mechanical computer of an accuracy
thought impossible in 80 BC, when
the ship that carried it sank.
NASA

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Reproduction by Hublot Watchmakers.

Such sophisticated technology was not thought

to be developed by humanity for another 1,000 years.

Its wheels and gears create a portable orrery

of the sky that predicted star and planet

locations as well as lunar and solar eclipses

NASA The Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera Mechanism 2D

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Amazing Discoveries of the Ancients

Tessarakonteres (Carried 7000 men, impossible)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessarakonteres
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/GiantShips.htm
http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Tessarakonteres
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_wooden_ships

Nemi Ships (Now that's big)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN-DVLBlufY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thPLHrTiHSU
http://historybecauseitshere.weebly.com/roman-emperor-caligula-and-his-legendary-lake-nemi-ships.html

Ancient Hair Dye Used
Nanotechnology (You got to be joking)
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/10/02/1751084.htm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-hair-dye-harnesse/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061004180504.htm
https://phys.org/news/2006-10-ancient-hair-dyeing-nanoscience.html 

Ancient Machines (Double Amazing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhLf7CWM8kY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reLP8PJQfb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bf_5kKxCY4

The Lycurgus Cup (Wow, Romans Used Nanotechnology?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_Cup
https://phys.org/news/2013-08-goblet-ancient-romans-nanotechnology.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2402176/Romans-invent-nanotechnology-1-600-year-old-jade-green-goblet-glows-red-silver-gold-particles-glass.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-1600-year-old-goblet-shows-that-the-romans-were-nanotechnology-pioneers-787224/

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/romans-used-nanotechnology-turn-lycurgus-cup-green-red-1600-years-ago-1468746

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhSu1HM7mXs&t=21s

Mythical Viking Sunstone is Real (What a Story)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/not-just-the-stuff-of-legend-famed-viking-sunstone-did-exist-believe-scientists-8521522.html
https://phys.org/news/2011-11-viking-sunstone-myth.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8-wESjvJTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrF9MJYXhTs

Ancient Chinese Drilling (Fascinating Achievements)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-R4SsXRHk
http://csegrecorder.com/articles/view/ancient-chinese-drilling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TzLejrJ6I8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TzLejrJ6I8&t=607s

Ancient Metal Coatings/Pillar
(Unrivalled Even By Today's Standards)
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2013/acs-presspac-july-24-2013/ancient-technology-for-metal-coatings-2000-years-ago-cant-be-mat.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130724124919.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-rOJ9xNYp8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOB6Q3Byt_4

Roman Concrete (Prevents cracks and stronger over time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2877547/Why-Colosseum-hasn-t-collapsed-Roman-concrete-used-secret-ingredient-stand-test-time-engineers-want-copy-it.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ9uGJ3Z1Bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiVCpk3K2X0

Damascus Steel (Split a feather or fight many battles razor sharp)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/29/science/the-mystery-of-damascus-steel-appears-solved.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiDST6FaJTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhJxyeLcq0c

Baghdad Battery (Electricity discovered thousands of years ago? )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2804257.stm

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bagdad-battery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5F6lJhofpA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVf-V2kV1-A