Egyptians and the ancients were very advanced. Like the Antikythera mechanism(not egyptian i think but cool), the worlds first complicated scientific calculator invented before christ.
The world could be a very different place if it wasn't for certain key points in history when so much knowledge was lost.
The sack of the library of Alexandria (possibly the greatest loss of archived human knowledge in history)
Then the dark ages where religion ruled and science was suppressed. (been a long slow journey to shake this one and we are still not there yet but fortunately science has more authority today)
the ancients were very smart and had some cool stuff, much of it lost forever otherwise who knows where we would be now.
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Originally Posted by justinsain
What is puzzling is how far advanced that civilization was compared to ones before it and after it.
On the first page of this thread is a YT video and the cover pic is of a little artifact from that time. Some scientists created a much larger one built to exact scale and put it in a wind tunnel where it was able to fly. Two things stand out. One, it has a " rudder " just like on a plane but no planes existed at that time and no birds have a rudder or anything similar. Second, the " wing " had a foil shape to it which is instrumental in giving the object lift which enables it to fly.
Those two elements are essential to fly and that little artifact contained everything needed to fly except a power source. Who ever made that knew what it takes to fly. However, it wasn't until the Wright Brothers took that first flight did man make a serious attempt at flying.
So man didn't know how to fly. Then the Egyptians knew how to fly. Then man didn't know how to fly. Then a thousand plus years later man knows how to fly again.
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