I like to imagine the Roman Statuette fell off a boat and had a cartoonish montage of misadventures across the sea just to end up on the shores of the Americas
Funny enough there's a Lovecraft story that kinda does that, but at arrives at the colonies and gets lost cause the guy is drunk. Think it ends up being a centerpiece of a cult thinking it's some ancient Indian artifact.
And by chance was the animation kinda choppy like Canadians are drawn on South Park? Like if it’s moving or changes direction it just flips the image or moves it forward back and forth lol. You painted a good picture, I filled in a couple good “ka-bonks” in there.
@@thepharaohnerd7235 there ARE Chinese artifacts on the west Coast that appear to have arrived like that. Mostly ancient fishing boat detritus and some pottery
I don't know how people think the Polynesians wouldn't have gone to south America. They traveled thousands of miles to tiny obscure islands all throughout the Pacific. But when they got to Easter Island they just decided they were good, no need to go further, probably nothing there?
I 100% agree. I'm of the personal opinion that there was intermingling between tribes before the advent of complex societies itself. Roughly 12-13,000 bc. We just need to find the evidence for it. Which is hard because at the time period I'm talking about, I imagine we would be mostly talking about individuals or very small groups with very little to no footprint.
They most likely didn't actually end up there by sailing there, ample evidence now exists that there was once a continent there that gradually succumbed to rising oceans.
@@noktumwhatever753 I have heard of Gobekli tepe. It is a fascinating site, however, that isnt really an intermingling of tribes from different continents, was it? I guess what i was giving conjecture about was different peoples from across the ocean, meeting and exchanging since that time period. To my knowledge, Gobekli Tepe is not that, but rather, one of the very first religious sites that archeologist believe was a precursor to more complex societies.
The electric fish theory for the Baghdad Batteries is hilarious. Not only is it one of the funniest theories I've ever heard about an ancient artifact, its also the one that makes the most sense. It seems like exactly the kind of thing ancient medicine would screw around with. It also explains why it wasn't very widespread, since other cultures like the Romans probably thought it was stupid and not worth their time.
@Armored_Ariete The batteries probably wouldn't have come very close to the same effect, in addition to the existing humor of using an electric fish for therapy in the first place, was my point.
I think it's more like the generator disks of the 1700's. They're all found in the homes or tombs of "magicians", or bronze age polymath scientists. They were probably made to work out/reproduce natural phenomenon.
Personally I think it was just a jar for a magic curse. We don't know if the remains of the vinegar was there WITH the jars at the same time as the copper and rods. The sealant of tar could be easily explained by not allowing the curse to escape or the magic to get out. It could even have been something like a dibukk box after all.
I think the answer to the Baghdad batteries is actually fairly simple; I think they were just being used to obtain copper vitriol. It has a tendency to produce fumes when trying to obtain it, which would explain why the pots were sealed, and many people use an electric current to speed up the process of obtaining it. If there was an electric current in the baghdad batteries I doubt the creators would notice it, but what they would notice is that their method was working quicker, hence why they scaled it up. And you may also be wondering "what about the fact that this was in a library with papyrus scraps?" Vitriol is a key ingredient to one of the strongest and permanent inks known to the post roman world, commonly called iron gall ink, which used either copper or iron vitriol reacting with crushed gall nuts. Of course, the batteries precede the proposed date which iron gall ink was thought to be discovered by a few hundred years, but I think it's still a strong possibility.
@@DonHavjuan If they were for holding scrolls, why were they filled with vinegar? That would be like finding an ancient potato with copper and irons probe stuck into it with wires, and saying "It was literally just to hold potatoes. There is no mystery at all." The baghdad battery had 4 known components that directly correspond to the 4 components of an simple galvanic cell. A cathode, an anode, a filament, and an electrolyte. You can put the exact same configuration of items in a jar at home, and it will power a lemon clock.
Unironically I did this when I was a kid and wrote somthing and dug a hole and put it there then I realized after checking on it for months, that the paper turned more yellow and old looking so I waited for a looong time but my plan had a problem... I finally decided to show it to my mom and her reaction was" oh...OK..." now that I look back at it, I shouldn't have used a paper from my notebook...
let me tell everyone something these artifacts are not out of place but it is actually what we are told historically and geologically that is a lie ...they are lieing to use about the age of the earth and the knowlege of our ancestors
You can just watch trail cam videos of creatures spotted in woods, and once you get past all of the windigo, ghost, and moose sightings, you will run into a bigfoot video once in a while. We have more than just a set of bones these days to prove things.
Considering that the Eastern Roman Empire didn’t fall until 1453 (after Columbus was born) isn’t it entirely possible that someone on an expedition just had a statue with them (family heirloom or something) and traded it with a local and that local traded it to the Aztecs? That seems like a rather simple explanation.
The Byzantines didn't make alot of statues because they were afraid of reawakening the pagan religions they had spent so long trying to destroy, that and iconoclasm. So unlikely
There was also apparently a Roman shipwreck filled with pottery off the coast of Brazil. And we know for a fact Egyptians got their hands on cocaine and nicotine and those are only from the Americas
@@willbilly8738there are a lot of extinct plant species. The Roman’s wiped out a lot not fully understanding agriculture. They basically bred crops plants into genetic corners and didn’t keep the originals around.
That's incorrect, there are not smoke burns on the ceilings in that area. The mainstream archeologists think they used a series of mirrors to light the hallways and chambers. Any Egyptologist would tell you the same.
@@thepharaohnerd7235 the way you pronounced the mexican city´s name made me laugh, i thought only mexicans could pronounce those ancient names but you nailed it, i speak spanish but i stil find them kinda tricky
the Antikythera device is a computer, but it's an older version of a computer that isn't very common nowadays, it's an analog computer. Before the times of digital computers, which are very flexible because of their capability to process everything as binary data, there were analog computer, which usually could only process or solve a single very specific problem, such as astronomical phenomena predictions and so on, during WW1 and WW2, analog computers were still being invented, but quickly after the enigma machine they began advancements that would lead to the creation of the now much more common digital computer.
This absolutely sounds true. While encryption made these devices famous and likely led to the modern computers inventions (The wartime neccesity for enigma crackers was the only time in history when we would be motivated enough to create a computing device to spend millions on a single use device of that nature) we must admit that the bespoke nature of such devices means their use was exclusive and singular. Time keeping and calendars are a huge fascination of mankind and the ability to predict the rotations of the sun or passage of the moon, seems like the most likely cause for somebody to devote so much time and engineering to. We have to assume, like the enigma cracker, any device or machine of such complexity would take an extraordinary amount of time and money to make. Such a thing would likely need a royal sponsor to arrange. Finally, the tragedy of our computer data and storage devices is very obvious from an outsider perspective; Were our society wiped out or rediscovered, nobody at a future point would have a clue how to run a computer (such as a standardized electric plug current), or how to access the data of CDs, hard drives, or flash cards. A hard drive storing all of our biggest accomplishments would just be a shiny and intricately small box thing to future explorers that, likely by merely taking apart or scanning such a thing, would instantly wipe it or cause data compromise. This assumes either a very advanced or very simple civilization finds them... For that reason we can assume the voyager probe carried a solid metal record and in comparison to old world artifacts, none of our own are liekly to last very long. Considering all of our paper money would likely decay quickly, we can assume a future civilization would assume we live by trading goods. Then go on to interpret the churches, all with the same figures within (whether white Jesus or asian buddha) to be temples to our leaders, who seemed to somehow live for hundreds of years.
About the roman sculpture head at 6:36, I was thinking of the possibility of it being the survival of some previous roman shipwrecking, like, a roman ship sinked aroun the 1AD and this statue was floating with or without some wooden support like a chest at the ocean, it was found in the currently mexican sea around 14AD to 15AD, the people around this region found it strange, unique and used it as trade until someone powerfull got it and made it part of some kind of personal treasure, this kinda of explains how it got from rome to a central american tumb.
To be fair, after thinking about it with the replies, yeah, I can see the how this is very unlikely, of course, if this artifact was not planted in this site, which could be proved if the find similar case around the latin america, then I don't know, I think it is probably more likely then some roman or some roman culture based ship arriving there trading or being killed and have no register of such incident. But I can see why this is really difficult to happen as pointed by you guys
I'm happy I discovered your videos. You clearly put so much work into the research but still make everything so fun to listen to! It makes a 45 minute video go by fast.
...the Antikythera (?) Mechanism is the most compelling one. To think people figured out THAT much astronomical knowledge from naked eye observation is...hard to believe. The two dials on bottom concerning the different time cyles is wild. This is the first time I've heard this explained in any video. Kudos 👏
I think knowledge was more important to pass down back then. These people, all they had at night was stars to look at and observe for centuries. It was a different world and way of living. Knowledge was very important to them because it could be lost, as compared to the modern day where everyone can just Google an answer. They paid more attention to the stars. It was way more embedded in their life and beliefs. Pretty much everyone alive back then looked up at the night sky and observed it because they had nothing else to do at night. It's like everyone knowing what happened on the most recent episode of whatever TV show. Everyone watched it and knows what's happening.
@seanowens3153 not much different? Bro, kids now are a different species than kids from the 80's. People in the 1900s were pretty much a different species than us. You're talking about peope who were physically and mentally different and had completely different values than us, but they weren't much different.... ok
@@DrSpoculus sure there are differences, but we as a society still look up at the stars in wonder at night, write poetry and music about grief, loss, and love, and make dick jokes (we always have). We still complain about everyday life, enjoy a shared meal with friends and family, and spend our time hearing and telling stories. We still play instruments and come together to hear performers live. We still doodle on our homework instead of doing it. And we all long to love and be loved, as we always have. No amount of time can fully separate us from the beautiful human spirit of curiosity and creation that we all innately share :)
This has become my favorite channel to get a notification from. In fact it’s the only channel I regularly watch videos without even touching my phone to browse the internet during.
I was worried that this video was gonna go all psuedo-archaeology and conspiracy theory mode when I clicked on it, so I am really happy to that you did your research and aren't just spouting the same talking points spouted by Ancient Aliens and Graham Hancock without any critical analysis. ❤
Same! These iceberg videos are so often made quickly and with zero research: they hubs for misinformation and lies. But this one is sexy, fresh and full of research!
I also appreciate that he didn't go too far in the other direction. He actually gave each item a fair shot. So many historians just dismiss OOPArts out of hand.
I highly appreciate how much time, research and details you pour into every single artifact here. It's not like "Behold, the %artifactname%, found here at this year, date to %years%, maybe forged, idk, now next one", it's like a quality mini-lections on a subjects. Thx for your efforts.
Yeah, good point. Their interest in astronomy wasn't merely for the sake of knowledge, they thought the motions of the stars and planets had concrete effects on the people on the Earth.
The neighborhood upstairs has been very dynamic in past memory of us apes & will be again . . astrology may seem a frivolous pastime of loons now but elephants in room like worship of planets just pinpricks of light now but obviously closer before
Theory: the Roman ship went off course on its original voyage and was eventually carried to the gulf coast by the trade winds. It’s likely no Romans survived the voyage, but it’s possible the vessel made a landing. I wonder how many times in history similar things have happened.
There's a really cool video series of a machinist channel on youtube recreating : 1. The antikythera mechanism itself to some extent 2. The ways and methods of how they could've made the parts The channel is called clickspring, high reccommend
2:55 If there weren't scripts mentioning the computing device, we never would have thought ancient civilizations could have built something that advanced. This was just the only one found... it was never really 'out of place' for people who dug into it.
I'm am Chilean and part native American, I live in Santiago so we went with my mother to investigate our indigenous roots. It is said that in Chiloe's archipelago there was two distinct populations Huilliche (us) and Chonos who spend most of their time at the sea in their canoes, they came sailing from the west, they didn't have much agriculture as huilliche people, so they traded a lot. Huilliche are related by language and customs with mapuche who occupied Chile and Argentina, our ancestors came at least 5k years ago, some people said since the last ice age because they have the word for tiger in their vocabulary and the only tiger in the Americas was the saber tooth tiger.
The London hammer and other finds shows that things dont have to be millions of years old to have the composition that would *allegedly* indicate such.
My theory is most likely the hammer in question comes from the 1640’s, (700/2 = 350) likely left there and forgotten about by a Spanish settler in Texas, as at the time Spain controlled the area and colonial settlements were already present by then.
OMG, 23:53 "You cannot expect to put together a bulb, a snake, and a flower and get a lightbulb"! I cannot help but remember the Electric Snakes From Sanjay and Craig
"People believe these depict lightbulbs" >Snake >held at hip length by masculine figures >associated with creation and harvest >sprouting (coming, if you will) out of a flower, perhaps a seed Listen my mind may be in the gutter but I think it's pretty evident what that's supposed to convey.
I agree with the user who claimed to "throw away" an ancient roman coin (how would one get this, and would you really throw it away just 'in case' somebody finds it) into an archeological site near los vegas, to mess with who ever "discovers" it. I believe that sentence alone provides a good theory for some, if not most, of these unusual finds. To spell it out. Yes, you've got the right idea... Humans have always been curious creatures, finding weird objects, we inevitably will keep them and further on show them to all of our friends. Even going so far as to have entire buildings where we keep only "weird", "Foreign," or "Historical" devices. Coupled with certain people like Mando482 who, for their own amusement, plant weird items in historic locations "Just to mess with people". When you combine both our reverence for odd items and a joking desire to plant such things, i think we arrive at that innate human curiosity which explains how many of these items came around to be where they are.
Miniminuteman has multiple videos on the Baghdad battery, he's a actual archeologist and even got a renowned professional on one of his videos of it. You guys should check it out
Some people wonder why certain items would be heirlooms but my family has a staple gun from the 30s that is kept in high regard because its what my grandpa used to get out of debt lol point is anything can hold sentimental value
@@sassenspeyghel4155it could just be a stature from the medieval era or a Roman artifact found during that period in hands of a Spanish conquistador ( idk why OP thinks it would be his ancestor 😂😂😂)
Holy F your comment about Indiana Jones made me feel old! 😂 I was a kid in the 90s when I watched the first 3 lmao. Feels like the crystal skull one is still fairly recent!
I've also heard the theory that the roman head could have been on a boat that was driven off course and washed up in south America long after all the actual romans on board abandoned ship or died from lack of supplies
The first one I think is really cool, especially because there's a guy here on UA-cam called Frasierbuilds who really enjoys making other wonder works of the ancient world
Viking penny in Maine makes sense.. the Vikings not only visited america, they tried several times to make permanent colonies all across the east coast.. so it's not really out of place if it comes from an area where they tried to settle... It's literally in its place.
I'm here for the first time and I love the balance of open-mindedness and critical thought. Usually when people talk about stuff like this, they go all in on one or the other.
It truly is both a silly and unfortunate idea. Because of creationists, you either deny all life on earth was expertly crafted over billions of years by a genius, or you think that it was all done in a few thousand years at the same time and t rex ate tofu and kale in the garden of eden. No inbetween. No sense or reason
In regards to the Dendera Lightbulb , it could be a case of cargo worship. Like what happened in Africa when the locals started worshipping what they found belonging to the Europeans who were flying in airplanes overhead.
Computer doesn’t mean digital, the enigma machine was a computer (programmable) but analog. If it does any form of calculation then I guess calculator would fit too. But either term is viable in my opinion simply because it’s 2000 years old and nothing like it was scene until the time of da vinci and the early renaissance
The Baghdad battery is 100% capable of electroplating silver and gold onto copper. They only operate at a volt or two and you don't need an aqueous solution of gold or silver to do it. U can do it with dish soap, bleach, any basic OR acidic solution. And you can do it at home with a single double A battery.
@@poindextertunesmost of the batteries aren't for holding liquid. Some held curses, papers where you talk trash about someone and bury so that person gets cursed.
i mean the hammer is obviously a fake artifact just based on the fact it still has a exposed wooden handle. wood is already extremely hard to preserve, how would a exposed wooden handle on a loose rock possibly survive in that state when most stone age spears cant even stay in one piece when buried?
Shyguy I think you missed a part of the video. The wooden handle wasn’t exposed until the kid threw the rock and broke it years later. The wood was encrusted with minerals probably from heavy water.
Speaking of preserved wood I remember a fossilized wood that was a stump or root that went through several layers of rock. Like maybe people will say it’s fake but that example I saw is interesting
Ughhh FINALLY. I’ve been looking high and low across UA-cam for a channel to scratch my specific itch for this content paired with a voice and personality I can vibe with. This is great. I’m going to crush your content tonight and if it’s like this, I’ll become a patron for sure. Thanks for the upload too! So interesting
The Antikitera artifact is not anachronistically out of place nor unique for that matter. It was actually a pretty common device in most bigger ships in the Mediterranean. It's an early form of astronomical navigation that uses the positions and orbits of known objects in the sky to calculate latitude, since latitude affects where those objects appear in the sky.
why exactly couldn't the roman statuette have been a little artifact a fallen conquistador had looted off of him? if the town was inhabited for a few decades after spanish conquests, i could see an indigenous guy seeing the statue and taking it for funsies.
That’s the theory I’ve heard before and it sounds like common sense to me. An adventuring/robbing/looting Spanish explorer is exactly the kind of person to have junk like the statue head in his possession especially if he was going to use it in trade or to impress natives or who knows what. It has to have been brought in to Mexico by a European explorer
Pliny the Elder wrote about people's silver plated items as though they were common possessions for affluent Romans. Plating gold and silver requires half a volt to 1 volt, and anymore voltage won't work.
Yes, but as the video states, they didn't have knowledge of aqueous solutions of metals to do that in the first place, and there are plenty of other methods for plating that were for sure known :)
I like to imagine the Roman Statuette fell off a boat and had a cartoonish montage of misadventures across the sea just to end up on the shores of the Americas
I was actually going to present a theory exactly like that but I couldn't be bothered to look up how currents in the Atlantic works lol
@@thepharaohnerd7235 idk its like water magic
Funny enough there's a Lovecraft story that kinda does that, but at arrives at the colonies and gets lost cause the guy is drunk. Think it ends up being a centerpiece of a cult thinking it's some ancient Indian artifact.
And by chance was the animation kinda choppy like Canadians are drawn on South Park? Like if it’s moving or changes direction it just flips the image or moves it forward back and forth lol. You painted a good picture, I filled in a couple good “ka-bonks” in there.
@@thepharaohnerd7235 there ARE Chinese artifacts on the west Coast that appear to have arrived like that. Mostly ancient fishing boat detritus and some pottery
I don't know how people think the Polynesians wouldn't have gone to south America. They traveled thousands of miles to tiny obscure islands all throughout the Pacific. But when they got to Easter Island they just decided they were good, no need to go further, probably nothing there?
I 100% agree. I'm of the personal opinion that there was intermingling between tribes before the advent of complex societies itself. Roughly 12-13,000 bc. We just need to find the evidence for it. Which is hard because at the time period I'm talking about, I imagine we would be mostly talking about individuals or very small groups with very little to no footprint.
There's genetic evidence to suggest they had contact with the west coast of South America
They most likely didn't actually end up there by sailing there, ample evidence now exists that there was once a continent there that gradually succumbed to rising oceans.
@@staywokecuhh There's plenty of evidence for that, Gobekli Tepe being the most famous site from that period.
@@noktumwhatever753 I have heard of Gobekli tepe. It is a fascinating site, however, that isnt really an intermingling of tribes from different continents, was it? I guess what i was giving conjecture about was different peoples from across the ocean, meeting and exchanging since that time period. To my knowledge, Gobekli Tepe is not that, but rather, one of the very first religious sites that archeologist believe was a precursor to more complex societies.
The mixture of both serious commentary and memes right after is what makes this channel so great, glad to see it again
Thanks, I'm really glad that you think so highly of the channel!
The electric fish theory for the Baghdad Batteries is hilarious. Not only is it one of the funniest theories I've ever heard about an ancient artifact, its also the one that makes the most sense. It seems like exactly the kind of thing ancient medicine would screw around with. It also explains why it wasn't very widespread, since other cultures like the Romans probably thought it was stupid and not worth their time.
unfortunately electric catfish produce way more than 1v of electricity, and the romans used electric fish as well btw
@Armored_Ariete The batteries probably wouldn't have come very close to the same effect, in addition to the existing humor of using an electric fish for therapy in the first place, was my point.
@Armored_Ariete electric eels are froim south america, i think they were using another species of fish for that,
I think it's more like the generator disks of the 1700's. They're all found in the homes or tombs of "magicians", or bronze age polymath scientists.
They were probably made to work out/reproduce natural phenomenon.
Personally I think it was just a jar for a magic curse. We don't know if the remains of the vinegar was there WITH the jars at the same time as the copper and rods. The sealant of tar could be easily explained by not allowing the curse to escape or the magic to get out. It could even have been something like a dibukk box after all.
Me and my buddies once hid an ancient Greek coin in a cave in the Mojave Desert. The look on the archeologists face, priceless
What? A swallow carrying a sweet potato? In order to maintain air-speed velocity a swallow needs to beat it's wings 43 times every second!
Lmao
Polynesian or South American swallow?
What do you mean ?. An African or European swallow?. or maybe a Polynesian swallow.
Have you considered that it may have been a sea gull?
WHAT is your favorite color ?
I think the answer to the Baghdad batteries is actually fairly simple; I think they were just being used to obtain copper vitriol. It has a tendency to produce fumes when trying to obtain it, which would explain why the pots were sealed, and many people use an electric current to speed up the process of obtaining it. If there was an electric current in the baghdad batteries I doubt the creators would notice it, but what they would notice is that their method was working quicker, hence why they scaled it up.
And you may also be wondering "what about the fact that this was in a library with papyrus scraps?" Vitriol is a key ingredient to one of the strongest and permanent inks known to the post roman world, commonly called iron gall ink, which used either copper or iron vitriol reacting with crushed gall nuts. Of course, the batteries precede the proposed date which iron gall ink was thought to be discovered by a few hundred years, but I think it's still a strong possibility.
That's a very interesting theory
They were literally just holding scrolls. There is no mystery at all - it's hype.
@@DonHavjuan Why not do it in a regular container
Source: trust me, bro@@DonHavjuan
@@DonHavjuan If they were for holding scrolls, why were they filled with vinegar? That would be like finding an ancient potato with copper and irons probe stuck into it with wires, and saying "It was literally just to hold potatoes. There is no mystery at all." The baghdad battery had 4 known components that directly correspond to the 4 components of an simple galvanic cell. A cathode, an anode, a filament, and an electrolyte. You can put the exact same configuration of items in a jar at home, and it will power a lemon clock.
Me on my way to plant a random gorilla skull in the ground so I can call it bigfoot
Unironically I did this when I was a kid and wrote somthing and dug a hole and put it there then I realized after checking on it for months, that the paper turned more yellow and old looking so I waited for a looong time but my plan had a problem... I finally decided to show it to my mom and her reaction was" oh...OK..." now that I look back at it, I shouldn't have used a paper from my notebook...
let me tell everyone something these artifacts are not out of place but it is actually what we are told historically and geologically that is a lie ...they are lieing to use about the age of the earth and the knowlege of our ancestors
You can buy the exactly same resin gorilla skull online for $500. Hoaxer wasn't fooling anyone, but made a lot of Big Foot fans angry.
"Random gorilla skull" implies you won't just steal the corpse of Koko or Harambe.
Thanks for that assurance ❤
You can just watch trail cam videos of creatures spotted in woods, and once you get past all of the windigo, ghost, and moose sightings, you will run into a bigfoot video once in a while. We have more than just a set of bones these days to prove things.
Considering that the Eastern Roman Empire didn’t fall until 1453 (after Columbus was born) isn’t it entirely possible that someone on an expedition just had a statue with them (family heirloom or something) and traded it with a local and that local traded it to the Aztecs? That seems like a rather simple explanation.
no it was definitely aliens
Think of the size of the ships they were using and the danger of the voyages. Why TF would you bring a statue.
The Byzantines didn't make alot of statues because they were afraid of reawakening the pagan religions they had spent so long trying to destroy, that and iconoclasm. So unlikely
There was also apparently a Roman shipwreck filled with pottery off the coast of Brazil. And we know for a fact Egyptians got their hands on cocaine and nicotine and those are only from the Americas
@@willbilly8738there are a lot of extinct plant species. The Roman’s wiped out a lot not fully understanding agriculture. They basically bred crops plants into genetic corners and didn’t keep the originals around.
Your voice is so “top 10 coolest dinosaurs” and I love it
The Antikathyra mechanism can’t be the first and only one like it made. It’s astonishing to think of what has been lost in time.
We are so back.
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@@cherenkovsradiation4990he meant he has a severe backache
We are so splat
Did we just win?
You are so cringe
I always chuckle at the Dendera "lightbulb" one because in the same exact temple, there are smoke burns on the ceiling
It's not a light bulb. It's a lotus flower iirc.
That's incorrect, there are not smoke burns on the ceilings in that area. The mainstream archeologists think they used a series of mirrors to light the hallways and chambers. Any Egyptologist would tell you the same.
@spracketskooch I'm so glad you were there to verify that 🙄
@@spracketskooch sometimes, but the Egyptians also knew that adding salt to torches gets rid of most of the soot.
@@spracketskooch still not lightbulbs
Great video, and as a Mexican I appreciated the image of the DBZ taco stand with the Romans in it 😂
Thank you, I was hoping that my Mexican viewers would find that funny when I made that so I'm glad you liked it!
@@thepharaohnerd7235 the way you pronounced the mexican city´s name made me laugh, i thought only mexicans could pronounce those ancient names but you nailed it, i speak spanish but i stil find them kinda tricky
@@danieljaramillo7287 Oh, thank you!
the Antikythera device is a computer, but it's an older version of a computer that isn't very common nowadays, it's an analog computer. Before the times of digital computers, which are very flexible because of their capability to process everything as binary data, there were analog computer, which usually could only process or solve a single very specific problem, such as astronomical phenomena predictions and so on, during WW1 and WW2, analog computers were still being invented, but quickly after the enigma machine they began advancements that would lead to the creation of the now much more common digital computer.
the fallen angels behind the veil through direct telepathic communication instructed the scientist how to create the silicon crystals and give it life
@@fake28rssI’m begging you, take the meds
@@awadafuk4863let him cook
This absolutely sounds true. While encryption made these devices famous and likely led to the modern computers inventions (The wartime neccesity for enigma crackers was the only time in history when we would be motivated enough to create a computing device to spend millions on a single use device of that nature) we must admit that the bespoke nature of such devices means their use was exclusive and singular.
Time keeping and calendars are a huge fascination of mankind and the ability to predict the rotations of the sun or passage of the moon, seems like the most likely cause for somebody to devote so much time and engineering to.
We have to assume, like the enigma cracker, any device or machine of such complexity would take an extraordinary amount of time and money to make. Such a thing would likely need a royal sponsor to arrange. Finally, the tragedy of our computer data and storage devices is very obvious from an outsider perspective;
Were our society wiped out or rediscovered, nobody at a future point would have a clue how to run a computer (such as a standardized electric plug current), or how to access the data of CDs, hard drives, or flash cards.
A hard drive storing all of our biggest accomplishments would just be a shiny and intricately small box thing to future explorers that, likely by merely taking apart or scanning such a thing, would instantly wipe it or cause data compromise.
This assumes either a very advanced or very simple civilization finds them...
For that reason we can assume the voyager probe carried a solid metal record and in comparison to old world artifacts, none of our own are liekly to last very long.
Considering all of our paper money would likely decay quickly, we can assume a future civilization would assume we live by trading goods. Then go on to interpret the churches, all with the same figures within (whether white Jesus or asian buddha) to be temples to our leaders, who seemed to somehow live for hundreds of years.
So how are you describing a computer? Is every watch a computer? Clearly not. And all this mechanism is, is a series of gears used for time keeping.
About the roman sculpture head at 6:36, I was thinking of the possibility of it being the survival of some previous roman shipwrecking, like, a roman ship sinked aroun the 1AD and this statue was floating with or without some wooden support like a chest at the ocean, it was found in the currently mexican sea around 14AD to 15AD, the people around this region found it strange, unique and used it as trade until someone powerfull got it and made it part of some kind of personal treasure, this kinda of explains how it got from rome to a central american tumb.
67 people think stone floats.
Maybe? But I would'nt think it would take 1300 years to get buried you know?
Wouldn't it have any sign of spending so much time in the ocean?
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To be fair, after thinking about it with the replies, yeah, I can see the how this is very unlikely, of course, if this artifact was not planted in this site, which could be proved if the find similar case around the latin america, then I don't know, I think it is probably more likely then some roman or some roman culture based ship arriving there trading or being killed and have no register of such incident. But I can see why this is really difficult to happen as pointed by you guys
Yoo, 2AM old world Artifacts LORE video. I'm all in for it
Thanks!
Watching this at 3:37AM ... perfect time
Volta's name isn't on the nose, the volt unit is named after him.
That’s called a joke
@@MADPoltergeist that's pretty cool
Was gonna say...
@MADPoltergeist if that was supposed to be a joke he really did not sell it well, I was certain he genuinely did not realize that
@@jordanfriedland3955after some thought I think it was a deadpan joke which if it was then it was delivered perfectly
I'm happy I discovered your videos. You clearly put so much work into the research but still make everything so fun to listen to! It makes a 45 minute video go by fast.
It’s the fact that I moved at lightspeed to like this so I can watch this tomorrow at lunch, so glad you’re back
Do not fear, monodimensionalbeing is here
what's your snap
The wood of the hammer would be petrified if it were genuine, would it not?
Yeah, good point
Agreed
...the Antikythera (?) Mechanism is the most compelling one. To think people figured out THAT much astronomical knowledge from naked eye observation is...hard to believe. The two dials on bottom concerning the different time cyles is wild. This is the first time I've heard this explained in any video. Kudos 👏
I think knowledge was more important to pass down back then. These people, all they had at night was stars to look at and observe for centuries.
It was a different world and way of living. Knowledge was very important to them because it could be lost, as compared to the modern day where everyone can just Google an answer.
They paid more attention to the stars. It was way more embedded in their life and beliefs.
Pretty much everyone alive back then looked up at the night sky and observed it because they had nothing else to do at night. It's like everyone knowing what happened on the most recent episode of whatever TV show. Everyone watched it and knows what's happening.
How old do you think TVs are.....they weren't much different to us now. @@DrSpoculus
@seanowens3153 not much different? Bro, kids now are a different species than kids from the 80's.
People in the 1900s were pretty much a different species than us.
You're talking about peope who were physically and mentally different and had completely different values than us, but they weren't much different.... ok
@@DrSpoculus sure there are differences, but we as a society still look up at the stars in wonder at night, write poetry and music about grief, loss, and love, and make dick jokes (we always have). We still complain about everyday life, enjoy a shared meal with friends and family, and spend our time hearing and telling stories. We still play instruments and come together to hear performers live. We still doodle on our homework instead of doing it. And we all long to love and be loved, as we always have. No amount of time can fully separate us from the beautiful human spirit of curiosity and creation that we all innately share :)
People were just as smart as they were today. They just weren't blessed with nearly 2000 years of added knowledge from around the whole world
You make the only iceberg videos I actually sit down and actually watch. Really interesting topics and your delivery is superb
Wow, I'm flattered that you enjoy them that much!
Youre amazing bro @@thepharaohnerd7235
The joy in his voice gets me amped up
@@ChristinaFromUA-cam Thank you! I'm glad you liked the show!
Anthropology & History student here and I just wanted to say I adore your videos. So freaking entertaining to me. Keep up the great work ❤
This has become my favorite channel to get a notification from. In fact it’s the only channel I regularly watch videos without even touching my phone to browse the internet during.
14:39 right up there with Isaac Newton and Georg Ohm
Lmao
I was worried that this video was gonna go all psuedo-archaeology and conspiracy theory mode when I clicked on it, so I am really happy to that you did your research and aren't just spouting the same talking points spouted by Ancient Aliens and Graham Hancock without any critical analysis. ❤
Thank you for watching the video despite its initial appearance, I really appreciate that!
Same! These iceberg videos are so often made quickly and with zero research: they hubs for misinformation and lies. But this one is sexy, fresh and full of research!
You're not from round here are ya? 😅😅😅
I also appreciate that he didn't go too far in the other direction. He actually gave each item a fair shot. So many historians just dismiss OOPArts out of hand.
ok
This Video randomly showed up in my feed after watching a video about the antikythera (which I never heard of before) and I am immediately hooked.
I highly appreciate how much time, research and details you pour into every single artifact here. It's not like "Behold, the %artifactname%, found here at this year, date to %years%, maybe forged, idk, now next one", it's like a quality mini-lections on a subjects. Thx for your efforts.
Imagine how many headaches greek sailors got from troubleshooting their antikythera mechanisms
I remember back in 2005 I used to look up Ooparts all the time at my job. It was quite interesting
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The Antikythera mechanism was likely an astrological device. Remember that astrology was a central aspect in many ancient belief systems.
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Yeah, good point. Their interest in astronomy wasn't merely for the sake of knowledge, they thought the motions of the stars and planets had concrete effects on the people on the Earth.
The neighborhood upstairs has been very dynamic in past memory of us apes & will be again . . astrology may seem a frivolous pastime of loons now but elephants in room like worship of planets just pinpricks of light now but obviously closer before
@whitemakesright2177 still true though. People get more crazy during full moons
Theory: the Roman ship went off course on its original voyage and was eventually carried to the gulf coast by the trade winds. It’s likely no Romans survived the voyage, but it’s possible the vessel made a landing.
I wonder how many times in history similar things have happened.
the way bro pronounces any french word is enough to make me come back to this channel 💀
(but really, i love the content too.)
99% of the channels you listen to are AI speech
And the word iron lol it's non-rhotic surely?!
@@riktheyellowmonkeyikr!! He says it like Norm Macdonald lol
@@homeboy3439well they're both Canadian so...
@@conehed1138 speaking as a Canadian, the way he says "iron" sounds right to me. Chalk it up to one of them regional pronunciations, I guess.
*_Maybe the real out of place artifacts are all the friends we made along the way_*
Bro cooks the hardest iceberg videos ever. The Gordon Ramsey of iceberg vids.
Your german pronunciations in comparison to your other language pronunciations cracked me the hell up
Yes but we should just let him do it, because it sounds so funny 😂
There's a really cool video series of a machinist channel on youtube recreating :
1. The antikythera mechanism itself to some extent
2. The ways and methods of how they could've made the parts
The channel is called clickspring, high reccommend
2:55 If there weren't scripts mentioning the computing device, we never would have thought ancient civilizations could have built something that advanced.
This was just the only one found... it was never really 'out of place' for people who dug into it.
I'm am Chilean and part native American, I live in Santiago so we went with my mother to investigate our indigenous roots.
It is said that in Chiloe's archipelago there was two distinct populations Huilliche (us) and Chonos who spend most of their time at the sea in their canoes, they came sailing from the west, they didn't have much agriculture as huilliche people, so they traded a lot.
Huilliche are related by language and customs with mapuche who occupied Chile and Argentina, our ancestors came at least 5k years ago, some people said since the last ice age because they have the word for tiger in their vocabulary and the only tiger in the Americas was the saber tooth tiger.
Very interesting, thanks for the info!
The London hammer and other finds shows that things dont have to be millions of years old to have the composition that would *allegedly* indicate such.
10:27 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF M
No... I can't believe it. I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out, but now I can't unsee it!
accidentally listened to you on 1.25 and you are sooooo much better paced. This is the new strat.
Thank you for making this. It was awesome looking forward to the next video!!
Love how you said you probably came here from the ancient civilisations iceberg when I just popped in from this video, instant sub. Love history
Me too
My theory is most likely the hammer in question comes from the 1640’s, (700/2 = 350) likely left there and forgotten about by a Spanish settler in Texas, as at the time Spain controlled the area and colonial settlements were already present by then.
OMG, 23:53
"You cannot expect to put together a bulb, a snake, and a flower and get a lightbulb"!
I cannot help but remember the Electric Snakes
From Sanjay and Craig
love your content! so interesting
Thank you, I'm glad you like it!
Seeing the Tudor Penny caught me off guard, as I actually grew up in Victoria. It's always nice seeing things like that, lol.
Pronounce iron like that one more time and I’m unsubscribing
this made me laugh
Was looking for this comment
Eye rinn@@sluggle7694
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Not me saying the same thing (but obv kidding)
As Portuguese I can not even think about the weirdness of Pre Portuguese Azores.
amazing work -- you have such a unique tone and take, grateful for this and your lost civ iceberg
"People believe these depict lightbulbs"
>Snake
>held at hip length by masculine figures
>associated with creation and harvest
>sprouting (coming, if you will) out of a flower, perhaps a seed
Listen my mind may be in the gutter but I think it's pretty evident what that's supposed to convey.
Can’t wait to wait 3 years to watch part 2
/s
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I agree with the user who claimed to "throw away" an ancient roman coin (how would one get this, and would you really throw it away just 'in case' somebody finds it) into an archeological site near los vegas, to mess with who ever "discovers" it. I believe that sentence alone provides a good theory for some, if not most, of these unusual finds.
To spell it out. Yes, you've got the right idea...
Humans have always been curious creatures, finding weird objects, we inevitably will keep them and further on show them to all of our friends. Even going so far as to have entire buildings where we keep only "weird", "Foreign," or "Historical" devices.
Coupled with certain people like Mando482 who, for their own amusement, plant weird items in historic locations
"Just to mess with people".
When you combine both our reverence for odd items and a joking desire to plant such things, i think we arrive at that innate human curiosity which explains how many of these items came around to be where they are.
Miniminuteman has multiple videos on the Baghdad battery, he's a actual archeologist and even got a renowned professional on one of his videos of it. You guys should check it out
As a machinist I can testify, none of my coworkers have any idea how the A. Mechanism was machined to the necessary tolerances for a clock.
Just saw this as i was sitting down to have a snack, a sandwich and a cold one. perfect.
Saw this comment as I sat down to have a snack, a sandwich and a glass of water because I’m going to work in an hour
@@emilybarclay8831 Have a good day a work bro.
@@jileel thanks! I won’t. Customer service lol
Some people wonder why certain items would be heirlooms but my family has a staple gun from the 30s that is kept in high regard because its what my grandpa used to get out of debt lol point is anything can hold sentimental value
Haha that's awesome, and that's a great point
The volt was literally named after Alessandro Volta, of course it's on the nose.
Been studying the Unexplained 55 yrs. just saw your channel, good comments❤
Thank you, I'm glad that you like it!
The statue probably came over with a Spaniard, maybe it was a statue of his ancestor. A native stole it and they buried it.
@@sassenspeyghel4155it could just be a stature from the medieval era or a Roman artifact found during that period in hands of a Spanish conquistador ( idk why OP thinks it would be his ancestor 😂😂😂)
i love when this guy whips out the accurate pronunciation for different languages
Holy F your comment about Indiana Jones made me feel old! 😂 I was a kid in the 90s when I watched the first 3 lmao. Feels like the crystal skull one is still fairly recent!
Tell me about it, I was a kid in the 80's, IJ and the Crystal Skull is the 'new one' in my eyes.
I've also heard the theory that the roman head could have been on a boat that was driven off course and washed up in south America long after all the actual romans on board abandoned ship or died from lack of supplies
In Mexico? Mexico is in North America or Central America
I don't mind watching a bit longer videos just because there are like 439382326 entries in the iceberg. Need the part 2 rn
8:57 what if Roman’s did somehow pull up to Mexico at some point and it was never recorded because they never made it back
That's definitely a possibility!
The first one I think is really cool, especially because there's a guy here on UA-cam called Frasierbuilds who really enjoys making other wonder works of the ancient world
Stefan Milo has a wonderful video on DNA evidence of Polynesians in South America. Highly Recommend!
You should also look into the redheaded Polynesians. The ancient world was far different than what we imagine. People moved all over.
@@spracketskoochjabronis would disagree
6:55 Congrats for the pronunciation! I have no idea if it's correct but that was a very impressive sound you made!
subbed this was really really enjoyable, thank you for the video!!
And thank you for watching!
This vid + 2am + pancit canton with egg = perfect midnight
Good video. Interesting pronunciation of "iron" ;-)
I like the diving into theories, too many icebergs just explain what entries are not try and actually investigate and especially debunk.
Oh neat.
Woah, I'm glad you like my stuff!
Oh boy, my Hitler Particle detector has identified a sudden spike!
@@thepharaohnerd7235 Pharaoh-san.. not you too....
@@thepharaohnerd7235you shouldn’t be. Dean’s a fuckin’ nutcase
@@thepharaohnerd7235
Based recognizes based.
Viking penny in Maine makes sense.. the Vikings not only visited america, they tried several times to make permanent colonies all across the east coast.. so it's not really out of place if it comes from an area where they tried to settle... It's literally in its place.
If the Crystal Skulls are fake then what does Dan Aykroyd put his vodka in??
Ikr?
I'm here for the first time and I love the balance of open-mindedness and critical thought. Usually when people talk about stuff like this, they go all in on one or the other.
Thank you for noticing! Telling the truth is my number one priority
“Hardcore creationist thinks humans were around 100 million years ago”. I thought they thought the whole universe isnt even that old lol
It may have been a joke, but yeah typically it’s a hard line at 6000 years these days, at least by Ken Hamms current “approximation”
It truly is both a silly and unfortunate idea. Because of creationists, you either deny all life on earth was expertly crafted over billions of years by a genius, or you think that it was all done in a few thousand years at the same time and t rex ate tofu and kale in the garden of eden. No inbetween. No sense or reason
@@reubenc0039 T-rex ate Tofu and Kale in The Garden Of Eden. I'm putting that on a t-shirt.
You're telling me this Harbor Freight hammer stuck in a rock *isn't* proof of creationism? Madness!
In regards to the Dendera Lightbulb , it could be a case of cargo worship. Like what happened in Africa when the locals started worshipping what they found belonging to the Europeans who were flying in airplanes overhead.
I can’t get over the Iron pronunciation. Great video 🎉
Computer doesn’t mean digital, the enigma machine was a computer (programmable) but analog.
If it does any form of calculation then I guess calculator would fit too.
But either term is viable in my opinion simply because it’s 2000 years old and nothing like it was scene until the time of da vinci and the early renaissance
Love your voice especially reading those patron names
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Haha, thanks
The dinosaur carving in Angkor Wat has to be here
It is, keep your eye out for the "Ta Prohm Dinosaur", that's its name
the carving was most likely a hippo with leaves behind it!!
@@thecardinalblur939 come on now. A hippo? Really?
Happy to see people see all the hard work you're putting in
The Baghdad battery is 100% capable of electroplating silver and gold onto copper. They only operate at a volt or two and you don't need an aqueous solution of gold or silver to do it. U can do it with dish soap, bleach, any basic OR acidic solution. And you can do it at home with a single double A battery.
thats seems most likely what it is
Cool theory, except they’re not batteries. 😂
@@poindextertunesmost of the batteries aren't for holding liquid. Some held curses, papers where you talk trash about someone and bury so that person gets cursed.
Could you imagine if global civilization fell and 5,000 years later people rediscover the remnants of the British Museum?
i mean the hammer is obviously a fake artifact just based on the fact it still has a exposed wooden handle. wood is already extremely hard to preserve, how would a exposed wooden handle on a loose rock possibly survive in that state when most stone age spears cant even stay in one piece when buried?
Excellent point, I probably should've mentioned that lol
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I think you missed a part of the video. The wooden handle wasn’t exposed until the kid threw the rock and broke it years later. The wood was encrusted with minerals probably from heavy water.
Speaking of preserved wood I remember a fossilized wood that was a stump or root that went through several layers of rock. Like maybe people will say it’s fake but that example I saw is interesting
@@koltoncrane3099the wood was sticking out. The hammer part is what was hidden until broken open.
Ughhh FINALLY. I’ve been looking high and low across UA-cam for a channel to scratch my specific itch for this content paired with a voice and personality I can vibe with. This is great.
I’m going to crush your content tonight and if it’s like this, I’ll become a patron for sure.
Thanks for the upload too! So interesting
Another banger, keep up the amazing work
The Antikitera artifact is not anachronistically out of place nor unique for that matter. It was actually a pretty common device in most bigger ships in the Mediterranean. It's an early form of astronomical navigation that uses the positions and orbits of known objects in the sky to calculate latitude, since latitude affects where those objects appear in the sky.
why exactly couldn't the roman statuette have been a little artifact a fallen conquistador had looted off of him? if the town was inhabited for a few decades after spanish conquests, i could see an indigenous guy seeing the statue and taking it for funsies.
That's certainly possible
That’s the theory I’ve heard before and it sounds like common sense to me. An adventuring/robbing/looting Spanish explorer is exactly the kind of person to have junk like the statue head in his possession especially if he was going to use it in trade or to impress natives or who knows what. It has to have been brought in to Mexico by a European explorer
Didnt know the sweet potato lore was that deep, glad to have caught up
good set in stone joke :) i've been excited for this video!
Thanks, I'm glad that people like these vids enough to be excited for them!
Totally gonna watch this later haven't seen ppl talk about the out of place artifacts
REAL SHIT REAL SHIT REAL SHIT
I prefer the term Peculiar Out Of Place Found Artifacts - or POOPFArts for short
Pliny the Elder wrote about people's silver plated items as though they were common possessions for affluent Romans. Plating gold and silver requires half a volt to 1 volt, and anymore voltage won't work.
Yes, but as the video states, they didn't have knowledge of aqueous solutions of metals to do that in the first place, and there are plenty of other methods for plating that were for sure known :)
Cant deny ooparts! Interesting world, interwebz makes it moreso.
Hyppppeddddd!!!!
It’s funny how most of us don’t know the name of our great great grandmother but we know so much about life 10s of thousands of years ago 😅