Does anyone have any examples of ancient technology?

Question

You can interpret technology loosely to include things like Stonehenge.

Answer 1

I know of a dancing hymnn book that when sung can become a space-ship. It is true people all singing the same hymn in the shape of the star of david, can with positive intentions become a space ship and leave the illusion venturing onwards and up into truth.

I know of other ancient technologies around the hill of tara that are presently misunderstood, the fools are digging the genius up with bulldozers and the so called archaeologists are bagging tthem up in their big black bin liners all higgledy piggledy like. Come on the De Danaan

Answer 2

Examples Of Ancient Technology

Answer 3

The ancient Egyptians had batteries.
They were also able to make ice without the temperature dropping low enough.
The Egyptians were also very good at storing food for the long term. They preserved bodies very well too.

The Greeks had people waiting who lit fires on the tops of mountains all the way back to Greece to signal that the Trojan war was successful. (Like in the Lord of the Rings when Rohan called for help).

Chinese accupuncture was ancient and very effective even today. The abacus is a non-electronic calculating device that the Chinese have had forever.

The Maya have something called keypoo (I don't know the spelling) in which ropes with colored strands and substrands were attached and you could collect a great deal of data. One strand could indicate a village, another attached could indicate one family, the colors indicating their sexes, the lengths indicating their ages, a number of knots indicating their social status.

The Native American bow-drill to start fires is a personal favorite.

The wheel, levers, pulleys, and even gears have been around for some time. And then there's fire - that's always nice.

Cave men had special accordion-like fans to heat fires up way beyond normal temperatures to melt certain metals that would otherwise be unworkable.

Someone calculated the distance of the sun from the Earth using the pythagorean theorum or something, by looking at when the sun was exactly over a water-well and the distance from another well where the sun was exactly over soon after.


That enough? Or do you need more? Write me if you do. There's plenty of other fascinating technology out there, but it's a little less than "ancient".

Answer 4

I just read the most amazing book about Megalithic Society, called Civilization One, by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler.
The technology in question is the megalithic yard. It is a unit of measurement that was used by the ancients all over Europe for more than two thousand years. Stonehenge was built using this measure. The point being, how did so many different cultures over so long a time period use such a precise measurement. Until recently there was no explanation. It turns out, it is based on the number 366 and upon the knowledge of the orbit of Venus. Check it out. It is absolutely mind-boggling.

Answer 5

Ancient Greek technology is a set of artifacts and customs that lasted for more than one thousand years. The Romans took a lot of Greek ideas and improved on them. Greek technology had a profound impact both on Western and Muslim civilization. Notable Greek technological inventions include cranes, screws, gears, organs, odometer, dial and pointer devices, wheelbarrows, diving bells, parchment, crossbows, torsion catapults, rutways, showers, roof tiles, breakwaters, the MULTI.cannon and many more innovations.

Greek technicians were pioneers in three of the first four means of non-human propulsion known prior to the Industrial Revolution: watermills, windwheels, and steam engines, although only water power became extensively used in ancient Greece.

http://www.e-telescope.gr/en/cat05/art05_021129.htm
http://www.tmth.edu.gr/en/expo/ancient_greek_technology.html
http://www.16pi2.com/ancient_technology_speculations.htm

Answer 6

Everybody will have paper somewhere in their house. Paper counts as "ancient technology" and has not been superseded by anything as versatile yet.
The Wheel is another example of "ancient technology."
Look around you , you are surrounded by "ancient technology"

Answer 7

Plato made the first clepsydra working as alarm clock
Map making was something very important for the ancient Greeks

Answer 8

The Roman Aqueducts, using the rules of siphoning and the cohesion of liquids to transport water across large distances

Answer 9

yes my ancient car sitting in driveway rusting to bits ...and my b listed house in need of demolition ..and my broadband which is in serious need of upgrade lol but also have many antiquities which love to bits unfortunately couldn't fit Stonehenge in handbag

Answer 10

I think the Antikythera Device is fascinating. It's amazing how close the Greeks came to an industrial revolution.