There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
The thing that hath been, it is that
which shall be; and that which is done is that which
shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing
whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
already of old time, which was before us. There is no
remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
remembrance of things that are to come with those that
shall come after. Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
In 1898, a peculiar six-inch wooden object was found in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt that dated back to about 200 BCE. The object had a body or fuselage, seven-inch wings that curved downward slightly, a fixed rudder and a tail. It looked very much like a modern airplane or glider. But since airplanes had not yet been invented in 1898 (never mind ancient Egypt), it was labeled as a model of bird and stored away in the basement of the Cairo museum. The object was rediscovered many years later by Dr. Khalil Messiha, an authority on ancient models. According to Messiha and others who have studied the object, it has characteristics of very advanced aerodynamics, much like modern pusher-gliders that require very little power to stay aloft. The curved wings are today known as reversedihedral wings, which can attain great amounts of lift. A similar design is employed on the supersonic Concorde aircraft. Ancient Egyptian Seti I Temple at Abydos... Images like modern vehicles: a helicopter, Submarine, jet aircraft
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Daedalus Flying Machine
New archaeological discoveries suggest, that 3500 years ago, Daedalus, the architect of the notorious labyrinth of Knossos, in Crete who has been thought to have been a mythical character actually built a flying machine.
So the story goes... About 1400BC .... The Cretan king Minos's wife, Pasiphae, fell in love with a bull, the pride of the the royal herds. Daedalus devised a machine to enable her to have her way with it. The monstrous child of this union was the terrifying Minotaur. Minos ordered Daedalus to build the labyrinth, a tortuous open-air maze, to hide it away and, to avoid the shameful secret becoming known. He also imprisoned Daedalus in it as well, along with his son Icarus who had helped him. But Daedalus made wings for himself and Icarus, and they flew up and away. Icarus, in his excitement, flew too near the sun; the wax melted and he plunged into the sea to his death; but Daedalus flew on to Sicily, where he found refuge at the court of the king of Syracuse.
Recently, excavating in Bronze Age deposits near Knossos, a Greek archaeologist, Professor Aphron Asophos, came upon some twisted metal objects which, when restored, were small, lightweight wheelless chariots, each with an elongated cone in front and aerodynamically extraordinarily sophisticated wings on each side. Scratched on the side of each was an inscription in the Minoan script, Linear B, which included the word DAIDALOW. Daedalus!
Later, an excavation in similar-aged deposits at Syracuse turned up a similar object. They were Linear B, and there was that name again: Daidalow. But the device itself was slightly different. An aeronautical engineering firm in Rome, confirmed that this machine, unlike the others, was aerodynamically perfect - it really could have flown!
Leonardo da Vinci also designed flying-machines in the early 16th century...Some of them look, in retrospect, very like the devices from Knossos and Syracuse. Moreover in some newly discovered manuscripts, from the still under-researched archives of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Leonardo mentions Daedalus again and again alongside further sketches of his flying-machines.
Ancient Electricity
Solar Boat
The Egyptian Lamp
A strange thing, which can be found in an underground cavern below the Hathor-temple in Dendera, Egypt. A few pictures of bulb-like devices, into which two small arms reach before its thick, rounded end. These arms are supported by a column which looks much like a modern high voltage insulator. At the thin end however runs something like a cable into the glass bulb. From this striking out and almost reaching the arms on the other side a snake can be seen, hanging in the air. The whole arrangement has a striking resemblance to an electric lamp.
The Bagdad Battery
The clay jar and others like it are part of the holdings of the National Museum of Iraq and have been attributed to the Parthian Empire — an ancient Asian culture that ruled most of the Middle East from 247 B.C. to A.D. 228. The jar itself has been dated to sometime around 200 B.C.
It is the oldest known battery... The nondescript earthen jar is only 5½ inches high by 3 inches across. The opening was sealed with an asphalt plug, which held in place a copper sheet, rolled into a tube. This tube was capped at the bottom with a copper disc held in place by more asphalt. A narrow iron rod was stuck through the upper asphalt plug and hung down into the center of the copper tube — not touching any part of it. Fill the jar with an acidic liquid, such as vinegar or fermented grape juice, and you have yourself a battery capable of generating a small current. The acidic liquid permits a flow of electrons from the copper tube to the iron rod — an electric flow — when the two metal terminals are connected. Experiments with models of the Baghdad Battery have generated between 1.5 and 2 volts.
The Coffin Of Henettawy
 The outer Coffin of
Henettawy : dated about 1040–991 B.C.E.... You can
see at the left picture close to the guardians images
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The Antikythera Mechanism
One of the most important and interesting pieces of ancient technology, used possibly as an astronomical and calendar calculator. Mechanically, it is a most complex mechanism incorporating 32 gear-wheels as well as inscriptions related to the zodiac and the months. Discovered in 1900-1901 by sponge divers from Syme in an ancient shipwreck near the island of Antikythera. Dated to ca 80 A.D
The mechanism consisted of a box, the external faces of which bore metal plates that were scaled. On these plates (9) and on the flaps of the box, various signs were engraved, as well as names of months, constellations, signs of the zodiac, names of the then known planets, winds, indications for the equinox and the times certain constellations appeared and disappeared on the sky .The mechanism laying in the box consists of 30 toothed wheels (10) the diameter of which varies from 9 to 132 mm. The most impressive feature of the mechanism is its differential gear system (11) accepting two different rotations. This gear is a characteristic evidence of the high technological standards of the whole structure. These toothed wheels were set in motion with the aid of a hand operating shaft and rotated at a different speed each, putting in motion in their turn other shafts and indicators on the scaled plates vesting the surface of the box. So this machine is a Calendar Computer of great accuracy, showing also the movements of the sun, the earth, the moon, and the main constellations in their different phases. It is noticeable that Arthur Clark said about it that although 2000 years passed, this item represents a level of technological development that the western technology only reached during the 18th Century.
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The Piri Reis map
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In 1929, a group of historians found an
amazing map drawn on a gazelle skin. Research showed that
it was a genuine document drawn in 1513 by Piri Reis, a
famous admiral of the Turkish fleet in the sixteenth
century. The Piri Reis map shows the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. The northern coastline of Antarctica is perfectly detailed. The most puzzling however is not so much how Piri Reis managed to draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic region 300 years before it was discovered, but that the map shows the coastline under the ice. Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC. Here is a summary of some of the most unusual findings about the map:
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The contours from the Piri Reis map
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An azimuthal projection of the real globe
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The Voynich Manuscript
Discovered by Wilfrid M. Voynich two years before the First World War in Frascati, near Rome
Written in an unknown script, with characters and symbols that are different than that of any known language in the world. Scientific analysis of the paper and the pigments of the colored inks along with a scholarly assessment of the style of the calligraphy and drawings, suggest that the manuscript dates back to at least the 13th century.
The Voynich Manuscript is currently archived at the Beinecke Rare Book Room at Yale and is accessible to serious scholars and researchers. [catalogue number MS 408]
The lid covers the sarcophagus of the Mayan king Pacal inside the "Temple of Inscriptions", in the Maya city Palenque. The lid is not the only richly decorated piece of stone that the Maya left to us. The sarcophagus lid weighs as much as five tons and the sarcophagus itself weighs in excess of fifteen tons. Because of its enormous weight and size, it was set in place at the base of the temple before construction began
