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Only recently there is growing evidence that there are ancient artifacts made with precisions/symmetry/accuracy that could only have been approached in the last
by 8bitsrule 3y ago
Only recently there is growing evidence that there are ancient artifacts made with precisions/symmetry/accuracy that could only have been approached in the last 50 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyQQRNoQaE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyQQRNoQaE
That doesn't explain what happened to the tools, but that might be attributable to rust, death of small numbers of experts by war/famine/cataclysm/disease, and widespread recycling of rare metals and objects. OOP artifact-finders have traditionally been mocked into silence. It was 50 years before Antikythera got serious study, 50 more before it got close attention.
- TheCapeGreek 3y agoThis is the comment I was looking for. The ultimate explanation might not be as wild as non-human civilizations, advanced "prehistoric" humans, or aliens. But it does seem that there are some mysteries of construction over the eons that have been lost.
- tzs 3y agoIt wasn’t actually technically hard to achieve great precision and accuracy with the technology of ancient times. What is hard is to do it fast, cheaply, and in volume.