The Puzzle of Ancient Man - Dr. Donald Chittick

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About the Antykythera Mechanism which he referenced, it was a analog computer for calculating the positions of the star and planets at certain times of the year for astrology purposes, nothing more. It was very advanced for its time, but it is comprable to computers that we had more than a hundred years ago, which illustrates the point that tehnological advancement is a line of hills, not a pure ascending slope.

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...the Renaissance, which is the era that we live in now. And how he says that the level of technology was the highest in the beginning and it has been declining since then, did the Ancient Egyptians have digital computers, the internet, youtube, public address systems, projectors, a space program, satalites in orbit, or put a man on the moon, no. This man is during a presentation with technology that under his own logic, he shouldn't even be able to have.

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...Roman Empire, which was destroyed by over expansion, famine, Germanic Invasions, etc. and once again alot of sophistication and knowlege was lost with the destruction of the government institutions, and schools of learning, ex. Libraryof Alexandria. (Destroyed by Romans during the Crisis of the Thrid Century actually). Which caused the Dark Ages in Europe, and it was only with the Collapse of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) that some of that preserved knowlege was restored which resulted in...

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...civilizations was lost due to their collapse, which was probably due to famines caused by drought and also invasion by warlik peoples, ex. "sea people" as the Egyptians called them. Egypt's damage was cushioned somewhat because it was geographically isolated from the rest of the middle east and also the main source of water for cultivation was the Nile River not rain. But anyways when that sophistication was lost humanity had to rebuilt duringthe iron age, which reached ts apex with the...

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Wow strawman. No one in traditional archaeology believes that the tehnological development of man is a straight hill, man has gone through several cycles in the past where the level of societal and technological sophistocation has gotten to really high levels but then all that work and knowledge has been lost due to those societies collapsing due to natural disaters, invasion etc. It happend with the end of the Bronze Age, when the knowlege of the ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Agean...

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Sad that nobody does real research and real archaeology at so many interesting sites! It's quite obvious that modern scientific world is not really interested in the truth about the mankind's history. Maybe for political reasons?

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I watched several shows on the History Channel about the technology of ancient man, such as flight, batteries, analog computers. Coming from an evolutionary worldview, they were amazed and at a law to explain how ancient civilizations could have done these things.