Stuff They Don't Want You To Know- Did ancient civilizations possess advanced technology?

[JoxemOmega]

:aliens: thumbs up if you know this meme

[JoxemOmega]

Here are the facts, My name is Milo and i have come from Atlantis

[9600dc]

woohoo!!...mythbusters!!!

[xadam2dudex]

why were they confused by the Antikythera device ?? it is a well know fact that the ancient Greeks had many highly complex machanical devices that they built that were far more complex than this device known as automata...temples with elaborate mechanical flying chariots noise machines and water clocks ..drink dispensers ( vending machines ) etc

[JI394]

No ending with the sentence - 'its the stuff that they don't want you to know''.

[EGCKiller]

Well what if we in the past have already hit the peak of our technology, but powerful people saved themselves from a disaster that was probably their fault or that they intentionally forced and what if they are the supposed aliens nothing more then mere humans with advanced technology that have been controlling mans destiny and playing god?...what if everything we know of in this world is a lie that has been carefully fabricated by powerful people that got to powerful

[Sm0kAhOLic42]

and in about 100 years we will have a type 1 planet

[dirtyboy304]

they control it cuz i think that these disasters was cuz humanity became to evil of all things. thats just my opinion though. evil is for real and is hard to stop. but i love how we have the power as humans to predict the future. look at that machine imagine special zen where you could look up your birthdate and find out what could happen to you in your life ,, then live on that.

[Gremmie4]

Every time he says "fringe historians" it sounds like "French historians".

[PsycheJones012]

Yes people proof that some ancient civilizations were of high intellect. But i say you bring one of us back to the past and we'd be Gods among men! We know OUR history AND theirs! They'd crown me king before the end of the day with the knowledge i posess!

[Notquiteaninja]

I like how the house number is 1984 XD

[kmk021]

2:50-53 beep beep beep

[natestarider]

Listen to Joe Rogan's theory about how the pyramids were built, and all of this will make sense

[sodapo461]

I don't know therefore aliens.

[shaveddave]

2:18 worlds best bong.

[natestarider]

@shaveddave HELL YEAH!  Finally these videos are good for something.

[ObscureRenegade]

I wonder if this ties in somehow to the Stuff video that says we are several centuries off in terms of our timeline.

[blackfire053]

KUSH!

[UterivacOnlineDugova]

Damn you got me to research every single one of your episodes keep up the good work.

[Davidt963]

by 2. or 3. century BC, Romans had already achieved steam industrialisation and many artifacts from them are lost.. i would not be suprised if there were other advanced civilizations before them

[vogagis]

Knowledge is always suppressed to create oppression in the world. This is what the Elites do, this is how they stay on top. This should not surprise anyone.

[jonathan1234565]

KUSH! LMFAOOOO!

[drilledtooth]

@ invisathreat lmao god is not real lmao the bible is just words on paper stacked together and bound believe in science and evolution not some story book bullshit

[stevie321nrg]

mythbuter involved hell yeah.. :D

[TranscendenceProd]

human beings had been on earth for around 2 mil years or so. if we had achieved so much in 2000 years in terms of technology, what could have our ancestors achieved in the past million years? 50000 years? there could be some advanced civilization existed so long ago that the evidence of their existence perished over time. there were no aliens to begin with. we humans, progress on our own.

[seannnooo]

@TranscendenceProd where did you get 2 million years from? try 500k mate

[wiseyeffect]

Those that have power are always technological more advance than their subjects. The key to maintaining that power is to get the subjects to believe you know less than you really do. What we are told about mankinds history and the progression of it's societies are nothing but a vail of lies inorder to perpetuate the established power.

[wolfking3956]

we are advanced :p but the goverment dnt want the tech to go out in public yet, we already have laser tht can burnthrough paper n stuff a small hand held imagin a big pwoerful 1 tht can cut through a battle ship a metal wall, dirt walls o.o

[PIFFthePUFF420]

Kush Kingdom!

[Vyse500]

The govt has us so duped that we can't even accept the possiblity that advanced tech existed in antiquity even when its staring us in the face. FTW

[Invisathreat]

Or...we didn't evolve. Maybe we were created to be smart by some kind of...God...who instilled in us the power to think through reason and observation...and these humans with logical minds and brilliance...created these archaic things...food for thought.

[lochen33]

@Invisathreat Or...we evolved because we were smarter than our ape-like predecessors, and therefore became dominant, like the life history of every other organism we share this rock with.

[fadespell]

not aliens or time travelers. just us. inventing the same thing over and over again. then the entire civilization being destroyed by who knows what.

[skillz139]

can we seriously believe the ancient egyptians built the pyramids by themselves?

[Uberware]

Check out the 90 degree rock formations outside the coast of Japan.... nature dont do that. Go to graham hancock dot com, click "under water". And you have taken one step outside the matrix.

[Virgil077]

@Uberware

You're referring to the Yonaguni site right?

[TheNitFace]

in a cave 15 km from where I live they found tools that was from 130.000 bc that means that finland wold have bean on of the first to have homo sapiens in europe and at this time it was ice age so it cold prove that there never was an ice age . but some guys from EU came there and sayd that it was miss calculation but they have done the tests meny time and it says 130 000 bc . the EU member took the tools and cole and walked away . THIS SOUNDS LIKE A CONSPIRACY ! sorry for eny bad spelling . :)

[blaspid]

Shows how much our modern scientist know...

[269dremer]

Actually the reason these are all here is even easier to understand that all this. Our RACE is older than they want you to believe. All Ancient cultures speak global disasters. Also the Catholic Church and the Smithsonian have admitted to desotrying history that doesnt fit what they want you to think it was. This makes it easier for you to think like they want. Its all about control.

[MeThinks995]

@269dremer i had an argument with my 12th grade Living Enviorment teacher about this

[crocblanc1989]

@269dremer true, so true

[NaturalReflexProject]

@269dremer true. true

[MrStoneClark]

@269dremer like 100,000 years man... so true! Peace

[Condom007of007Solace]

@269dremer So that's why a lot of Chinese inventions were discredited...

[Plipz]

@269dremer assassins creed main plot :P

[lemonsthemelon]

Things aren't made to last forever. But the small minority of what has from the past is kinda gay

[Chikarishu]

The ancient civilization sounds more sound to me tho, as usual when mankind gets at its peak it gets cocky, slavery shure is a legacy they left us, its biggest in all of human history, classes system too, so my geuss is just like now, suppression got the better hand of it, revoltion people uprise , downfall of the great, and u got chaos and anarchy detroying all that wisdom leading to us now.

[biggmoneyme]

high



[aqouby]

@HowStuffWorks It's impossible to travel backward in time. I really like how you don't rely on any science but instead push this nonsense hearsay.

[mark12033]

@aqouby he does say "Heres where it gets crazy." besides he isn't saying this himself! he's just saying what OTHER people belive. and there are actually 3 treorys about time travel. 1: (the one you i assume belive in) is that you cant go back in time, only forward. 2: ( which i hope is not true) is that no one can time travel at all. 3: ( which i believe) is that even if you go into the pass you cant change history. things will always stay the same no matter what.

[aqouby]

@mark12033 Well general relativity actually tells us that time travel to the past is impossible. You can do the mind game in your head but I suggest learning relativity. You can only move forward in time and at the peak of relativity you can move a Universal distance without any time going by-- but nothing goes back. Wormholes are a mathematically valid aspect of space-time which is being examined further. If you want to try to prove your 3rd postulate to me then by all means. These videos suck.

[mark12033]

@aqouby first if you watch "The universe" you would know that general relativity does not explain time travel. thats speical relativity. 2nd i have watch "the universe" and they do have 3 theorys and to discerit all the others is unfair and so is insulting this show. if you dont like it just click the dislike button and move on. and your right i cant prove anything cause im not a scientist but i try to keep a opened mind and not just believe what everyone tells me.

[aqouby]

@mark12033 It doesn't matter if HowStuffWorks believes them or not, it's that he shows the issue through the eyes of a conspiracy theorist and doesn't look at any of the logic against the issues.

I watched "The Universe," but I've also read Einstein's "On The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" and much more of his works. Yes, special relativity talks about constant, C, but I was talking about time travel, that's spacetime and therefore general relativity. Time travel relates for mass particles.

[Elementer117]

Lol, Kush.

It's a type of weed.

[blinkyraki]

@Elementer117 and a nice one !!!

[blinkyraki]

there is a theory that the ancient egyptians could make things float by levitation. maybe it was used to power the magnetique field.

[samthejuggalo509]

@blinkyraki The ancient egyptians moved things with a near endless source of slave labor..

[DMrFrost]

@samthejuggalo509 How will you move a 70 ton granite block 500 miles and up 600 feet? I dont care how many people you say are pulling on that rope... it's going nowhere.

[MeThinks995]

@DMrFrost i really wish all these dumb skeptics would recreate what their saying & prove it fact but oh wait they cannot because its BULLLSHIT!!

[DMrFrost]

@MeThinks995 You ever consider that nothing can be proved, all that can be done is to calculate probabilities and rule out the less probable. (Since there is lacking documentation)

Now is it possible for humans to mine and place 2 million 20-70 ton stone blocks, dragging each one 500 miles through the sand? using only ropes, chisels and rocks and getting the whole thing done in under 30 years?

Or is it more probable that we were advanced before?

Think about it for a minute.

[MeThinks995]

@Elementer117 Its derived from the West African empire of the same name

[milldabeast519]

@Elementer117 i was gona say something about that.... like my ancestors must have been from kush land! mad respect kush i still repesent!

[FaultlessGamer]

@Elementer117 hmm.... maybe ancient africans were stoners 

[MrStoneClark]

@Elementer117 Im smoking some as I write this... :-)

[nixymagoo]

I laugh when i see such a factual informative video that then spirals out of control with suggestions of time travel. The earth is billions of years old. every few million years the earth resets. These ancient discoveries could be from civilizations the existed on earth millions or billions of years ago that like us reached the height of their existence the it was all washed away o start again

[CrunkKitty1]

Why do people these days believe that people back in ancient times were idiots? Just like people in our future, will see "our ancient times" as idiots, and not believe things we "invented" were real and that someone must have time travelled with an iPhone and left it accidentally behind in a rock. Come on!

[edbstrung]

Haha. The ancient batteries were made to power the ancient computer.

[kakashi901]

i wouldnt be suprised if they found a giant ass robot that could still work

[MrGmanFreeman]

True stoners drool their asses off at 2:17

[Mechamortal]

Let me tell ya, if there were time travel, rather than give iron nails to some ancient fucks, someone would've prevented Bush from becoming president.

[majik8206]

Not aliens people

Our ancestor's

[majik8206]

Ezekiel saw an UFO..

Go figure

[shovelniron]

READ THE BOOK OF ENOCH.... it will open your eyes to the truth about this stuff

[ev11]

It's nothing like his adding machine. it was an impressive bit of clockwork most likely from Archimedes' own workshop albeit decades after his death from one of his apprentices but its not a 'computer'. As for the batteries they're pathetic combinations of vinegar as an electrolyte and crude metal plates that could hardly power anything even in massive quantities. So yes they're very cool and if people had followed them up we may have had a technological revolution sooner than we did, no aliens.

[DanielJoseDiego]

@ev11 I don't know what you understand by "computer" cause if you're thinking modern electronic computers then yeah you have the reason but basically it's just a machine in which you can program commands and receive calculations and answers to complex operations which is what this device was. As for the Baghdad batteries, it doesn't make sense to keep something for so long and so well preserved if indeed they were just useless failed attempts. There's gotta be a reason they kept them.

[cheng269]

everytime he says "or is it something they dont want you to know" i learn something new

[ProfessorXavierBeats]

I really hate his voice...

[djkaizerLA]

"finding that ancient computer in a b.c. period would be the equivalence of finding a jet airplane inside of the Giza pyramid."

[josephorJT]

kushh lol

[dezinediva]

look up Dead Men's secrets. Its available as a pdf also. And that whole carbon dating thing is a lie. The earth is at max 12K years old.

[ResqOner]

@dezinediva Really? 

[dezinediva]

@ResqOner if you google the book you can get it as a pdf and read it. I printed it out and read it in one weekend, because the information is SO good and amazing.

[punchdrunkatheist]

It appears our ancestors using the same cognitive abilities as us, have created complex societies and even technologies. OBVIOUSLY THAT MEANS THERE'S ALIENS DUHHH. Give me a break. What a ridiculous jump to illogic.

[humansmoke77]

It should be clear by now. WE ARE THE ALIENS.

[wipemysmile]

Fuck the Myth Busters

[dominic150]

what would happen today if a plague wiped out 99% of humanity? we would become stone age again for a short time, then begin again. Is this really that hard to consider?

[lordaere]

@dominic150 No, and think about what would remain of our buildings. they'd be stripped of everything by the survivors within years. used, and discarded, food too. think about the middle ages, that was pretty much the fall of ancient civilizations and it seems like who was left were more primitive. this cycle of human civilization being born and dying and reborn has probably happened MANY times!

[TheStartrekkid]

Ancient people were smarter then us.

[TheStartrekkid]

Forbidden Archeology book ,look it up every body

[bladiumdragon]

The way this guy talks is....creepy. One of things they didn't want you to know.

[Linked89]

This is not that unbelievable 

[inurb4se]

Less of a "computer" and more of a watch/device that works similar to an accurate mobile. It's a mechanical device, not an electrical device.

[setonend]

@inurb4se

The original computers werent electric. A computer is anything that helps you compute equations, the computers we use are called "Digital Computers." So Considering the device is theorised to have been used to compute astrological equations, it therefore is a computer. A watch doesnt compute anything

[inurb4se]

@setonend

Would you considered a geared out, accurate mobile, a computer?

[TThorne931]

they had it and in War we lost it to the dakr age the Catholic church and other orginization protected what we could but War War never changes

[baddabkin]

Ur voice is SO DAMN MONOTONE!!!!!!!!!!!

[movement26]

It is a tragedy that those bloody Romans destroyed the Library of Alexandria.......That's where all the good info was kept.....Instead we have been fed on 2000 years of mind numbing religion.

[CertifiedBad4ss]

Well... The ancient "computer" was not at all a computer.

It was a series of gears that interacted so that when you spin one, they all spin and thereby you can see the date and star formations.

It's true that its incredibly complex and that the gears were very small and

shouldn't exist at the time, but it sure as hell doesnt mean aliens taught some small village of humans how to make small gears.

[mattvl73]

i love keanu reeves as the narrator of this whole series

[bathingape915]

@tadahar damn u creepy

[TADahar]

The main point of this video is that we have underestimated the inventiveness of ancient peoples. It doesn't say anything about Nibiru, etc.

[oooodin]

when nibiru passes us again we will once again reset civilisation and start allover again and again and again every 3600 years it resets...

[HannaFriden]

I take back what I say about the monument, silly me forgot that it was erected in the 1980'a, haha XD...

[HannaFriden]

The Georgia Guidestones and other things a like are really interesting since they offer guidance of survival - And that does make one believe that we had other civilizations before now who wiped themselves out in war. The words say to keep peace, to unite the world, to control births, to take care of the nature (often repeated). One could think that they botched the whole ecology up through war and ignorance.

[bathingape915]

why does his voice gottaa be so creepy?

[TADahar]

@bathingape915 I thought it was sexy. Damn, my nipples are still hard...

[Alfenmark]

Such an annoying voice :s

[GahdeMalprigi1488x]

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[deluxe77777]

I find the term "Conspiracy Theory" offensive. As science relies on hypothesis to our beginning-so is it crazy to think that there was an advanced race that was here in the suggested 4.3 billion years mainstream science says the planet is-people were killed for not abiding with the status quo. When is humanity going to grow up. Our did we already just to destroy ourselves

[artangel1980]

I think it's possible alien civilizations may have had some influence over ancient societies. You have to wonder why so many civilizations built pyramids roughly the same size, at the same time, all over the world, all lined up with some of the same stars on Orien's belt? They may have left us a message about where they went or where we should be looking. I think these 'scientists' can't see the forest for the trees at times. They need to zoom out and look at the big picture here.

[darthclone7]

I think as humans.. We love to fantasize about the end, self-destructive and we always look to reboot instead of moving forward

[lifes40123]

2000 years from now.. humans will say.. oh come on those faggots from 2011 did not have cars or internet..

[tonib000y]

@lifes40123 dude 2000 years from now.. no1 will ever be using cars or internet -_-

[MissMazzaaMusic]

 dinasaurs!

[MissMazzaaMusic]

no NO! it dinasaurs ok those metalic tubes came from 65may and the dinos died out around about 65.5may and also those metal bolts i blame the raptors and come on you can't blame me for saying this because i'm abit of a freeck and i also wred most of the sieries of astrosaurs

[stupidkid629]

For all we know this people where more advance then us, the different is instead of passing down their technology we had to start from scratch.

[Makaveli175]

Ancient Aliens Is The Best Documentary to Watch

[suchadambidiot]

i always have a hard time thinking about time travel, cuz if in the past, someone from the future came to the past, that meens that someone in the future will travle back in time, and that meens that despite what they do in the past that the present (which the future man came from) wont be effected, cuz it already happend...i hate thinking!

[TopShelfization]

@suchadambidiot everytime someone went back in time and changed or did anything, they created a chain of different reality's and outcomes, maybe we do go to the future and try to not change anything, and only the worlds elite no about it, so they cover up part in history that don't add up, because they don't add up because we have fucked our space time continuum.

[BigMisterApple]

@suchadambidiot It's easy actually.. If you'd go back in time to change something or do something, that would mean you don't have that specific thing on your "to-do" list in the future, since you already did it.. so because you already did it, you don't go back in time, thus not doing that which you wanted to do..

So to put it in plain terms.. you cant go back in time, since you'd have that paradox to work around.. google the grandfather paradox, worth the time to think about it.. :)

[suchadambidiot]

@BigMisterApple but do you see my theory in how it would work out...? if i go back in time, then that meens in the past i arived and did something, so in the past i already did this, so nothing would change cuz i already did it...but i have conflicting ideas about it...i subscribe to the butterfly effect theory aswell, though i doubt a single butterfly could do mutch harm i still understand the premis of the thought...

[XxXspacityheroXxX]

The truth truely is stranger than fiction.. You want evidence of our future demise? Google "The Georgia Guidestones".... We're toast..

[OnBrokenDreams]

Hard to imagine aliens using spark plugs innit? Maybe the world is just a dream.

[petescurvy]

Why would aliens introduce humanity to such a primitive level of technology as the Baghdad batteries? Why not a spacecraft ? For starters!?

Yes, they are primitive: It is well documented tha Hero made fire- and steam engines, a vending machine and awind-powered organ. We, or rather you people, must accept the simple fact that brilliant existed even in antiquity.

[BellaLunaJessalynn]

In egypt and puma punku there are perfectly circular drilled holes feet into hard stone measured to the millimeter perfectly spaced apart. Egypt actually has finer and more intricate reproduced structures than modern day and engineers have said the only way to do it is probably with some sort of laser technology that we don't have yet... as far as the gov lets us know about anyway.

[BellaLunaJessalynn]

In egypt and puma punku there are perfectly circular drilled holes feet into hard stone measured to the millimeter perfectly spaced apart. Egypt actually has finer and more intricate reproduced structures than modern day and engineers have said the only way to do it is probably with some sort of laser technology that we don't have.

[Tylurable]

jesus i hate stupid people

[Aloebunny]

I Like the monotone voice, good choice for this video!

[zoebiflap]

"I'm Batman!"

[gidosmart]

dude, do you ever take a breath lol! you just keep talking...so monotone-ly

[Ralphy676]

Nice video, very informative, good background music, thanks , another unsolved mystery and ready to be solved before 2012.

[dreamelatte]

I like the idea that humans traveled back in time and put those there, fascinating to believe that that will be possible.

[pun420]

Right now governments have technology that would blow your mind

[fishnamedgary]

now this is what i want to hear, not stuff like the federal reserve and energy vampires!

[flamingice767]

Probably had so much technology they found out bout nukes and had a nuclear war and thats kinda were we r now in this cycle. There will probably be people saying the same thing bout us 500 years from now

[ArtemusRex]

I like the theory that humans do a shotty job of keeping track of their own progress. I remember learning that by the time the Greek's saw the pyramids of Egypt that those "modern" Egyptians had already forgotten the stories of who built the pyramids... There was also a similar story where some European (Marco Polo) reintroduced something that the Chinese had invented but over the centuries had fallen out of use (pasta or fireworks, can't remember which).

[Lariasio]

So they had this tech. What was stopping them from going further I doubt they would make something like the anti mech and just stop thats not the human way they would have pushed further what if when they started getting all this high tech they were wiped out and we had to start all over with no knowlage of how to reproduce the tech. Oh no I am becoming one of them conspiracy guys FFFFUUUUU

[suchadambidiot]

KUSH!!!!

[RandomDirectors]

When i first heard about the greek computer I realized that the only difference between us now and humans 2000 years ago was skills of communication.

without such advanced communication as today geniuses like the ones who created the computer could not share knowledge.

in the recent years 1000ac onwards people began to travel and began sharing ideas which in return brought geniuses together and helped them create better things quicker.

[nofrillstissues]

I'm loving this series. I love a good conspiracy and these videos give an unbiased look into the conspiracies, which is hard to find. Thank you

[Thunderhook715]

ya the way things are headed the U.S. will be a Distant memory in about 100 years in a thousand the world population may be living in the bronze age again.

[GONECRUISING72]

i have no problem in believeing the "ancients " had such tech.we need to stop being so full of our selves. and that only we could posses such tech.

[dezinediva]

@GONECRUISING72 so true, like how are we just now in the last 150-200 years smart, JUST NOW!!!!??!?!? People have been here on the earth for thousands of years, so to say WE are the only smart ones shows we are the only DUMB ones.

[WorldwideWakeupCall]

@GONECRUISING72 no shit, great comment

[artangel1980]

@GONECRUISING72 I agree with you. Despite our 'advanced' technologies, we still can't build structures with 20 ton blocks of stone. We still can't duplicate the buildings made by ancient civilizations. They clearly knew something that has been lost to time. I still can't understand why the History Channel calls them 'primitive' when clearly they were not.

[GONECRUISING72]

@artangel1980 one of the channels has a program called... what the ancients knew ....and they knew alot to say the least....

[artangel1980]

@GONECRUISING72 is there a place on the web I can watch the program? Love watching the ancient aliens series they have.

[GONECRUISING72]

@artangel1980 its on the science channel which is run by the discovery channel go to there website and you can buy the dvd set.....

[chaosrealm93]

is it so hard to accept that ancient civilizations had something we didnt?...

[Frenzal88]

@chaosrealm93 what like a ipad

[ninchia]

@chaosrealm93 most civilization wants to believe they have advanced from a previous state of civilization and this is one of the main reasons why people don't want to admit ancient civilizations had more advanced technology.

[iamLI3]

no more "or is there something they don't want you to know" at the end anymore?....

[ElGato2448]

Why such a monotone voice?

[DeadProphetsFate]

@ElGato2448 suspense.

[180faky]

im second so fuck u

[Ivankokokarev]

i'm the firsr!