Frank Joseph: Ancient High Tech
Earth Ancients
Cliff Dunning
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2020
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
• Explores countless examples of ancient high tech, including robotics, artificial intelligence, aircraft, solar-powered cannons, high-speed drills, illuminated underground temples, massive refrigerators, and subterranean cities
• Examines evidence of advanced medicine in ancient times
• Includes examples from ancient Egypt, China, Greece, Babylon, Siberia, the Americas, and India
The first self-igniting match was invented in 1805 by Jean Chancel, a French chemist. Yet, in Babylon, 3,600 years before, identical sulfur matches were in common use. On the Panchavarnaswamy Temple in India, built millennia ago, there is a detailed carving of a man on a bicycle, yet the bicycle wasn’t invented in the modern world until 1817. These inventions are only two examples of technology lost in the Dark Ages.
Exploring the sophisticated tech achieved by ancient civilizations hundreds and thousands of years ago, Frank Joseph examines evidence of robotics and other forms of artificial intelligence; manned flight, such as hot-air balloons and gliders; and military science, including flamethrowers, biological warfare, poison gas, and solar-powered cannons. He reveals how ancient construction engineers excavated subterranean cities, turned stone walls into glass, lifted 100-ton blocks of granite, illuminated underground temples and pyramids, and stored their food in massive refrigerators.
Examples explored in the book include the first known alarm clock, invented by Plato in 4th-century-BC Greece; 600-year-old Aztec whistles that reproduce animal sounds and human voices with uncanny accuracy; Stone Age jewelry from Siberia worked by a high-speed drill; sex robots in ancient Troy, Greece, and China; ancient Egyptian aircraft; and India’s iron pillar exposed to sixteen hundred years of monsoons but still standing rust-free. The author also explores evidence of advanced medicine in ancient times, particularly in Egypt and China, from brain surgery, optometry, and prosthetics to dentistry, magnet therapy, and cancer cures.
By examining the achievements of our ancient ancestors, we can not only reverse-engineer their inventions but also learn from their civilizations’ mistakes, enabling us to avoid more dark ages. Imagine how scientifically advanced humanity would be if our early achievements had escaped destruction and been allowed to develop?
Frank Joseph was the editor in chief of Ancient American magazine from 1993-2007. He is the author of several books, including Before Atlantis, Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America, The Lost Civilization of Lemuria, and The Lost Treasure of King Juba. He lives in the Upper Mississippi Valley.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we ask the question, are we the most sophisticated beans on our planet? |
| 0:06.7 | Well, my guest today says we're not, and in fact there is evidence that there were sophisticated cultures who created airplanes, |
| 0:16.8 | used the telescope, developed artificial intelligence, and in fact created a robot race that not only assisted them, but in some cases helped in wars defend families and were part of kingdoms as servants. My guest today is the prolific |
| 0:36.4 | author Frank Joseph who has written a new book called Ancient High Tech. This is an in-depth look at a number of sciences that we are just now beginning to understand. |
| 0:50.3 | Later, Jindeo takes us to Indonesia and the island hopping civilizations that use very sophisticated |
| 0:59.2 | tools to get around and also to survive. |
| 1:04.0 | All this and the news today on Earth Ancients. And the Oh, I'm not all of them. For Saturday, August 5th, 2020, this is Earth Ancients. |
| 1:46.7 | I'm your host, Cliff Dunning. |
| 1:51.0 | This is Graham Hancock. You're listening to Earth |
| 1:53.6 | Ancient's with Cliff Dunning. |
| 1:56.9 | Hey, this is Cliff, your host of Earth |
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| 2:16.6 | politics I promised I wouldn't get into politics people have been accusing me of |
| 2:21.4 | certain things regarding statements I made a while ago on our health care. |
| 2:28.1 | And heck, I'll continue to make those statements. |
| 2:30.4 | You know, we don't have protocols and it's affecting everybody it's affecting me |
| 2:35.9 | specifically because I can't do the Earth ancient tours we had to cancel the tour in October to Egypt and I it's part of my |
| 2:49.8 | livelihood so it's affecting me I'm concerned about next year so and you know it's the |
| 2:57.4 | pandemic is not under control in the United States other countries are working on it. We keep having spikes and I don't feel comfortable |
| 3:08.7 | about it. And it's affecting everybody. It really is affecting everybody. You cannot be, you cannot live in the United States and not be affected by this this pandemic. |
| 3:20.0 | So protocols really make a huge difference so that we're not on our own, you know, where each |
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