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  • Ancient High Tech

  • The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations
  • By: Frank Joseph
  • Narrated by: Andy Rick
  • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Ancient High Tech

By: Frank Joseph
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Summary

A detailed look into ancient advanced technology, science, and medicine - some of which has yet to be reproduced today

  • 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 fourth-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 1,600 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?

©2020 by Frank Joseph. All Rights Reserved. (P)2020 Inner Traditions Audio. All Rights Reserved.
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“Based on extensive research including the latest findings, Frank Joseph delivers in this book a comprehensive overview of our ancient ancestors’ remarkable achievements, much of them lost to the sands of time. Frank Joseph once again shows why he is a leading expert on ancient civilizations with this impressive book backed up by plenty of evidence. Who would have thought that many of the modern conveniences we take for granted were also enjoyed by our ancient ancestors?!” (David P. Jones, editor and director of New Dawn magazine)

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Facts are important

This book is so interesting . It is an absolutely absorbing work of scholarly investigation. Sometimes a book can change the way you perceive the world.

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Interesting but questionable

This is a thoroughly enjoyable listen that gave me many 'Wow, I didn't know that moments', but you might want to do a quick search of the author's past (I was unaware before I purchased this). Whilst there is a lot of evidence put forwrd for each claim, the continual references to 'mainstream' historians (and Egyptologists in particular) smack of fringe theorists, especially when claims about the Dendera lightbulb have been debunked by the presence of soot on the roofs of the very temple it is found in. Also, the closing chapter on Pyramid Power should make people question whether this can all be taken seriously or not. There are some incredible claims in different places, but I found myself checking online to verify a lot of these claims and many of them rely on the work of Christopher Dunn. Lots of claims are made about ancient people possessing technology greater than what we know today, with a lot of these claims left unfounded. I was waiting on more than one occasion to hear, 'An entirely different race from another world must have created it...'
Overall it is thought-provoking and perhaps there is credibility to some of these extraordinary claims, but some of the theories put forwards seem a little bit left-field for me.

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