15 Oldest Technologies That Scientists Can't Explain

we often believe modern science to be the zenith of humanity thus far incorrectly perceiving technology as a modern craft but some societies of the past were actually significantly more creative than we ever give them credit for not only did they craft technology we still use today but sometimes they designed things that we still don't fully understand these are the oldest technologies that scientists can't explain [Music] number 15 with steel wood steel is one of the finest metals you've ever heard of back in the middle ages this material was used to fashion the famous damascus blade a legendary weapon allegedly capable of cutting through a rifle barrel or in one case cutting a hair perfectly in two those blades were made of wood steel which is a mystery of its own wood steel originates in india sometime around 500 bc and is generally recognized for its unique textural patterns often in the shapes of waves ladder or roses the world's foremost metal producers have concocted a super secret technique to develop what they were calling the finest steel in the world which is pretty confident considering many of them likely would never have actually explored the world those producers would be pretty happy today knowing their secrets have remained intact and that modern scientists baffled by this mysterious metal are attempting to reproduce its unusual texture using scientific means none have succeeded of course otherwise this would be quite a useless list the unusual method with which the steel was produced makes it almost impossible to create it in any other way for scientists that's not ideal but then they should probably have more important things to be focusing on than recreating an ancient metal like this video smash the subscribe button and click the notification bell right now or this centipede will crawl on your face when you're sleeping now it's time for the juicy topic the vajra is a ritualistic buddhist tool that can pack a serious wallop made out of solid brass or bronze and with four prongs at each end that curl into a lotus bud shape this heavy clump of metal could do some serious damage if wielded as a weapon but with fables surrounding this thing claiming it can summon electricity we have to wonder can it actually do that and if so how while the fables and stories suggest it can generate electricity nobody in recent times has been able to use it to do so so are the stories all nonsense or are we modern idiots too dumb to understand how this ancient tool works remember to comment down below with the hashtag juicytopic and let us know your opinion in relation to what we just showed on screen and now to the next topic number 14 greek fire it's no secret that fire is one of the most dangerous weapons a fighter can have at their disposal just think of the flamethrower the molotov cocktail or the 1999 smash meth classic all-star all of them pure fire but for over 700 years the greeks found a new way to use fire and it was pretty ingenious developed and utilized by the byzantine empire greek fire was basically the ancient greek equivalent of napalm when they found themselves in battle the greeks would throw these unusually shaped grenades at their chosen target when they would ignite the flames would stick to their target and were impossible to put out with water in fact the flames burned just as well on top of water than anything else scientists have found no credible way of explaining that and the secret was lost to history like the guarded recipe for kfc physics tells us that water cannot support flames so how on earth is this possible the fall of the byzantine empire in 1453 brought an abrupt end to greek fire a weapon that had at one time been the hidden weapon of the byzantine army we'll probably never understand how this incredibly strong weapon worked but i have a feeling it might have something to do with 13 herbs and spices number 13 the voynich manuscript some books are just impenetrable aren't they maybe they're a little overwritten or they're in a language you don't understand or occasionally they're in a language even the experts don't understand and that's especially wild because they know more than little old dum-dum me the voynich manuscript is admittedly a little more complicated than just a language problem this is a weird unusual and very mysterious book [Music] two-thirds into the manuscript the reader discovers a line drawing of a bath surrounded by pipes and filled with naked women the next few pages contain more naked women in increasingly unusual and surreal scenarios all of them accompanied by some strange text the only problem is that this text is complete nonsense since its discovery in 1912 the book has been looked at by hundreds of experts from cryptographers to linguists who have tried to decipher whatever it is but all have failed experts remain insistent that this book is not a hoax but nobody has yet been able to decipher its text and explain its meaning for now it looks like the world will just have to wait for the audiobook number 12. the antikythera mechanism the world of the ancient greeks was nothing short of fascinating but the technological innovations that they created were really something else take for instance the antikythera mechanism or as we may better know it one of the earliest computers ever to be discovered in 1900 a group of sponge divers in the mediterranean were forced off their unusual route by a storm when they happened to stumble or swim upon an unexpected treasure off the coast of the island of antikythera the small island of antikythera sits right in the middle of this maritime corridor a sunken shipwreck containing hundreds of priceless greek antiques was just sitting and waiting for discovery and the divers immediately began investigating these unusual objects the most notable however an encrusted bronze hunk of something eight months after its discovery the object was found to be some kind of computer made up of over 30 gear wheels what it's for is anyone's guess scientists have been unable to crack its purpose confirming that this is the most advanced piece of technology of the period scientists have run multiple experiments and investigations on this odd computer but have turned up absolutely nothing it seems whatever its purpose it's clearly not sentient enough to share it with us number 11 the ancient earthquake detector it seems that whatever genius invention the western world comes up with the chinese got there first and thousands of years before in this case we're looking at seismographs or earthquake detectors and what's more theirs looks better than anything we ever came up with in 132 ad a chinese inventor called zhang heng created the world's very first seismoscope designed to detect earthquakes from some distance and without the need for the shaking of the device whatsoever that's some tech when an earthquake was detected one of the bronze balls that sat inside the mouths of each of the eight dragons on the device would be released allowing it to fall into the open mouth of one of the eight bronze toads the technology behind this device is so complicated that it's almost not even worth trying to summarize in part because scientists are still unable to explain exactly how the mechanism worked to the chinese an earthquake was a sign from heaven that must be monitored so it's no surprise that they came up with such an impressively constructed monitoring tool it's just not worth taking a risk where heaven's concerned number 10 ulfbert swords yes it's true while the vikings were incredibly gifted at inventing near unpronounceable words their real gift was in their technology chances are you've never heard of the ulfbert sword and that's totally fine it's only one of history's strongest weapons no biggie the ulf ferret sword has long been known as one of the strongest weapons in all of history capable of immense power and almost unbeatable in battle however it's also one of the most mysterious weapons ever created and one that researchers still don't fully understand even all these centuries later in total around 170 swords have been recovered dating back between 800 and 1000 ad and all of them inscribed with the word ulfbert which most experts have come to assume is the name of the weapon's creator however researchers have never been able to uncover the secrets behind the metal which is so pure that it actually seems almost impossible for these weapons to exist before the industrial revolution that's a time traveling mystery if i've ever heard one the ulfberht swords remain a baffling mystery for archaeologists around the world but they're still determined to get to the bottom of these mysteriously perfect weapons and i'm sure they'll be putting their own name on it when they do look out for billy bob's sword in the future number nine iron pillar of delhi if there's anything to be learned from this video it's this science is apparently not bound by laws just unusual guidelines yes fire can exist on water objects can defy gravity and apparently metal doesn't have to rust i'm really starting to believe that simulation theory now in delhi's qtb complex there exists one of the most unusual and chemistry defying metal objects in all the world the iron pillar of delhi this huge 7.2 meter tall iron pillar has stood for over a thousand years dating all the way back to around 300 a.d and yet there is not a single bit of rust or deterioration of any kind on it nobody knows why it's there or where it came from but scientists are more baffled by the bizarre lack of any sort of rusting while there are many theories as to why this is the case there's no evidence that is um ironclad thank you thank you very much the only damage that can be found on the iron pillar is the result of people touching the surface which forced the addition of a fence around the pole i'm presuming those touchy people were scientists but it's not like it helped them figure things out number 8. the feistos disc history is filled with beautifully crafted and frankly weird artifacts that just make no sense whatsoever take for example the feistos disc an impressively designed disc of fired clay that just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever this 15 centimeter wide disc was recovered on the island of crete in 1908 by italian archaeologist luigi pernier exploring the myonin palace site of feistos purnier was fascinated by the 241 mysterious carvings and symbols on both sides of the disk and took it back home with him in hopes of deciphering what it all means given its place on this list i think you know how that went pernier's discovery became a worldwide sensation among archaeologists who continue to make efforts at deciphering the symbols even today however without finding some additional disks there's no way to know what the context behind it is for all we know this thing is just a fancy frisbee while the disk is generally considered to be a real mystery some scholars continue to dispute its authenticity purnier himself was accused of being a fraud and a liar but we'll let you decide whether or not this thing is genuine i for one think the world's first frisbee is very authentic number 7. roman dodecahedra this one goes out to all you dungeon masters out there long before the world began hosting elaborate dungeons and dragons tournaments the romans were designing their own or at least they made a dodecahedron a 12-sided dice that's close enough right the roman dodecahedra dates all the way back to the second and third century a.d yet researchers still have absolutely no idea where they came from or why over a hundred of these little things have been found all across europe but as yet there have been no recovered notes or documentation to help explain their true purpose theories range from toys to water pipe gauges and knitting tools but since archaeologists have yet to find any concrete evidence to back up these claims feel free to come up with your own in the comments below to this day nobody fully understands why these things exist let alone why there are so many of them yet archaeologists keep finding more and more unusual roman creations some of which have up to 20 sides it sounds like there were quite a few eager dungeon masters across roman era europe number six giant ball of costa rica costa rica has big balls giant actually but nobody has ever really understood how they got them or what they're used for mostly they're just kept among the gardens and bushes to look pretty though some archaeologists believe that balls this big need a thorough investigating costa rica's stone spheres are a collection of over 300 polished stone orbs discovered sometime during the 1930s like all balls they're not the same size in fact they're so different in size that you'd be forgiven for thinking they're not even related while some are just a few centimeters in diameter others are some 2 meters wide and can weigh up to 16 tons when you get to the massive ones archaeologists have always been a little cagey about their origin with some speculating that they were crafted sometime between 200 bc and 1600 ce and if that's not confusing enough they've been found all over the place so we can't even be sure about who made them while there are many local myths about the balls archaeologists and researchers have been unable to find any historical evidence to support them up close tests and investigations on the balls have proven inconclusive they're just big balls guys number five the codex gigas i know i know i know what you're thinking but let me ask you in return is there really any better technology than a book you can read it you can make stuff out of it you can put it in under a chair and balance it out in many ways a book is the original swiss army knife and the codex gigas is well it's the swiss army knife to beat all others the codex gigas is most likely the most massive book in the world containing 623 foot tall pages and a whole host of texts not only does this whopping book feature the old and new testaments but also books on exorcism medicine a full page drawing of the devil grammar and wait did i say a full page drawing of the devil yep the codex gigas is also known as the devil's bible in september 2007 codex gigas returned to prague due to one completely unexplained illustration of satan in the middle of the book for what reason you ask nobody knows researchers have long been searching for answers in the mysterious case of the codex gigas but they've come up empty for all we know this book was written by the devil and he was just narcissistic number four japan's atlantis deep beneath the ocean on the southern coast of yonagoni japan a pile of ten thousand-year-old ruins lie submerged their origin is unknown their purpose unclear why are we describing it so dramatically because it's fun right one of the greatest underwater discoveries ever these unusual ruins were discovered in 1995 by a diver who ventured quite a distance from the okinawa shoreline and thank goodness he did buried beneath the water was an arrangement of monolithic blocks that looked just a little too constructed to be completely natural but scientists aren't so sure and ever since their discovery a heated debate has been brewing about whether they're man-made creations or merely the effects of nature archaeologists divers media personalities and more flocked to the site in hopes of somehow uncovering the truth but as of yet nobody really knows some great facebook photos down there though this could be the discovery of an atlantis-like city at the heart of the pacific ocean or it could just be a pile of rocks at the bottom of the ocean floor either way we know one thing this is something we don't know what specifically but it is objectively speaking a thing number three ancient indian flying machines in our modern world of drones planes and helicopters it's easy to forget that humans have been trying to fly for centuries all the way back to leonardo da vinci and the ancient indian aliens people on this planet have been wait did i say aliens yes aliens ancient indian texts often describe what would to our modern eyes appear to be unusual flying saucers affectionately known as venmanas and valixi as strange flying chariots that would typically carry gods across the sky obviously this was a time in which many indians were unfamiliar with what we would now consider to be modern technology so it stands to reason that their focus would be on the unusual sky-bound god chariots as opposed to aliens however looking at them now these ancient texts are almost baffling to read as insight into how native indians of the period viewed the unusual phenomena that existed right above them and experts don't have the slightest idea what they're talking about modern scientists have spent much of the past decades investigating the unusual writings of these ancient indian texts but as yet there is no indication of exactly what these mysterious spacecraft actually were could this be the work of ancient aliens possibly alien gods why not number two nuclear weapons easily one of the worst inventions of the 20th century the nuclear bomb has all but changed global military strategy forever but was it actually an invention of the 20th century or has the world always been suffering under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation of one of the ancient power plants used by extraterrestrials some conspiracy theorists have floated the potential that actually nuclear weapons may not be a new invention but just another variation of a long-present problem citing ancient indian texts that describe devastating explosions brighter than a thousand suns these theorists propose that actually nuclear weapons have been around since 8 bc at least which would be a groundbreaking discovery if it could actually be proved but if that's not convincing enough the theorists have also claimed that unusual skeletal remains from 1927 were linked to an ancient nuclear attack due to their unusually high levels of radiation that one is a little harder to dismiss while scientists have often disputed claims that nuclear weapons have ancient origins they've been unable to provide a credible answer as to why these bodies were so high in radiation before the atomic bomb was invented remember this was sometime before cell phones came along to slowly kill us from the inside out anyway let's move on number one sound magnifying ancient chamber airpods beats by dre the hypogeum of hals alfani what do these things have in common yes they're all sick dope and lint but they're also incredibly well designed tools to listen to music podcasts audiobooks or just the sound of whatever terrifying creature of nature is lurking nearby the house offline hypogeum is one of malta's most unknown gems it's been certified as a unesco world heritage site and is frequently listed as one of the most incredible places on the earth in tourism magazines that apparently nobody reads when the team examines the interiors of the temples while the hypogeum is notable for the fact that it's the world's oldest prehistoric underground temple dating back around 5000 years most people know it for a different reason the acoustics are terrific so terrific in fact that they can magnify a sound by over 100 times those that have witnessed it firsthand describe the experience as like being inside a giant bell which actually sounds like a nightmare i've had and would not would not recommend while the site is often celebrated as an impressive feat of engineering nobody knows why it was built or how it was designed or even who used it all we know is that people go in with their hearing and come out with an incredible souvenir as one guest put it i visited the hypogeum of hal soufflini and all i got was this lousy tinnitus do you have any explanation for any of this incredible technology let us know in 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Published: Thu Oct 22 2020