How did the Greeks and Romans build colossal temples? 

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Boulder...

I suspect there was some financial heel dragging involved in that one.

There’s some medieval cathedrals that are still under construction today.

They could have waited few thousand years more and let the Brits and American MNCs complete the temple or maybe the Vatican can take over it. Do civilization last for 800 years

The great pyramid was built in just 20 years.

Man, they would have been building that temple for so long by the end they would have become christians xD

Glad to hear it!

Babe, I thought you were dead.

I thought the poured-in-place keys were made from lead.

Lead is a very soft metal, bronze is more strong but way more expensive. Cool summary btw.

lead was used to cover the bronze joints to resist corrosion

That's a cool method

Yes

My pleasure - and yes, the Nashville Parthenon really is something. The first time I saw it, I did a double take.

I didn't talk about Roman concrete in this video (partly because the video I'm working on now deals with the topic) but it was - as you say - a wonderfully versatile and resilient material.

Actually hardly anything I. The ancient world is geopolymer maybe puma punku but Greeks and romans used real quarried limestone and marble also don’t get me started on the lathed pillars in India and south East Asia. It’s not aliens we just had tools then we forgot about. It’s already stated that the most powerful Roman crane could only lift 15 tons so please explain everything else that’s heavier and stacked please

@@manbearpig710 The history of engineering is a study of its own which alien worshippers know nothing about. The big money is in saying "We don't know how they did it ... they couldn't have done it ... it must have been aliens!"

The question really comes down to what was cast, and what was carved. I'd like some vids to be made about this. GWOC used rice in the mortar, Romans used others. Masonry is the key to the universe.

So basicly the romans build houses as modern day americans, From the front it looks somewhat as a decent stone structure that would last for half a decade,but inreality its plastered cardboard and tubed chickenfence with some white garbage bags around it so it makes a marble impression from a distance.

A few commenters clearly expected me to...

They cant handle that People have always had the same amount of Intelligence, the Evolutionists cant handle that truth

But who knows if the demultiplied pulleys were not invented but brought by the aliens?

He obviously didn't consult Graeme Hancock ? The " expert ' in this field ...

@@2msvalkyrie529 I've read & heard Hancock's presentations on megalithic buildings & he specifically has stated that the 'alien' hypotheses are bs.

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Where prime?

@@user-jt6xh2ln9z there! Right there☝️ no there👉 too late. It's gone.

And thinking at the time it's nothing special these are every where. Same as we do today with our buildings. Though I doubt ours will still be here for 100s or 1000s of years.

They were very impressive

Wild to see that treadwheel crane. They were still being used a thousand years later to build Medieval castles. The 14th century artisans very well could have gotten the idea from old Roman sculptures and frescoes.

@@richardkocksworthy8423 100%

Baalbek like most other acient megalithic cities or monuments around the world was built by giants. I know it sounds farfetched but it's the truth my guy! The Romans & Greeks like many other cultures/empires etc all merely inhabited these sites, long after the original inhabitants had vanished!

@@jasonmorth1173 I'm with you 100% Look at all the giant doors. That was the first thing that got me questioning. This fucking rabbithole goes deep!

@@jasonmorth1173 😂😂😂

@@oxarplatt they thought their gods were that tall, if you were making a house for a god wouldn’t you want him to be able to fit through? Pretty insulting to the Romans

I imagine the workers arriving at the temple, seeing all the columns on the ground, and then just slowly walking back home.

800 years nonsense! j666

@@toldinstone hopefully on a monday so they didnt work the whole week for nothing.

Yes I'm always amazed how the Greeks in particular achieved so much in the field of maths,geometry and related subjects and yet they,with the Romans,had (to my mind)such a cumbersome number system.I'm particularly impressed by the antikythera mechanism discovered on the sea floor off the southern Greece coast that scientists believe is a type of analogue computer capable of doing sophisticated calculations.Concerning buildings the structures I admire most however are the medieval Gothic cathedrals -the heights of the unsupported naves are amazing and the stained glass -by comparison all previous architecture was just post and lintel stuff or piling rock upon rock whereas spanning such an immense interior space as in a Gothic cathedral takes incredible engineering finesse so that the structure doesn't collapse!

@@kaloarepo288 Gothic architecture develops throughout Europe as new construction knowledge sourced from Spanish libraries spreads (see 1085). The Notre Dame and Chartres cathedrals are examples of significant works of Gothic architecture. (See 1135, 1163 and 1194) Flying buttresses that support high walls are a major characteristic along with the use of pointy arches. The Gothic style allows a unified and more clearly defined European culture.

But don't forget zero was first used by akkadians

@@kaloarepo288 u do realize that there was the roman ( which is actually babylonian) arch right and the point arch which the goths used was made in the 7th century by arabs right? Which makes it an islamic engineering marvel not a European one

@@RPRIMICI no gothic arches are based on islamic architecture not spanish ure probably mizing it up woth horse shoes arch which originated in preislamic syria but entered Europe through spain

The Romans were really bad at organising people and resources 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Imagine building something for 800 years and God just says no. lol

@@jacob7300 He got tired waiting

real name 'getafix the druid'

@@daos3300 Originally Panoramix le druide.

@@rickrandom6734 of course, they're orignally french. panoramix works but getafix is more fun. what about the other characters in french? the english names were all pretty funny.

@@dustinbirkez8321 have to consider this was well before the invention of insurmountable national debt

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Alien giants. Human people couldn't do it. They hadn't even invented powdered cheese yet (crunch crunch crunch) so there's no.... dammit. Pardon me but I need to clean up these orange fingerprints on EVERYTHING IN MY HOUSE.

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To the best of my knowledge, no human remains were discovered beneath the shattered columns. The earthquakes that destroyed the temples at Selinus seem to have occurred in the Middle Ages, when the site was mostly uninhabited.

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Glad to hear it!

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They built upon solid rock as sand would never last very long. Romans could also have laid down cement.

@@MrJgohde Clearly, building on sand is a bad idea. But I also don't think they built on top of rocks surfacing. Sure, when it happens, it is the best foundation there is. But then you can not build where you want, but where there is rock. And yes. You are right. The Romans already had cement, so they had it easier.

A lot of the time the foundation wasn't great. There's a reason so many of these buildings collapse, instead of turn to dust.

Very glad to hear it! I've dealt with ancient construction a few other times, most notably in my video on the Pantheon (which talks about Roman concrete). For a short bibliography, check out the video page on toldinstone.com. And feel free, of course, to ask follow-up questions here!

@@toldinstone I will check out those videos too! Thank you!

If nothing else, it would be nice if the site invested in the sort of augmented reality glasses you now see in Rome and elsewhere.

Digital images of each stone could be assembled like a 3D jigsaw puzzle.

@@edh2246 exactly which is something a computer program can do. For example in modern warehouse solutions the semi trailer trucks are packed with boxes, software tells the packer to put the boxes inside in LIFO order (last in is first out) the software will also use the box dimensions HxWxL to tell the packer to stack the boxes for maximum efficiency it knows the interior dimensions of the trail , it color coded the boxes for easier identification so let’s imagine that zero-10ft are the yellow boxes set, then blue, then red at the back consuming the entire trailer space. Now imagine the same thing for 3D shapes, most advanced design model new parts in 3D using cad/cam companies like CAT have engineers design parts with cad/cam software. You can then visualize and print the new specification. That said, an algorithm could fit 3D parts together to insure fit. All that now put together for archaeologists , they take a special camera photo the object, it is assigned a unique serial number, and added to a database of objects and later people add meta data about the object example it is from the facade or right wall or base foundation etc. because you must have all sides it may need to get lifted for photo. Once you have at least 2 the algorithm can start, add items as long as you have more, the algorithm can operate for as long as it takes.

thinks could brake/damage while deconstructing and constructing + it will loose authenticity. Just like ambu simbel in egypt. (although that was relocated aswell) I would let the visitors decide if they want to donate,leave the structure as it is, it proved itself to be pretty solid for a couple of decades,and drink some beer from the money from the donations.

i'd start with a thorough sorting and cataloguing of all the pieces. then put the puzzle back together. it wouldn't be complete, and wouldn't look new which is ok. either way, better than a pile of rubble slowly succumbing to entropy.

Thank you! In my most recent videos, I give metric units alongside their imperial equivalents.

My pleasure!

Thank you

space lasers for the plant zoig

@@khorps4756 Nah I heard those cause "climate change"

No way you can fathom it ≠ No way it happened

Not only do the creepy right wing extremists gravitate towards Rome and Greece but so do the ancient aliens/flat earth/5G Virus people? Good lordt classicism is fucked

@@Tsumami__ I’m not sure you know what “classicism” is. All the same, the Romans and Greeks both believed the earth was a globe and 5G (wireless tech) has absolutely no relevance in a conversation regarding the age of classical antiquity. I don’t think people that adhere to those beliefs gravitate towards Roman/Greco history.

My pleasure (though I have to admit it would have made the video more exciting...)

I've only been to Paestum once, but I was awestruck by my visit

I did two big shits yesterday.

In Paestum are 3 temples and interior of all is inaccessible.

if your pallet weighed 50 tons it would stand up just fine.

@@daos3300 when you're hoisting it up 50 feet is where the instability comes into play. Simply standing up the columns is simple enough. Putting the roof on is another thing

Right, so who built Egypt's Pyramids? Same pre-roman culture?

he's talking crap...notice how there are no details of the earlier culture or technology mentioned. Probably got the idea second hand from a Hollywood film or a comic strip pulp. ''Knobs'' is about right. We know for a fact that earlier Greek and Roman building were made of wood, and the 'wooden features' are still present as archaic emblems incorporated into the later stone buildings such as temples as part of the continuity of heritage, same as seen in neolithic erections like stone henge, the knobs and shallow recesses of the trilithons they fit into mimic joinery. There's no mystery technology or 'unknown culture' unless you read dollar store garbage.

​@@Random_IDK209 the Egyptians.. tf?

Here in the Netherlands we have "hunnebedden"basicly a collection of big heavy druid stones placed in a somewhat "ship" structure. two stones as "pillars"and then a third as roof. How they did it is an enigma as well, however when i was 11 orso i had the same idea for the construction as you have! You must be a genius too! nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunebed

My apologies for the inconvenience! All my more recent videos use metric units alongside their imperial counterparts.

@@toldinstone I really appreciate you responding so quickly to the comments! Not everyone does. So thanks for that.

@@43painter It's the least I can do for people who take the time to watch my videos.

I would love to see someone try. I wonder if modern humans could build ancient tech?

@@oxarplatt Why wouldn’t we be able to?

I would have loved to see one of those big treadwheel cranes in action

@@toldinstone me too! It would be so cool to see the man power used to pick up thousand pound blocks. Great video thanks!

@@concretecat My pleasure!

I guess it's not quite the same, but there's some "build a castle with historic technology" projects that use threadwheel cranes. Guédelon Castle comes to mind. Okay, the crane isn't any sort of 50meters, but they might even let you give it a try ;)

Multiple ropes/ pullies, and multiple workers

Some were very big. The treadwheel crane pictured on the Tomb of the Haterii must have been at least 50 feet tall, and multiple cranes were often used in tandem for the especially big blocks. Truly monstrous ones, like those at Baalbek, were rolled into place on earthen ramps.