Re: Antikythera Article

Jack's response was spot on.

In this mornings paper, there was an article about recent discoveries in
Egypt. A scientist has discovered that some of the limestone
bricks/stones used in pyramid construction, were made from ''Egyptian
concrete'', not quarried stone. Their composition is not a ''normal''
limestone. This may be another reason that the pyramids were completed
quickly and with less labor than once thought.

And we thought that the Romans invented concrete?

This invention and use of technology, then ''forgetting'' about technology,
appears to be common through history. As there may have been no need for
something such as a steam engine, Hero's invention fell to later times for
re-invention.


"Longfellow" <not@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > One of the things one of
those articles suggested was that it was built
for what amounts to "bragging rights", and that the "rest of the world"
wasn't interested in the technology involved. I really find that hard
to accept. The technology involved just isn't something that some
individual(s) could achieve on a whim. The question, then, is: where is
the evidence of the developing technology?

If one can cut gears out of brass (bronze?), one can also do so out of
other materials, such as wood. I find it difficult to imagine that *no
one* perceived the potential of such technology, but that's one current
presumption. In short, the AntiKythera Mechanism raises some questions
that are being ignored, I think.


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