History & cultureBefore Humanity"Like Finding a Jet Plane in Tutankhamun's Tomb." — Derek de Solla PRICE, 1959
"Like Finding a Jet Plane in Tutankhamun's Tomb." — Derek de Solla PRICE, 1959
Long-form28:37Science & TechnologyPublished Aug 16, 2026, 6:00 PM · 2mo ago
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Description
"It's like finding a jet plane in the tomb of Tutankhamun." Derek de Solla Price said that in 1959 — about one object. We found six. Gears, aerodynamics, electrochemistry, nuclear physics. Each one sits in a museum with an inventory number. None of them has a predecessor.
A documentary analysis of six ancient artifacts that exhibit engineering principles their eras should not have known. We examine the measurements, run the comparisons, and follow the evidence — from a Greek shipwreck to a uranium mine in Gabon.
In this video:
- The Antikythera Mechanism: 37 bronze gears with tolerances under 0.1 mm — and no prototype
- The Sabu Disc: a schist impeller from the First Dynasty that matches a modern centrifugal pump
- The Baigong Pipes: iron tubes in rock dated 150,000 years — 146,500 years before iron smelting
- The Quimbaya Airplanes: gold figurines with delta wings and vertical stabilizers — tested and flown
- The Baghdad Battery: a galvanic cell built 1,800 years before Volta
- The Oklo Reactor: a natural nuclear reactor that ran for hundreds of thousands of years — 1.7 billion years ago
- Why "ritual object" is not an explanation — it's a filing system
📍 Locations: Athens (Greece), Saqqara (Egypt), Qinghai Province (China), Colombia, Baghdad (Iraq), Gabon (West Africa)
🔗 ← Previous: "Built Thousands of Years BEFORE the Pyramids — Six Structures That Rewrite the Timeline"
→ Next: "A Mysterious Civilization Underground — the Malta HYPOGEUM. Three Levels Deep. 6,000 Years Old"
⏱ Timestamps:
0:00 — Price's quote and the Antikythera Mechanism
2:30 — The engineering inside: 37 gears, differential drive, tooth tolerances
5:00 — The Sabu Disc: an impeller in a pharaoh's tomb
7:30 — The Baigong Pipes: iron in rock, 150,000 years old
9:30 — The Quimbaya Airplanes: delta wings in gold — and they fly
12:00 — The Baghdad Battery and the Oklo Reactor
15:00 — Six objects, six ad-hoc hypotheses
17:00 — What lies underwater — and what Price understood
💬 Which of these six objects disturbs you most? Drop your answer in the comments — and tell us why.
🔔 Next video: an underground labyrinth in Malta — three levels deep, carved from solid rock, 6,000 years old. The builders vanished. Subscribe so you don't miss it.
Educational content with a critical eye on mainstream historical narrative. All facts are verifiable, sources provided.
📚 Sources:
- Tony Freeth, Mike Edmunds et al. (Cardiff University) — X-ray CT analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, published in Nature (2006)
- Derek de Solla Price — "Gears from the Greeks" (Science History Publications, 1974)
- Walter Bryan Emery — excavation report, Tomb of Prince Sabu, Saqqara (First Dynasty)
- Ye Zhou et al. (Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences) — geochemical analysis of Baigong Pipes (2002)
- Peter Belting, Konrad Lübbers — scaled model flight tests of Quimbaya figurines, International Airshow, Leer (1997)
- Francis Perrin (CEA, France) — identification of natural reactor zones at Oklo, IAEA conference, Libreville (1975)
- Wilhelm König — Baghdad Battery interpretation, published 1940
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alternativehistoryancientartifactsancientmachinesancienttechnologyantikytheraarchaeologybaghdadbatterydocumentaryengineeringmysteryevidenceimpossibleobjectslostcivilizationokloreactorquimbayasabudisc
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- Aug 16, 2026, 6:00 PM
- Length
- 28:37 (1,717 s)
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- Long-form
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- Science & Technology
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- EN
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