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What´s New In History: A Hydraulic Hoax?
Manage episode 508204058 series 94196
We got a letter from a listener—an actual hydraulic engineer—calling SHENANIGANS! on the big clams of building the pyramids with water power as we explored in a recent episode. So we brought Garry back to dig in. Were the ancients really hoisting massive stones with water or is this all just a scholar's "pipe dream"? he he
Join us as we test the waters of ancient engineering one more time.
Original Article:
Link to study
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306690
Ancient Roman Sewer:
Systemhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_MaximaPlease rate us (highly) on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
Bloopers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XYO8CrbN3VbOM7PRhNrpWedZ2fyTLkTs/view?usp=sharing
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This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopolski.
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Music: “Tudor Theme” by urmymuse.
Used here under a commercial Creative Commons license. Find out more at http://ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/40020
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
244 episodes
Manage episode 508204058 series 94196
We got a letter from a listener—an actual hydraulic engineer—calling SHENANIGANS! on the big clams of building the pyramids with water power as we explored in a recent episode. So we brought Garry back to dig in. Were the ancients really hoisting massive stones with water or is this all just a scholar's "pipe dream"? he he
Join us as we test the waters of ancient engineering one more time.
Original Article:
Link to study
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306690
Ancient Roman Sewer:
Systemhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_MaximaPlease rate us (highly) on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
Bloopers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XYO8CrbN3VbOM7PRhNrpWedZ2fyTLkTs/view?usp=sharing
HELP SUPPORT OUR SHOW!
https://buymeacoffee.com/whatsnewinhistory
If you like what we do you can support the Fan of History project on https://www.patreon.com/fanofhistory or https://buymeacoffee.com/whatsnewinhistory
This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopolski.
Contact information:
E-mail: [email protected]
http://facebook.com/fanofhistory
https://twitter.com/danhorning
https://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/
Music: “Tudor Theme” by urmymuse.
Used here under a commercial Creative Commons license. Find out more at http://ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/40020
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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