It's a bit unsettling to realize that advanced tech will not necessarily prevent a civilization to fall. And that when a civilization falls, its technological knowledge just will be forgotten.

Just goes to show our ancestors had the same brains we do, capable of astonishing achievements and great leaps forward. Present day arrogance needs to be seen in this light.

A famous greek astrophycist said during a lecture ''imagine discovering a plasma tv in the basement of a medieval castle''. it was that out of it's era

I think it is totally conceivable that we will have another dark age. How many of us really know how to create and maintain the technology around us.

I can imagine the greek dude who made it talking to the ship captain like:

YouTube is like the coolest library ever

As someone who has studied Ancient Greek astronomy, I’m not that surprised. They were highly sophisticated; it’s a modern arrogance that we think we’re so much more intellectually advanced than people in the past.

Imagine how devastating it was to lose this in the shipwreck back in the day.

What's amazing is how people assume that we know everything from the past and underestimate the talents and abilities of the ancients. That they required extraterrestrial intervention for any sort of technology that surprisingly sophisticated.

What's extra amazing is how small and delicate this device is - I went to Athens just to see it and was blown away. The craftsmanship and mathematics required to create such a thing is astounding.

03:10 for those wondering why they'd fly the huge x-ray machine and not the booksized object, it's because despite astronomically small chances of a planecrash or a ship sinking, there's plenty of x-rays in the world but only one single known object like this.

That's exactly what I've always thought about history that in those days, very advanced technologies were made and then after a generation or two, lost completely simply because of lack of communication and lack of storing information. Now imagine how many great minds would have come into being and gone without leaving any footprint.