What´s New In History: A Hydraulic Hoax?

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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:

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/archaeologists-uncover-evidence-of-high-tech-machines-used-by-ancient-egyptians-to-build-the-pyramids-thousands-of-years-ahead-of-their-time/

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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