Mike 215 Posted November 18, 2011 #1 Share Posted November 18, 2011 How advanced were the Romans and the ancients? Maybe they had cars. In 100 AD there was a coin minted to celebrate the making of the first highway in Rome. This coin shows the Roman emperor Trajan driving a car with his hand on a steering wheel and he is wearing a seat belt. Here is a quote from a coin magazine about this coin: "Via traiana, an extension of the Appian Way in southern Italy. The depiction of the personification of the highway is reminiscient of the art nouvean posters of the 20s and 30s advertising motor cars." Here are some web sites: http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/viatraj.html http:tjbuggey.ancients.info/images//viatraj.jpg So what are the implications? IF the Romans had a working steam or gasoline engine, they we know how the pyramids were built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted November 18, 2011 #2 Share Posted November 18, 2011 The thing that the figure is in, on the coin, looks nothing like a car but rather some manner of vines. The "steering wheel" looks to be a spinning wheel for making thread and such. IF the Romans had a working steam or gasoline engine...... Therein lies the problem, they didn't. If we have artifacts of hand tools then we'd artifacts of machinery as well. If the Romans were that advanced then there would be plenty of automobile artifacts including schematics detailing their production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maca02 Posted November 18, 2011 #3 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Superb eyesight Mike, i saw no car or seatbelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike 215 Posted November 18, 2011 Author #4 Share Posted November 18, 2011 No seatbelt? Then what is going across his lap? The belt seems to be loose because he seems to be parking the machine. NOtice his head is turned to the back as he backs up into the royal parking spot. So those of you who cannot believe the Romans built such a machine, here is another anwser: it was brought back by a time traveler. The seat belt (notice like modern belt comes in from a panel on his left side) and the steering wheel are products of our time; If you are not happy sit explanation one and two, how about three: the aliens give the car to the emperor for encouraging his people to worship them as gods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Buzzkill Posted November 18, 2011 #5 Share Posted November 18, 2011 What would they power the car with? The greeks had a "steam engine" but it was more of a party piece rather then a functioning motor as we know it today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted November 18, 2011 #6 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) The Romans had carts, not cars: And this is your goddess holding a wheel: . Edited November 18, 2011 by Abramelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oniomancer Posted November 18, 2011 #7 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) There are numerous versions of this coin from different mintings. It's pretty obvious it's just a reclining woman with a robe draped over her legs. The cart wheel is in keeping with it's commemoration of the completion of the Via Traiana. More examples, most with much clearer details, including several sesterces with similar poses: http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=similar%3A273527 Edit to add, Take a look at this relief from the Arch of Trajan also commemorating the Via Traiana: http://www.filcoo.com/en/italy/tg/arco_di_traiano_benevento_guide.htm All it's missing is the wheel. (edit: fixed the first link hopefully) Edited November 18, 2011 by Oniomancer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightly Posted November 18, 2011 #8 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) . hmm... she's looking behind, as if she's just heard the siren and saw the lights come on? Edited November 18, 2011 by lightly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted November 18, 2011 #9 Share Posted November 18, 2011 The Romans had carts, not cars.. Exactly, ancient Romans did not have automobiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Englishgent Posted November 18, 2011 #10 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Romans had cars?....hmmm, the best we could do was a wheelchair ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superglobe Posted November 18, 2011 #11 Share Posted November 18, 2011 No, no they did not. And honestly, it's strange that you chose to interpret that coin as a car. It honestly looks more like a jet-ski, which would be both somehow even more absurd, and a thousand times more hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Englishgent Posted November 18, 2011 #12 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) I think that had the Romans been given a car by the gods or were able to make one I am sure they would have been so proud of the fact that they would have got an artist who could at least draw one for their coins. I think that anyone who actually believes they did have such a form of transport is the same sort of person who would believe me when I say that the word 'Gullible' has accidentally been left out of the latest version of the Oxford English Dictionary . Edited November 18, 2011 by Englishgent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwhite Posted November 18, 2011 #13 Share Posted November 18, 2011 The first working steam-powered vehicle that we know about was likely to have been designed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was a 25 and a half inch long scale-model toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger. But, for all we know, maybe a steam-powered vehicle was built centuries earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gremlin Posted November 18, 2011 #14 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) How advanced were the Romans and the ancients? Maybe they had cars. In 100 AD there was a coin minted to celebrate the making of the first highway in Rome. This coin shows the Roman emperor Trajan driving a car with his hand on a steering wheel and he is wearing a seat belt. Here is a quote from a coin magazine about this coin: "Via traiana, an extension of the Appian Way in southern Italy. The depiction of the personification of the highway is reminiscient of the art nouvean posters of the 20s and 30s advertising motor cars." Here are some web sites: http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/viatraj.html http:tjbuggey.ancients.info/images//viatraj.jpg So what are the implications? IF the Romans had a working steam or gasoline engine, they we know how the pyramids were built. :lol: most amusing. seriously though, I dont think that steam locomotion was too far away from them...they had other machines that used steam so it was probably only a matter of time and genius..... .....something which they ran out of all too soon. Edited November 18, 2011 by lil gremlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orcseeker Posted November 18, 2011 #15 Share Posted November 18, 2011 So what are the implications? IF the Romans had a working steam or gasoline engine, they we know how the pyramids were built. You are suggesting that Romans are hundreds of years ahead of their time, with the steam and even more so with the gasoline. If they had developed a steam engine I assume it would have been used quite widely in areas other than transport and to suggest gasoline would mean they were pumping and refining oil. Are you further suggesting they knew how the pyramids were built? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Englishgent Posted November 18, 2011 #16 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) I am sure somebody will correct me if I am wrong but the pyramids were built thousands of years prior to the Roman occupation of Egypt. But, I suppose they could have sent an army over in their Chinook helicopters after a quick email or telephone call from the Egyptian Pharoah to the Roman Emperor requesting assistance in the building of such things The Chinooks could then have helped to carry the heavy stones from the quarries to the pyramid site and lowered them into place. Meanwhile , the two Heads if State could survey their work from the comfort of their air conditioned car. I am assuming that the original poster ref this thread did so 'tongue in cheek'? Or I sincerely hope so lol Edited November 18, 2011 by Englishgent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted November 18, 2011 #17 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I am sure somebody will correct me if I am wrong but the pyramids were built thousands of years prior to the Roman occupation of Egypt. They were built over two thousand years before Rome. So obviously the aliens also furnished the Romans with a Tardis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike 215 Posted November 18, 2011 Author #18 Share Posted November 18, 2011 These Roman and Greek coins have things on them that are very controversial such as flying machines and deplictions of the ROUND GLOBE WITH ITS CONTINENTS 2000 years before Columbus. Coin collectors are very nervous about these things such as the vehicle on this coin. So they never bring up the subject because if they do the unscientific community will immediately claim the coins are not real. If that happens the price of them drops quickly. So the coin collectors try to cover the truth by claiming in ths coin that the seat belt was really part of a woman's robe or that the steering wheel represents carts or something like that. However, the opinion of one coin collector which I quoted said that the coin remindied him of posters of motor cars in the 1920s. As for the technology, the British were the first to build steam engines in the 18th century and within a hundred years they were powering ships and trains. From our own experinces with technology nobody can say that the Romans or Greece or even the Egyptians did not have steam engines or even gasoline or ELECTRIC MOTORS. Remember the Baghdad batteries that were over 2000 years old? How much longer would it take them to build an electric motor? I think it took the Europeans around fifty or 75 years to go from batteries to motors. So you would think that with such technology there would be artifacts. But the people doing the digging are the members of the unscienific community and they are good and getting rid of anything that does not fit into the theory of evolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corp Posted November 18, 2011 #19 Share Posted November 18, 2011 There's so many historical errors in this thread I'm not even going to bother trying to correct them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted November 18, 2011 #20 Share Posted November 18, 2011 These Roman and Greek coins have things on them that are very controversial such as flying machines and deplictions of the ROUND GLOBE WITH ITS CONTINENTS 2000 years before Columbus. Coin collectors are very nervous about these things such as the vehicle on this coin. So they never bring up the subject because if they do the unscientific community will immediately claim the coins are not real. If that happens the price of them drops quickly. So the coin collectors try to cover the truth by claiming in ths coin that the seat belt was really part of a woman's robe or that the steering wheel represents carts or something like that. However, the opinion of one coin collector which I quoted said that the coin remindied him of posters of motor cars in the 1920s. As for the technology, the British were the first to build steam engines in the 18th century and within a hundred years they were powering ships and trains. From our own experinces with technology nobody can say that the Romans or Greece or even the Egyptians did not have steam engines or even gasoline or ELECTRIC MOTORS. Remember the Baghdad batteries that were over 2000 years old? How much longer would it take them to build an electric motor? I think it took the Europeans around fifty or 75 years to go from batteries to motors. So you would think that with such technology there would be artifacts. But the people doing the digging are the members of the unscienific community and they are good and getting rid of anything that does not fit into the theory of evolution. First off... The Romans lacked the technological base that the Brits had in the early days of the Industrial Revolution... In Roman times, wind, water and muscle power were it. Period. Yes, Heron (Hero?) of Alexandria did design a working steam chamber that spun about an axis - critical first stages to a steam engine... But they never could figure out what to do with it... In other words they never found a practical application for it... And a train would have been the logical first step in steam transport (as it was) rather than a free ranging car... No such evidence of a true rail system has ever been found... Iron was still wroght by hand, not by a rolling mill, or extruded as it often is today... Secondly.. The female figure on the coin is either a representation of the Road itself (Via Traiani) or a representation of the Goddess of Commerce (the wheel has long been a symbol of commerce reflecting the wheels of the carts and wagons)... It was a common symbol in Roman times... Third - If the person represented on the coin is an Emperor - or a goddess - they would hardly need to back into a parking spot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkLord Posted November 18, 2011 #21 Share Posted November 18, 2011 OMG to think that this coin represents that the romans had cars is... :rofl: . There is no archelogical evidence to even suggest that was possible. The image is obviously that of a person wearing a robe reclining on a divan while holding a 'cart wheel' with vines in the background. If the romans had such a thing as a 'car' and its a whooping big 'IF' you would think it would appear more often in their artwork, like on vase's, statuary and frescoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted November 18, 2011 #22 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) Why would anyone think that people would hide such an ancient invention for the general public? Here: The steam engine by Hero of Alexandria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile Ah, I see Taun already beat me to it. . Edited November 18, 2011 by Abramelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepulchrave Posted November 18, 2011 #23 Share Posted November 18, 2011 These Roman and Greek coins have things on them that are very controversial such as flying machines and deplictions of the ROUND GLOBE WITH ITS CONTINENTS 2000 years before Columbus. Coin collectors are very nervous about these things such as the vehicle on this coin. So they never bring up the subject because if they do the unscientific community will immediately claim the coins are not real. If that happens the price of them drops quickly. So the coin collectors try to cover the truth by claiming in ths coin that the seat belt was really part of a woman's robe or that the steering wheel represents carts or something like that. However, the opinion of one coin collector which I quoted said that the coin remindied him of posters of motor cars in the 1920s. As for the technology, the British were the first to build steam engines in the 18th century and within a hundred years they were powering ships and trains. From our own experinces with technology nobody can say that the Romans or Greece or even the Egyptians did not have steam engines or even gasoline or ELECTRIC MOTORS. Remember the Baghdad batteries that were over 2000 years old? How much longer would it take them to build an electric motor? I think it took the Europeans around fifty or 75 years to go from batteries to motors. So you would think that with such technology there would be artifacts. But the people doing the digging are the members of the unscienific community and they are good and getting rid of anything that does not fit into the theory of evolution. I am glad that actual Roman writers and historians (like Pliny the Elder, Plutarch and earlier Greek historians like Herodotus) were all a part of this ancient conspiracy because their writings do not mention anything about cars. I mean, come on. It is one thing to argue about the history of the pyramids (still crackpot, but more justifiable I think), but we still have history, math, and science textbooks from the Roman and Greek eras, and the knowledge of how to speak and read those languages was never lost to history! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted November 18, 2011 #24 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Mike, You may be interested in this site: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/HeronAlexandria.htm OH MY GOD !!! IT'S TRUE !!! LOOK, LOOK : Just kidding. It's from "Jean-Antoine Nollet, Leçons de Physique Expérimentale, 1764, Vol. IV" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffybunny Posted November 18, 2011 #25 Share Posted November 18, 2011 No, no they did not. And honestly, it's strange that you chose to interpret that coin as a car. It honestly looks more like a jet-ski, which would be both somehow even more absurd, and a thousand times more hilarious. A lot of people don't know that the Romans invaded England on the Jet-ski, it allowed them to get there so much quicker than by boat. When they made it to the English coastline, they parked the jetski's and then texted Caesar to let them know they made it ok. Caesar then tweeted that the attack was starting, not realizing that several of the English towns had donkey powered laptops. Once they knew that the Romans where coming, they hopped onto their hoverboards and shot at the Romans with laser pistols. The end result was an ugly affair. I find history much more exciting when I make it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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