Show secrets of Ancie ancients survive attacks of modern science with television soon to become a serious rival to the movies and giant airplanes and press the button warships things which raise little comment from the average min man it Is surprising that there are many secrets known to the ancients which have survived the attacks of modern science says a writer in london answers the greeks could not weave linen or wool on anything like the scale we weave them today but they wove them into the dilema a form of cuirass cuirass which could not be penetrated by the sharpest dart or arrow the secret has been lost perhaps forever the romans sank wells for water to great depths exactly how they did the boring we do not I 1 know MOW they also made glass which would bend yet not break this would be quite useful today the beautiful purple dye known ot of old has eluded the dye makers of today and modern builders can make nothing of the strong and durable cement used by the gre greeks eks and the romans in their walls this cement was stronger and harder than the stone itself the knowledge possessed by the ancient egyptians was very extensive they had a method of dressing stone to withstand the ravages of time and weather they also perfected the art of embalm ing probes forceps and other surgical instruments have been found in egypt for what purpose they were used we will never know that secret along with many others passed away with the destruction st of the famous library at alexandria in the fifth century the loss of the knowledge contained in that library was a b low blow to civilization |