Do you think the ancient world could have had technology superior to ours?

Superior might not be the right word, but it is certainly possible they had technologies that were lost and have not been rediscovered. We still don't know how the Pyramids were built.

I've often thought of this myself. The same thing happened after the Romans fell, we went into the dark ages, I saw a History Channel show about how they thought the Romans could do eye surgery. Also the Pyramids,Great pyramid of Giza, which the Egyptians built in a 14-20 year period. I think that comes out to about 1 stone block weighing tons being carved moved and placed in 9 seconds for the pyramid to be completed on time. Modern builders say they cannot do this in this amount of time. Also how did the stone age British make stone-hedge. There are many instances but I believe that somehow our ancestors were able to do more things than we could.

It's interesting to imagine, but it's highly doubtful. I saw the same documentary, but it didn't say that nature would remove every trace of us, were we erased from the planet.

We know from archaeology that the earth preserves things. If there had been some civilization, some technology, from a long-ago past, we'd have found some remnant of it. Really, we would have. Nature can remove most traces of us from the surface, but not from beneath it. We have found bacteria fossils that are 3.5 billion years old.

3.5 BILLION years old. The earth itself is 4.5 billion years old.

If we can find tiny fossils preserved that long, we could surely find some evidence of an advanced civilization.

So, no.

No, you cannot believe anything you see on the History Channel who has sold out for higher ratings from gullible people who like such sensationalistic drivel as this. It has become the "Horse$hi+ Channel" now. That is so sad, because it once had some good shows. NO, not just anything is possible. what points to life being "cyclical"? I see nothing that does. We find evidence of many past civilizations, so if any ever existed, there would be some traces. History Channel is just handing you some lame excuses to believe ridiculous drivel. I repeat you can't believe anything on the Horse$hi+ Chan eel. You waste your time watching such malarkey.

its possible but you need to factor in the pottery sediment record if a population is wiped out from a area by what ever means then as long as its still a good spot then more people will return to it .and all history people have used clay pots take dark ages all roman tech going along nicely barbarians come in wallop romans gone pot quality drops over the years and slowly comes back up take the americas local people slow increase in pot quality then the spanish and others come over new pot tech leap if there was a more tech savy older race there me a record of it in the pottery sediment record or lack of pots if they had tupperware lol or something like it .

its one of the things that blows big holes in the theory of the people that say aliens atlatians etc build the pyramids

I actually had a similar idea.

people kinda evolved to the stone age, so your human idea doesn't work too well, unless we're talking about super-intelligent monkeys, lol.

but my idea is way different. you see, the DINOSAURS have been evolving for millions of years, far longer than people, so I imagine it would be possible for there to exist some race of velociraptor-like beings with a civilization like you described it. (and there's no fossils of their opposable thumbs and larger cranium because they believed in cremation.) they also have an advanced knowledge of astrology and have watched the stars for millenium. so when they see the wipe-out meteor rocketing to their planet, they calculate 100 years till it hits, then use that time to gather eggs and young dinos, dig an incredible cave with an underground spring attached, and get to work generating an alternate sun. having created this underground world, a select number of refugees go down, to wait for the time when the world begins anew...

I say thats pollycock but you really should be asking is is there intelligent life out there at all? I say yes. What you need to look at is Fermi paradox which is the apparent contradiction between evidence of alien life (intelligent) and the sheer size of our universe and the suitable habitable planets of which there are plenty really. To expound, I believe all 'evidence' of e.t is man made.. there maybe alien life forms on earth, but there are certainly no INTELLIGENT ones.. i;.e most are bacterium and simple organisms (possibly one celled)

Your concept is very interesting and a good one at that. I believe that our technology stemmed from our ancestors and over time it has gotten better and more advanced. I think that our planet changes during periodically causing civilizations to be wiped out tremendously such as the ones you have mentioned and we may be due for another overly dramatic change as well. Some speculate 2012 others a different time frame.. no matter what we are due for a huge change involving our civilization and planet...

..anything is possible.

I have heard there has been evidence that ancient civilization had electricity and that they buried the lines underground instead of placing them on poles above ground and also that the children of Ancient Greece played with mechanical toys powered by steam. How true this is I'm not entirely sure but it's interesting to consider.

In some areas maybe yes.,, the secret of Greek fire has still not been rediscovered. Also the rediscovery that Romans used ashes in concrete to strengthen it is , is , quite recent