Rebuilding with period-correct tools and techniques. At least, as best as can be pulled together based on archaeology and the scant documentation we have from the time. The videos make it very clear where he’s taking license and where he’s not, which makes his already top-shelf presentation style that much more entertaining.
This project has also taken forever due to our host taking breaks to work with people on actual peer-reviewed publications about all this. It’s really an enormous project that is contributing to the intersection of engineering and archaeology in profound ways.
Clickspring has spent years rebuilding one. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4RXv4_jDU2
Rebuilding with period-correct tools and techniques. At least, as best as can be pulled together based on archaeology and the scant documentation we have from the time. The videos make it very clear where he’s taking license and where he’s not, which makes his already top-shelf presentation style that much more entertaining.
This project has also taken forever due to our host taking breaks to work with people on actual peer-reviewed publications about all this. It’s really an enormous project that is contributing to the intersection of engineering and archaeology in profound ways.
Such a good series, I could watch it for hours