History of Civil Engineering | Olden Construction Methods | Ancient Civilization

Wishing a warm day to one and all watching this video. You are watching civil craft youtube channel where you will be provided with lot and more information on technical and theoretical aspects of civil engineering. Without any delay let's jump into today's video. Human beings started off being civil engineers very early in the development of mankind. We know that the people lived in caves or in shelters that they made and probably adapted them. They chose the shelters or caves which were safe from wild animals, floods, rain, sun and probably adapted them to make sure that they were safer and more comfortable. This would be probably the first civil engineering accomplishment where to live in a safe manner. Probably when they found or invented a small bridge by making a tree trunk fall across the river or place it across the river this would be the first bridge as a civil engineer. So the origin of civil engineering surely goes back to the time when people started moving around and human beings started to behave similar to what we are today. There are a lot of evidences of people living in caves or in sheltered areas. Bhimbetka caves in Madhya Pradesh of India where a 30,000 year old paintings have been found. It means that people have been living or had lived there 30,000 years or more. There are evidences all over the world that people lived in caves and these shelters had to be protected or they chose caves that were well protected. This is the start of civil engineer as a provider of habitat where people lived. How safe can we make that? We have evidences very early in our civilization of entire cities were built. Mohenjo-daro were people established cities. Here in this picture you can see the part of houses. The walls were built using bricks and in between houses there is a paved street and in the middle of the street there is a drain. They had an organized planning of where to live and where the habitats would be. Also they had well-designed streets to move from one place to another and their streets were paved so that they could walk safely. Probably with their animals and carriages could also move safely. They also thought about their sewage and the storm water should be directed in a certain way not everywhere but along the drain and this drain would probably go somewhere and this was about 3,000 years before the current era. So about 5,000 years back from now this existed. People have spent a lot of time effort and energy in putting together these technologies available at their period of time to provide these facilities and places to live. In India the oldest school of civil engineering or the department of civil engineering is in the current Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. It was started 100 years after the school in France in 1847. These are some aspects of the formal way that we have documented civil engineering in our country and elsewhere. And that's all for this video guys and please like and share this video if you find it useful and do subscribe to civil craft youtube channel for more updates on civil engineering.