thank you foreo for removing ALL the wrinkles from my tired old ball sack.

I would not trust anything Zahi Hawas says about history

The idea that the servants/slaves who built the pyramids were buried with lavish trinkets, that their health was tended to... even if they had weapons or crowns... regardless of the degree of lash to flesh was required... does not detract from the simple fact that the imperatives of an entire society were shunted to serve the frivolous mortal fears of a potentate. the pyramid is material proof of the societal order. You CAN have highly decorated slaves... it is the protestant american version which hinges upon the contempt and brutality as distinguishing features--perhaps fetishized because the taste hasn't left the mouth and thrill is gone. Slavery is about the denial of ones own choice to participate... just because that impulse to determine ones own fate has been thwarted, denied or dispelled from ones notion of the possible... does not change the fact... An entire society served the insecurities of a single potentate... and his foreman class, or priestly order. It is the same pattern we see in our society... where the slave-owners became trapped by their own institution--and it is that contemptible culture of that foreman class which today persists and strives to recreate that same servile order... through a dispensing with of 2000 years of governmental evolution culminating in modern democracy... in favour of a strong man. As we see Trump promising the end of politics. That is... tearing down of the order which grants some assurance of protected rights... in favour of a carpetbagger's promises. The mere allocation of societal resource and relative importance and lack of political redress... we see in ancient Egypt... is proof of slavery. No matter how little of the good stuff, rape, murder and brutality... we see. I wouldn't suggest that the Egyptians were broken into accepting their plight... perhaps they simply didn't know the possibilities. It doesn't change the material reality which is proof enough. The Idea that this wasn't a slave order is propaganda... as we still have pyramid builders willing to sacrifice your freedom to allay their insecurities about death... through great wealth and power over others... by buying their way into a somewhat lofty position in an oppressive hierarchical order through their service to such systems. Those people weren't free... they couldn't just leave. And their labor was used to support their own oppressive hierarchal order. That is slavery. no matter how resigned to their fate they may have been... no matter how fancy the collars they wore.

Neanderthals didn't go extinct any more than that branch of homo sapiens. The two branches bread into each other. So it's not really extinction, now is it? ;) IT'S SEXTINCTION!

He wasn't an idiot. He had to use Dynamite because his digging license was expiring. IF he had not have used that Dynamite we would STILL be without that discovery, today.

"Surely he must have been using slave labour" "Dude it was an alien numbers station for sure"

And how he never retained any of the information he ever presented. A true puppet.

That's what I've been saying!

There much have been multiple Simon whistlers

CLONES

lmao....There was a whale washed up in Oregon a number of years ago....The same statement was made after.

Yes. They had a big deal on it in 2020 for the 50th anniversary. Blew chunks all over the beach and many whale explosion watchers. Since 1970 dynamite is the first thing crossed off the list whenever a whale washes up on an Oregon beach.@@richardcheeseman6330

That statement also implies that there is an agreed upon amount of dynamite that is ok to use for archaeological digs. 😁

Yeah the amount is zero ​@@DarkZodiacZZ

According to Schliemann himself, it was in fact not enough dynamite.

There does seem to be some sort of grudge 😂

Is that why we keep seeing the "no media" placard on some of these videos? I was wondering. I thought it was an inside joke. 😂

I was waiting for other post-production junkies to notice the dreaded media offline screen 😅 deadline versus QC, the fight is real

@@mickipixel the perils of quickly re-organising the clips to the project into a folder with a more friendly name than "New Folder (7)"🤣

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was like, "wait, what the hell?'

Or funny cat videos, what a horrible existence

The oldest joke I know of is a fart joke. The oldest movie joke, "he is behind me, isn't he?" Is older than the odyssey. It was used in the odyssey, and there is some evidence that it was a reference to an older work. Pompeii has roof tiles that animal prints (mostly cats) were pressed when making the tile. they used these "flawed" tiles much like how we keep concrete that our pets walk through

@KilledByThatTrain I was thinking about that, and while they didn't have the cat videos, they did have cults and religions dedicated to cats

Right? We all know that Halfdan visited the Hagia Sophia. There's also a great episode of Tasting History with Max Miller, I'm not 100% sure which but it might be "Ancient Roman Fast Food" or something like that, where Max reads a bunch of the inscriptions left behind, including one that was essentially "The service here was terrible so we took our money and spent it instead on whoores".

I think the "your Mom" jokes are pretty new, I've only ever heard them in the past few decades. However, there is graffitti in a boarding house in Pompei that references a good place to buy food and where to find more carnal pleasure and what they charge. It is almost like an ancient Trip Advisor. There are phallic carvings on Hadrian's Wall, it is quite common in Roman architecture, when you consider that such work took hours of carving in stone rather than a couple of seconds with a marker pen or spray paint, it is quite impressive.

If the ancient Greeks had had dynamite, they wouldn’t have bothered with the horse.

They recently figured out that the "horse" was a type of warship. The attacking Greeks didn't build a giant hollow wooden statue of a horse for some weird reason; they just left one of their big wooden warships "abandoned" on the shore. Boy, do we look dumb now, eh? XD

Tropan*

That's what Alexander the Great thought when he used a sword to untie the Gordian knot.

@@fredblonder7850 "If the ancient Greeks had dynamite..." Now there's a frightening thought experiment

That's some tough wood

Yeah wonder if that is the actual Neanderthal museum or some more AI crap.

​@@Hyde_Hill Absolutely AI, look the next guy's hands flow down and melt. Bet it's Simon's trap for (c) things. I've been wondering if Simon is AI generated already, since similar sounding videos from year or so ago repeat now, but it's just sign of the times (youtube dates change etc I bet). Darn AI hallucinates all over my internets.

guy next to him has extra legs

and they're all wearing pants, which weren't invented until people in ukraine/russian steppes domesticated horses and started riding them.

Essence of science really; if new evidence is discovered, examine and test it - don't just poo-poo it because it goes against what has been established as 'fact'. Never stop learning.

Until someone discovers us.

I forget who said it ... "History is written by the victors~!"

If you're travelling through thick undergrowth, you quickly become aware of the relationship between tension and potential energy - even if you don't truly understand the physics involved. Someone absent-mindedly fiddling with branches and vines could also have lucked in on the concept - it could even have been literally child's play....

They discovered Columbus.

They made first contact with the Asgardians. This super-advanced space-faring civilization with magic-like technology were so impressed with pre-industrial Viking culture that they adopted its trappings.

They were first to set foot on the moon

Bro, pay attention. You got everything wrong. The Vikings blew up the pyramids to build troy as a home for the neanderthals who migrated from Columbus Ohio... Jesus

@@Mbappe_fan300 Actually, this is a mistranslation. There were 6 kings, in Roman numerals VI kings

Oogly boogly ug ug.

Same.

Yep, it is always interesting the revisionist views of history the general population of Europe has about Americans as a whole.... just because some of us are socially back sliding religions zealots doesn't mean we all are...😊

And then forgot about it. Until Columbus rediscovered it, and everyone wanted a piece of it.

American boomer here; I remember learning about Leif Erickson in 5th grade in 1970. They also taught us about Columbus proving the world was round, though, and how everyone else thought he would fall off the edge of the earth and be eaten by sea monsters, but brave Columbus yada yada yada...

I was in US public schools through the 80's and 90's. We never once heard anything about anyone other than Columbus. I remember in 1992 they released a movie on it and our whole school went full "Columbus" for a few weeks. We did plays, art shows, essays, you name it. When a student saw something about the Norse discovering it on TV and brought it up, we were told it was just made up to make a show. Not all schools are equal it seems. But our history books were brand new! And wrong!

Not sure how that got approved. Unless it was strategic for clickbait.

😂

This thumbnail is the epitome of the quality of this creator.

I was so confused, because in French it means 'too much'. Discovering too much? Being too enthousiastic in discovering?? Then it hit me 😂

​@@JeeVeeHaychhaha 😂

Just in general!

Lifesaver!!

I have seen the exact same red screen on other videos and channels. Most times just a flash to fast too read. This one was there a long time.

ya i wasn't to sure if it was supposed to be there or not, just wanted to let them know

Well, by 1492, it was known from Eratosthenes' work that Earth had a circumference of 25.000 miles. But from Marco Polo and other travelers along Silk Road, it was known that China lay 7.000 miles, to the East. This leave 18.000 miles to the West, in order to reach China. And this was the source of concern for his sponsors, as no ship would cross 18.000 miles of endless water.

Or sailed off the edge😂😂😂

No. The Egyptian army was small and dispersed. You couldn't control that many people Also slavery was unheard of in the 3rd and 4th dynasty when they built them

They were built by workers not slaves they were paid good

Nah, artisans and laborers. The workers were well fed and well cared for, with their own on-site towns and all the beer and grains they could want. Egypt didn't really do the slave thing at this point in their history anyway.

​@@semaj_5022it makes sense to me, especially after I started watching the TV show "Hell on Wheels", a fictionalized accounting of the traveling tent city that moved along as the train tracks were built across the U.S.. this is how things get done.

We only know what they’ve told us.

And yet everyone around Simon think Graham Hancock is barking mad.

We know so little that we don't know what we don't know.

One thing we learn from history is we learn nothing from history

@@Ai-dz7ysHancock isn’t mad, he’s just a conman.

Right? I know not all school systems in the US are equal (which is the root of the damn problem) but the fact that people were making the same complaints/jokes in the 1990s makes said shade a fair bit darker.

I think it comes from fire making. You can roll a stick between the hands pressed onto some wood to make fire, but it is hard work. If you can make any sort of string (from sinew, strands from plants etc.) wrap it round the stick and tie the ends to a bent stick to provide friction and move that bent one back and forth, you have a bow drill (look up videos of this). It doesn't take much to then realise that the bow can propel a stick then work to make a bigger and better one. It is also possible that this method of fire making may have come from trying to make holes in wood for construction.

@@nlwilson4892 do you think the bow drill came first or the bow for hunting?

@@anthonycade9034 The bow drill would make sense, much simpler. A bow for hunting need to be much more refined, you need much better "string" and a stronger bow to get and force or distance and arrows need to be very straight and all the same weight and width to be predictable in where they will hit. Although they probably used them quite close-up at first and refined them over generations to go further.

Most of it isn’t even accurate lol

When things were already known locally but the west “discover” it

I think it was supposed to be Troy

yeh I almost inhaled a mouthful of coffee at that line, having heard of his sketchy reliability many times

Some gimp.

They're talking about interbreeding over many generations not lots of people all at once so there is no need to think that it was forced with one side oppressing the other. Their existence in Europe overlapped by at least 10,000 years.

@@nlwilson4892 there are none left, so the interbreeding was thorough. It doesn't work the way you want to think. Read about the Conquistadors, Rome, Alexander, Vikings, Mongols, Barbs and many more. It's not nice but don't blame it on me.

@@2neetoon Of course the interbreeding was thorough, they had 10,000 years of it with a tiny population compared to anything in written history. Estimates of world population in 10,000 BCE are around 2 million and you're going back another 40,000 years to the time they estimate Neanderthals finally ceased to exist. The much much later societies that you're talking about were organized societies with structures, hierarchies etc. You're talking about 40,000 years later for the first of those.

Comrade Simon would be all to happy for 100% of your money to disappear in the Ukraine with no accountability. He's not going to make a video about it. It is possible he'd make a video about politicians making millions off of stock trades, but I'd wager he'd only include certain politicians in the video.

The US isn't sending money to Ukraine, it is sending US manufactured arms and ammunition. The US Gov (and others) have satellites that can see where it is ending up along with loads of videos in the public domain.

After my essay yesterday on decoding the unknown. I do like this. Only four minutes in, but i know first hand that the biggest problem with science, is the human factor. When you spend years learning something, you become resistant to change. This is human and can be applied to anything learnt. The problem is when we apply it to science. To assume things learnt 1000 years ago are 100% still correct, is the biggest failing of science. There are countless examples of a good idea, being ignored, because the wrong people were around that person.

No feminist thinks "history" comes from "his story"

I have seen it numerous times in print, and since Herodotus, indeed, the whole field off ancient history, is not exactly a popular field of study, I have no idea how many seriously believe it, but I would not want to bet that there are none.

Nope. He was nothing but a tool for Christian white supremacy.

I agree. Saying that Columbus didn't discover america because the Native american's were there thousands of years earlier is like saying Heinrich Schlieman didn't discover Troy because the Trojans were there thousands of years earlier.

@@Guy-cb1oh it would be a bit different if the vikings shared their knowledge with the other European powers, likewise if the Native Americans contacted the Europeans to share that knowledge then it would no longer be a "discovery"

Remember that Egypt had a bountiful soil, that could regularly provide two harvests a year. So, between seeding and harvesting, many people had nothing much to do. They were conscripted for "public works" on the Pyramids without stirring regular famines throughout Egypt.

If the islands off the coast off the Americas don't count as part of the Americas than England is not part of Europe and Japan is not part of Asia. Thus the English aren't European and the Japanese aren't Asian. Also, Columbus may have not been the first European to set foot in NA but he did discover Americas in the sense that Europe was made aware of the new world because of his travels. The same cannot be said of the Norse expeditions.

I was in school in the same era, and I was not taught about the Scandinavians in the Americas.

@@Guy-cb1oh Neither Leiv Eriksson (norseman) og Columbus did find America. The American continent had already been found by "what is later called" American natives 20000 or 16000 years ago. What Leiv Eriksson and Columbus did find was the sea way between Europe and America. Europeans didn't discover much, we just wrecked the life of others in our so-called discoveries