Dude. Of course we want you to keep making them. We fucking love old historical things like this

I've toured the Cholula pyramid, it's said that much of it is still buried under the town. One face was 'restored' and can be climbed, with just a rope for a handhold. The restoration was done using concrete, leading the locals to refer to it as the 'Cemex pyramid'. There is a paved pathway to the top, where you can visit the church, but show respect and do not take pictures of the interior. Bring water, you will work up a thirst on the climb up. One of the more interesting features is the Great Court, where if you stand in the center and clap, the echo sounds like crows.. Guided tours are available, but are in Spanish. Each stop has placards in several languages, so you can still get an understanding of the place.

As someone who loves ancient history and have watched many similar themed videos, this has to be the first time I didn't know of any of these ancient marvels. Impressive work by the writer on their research

"The most beautiful city I have ever destroyed" -Hernan Cortes

Alright, I've been waiting for my own local ancient marvel to make an appearance, so I'll just suggest it: the Cahokia mounds. One of the largest ancient cities in North America and another check for the pyramid box as the Monks Mound (the largest mound) is terraced and, yet another, UNESCO World Heritage site. That at least merits consideration, I think.

1. 00:53 | Eredo 2. 03:52 | Dwarka 3. 06:30 | Ggantija Temples 4. 08:55 | Great Pyramid of Cholula 5. 11:51 | Deffufa of Ancient Kerma

man, after spending too much time watching business blaze watching simon’s other channels is like going from crack to regular cocaine.

LIDAR is a heaven-sent device for archaeology

I've been in Cholula. We went to the town on a bus looking for the pyramid. We were going around and around this huge hill/small mountain, trying to understand why we couldn't see what was supposed to be the biggest pyramid in the world. It took 3 circuits before we understood almost none of the pyramid had been uncovered at that time and the huge hill was the pyramid. They let you go inside at the time and climb to the top. There is also a sacred spring/well on the pyramid...which never made sense to me. I loved it!😊🐝❤

Keep liking them , I'll keep making them" MOAR BEARD! YAH!

Now that was awesome. Hats off to Danny and the staff for digging deep into the research and writing the script. Excellent work! And to Simon for presenting the script in his typically competent manner. ( yawn)

Simon needs to start narrating the history videos on the sites my kids & sisters use for virtual learning. They’d pay attention then

1:00 - Chapter 1 - Eredo 3:55 - Chapter 2 - Dwarka 6:35 - Chapter 3 - Ggantia temples 9:00 - Chapter 4 - Great pyramid of cholula 11:55 - Chapter 5 - Deffufa of ancient kerma

Old World Europeans: "Most beautiful city I've ever seen." Also Old World Europeans: "Tear it down and build a church, we'll teach these savages."

The ancient marvels keep getting more obscure. I think Part 5 will be Simon discovering ancient marvels himself.

It's crazy how there are still undiscovered ruins within jungles all over the world .. just forgotten..

Awesome choices! Good to see some more African sites, it's a huge continent with so much we never hear about over here :)

Reminds me of how the History Channel used to be.

Birka, the most reknown and arguably most important city of the viking age as well as the trading centre for all viking tribes and clans in scandinavia at the time.

THIS WHOLE FCKN CHANNEL IS SO INTERESTING I feel like I’ve found a Pandora’s box of interesting content

this dude is everywhere on youtube😁 keepum coming big dog! That beard is looking righteous too!🧔🏽

The ancient marvel, the pyramid of geezer.

The above ground archaeological marvels of Malta and Gozo are amazing, but so are those underground, many of which are open to the public for tours. The Sudan also contains hundreds of pyramids, much more than Egypt to the north.

I love your content! Yes please, continue! I love the obscure knowledge and(most times) I have heard of something alluding to the subject. History fascinates me, as I'm in my 70s and enjoy anything older than I!

Keep these up, they are actually very interesting. Rather than just the well known older sites, this opens the door to many others that are worth seeing. 👍😎

Thanks *SO* much for giving Gozo (my home) some love :)

Have a look at the three giant stupas in Anuradhapura Sri Lanka, second only in height to the great pyramids of Ghiza but not talked about. Also Sigiriya rock fortress considered by some to be the eight wonder of the world

Explaining how large something is in miles and then in San Fransiscos, me as an european have nothing to go by.

Episode 6 we are now in the middle of the amazon looking for more ancient marvels

Love this guy. His videos are always entertaining, and informative. And his voice is kind of nice to listen to, as well 😘

India has such unique ancient architecture. It's mind boggling and beautiful.

I do anthropology at university and the prevailing theory with experts is definitely not always that middle Asian and European civilisations were always more advanced (than sub-sharan Africa). In my opinion there’s a reason a lot of the really advanced and most ancient ruins are in Africa and the americas

Very interesting video.. love these obscure ancient marvels videos

Simon is geourgous but can you pretty please leave pictures up for longer?? Waay to quick. Love you guys! Another solid vid! 😺

Just the very simple fact that part of Dwarka is 100ft underwater speaks of its age. How many more cities could be discovered dating way back, since the last ice age sea level were over 425ft than now. Just remember that the greater part of humanity lives along coastal waters? But, when the coast disappears .....

Mother of God, Simon, that mane is looking glorious. So majestic. I can just see it blowing in the English spring rain while you bellow for your pride 🥺

These ancient marvels videos always make me wonder what archeologists in the future are going to think of us if records get lost. Are sports stadiums going to be viewed as locations for gladiator style combat? Stuff like that.

Keep em coming Simon

Great vid. Keep this series going!

Just a thought, Why? would Anyone give this a Thumbs Down? Not the best of Simon, but DUDE! Still know more now than I did, and you cut to it and dish it out! Thank You!

Thank you for doing the video on them and thank you to all the viewers who recommended them.

Was pretty happy to see about Gozo. I was born in Malta and have been to these Temples so many times on business.

Another brilliant video, thank you so much ☺️

I love it, keep them coming!

Wonderful subject. Old civilizations have always been, we just see what's left from being not melted by magma. Awesome video!

Fire series def would love more

Love the work you do, in all your KZfaq channels 😎

As these videos keep coming my google maps "Must See" list keeps growing. Thanks!

I want to learn more about Eredo!!!

10:05 "On what they probably thought was a big, grassy hill" Holy ground stays holy ground. It's a weird rule that seems to hold up.

Learning that Cholula is possibly in the largest structure ever made, makes me love the hot sauce, even more

I'd never even heard of these! ❤❤

Excellent.

Thanks so much for doing Cholula! 🇲🇽 I'll stop asking now.

Suggestion: Ancient Marvels of the pacific. 1.Nan Madol 2. Hale O Pi'ilani Heiau 3. Muʻa 4. Marae Taputapuatea 5. Leluh 6. Pulemelei Mound 7. Mochong 8. Yapese stone money

Everytime I watch another one of Simon's channels I'm always thinking of how we can blaze this video up.

Thank you for all the wachables!

Awesome video. How about a video about old maps like the piri reis map?

Loved it!

Love all ur channels

There are a lot of these in Myanmar Mingun pagoda, Mingun bell, Great Bell of Dhammazedi, and the biggest book in the world.

This is great!

The GgantijaTemples are amazing, I was last there in 2014 and can't wait to go back to the beautiful Maltese Islands.

Look into the kinzua valley dam, George Washington, cheif corn planter and Allegheny river flooding of Pittsburgh in early 1900s.

Dude! You are crazy wonderful. I specially enjoy your wording. 😊 I deeply keep wanting to know more. Thank you so very much ❤❤

The poverty point culture found in the lower Mississippi. There was once a very sophisticated and complex society that live there, it is the oldest culture ever found evidence of in North America. Definitely deserves its own video

I'm waiting for the moment Simon's beard gains sentience and declares war on our solar system.

Somebody covered Dwarka !! Take my subscription right now !!

Next episode: Tatra. Third oldest car and truck brand from Czech Republic. They made quirky luxurious cars and heavy duty trucks.

Bludy brilliant Simon. Bludy brilliant.

Love these videos Simon. Thank you!! Is anyone else annoyed at the chapel on top of the pyramid?

Beard is getting awfully bushy Simon lol

Please do one on the vast and crumbling ancient ruins known as 'My Dignity'.

As a complete aside... I'd love to see you do a video about the adventures of Richard Halliburton. One of his books (Royal Road to Romance, Seven League Boots, New Worlds to Conquer or, a personal favorite, The Flying Carpet) or one of the compilation books (The Complete Book of Marvels.). They would dovetail nicely with videos such as this or your other ones about cultures, history, travel, etc.

Thank you

I am familiar with these ruins, but always nice to see them again on KZfaq ;-)

If you do another lesser known ancient marvels video, might I recommend covering Gabarnmung in Australia or perhaps Nan Madol in Micronesia (though that one is more Medieval than Ancient)?

I have been saying the next assassins creed should take place in eurdo during its prime. It would be awesome.

Nice never heard of it! Very interesting!

My personal list: I. The Great Pyramids of Giza II. The Cloaca Maxima III. The Colossus of Rhodes IV. The Circus Maximus V. The Great Wall of China VI. Buddhas of Bamyan VII. Chichen Itza Pyramid

wow. it just blew my mind .

Starting to view all of human civilization as a Side Project

A small joy in my life is that whenever he says “pyramids of Giza”, it sounds like “pyramids of geezer”

If you ever do another part of this someday, include the Rathcroghan in Ireland. It's the largest of the six ancient cultural centres and is an impressive sprawling complex of religious and political locations (some 240 of them), the earliest of which are neolithic and the latest to the late medieval period, crossing approximately a time of more than 5,500 years between the first constructions and the last with it at its height during the Celtic Iron Age. It's, in my opinion, seriously underrecognised and underappreciated.

Seems like Dwarka adds some more evidence to the Younger Dryas Catastrophe Hypothesis! 🤔🤔🧐👍🏻

Simon what do you use for upkeep on that glorious beard!? Also amazing video as always!

I would love an hour on each of these. My knowledge of history across India, South America and especially Africa is disgracefully weak. Having a monumental building, sacred site or city is a great focus to marvel at what was created, how and why. Scraping up everything we know about the civilisation and society that created such wonders is endlessly fascinating. Please throw in the latest we have on Gobleki Tepi and the nearish contemporary complexes that are also coming to light as well. Human history is being pushed back and its gobsmacking.

I'm glad you mentioned ggantija temples I remember visiting them and being blown away by the age and orderliness of them

I know this is probably too late to suggest on this video, but I am surprised that Monk's Mound in Illinois, US has not been mentioned. As an anthropology lover I have a great respect and love for this site.

"I wear this church as a tiny hat."

SimonTube - this cannot be far off.

The world is full of ancient wonders and some are still waiting to be rediscovered

i was there in malta in 2011. really cool

Been to Cholula, worth the trip.

Hells yeah!!

Good video 👍

Good job.

@sideprojects you can also include the following Indian historical marvels in your following videos- City of Hampi, Brihadeshwara Temple, Rock Cut Temples of Peninsular India, Acoustic Warning mechanism of Golconda Fort,

While it is one of the noted 7 Wonders, not much really gets said about it, but the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus would be an interesting topic. (There is a war memorial in Indianapolis that is, I believe, a full scale model of it.) Also... what about Cahokia near St. Louis? Monks Mound there haha base larger than the Great Pyramid. It is a fairly impressive site.

Did anyone else hear "Great Pyramids of Geezer?" in the intro?