Top 10 Historical Skull Cups
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Making cups out of skulls used to be a surprisingly popular custom. Let's figure out which historical character had the best skull cup.
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Victoria 3 Soundtrack - The Queen Is Actually Amused
Untold Journey - The Pirate King
Total War - Shogun 2 OST - Resolve
Crusader Kings II Soundtrack - The King's Crusade
Crusader Kings II Soundtrack - Land of the Rus
Total War - Atilla OST - Main Menu
Crusader Kings III Soundtrack - The Raid
Crusader Kings II Soundtrack - Steppes of the Nomads
Crusader Kings II Soundtrack - Komnenos
Civilization 6 OST - Scythia Theme (Medieval)
Footage:
Komyo ga Tsuji (2006)
Game of Thrones (2011)
Mary Shelly (2017)
Black Sails (2016)
Age of Samurai (2020)
Cyril a Metoděj - Apoštolové Slovanů (2013)
Savaşın Efsaneleri - "Deliler", Mohaç Savaşı'nda! (2022)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Забытые войны России. Походы Святослава (2018)
Savaşın Efsaneleri - "Deliler", Mohaç Savaşı'nda! (2022)
Savaşın Efsaneleri - Attila (2019)
Langobardi: Alboino e Romans (2021)
The Vikings (2013)
The Empire (2021)
Dawn of the Great Steppe (2022)
Magnificent Century (2011)
Savaşın Efsaneleri - Otlukbeli Savaşı (2023)
Savaşın Efsaneleri - Halid Bin Velid (2019)
Denyat na vladetelite (1986)
The Legend of Tomiris (2020)
00:00 Intro
00:40 Lord Byron
01:41 Blackbeard
03:06 Oda Nobunaga / Azai and Asakura
04:42 Kaloyan / Baldwin I
06:10 Khan Kurya / Prince Svyatoslav
08:00 Modu Chanyu / King of Yuezhi
09:29 Alboin / Cunimund
11:14 Shah Ismail I / Shaybani Khan
14:10 Khan Krum / Nikephoros I
15:55 Tomyris / Cyrus the Great
"If I had a nickel for every time a Bulgarian drank from the skull of an emperor from Constantinople, I would have two. Which isn't much, but it's funny how it happened twice"
15:55 *Fun Fact:* Cyrus founded the Achaemenid Empire around the same year the Greeks stopped colonizing territories, the Roman king Servius Tullius annexed to the city of Rome all the territories occupied by the Seven Hills, Mago I took control of Carthage and started the glorious era of that civilization, and Siddhartha Gautama was reborn as Buddha and created Buddhism. What a time to be alive...
Year 1 in someone's Total War campaign
And guess what? There's a book about just that. Creation by Gore Vidal! It's a great historical novel and I'm reading it right now
There is even a Bulgarian wine brand named Khan Krum😅
lol
Based. There should be an English wine too named Lord Byron, and a second Bulgarian wine named Kaloyan, etc
Maybe they should cut a deal with Dan Akroyd's Crystal Head Vodka.
Brandy also
Nikephoros I had actually sacked the Bulgarian capital prior to the battle of the Varbitsa pass.The Bulgars being numericaly inferior decited not to engage in a pitched battle for the capital. Krum sent for multiple peace negotiations, which were rejected, the capital was sacked and looted to the ground.The romans, heavy with loot, were easy pickings in the narrow pass.
Makes it more bare able in a way thank you for explaining better than this videos knowledge or lack there of.
Based Nikephoros
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Modu's successor Laoshang also had the skull of a chieftain from Bactria turned into a drinking cup, like father like son...
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Skull cups are related to Tengrisim culture. The people in the video can be examined in two ways as Turkic-Mongolian origin and those affected by them.
Hope you don't mind some variety history
Here's a top secret fact for ya ; The Dulo dynasty Khan Krum belonged to is most likely a direct Xiongnu sub-clan that had left Central Asia with the European Huns
I don't mind at all, in fact I wouldn't mind even more.
It’s nice tbh
You bring history to life, no matter what time period or place.
Wouldn't mind more
Khan Krum was one of the most metal people ever.
I am pleasantly surprised you included scenes from one of my favourite historical films: "Cyril and Methodius, Apostles of Slavs"
In Uzbek and Turkic languages in general, Kizilbash directly translates to “redhead”. I tried using google translate to see what it translates to in Persian but it doesn’t seem to work. Nonetheless, I find the image of a bunch of gingers tearing apart the soldiers of the great Khan Shaybani hilariously epic
Wasn't ismail himself a ginger? Thank god selim destroyed him before he would have unleash his ginger armies on the world
I am sure it is either reference to the directions*, or the colour of their head gear/saryk. (Some sort of Turban)
Turkic direction system was based on the colours of the horses in the region. So (Hypothetically) if someone comes from the, lets say, white, they come from the west because the horses in the nearest western region had.
They come from Black, they come from North. Because horses on the northern regions had black colour, etc.
@@andreascovano7742 If somebody is called readhead in Turkics, they do not mean the person is ginger. They mean the person had reddish brown hair colour.
For example: Robert Pattinson. He is not readhead, but he has very reddish hair.
@@hannibalburgers477 having 1% of the devil's hair still means you have the devil's hair
It refers to their headcover that symbolized their devotion to tye Twelve Imams of Shia Islam. The term is purely Turkish,beacuse most Ismail's early Shia followers were Turkic rather than Persian. Very few Persians were Shia when Ismail took Tabriz, and established the Safavid Empire. This is why all of his mystical poetry is written in Azeri, not Persian.
It's now agreed over that the Xiongnu and European Huns were a common "Hunnic" people who practiced Tengrism and were of Oghur Turkic ethno-linguistic affiliation
Any source for that?
Funnily enough, xiongnu is the modern chinese pronounciation of their name. In ancient chinese, it would have been pronnounced Huna or Hunna
@@sehnsuchtherz It's supported by majority of scholars based on archeologic continuity and migrational evidence. Here are some samples indicating what their language might've been like :
Reconstruction of the Jie language, spoken by an Oghuric speaking Xiongnu clan :
su-Ø kete-r erkan
boklug-gu tukta-ŋ
🇬🇧When/as the army goes out,
capture the Boklug(a chief) !
The inscription on a dinner plate belonging to the last ruler of the European Huns, Dengizich. Hunnic sample of Khan Diggiz plate ;
kinkeg dikkiz ükü essä - kijü sax sax saxynil gür täηrig
🇬🇧Beware of king Dikkiz the Wise's blow ! Retreat to the Tengri (God) beyond the world!
@@andreascovano7742 Exactly the word Xiongnu is a corruption of the original "Hiung-nu" which is obviously a rendering of the actual "Hun"
@@nenenindonu I thought they were yeniseian?
"The skull of Cyrus The Great takes the gold." - intentional or not, I appreciate this pun greatly 😄
Fun fact: The Yuezhi would be pushed westward and would form the Kushan empire which conquered much of northern India and spread Buddhism.
Fun fact 2: A Xiongnu fraction named "White Huns" would be pushed westward and form the Hephthalite Empire which conquered much of Northern India and spread Buddhism :D
@@nenenindonualso would screw over Persia for 200 years
@@steffanyschwartz7801 They even killed it's shah at the Battle of Herat in 484 vassalizing the whole empire for almost a century
@@nenenindonu then getting crushed by Khosrow Anushiruan (the greatest Persian ruler since Darius the 1st) and the Turkish Khaganate
@@nenenindonu And it's a theory that the decendants of these huns would be the ones to defend mainland India from eighth century AD to nearly the Thirteenth century. Though this was actually British propaganda. Also the Huns were also responsible for destroying several hundred Buddhist monasteries, Mostly Mihirkula if I am not wrong
Final words Nikephoros heard from Krum: Don't want pax? You get axe!
The leader of the Ostrogoths, Theodoric, had the skull of, Odoacer, the leader of the Scirians, made into a cup after defeating him and capturing Ravenna, the former capital of the Western Roman empire.
Many skull-fragments have been found in many excavated Prehistoric and Dark Age Settlements in Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland. Celtic Britons collected human skulls and could well have made some into cups!
"We shall drink from their sculls.."
Some warlord somewhere at some point..
Feels weird to say but..... I wonder what drinking from the skull of your enemy tastes like? Krummy?
......Khan Krummy?
Perhaps the skull of Lucius Postimius Albinus, who was turned into a cup by the Boii after the battle of Silva Litana, could have been used instead of number 10
I like Lord Byron tho
Thanks for providing the info. Shame I didn''t remember this one from reading Polybius.
@@RomabooRamblings It from Titus Livius if I'm not mistaken.
This was honestly one of your best videos as far as "quick interest" topics go, even though it was only partly Roman. I think that Nikephoros should have been #1 but I generally agree with the rankings. Nice editing too. Happy Orthodox Easter on that note ☦
I can't believe Charles MacCarthy didn't make the list, I think he was the last recorded case of someone getting their skull turned into a cup due to losing a war but oh well, excellent video!
as a wise man once said, that's a nice head you've got on your shoulders
0:24 No idea what film/series it is, but damn, that's the fakest skull I've seen on a movie, the lady wasn't grossed out, she was probably just disappointed, thinking: "Are you REALLY serving me some fancy wine in a Halloween decoration made of shitty plastic?" xD
it's an indie film, no surprise there
My name is Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite drinking skull cup on the Citadel.
really cool you went out of your way to find footage for all the described events.
I am pretty sure that Svetoslav was campaining in Bulgaria years before his war with Emperor John
Shame you didn't also mention the ashanti turning a british generals skull into a drinking cup after defeating them in battle
Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch, should have made your in the middle or close to the top. His skull was made into a drinking cup by Nur ed-Din.
We Turks really good at making scull cups of our enemies
Kaloyan and Krum were one of the greatest warriors in history of Europe as well.
I know you probably wont respond but I just wonder, you are not Bulgarian yet I see you EVERYWHERE when Bulgaria is mentioned. I understood the "Bulgars are Turkic" stuff, sure, you want people to know that, I won't start the argument of what culture or genetics the Bulgars are because I am tired of this topic, but I understand why I would see you talk about that. But lately I seen you also talk about the Second Bulgarian Empire, As a Bulgarian I just wonder why you always comment on Bulgarian topics? I am not gatekeeping just curious because most Turkish people don't care (and in my mind this is a good thing) about Bulgaria.
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
Cool video I'm sure many would find this interesting
And the winer is Nikephoros! He’s greediness an stupidity brought him to this. By the way I never heard that Kaloyan made drinking cup out of Baldwin head?!
I'd make cups out of my enemies skulls but they're sloped too oddly.
Sick !
OMG this was so good! Can you do one about all the people in history who got molten gold poured on their heads or in their mouths? I.e. "The Crassus Treatment?"
Now we can make diamonds out of our enemies.
Could you please say which movie the scenes from each number are?
I added the whole list to the description
@@RomabooRamblings thank you
Baller video
Skull cups, practiced by different nation leaders and at different times is defiantly not accepted to be a nomadic tradition. It's an Iranian tradition. Herodotus first describe that practice when talking about the Scythians and I would say that most of the historical sources step on his story and attach it to events. Titus Livius use the same story when the roman consul is killed by the Boii. Cunimund story is written by Paul the Deacon who copies (as all authors did and still do, nothing against that) from Herodotus.
About the Kniaz Krum and Nikephoros it's pretty much a legend and probably didn't really happen. It was taken from Theophanes the Confessor who described the events of Nikephoros invasion in Bulgaria, filled with specifics about persons, places and events. It gives the impression that it is based on eyewitness accounts and possibly even an official account of what happened, compiled after the survivors returned to Constantinople, but he clearly say that he don't know how the emperor died. Theophanes was in opposition to him on top of the great shame he bought with his defeat.
The story of Shah Ismail is amazing; he could have been another Alexander, but gunpowder and his own defeatism put an end to that.
SKOL via the Vikings = SKULL. i.e. "Toasting" after murdering a bunch of ppl. Good times, huh?
There was a cup made from The Sull of a British commander by an African king, that should have been on the list
Is that Pullo as blackbeard? Lmao
Yup. He's also in that Viking show, just didn't sneak onto frame this time
@@RomabooRamblingsHes a great actor. I like seeing him on screen in anything. Phenomenal video btw I was only aware of a few of these cups
The last example is also described in 48 laws of power.
Crassus skull didn't turn into a cup? How that is not here?:)
It may just be fiction but I can see Nobunaga turning Nagamasa’s skull into a cup. Nobunaga fucking HATED Nagamasa for his betrayal. Nagamasa was married to Oichi, Nobunaga’s sister so he was basically family yet he still betrayed Nobunaga
Can you give me a source of Kaloyan making cup of the head of Baldwin? Im interested because as a bulgarian and historician at the same time Ive never heard of this version (which could be normal as I deal with modern histody anyways). The popular legend (I admit for this I have no sources again) is that Kaloyan got enraged as you said by Baldwin trying to seduce Kaloyan's wife so he threw him in Jantra river which runs right under the Baldwin tower.
After his capture by the Bulgarians, the fate of Emperor Baldwin I was unknown to his subjects and, during his absence, Henry, his brother, assumed regency. Whilst it is known that Baldwin died in captivity, the precise circumstances around his death are unknown. He was apparently initially treated as a valuable prisoner, but was later left to die in one of the towers of Tsarevets, where he was being held. There are many legends regarding his demise, with the most famous being that his demise was due to trying to seduce Kaloyan's wife. The historian George Acropolites reports that the Tsar had Baldwin's skull made into a drinking cup, just as had happened to Nicephorus I almost four hundred years before, yet no evidence has been found to confirm this, unlike the case with Nicephorus I. What is known with certainty, however, is that Kaloyan informed both Pope Innocent III and Baldwin's court of the Emperor's death in prison. A tower of the Tsarevets fortress of the medieval Bulgarian capital, Veliko Tarnovo, is still called Baldwin's Tower.
It's from George Akropolites. If you are bulgarian you can check GIBI том 8 страница 155.
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The one im most familiar with is Nikephoros.
Did Crassus get turned into a skull cup or was he just a theatre prop.
Our subverted history, part two.
Here on CZcams
talks a lot about the Scythians
Revisionist nationalist history
I’d drink out of a skull goblet
Krum Khan (also known as Krum the Fearsome) was a military chieftain from Pannonia who became one of the greatest rulers of Bulgaria. During his reign, he unified the Bulgars and fought a successful war against the Byzantine Empire. Krum's defeat of the Avars early in his rule enabled him to unite the Bulgars who had lived under Avar rule. With the defeat of the Avars, Bulgars replaced them as overlords of the Slavs and Romanians living north of the Danube River.
After the Byzantines raided Bulgaria in 807, Krum's troops struck back. In 811, the Byzantine emperor, Nikephoros I, personally led a large army against the Bulgars. He succeeded in sacking Krum's capital of Pliska, but on his way home the Bulgars ambushed and destroyed his army and killed Nikephoros. The Bulgars made his skull into a gruesome drink- ing cup. Krum followed his victory by capturing two important Byzantine ports on the Black Sea. In 813, after he had defeated the large army the Byzantines sent against him, Krum captured Thrace and invaded the area surrounding Constantinople. He sent many Byzantine subjects to Bulgaria to serve as soldiers in his army. In 814, as commander of a massive army, Krum marched on Constantinople. He never arrived, dying of a stroke on the way.
In his dealings with the Byzantine rulers, Krum resorted to military force only after diplomacy failed. For example, throughout his campaign against Nikephoros, he extended several peace offers, which the emperor ignored. Throughout 812 and 813, he attempted to negotiate with the Byzantines. Only after his gestures were rejected did he launch his attacks.
Krum was not only a great warrior but an effective administrator as well. He issued the first national law code in the history of the Bulgarian state, a fragment of which has survived. He tolerated other ethnic groups and employed a diverse group of people-Bulgars, Avars, Slavs, Greeks, and even an Arab-in his administration. In the Byzantine territories, he placed Greeks in high administrative positions.
Akhi why do I see you in every youtube comment section?
Romanians lol, no such thing back then
Well thats all interesting and all but… where can i get one ? … I mean its not like my old bullies from high school would agree to a duel to the death…
What movie is the one for sviatoslav from?
hihi Svetoslav,actualy fell in love,for Bulgaria,but he help for her destruction and pay,as old bulgarian tradicion,with his skull.They say bulgarians,are connected,with hunns and Modu peoples,but i thing bulgarians,are scytho-sarmatian tribes,wich lived around Black see steppes.Who are Bulgar and Suvar,and why Old great in slavic,or bulgarian,same as latin and greek Magna-land inhabited,with the same peoples for 1000years?.Check the map of Yamnaya,Scythia and Sarmatia,Onoguria and Old great Bulgaria and DNA?
Byron was a SCOT
The legend of tomiris is the best movie for historical fans and feminists alike ; I don’t know why Netflix is still trying to make a hero out of cleopatra .
Story of tomrys is not accurate. in fact it's not even exist
What movie is nikephorus scene from?
check the description, Sviatoslav is from the one with the Russian name, Nikephoros is from a Bulgarian from the 70s about Krum
According to Prof. Plamen Pavlov, there might be a Bulgarian connection regarding the killing of Prince Svyatoslav and making his skull into a cup, quote:
"When in the fall of 971 Prince Svyatoslav, defeated by Byzantium, set off on the way back to Kiev, he had to spend the winter at the mouth of the Dnieper. In the spring of 972, he tried to continue his journey, but at the Dnieper thresholds (north of today's city of Zaporozhye, Ukraine) he fell into a Pecheneg ambush and died. According to the Kyiv annals, the attack was again at the instigation of the "Pereyaslavites", i.e. of the Bulgarians.''
In other words: The Bulgarians send their regards. 😎🦁
According to Xenophon, Cyrus the Great passed away of old age ruling the Persian empire at peace. The monument at Pasargadae was built as an ossuary, which automatically invalidates Herodotus' hearsay (which he admits to as he prefaces the one paragraph containing the story of Tomyris). Furthermore, Arrian who paraphrases Callisthenes confirmed the presence of Cyrus' remains and his regalia at the ossuary when Alexander visited the tomb.
5/10, Shah Ismail turning the Uzbek khan's skull into a champagne goblet should have taken number one spot.
Top 10 genocides next?
Tsar Kaloyan "a Bulgarian tsar of the Second Bulgarian Empire"??? How is that the case??
Tsar Kaloyan or Little Ioan the Handsome (Ioannitsa Kaloyan), was a Vlach by birth, not Bulgarian. Frankish (Crusading) writers such as Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Henri de Valenciennes and Robert de Clari called "John the Vlach" (Jehannin le Blas, Jehans li Blakis). "John" or Old French "Jehannin/Jehans" is the translation of his Vlach name, Ioan/Ioaniță the latter meaning "Little Ioan" (Koine Greek: Iōannes) to not be confused with his older brother Ioan Asan I. The epitaph "the Vlach" represents his origins, the Byzantine chronicler and contemporary writee to the Vlach revolt of Turnovo in 1185-1186 writes that Asan and Peter the two brothers responsible for the revolt were of the same origin as the Vlach's. Choniates compared to the Frankish writers called "Ioannitsa the Mysian" (hō Mysos Iōannes), and his Empire "Mysia", which is a synonym to "Vlach/Vlachia" because he made it clear earlier that "Barbarians in Haimos who were formerly called Mysians and now Vlachs".
The Empire was mentioned by the same writers as "Kingdom of Vlachia" or "Vlachia/Greater Vlachia", when they did mention Kaloyans Kingdom as Bulgaria, they did so together with Vlachia "King of Vlachia and Bulgaria".
Story of tomrys is not accurate. no one knows how cyrus actually died.
One small note, the Yuezhi probably didn’t look like the image shown in the video. They were a Indo-European speaking group (either Iranic of Tocharian) though they would have had a significant East Asian ethnic component.
There is no such thing as Indo-European, that's a modern non-sense word which have no place in history... Same thing for the word "European" which is just a name of a modern political continent which appeared 2-3 centuries ago when Germanic dynasties ruled most of that continent, and India is also a British concept
There are no places for such words and concepts in history, people who created those words did it on purpose to make easy cultural appropriation and stealing history for modern political goals
Yuezhi were Nordic looking people of Tocharic origin
The Ginger horde
Kalyon was named Greekslayer, and he personally knew about it. Also the Latin Empire was a formidable force after Kalyon died until the Emperor got into Red Wedding.
Winning General: "Too bad you weren't the great leader your people expected. But don't worry, I'll make sure your new features here come in handy..." *Drinks from the skull cup*
Modu Chanyu is Mete Han! MODU CHANYU IS METE HAN!
Sah Ismail was mostly of Kurdish origin due to he’s dad. He’s not Persian at all! There’s a bit of Azeri,Georgian,and Pontic Greek here and there but Kurdish is the dominating gene. And we don’t know how Cyrus died he didint die to the Scythians
Dude, Tomyris is literally just mentioned in a single paragraph which contains several sentences on Heredot’s history book which is not even that reliable… Other historians of the era say Cyrus either died peacefully in his capital or either died in a battle, Tomyris is just a myth.
Wait a minute Timurids where called Timurids because they followed a guy named Timur? He must've been pretty badass. Will have to look into him. Persian/Iranian history is so interesting - The more I learn about it, the more questions I have.
It was a common custom before nationalism. The Carolingian dynasty (Charles/Carol) the Genghisids, etc
Just hearing how some culturally inferior insignificant bulgars killed a decedent of the great Roman legacy fills me with great dread and despair causing my blood to boil. Only second by Crassus’s defeat by the Parthians. Shame 🤮
Don’t be cringe
Bruh, Bulgarians are direct descendants of Thracians/Pelasgians/Scythians/Illyrians who played a vital role in the creation of the Greko-Roman civilisation, the Greek Pantheon and mythology and even Rome itself.
Calling Bulgaria "insignificant" only goes to show the extent of your own ignorance.
Cope
I understand how you feel, but not everyone can be a descendant of the First Men, my boy.
Google "The earliest evidence of hominid occupation discovered in what is today Bulgaria date from at least 1.4 million years ago. Around 8000 BC, a sophisticated civilization already existed which produced some of the first pottery, jewellery and golden artifacts in the world."
"steppe conquerors" like which specific one? IE? Turkic? Mongolic? Also in context of Safavid Persia Turkmen = Azerbaijani so dont have to repeat that. He didnt have greek blood or trebizond ancestory but kurd and turkmen.
Wow half of them were Turkic warriors 😎
Props to you, thats a really creative video.