Hypogeum: Malta's Ancient Subterreanean Mystery
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Sources:
Smithsonian, overview: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel...
Malta Today, the death of the Temple People: www.maltatoday.com.mt/arts/ar...
World History, Malta’s megalithic temples: www.worldhistory.org/article/...
Bradshaw Foundation, Malta’s Temple People: www.bradshawfoundation.com/ma...
Bradshaw Foundation, the Hypogeum: www.bradshawfoundation.com/ma...
Heritage Malta, myths and legends: heritagemalta.org/debunking-u...
Tale of the Hypogeum excavation: www.world-archaeology.com/gre...
Scientific America, prehistoric cults of Malta: www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
Hypogeum acoustics: www.independent.com.mt/articl...
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I'm not sure who's idea it was to fast forward thru Simon 'demonstrating' cereal for us, but THANK YOU!!!
@@petenielsen6683 lol Nice. A bit harsh but nice. lol
2023 ♡♡
Wife and I ha the chance to visit the Hypogeum back in 2008. You have to book your tours in advance because the whole place is hermetically sealed to control the climate and only a dozen or so people are allowed in at a time. At first you're like 'Huh, this is pretty neat.' Then the sheer time scale of the place hits home and you're like, 'Wait, HOW old is this?' and then it's like the ground drops out from under your feet.
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I swear, I think I could literally FEEL the weight of human history in those chambers.
Wow, that sounds stunning!
Yeah, I've been as well! To avoid the whole place filling with moss, they have to keep it strictly climate- and humidity-controlled, so they only let small groups in.
Damn
Been too in 2008 I believe it's only 50 people a day allowed by appointment.
We were fortunate to go there in 2012. Fascinating and I totally agree with you Paul!
As a Maltese it's always a pleasure to see these sites appreciated.
Same
A 'Maltese' that's lovely, much nicer than the common (example mine) Canadian. I like how you don't end harsh on an N.
@@AzathothTheGreat I went at the end of November start of December in 2017 and it was warm but not to hot all day and cool in the evenings and i don't recall it raining the entire two weeks I was there
@@AzathothTheGreat above comment pretty much sums it up
I almost wanted to cry, I was so happy to see us Represented
Never taught Malta would be on this channel but here we are. Lovely to see even our small island country represented
It feels so nice!
Thossok kburi li parti mil istorja taghna daqsekk antika issemiet hawnekk,
Im proud that this old part of my counties history is mentioned here
Merry Christmas
@@esmeralda8763 Minn Ghawdex
Yessss!!!
Malta may be small but it's history is very important
3:05 - Chapter 1 - The emigrants
6:35 - Chapter 2 - Going underground
9:55 - Chapter 3 - The great cult
14:05 - Chapter 4 - In the midst of life, we are in death etc
18:15 - Chapter 5 - Bringing up the bodies
Thats overkill.
12:31 Simon throws shade at the colonies.
It isn't a good day unless there is a biographics and geographics episode uploaded. Easily my favorite of your channels, Simon! Much love fact boy
Got to check out war graphics
@@marlog3 is that another Simon channel? That's the only way I prefer my history spoon fed to me
Not only are you a cute corgi, you have excellent taste in media!
@@the_rachel_sam those are awesome but I like learning in depth about specific places and people throughout time and history and the format and focus he puts on the first two are by far, in my opinion, the best. All are good, this is best
Warographics is the latest in this series. I’d been shipping for it for ages, so glad it finally got made.
"Non-sensible measurements" Savage xD
Correct too!
I live in Malta abs visited the hypogeum many times . As a singer , the resonance in there was insane ! I could sing overlapping harmonies. An incredible place .
Thank you for this masterpiece of a video. As a Maltese I feel immensely proud (except for that bit where we tried to cover it up). I would like to add that it was a pleasure listening to you butcher the names of every village in Malta, gave me a good laugh.
Totally butchered
At least he tried :) Zebbug was particlarly funny
I dont think he presented the side well, the acoustics are impressive, strange, indescribable! Sad he didn't presented any example, some way they knew long before Solfeggio and his frequencies, that they can have an effect on our health.
As an archaeologist, this is the best pop science presentation of archaeology I've ever seen. Well done, Fact Boy! 👍
There is a lot more!
Q
O an archaeologist says you do good work and work with facts good boi now its legit😂🤡
How about the fact malta used to be a top of a mountain before the great flood of the younger dryas which let the sealevel rise about 120 meters..? Which makes al the above ground temples so much more insane because some have moved al these huge stones up the mountain..
It’s mind-boggling just how these structures were constructed. Especially concerning the use of such large, hard stones for fashioning their structures. Btw, another fantastic episode Simon! Love your guys’ channels. Can’t wait to see what next year has in store on Geographics & Biographics.
The acoustics is impressive, strange, indescribable! Sad he didn't presented any example, some way they knew long before Solfeggio and his frequencies, that they can have an effect on our health. If you ca visit this building, you have to listen your own echo, the skin hairs will stand up!
So proud that our country is getting more coverage for its truly unique history! Thank you!
Eyyyyyyyyyy!! Finally, one about Malta. Malta has so much history! You should try out more.
Flahhar!
So happy we made it!
Rubbish footballers tho , apart from Martin Mifsud twenty years ago
Imagine how many ancient sites and mysteries are under water that we'll probably never discover.
37 cities, 12 towns, 943 villages
definitly since malta used to be a top of a mountain before the last ice age!
Completely worth it just to hear Simon say the phrase "smorgasbord of dongs"
Love Malta and Gozo. You should check out the "cart paths" cut across the surface of the island.
My god! I had forgotten about them. I was there in my 20's and years before it became developed. There were times in the middle of those fields, when you could look across the island to the sea and the horizon beyond...when time fell away and you were in touch with a primal space
There's pictures of some of those 'cart tracks' (I don't think anyone is 100% sure what they were for) going into the ocean and carrying on underwater. Which begs the question, were they carved into the bedrock when sea levels were a bit lower? Could be the cart ruts are a millenia or two older than the temple phase 🤔
Or ancient aliens
Crazy to think it was under a house in the middle of a residential area for so long before being discovered by accident. I was lucky enough to go there a few years ago. Being inside is a very unique experience it is haunting and mysterious yet you feel no sense of the unknown or danger that a normal cave or underground space can generate.
Fish can be fed to chickens, goats, and pigs. Since there were no supermarket in antiquity, I'm sure they raised other animals for variety as well as goats for possibly milking. The goat skins can also be used for clothing or bedding.
Were humans able to drink milk at this time? Were these humans able to? (I know goat milk is less lactose rich.)
On a small island I could also see anything that is grown on lad to be of huge importance. The sea around is sheer endless, but with so little space, every grazing animal, every field of grain takes a huge toll.
So not unthinkable that land-based animals were withheld for feasts and service to the gods.
As a Maltese history teacher was happy to hear your presentation. You got so many little known facts right! You have a new follower now.
As a Maltese student, it is heaterning to see you here Ms Falzon! I'm certain your students are lucky to be part of your class. :)
This was another level topic, content and quality. A top notch mini documentary. Thanks Simon.
I love biographics and geographics for the info, jokes and Simon
My bother-in-law is Maltese and he and his wife (my sister) and 2 children moved there from America. Been to Malta twice and love it there. Like a shining gem in the sea, Malta holds many beautiful things past and present. Enjoyed this video and next time we visit, trip to the Hypogeum is a must.
It's the first time this channel has gone even beyond their usual tendency to show a different or ancient culture with due respect, by literally banishing silly and inconsiderate claims. Wonderful to see that desire to maintain the enormity of an impressive feat and a culture lost to time.
There was a Decoding the Unknown episode (another of his channels) recently about the pyramids that said pretty much the same thing.
@@--enyo-- Wow, didn't know. So then Simon kind of has almost as many CZcams channels as Naruto filler episodes :P
@@ChinmayRastogi He has 12-13 channels I think.
claims such as?
Thank you, Simon, for speeding through the cereal bite. I adore that you did this. 🤗💙
Excellent video. I must say, I find the idea that our ancestors were so hapless that they needed the help of aliens to accomplish anything insulting. Humans can be damned clever and are ridiculously capable, and this was just as true thousands of years ago as it is today. I also find the idea that super-advanced cultures would cross the infinite gulfs of interstellar space to make stuff out of rocks to impress the locals a bit ludicrous. Even at 12 years old when it was proposed to me that aliens had created the Antikythera mechanism I was skeptical that such a culture would use clockworks! Sorry folks, you'll just have to accept that our ancestors were just as smart as we are and were capable of figuring things out and making things.
Couldn't agree more. Many people are deluded of the idea that people in the past were dumb and incapable. The reality is, they were anatomically the same as us today.
It also seems that it is originating in some pretty racist theories - the origin seems to be in the feeling that 'no primitive brown person could have built it' and then first inventing Atlantis as the source of a mythical perfect white race, or aliens. Well Atlantis was invented first but it was just a tale of hubris, to start with. Greeks are allowed to have built their stuff by themselves it seems.
It also means that they ignore a lot of pretty clear evidence of human builders too, the way the decorations are clearly hand carved, and display things that clearly could have existed then, cattle and pigs, a woman on a wooden bed, a potted plant, not aliens or spaceships - or the tools like the balls of rock used to move the stones that are scattered near the wall in Tarxien temple, for example.
@@TulilaSalome while there are undoubtedly plenty of morons who genuinely believe in the ancient aliens stuff as a means of supporting their own fallacious race theories, I think most of it comes from a place of genuine ignorance of the scale of human accomplishment over time.
@@TulilaSalome Definitely. In addition to these proponents of "Ancient Aliens" theories, there are also those trying to deny that the Ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids were African, despite genealogical evidence to the contrary.
Right intelligence is not knowledge, take today all the knowledge we can learn but wed rather tiktok or obsess over trivial crap that won't matter in 5 years. Old man rant done
Happy holidays, Simon 😎🖐️❣️
This!
No signs of fishing.... that's likely because their age dating is wrong and the 'temples' were built when the mediterranean was 300ft lower, which would make them at least double their current estimated age. To further support my hypothesis, there are 'neolitic' ruins all along the north eastern coast of Malta, some 200 feet below sea level.
So unfortunate that the site was not treated properly from the beginning. Who knows how much more we would know about those ancient people...
Keep the fantastic content coming and happy holiday to you Simon, all your script writers and Jen ^w^
I had never heard of the Hypogeum before. I'm so glad I found this channel!
You should come to our island :)
I had never heard of the Hypogeum until this morning, and it's an awe inspiring discovery, highlighting yet again that there is a marvellously rich history to humanity that we are just barely scratching the surface of at the moment. But if there is only one thing that we take away from this (yet another stellar) episode of Geographics it's this.. we desperately need to know more about the epically named Themistocles Zammit!! A man bearing that name is most assuredly fated to lead an extraordinarily fascinating life. A person saddled with that name could probably make something as mundane as getting the morning mail an adventure that Teddy Roosevelt would of been proud to be a part of. May we have some more of that please??
This needs to be a Biographics episode! I'm Maltese myself and we learn that Sir Temi Zammit had also found the cure for undulant fever, saving millions in the process :D
Biographics and Geographics in the same day - love it!
Been there done that, and thoroughly recommend it to anyone visiting Malta - in fact it's worth choosing Malta to go and see it.
how did they see to make it why is there no smoke evidence?
@@todgumtau4639 Eh?
@@Badgersj well they had no electricity for light to see so when you burn stuff for light it leaves soot and black smoke and it doesn't look like there is smoke damage so what did they use for light?
@@todgumtau4639 Oh, I see what you mean. Maybe just cleaned up properly afterwards? I mean, the Egyptians must have had the same problem and I don't think their tombs are especially sooty are they? Interesting question though!
Happy christmas simon to you and your family. Hope you have a great new year. Thanks for helping us through 2021
Thanks for covering my country 🇲🇹
I had no idea this existed! Research time! I am obsessed with all of your channels 😁
A wonderful documentary! Especially thank you for the commentary - wise words! ♥️
No video on ancient cultures and structures is complete without mentioning a smorgasbord of dongs. Also, this is probably my favorite Geographics video yet, and tye most well done, and I've watched nearly all the videos on this channel. Great job, y'all! Hope to see more like this in the future.
i hope you will be able to visit it one day its an amazing ancient building. I also believe first life appeared on the islands, which before the last ice age was a huge mountain. Also go walk roman road if you are there its amazing. Full with ancient caves and an ancient apiary
I just visited Malta in Nov. The Hypogeum was a fantastic visit. So happy to find this new video. Geographics rocks! Thanks.
More great stuff, thankyou. Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎅
Wow! Wow! So absolutely fascinating!! Once again, you and your crew have done a stunning job. Thank you all!
The only other rock-stacking Mediterranean culture we’ve found older than Malta is the Minoan and Gobekli Tepe cultures of Anatolia.
Only Göbekli Tepe really, until it was found, Ggantija was the oldest known freestanding building in the world.
Thank you for putting this video together. You covered a location which was pretty much next-door to the place I spent my early to mid-twenties.
Nice! Happy to see that our ancient history is appreciated!
So happy you’ve done a story on Malta as most have never even heard of the country
Reaching out to you from Malta Simon! 🇲🇹Super proud to be mentioned on this channel.
Every morning I enjoy the view of Temple Ggantija (island of Gozo) from my balcony. Appreciate & humble myself how why they used huge stones to build.
They are beauty and the temple main entrance faces the winter solstice . Well thank you Simon.
I was lucky enough to visit Malta last month and went down into the Hypogeum. I'll never forget it.
Thank you for such a great video.
I’ve been commenting on almost every ancient history channel for years for someone to cover all the ancient wonders of Malta this makes me so proud 🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹
Awesome content Fact Boi!
That was a really fascinating look at the sites, thank you!
Oh man, I've been here! It's really amazing in person, like being in the middle of ancient history.
Great video Simon! As a Maltese national I must admit we often forget how significant these structures are.. Thanks!
It's nice to see one of our national treasures being given the spotlight it deserves! Thanks for this! Love from Malta xxx
I never thought Id see so many maltese people in a comment section!
Warm regards from Malta! Great video! Merry Christmas!
I knew Malta had some interesting stone-age sites, but I had no idea HOW interesting they were. Thanks for bringing the Hypogeum and others to my attention!
Some? It's impossible not to stumble over them all the time. They're all over the bloody place.
Great stuff. You have come a long way, Simon. I remember you since before you grew a beard.
I grew up living on a sail boat,our winter base was Manoel Island in Gzira, Malta,loved the history,the people are the friendliest and it's awesome to see a part of its history featured on one of my favourite channels. 👍❤️
"Why did they worship as they did?"
You can ask the same about K-pop fans
I don't even know what K-pop is but I would rather worship it? them? than any other cult, commonly known as a religion. Because science.
Wonderful episode. Thank you.
Sometimes I wonder if Simon has so many channels because he likes money ooor... he just gets a lot of free magic spoon.
I respect both.
Hello from Malta!
Thank you for featuring our temples on your channel! :)
I love how Simon antagonizes The History Channel every chance he gets. Bloody brilliant!
This should have been included in the 7 wonders of the ancient world! Simon should really update that list
Well the thing with that is that the 7 wonders were named by a contemporary. Seeing as the Hypogeum was lost to time at least a thousand years before the seven wonders were built, there was no way for the writer to have included it.
Hey Simon. Merry Christmas.
This is really fascinating, and something I had not even heard of. Thanks for the excellent video.
12:30: "or nearly 10 feat, if you prefer non-sensible measurements" 😂
How very Lovecraftian. Doesn't eat seafood, bunch of really creatively weird gods, ancient mysterious temple complex underground, death cult
Visited the Hypogeum in 2019, amazing, Malta in general and in particular the Hypogeum are well worth a visit.
That was so fascinating! My main thought during the watching of this video was wondering how come I've never heard of it before. Thank you for all the information :)
this early culture, and that of Sardinia, are of much interest to me, very much enjoyed the program
I never got to visit this site, but I have been to the Ggantija (Apologies if I’ve butchered the spelling) temples on Gozo. What is strange is that ultimately your looking at some rocks, but then you hear all about the site and then touch the rocks, and it connects you to the place. It blew my mind they were as old as they are and still there. Especially after the pounding Malta got during the Second World War. As someone said further up in the comments, Malta deserves its own video. A beautiful country with beautiful people living there. It really is my favourite place on the planet.
Watched the video and listened to you outstanding description and comments :) Just booked an online ticket and I'm really looking forward to visiting that fabulous place on Sunday, 19th of Feb.
Well told, Simon. Really enjoyed this one. :)
How have I not heard of this before? Thank you Simon.
Thanks for this video. I have been searching on this topic and this is one the few that doesn't try to involve the usual "alien" suspects.
10ft? Nonsensical measurement? You are damn right it's nonsensical!! I need to know how many football fields it is!
Merry Christmas Simon!
💋Xoxo from the Netherlands.
Hey Simon. Speaking for all Americans, you don't need to translate metric measurements for us. Just use your little metric system and we'll translate for ourselves, if we care at all. PS. You're great. I hope my assurance about Americans will save you some time, or whatever.
The channel is American, as are scriptwriters and editors. Nice to see someone from the US happy to do the conversions we often have to to, as the use of both units is patchy. I'm happy with both primitive cave-man units and Metric, but many Americans don't seem to be good at converting, especially as US cave-man pints/gals differ from Imperial pints/gals too.
@@owenshebbeare2999 Simon is from Prague and has never lived in America.
Malta is a magical island. Will never forget that place. Valletta, Citadel of the Knights of St. John and the Grand Harbour. It's alive with history. A beautiful place. A formidable fortress.
Honestly, a lot of ancient wonders were ahead of their time
If that knowledge hadn't been lost, where might we be now?
If they are ‘one-and-done’ deals that could have been completed in a season, then I could buy that. As most of them are multi-generational projects that absolutely show continuous refinement of technique, I think that it’s more reasonable to believe that they were totally a product of their time and our own bias towards literary records means that we cannot comprehend how much technological and engineering knowledge can be passed on down the generations without writing it down.
"the ancients where no fools!"
@@DneilB007 - the great problem with word-of-mouth and "craft secrets" is that it only takes one link in the chain to break and the knowledge is lost forever. That so much survived for so long is amazing.
@@mho... - "Ancient people were exactly as stupide as we are today and that's pretty smart" John Steinbeck
I have never heard of this place before. Thanks for the discovery.
Its name is Hal Saflieni.
«Hypogeum» is simply the type of the structure. It’s a Greek latinised term which means «underground». From Greek «υπόγειο». υπο - under , γειο from γαια, gaia - earth.
As his beard grows larger, so too does Simon's power
"Nonsensical units", there is that BB sass I love.
A company called Audio Ease, who launched the Impulse Response capture technology, went to the prayer caves and actually sampled them into their Altiverb Library. In effect, you can use this to make any sound you have, sound like it came from within these caves. In fact, that's how I learned about their existence. Now I want to go visit there!
That was REALLY interesting!
Oooo a great one this time. Thanks
Good video 👍
I do love Simon's digs on the imperial measurement system 😅
I want to visit the Hypogeum! And Malta needs a full video of its own.
Yeah, I know nothing about it. I’d like to learn more.
Let me say , the anime reference in this was was pretty good and a lot less cringey because it wasn't a surface level reference or joke , if the writers did more of that it would be greatly appreciated please . Fantastic video Simon and team keep up the great work .
I visited this place and it was mindblowing!
"Tune out the crazies"
🎼One is the loneliest number!🎶
Based Imperial reference!
Our island has so much history and heritage. Pity it's all currently being treatened by rampant construction and greed.
And overpopulation
Not a bad coverage of our old impressive Maltese history, but rather than showing the charming face of the commentator, this video could have been filled with the tons of old buildings we still have in Malta and Gozo. They are impressive indeed. All that added to our spectacular bastions which kept out the Turkish Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1565 and the underground paths and water reservoirs under Valletta, and the shelters in which I lived in 1940- 1945 to shelter from Adolf Hitler Bombing us would have added to the richness of this historic video,
Also the man mentioned was not "Zamit" but he was " Sir Themistocles Zammit".
Thanks to the presenter of this video,, it is much appreciated and Malta is grateful and greatly appreciates your effort, Thanks once again.
Cereal, archaeology and divine narrative 🤘👊
Excellent video 📹
Must visit
Excellent
Thank you very much for including my little island in your series. it's a historically rich archipelago, you can do allot more if you'd want.
The wrap-up puts me in mind of the “ST:TNG” episode where Captain Picard is captured by an ancient, lost civilization’s memento mori.
Thanks