5 Ancient Mysteries We Still Haven't Solved
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Don't forget the oldest mystery: How does one get a job without experience, and how does one get experience without a job?
Simple: Just lie on your resume. Then, if they find out later and fire you, you will at least then have some experience.
Sometimes one must look out of country to find jobs and get experience, then come back after leveling up to work in murica
Like we all
, Lie and get a friend to be a 'reference,
Experience is overrated in those jobs where they require you to have prior experience. They dont accept novel ideas usually and as such they are doomed to fail eventually. Stay clear from those wishy washy companies
Or...
"It's simple we uh... Don't play the game"
I'm convinced that Simon's ultimate goal is host ALL the channels on CZcams
I'm waiting for the 'Simon wants a Ferrari' channel
A true Brit then
@@hackjob7687 And I'm waiting for a "Simon says" channel
@@Annathroy someone's got bad memories of the east India trading company... 😂
@@benmartin8321 perhaps :D
A thought; sometime ago I read a book by an English fellow who was convinced that the ancient people of Nazca, had the use of “smoke balloons” capable of carrying men up high enough to see these lines. He got Raven Industries (recreational hot-air ballon manufacturers) to make a smoke ballon out of the type of cloth available to the Nazca people of former times (known because of funeral cloth on the mummies from the area) and modeled after some illustrations on pottery shards. The craft was successfully flown in the area and as far as I know, was promptly forgotten by historical authorities. The idea presented was that natives of the Amazon for a very long time, had sent prayers to the gods in much smaller hot air balloon’s, not only that, but one such Amazon native went back to Europe with missionaries and worked with the Montgolfier brothers on their hot air balloons. Interesting if true. A good read as I recall, though I can’t recall the name of the author
The author was Colin convenient.
Yeah this is a cool historical theory. I saw a documentary on this a while ago.
I love that idea. However, a German archeologist who studied the Nazca lines found small scale versions of the drawings. Not at all difficult to simply scale them up-not a modern idea.
Too many adds so I will not be watching.
The real answer is a alien with a twisted sense of humor.
Simon has the most informative videos on CZcams.. Simon, you magnificent bastard. Single greatest personality/teacher/guide on CZcams. Huge props.
You could also do a video on ancient mysteries that HAVE been solved within the last 5 to 10 years. First set up the background, i.e. why it was a "great mystery", and explain why we previously didn't know the answer. Then explain the breakthrough that solved the mystery and the current understanding.
What would be interesting about such a video is that the spark or inspiration that leads to the answer could come from random unexpected sources.
Great idea, hope we see it come to life.
@T. N. I'd definitely click on a video titled "Greatest Mysteries - Now Solved!"
@T. N. definitely can.
Plus, it’s not really clickbait if you get what’s in the title is it?
Wow, you should take initiative and start that type of channel yourself, my man! No sarcasm here! I’m serious. That was a great layout for the delivery! I’d totally watch that. Also, this might be shocking and unbelievable, but I actually don’t just click on shit for the title (clickbait) I search my videos up daily because somehow I always know what I want to watch.
Just make it Edward
the real mystery is how simon manages to be married, narrate 27 CZcams channels, and 6 podcasts.
theory: there's 3 Simons, they are all triplets, identical, and we've been fooled
@@caridadchang7895 so he's got the same superpower as the comic book joker? 🤔
He has a double. Vsauce
AND be a Dad
He has other people research the subjects and write the scripts. Narrating these videos is his full time job, and I'd bet it takes him less than 40 hours per week.
I was always interested in history at school and your videos remind me why I have never lost that interest.
Loved the transition from Bronze Age to Gengis Kahn. It was so abrupt, for a second I thought he was blaming him for the Bronze Age collapse xD
2:00 1) Zaroaster
4:32 2) Bronze Age
6:57 3) Genghis Khan
9:14 4) Ninth Legion
12:30 5) Nazca Lines
Zoroaster.
ZORO
6) 10 Lost tribes of Israel.
@@jacqueslefave4296 fiction
@@OsamaBinDarrel I believe that the Bible is true, I don't apologize for that.
Now, when you say "worst serial killer in history" are you implying he killed the most, or he just hilariously bad at it?
The most, estimates are around 200 victims
My quick review indicates that he wasn't all that bad at killing....I am, of course, merely a student of such things.....
@@just-dl I believe this is what the kids might call... sus.
😂
Finally a laughable comment! cause is like a paradox i call Bundy cause people overrated him so bad a master mind... he was so inteligent he defended hilmself (got death penalty) Geoge Constanza could be his lawyer he wouldn´t fuck as bad.... charming ok in the serial killers club Ed Gein, Wayne Gasey, ed Kemper in that circle maybe he was a 3.... escaped jail.... main door was open no guards... hes such an idiot i have to make a video on him
As a military historian, I suspect that the 9th Legion was broken up into detachments following Agricola's campaign in Scotland as a consequence of the heavy losses. Replacements from Rome would have been hard to come by in Britain, and small detachments were always needed in the more distant parts of the Empire. My guess would be that some of the ended up on the Rhine frontier, which would account for the limited evidence from the Netherlands.
Yeah, well... that's just, like, your opinion, man.
This has some potential answers.
My thought exactly.
You'd think Agricola's nephew and hagiographer Tacitus would have said something about the IX Hispana being a retired Eagle, like how Houston doesn't use "42" on jerseys anymore in respect for Hakeem Olajuwon.'
Tacitus' silence implies that IX Hispana was still around in his days.
This had me chuckling. The "thinking of you Gengis Khan" and "still waiting on that scientists" about immortality are comedy gold 👌
Adds adds, adds. I can't watch this video anymore.
1:50 - Chapter 1 - Zororaster
4:35 - Chapter 2 - The bronze age collapse
7:00 - Chapter 3 - The tomb of genghis khan
9:20 - Chapter 4 - Legio IX Hispania
12:35 - Chapter 5 - The nazca lines
You just saved me from wasting 16 minutes. Thank you!
@@ANDROLOMA No, he didn't. You've just missed out, that's all.
@@gh8447 I had to use that time to dig out from this year's March blizzard. My trees in the back yard are bowed over. And my kitty cat needs petting. She can't pet herself. 😺
Do you want a medal?
@@spinnymathingy3149 Sure. It'll go with the three I was awarded when I was on active duty.
Lesson from the Ninth Legion: if you retire a bunch of veterans to farms and then recall them years later, don’t expect them to do well.
😂Thanks for the laugh man!!
great comment
@hognoxious 'soldiers' are just regular people forced by circumstance to join some army and fight. They're farmers, labourers etc etc. Noone is born a soldier. Noone wants to be a soldier. Noone needs soldiers.
Shaft drive are you demented? Any nation that doesn’t have soldiers gets annihilated by those that do. Humans have had men at arms since the Bronze Age because of this simple fact....but you don’t get it...because you’re demented
@@stevenpaddybwoy Wow, that's a lot of rage in response to a historically accurate observation.
@@andrewjohnson6716 naw that dude was an idiot, soldiers were imperative in those times, it would be more likely that they were destroyed by the highlanders or integrated into those societies, lots of Scott’s with black hair out there, like my dad, jet black hair but Scottish.. just my thoughts
Bronze age collapse was caused by explosive, collapsing volcano island causing multiple tsunamis. Journal article came out early this year iirc.
The glyphs at the end are amazing. Hadn't seen that before. The fact that the lines are so straight. Solid work.
The fact that its been this long and no one can still find Genghis Khans grave is very impressive. It makes me wonder how many other things have been hidden underground that no one knows about, treasures and what not.
What r u talking about Genghis khan has a location..
Ask any Mongolian ..
Alexander The Great as well
@@Samuel-ce6cn The story is actually quite known, it was in Alexandria for a very very long time and probably ended up suffering the same fate previous french kings tombs suffered during the revolution and simply went back to dust after another change of civilisation in the region.
_ but they keep digging out gold and boring for oil - never know, really !?!
James Cameron and Bob Ballard have found more history in the last 30 years at the bottom of the seafloor than we've found on land in the last 300. Lucky for them they had a pile of money at the very moment technology became feasible for private exploration. There is still a lot out there too.
6th mystery: when future historians will wonder why 97% of the internet was simon videos
No doubt he will be assumed to be a deity. 😄
They just haven't watched the other 2% he also made yet.
I think more than 3% are people that claimed they escaped from North Korea.
Simon is a medern Herodotus. Allegedly.
His beard will no doubt be epic in the retellings 🦦
hard to find good and enjoyable history videos, so thanks for making them!
Simon, you magnificent bastard. Single greatest personality/teacher/guide on CZcams. Huge props
Too bad he never reads the comments, cause this is worthy mate...
Greatest mysteries are why pens and pennies are always around except when you need one then they're unfindable
They're simply not dePENable, are they?
And odd socks
@@ryanhogan4743 Canada got rid of pennies. Problem solved. Now, about "pens". .......
@@thedwightguy
The pens are on the bureau of my Uncle.
The opposite of cops;
Never one around when some guy slams across 5 lanes without signaling and forces a bus full of children off the road but, if you do 2 miles per hour over the sign speed who's on your back door?
Ancient people trying to expand their empires across the world
Simon trying to expand his own empire across CZcams
thats what yomoma said!
simon tube
Is Simon the Romans or the Mongols
Now he’s coming for podcasts. You cannot convince me that there are not at least 5 of him.
Great video! Thanks for sharing your immense knowledge with us.
I can also think of the lost army of Cambyses II as one of the interesting mysteries of the history.
"If you want any more we're going to have to go to Iran, so...we're probably not going to do that." Absolutely priceless! Well said.
The 9th Legion is fascinating. The Romans were record-keepers. The fate of the 9th must have been recorded. Given that Julius Caesar had disbanded it, perhaps it was simply disbanded and those records are lost.
It's possible that they sustained enough deaths that it would have been inefficient for their numbers to be replenished effectively so, like any wise military leader, their remaining numbers were reassigned to other legions. That would be the logical explanation but, as we know, history is rarely logical.
Considering the 9th's eagle was found in Britain it's safe to say that the 9th ended up having a last stand battle around calleva/ modern day silchester and lost.
I wonder if the records were intentionally destroyed.
@@Megan-sf5vf Rome fell. Much was destroyed. Dark ages.
But, what about the other legions? We know exactly where they went? Why is it a mystery when a fighting unit dissolves but we only care about the 9th?
@@TheBooban Because Caesar commanded them and they were mentioned in roman records. (there is a youtube channel which talks about different famous(infamous ) army units through the ages..)
Yes, Simon, whenever I want a bit of light entertainment, I go to YT and type in the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
Well, I do :(
Me too :/
I do. There is no mystery . Santorini event , as in exodus, and the collapse of the civilization. The second after the flood . Means, when black sea united with mediterranean
I haven't, but i sure as hell am going to!
Scholars give so many guesses that the subtext is “ we do not know.”
The Nasca lines, like the plethora of similar but smaller geoglyphs to be found across North and Central America, now are believed to have bee created for processions...basically a prehistoric conga line. There are several geogyph (also know as intaglio) sites in the area where I live, along the Colorado River where California, Arizona and Nevada meet and stretching southward to the Gulf of California. Many sites contain a geometric design along with two human figures linked to tribes' creation myths alongside various animals, like horses and dogs . Monkey depictions often appear at geoplyph sites in central America.
As Simon said, they appear as simple lines on the ground where the top soil (or rocky layer known as "desert pavement") has been brushed away to uncover the substrate, - a different color and texture of sand beneath. At all locations mapped so far, they are easy to miss unless seen from high above. Archaeologists pretty much agree that ancient native cultures made them as ceremonial sites for dance processions, which explains why they almost always consist of a single unbroken line forming each separate design...the dance procession ended at the same place where it started.
How they were made is obvious and how they were used has been postulated, but when they were made and how long continuous use lasted may remain a mystery. Since few or no artifacts have been found at the sites; it's difficult to scientifically date when people first moved a small amount of topsoil, and evidence of maintenance makes dating their initial creation even harder. Local tribes say their ancestors made them but don't know how long ago, and the rituals performed there have been forgotten by their creators' descendants. Best guesses on the Colorado River valley geoglyph sites is that they're at least 300 years old, and some researchers believe they may be closer to 1,000 years old or more. Many of these sites are nearby to petroglyphs that carry the same or similar geometric design. Thankfully nearly all these sites are now being preserved for posterity, but in years past some had roads built through them or were on private property and destroyed for "modern" land uses.
But tell us what you really think....
I’ve thought for 5 years that they were used for processions
it was water actually.
How not one person has brought up aliens yet is beyond me
Simon has the most informative videos on CZcams.
Greek Fire is another interesting ancient mystery. Being that the formulation was kept secret, no one knows what Greek Fire consisted of.
"Some sticky napalm-like liquid" is good enough for me.
Magnesium also burns underwater so..... napalm magnesium ish????
@@joejonas6816 this is why I like reading comments... today I learnt that magnesium burns underwater 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Rebranded Persian Fire
@frankeb1980 Lol!😂😂
"Religious purposes" is archeologist for "I have no idea."
Yep... that and ‘ritual purposes’.
@@amyshafer187 equally plausible: " imma skeeer'd to go there; i might discover some Truth i can't measure with these here scientific instruments"
As an Anthropologist, I wholeheartedly agree. It's SOOOOOOOOOOO annoying!
It’s the same as a meteorologist saying there’s a 50% chance of rain... 🤷🏼♀️ Who knows!?!?
When chefs say some weird local food is considered a "delicacy", it means the food is super gross but is eaten anyway because the locals are poor.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with others such as myself and you have a blessed and happy day.
Simon, you shine in all your projects..love from lebanon 🇱🇧
I'm still trying to solve the mystery of how my clothes dryer can make socks disappear.
Sock it to them for I believe that each month there is a meeting held for those who wish to run away, and leave their partners behind.
Are you sure it's not the sock monster that lives down the pipes in the washing machine?
@@gordonlawrence1448 Some years ago there was footage taken of socks walking around, on another planet. The socks were termed The Clangers, I suppose it was because they dropped a clanger in walking out from their mate.
Same. It loves to gobble my small no-show socks I wear with my flats
@@collincovid6950 Automatic legend status for making a Laugh In reference
When we visited Nazca we were able to spend time with some of the locals and I asked one lady why she thought the lines were made. She replied that it was far lost ancestors and knowing the people of Nazca they were probably drinking one night and someone said “someday people will fly, let’s do something to mess with their minds.”
I have no way of disproving her theory so it is just as viable as any other theory.
So basically.....ancient South American trolls?
Beautiful
If that is true , does that make them the first troll ?
Remember, ancient people were literally no more mature than we are today.
@@rhov-anion also no dumber. Buuuut a lot more bored.
I can imagine a bunch of teenagers carving a giant dong in the desert landscape as a dig against a neighboring tribe. Lol
Honestly I have so much respect for this guy like he is like really goood at talking it’s impressive as hell it’s so fast and easy to listen to while still being smart sounding
Thank you for all your work. I have become addicted to your channel (along with the HistoryGuy). I consider myself an amateur Historian and as a side gig tutor many children in this subject for HS Students.
You asked for ideas on topics. I have a few. 1)More about MK Ultra (I have researched this myself and cannot uncover certain information). Beyond the use of illicit drugs, psychic driving, etc… there is more I want to know. I have no idea why I am so bloody fascinated with this topic? What other outlandish Experiments did they perform? Which hospitals were involved? Universities ? What asylums did the victims end up in?
Also, Camp Hero… the Mauntak Project. Are there Tunnels actually under the old radar tower? What did the Mauntak chair do? What happened to the boys?
Hitler’s Lebensborne project. This is something else I have studied a lot. My family is German (I live in the US now). My Opa insisted I was a product of the Program and my Oma Always denied such. I do not think it’s possible because I am only 54 years old. Common sense says I am too young.
I listen to your podcasts on spotify and its annoying i cant leave reviews but i absolutly love listening to them on the go, sooo fun fun learning more and more. your videos are great, fantastic team behind you Simon. Big hello from Australia
Everyone: why did they make the glyphs??
one guy to his mates: let's make giant animals for the hell of it
Graffiti today might be seen in a different light if it was discovered in a thousand years.
I took a flight over the Nazca Lines in 2009 it was pretty incredible to see them first hand
Video suggestion: what about the history of surgery? Like each historical period's approach to it starting from the very beginning all the way to the birth of modern surgery.
Might be important to mention regional anomalies. Like the Chinese had quite advanced medicine for some time. IIRC they even did surgery long before medicine really took off in Europe or the Middle East.
Good choice. A Roman field doctor of 100BC, had better knowledge of triage than a 1860s 🇺🇸 field doctor. So much was lost after Nycea.
The Edwin Smith Papyrus can be found in its entirety online, and Ancient Egyptians discussed surgery. In addition, they were using antibiotics and suggesting molded bread be placed on wounds, they also used colloidal metals, and this text comes from 4,000 years ago.
@@kaltaron1284 Asia was way ahead of the west for the majority of history.
I would love this. Great suggestion
There's a great moment in an X-Men comic where they're talking about the end of civilization at a diner party. Someone mentions that we have no idea what caused the Bronze Age collapse.
Someone mentions that Apocalypse was old enough to know what happened, and they ask him.
He looks up from his drink, and dryly comments, "I Happened. It was me."
So Apocalypse is the age of technology?
@@MacLevistein Robert Drews did make that claim back in 1992. But it wasn't much of a tech leap; the Sea Peoples were still using bronze too.
First off, I like your humor. Secondly, please explain for the class, how the Nasca Line region will trap footprints if walked on, but there are no footprints left behind from the builders?
I thought this was an interesting question so I speculated a bit then went to wikipedia. The lines are between 4-6 inches deep and they were dug down to a sub layer with a lot of lime in it, which helps protect the lines from erosion. Since some weathering has happened since the lines were created they were possibly even deeper in the past when they were first created, but I don't know by how much. A human isn't going to leave a footprint /that/ deep unless they do it on purpose in that area, so given enough time most footprints should in theory fade away. The reason they have tourists wear special shoes is for preservation. Some weathering does happen in the area, just not a lot, so footprints from forever ago have probably been lost to time but masses of tourists showing up in the area in regular shoes would quickly ruin the lines and ruin it for everyone else in modern times and future times as well since even if the lines themselves aren't damaged having a bunch of ugly tourist footprints leading up to them still would ruin the view and it takes time for erosion to clear them away, especially in an area with low erosion.
The tomb of Alexander the Great still hasn't been found. Personally, I hope it's never found.
Two points to ponder: (1) Herodotus, being a Greek would certainly not have had anything nice to say about their enemy, Persia; and (2) if the sea people referred to were the ancient Phoenicians, they were the first to discover the major advantage of iron weaponry over bronze, plus the fact that iron was easier to locate and use.
Ramses III had much more harsh words for the sea people's than Herodotus who was
speaking as a historian 500 years later based on contemporary knowledge on their identity. The contemporaries of the sea people all regarded them as brutal savages.
The Hittites had been using iron for quite some time before the coming of the sea people. The difficulty with iron is its high melting point. An ancient smelter for tin or copper will not separate iron from from rock
@@danielgautreau161 bingo. People turned to iron because tin became scarce & bronze couldn’t be made in sufficient quantities.
Compared to Greece, the Persians probably were more tyrannical.
I would look into the Ioelei / Iolei I believe is how it’s spelt. Or the sherdan. They were off the coasts/mountains of Bronze Age Sardinia. They built Ugurhrits idk how to spell it but these circular tower mounds as storage or structure like a fort would do and manyyyyyy are found built along the path of the Sea Raiders dating to that time and seemingly when all other civilizations collapsed the Sardinian Bronze Age culture carried on. It didn’t develop much past raising and a Marshall/ pottery culture but they lasted till the Roman’s and maybe even past the Carthaginians lol
Edit: notably also the the Sherdan raiders that were in Sardinia and the tribes there frequently used helmets with Horns and a Sun in tandem which match a lot of the depictions of the sea raiders. A lot points to them taking a trip over to where they have traded before with the Italians and Greeks and African coast some of their artifacts depicting warriors and suns/horns can be found there too. Very interesting to me as someone who loves bronze age
Something interesting about the Nazca Lines, they’ve drawn a whale. Whales can only be seen from the north coast of Peru, 2000 kilometres away from where the lines are situated.
TODAY
Sure, "whale". Look up the actual drawings. They just look like a child made up an animal. People just see what they want in it
@@practicalskeptic4774 you're so wrong! I bet you couldn't do the same thing right now.
@@Freddy70008 Grey couldn't do what? Look up the actual drawings? Make up an animal? Those are the only things he stated. Note he said nothing about making the Nazca lines. So what is it that you think he couldn't do the same right now FROM what he actually stated?
One theory that seems logical is that they were landing strips, like an airport. But in order to find that possible, you'd have to throw out the myth(assumptions) that they were primitive. Look the nazca line of the special spider, and it's leg.
I definitely expected "The Sea Peoples" to be their own entry.
Yeah the Bronze Age Collapse is interesting thematically, but we do know many of the important factors!
As far as I know, The Sea Peoples were powerful people supposedly from a place that also had excellent record-keeping, but they've somewhat disappeared from existence?
That's pretty compelling!
Read The End of the Bronze Age..., by Robert Drews. His arguments about the sea peoples (plural) is compelling.
Well, history has a habit of repeating itself, so we might get to witness it first hand.
What"s interesting is that the only empire that defeated these sea people was ancient egypt but at the cost of half their army.
@@C666O the Assyrian empire also survived thr catastrophe.
There are many references in the ancient writings that they knew them. Gonna butcher these...but the Wechesh, the Peleset, and many others were mentioned. They were tribes like the Etruscans, Thrace, Cyprus, Sardinia, Libya, Numidia, and a few Central European tribes that I forgot the name of. We just don't know why they all banded together, brought their families, and destroyed the civilizations, though to me it is not too hard to guess.
BTW the Peleset became the Peleshet and settled in the Levant, became later known as the Philistines
Simon, Great video. Its the first I have of your videos.
The mystery of the location if Alexander the Great's burial place would also be a great topic. It is in Alexandria, Egypt and was known in Roman times but is now lost history. Emperor Augusts visited it.
Alexander is said to be buried in a glass coffin filled with honey to preserve his body.
“Although as how terms go, the Persians were ‘quite chill’”
That gave me a good giggle lolol
I love me an Ancient History mystery. Makes you really think and try to find possible answers, even if just for yourself.
Not sure what I expected to learn here, but found this to be very interesting, particularly what is “known” about the Nazca Lines. Thanks!
Regarding the Nazca Lines:
When acheologists don't know what they have found, their first impulse is to declare it a cultic object
After their defeat in Scotland, the 9th fought so successfully with the Sea Peoples that Gengis Kahn recruited them to build intaglios in Peru in his honor.
Your math checks out.
Brilliant!
Our domestic historian freaks Nosovsky and Fomenko would die of envy)
Game. Set. Match.
😆👍
By using zarosta time machine
Right ! And flew them TO Peru on that flying fella from Hindu mythology ! Or possibly aliens .
Thank you, Simon, for explaining so well the reasons we should all be interested in history!!
Repent to Jesus Christ!
“Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
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Well done! I love the rapidity of you speech. Syncs well with my brain download speed.
I love this guy 😂 I came for answers and left with even more questions.
I love that Simon is slowly but surely developing Whistlernet, like the internet but filled with awesomeness and genuinely knowledgable and funny content
He strikes me as a hell of a hard worker!
Sounds like the Ninth Legion went back in time to 1200 BCE and decided to clean house, before finding Genghis Khan”s tomb and burying him with Zoroaster.
and then afterwards making it all the way to South America where they decided to draw all the things they saw along their conquest in the ground by making giant pictures.
I’ll tell you the biggest mystery: How did Simon manage to get the ads to air during the chapter headings and not in the middle of a sentence?
Bro do you just make videos all day. I love them all, but damn! You deserve every penny.
I can't help but mention that your intro music reminds me of the intro music for a children's show my daughter used to watch. "Planet Sketch". She loved that show.
Such a good video! Informative and loved that you named mysteries that maybe people hadn’t heard of before, instead of the obvious ones like “who built the pyramids” or “who was jack the ripper”
Very true! I was expecting something like Atlantis, instead I got mysteries I had never heard of. Much better 👍🏻😁
He forgot the greatest mystery: The missing 10mm socket.
Lol, I literally just needed one of those today to change my oil filter.
13mm - I owned a classic German car for a while.
I store mine in a special place. Which I can never recall. It's there with the 7mm and the 13mm.
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Its in your pocket..
And still today, history is "less about facts and information than it is about telling a good story," because it's always the winners who get to write the history books.
I would disagree mostly since there’s more survivors from either side who can easily tell their stories. Especially today with the internet, though now the issue is that there is too much info, people of the future may have conflicting information and will have to conclude their own thoughts.
@@kakyoin9688 exactly. If there are 2 accounts from 2 sides.
You can take out lots of common details and be sure of them.
Them reject uncommon details or keep them as a maybe until evidences are found for them.
@@kakyoin9688 You're ignoring the fact that those who possess wealth, power and agency have the resources and network to ensure that the version of history they want to promote reaches vastly greater numbers of people than any other version of events. The internet is NOT the "great equalizer" (because it's been 100% monetized for profit) it was hoped to be early on in its conception and implementation. Additionally, there is no such thing as "alternative facts." A statement is either based on fact or it is a falsehood. You can't be "somewhat factual." That's like being "somewhat pregnant." You either are, or you aren't being truthful.
@@mikeletaurus4728 100% the internet allows for multiple sides to speak their stories and release information. Discussion is allowed on a variety of historical events with even such massive scale events such as the holocaust being brought into question by people who decided to follow alternative sources that speak the contrary to the supported narrative.
@@kakyoin9688 As for your assertion that "100% the internet allows for multiple sides to speak their stories and release information," much of what gets released is not information, it is misinformation (factually incorrect statements) and disinformation (intentionally misleading falsehoods driven by a hidden agenda). Again, the individual examples of "information" found online are most certainly NOT all equal.
One of my favorite ancient mysteries is the Antikythera Mechanism. who made it, how, why, what else did they make?
That's a very apt question!
All of these questions have very simple answers. Humanity has been great more than once :) We're just the latest version of it. And the first one to invent and use plastic. Nasca lines? Giant chalk man in England? Ways to tell what part of the Earth you're flying over :) We're SO full of ourselves we cannot believe someone else may have come up with the idea of flying (and put it into practice) before us.
What is it: a mechanical computer that calculates the position of the planets visible to the human eye.
Why: Hellenic Pagans believed astrology influenced every aspect of their lives.
How: An in depth understanding of astronomy and gear ratios.
The real question is how the Greek polymaths invented things like mechanical computers or steam engines and fail to see any kind of useful applications such wonders could have been used for instead of viewing them as religious curiosities. I blame the technological stagnation caused by the Roman Empire's reliance on slavery.
Who made it? It was not a computer but a calculator of astronomical data. Where would humans be now if that technology had not been lost? We tend to not give ancient peoples the credit they deserve. All those great monuments all over the world? The great pyramid is full of mathematical knowledge. I am sure the first cities were build before the end of the last ice age 12.000 years ago. But unfortunately lost to time.
I have always been thinking exactly this: we are as clever as we ever were. Yes development, genes etcetera. But just because people lived ten thousand years ago, doesn’t mean they hadn’t developed societies in some form of intellectual way. I mean; this is the dumbest think to think that just because something is ancient, it means dumber. It does not. Very intelligent people live all over the world today, they may live very different. And last, but not least, if our ancestors were dumber than us, then who invented the airplane you use today.
The Nazca lines are such a compelling head-scratcher of a mystery! Literally in the middle of nowhere, dug by hand, without a ton of footprints or really any signs of civilization nearby, on a bafflingly humongous scale, for no reason we can identify. It's almost like a bored God was on a telephone call and needed to doodle for concentration or something.
There are intaglios in other parts of the world too. Like in southern California.
The fact that most are one continuous line would be a clue to the lack of footprints. They probably walked along the lines digging behind them. They were probably marked by counting steps and degrees of turn (I don't mean 360 degrees probably more like 8 points) if you've ever programmed in logo it is a relatively simple concept. Although that complexity does require a good degree of planning.
Amen!
It's not that crazy though and is quite common throughout the world. You just want to believe it's crazy
The amazing part of the Nazca lines construction is that at ground level, nobody can actually see the shapes, even from the nearby hills. There is no vantage point high enough. The shapes are so big that they simply couldn't see what they were creating . The only way to see them is from the air. Whoever created them certainly had some impressive engineering skills. Planning and laying out such giant, complex shapes, with no point of reference is no easy task. And only the Gods could see the finished designs.
Random thought but I find it absolutely fascinating to think about the fact that for the longest time people had no idea that there were other people living in other places in the world. And that there are still nature tribes today that don't.
Your sense of humor is great.
I always enjoy your video's. I learn a lot from you but unfortunately, I can't seem to retain it ! You're the best, so glad I found your videos. I can learn things that entertain me without stressing me out ! THANK YOU !!
"Religious significance" - stock answer for when scholars have no idea...
right. as if people just didnt have a articial urge so long ago. imagine if society just collapsed and history washed on the sea today, 20,000 year from now, they find some pictures of an anime con and just think they worshipped many many gods XD lol
Francis from Time Team suddenly appears...
There is also "funerary rights" and "ritualistic importance" as stock answers as well. One assumes because they found it in a tomb, it MUST be about their death and/or belief structure - which is not entirely wrong to think, but sometimes you have to remember that humans can be just plain weird, and have generally acted the same through most of history. Just look at the messages left on the walls of Pompeii, you'd think it was Twitter or a gas station bathroom in the 80's. It really opens you eyes on how much that human behavior has pretty much stayed the same despite technology and better living standards.
Abso-freakin'-lutely!
Or the classic "possibly from a fall off a horse" conclusion whenever they find anything broken or damaged on a skeleton
You’re fun to listen too!!!! Thank you Simon
Good video! Would have loved it if Greek Fire was included in the list.
I can't hear "Zoroastrianism" without thinking of Freddie Mercury. When Simon mentioned him, it brought a huge smile to my face.
Simon, you legend, I've never discovered a podcast better in my entire life up until this point and this show is what I now live for.
In the distant future, there will be a video/hologram going over the mystery of how this man's beard is so full and amazing.
Very interesting video! Easy to watch and enjoy! Nice voice & good appearance of the narrator…
*when talking about the sea people “we don’t know for…. Shore” 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve been to that part of Peru and have seen the Nazca Lines. Truly stunning.
Genghis Khan's Tomb is either in Ulaanbaatar, or on the sacred mountain (Bogd Khan) which it sits at the base of. Bogd Khan is also the gateway to the Steppes which is where he was from.
"further evidence is needed before more can be said." That has never stopped me!
it has been said too much lacking the evidence
Simon how many flipping channels do you have?🤣
You know it's a backlogged video when Simon's beard just tripled in length in between 2 videos 😂😂🧔🏻
Is he going to audition for a Harry Potter character with that beard? Would not be surprised if a cuckoo was not heard
OMG....its a time shift.
Quick Simon do a vid on it 🤣
however that may be, it is a great beard... especially for a bald guy!
@@russellmarra8520 one of my old military friends says that my beard looks like the backside of a badger because I've got a grey patch 🤣
Which makes you think...Simon just released 4 videos today and these were backlogs...how clogged is that pipe?
Thanks for another excellent video.
I find the confaltion of literal dialogue and metaphorical dialogue to be very interesting. Seems as though a lot of history is sucbject to misinterpretation due to this issue. Many attempt to apply modern terminology and meaning to a different time and place. Such has created much confusion and wasted generations of time and resources chasing nothing while ignoring what is directly in front of them. That said, it's nice see the new trend of cross field discovery and collaboration.
Always enjoy Simon’s channels and their content. They’re informative, and he’s got a great voice, too. Happy to add another Simon channel to my subscriptions.
The more I learn about history, the more it seems like we really know so little. Even what we think we know could easily be completely off.
Yip. Most historians couldn't agree and write accurately about what happened last week. Nor could I . . . what did I have for dinner last Wednesday . . . bugger.
It has changed dramatically just in my lifetime of 40 years.....the entire history of our species, that is.
Big sad about book burnings and the Library of Alexandria...imagine the things we'd know today
Yep, we know so much but in reality so little. Like we have around a 5000 year gap in known civilisation history from gobekli tepe to sumar and Mesopotamia
It's amazing how often ancient history comes back to places like Iran, it seems like there's still a lot to be discovered there it just can't be done due to the dangers
I remember Simon from the days to top ten. How much we grew since then
I've learned more from Simon in the past few years than I've learned in the 40 years before that. Thank you.
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I agree....Simon is the best teacher I've ever had
I find inaccuacies in s oll me of the information
Simon doesn't research or write, he's just the voice
@@lifeunderthestarstv A great teacher doesn't always have to know everything. They just have to be good at delivering the message.
The Loch Less monster destroyed the 9th Legion, everyone in Scotland know this.
Yep that’s true.
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I always suspected.........
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Thank you, Simon!
How in the world could the Nazca lines be accomplished, when you could not see what you were doing AND yet they produced such beautifully stylized images, not just crude images of animals? Astonishing.
The Roman 9th Legion was wiped out when the Roman Emperor activated Order 66.
You surely meant order LXVI!
Same??
Ghengas: was eaten. Yep.
the original trilogy was better than all other star wars movie.
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According to the Systems Collapse Theory, if Simon doesn't upload at least five videos every day CZcams will disappear.
I'm not willing to test that theory, the risk is too high
hahahaha!!! 😂😂
I like that 😅
Heres hoping he takes a week off
But the REAL question would be? Given the law of conservation of matter, WHERE would it go?
First time checking this channel, this is awesome
The Nova PBS on The Nazca lines delves into them and covers what we do know pretty well.
What we need is for someone to invent an Assassin's Creed style Animus, then we just need to find someone with the right DNA.
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Yes yes 🙌 will have it on Monday and.......... I def didn’t write this.
Lol
Im distantly related to the Earl of Sandwich
Not wanting much there...... I’m sure it’ll happen. Lol.
Nazca - I remember seeing something on TV ages ago - the lines are assisted by moving lighter coloured stones in the lines and darket ones out of them. Its a little more than just scraping a line with your hand or heel.
A form of Zoroatrism In Dacia was brought by agatarshy wave that was integrated but managed to influence greatly the area. It was called zamolxes. But was not quite the same. For once, they use to sent him messages by throwing the messanger in spears.
Love this video but your voice is too soothing and has me feeling sleepy af
I think Alexander's tomb should be on this list and it ought to be easier to find than the tomb of Genghis Khan. For one, we have a lot more records and know where to look. Secondly, he had three different tombs as his remains were fought over and moved around. Not one of the tombs has been found.
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@@andrewcooney2387I get you bro.
Why would they have buried him in a tomb? By all accounts he was despised by his friends and commanders. They wanted power and killed all his releatives. Why would they honor him with a tomb
@@charlescatt4607Politics and power. Alexander's remains were a powerful symbol for those desiring to succeed him.
So the Ptolemy's building ostentatious tombs was a smart political move
I can watch Simon host videos all day long. He's just so good at imparting knowledge to us.
PS, it would be fantastic if the Nazca Lines were some bored dudes life's work. Just something he did day to day for no other reason than he could, and now he's got us all scratching our heads looking for significance in something he did simply because he could.
Like Forrest Gump's run across America
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Down by the river near my house theres a massive 100 foot wide stone spiral that looks kinda like the milky way. People think it was made by ancient Indians but its not it was made by an 80 year old dude named harold who walks his dogs and has been making it for the last 10 years why? Cause hes bored. Everyday he adds a few more rocks to it 😀
Or James Joyce's "Ulysses".
If you want to watch all his content you just about have to watch him all day.
Great video!
Genghis Khan is, for me, by far, the most interesting subject!
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