Whenever the deciphering of Hieroglyphs comes up I can't help but be curious about how much they changed over the literal millennia that they were in use and question how confident we can be about our understanding of the older writings. Reading English writing that's only a couple hundred years old is a rollercoaster ride, just imagine a language that existed for a couple thousand years. How drastically would it change during that amount of time?
A couple hundred years? In 920, Ordlaf, a regional official in Wiltshire, England, wrote to King Edward the Elder. This, the Fonthill Letter, is the earliest surviving letter in the English language. But it's believed that English goes back to the late 4th or early 5th century... Granted that's not as old as Egyptian hieroglyphics but has nearly 2000 years is a far stretch from "a couple hundred"
And you can actually look at English to answer the question of how much a language can change in 2000 years...ever read Shakespeare? And that's only 500 years ago or so...about 1500 years after English began
Valid point indeed people judging from current social so called norms and interpreting things inscribed thousands of years ago ...if one looks at old dictionaries and books which I collect and read again valid point indeed
@@imagesbychaostee1305 he didnt say english is only a couple of hundred years old. He said reading english from a couple of hundred years ago can be hard. And he is right. Everything you said is true but his point still stands.
One could think of the pyramids like the "cathedrals" of ancient egypt, and building them as a religious service. The workers-not-slaves theory also is supported by conserved lettters between father and son, one working as a construction engineer at the site. Social benefits besides the spiritual benefits might be a case, indeed, interesting theory.
I doubt ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, they probably fixed pyramids or put up temples by them. Some advanced civilization created the pyramids way before the Egyptians came along. I also believe Egyptians had slaves, why wouldn't they ?
Yea Dr. Aziz aswari theorrized that,based on the "tags" like gang symbols present in the pyramids. They were constructed and designed by a specialized, highly educated force....although im sure a significant slave forced moved them into place.
The arguement for returning items from the British museum will rage on however, it's fair to say that more people have seen these items than they would have in their respective homes. Egypt fluctuating between visitable and too dangerous to consider is but one of the problems, major tourist destination though it surely is.
@@MrFuzzyGreen it always makes me laugh, the main reason artifacts like that are preserved, is that we ( Europe ) secured them, look at the middle east, to this day ancient sites are being destroyed by the natives. Most of the tomes around the world, were destroyed by the respective natives, not foreigners. The foreigners for the most part treasured these artifacts.
Very interesting round up of archeological high points! For some reason your signature rapid delivery was a bit marred by (at least on my computer) widely variable sound volume. Sometimes you would be RIGHT there, and others seem to revert to a mumble - although you wouldn't look like you were changing emphasis or anything. Perhaps a better (or addition of) a lavalier mike?
IIRC my anthro courses i waaay back suggested that most workers were doing so seasonally for construction. It kept them fed and working after harvest. Since harvests were cached by the rulers, it does seem like a way to even out the food supply.
I admit, I’d kind of love to hear archeologists centuries from now trying to decipher language today. Some combination of emojis, shorthand acronyms and bad English. It’d be entertaining to hear their theories 😂
It's a certainty that at least some of the mistake that have been reevaluated by archeologists in an effort to correct their erroneous assumptions will in turn turn out to be _more_ erroneous assumptions. As technology and methods improve, the world of archeology must constantly be reevaluated because of this.
Just how many channels does Simon narrate for?!?! Wow! I’ve completely lost track at this point. It’s as if every time I see his face, it’s associated with a completely new/different channel from all previous ones!
About the translation of the Rosetta Stone and Champollion.... it'd be very interesting to watch/listen to a biographics about him and how he became the person to make the final breakthrough..... just saying.
Usually when I tell people that the Pyramids were built mostly by native Egyptians and not coerced slaves they look at me like a carrot is growing out of my forehead. I can now point them to this video. Thank you.
The channel " Voices from the past" reads old texts. There is a script (I think it was on tablets) that is a work log of an Egyptian who was supervising the transportation by boats of the stones used for building one of the Egyptian pyramids. That can be used to point the individuals supporting ancient alien theories in right direction.
I would hold off for a while. The first portion of the video was pointing out that scientist s had been wrong about so many things. Given the track record I would say that it's subject to change again.
An important note to consider the the “Girl Hunter” chapter, whilst it’s highly probably female hunters existed across ancient civilisations across the globe, the discovery of the hunter’s kit doesn’t necessarily mean the custodian was an active hunter during her lifetime. Grave goods were common practice across the ancient world where goods (weapons, tools ect.) were created for ceremonial purposes for safe passage through to the “afterlife”.
Yeah. Everybody "knows" that - because everybody teaches and repeats that. But truly, what do we really know about our interpretation of why ancient cultures did things? Or about ancient religions?? The true answer is "Nothing, Really." All we have is "educated guesses" by self proclaimed "experts". We don't really know what the actions we beheld actually meant to them, or what their thoughts and beliefs were. We can only guess at what motivated their actions. So we've taken to interpreting everything with a religious overtone. And that may be mostly right about some things, and totally wrong about others. We truly don't know.
Love your videos but, just two corrections. The Rosetta Stone is not black. It was stained when the French inked it to make the copies that allowed them to work on deciphering it after the English took it. And the Rosetta stone only has two languages on it: Greek and Egyptian. It has three scripts, two of which are Egyptian. This would be comparable to having English in print and in cursive: two scripts, one language. Thank you for all that you do!
14:23 it could be figured out easily as long as the text included asymmetrical symbols (of which there are many), like birds, feathers, humans, body parts... since the reading directio was the one in which those symbols had the "proper" orientation. Old Greek inscryptions are more frustrating in that regard for the uninitiated, since they could be read right-to-left, left-to-right or in boustrophedon (alternating lines of each direction), and they didn't have the decency people like the egyptians or the Rapa Nui natives had of flipping the letters to point it.
The translation of the Rosetta Stone was an inconvenience for Joseph Smith who pretended to have translated an ancient Egyptian text as the "Book of Abraham" by divination, only for it to be actually translated as the Egyptian "Book of the Dead".
In my opinion the British Museum should do a complete inventory of everything they have (and there's a huge undertaking) and figure out exactly where everything is from and who would have ownership. If the country is safe, ask if they want the items returned, or if the Museum can buy or lease them. I'm sure some countries would just sell the artifacts to the museum for the cash. If you have collections, make an offer. Return 80% for free but the museum keeps 20%, the country chooses what the museum gets. Now as much as it'll hurt some people to hear, some artifacts were gifts so they'd be off the table. And the museum should refuse to return artifacts to any country where there's too much a risk the items would be lost or destroyed due to war or unrest. (Like Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine etc.) or to countries that are corrupt (like South Sudan, Somalia, Equatorial Guinea etc.) The big issues lay with artifacts from cultures that no longer exist. Who's the rightful owners? Say artifacts from ancient Carthage. Who gets them? The Carthaginians were basically annihilated by the Romans ages ago. Would it be Italy? The modern day Tunisians? The Carthaginians were a Phoenician people, so Lebanon?
Honestly, considering the Egyptian Museum can't even properly care for the Mask of Tutankhamun, arguably the most famous Egyptian artifact in existence. I'm a bit split on the issue. If it was up to me, most important artifacts would be safely stored in some bunker or something and museums would only display recreations instead. To me preserving history is far more important than pimping out priceless artifacts for some easy tourist money.
@@ethelredhardrede1838 Committed Genocide…. So , why should these artifacts stay in London? Because UK was always a HUMANIST NATION ? Have you read the initial comment?
Dude, that last line you said before your normal, "like and subscribe" bit, (you obviously don't sound that robotic, but it's just a reference point... lol), was spot on. I think it's time for imperialists to return the treasures they've exploited from other continents.
You do know that Assyrian winged bulls have been very intentionally destroyed by jackhammers and heavy earthmoving equipment by religious fundamentalists intent on erasing anything that doesn’t agree with their religious viewpoint? Thankfully there are examples in the British Museum still in glorious condition.
A workers village from 2,000 years ago, will have nothing to do with the pyramid constructions of 4,500 years ago. Most likely these workers would have been used for the various temples and reconstruction works of later Pharaohs.
Weren't the great pyramids at Giza built at least 4,000 years ago? If the bones of the people found in this village near the pyramids date back only 2,000 years then I would think that the inhabitants were either just doing maintenance work on the pyramids or else they were working on something else. I can't bring myself to believe that these ancient Egyptian workers lived for another couple thousand years after doing all the heavy lifting it took to build the pyramids.
Get your facts straight. The Rosetta stone contains 3 scripts in just two languages, It was not written for Ptolemy, but Ptolemy V Epiphanes who is somebody completely different.
Well, a lot of folk consider the Hieroglyphs and the Demotic scripts as separate languages. And honestly, they're different enough I'm willing to let it stand. Yes, they are technically the same language but only "that guy" really cares and honestly, everyone hates "that guy"
@@Ashannon888 I see your point, but i don't agree in this case. If you attempt to make a video to entertain and to educate, wich i suspect te goal of the video (Except making money) , you should be correct on details like that.
Funny to automatically assume that the builders of the Pyramids lived there.. There is no way of knowing that this was the case. This could have been a settlement for workers doing restoration work to the Pyramids. We have seen that restoration work has been performed to the Sphinx
Personally I always thought the Elgin Marbles were a good exaple of the double standard that is made "preserving" archaeology with Lord Elgin cutting them from, and cracking them while removing them from there original place of rest, where they had been for over 2000 years. Of cause calling them The Elgin Marbles rather than The Parthenon Marbles helps, as most people don't get to know where they came from.
Finding teeth in parts of the body aside from the mouth while rare is far from unheard of.. sometimes they’re caused by a twin that was absorbed by the body)… sometimes teeth, bones and even hair have been found in tumors/cysts and other parts of the body where those things should not be
Strongly disagree about repatriation of artifacts to Egypt. Ancient history is the heritage of humanity. If a country can’t be trusted to ensure its safety, then it belongs somewhere where it can, like the Uk
That argument might hold true in some circumstances but given that we won't give back Greek artifacts it seems like an excuse rather than a genuine reason
Look what's happened to so much Babylonian, Sumerian and Assyrian stuff in Iraq and Syria recently. It is better off in the UK I agree, where it is both safe and also made freely available for anyone to look at (deliberately hiding away and not allowing even foreign academics to see a historical artifact is wrong too, though far better than destroying it or failing to protect it from destruction). And in these cases it's rightful owners no longer exist, so there is no one to rightly give it back to. Same with Egypt - the ancient Egyptian culture is wholly extinct, modern Egyptians are an entirely different culture. Different story perhaps if the actual culture an artifact came from still exists, and want it back, and will keep it safe. But beyond a certain level of ancientness, no one has any reasonable claim to anything, that's ethno-nationalist BS, it's the history of mankind.
"See, if you were more responsible at protecting your stuff, I wouldn't be stealing it right now....for its own safety, of course." - Thief holding a gun.
@@davidhughes4089 I guess the issue is it's true for some cases but not others and good lord I don't want to be the one to make the call. Can you imagine the outrage if they sent a bunch of priceless artifacts back to a country and being of unrest or corruption they were lost, destroyed or sold? (Though the Greek example you did is pretty valid)
@@Ashannon888 obviously you're right in a lot of cases - would you send back artifacts to Iraq or Afghanistan for example - but I think the British museum is going to have to deal with this at some point. I think both Egypt and Greece are safe enough though- I read that Egypt has a really exceptional new museum in Cairo to host these objects for example.
Absolutely Amazing. I have to say that I have a piece of ancient poop that looks like my dog had done the deed and assumed it was a Dino but now I wonder if it is human? Any poop scientist in the room? 🤔🧐
I'm no scientists; But surrounded by poopheads and a system that smells of it... Yet concerning a solid ancient poop via any species, I'm at a loss.. 😅😪
Interestingly enough, when looking at the Biblical account of slavery in Egypt, the Hebrews were reluctant to leave Egypt. They brought jewelry with them out of Egypt that had been given to them by their Egyptian friends, and they mourned the loss of flesh to eat. They were treated fairly well, according to the Biblical account. If they hadn't been, they wouldn't have been reluctant to leave. They even had their own town outside the capital. And yet, there was a Pharaonic decree that they could not leave, and Moses' adopted brother sent the whole Egyptian guard after them when they did leave, so perhaps it is the understanding of slavery that needs to be addressed here, and not slavery set aside as an understanding of events.
How did we survive while other hominid species went extinct? Easy explanation: we had a far higher propensity for violence-we were a warring species, whereas the Neanderthal and Denisovan were far less aggressive. The Denisovans were artistic and creative, making and wearing intricate stone jewelry as well as tools such as a high speed hand drill.
@@talisikid1618 um, DUH? But thats why theories are called theories lmao, and this particular theory happens to be highly likely. LOADS of prominent archeologists, biologists, and historians agree. *Of course* I dont have *proof* of the cause of their demise, we barely have any proof of *ANYTHING* regarding these ancient hominids, however one thing we *DO* have proof of is the ACTUAL JEWELRY left by Denisovans with evidence of high speed drilling taking place to make it. Look it up. 🥴😂🤦🏽♂️
@@talisikid1618 regarding proof of Homosapiens being a warring species, well, I mean have you noticed anything from the last 30,000 years of Homosapien existence on this planet? Because thats kind of been proven a billion times over.
Love your work. Thank you for your research. I hope you would do an in-depth look at the Giza pyramid builders, along with more recent and fringe theories included. For example, the recent carbon date given to the wood used in the Great pyramid has reopened the conversation about when it was built. And does the possible new date line up with things around it. Hope is something you get to one day. PS: years ago I got to see the Rosetta Stone before it was behind glass and before they started using copy. Snuck behind display to touch it and I got caught by the museum’s security
Take this with a grain of salt as I'm no anthropologist, but from what I've read two of the reasons sapiens out competed Neanderthal was A. Our ancestors used spear hunting, while the Neadrathal with their greater strength, took prey on up close, which meant that our ancestors could hunt larger prey like wooly mamoths, and do said hunting much safer from a distance. B. From what I've read Neadrathal were a much more insular people, the different tribes didn't really interact with each other which lead to more inbreeding.
Nice graphics presentation of interesting, topical archaeology. Heinrich Schliemann is one of the most well known names associated with archaeology (historically recognized as key discoverer of site of ancient Troy - though Iman Wilkins' theory for that site in Celtic, western Europe are intriguing and well reasoned - the subject of your video. It is worth a quick check of names, from cultures or languages you are not familiar with, for proper, respectful pronunciation. Schliemann's Germanic name follows the common pronunciation of those words and names, with reference to the vowels E and I appearing together. One simple way to learn and recall the pronunciation is Einstein's name. E followed by I, is pronounced like English "long I" or like "eye". The other order, I followed by E, as in Schleimann, is pronounced like the English "long E", as in sound in "knee." So, Schliemann is NOT pronounced, as you did, like "shly-man", any more than your name is pronounced "Pie-ear". I;m in US, with approx. half of the population having Spanish as a second, if not first language, and millionaire TV news hosts frequently fail to take the 2 minutes it might require to verify the pronunciation of Spanish place names or the names of people of note. It would be refreshing if those publishing on
I saw a new theory that they may have used a water canal system to float the giant blocks into position. Like locks for a ship canal. Interesting concept.
The first thing that my first art history professor told us was that we should not assume that ancient people weren’t as smart as we are today, just that they didn’t have the same discoveries and knowledge that we have today. Ancient people likely had the capability to understand things we know today, they just didn’t have the technology to discover things, i.e. the sun being the center of the universe or germ theory. Our ancestors were plenty smart and did some incredible things.
Couple years ago, the History channel did a documentary on the stones cut for the pyramids. They had 6 stonecutters using the ancient tools and methods. It took a full day to cut one of the smaller stones. It's estimated that there are over a million stones in the Great pyramid alone. That's 6 million man days just to cut the stones and doesn't include the transportation and dressing the stones.
man,humans, did not,,build the pyramids..they are hundreds of thousands of yrs old..built by our creators,,as power generators.. revalation of the pyramids,,vid.. the wailing wall, jewish,,is an ancient landing site..the acrpoplis,or similar,,is built on one too..the greeks invented sht..
@@harrywalker5836 👍 How dare you have an alternative suggestion. Lmao. I mean, it's been relatively recent that schools stopped teaching the ramps, ropes and rollers theory. The logistics of that alone would be impossible.
If much or most of what scientists knew was later proved false or incomplete, isn't it likely that most of what scientists know now is also mostly false or incomplete?
It’s a safe bet! I’ve been learning the history of mathematics here lately, and it’s amazing how limited we really seem to be. And how long it took us to get to this point! After a few hundred years of expert analysis, it turns out they were all just guessing.
If you volunteer/are drafted into working on a large construction project, you learn skills used elsewhere in your society, increasing your economic mobility. You'd also meet a lot of new people and make new friends and contacts.
I’m baffled by the assumption that, just because we find stuff around the pyramids, we assume those belonged to the builders of them and not people doing renovations or other constructions in the area. It makes me wonder if, 3000 years in the future, someone will find our fluorescent lighting in a tomb used to illuminate it for tourists and assume that we were the ones who made the tomb. “Well, as clear evidence by these Kit Kat wrappers, the constructors of the valley temple were fans of chocolate.” Archaeology is really goofy when you consider how many assumptions we make that are probably wrong. Sites get used over and over by many cultures.
Imagine building something like a pyramid and thinking the methods used were so simple and easy to understand that you didn't record anything about it?
Rozeta Stone: it was a crucial artefact to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs and ‘Demotic writing’. Although the mainstream archeology for political reasons doesn’t admit that the Demotic writing has been deciphered, it is becoming worldwide accepted that it had been written in Ancient Macedonian language - the language od Alexander the Great! It has been deciphered and proved true!
With the new information about the workers that built by the temples and burial monuments, is things about daily life. Of course they were in the best treasure trove of the archaeologists, the village trash pit. The marriage practice was after establishing a relationship with a woman, if the man thought the time was right he would bundle his goods up and go to the woman’s house. If he was accepted they were married. There was one story where the man was rejected by the woman and her family. Ancient relationship trauma. The Bleu Cheese deduction can be made if they can decide on the Penicillin species involved. The are multiple Penicillin species. In my Advanced Mycology class my professor knew I like cheese and the exercise was to grow and identify 2 Penicillin species we were given as unknowns. So he tested me with P. roquefortii and P. cambertii. I did succeed at it. He was a great professor.
crikey symon wistlah, youre like a bloody machine, mate! pumpin out those brilliant vids everyweah, on tha most brilliant topics! my freakin heads spinnin! ive got the knack for a nosh at tha pub for a pint of guinness and some fish and chips! blimey and bollocks to ya mate! cheerio!!!
How about no, it stays in the UK museum. The people of Egypt today are nothing like the ones who built the stone and it no more there's than it is anyone else's. We deciphered it, we keep it.
Has nobody ever considered that everyone in a group may have both hunted and gathered? Why is it crazy to think gathering was done mostly during a hunt? You increase your chances of success if several people within a group split into smaller hunting groups going different directions and you collect what you can while you search
We have know for some time that slaves didnt build the pyramids. All evidence points to that it was a high honor to work in the pyramids. So it was Egyptians that built it and were give tombs near the pyramid when they died.
Certainly women could be hunters, but they could of constructed hunting tools for their men. Those women who made quality tools may have been buried with samples of their work.
Whenever the deciphering of Hieroglyphs comes up I can't help but be curious about how much they changed over the literal millennia that they were in use and question how confident we can be about our understanding of the older writings.
Reading English writing that's only a couple hundred years old is a rollercoaster ride, just imagine a language that existed for a couple thousand years. How drastically would it change during that amount of time?
A couple hundred years?
In 920, Ordlaf, a regional official in Wiltshire, England, wrote to King Edward the Elder. This, the Fonthill Letter, is the earliest surviving letter in the English language.
But it's believed that English goes back to the late 4th or early 5th century...
Granted that's not as old as Egyptian hieroglyphics but has nearly 2000 years is a far stretch from "a couple hundred"
And you can actually look at English to answer the question of how much a language can change in 2000 years...ever read Shakespeare? And that's only 500 years ago or so...about 1500 years after English began
Valid point indeed people judging from current social so called norms and interpreting things inscribed thousands of years ago ...if one looks at old dictionaries and books which I collect and read again valid point indeed
@@imagesbychaostee1305 he didnt say english is only a couple of hundred years old. He said reading english from a couple of hundred years ago can be hard. And he is right.
Everything you said is true but his point still stands.
Ancient Chinese is not too much different from modern Chinese though...
Legend has it that there isn’t anything from Britain in the British museum
At least the artefacts that are there are being conserved and studied, instead of being destroyed by fundamentalists
Plenty of British artifacts in the British museum
@@jandrews6254 How very b
'Brotherhood of Steel' of you.
But most of the items are probably safer there.
@@jandrews6254 the problem is they study it then lie about what they find
2000 year old resin is what I'd call properly cured.
Imagine the torch you'd need to get that going 🤣
yep
FINALLY SOME GOOD WEED! I would not smoke anything that didn't cure for at *least* 1000 years. I am no uncultured swine after all.
@@sizanogreen9900 professionals have standards
I call the resin... "King Tut" $1000 per MG
One of my aunts studies bear scat. Specifically DNA in bear scat. Still beats working in customer service.
Did she discover whether they sh*t in the woods?
@@archstanton6102 most bathroom doors are too small and theu cant get in
@@archstanton6102 it's a bear, it sh1ts wherever the fook it wants.
Considering some of the manners of the customers, I would wish some of them had their DNA in bear scat!
@@vilstef6988 Ahh, the cycle completes.
One could think of the pyramids like the "cathedrals" of ancient egypt, and building them as a religious service. The workers-not-slaves theory also is supported by conserved lettters between father and son, one working as a construction engineer at the site.
Social benefits besides the spiritual benefits might be a case, indeed, interesting theory.
that doesn't mean that they didn't make the slaves do the heavy lifting...
I doubt ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, they probably fixed pyramids or put up temples by them. Some advanced civilization created the pyramids way before the Egyptians came along. I also believe Egyptians had slaves, why wouldn't they ?
Or the heavy pouring
Yea Dr. Aziz aswari theorrized that,based on the "tags" like gang symbols present in the pyramids. They were constructed and designed by a specialized, highly educated force....although im sure a significant slave forced moved them into place.
Cathode.
Seeing the Rosetta Stone is one of my favorite memories of visiting the British Museum!
Simon should get a Rosetta Stone it's been mentioned in so many of his videos it's almost a part of his lore
Is the stone still on display at the British museum?
The arguement for returning items from the British museum will rage on however, it's fair to say that more people have seen these items than they would have in their respective homes. Egypt fluctuating between visitable and too dangerous to consider is but one of the problems, major tourist destination though it surely is.
@AUTOMATIC_RECORDS_ thanks mate 👍
@@MrFuzzyGreen it always makes me laugh, the main reason artifacts like that are preserved, is that we ( Europe ) secured them, look at the middle east, to this day ancient sites are being destroyed by the natives. Most of the tomes around the world, were destroyed by the respective natives, not foreigners. The foreigners for the most part treasured these artifacts.
You should do a video on the Serapeum of Saqqara, and explain how the Egyptians achieved that.
Very interesting round up of archeological high points! For some reason your signature rapid delivery was a bit marred by (at least on my computer) widely variable sound volume. Sometimes you would be RIGHT there, and others seem to revert to a mumble - although you wouldn't look like you were changing emphasis or anything. Perhaps a better (or addition of) a lavalier mike?
IIRC my anthro courses i waaay back suggested that most workers were doing so seasonally for construction. It kept them fed and working after harvest. Since harvests were cached by the rulers, it does seem like a way to even out the food supply.
Never a dull moment!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
I admit, I’d kind of love to hear archeologists centuries from now trying to decipher language today. Some combination of emojis, shorthand acronyms and bad English. It’d be entertaining to hear their theories 😂
Love the way your mind works. That was hilarious. 😂
IKR?? Totes so troo bruv! LOL!!🤣
I keep reading about how 1 politician has "owned" another. Where did that cone from?
@@helenamcginty4920 just think how that will be interpreted in the future
@@jandrews6254 lmfao
It's crazy to think that whenever we change our idea of the ancient times there are still people out there who will brush it off.
Well it is likely to change again, it's important to remember
ahh, what do YOU know. :D
Yes, we should always never question the consensus of what science says. Reification much?
@@Mr05Chuck what?
It's a certainty that at least some of the mistake that have been reevaluated by archeologists in an effort to correct their erroneous assumptions will in turn turn out to be _more_ erroneous assumptions. As technology and methods improve, the world of archeology must constantly be reevaluated because of this.
Indeed, people 150 years from now will probably be chuckling about what we believe is true today.
whenever i think about the past, it always just brings back so many memories.
Yup, that's how it works.
best believe if I spent my entire life building a pyramid too I’d be hitting that solid gold bong after a hard day of moving rocks around
Just how many channels does Simon narrate for?!?! Wow! I’ve completely lost track at this point. It’s as if every time I see his face, it’s associated with a completely new/different channel from all previous ones!
I mean, good for him, I suppose ???
There are 11 other channels listed in the description, so I'm guessing around 12 channels.
About the translation of the Rosetta Stone and Champollion.... it'd be very interesting to watch/listen to a biographics about him and how he became the person to make the final breakthrough..... just saying.
Usually when I tell people that the Pyramids were built mostly by native Egyptians and not coerced slaves they look at me like a carrot is growing out of my forehead. I can now point them to this video. Thank you.
Yes, the pyramid workers were paid and were *not* slaves. That's not to say that they necessarily paid in $, however.
The channel " Voices from the past" reads old texts. There is a script (I think it was on tablets) that is a work log of an Egyptian who was supervising the transportation by boats of the stones used for building one of the Egyptian pyramids. That can be used to point the individuals supporting ancient alien theories in right direction.
You know there’s records of tomb-builders going on strike because their beer, bread and onion rations were delayed, right?
Seriously 😳
This is NOT a new discovery. This has been theorized for quite a while. I haven't heard the "they were all slaves" theory since I was a kid....
I would hold off for a while. The first portion of the video was pointing out that scientist s had been wrong about so many things. Given the track record I would say that it's subject to change again.
An important note to consider the the “Girl Hunter” chapter, whilst it’s highly probably female hunters existed across ancient civilisations across the globe, the discovery of the hunter’s kit doesn’t necessarily mean the custodian was an active hunter during her lifetime. Grave goods were common practice across the ancient world where goods (weapons, tools ect.) were created for ceremonial purposes for safe passage through to the “afterlife”.
That doesn't fit the Woke narrative so they're not going to say that.
Yeah. Everybody "knows" that - because everybody teaches and repeats that. But truly, what do we really know about our interpretation of why ancient cultures did things? Or about ancient religions??
The true answer is "Nothing, Really." All we have is "educated guesses" by self proclaimed "experts".
We don't really know what the actions we beheld actually meant to them, or what their thoughts and beliefs were.
We can only guess at what motivated their actions. So we've taken to interpreting everything with a religious overtone. And that may be mostly right about some things, and totally wrong about others. We truly don't know.
You're literally doing the same thing as they did originally. Dismissing the evidence that is presented.
Love your videos but, just two corrections. The Rosetta Stone is not black. It was stained when the French inked it to make the copies that allowed them to work on deciphering it after the English took it. And the Rosetta stone only has two languages on it: Greek and Egyptian. It has three scripts, two of which are Egyptian. This would be comparable to having English in print and in cursive: two scripts, one language. Thank you for all that you do!
14:23 it could be figured out easily as long as the text included asymmetrical symbols (of which there are many), like birds, feathers, humans, body parts... since the reading directio was the one in which those symbols had the "proper" orientation. Old Greek inscryptions are more frustrating in that regard for the uninitiated, since they could be read right-to-left, left-to-right or in boustrophedon (alternating lines of each direction), and they didn't have the decency people like the egyptians or the Rapa Nui natives had of flipping the letters to point it.
You had us at “boustrophedon”...
You have to love archeology. Such GIGANTIC amounts of conclusions based on such MINUTE amounts of evidence...
This shit never gets old... wait... what..?
The translation of the Rosetta Stone was an inconvenience for Joseph Smith who pretended to have translated an ancient Egyptian text as the "Book of Abraham" by divination, only for it to be actually translated as the Egyptian "Book of the Dead".
Same diff, Abraham was also dead. ;)
But interesting piece of knowledge.
In my opinion the British Museum should do a complete inventory of everything they have (and there's a huge undertaking) and figure out exactly where everything is from and who would have ownership. If the country is safe, ask if they want the items returned, or if the Museum can buy or lease them. I'm sure some countries would just sell the artifacts to the museum for the cash. If you have collections, make an offer. Return 80% for free but the museum keeps 20%, the country chooses what the museum gets.
Now as much as it'll hurt some people to hear, some artifacts were gifts so they'd be off the table. And the museum should refuse to return artifacts to any country where there's too much a risk the items would be lost or destroyed due to war or unrest. (Like Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine etc.) or to countries that are corrupt (like South Sudan, Somalia, Equatorial Guinea etc.)
The big issues lay with artifacts from cultures that no longer exist. Who's the rightful owners? Say artifacts from ancient Carthage. Who gets them? The Carthaginians were basically annihilated by the Romans ages ago. Would it be Italy? The modern day Tunisians? The Carthaginians were a Phoenician people, so Lebanon?
Answer : To the actual country it has been found… Hittite artifacts to Turkey, for example.
If the British Museum were to start returning items to the rightful owners, then what would remain is an empty building.
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So give them to invaders from the Russian steppes that committed genocide.
I don't think that is going to happen.
Honestly, considering the Egyptian Museum can't even properly care for the Mask of Tutankhamun, arguably the most famous Egyptian artifact in existence. I'm a bit split on the issue. If it was up to me, most important artifacts would be safely stored in some bunker or something and museums would only display recreations instead. To me preserving history is far more important than pimping out priceless artifacts for some easy tourist money.
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Committed Genocide….
So , why should these artifacts stay in London?
Because UK was always a HUMANIST NATION ?
Have you read the initial comment?
Dude, that last line you said before your normal, "like and subscribe" bit, (you obviously don't sound that robotic, but it's just a reference point... lol), was spot on. I think it's time for imperialists to return the treasures they've exploited from other continents.
You do know that Assyrian winged bulls have been very intentionally destroyed by jackhammers and heavy earthmoving equipment by religious fundamentalists intent on erasing anything that doesn’t agree with their religious viewpoint? Thankfully there are examples in the British Museum still in glorious condition.
A workers village from 2,000 years ago, will have nothing to do with the pyramid constructions of 4,500 years ago. Most likely these workers would have been used for the various temples and reconstruction works of later Pharaohs.
Far more than 2000 years ago. Nice try though. The pyramids were built by professional workers.
I do not know if it belongs to Egypt, but seeing how there is old Greek writing on it, you can deliver it to the Greek museum. Thank you.
No that's not how that works.
That's the problem it's so old and written in different languages nobody will ever know who it belongs too.
Weren't the great pyramids at Giza built at least 4,000 years ago? If the bones of the people found in this village near the pyramids date back only 2,000 years then I would think that the inhabitants were either just doing maintenance work on the pyramids or else they were working on something else. I can't bring myself to believe that these ancient Egyptian workers lived for another couple thousand years after doing all the heavy lifting it took to build the pyramids.
I love the look on his face when talking about an 8 inch long 2 inch diameter "poo", when he said... "Don't worry, they glued it back together"!!! 👍
This is riveting. It should have been on "Trending".
Get your facts straight. The Rosetta stone contains 3 scripts in just two languages, It was not written for Ptolemy, but Ptolemy V Epiphanes who is somebody completely different.
His writers are messing up a bit this week. I've seen comments like yours on The Science of Science Fiction from today and Today I found Out.
Well, a lot of folk consider the Hieroglyphs and the Demotic scripts as separate languages. And honestly, they're different enough I'm willing to let it stand. Yes, they are technically the same language but only "that guy" really cares and honestly, everyone hates "that guy"
@@Ashannon888 I see your point, but i don't agree in this case. If you attempt to make a video to entertain and to educate, wich i suspect te goal of the video (Except making money) , you should be correct on details like that.
Did anyone else think, “M&Ms, they melt in your mouth and not in your hands”?
Fossilized turds, they melt in your diabetes medicine and not in your ground!
Funny to automatically assume that the builders of the Pyramids lived there.. There is no way of knowing that this was the case. This could have been a settlement for workers doing restoration work to the Pyramids.
We have seen that restoration work has been performed to the Sphinx
They was illegal immagreints! Ha!
The story of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone never fails to make me feel really stupid...
The image of just the brown M&Ms was a nice touch lol
Personally I always thought the Elgin Marbles were a good exaple of the double standard that is made "preserving" archaeology with Lord Elgin cutting them from, and cracking them while removing them from there original place of rest, where they had been for over 2000 years.
Of cause calling them The Elgin Marbles rather than The Parthenon Marbles helps, as most people don't get to know where they came from.
Finding teeth in parts of the body aside from the mouth while rare is far from unheard of.. sometimes they’re caused by a twin that was absorbed by the body)… sometimes teeth, bones and even hair have been found in tumors/cysts and other parts of the body where those things should not be
Strongly disagree about repatriation of artifacts to Egypt. Ancient history is the heritage of humanity. If a country can’t be trusted to ensure its safety, then it belongs somewhere where it can, like the Uk
That argument might hold true in some circumstances but given that we won't give back Greek artifacts it seems like an excuse rather than a genuine reason
Look what's happened to so much Babylonian, Sumerian and Assyrian stuff in Iraq and Syria recently. It is better off in the UK I agree, where it is both safe and also made freely available for anyone to look at (deliberately hiding away and not allowing even foreign academics to see a historical artifact is wrong too, though far better than destroying it or failing to protect it from destruction). And in these cases it's rightful owners no longer exist, so there is no one to rightly give it back to. Same with Egypt - the ancient Egyptian culture is wholly extinct, modern Egyptians are an entirely different culture.
Different story perhaps if the actual culture an artifact came from still exists, and want it back, and will keep it safe. But beyond a certain level of ancientness, no one has any reasonable claim to anything, that's ethno-nationalist BS, it's the history of mankind.
"See, if you were more responsible at protecting your stuff, I wouldn't be stealing it right now....for its own safety, of course." - Thief holding a gun.
@@davidhughes4089 I guess the issue is it's true for some cases but not others and good lord I don't want to be the one to make the call. Can you imagine the outrage if they sent a bunch of priceless artifacts back to a country and being of unrest or corruption they were lost, destroyed or sold? (Though the Greek example you did is pretty valid)
@@Ashannon888 obviously you're right in a lot of cases - would you send back artifacts to Iraq or Afghanistan for example - but I think the British museum is going to have to deal with this at some point. I think both Egypt and Greece are safe enough though- I read that Egypt has a really exceptional new museum in Cairo to host these objects for example.
The bong wow! Great video! I’ll swap subscriptions with you sir!
Absolutely Amazing. I have to say that I have a piece of ancient poop that looks like my dog had done the deed and assumed it was a Dino but now I wonder if it is human? Any poop scientist in the room? 🤔🧐
I'm no scientists; But surrounded by poopheads and a system that smells of it...
Yet concerning a solid ancient poop via any species, I'm at a loss..
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Girl in bar to guy-“ so, what do you do?” Guy-“ I’m a paleoscatologist” I just want to hear how he explains that.
Interestingly enough, when looking at the Biblical account of slavery in Egypt, the Hebrews were reluctant to leave Egypt. They brought jewelry with them out of Egypt that had been given to them by their Egyptian friends, and they mourned the loss of flesh to eat. They were treated fairly well, according to the Biblical account. If they hadn't been, they wouldn't have been reluctant to leave. They even had their own town outside the capital. And yet, there was a Pharaonic decree that they could not leave, and Moses' adopted brother sent the whole Egyptian guard after them when they did leave, so perhaps it is the understanding of slavery that needs to be addressed here, and not slavery set aside as an understanding of events.
Encasing the poop "like an m&m." I found that way too funny lol
SIMON THE POO KING! In hundreds of years, history will remember you!
Someone woke up with the right foot, Simon is in such a good mood in this video, fun to watch
I So agree it’s been over 200 years, time for Egypt to be able to have the Rosetta Stone back!
How did we survive while other hominid species went extinct? Easy explanation: we had a far higher propensity for violence-we were a warring species, whereas the Neanderthal and Denisovan were far less aggressive. The Denisovans were artistic and creative, making and wearing intricate stone jewelry as well as tools such as a high speed hand drill.
You have no proof of any of that.
@@talisikid1618 um, DUH? But thats why theories are called theories lmao, and this particular theory happens to be highly likely. LOADS of prominent archeologists, biologists, and historians agree. *Of course* I dont have *proof* of the cause of their demise, we barely have any proof of *ANYTHING* regarding these ancient hominids, however one thing we *DO* have proof of is the ACTUAL JEWELRY left by Denisovans with evidence of high speed drilling taking place to make it. Look it up. 🥴😂🤦🏽♂️
@@talisikid1618 regarding proof of Homosapiens being a warring species, well, I mean have you noticed anything from the last 30,000 years of Homosapien existence on this planet? Because thats kind of been proven a billion times over.
The Viking also had the kind of worms that occasionally wriggle out the corner of their eyes. Yep
Love your work. Thank you for your research. I hope you would do an in-depth look at the Giza pyramid builders, along with more recent and fringe theories included. For example, the recent carbon date given to the wood used in the Great pyramid has reopened the conversation about when it was built. And does the possible new date line up with things around it. Hope is something you get to one day.
PS: years ago I got to see the Rosetta Stone before it was behind glass and before they started using copy. Snuck behind display to touch it and I got caught by the museum’s security
Referring to the Pyramid builders is the same as saying miners actually do what they do for the primary purpose of making tailing piles.
That background music is dreadful.
"...a new method that allows for the reliable identification of the origin of poo." A sentence I never thought I would hear in my entire life.
Take this with a grain of salt as I'm no anthropologist, but from what I've read two of the reasons sapiens out competed Neanderthal was A. Our ancestors used spear hunting, while the Neadrathal with their greater strength, took prey on up close, which meant that our ancestors could hunt larger prey like wooly mamoths, and do said hunting much safer from a distance. B. From what I've read Neadrathal were a much more insular people, the different tribes didn't really interact with each other which lead to more inbreeding.
I wish archology could figure out "we" showed up...millions of years ago.
One of the best written funny scripts that I have heard in a while.
Thanks for the eye watering laughs !
Nice graphics presentation of interesting, topical archaeology.
Heinrich Schliemann is one of the most well known names associated with archaeology (historically recognized as key discoverer of site of ancient Troy - though Iman Wilkins' theory for that site in Celtic, western Europe are intriguing and well reasoned - the subject of your video. It is worth a quick check of names, from cultures or languages you are not familiar with, for proper, respectful pronunciation. Schliemann's Germanic name follows the common pronunciation of those words and names, with reference to the vowels E and I appearing together.
One simple way to learn and recall the pronunciation is Einstein's name. E followed by I, is pronounced like English "long I" or like "eye". The other order, I followed by E, as in Schleimann, is pronounced like the English "long E", as in sound in "knee." So, Schliemann is NOT pronounced, as you did, like "shly-man", any more than your name is pronounced "Pie-ear".
I;m in US, with approx. half of the population having Spanish as a second, if not first language, and millionaire TV news hosts frequently fail to take the 2 minutes it might require to verify the pronunciation of Spanish place names or the names of people of note. It would be refreshing if those publishing on
So "shleemunn", for short. ;)
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Your Paeloscatology monologue would kill as standup comedy.
I saw a new theory that they may have used a water canal system to float the giant blocks into position. Like locks for a ship canal. Interesting concept.
The first thing that my first art history professor told us was that we should not assume that ancient people weren’t as smart as we are today, just that they didn’t have the same discoveries and knowledge that we have today. Ancient people likely had the capability to understand things we know today, they just didn’t have the technology to discover things, i.e. the sun being the center of the universe or germ theory. Our ancestors were plenty smart and did some incredible things.
Couple years ago, the History channel did a documentary on the stones cut for the pyramids. They had 6 stonecutters using the ancient tools and methods. It took a full day to cut one of the smaller stones. It's estimated that there are over a million stones in the Great pyramid alone. That's 6 million man days just to cut the stones and doesn't include the transportation and dressing the stones.
man,humans, did not,,build the pyramids..they are hundreds of thousands of yrs old..built by our creators,,as power generators.. revalation of the pyramids,,vid.. the wailing wall, jewish,,is an ancient landing site..the acrpoplis,or similar,,is built on one too..the greeks invented sht..
@@harrywalker5836 👍 How dare you have an alternative suggestion. Lmao. I mean, it's been relatively recent that schools stopped teaching the ramps, ropes and rollers theory. The logistics of that alone would be impossible.
History Channel oof
If much or most of what scientists knew was later proved false or incomplete, isn't it likely that most of what scientists know now is also mostly false or incomplete?
It’s a safe bet! I’ve been learning the history of mathematics here lately, and it’s amazing how limited we really seem to be. And how long it took us to get to this point! After a few hundred years of expert analysis, it turns out they were all just guessing.
I agree. We have the technology to create replicas for both England and France. The original should be returned to Egypt.
Now what about the rest of the gravesites and not just a handful of them?
Thanks for sharing 👍😀
I would have scraped that bowl the second I found it!
Enjoyed some 5,000-year-old kush.. and sold the rest!
A British museum not returning a priceless piece of a country’s past, absurd!
Nice work! Thanks for The interesting vídeo! 🇧🇷
If you volunteer/are drafted into working on a large construction project, you learn skills used elsewhere in your society, increasing your economic mobility. You'd also meet a lot of new people and make new friends and contacts.
I found you this morning at 5.30 am East coast Australia 👍🦘 mate keep them coming 👍🥳
A software program that deciphers the origin of ancient poo lends credence to the saying, "garbage (poo?) in, garbage out." Great stuff, Simon.
I’m baffled by the assumption that, just because we find stuff around the pyramids, we assume those belonged to the builders of them and not people doing renovations or other constructions in the area.
It makes me wonder if, 3000 years in the future, someone will find our fluorescent lighting in a tomb used to illuminate it for tourists and assume that we were the ones who made the tomb.
“Well, as clear evidence by these Kit Kat wrappers, the constructors of the valley temple were fans of chocolate.”
Archaeology is really goofy when you consider how many assumptions we make that are probably wrong. Sites get used over and over by many cultures.
Negative Ghost Rider, we still don't know who or how the pyramids we're built. Really enjoy your content. PEACE
Simon has the very subtle look of a........... scat-man!!!!
Brilliant as always!!!! //Lars
Imagine building something like a pyramid and thinking the methods used were so simple and easy to understand that you didn't record anything about it?
Rozeta Stone: it was a crucial artefact to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs and ‘Demotic writing’. Although the mainstream archeology for political reasons doesn’t admit that the Demotic writing has been deciphered, it is becoming worldwide accepted that it had been written in Ancient Macedonian language - the language od Alexander the Great! It has been deciphered and proved true!
With the new information about the workers that built by the temples and burial monuments, is things about daily life. Of course they were in the best treasure trove of the archaeologists, the village trash pit.
The marriage practice was after establishing a relationship with a woman, if the man thought the time was right he would bundle his goods up and go to the woman’s house. If he was accepted they were married. There was one story where the man was rejected by the woman and her family. Ancient relationship trauma.
The Bleu Cheese deduction can be made if they can decide on the Penicillin species involved. The are multiple Penicillin species. In my Advanced Mycology class my professor knew I like cheese and the exercise was to grow and identify 2 Penicillin species we were given as unknowns. So he tested me with P. roquefortii and P. cambertii. I did succeed at it. He was a great professor.
The British Museum needs to return these to the Countries they where taken from.
Comparing poo to M&Ms makes me never want to eat a M&M again.
Such a deep dive into ancient poop. Simon never fails to deliver the greatest content.
crikey symon wistlah, youre like a bloody machine, mate! pumpin out those brilliant vids everyweah, on tha most brilliant topics! my freakin heads spinnin! ive got the knack for a nosh at tha pub for a pint of guinness and some fish and chips! blimey and bollocks to ya mate! cheerio!!!
Those chapter Three beats were tight!
Vikings: *wages war on York*
This one Viking: *dumps the biggest log in history*
that's how you mark your territory yo
The autogenerated subtitles turned the amusing "copro ID" into the alarming "copro IED".
Fall is finally here and the temperatures dropped overnight by 30 degree Fahrenheit. Think I’ll rock my conifer pants today
Drinking coffin juice? *throws up immediately *
How about no, it stays in the UK museum. The people of Egypt today are nothing like the ones who built the stone and it no more there's than it is anyone else's. We deciphered it, we keep it.
I've seen a "fresh" footlong turd that was at least 3" in diameter. The stuff of nightmares.
Has nobody ever considered that everyone in a group may have both hunted and gathered? Why is it crazy to think gathering was done mostly during a hunt? You increase your chances of success if several people within a group split into smaller hunting groups going different directions and you collect what you can while you search
How did you resist from saying "The Origin of Feces"? LOL
And in 10 years I bet 1/2 of these "discoveries" will be considered wrong.
I wanna try that ancient bong ! After you sir ...
I heard a theory that it was those with adhd that would hunt and those that could stay focused on a single thing assumed the collecting role
Like ancient Latin. Julius Caesar began putting a dot over the first letter of each word but that was a long way from spaces between words.
The greatest archaeologist of all time....Katrina Hartlova
I spit out my coffee at “paleo scatologist… it’s a thing” 💀
We have know for some time that slaves didnt build the pyramids. All evidence points to that it was a high honor to work in the pyramids. So it was Egyptians that built it and were give tombs near the pyramid when they died.
Certainly women could be hunters, but they could of constructed hunting tools for their men. Those women who made quality tools may have been buried with samples of their work.