A nicely made piece of work. Well done. Did you know that the original name of that nefarious Middle Eastern mob was Hashishin (I think I spelled it right), which translated roughly to "eaters of hashish". The story goes that they were fed large quantities of hashish, and along with some kind of mind control "therapy" (brain washing?) it would turn them into half crazed maniacs who were so hell bent on completing their mission that only death would stop them. It's from their name we get the word "assassin".
Yes! Where we got the word assassin from apparently, after these hash addicted professional killers that weren't allowed to spill blood so instead they used to strangle people with silk scarves.
That’s some fire hashish! I feel like THE promise Of eternal paradise And 72 virgins would have been more motivation without numbing their system. Hard To assassin when sleepy And with munchies. Different time i guess
First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it. damn, damn you, you beat me too, it.
And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once at the number three, being the third number be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
💀..My dear Narrator, but, how could such a formidable chain be effectively erected..??..AND, Yours is, Truly, Thee most Intriguing, Fascinating, and Consistently Captivating UA-cam channel I am aware of..Thanks Brother..more power to ya..!!
Around 1316, Pope John XXII had sent a group of Dominicans, who were heavily armed, down to Ethiopia to find a Patriarch who was a valid claimant to the Papal succession. This Patriarch was Prester John. I believe that the word was put out that he was a mythical figure, so that he could not be elected to the Papacy.
Surely Greek Fire must be based on phosphorous although potentially based on some kind of crude oil discovered close to the surface in the Middle East. The fact it floated on water and could be pumped under pressure as a jet suggests as such?
In India before the British occupation wootz steel blades were the prized highly ornanented properties of the Rajas or Maharajahs of India and their princes and generals. These unique blades had their individual patterns and were so famous that if a Raja or Maharaja saw one they immediately knew who it belonged to and often they could determine on the battle field who they were fighting. At that time India which was a huge region in South West Asia had hundreds of kingdoms of various sizes not unlike the British archipelago before the Roman occupation. These swords were considered to have an inestimable value and when the Rajas went into battle they were firmly bound to the warriors hand with cords of silk so that they could never be lost even in death. One story tells that when the family of a fallen Raja tried to get the sword out of his hands his grip was so firm on.the sword that they had to break his fingers to remove rhe sword. There is another tale about these swords which highlights their significance. It is legendary that the sword was absolutely considered as a matter of honour by the Royalty and Military hierarchy that if one of these swords was recovered on the battlefield when its owner was killed tthe sword would be returned by the Raja or Maharaja with a secure guard to the family of its original owner. It was considered a shame not to do so, even if the deceased owner was an arch enemy. On record there have been a few instances where an ill informed individual thought that they would be able to loot the sword from the battle field and sell it to the arch enemy of the fallen Raja. These spry individuals were immediately executed and the sword was returned to the fallen Rajas family. In India various tribes are famous for the ancient craft they are known for. A few years ago I heard that there is still one family left who still produce the wootz steel by an ancient secret recipe passed dawn through generations from father to son. The same situation is found with the production of attar, the perfume worn by both women and men on their clothes and in their hair. Some fragrances are so expensive that their price is more than pure gold. The wootz steel sword is an extraordinary artifact indeed.
Guns require high grade metal to control and direct the gas created. It was the pressure chamber that was the main innovation of guns, not the existence of oxidizing rapidly combusting compounds.
'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
It's funny how they keep talking about how they have no clue what Greek fire was. It's simple they found crude oil and figured out how to refine it down. Hence it will stick to anything amd also light water on fire
Yeah they were definitely making napalm they just mean that there's different ways to make it and they don't know for sure which way they were doing it
From The Book of Armaments 2:9-21 Brother: "And the Lord spake, saying, First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuf it." Maynard: Amen. All: Amen. Arthur: Right! One. . . two. . . five!
I hear tell that many of the achievements attributed to Prester John were actually the work of a decidedly non-Christian monarch: Temujin -- AKA Genghis Khan.
Nope. We 100% can recreate Wootz steel today, right down to the molecular level. One can take ore from the same Waddi mine that Saladin used & create wootz steel. However due to the natural inclusions of vanadium, chromium etc it actually requires many cycles of heating, gentle hammering & slow cooling to avoid cracking the cake. Considering our modern steel is so much better & cheaper though, there really is not much reason to make it. That is unless one just really wants to have an authentic wootz sword for whatever reason. They are pretty but modern 5160 will out perform it.
It was probably more similar in behavior to napalm. It more than likely involved naphtha and other stuff. I can’t imagine how you would pressurize white phosphorus or anything like it.
And there is no secret about how it was made. Over 40 years ago researchers found ancient Wootz steel manufacturing sites, the crucibles, ore, and ingredients used, including rice hulls, and examined and analyzed original wootz ingots. It was determined exactly how the steel was manufactured and it is being made today by Roselli Knife. I don’t know why they persist in the myth that Wootz steel is a mystery.
About the only secret to wootz steel is how to attain the properties given whatever local resources were available. Knowing the ore, the right fuels, the kilns being used and what you have access to in the environment to augment or improve or balance the steel. Then the forging and shaping etc. This takes time in one location to master the craft. No youtube video guides in those days.
@6:41... Carbon nano-tubes huh? I saw where they needed carbon nano-tubes for gas storage & they were making them from burnt chicken feathers... For the aspiring blacksmiths out there. ;)
The mongol rulers gave the conquered nations people who survived a choice to serve the khan or die prestor John was probably a defeated Christian general or warrior as the mongols didn’t not stop these people from worshipping their gods
Whats with all the mysterious medieval steel...Demascus, vort or whatever he said in this vid and i cant remember name of those viking swords are called but same thing as far as mysterious steelbthat cant be replicated in modernity
In Israel 🇮🇱 the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah you can go there and pick up balls of sulfur and light them very easily, possibly one of the ingredients that made up the Greek fire 🔥 of the crusader battles . The yellow balls of sulfur lye on the ground looking similar to fruit of some kind .
Ooh, baby I feel right, the music sounds better with you Love might bring us back together I feel so good I feel right, the music sounds better with you Love might bring us back together
"And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
A nicely made piece of work. Well done. Did you know that the original name of that nefarious Middle Eastern mob was Hashishin (I think I spelled it right), which translated roughly to "eaters of hashish". The story goes that they were fed large quantities of hashish, and along with some kind of mind control "therapy" (brain washing?) it would turn them into half crazed maniacs who were so hell bent on completing their mission that only death would stop them. It's from their name we get the word "assassin".
I love when someone writes a comment with Facts about the contents of the video. ❤️
Yes! Where we got the word assassin from apparently, after these hash addicted professional killers that weren't allowed to spill blood so instead they used to strangle people with silk scarves.
That’s some fire hashish! I feel like THE promise Of eternal paradise And 72 virgins would have been more motivation without numbing their system. Hard To assassin when sleepy And with munchies. Different time i guess
Holy hand grenade?
Basically...
That was my thought as well. I hope no one every counted to 5 before throwing it.
@@Dark5AncientMysteries Do the pre dynastic granite vases!
this comment gave me worms. lol. best comment of the day.
@@CameronHuff Three, Sir!
These hand grenades, were any found in Antioch, by chance? And would one have to count to 3 or 5 before throwing them?
First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
damn, damn you, you beat me too, it.
I'm guessing they had a fuse like fireworks.
The Monty Python references are going to be Legion ! 🤣🤣🤣
@@alexsmart5452what I came for.
@@alexsmart5452you need a fucking award remembering that quote so well!! Love it .........NEE
Very cool about the assassins, and what was the inspiration for the good AC games. The first 4.
Another great update. thanks for sharing.
Excellent content again!
Yes yes, the holy hand grenade of Antioch, the one brother manyard carries with him!!
"What does God need with Human weapons?" - Mirror universe Captain Kirk
Always great videos! Thank you for all of your efforts. 🎉
And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once at the number three, being the third number be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
You are the man. Thank you! Loving the ancient / alternate history styles
Great job on this video.
Like the new graphics to each story
💀..My dear Narrator, but, how could such a formidable chain be effectively erected..??..AND, Yours is, Truly, Thee most Intriguing, Fascinating, and Consistently Captivating UA-cam channel I am aware of..Thanks Brother..more power to ya..!!
Same as Tyrion did in Game of thrones book, not show.
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Can you imagine trying to have a normal sword fight and the other guy has an ulfbert steel sword? It would be like encountering a lightsaber.
Around 1316, Pope John XXII had sent a group of Dominicans, who were heavily armed, down to Ethiopia to find a Patriarch who was a valid claimant to the Papal succession. This Patriarch was Prester John. I believe that the word was put out that he was a mythical figure, so that he could not be elected to the Papacy.
Thanks for sharing. This is a great channel. Always interesting.
Have you done a vid on Sumarian 'handbags'?
Mythbusters had ab episode explaining greek fire. They researched it and figured out the recipe. The found it through old books I believe.
Antique napalm !!! probably had some form of animal fat or oil init to make it stick and continue to burn 🧐
No
awesome channel from the dark5 team !
Love it, more Templer history.
Thanks, Dark5 Ancient Mysteries.
First time watching one of your episodes, and I scrambled to hit subscribe at the end before it went off screen! Lol 😂
02:58 "Brother John, Bring out the Holy Hand grenade of Jerusalem!!"
Pie Jesu domine, dona eis requiem!
Pie Jesu domine, dona eis requirm!
Um …. How does it … work?
@@markvoelker6620 gratias tibi!
@@hypercomms2001 tu es grata!
That last bit had me totally reminicing Assassin's creed and now I want to replay the first game 😂
Crazy stuff man.
Surely Greek Fire must be based on phosphorous although potentially based on some kind of crude oil discovered close to the surface in the Middle East. The fact it floated on water and could be pumped under pressure as a jet suggests as such?
I love this channel
Old news,, I remember monty python killing a vicious rabbit with a said holy hand Grenade,,
Really good video thankyou
11:21 One of the early recorded use of hashish I believe.
Ah, the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!
Love this episode, but the oldest, deadliest weapon was left out... getting "cropdusted" by the Silent But Deadly.
Silent but violent. Yours doesn't rhyme
@@footrot17 It doesn't rhyme because although it is the season, I have no reason.
this was OK once i muted it and turned on CC
Assassin’s creed 1 vibes
The grenade jars could have been a weapon against kavalarie... starteling and confusing a charging mass of horses could have been quite usefull
I follow all of your channels
It's clear where GRRM got his inspiration for many of the things in ASOIAF
In India before the British occupation wootz steel blades were the prized highly ornanented properties of the Rajas or Maharajahs of India and their princes and generals. These unique blades had their individual patterns and were so famous that if a Raja or Maharaja saw one they immediately knew who it belonged to and often they could determine on the battle field who they were fighting. At that time India which was a huge region in South West Asia had hundreds of kingdoms of various sizes not unlike the British archipelago before the Roman occupation.
These swords were considered to have an inestimable value and when the Rajas went into battle they were firmly bound to the warriors hand with cords of silk so that they could never be lost even in death. One story tells that when the family of a fallen Raja tried to get the sword out of his hands his grip was so firm on.the sword that they had to break his fingers to remove rhe sword.
There is another tale about these swords which highlights their significance. It is legendary that the sword was absolutely considered as a matter of honour by the Royalty and Military hierarchy that if one of these swords was recovered on the battlefield when its owner was killed tthe sword would be returned by the Raja or Maharaja with a secure guard to the family of its original owner. It was considered a shame not to do so, even if the deceased owner was an arch enemy.
On record there have been a few instances where an ill informed individual thought that they would be able to loot the sword from the battle field and sell it to the arch enemy of the fallen Raja. These spry individuals were immediately executed and the sword was returned to the fallen Rajas family.
In India various tribes are famous for the ancient craft they are known for. A few years ago I heard that there is still one family left who still produce the wootz steel by an ancient secret recipe passed dawn through generations from father to son. The same situation is found with the production of attar, the perfume worn by both women and men on their clothes and in their hair. Some fragrances are so expensive that their price is more than pure gold.
The wootz steel sword is an extraordinary artifact indeed.
Maybe those grenades were more of a fire bomb and less of an explosive grenade? If they had explosives they probably would have had guns.
Guns require high grade metal to control and direct the gas created. It was the pressure chamber that was the main innovation of guns, not the existence of oxidizing rapidly combusting compounds.
'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
Brilliant
"ok guy we are ready for the first testing of the melting down of this magnesium."
Could "I fart in your general direction" be included here-- as an example of an effective ancient weapon? 'Cause it was. Oh, yes, it was.
Or using the knights who say....nee 😆
All's fair in war....but damn that's savage
And what a noble fart it was sir!
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
@@ericmorang3903 🤣
There was a wagon at the bottom of the tower full of hay no biggie
Preston John is gengus khan , Dan Carlin from Dan carlins hard core history explains it in one of his podcasts about the mongols.
We’ve all seen the meme’s there’s no hiding that thumbnail. That thing has been places.
Nice
The history of the humans can best be described as a list of battles
That's why we all need to be grateful to Israel for using their influence to create world peace.
@@Wooargh😂
Or not.
It's funny how they keep talking about how they have no clue what Greek fire was. It's simple they found crude oil and figured out how to refine it down. Hence it will stick to anything amd also light water on fire
I hear tell the infamous "Greek fire" was actually a kind of napalm.
Wasn't hard to find around that part of the world either.
Yeah they were definitely making napalm they just mean that there's different ways to make it and they don't know for sure which way they were doing it
how many videos a week does this guy upload?
He's got a bunch of channels
That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
We have the Holy Hand Grenade.
From The Book of Armaments 2:9-21
Brother: "And the Lord spake, saying, First shalt
thou take out the Holy Pin.
Then, shalt thou count to three, no more,
no less.
Three shalt be the number thou shalt
count, and the number of the counting
shalt be three.
Four shalt thou not count,
nor either count thou two, excepting that
thou then proceed to three.
Five is right out.
Once the number three,
being the third number, be reached, then
lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of
Antioch towards thy foe, who being
naughty in my sight, shall snuf it."
Maynard: Amen.
All: Amen.
Arthur: Right! One. . . two. . . five!
The kingdom of Ucker was crazy
"Lets not bicker about who killed who.."
Drunk.. Australia.. thakyou ❤
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This entire video sound familiar, like I had just heard it somewhere else?!
I just imagine a dude taking a speed boat right past the chain 😂
Why not use bolt cutters, would take 15 seconds
Those grenade types are really old. Greeks used them against the Persians. Its literally just a weaponized oil lamp.
Please, please, tell me thats the HolyHand Grenade of Antioch!!!
I hear tell that many of the achievements attributed to Prester John were actually the work of a decidedly non-Christian monarch: Temujin -- AKA Genghis Khan.
Tower of flies looks like an “Obliet “. Probably spelled wrong.
“The place of forgetting ..”
Nope. We 100% can recreate Wootz steel today, right down to the molecular level. One can take ore from the same Waddi mine that Saladin used & create wootz steel. However due to the natural inclusions of vanadium, chromium etc it actually requires many cycles of heating, gentle hammering & slow cooling to avoid cracking the cake. Considering our modern steel is so much better & cheaper though, there really is not much reason to make it. That is unless one just really wants to have an authentic wootz sword for whatever reason. They are pretty but modern 5160 will out perform it.
The title says "Unexplained Ancient Weapons" but these are clearly well explained and understood. Clickbait much?
Well you clicked so it worked. Lol
wow....Holy Hand Grenades
looks like a very pure form of damascuc?
It just occurred to me that 'Greek Fire' sounds eerily like napalm
This Greek fire stuff sounds ominously like white phosphorus.
It was probably more similar in behavior to napalm. It more than likely involved naphtha and other stuff. I can’t imagine how you would pressurize white phosphorus or anything like it.
Or good ol crude oil
Holy hand grenade of Antioch?
Interesting vocals choice. You shouldn't come in with that voice, saying, tower of flies, followed by a hesitation.
"A Shrubbery?!"
Greek fire may have been a simple burning gel made from egg shells still used today by preppers & survivalists
I'm not really convinced that the wootz steel was better than any steel made today.
It’s not is inferior to modern steel’s. Not even the folded steel created by Japanese sword makers is as good as modern steel.
Wootz simply a crucible steel . Nothing mysterious here .
And there is no secret about how it was made. Over 40 years ago researchers found ancient Wootz steel manufacturing sites, the crucibles, ore, and ingredients used, including rice hulls, and examined and analyzed original wootz ingots. It was determined exactly how the steel was manufactured and it is being made today by Roselli Knife. I don’t know why they persist in the myth that Wootz steel is a mystery.
About the only secret to wootz steel is how to attain the properties given whatever local resources were available. Knowing the ore, the right fuels, the kilns being used and what you have access to in the environment to augment or improve or balance the steel. Then the forging and shaping etc. This takes time in one location to master the craft. No youtube video guides in those days.
Look at Japanese sword steel
The real-life assassin's creed
Prester John.... the Babba Yagga?!?!?
This is a very nice introduction. It seems well-researched to this student of war and weaponry.
@6:41... Carbon nano-tubes huh? I saw where they needed carbon nano-tubes for gas storage & they were making them from burnt chicken feathers... For the aspiring blacksmiths out there. ;)
1! 2! 5!
3 sir!
3! (Tosses it)
@@markvoelker6620 that rabbit was Dynomite!
The mongol rulers gave the conquered nations people who survived a choice to serve the khan or die prestor John was probably a defeated Christian general or warrior as the mongols didn’t not stop these people from worshipping their gods
Whats with all the mysterious medieval steel...Demascus, vort or whatever he said in this vid and i cant remember name of those viking swords are called but same thing as far as mysterious steelbthat cant be replicated in modernity
In Israel 🇮🇱 the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah you can go there and pick up balls of sulfur and light them very easily, possibly one of the ingredients that made up the Greek fire 🔥 of the crusader battles . The yellow balls of sulfur lye on the ground looking similar to fruit of some kind .
Plum bob!!!
So they can make incredibly strong steel but to this day cant bathe?
The steel was inferior to modern steels made today.
The monuments destroyed by isis is sickening
Looks like a plum Bob
Of course the assassin jumped from the roof… into a pile of hay. His name was Altair and I pressed X to make him jump.
Tell me brother Maynard
God is Freaking Amazing!!!!!!
I had a stick once in 1874. No one messed with me then.
Ooh, baby
I feel right, the music sounds better with you
Love might bring us back together
I feel so good
I feel right, the music sounds better with you
Love might bring us back together
.....god needs more weapons.......start thinking..........
A report on the whole, hollow earth fiasco, would make a great feature. Bit of a can of worms though!
I need you to put them waaaaay up there morty
Prestor "John" was Khan
"And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
its called wootz steel not vut steel..
Greek fire sounds like napalm
Prester John was probably an Ethiopian from what I have read.