Less than two minutes in and I'm already losing my mind because I was lucky enough to take a one-quarter paleo course with Doctor Sereno back in 2017 and I knew he was a big deal but I was NOT prepared to be bitchslapped with "discovered the first evidence of the Green Sahara" -R
Not simply "present it well", but also present it accessibly. Milo does an amazing job of making multiple fields of science significantly more accessible to non-experts.
I want you to know I cried about four times. First with the beautiful woman buried in a bed of flowers by those who loved her so much and grieved her loss so deeply as to seek such lovely delicate flowers just to ornate her final resting place, again with the mother holding her two children, then with the carving of the crying cows, and once more with the closing statement. I may just be a cry baby, but I have to congratulate you on such a wonderfully delighting and thought provoking video. It is insane that we treat our ancestors in such vain and cold ways. As someone from a country ravaged by colonialism and left with little traces to my ancestral people, the sensibility and care you put into this video was truly moving. 💫
Literally said to myself “damn that googldybunkers video must’ve taken a lot out of him. It’s been a while since he posted” then as that though finished I got the notification that a new video was coming.
I want you to know that you are among a small group of youtubers who provide me a valuable service. I have chronic pain in my back and joints, one of the only things that helps this pain is taking hot baths, but while I take these baths I like to have background noise; I'll listen to music, I'll listen to audiobooks, but I have recently loved listening to your videos while I ease my aches and pains. Thank you, Milo.
Fun fact: The Sahara is still growing. There is actually an initiative going on to stop it from spreading any further south. The use of very small "oasis" plots about 8 feet in diameter consisting of plants with high water retention, you can see a belt of these going across the middle of Africa like a giant wall. If this interests you; China is also working on reclaiming their northern deserts in a similar fashion.
If I remember correctly, in China's case it didn't really work because they didn't pay any mind as to whether the trees that they were planting actually fit in with the local ecology
Yes. Everyone should Search for: John D Liu regreening the deserts To learn about what we can do to fight back against desertification and the destruction of our climate and ecosystems.
I’m a paleontologist, not an archaeologist, but I honestly find your videos so refreshing! A lot of times, those in our field tend to focus on extremely large swaths of time, myself included. When I first saw the title of the video, my first thought was that it would be about the trans-Saharan seaway, a shallow sea that split the Sahara up until around 50 million years ago. We can still find the fossils of massive marine animals there today. In my work, 16,000 years is such a minimal amount of time that we sometimes overlook how much can actually change. Not only was this video fascinating from an archaeological perspective, but it made me reflect on how I think about time in my own field of expertise. Cycles like the green Sahara are undoubtedly important and help to tell a much fuller story of the life that thrived in a specific area. It’s something I need to remember when looking at vast swaths of time- that within those periods, there are cycles that may be harder to pinpoint and are comparatively short, but important nevertheless. I love your videos so much, I love learning about these fascinating parts of human history. But above all, I love how you’ve been able to reach across scientific disciplines and emphasize how important interdisciplinary learning is. I’ve taken so much of what you’ve said to hear in my own field, and I hope you keep it up!
This is a really insightful comment. It's always interesting (and beneficial to overall world view) to think about things in time frames that are different from your usual perspective. ❤
Biological anthropologist here -- man that's a can of worms right there. Even intra-annual seasonality becomes its own headache, particularly since about MIS 6 with intensified interglacial/glacial cycles (both in magnitude and frequency). We think a lot about how environment and biology (and culture) are related and that only gets more complicated with increasing scale and behavioural complexity in the studied species. Lots of fun! Have a look at East African bovid species or (depending how brave you are xD) the hominins. Our life gets real fun!
I sometimes forget that actual grown ups get Milo too, but then I see him so much as a pseudo grandkid I forget his mind is a grown up too. So good to see comments like this to remind us that our wee googledebunking boy has quite the following.
Paleoanthropologist and archaeologist here! I think its incredible how connected our fields really are. No one -ology stands alone, we all use and exchange concepts and I think that's pretty special!
heyo, Nigerian here, Nigeria is massively unexplored when it comes to archeology and i believe theres a ton of undiscovered ancient history buried in its lands one day i hope these secrets are discovered
@@gekyume1021I think Nigeria is a beautiful place and honestly one of my dream places to visit, I would love to be one of the first people to lead an archaeological expedition there. People everywhere deserve to have their stories told, isn’t that what archaeology all about?
My favorite part of these videos is thinking "how cool, I wish I was there to see a green Sahara", and then to think in the coming manymanymanymany years when this cycle starts again and other people are learning about a dry sandy Sahara there will be someone else thinking "huh I wish I was there to see a dry sandy Sahara". Keep up the great work!
Kind of incredible to see Milo at this point. Man’s gone far from being a TikTok debunk channel, and I for one can’t wait to see more of what he’s got!
Egyptian here .. thank you so much for the most sophisticated video about Green Sahara Period .. it's believed that the predynastic Egyptian period corresponds to the beginning of monsoons recession and it's said that the end of African humid period is cause of the fall of old kingdom (pyramids builders) 4200 ago 👌
@hellonearth-thehistoryofwa1270 I should.. history is so rich that it goes through 10000 years with the most complete civilization.. and luckily it's my country ❤️ .
Thank you; when the whole 'two dynasties' thing became 'one dynasty' studies were done in my youth, no one was asking the question 'why', because we were still doing the patriarchy war, most aggressive and successful king thing. As a student I had to wonder though, the back story to an amalgamation under duress. And this green Sahara thing is a great impetus to the start of the 'new regime'. It'd be interesting, now that I think of it, to look at the same 'documentation' and see if any climate change information can be found. *sigh* having to wait for archeologists to think new thoughts is hard.
@@ValeriePallaoro it's kind of tragic how much science is gated behind being enrolled in a university or being in the field yourself, else you could probably just look for the relevant papers and analyse their data
Dear Milo! As a classically trained scientist myself, I cannot stress the point enough, of how much I appreciate your work. Your content is like balm for my singed brain and washes away all the half-true or flat out ill-informed gunk we get bombareded on a daily basis. Thank you for your great content, for talking about misinformation and for your personal, fun style of presenting accurate information.
Buried on a bed of flowers that grew a hundred miles away... that was my favorite part, the reminder that no matter how far we come as a species, we're the same people who would go so far to do something like that for someone we love, whether they're still here to see it or not. Humans aren't perfect, but I really do love us 🥹
I was thinking that someone might have brought a small flowering plant to the place, and they may have used those flowers for the burial. The plant wouldn't have survived the climate changing, so it wouldn't leave much evidence, even if you knew where to look. People have been planting pretty flowers for ages, and it would be easier to grab the local "fancy flowers" than traveling 100 miles back-and-forth for flowers, whilst the corpse is rotting.
If you want more stories like that, I recommend TreytheExplainer’s video on disabilities in prehistory, if you haven’t watched it already. It really is eye-opening to see proof that humans so long ago still loved each other and cared for each other like today. 😊
Modern humans are modern humans. Contrary to popular media depictions, there's really no reason to believe ancient homo sapiens processed the world any differently than we do, or would do, with the same experiences.
Highly agree. One of my favorite humanizing, tiny historical details is that King Tut was a little boy who liked ducks, based on the duck toys found in his tomb. It's so easy to overlook the small things when looking at large swaths of time; I like that we can find evidence that people were still just people who had likes and dislikes and painted pictures of their friends on cave walls.
Aerospace engineer here. Not important enough to warrant a correction, but I wanted to clarify some details of the planetary dynamics that you mention as causing the Green Sahara period. The important factor you're referring to is actually the precession of the Earth's axis, not the "wobble." It's the same way a spinning top that is spinning at an angle will slowly circle around a different, perfectly vertical, axis. At the other end of the procession, the star Vega would be the north star rather than Polaris. The "wobble" is actually the change in the tilt of the axis by a couple of degrees, which can also make the seasons more or less extreme. The Earth's axis wobble is actually stabilized quite a bit by our large moon. Mars, without any large moons, has much greater wobble and thus less long-term seasonal stability. The eccentricity isn't about the Earth's orbit as a whole being closer or further to the sun, but rather about how large the difference between perihelion and aphelion (i.e., how circular it is). I don't think you meant what you said, but it did imply the former rather than the latter. Again, not a huge deal. Excellent content as always.
I understood that when the closest point to the sun coexists with nortgern hemisphere summer, Sahara gets more rain. Maybe he was talking about the closest point beinng even closer. I mean it still works, you still get 2 seasons: dry and wet🤷♂️
Every time people try to set themselves apart from those who lived so long ago I remember Onfim, the boy who drew himself as a knight during his writing lessons, and made crude caricatures of his teacher to pass time. I remember the d*ck jokes written over the walls in Pompey. I remember that one viking that took the time to carve in runes "I lifted this rock!" on a boulder, and the caveboy that couldn't walk or talk but lived longer than most would have then, because his family chose to care for him despite his lack of skill to feed them. Now I'll also remember the bed of flowers in the Sahara desert, and the woman buried alongside those two children; all those little stories we slowly uncover tell us time changes, and our way of life may differ, but people are still human. Have always been, no matter where or when. Thank you for the amazing video Milo, and for taking the time to share those stories with us 🫶🏻
i dont understand your comment @elfodelputoinfierno ? ''every time people try to set themselves apart those who lived so long ago i remember" and then you say example of people that lived long ago.
@@themechanicus9698the point is that humans today still do many of the same things we did thousands of years ago, so it’s not wise to treat the past like something so different from today. Those fossils use to be people who pulled silly pranks and loved their children just like you or I
4800 years ago... It's kinda staggering to think these people lived in "the green Sahara" around the same time the pyramids were built. Green Sahara feels like it would be longer ago
Wait, I was led to believe by Matthew McConaughey that the green Sahara happened as recently as the 1800's. How else did they find a civil war battleship loaded with confederate gold in the middle of the Sahara? Are you saying that was all made up?
This reminds me of an old joke: Lumberjack was asked where else he had worked and he said 'In the Sahara Forest'. The other person said 'The Sahara is a desert.' The lumberjack said 'It is now.' Pretty kitty, coloring reminds me of some granites.
So wear that mask, inject that booze, stay home if they told you so, eat bugs, reject to breed, reduce your carbon print, own nothing and be happy in your 15-minute city. Right? Perfect slavery.
Can we appreciate how "I will dox you" is now a believable but hilarious threat tossed around from Gen Alphas to Gen Z towards the rest of us with a slowly sobering chuckling reaction Yeesh.
hello Milo! i am currently studying to be a scientist and researcher, specifically a wildlife biologist, and you inspire me. as passionate as i am it’s admittedly hard for me to build up the motivation to actively pursue my goals and spend the long hours necessary to educate myself well on a topic. i struggle with a variety of mental health issues that leads me to feel a lack of purpose in my life and my mind often tells me to give up on my dreams. seeing you put in so much effort and energy into your content and present it with such a good and upbeat attitude is a great reminder of how rewarding and fun it is to become informed and to chase the things I care about. thank you, and good luck to all you do in the future ❤
It's pretty cool. I always have this sad thought that no matter what most of us once we die will eventually be completely forgotten. We have family to remember us for a time but eventually no one is left to remember us and we aren't all lucky enough to have made a huge impact that means we are remembered for hundreds of years to come. But then if someone comes across a tiny part of us, a drawing we did, a poem we wrote anything really and it's then used and is inspiration for someone and something else, they may never know us as a person, but something of us lives again. And I find that quite beautiful. Sorry to ramble.
When I clicked, I didn't realize what I needed to make my weekend was cat mom Milo at the gun show getting tipsy, spilling tea, changing outfits three times, and making me cry over a story seven thousand years old, with a hint of homoerotic humor on top. 11/10. Get a cat tree.
That’s the beauty of Milo Rossi. He can make me tear up over a girl buried on a bed of flowers, then immediately make me laugh at college frat boy humor
South African here! We were taught a lot of this about the Sahara when we were in Primary school. I always thought this was common knowledge. I honestly can't believe people aren't capable of realising or visualising that an environment can change. Especially over, thousands of years....
American here. It's not that we can't visualize it, we just aren't taught to. The only thing I learned about Africa in school was American slavery, Egyptian pyramids and ancient river civilizations. But we never focused on the land. Yeah now it seems obvious to me. Like of course the Sahara would be different thousands of years ago. But until now I just thought "Sahara big desert. Sahara always big desert."
@@69steezeWiz and whenever we were taught about slavery, they always made sure to tell us that African tribes enslaved each other too, so what the Europeans did wasn't actually that bad... and people still don't believe the education system is flawed
@@Marimoxley They were trying to say how the school system neglects the fact that the african tribes participated in the trade through capturing the slaves. They’re taught somehow only white people hunted down remote african tribes with no help from others
I'm not sure why, but the part where the people got burried on beds of flowers made me tear up. It's genuinely so emotional and made me actually look at the past people, like people, like us. It's genuinely so sweet.
I love the humanity of looking back on ancient people as normal people in an ancient time period. Appreciating their grief, and not obscuring their reality by mythologizing
It’s something that so much of history teaching seems to fail at when it’s absolutely not only the most interesting and engaging way to view history but also the most respectful. History gets referred to more in statistics and myth than actual humanity and it’s really sad.
There's a Tumblr thread that starts off with "I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle" and it's just posts/information about that exact same sentiment, I definitely recommend checking it out
Tragically, after the english patient so many tourists travelled there that many of the paintings have vanished. Like with Lasceaux, thousands of years old couloured mud paintings? Did not like thousands of people breathing and touching and - no joke - having romantic night-stays there. There was actually a young egyptian entrepreneur who organizing getting rich couples there for romantic getaways, picnic and mobile bed included.
Fascinating education. As a retired funeral director I am continually drawn to the burial practices of civilizations throughout time. Burial, not cremation, gives us so much information about the culture and society. Throughout time humans have dealt with death by burying their dead. Those burials and the artifacts found with them tell us so much. One can either look at the silliness of human funerary practices or if you blur your eyes you see something deeply sublime. That is the constant throughout human history. Thank you.
Either in real life or fiction, death rituals always get to me more than the death itself. A very old, very sick cat getting pets from its owner one last time before being put down. The funeral procession of a beloved Grandma. Heck, I cried at Boromir's funeral scene in the Lord Of The Rings, not at his death or any other part. Imagining the woman mentioned in this video, buried on a bed of flowers imported specifically for this purpose, probably her favourites in life, and who might have gone out of their way to do so for her, predictably brought me to tears. Thank you for having done the job you did, you helped ease the worry and pain of those who needed ease of mind the most. I know it helped us when it touched our family.
I admit that I have a keen interest, but a shameful, somewhat detached as default nature, when first hearing about archeological discoveries; learning about ruins, and random items that represent the people and cultures who came and went thousands of years ago. I know when I see hunting tools, items made from animal bones, pieces of pottery, or little figurines of idols and such, they are so far removed from items that I encounter during any activities in my own life that I don't instinctually think about them in the context of 'a person intentionally created this, a person owned this item, so that they could perform a specific activity that was important, or meaningful to them. I, again, in a shameful fashion, must intentionally think about the humanity behind the sites. I have to consciously do this. There are two instances where I do not fail to connect as a fellow human. Archaic handprint art, especially when it is the handprints of children, and burials no matter how very different they appear to what is normal or expected on my experience. These immediately hit me on an emotional level, and I feel genuinely connected by the shared experiences I have with the people who engaged in these activities, with and for their loved ones, and by the fact that what they represented, even tens of thousands of years ago, is no different to what they mean to people, myself included, around the world today.
Really appreciate your regular reminders that when talking about archeology, we need to keep in mind that these are people who deserve our respect and empathy.
Miniminiuteman: "If you're playing this in the background while you're cleaning your room" Me, surrounded by all of my clothes sorting them into keep and donate piles: how did he know??
Probably because most of us do it, seeing as there's not enough time in a day to do everything one needs to do while also engaging with the media one wishes to.
Two things… 1. I’m literally cleaning my house listening. A little spooky being called out… 2. I can’t drink beer anymore and miss my Hazy IPAs… next time have an extra for me. 🍻 Ok. More more thing. Thanks for these vids. Learning so much, keep up the great work!
Hey Milo i was really happy when you joked about saying “your smarter than you think you are” that really motivated me to do good on a test that I was about to take, thank you so much
I love the empathy with which you always describe ancient peoples. I was tearing up during your descriptions of the burials. I hope they lived beautiful lives and continue to rest in peace.
@@johnsmithe4656 the song "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison". Contains the sentence "Life is but a dream for the dead", which imo is pretty close to what you said.
I thought "WTF is he going to talk about for an hour!?" Y'all truly dont understand the amount of information and knowledge that this man has accumulated and laid down as a foundational springboard to be able to explain any/all of this in a way that can actually be comprehended by folks who lack that entire foundation. This is an amalgamation of more disciplines than most could ever imagine gaining knowledge of. When he disappears rather than posting constantly, you can be certain he's coming back with high quality well put together information. This is why I appreciate you, Milo👏
I really don't like being negative or an asshole for no reason either, so I'm not trying to do that when I say this. But while I understand finding a person's presentation skills as entertaining and easy for certain people to digest in a fun way, I can't help but become more and more almost grossed out in a sense of the utterly unfathomable number of parasocial fans glazing him up to such a degree using words in a way to make him sound like the second coming of Jesus teaching all of us unworthy students in a sheer act of selfless generosity, like as if he didn't have to be making these for us regular people who are unable to learn these things if it weren't for him. I just imagine him scrolling through all the comments and him just like thinking that he's the best ancient history teacher on this planet which is obviously not true. I admire the passion hw clearly has for making these but I mean, come on lol. You're basically giving him a handjob over a video essay covering extremely well known information that anyone could accumulate if they wanted to. I had to get that off my chest and maybe give some advice to anybody reading this that you should all calm down with the unnecessarily hyping up of the guy. Good day, and our ancient past itself is a gift we unknowingly have given to ourselves from the past all the way up to now which is something beautiful in itself.
@@beasthazard I definitely feel where you're coming from, which is why I made my own comment rather adding to all the ones I noticed as well. Clearly it's been misconstrued so I'll attempt to clarify what I meant. My entire comment wasn't to him, only the last sentence where I specifically directed my words to him. The rest of the comment was an attempt(albeit failed) to point out exactly what you just said. It's not that the information isnt readily available, it's that a very small amount of people actually put forth the time and energy to accumulate all of the information and turn it into knowledge. I'm not just referring to laypeople either. My own research spans multiple different disciplines and there are very scientists who can reach out to on a lot of it because very few educate themselves more than is necessary for their degrees. Dont get me wrong, expert knowledge of those who focused on one thing their entire lives is absolutely necessary, but focusing on one thing doesn't allow us to connect the dots and understand everything as a whole. Whether it be ancient history or biology, etc. The point was merely the distinction between those who ramble senselessly based on their thoughts and opinions, or even specifically about one aspect of the topic based on their limited interest, and what he has presented here; which is an amalgamation of a lot of different disciplines. If you wanna call that a handjob, you should probably take back the first part of what you said or go say to everyone in the comments who is actually doing that. There are approximately 8 billion people on this planet and despite their capabilities very few are even making the attempt to accumulate information & knowledge. Knowing first-hand exactly how deep that goes and how difficult it is, he has very much earned a small piece of my respect that I dont hand out all willy nilly.
I may go into Archeology because of him. May, because I'm gonna become an organic chemist. But, I may minor in archeology. Or study it later. It depends on how much I can study, and how much I can handle at once.
Being Brazilian and seeing what is happening to the amazon rainforest saddens and worry me deeply. The desertification of amazon seens almost inevitable and the sahara anecdote seems almost a cautionary tale
When you consider that the phosphorus from Saharan dust brought by the cross-oceanic air currents is what the Amazon depends on to balance the loss of nutrients from the rain... it's double sad. Two interdependent systems (the Amazon is a major part of the global water cycle) are being desynced by our actions.
@@Oleandra-13 The phosphorus from the Sarahan sand that keeps the Amazon alive today comes from the dead microorganisms from the ancient lake beds that Milo talked about.
Oh man. at 56:41 I started crying like a baby at the thought of people just like us thousands of years ago. people with families and loved ones, collecting pretty things and making art just like we do now. the idea of a whole world before us, lost to the sands of time and desert, people who loved and lived and struggled under hardships, grieving their loved ones. its so beautiful. thank you, milo.
1. No you didn't 2. Lol how about you cry about the people losing the same literally to other people today right now? The Palestinians and the people in Hong Kong/Taiwan have been going through it for at least 20 years each
@DUKEHadToDoItToEm just yesterday 37 people were killed in Gaza by American bombs those people were sleeping inside a school because they're housed were bombed there was 17 kids under 15 yrs old and the rest were women and elderly people and the excuse the zionists spokesman had there was hamas fighters in there even if that was true and I'm certain it's a lie but let's say they were there you still not supposed to kill innocent people sleeping in the hope of killing one hamas or two hamas fighters that goes against every rule in any war world wide but in Israel because America lost its manners and it's standards to protect an occupation regime they're allowed to kill as many as they want even if it's innocent kids sleeping.. This world is so unfair and so Unjust and American have double standers we treat Israelies as human and Palestinians as subhuman.. Shame on us I'm so ashamed to be an American after Gaza exposed our immorality and our unfairness @@DUKEHadToDoItToEm
@@DUKEHadToDoItToEm dude, come on. what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza (not to mention, the west bank) is absolutely horrific, and bringing people's attention to Israel's atrocities is a good thing, but this is not how you talk to people. there's no reason to put this person down because they aren't constantly thinking about Gazans. you're allowed to feel and weep for people that lived thousands of years ago while also caring about people that live today. also Taiwan/Hong Kong? do you mean Xinjiang? because the Uyghur internment camps have since shut down completely, and even china's mortal enemy, the US state department, has admitted as much. regardless this response is weird and unnecessarily rude, just be normal.
The cave of swimmers has to be some of my all time favorite cave art, I often imagine if the ancient egyptians and other local cultures had oral traditions about the green sahara
I'd forgotten about this one and it's re-ignited my interest in Early Art! Plus, @miniminuteman, I had you on in the background while I cleaned the kitchen. Kitchen = Clean, Passion for Cave Art = Reignited. W's all around boys.
As much as I love googledebunking, I would honestly enjoy seeing more of this content alongside it. This isn't linked to any pseudo archaeology or anything, it's just damn good history and I'm here for it.
I love the new kitty. I've long been fascinated by the art of the Cave of Swimmers. Back in the 1980s when I was studying art history, the swimmers were explained away as dancers who were just depicted horizontally, but I never thought that...held water. This is great stuff.
Well, if you ask me, I think they weren't entirely wrong, just dumb. But think about it, if you are painting swimming people... why would you be doing that? That's why I say that I think they weren't _entirely_ wrong. I'm not a swimmer, but I am a musician. One thing most musicians do is play together. That feels like you're dancing with them. The other musician(s) move from note to note in their way, and you basically move along with your own steps if you're not the one leading. I wouldn't be painting anything if it wasn't something that I really enjoyed for multiple reasons. And there aren't that many cave paintings. It's not like they made one every day to post on facebook. They were special things that were important to them. So, that swimming must have been important for some reason. There were no fish or weapons, so I'm tempted to think it was a friendship and a lovely day.
@stylis666 maybe it was a race or contest of some kind to swim across a body of water, and they were depicting the winners :) still has to do with having fun, but maybe it would also be more notable to the people who painted it
Reminds me of the one research who did some solo research, but accidentally used “we” in every part of the writeup, so he credited his cat as co-author
@@thomasfrye6335 I don't reeked get his name, but if you're talking about a soviet guy that translated Egyptian hieroglyphs he didn't write we on accident. The way his cat talked to her kitten vs grown cats vs humans helped him so much that he credited her as his coauthor
This is easily, EASILY your best video The green sahara, the entire story it tells, is endlessly inspiring All these graves and the funerary rites performed, in a place that seems like a forbidden juncture between worlds, just like Gah Give me chills
I randomly saw Milo on the street in Massachusetts a few weeks ago and didn't say anything because I was in my car and it's my policy to never yell at anyone from a car, but I can confirm that he is indeed always wearing all those rings, and that it looks pretty damn cool. Love the video!
He definitely looks like a type of guy who likes this stuff. As far as I understand, he found those jewelers himself! I mean, if I was as thin, I would too. But so far the only thin part about me is hair😂
"I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”" -Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley This is my second favorite poem and some of your closing points just reminded me of it.
@@nate_storm i just remember learning the poem in school and the teacher commenting that its about Nebuchadnezzar. but that was a long time ago and they could have been mistaken too! so maybe it was?
milo i just want you to know that my household of autistic people loves your content. yesterday my roommate and i were both watching different videos of yours in the room over from each other. we're huge fans, i've been binging your videos lately while i draw and play games :)
Yeah, the history channel used to actually be informational, educational, and about actual history unlike what it has become which is just complete nonsensical garbage.
@barriegraham4306 - _The History Channel_ used to be about.... _HISTORY_ up to the point when the owners thought it would be a good idea to mimic _The National Enquirer._
it's weirdly comforting to know that people have always been at the mercy of a changing world. feels like they're reaching out across the millennia to tell us "you're not alone"
I really love that. We deal with so much climate change issues (where I live we are now have consistent 95 and above weather even though the averages used to be in the 70s-80’s in summer. We are in a drought and our river is evaporating. Knowing that humans always found a way to survive gives me a small sliver of hope.
pretty sure that razor tooth fellow had other things on their mind than making sure some rando a dozen millenia from them wouldnt feel alone... but keep cookin' i guess lol
Or they reach out across the ages to smack us... they were at the mercy of the climate, we choose to use our new found ability to shape the world in order to fuel economic growth even if it kills us. Imagine their horror at being destroyed by something they had no control over, seeing a people who do have control and decide to not save ourselves.
Hi Milo. I'm not even halfway through this video yet, but I wanted to thank you. The first 15 minutes of explanation for this are probably very simplistic to you, but it is my first time learning about as a 23 year old woman. I was raised in a conservative Christian school that taught a lot of psudoscience, and very basic things that most people know, I never learned. It means a lot to me that you break down everything into digestible bits that are easier to understand - you're a fantastic teacher. I still hold onto my faith, and I want to deepen my understanding of it and its relationship to science and history. Your channel has provided me a great resource to learn. Thank you.
@@tsm688 it's definitely still something I'm recovering from. What happened to me is a result of generational trauma that started with decases of religious anti-science sentiment from conservative groups in America. A lot of pseudoscience is justified by saying its the "true interpretation" of the Bible, and for conservative Christians, that is an extremely hard narrative to shake. I truly believe my personal teachers meant well and just wanted to properly honor the Bible, but were mistaken in how they were doing so.
@@aurawryIf they were teachers they must have known better, yet decided to spread lies. There's ways to honour your faith without harming real people.
How interesting that some of the skeletons and thus people in this video are from a time that your good book claims never existed. Something to think about.
I felt such a huge amount of delight when I’d seen that you’d uploaded an hour long video, only to then have that delight be completely blown out of the water the second a cat appeared on screen! Hello Neets, I would die for you
I can’t believe we can have these kinds of amazing, fun lectures on UA-cam for the low price of just paying attention. There’s so much information that most people would not otherwise have access to, or wouldn’t know where to even start looking. I do care about Rudy Vallee, very cool that you have the sheet music!
57:30 "Their world is a vast expanse of sand". I'm reminded of a poem because of that whole ending: "...My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
_Ozymandias_ by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817, inspired by the fragment of a colossal statue of Ramesses that the British stole that year from the Nile valley to place it in the British museum.
Oh god Milo and Bill Nye doing a special together would be heaven Milo telling about the history of a phenomenon shaped the people/archaeology of an area and Bill talking about the science of the event 👀❤️
@@kiddykat Just so you know Bill Nye is apparently is a sexist asshole. So while we can talk about Bill Nye the personality, Bill Nye the guy is a piece of shit.
@notsogreatjagras4314 - "Gutsick Gibbon" just did an episode about the history of trying to teach fellow Apes to speak without the silly researchers recognizing that they already talk. She said that one of the main things that separates us from the other Apes is that we are the "yappers". I wonder if Mr Rossi watches the GG channel? I bet he would find it enthralling.
So glad to see a video, and about the Green Sahara! I'm South African, and I think my continent is so unbelievably beautiful and so rich in history, but I rarely manage to find people who go into deep dives about the forgotten past of this land. Growing up, Western media didn't really seem to think the same, so glad thats changed somewhat. Thank you so much for an awesome video :)
@@SewingandCaring interesting. what are the right reasons to want to watch an archaeology video with a human skeleton in the thumbnail? am I somehow morally inferior for being interested in a common topic for a creator I like? girl what are YOU doing at the devil’s sacrament smh
The importance of the relationship between history and science is underappreciated. It feels like we are collectively forgetting that relationship in favour of comforting our own ignorance. You are an inspiration to me, Milo!
@@PrimoSchnevi a lot of people I know do that too, but I noticed that a lot of people don't trust science and history anymore, and I believe it reflects in our current social, economic and political climate.
Probably my favorite youtuber right now, the focus is never on making money or nothing, but genuine passion for architecture and spreading it with well put together, researched and funny videos
The first time i learned the sahara was once green was in school in the 90s. It wasn't given much attention in the lessons. Hoeever. The thought of it has NEVER left my mind. Years later i drove through death valley for the first time and kept thinking during the hot hot drive about the potential of deserts to spread. Lately I've seen alot of stories about desert transformation projects. Since my first impactful learning about how nearly an entire continent dried out (proprtionally to the rest of the world), this news about desert reclamation has made me super excited. Im very pleased that i happened across this video. It's another piece of a global story that I've been nurturing and clicking together for nearly 35 years.
The algorythm shall be fed. On another note, incredible video. I've always liked studies of ancient civilisations from an architectural perspective, but milo pulled me into a whole new world of discoveries of subject I would normally not touch. Thank you so, so much for all of this.
i'm an english major and seriously know absolutely nothing about archeology or climate science but i watched this entire video. great job making this material so engaging and interesting!
Oh hi! I'm a Spanish major and I have very basic concepts of both (a bit more on archeology due to my family) but I'm joining this little nook of linguists that enjoy Milo's videos. Not sure if your majors included linguistic.
milo: "look, i actually have original sheet music from the stein song." me, a music nerd: "oh, shit. thats kinda cool. plus, i recognize the name of the composer-" milo, crushing my soul: "who am i kidding, why would you care about this" immense pain
My favorite thing about history is no matter how far back you go and what part of the planet you’re looking at, you can find something about the people there that resonates with you, because people are people and always have been, even before we were all the same species
Milo mentioning the cave of swimmers reminded me of a mockumentary about mermaids that use edited pictures of the awesome illustrations in the cave of swimming.
Yes, "The Body Found" A friend had watched that back then while st*ned. A few days later we had lunch and he told me how utterly shocked he was that mermaids were actually real. We watched it again together, this time sober, and had a great laugh. That was a well made and entertaining mockumentary.
It truly was inspired, but I'd feel remiss in my duty if i didn't make a couple small corrections... 2000 was discmans not walkmans, and the classic African convoy is made of land rovers not range rovers. Lol... fr tho
I think my favorite thing aboit Milo's content is not only incredible humor, but Milo knows how humans work. He knows how much we love a good story, that entertainment make it easier to remember things, and he uses that to prepare us for the information. Few things get my more hype to hear a bunch of technical stuff than a really engaging anecdote of a man with a camera and his buddies digging for bones and getting excited for them ❤ literally goosebumps in preparation for the details i now really really really really need to know
Getting ready for work this morning and your description of the woman buried on the bed of flowers made me pause. Someone clearly loved her deeply, and now we get to see and experience a form of that love thousands of years later. Humanity can sometimes truly be beautiful.
I WAS ACTUALY CLAENING MY ROOM AND HAD TO PAUSE IT WHEN YOU CALLED ME OUT. but then i was pushed play and had a wholesome interaction so here is my interaction.
Yea,, AGW alarmism is easily challenged. "scientists say" only goes so far, especially with how incredibly biased and political "science" is become these days. "Scientists say" is not a scientific argument and their models are not scientific evidence. Fact is earth and it's deserts are greening due to co2 fertilization. FACT!
His debunky videos are funny, but actually talking about something he's interested in in a constructive manner brings out all of Milo's best qualities.
"What the heck nonsense is Dad going on about" - The Cat "I bloody love this guy" - Me "I'm shipping up to Boston to get more of that sweet, sweet Dropkick Murphys" - The Universe
Born too late to see the green Sahara. Born too early to see the green Sahara. Born just in time to see a guy with a cat talk about the green Sahara.
Me too bro
Be the green Sahara you want to see in the world
@@evilscotsman2205huh
not me lil bro
@@D_man_177 huh 😮
Less than two minutes in and I'm already losing my mind because I was lucky enough to take a one-quarter paleo course with Doctor Sereno back in 2017 and I knew he was a big deal but I was NOT prepared to be bitchslapped with "discovered the first evidence of the Green Sahara" -R
HOLY, lets go you guys watch him to! Your videos on mythology are awesome!
Oh my god, you guys are some of my favorite youtubers. Massive inspiration for me.
I love watching yall
yo pog osp
I expected Blue to study something like that, but Red? Into history?
The fact this video is almost at a million views after 3 days proves that actual science can appeal to people if you present it well.
1 million after 5 days up 🥳🥳
Not simply "present it well", but also present it accessibly. Milo does an amazing job of making multiple fields of science significantly more accessible to non-experts.
Agreed, but could have done with more Atlantis I think… 😅
@@cookiecraze1310 tru. I wanna be like him
I was just saying this to my sister.
I want you to know I cried about four times. First with the beautiful woman buried in a bed of flowers by those who loved her so much and grieved her loss so deeply as to seek such lovely delicate flowers just to ornate her final resting place, again with the mother holding her two children, then with the carving of the crying cows, and once more with the closing statement. I may just be a cry baby, but I have to congratulate you on such a wonderfully delighting and thought provoking video. It is insane that we treat our ancestors in such vain and cold ways. As someone from a country ravaged by colonialism and left with little traces to my ancestral people, the sensibility and care you put into this video was truly moving. 💫
Miniminuiteman summer clothes dlc just dropped.
finally his house isn’t freezing 😂
@@briannam3140 by the look of that shirt its all too hot now
don’t ever let them catch you without your mittens
@@qhu3878 that's how all old houses are. They're cold long until summer, but once the heat gets in... oh boy, it isn't leaving until mid october
Weve caught him without his mittens.
Love the idea of ancient people painting their friends
Same! 🥰
"Ayo, have you seen John's latest FaceWall post? Sick hunting story, man!"
Kids these days painting on cave walls instead of enjoying the moment...
Imagine walking in your best friend's cave just to see a painting of you. Must have been so heartwarming
"Draw me like one of your french girls!"
So last night I was like, "Wow, haven't seen anything from Milo lately."
BOOM.
same i was thinking that like 10 minutes before the premier
Literally said to myself “damn that googldybunkers video must’ve taken a lot out of him. It’s been a while since he posted” then as that though finished I got the notification that a new video was coming.
dude last night i legit looked at his channel to see if he posted anything
Low-key thought "THEY" got him
Same!
I want you to know that you are among a small group of youtubers who provide me a valuable service. I have chronic pain in my back and joints, one of the only things that helps this pain is taking hot baths, but while I take these baths I like to have background noise; I'll listen to music, I'll listen to audiobooks, but I have recently loved listening to your videos while I ease my aches and pains. Thank you, Milo.
Another chronic pain bather here who uses yt for the same purpose!
I’m here with you both 💗
Fun fact: The Sahara is still growing. There is actually an initiative going on to stop it from spreading any further south. The use of very small "oasis" plots about 8 feet in diameter consisting of plants with high water retention, you can see a belt of these going across the middle of Africa like a giant wall.
If this interests you; China is also working on reclaiming their northern deserts in a similar fashion.
I am extremely interested to see what China is able to accomplish there over the coming decades.
If I remember correctly, in China's case it didn't really work because they didn't pay any mind as to whether the trees that they were planting actually fit in with the local ecology
hungry hungry desert
chomp chomp chomp
YUM
Even though it’s under-funded, I find the Green Belt so exciting, desertification is becoming a real problem
Yes. Everyone should Search for: John D Liu regreening the deserts
To learn about what we can do to fight back against desertification and the destruction of our climate and ecosystems.
I’m a paleontologist, not an archaeologist, but I honestly find your videos so refreshing! A lot of times, those in our field tend to focus on extremely large swaths of time, myself included. When I first saw the title of the video, my first thought was that it would be about the trans-Saharan seaway, a shallow sea that split the Sahara up until around 50 million years ago. We can still find the fossils of massive marine animals there today. In my work, 16,000 years is such a minimal amount of time that we sometimes overlook how much can actually change.
Not only was this video fascinating from an archaeological perspective, but it made me reflect on how I think about time in my own field of expertise. Cycles like the green Sahara are undoubtedly important and help to tell a much fuller story of the life that thrived in a specific area. It’s something I need to remember when looking at vast swaths of time- that within those periods, there are cycles that may be harder to pinpoint and are comparatively short, but important nevertheless.
I love your videos so much, I love learning about these fascinating parts of human history. But above all, I love how you’ve been able to reach across scientific disciplines and emphasize how important interdisciplinary learning is. I’ve taken so much of what you’ve said to hear in my own field, and I hope you keep it up!
This is a really insightful comment. It's always interesting (and beneficial to overall world view) to think about things in time frames that are different from your usual perspective. ❤
Biological anthropologist here -- man that's a can of worms right there. Even intra-annual seasonality becomes its own headache, particularly since about MIS 6 with intensified interglacial/glacial cycles (both in magnitude and frequency). We think a lot about how environment and biology (and culture) are related and that only gets more complicated with increasing scale and behavioural complexity in the studied species. Lots of fun! Have a look at East African bovid species or (depending how brave you are xD) the hominins. Our life gets real fun!
I sometimes forget that actual grown ups get Milo too, but then I see him so much as a pseudo grandkid I forget his mind is a grown up too. So good to see comments like this to remind us that our wee googledebunking boy has quite the following.
Paleoanthropologist and archaeologist here! I think its incredible how connected our fields really are. No one -ology stands alone, we all use and exchange concepts and I think that's pretty special!
@@jessicatingley4591 It's why I love it!
heyo, Nigerian here, Nigeria is massively unexplored when it comes to archeology and i believe theres a ton of undiscovered ancient history buried in its lands
one day i hope these secrets are discovered
real shit, I also imagine the stuff hiding in the Russian wastes. Imagine what could be under these places . God only knows
I readed the first part wrong
@@schizoafekt I'm talking about NIGERIA as a country
Not in relation to what he is saying
I hope it's Nigerians who do it too
@@gekyume1021I think Nigeria is a beautiful place and honestly one of my dream places to visit, I would love to be one of the first people to lead an archaeological expedition there. People everywhere deserve to have their stories told, isn’t that what archaeology all about?
My favorite part of these videos is thinking "how cool, I wish I was there to see a green Sahara", and then to think in the coming manymanymanymany years when this cycle starts again and other people are learning about a dry sandy Sahara there will be someone else thinking "huh I wish I was there to see a dry sandy Sahara". Keep up the great work!
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose".
Kind of incredible to see Milo at this point. Man’s gone far from being a TikTok debunk channel, and I for one can’t wait to see more of what he’s got!
he's a professional googledybunker now
@@ferrisffalcis *Loud audio sting*
Isn't it wild? He's like a legit archeology dude now. I can see him hosting a show about ancient stuff. He's got the knowledge and speaking skills.
hejustdidatiktokdebunktho
He's gotten big enough that he's got other people on you tube saying he's a fraud. That's how you know you've made it!
Egyptian here .. thank you so much for the most sophisticated video about Green Sahara Period .. it's believed that the predynastic Egyptian period corresponds to the beginning of monsoons recession and it's said that the end of African humid period is cause of the fall of old kingdom (pyramids builders) 4200 ago 👌
thank you for being an Egyptian with an interest in history!
@hellonearth-thehistoryofwa1270 I should.. history is so rich that it goes through 10000 years with the most complete civilization.. and luckily it's my country ❤️ .
@@hassansalah9763 Without people like you, that history could not be preserved, so thank you.
Thank you; when the whole 'two dynasties' thing became 'one dynasty' studies were done in my youth, no one was asking the question 'why', because we were still doing the patriarchy war, most aggressive and successful king thing. As a student I had to wonder though, the back story to an amalgamation under duress. And this green Sahara thing is a great impetus to the start of the 'new regime'. It'd be interesting, now that I think of it, to look at the same 'documentation' and see if any climate change information can be found. *sigh* having to wait for archeologists to think new thoughts is hard.
@@ValeriePallaoro it's kind of tragic how much science is gated behind being enrolled in a university or being in the field yourself, else you could probably just look for the relevant papers and analyse their data
Getting called out for listening to the video in the background while at work with a single tear running down my cheek...
Right? I'm doing last-minute prep for the first day of school.
I was simply driving and needed a long video to listen to. DAMN YOU MILOOOOO
I’m literally cleaning my room 😭😭😭
im binging his videos while drawing, I've been called out so many times
I started to making dinner and didn't want to pause it
Dear Milo!
As a classically trained scientist myself, I cannot stress the point enough, of how much I appreciate your work. Your content is like balm for my singed brain and washes away all the half-true or flat out ill-informed gunk we get bombareded on a daily basis.
Thank you for your great content, for talking about misinformation and for your personal, fun style of presenting accurate information.
Be miniminuteman
-leave two months
-drop banger hour video
-refuses to elaborate
-continues making us smarter
-Introduces Neets
I think he very much elaborated all over us.
@@blacksage2375 fair enough
What do you mean by refuses to elaborate.?.
@@potato-ld1uj ngl i just added it for fun
Buried on a bed of flowers that grew a hundred miles away... that was my favorite part, the reminder that no matter how far we come as a species, we're the same people who would go so far to do something like that for someone we love, whether they're still here to see it or not. Humans aren't perfect, but I really do love us 🥹
I was thinking that someone might have brought a small flowering plant to the place, and they may have used those flowers for the burial. The plant wouldn't have survived the climate changing, so it wouldn't leave much evidence, even if you knew where to look.
People have been planting pretty flowers for ages, and it would be easier to grab the local "fancy flowers" than traveling 100 miles back-and-forth for flowers, whilst the corpse is rotting.
I agree, we can be adorable
If you want more stories like that, I recommend TreytheExplainer’s video on disabilities in prehistory, if you haven’t watched it already. It really is eye-opening to see proof that humans so long ago still loved each other and cared for each other like today. 😊
Modern humans are modern humans. Contrary to popular media depictions, there's really no reason to believe ancient homo sapiens processed the world any differently than we do, or would do, with the same experiences.
Highly agree. One of my favorite humanizing, tiny historical details is that King Tut was a little boy who liked ducks, based on the duck toys found in his tomb. It's so easy to overlook the small things when looking at large swaths of time; I like that we can find evidence that people were still just people who had likes and dislikes and painted pictures of their friends on cave walls.
Aerospace engineer here. Not important enough to warrant a correction, but I wanted to clarify some details of the planetary dynamics that you mention as causing the Green Sahara period.
The important factor you're referring to is actually the precession of the Earth's axis, not the "wobble." It's the same way a spinning top that is spinning at an angle will slowly circle around a different, perfectly vertical, axis. At the other end of the procession, the star Vega would be the north star rather than Polaris.
The "wobble" is actually the change in the tilt of the axis by a couple of degrees, which can also make the seasons more or less extreme. The Earth's axis wobble is actually stabilized quite a bit by our large moon. Mars, without any large moons, has much greater wobble and thus less long-term seasonal stability.
The eccentricity isn't about the Earth's orbit as a whole being closer or further to the sun, but rather about how large the difference between perihelion and aphelion (i.e., how circular it is). I don't think you meant what you said, but it did imply the former rather than the latter.
Again, not a huge deal. Excellent content as always.
Thanks for the info!
Great info
Well said
Thanks for clarifying
I understood that when the closest point to the sun coexists with nortgern hemisphere summer, Sahara gets more rain. Maybe he was talking about the closest point beinng even closer. I mean it still works, you still get 2 seasons: dry and wet🤷♂️
The fact we were just 1 order of magnitude away from having a lake named "Giga Chad" both amuses and disappoints me.
Every time people try to set themselves apart from those who lived so long ago I remember Onfim, the boy who drew himself as a knight during his writing lessons, and made crude caricatures of his teacher to pass time. I remember the d*ck jokes written over the walls in Pompey. I remember that one viking that took the time to carve in runes "I lifted this rock!" on a boulder, and the caveboy that couldn't walk or talk but lived longer than most would have then, because his family chose to care for him despite his lack of skill to feed them.
Now I'll also remember the bed of flowers in the Sahara desert, and the woman buried alongside those two children; all those little stories we slowly uncover tell us time changes, and our way of life may differ, but people are still human. Have always been, no matter where or when.
Thank you for the amazing video Milo, and for taking the time to share those stories with us 🫶🏻
This was a very touching comment.
i dont understand your comment @elfodelputoinfierno ? ''every time people try to set themselves apart those who lived so long ago i remember" and then you say example of people that lived long ago.
what is the point ?
@@themechanicus9698the point is that humans today still do many of the same things we did thousands of years ago, so it’s not wise to treat the past like something so different from today. Those fossils use to be people who pulled silly pranks and loved their children just like you or I
*"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."*
Ecclesiastes
I haven't been so excited about a UA-camr dropping a video since I was a kid.
Yup
How real. Saw his post on IG and ran to youtube to see if the new video was up yet.
Bro I was 16 when UA-cam was invented don't make me feel like accordion bro.
Big time mate😊
I've been checking daily for like 3 weeks to see if I missed an upload
4800 years ago... It's kinda staggering to think these people lived in "the green Sahara" around the same time the pyramids were built. Green Sahara feels like it would be longer ago
All they did was migrate to the nile valley, the coast, the myriad of oasises, and the sahel.
Wait, I was led to believe by Matthew McConaughey that the green Sahara happened as recently as the 1800's. How else did they find a civil war battleship loaded with confederate gold in the middle of the Sahara? Are you saying that was all made up?
the more you learn about history the more mind boggling it is how FAST things have changed between the stone age and now
Yet always remember, there is more time between the copper age and the bronze age, than the bronze age and the testing of the first atom bombs.
All things considered in the grand scheme of things it hasnt been all that long since then too. The sahara desert is younger than human civilization
"If you have a friend that likes to play long videos in the background while they do household tours" that one hit closed by, loved the video.
This reminds me of an old joke: Lumberjack was asked where else he had worked and he said 'In the Sahara Forest'. The other person said 'The Sahara is a desert.' The lumberjack said 'It is now.'
Pretty kitty, coloring reminds me of some granites.
Where I live we have lot of pines monocultural forrests and my sis call them the pine desert
@@petrfedor1851 yeah, pine is known to lower the pH of the soil, which makes difficult for other plants to grow.
I find it kind of funny that Sahara means desert in Arabic so people are saying desert twice in two languages.
"the Nigerian desert desert" lol
@@Maybe614 or Avon River, or my favourite Torpenhow Hill
"Not understanding the facts does NOT make them any less TRUE." Preach Milo!
So wear that mask, inject that booze, stay home if they told you so, eat bugs, reject to breed, reduce your carbon print, own nothing and be happy in your 15-minute city.
Right?
Perfect slavery.
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks”
I'm so glad you're finally able to talk about some really cool archeology instead of just debunking ancient aliens shit. This was so incredibly cool
Ok I finally found some time to listen to this video while cleaning my room, I'm really fascinated about this Cave of Swingers on GILF plateau
"you got to close to me. Now you get scooped" I dont know why, but that was so cute and funny to hear
Fnaf reference
“This WILL be on the test!”
Me at 32: immediately panics.
Same
So glad I’m not the only one 😂
Every time he says that I always panic looking for a notebook 😂
Me realizing 32 is too old to still be in school: begrudgingly panics
someone needs to compile all of the information that he says will be on the test
I love to think when milo drinks he just goes of talking about archeology even off camera no matter what
Man sips a beer and is immediately filled with archeological facts.
The guy at the bar: This pirate won't shut up about a "Green Sahara" and how many Vermonts big it was!
That's why I subscribed 😂😂😂😂
Can we appreciate how "I will dox you" is now a believable but hilarious threat tossed around from Gen Alphas to Gen Z towards the rest of us with a slowly sobering chuckling reaction Yeesh.
as a chemist, I can definitely tell you that drunk me will tell you all sorts of chem facts you have zero desire to hear.
hello Milo! i am currently studying to be a scientist and researcher, specifically a wildlife biologist, and you inspire me. as passionate as i am it’s admittedly hard for me to build up the motivation to actively pursue my goals and spend the long hours necessary to educate myself well on a topic. i struggle with a variety of mental health issues that leads me to feel a lack of purpose in my life and my mind often tells me to give up on my dreams. seeing you put in so much effort and energy into your content and present it with such a good and upbeat attitude is a great reminder of how rewarding and fun it is to become informed and to chase the things I care about. thank you, and good luck to all you do in the future ❤
Nachos
Imagine being the person who made that swimmer cave art, and then thousands and thousands of years later, someone uses your art on some cool jewelry
many such cases!
I’d take that as a compliment
Thats actually a really cool thought. Just think about someone in 5000 Years terraforming mars to looksomewhat like the game world of Skyrim.
It's pretty cool. I always have this sad thought that no matter what most of us once we die will eventually be completely forgotten. We have family to remember us for a time but eventually no one is left to remember us and we aren't all lucky enough to have made a huge impact that means we are remembered for hundreds of years to come. But then if someone comes across a tiny part of us, a drawing we did, a poem we wrote anything really and it's then used and is inspiration for someone and something else, they may never know us as a person, but something of us lives again. And I find that quite beautiful.
Sorry to ramble.
And i'm imagine you don't even get any royalties
When I clicked, I didn't realize what I needed to make my weekend was cat mom Milo at the gun show getting tipsy, spilling tea, changing outfits three times, and making me cry over a story seven thousand years old, with a hint of homoerotic humor on top.
11/10. Get a cat tree.
This is the funniest review of anything I’ve ever read.
11/10 I agree get a car tree Milo.
@@georgiasumby6092 I third getting a cat tree. 12/10.
I fourth the cat tree idea.
Or get her her own junk laptop that still turns on and gets warm, so she can lay on that and not the one Milo needs to use 😅
That’s the beauty of Milo Rossi. He can make me tear up over a girl buried on a bed of flowers, then immediately make me laugh at college frat boy humor
South African here!
We were taught a lot of this about the Sahara when we were in Primary school. I always thought this was common knowledge.
I honestly can't believe people aren't capable of realising or visualising that an environment can change. Especially over, thousands of years....
American here. It's not that we can't visualize it, we just aren't taught to. The only thing I learned about Africa in school was American slavery, Egyptian pyramids and ancient river civilizations. But we never focused on the land. Yeah now it seems obvious to me. Like of course the Sahara would be different thousands of years ago. But until now I just thought "Sahara big desert. Sahara always big desert."
@@69steezeWiz and whenever we were taught about slavery, they always made sure to tell us that African tribes enslaved each other too, so what the Europeans did wasn't actually that bad... and people still don't believe the education system is flawed
Even people that study Roman history know that Roman cities exist in the desert - and that was just 1500 years ago.
@@MarimoxleyDid you even read their comment? That's not what their saying. Their saying that's what American schools teach
@@Marimoxley They were trying to say how the school system neglects the fact that the african tribes participated in the trade through capturing the slaves. They’re taught somehow only white people hunted down remote african tribes with no help from others
I'm not sure why, but the part where the people got burried on beds of flowers made me tear up. It's genuinely so emotional and made me actually look at the past people, like people, like us. It's genuinely so sweet.
I love the humanity of looking back on ancient people as normal people in an ancient time period. Appreciating their grief, and not obscuring their reality by mythologizing
It’s something that so much of history teaching seems to fail at when it’s absolutely not only the most interesting and engaging way to view history but also the most respectful. History gets referred to more in statistics and myth than actual humanity and it’s really sad.
actually it is not a very human thing to do that... and obviously unless looking back on people, everything else is even less appreciated
My favourite is I was told we are smarter than them…by a kid who “needs his phone”
There's a Tumblr thread that starts off with "I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle" and it's just posts/information about that exact same sentiment, I definitely recommend checking it out
@@gshaindrichit's not a very human thing to look back and see the innate humanity in the people who came before?
Explain.
Both my wife and I each heard you say "cave of swingers" first and now we can't unhear it
Tragically, after the english patient so many tourists travelled there that many of the paintings have vanished. Like with Lasceaux, thousands of years old couloured mud paintings?
Did not like thousands of people breathing and touching and - no joke - having romantic night-stays there.
There was actually a young egyptian entrepreneur who organizing getting rich couples there for romantic getaways, picnic and mobile bed included.
He definitely said it in the merch drop lmao
Because he has Austin Powers-like chest hair, he now likes swinging. He's groovy, baby.
Only thing that he's missing is a great will to shagg.
@@user-un8tv1pp8mthat's tragic and disgusting
Lol Same here.
the little speech you gave on how our ancestors are just like us really made me think, as did the rest of the video, thank you Milo.
People tend to describe cavemen as dumb in media but they actually had bigger brains than us.
I didn’t expect to get teary eyed at a Milo video, but the “ they buried their friends on a bed of flowers“ hit hard
You pull off the "cool high school history teacher that didn't give homework out" vibe nicely. I got nostalgia.
Fascinating education. As a retired funeral director I am continually drawn to the burial practices of civilizations throughout time. Burial, not cremation, gives us so much information about the culture and society. Throughout time humans have dealt with death by burying their dead. Those burials and the artifacts found with them tell us so much. One can either look at the silliness of human funerary practices or if you blur your eyes you see something deeply sublime. That is the constant throughout human history.
Thank you.
Either in real life or fiction, death rituals always get to me more than the death itself. A very old, very sick cat getting pets from its owner one last time before being put down. The funeral procession of a beloved Grandma. Heck, I cried at Boromir's funeral scene in the Lord Of The Rings, not at his death or any other part. Imagining the woman mentioned in this video, buried on a bed of flowers imported specifically for this purpose, probably her favourites in life, and who might have gone out of their way to do so for her, predictably brought me to tears. Thank you for having done the job you did, you helped ease the worry and pain of those who needed ease of mind the most. I know it helped us when it touched our family.
I admit that I have a keen interest, but a shameful, somewhat detached as default nature, when first hearing about archeological discoveries; learning about ruins, and random items that represent the people and cultures who came and went thousands of years ago.
I know when I see hunting tools, items made from animal bones, pieces of pottery, or little figurines of idols and such, they are so far removed from items that I encounter during any activities in my own life that I don't instinctually think about them in the context of 'a person intentionally created this, a person owned this item, so that they could perform a specific activity that was important, or meaningful to them.
I, again, in a shameful fashion, must intentionally think about the humanity behind the sites. I have to consciously do this.
There are two instances where I do not fail to connect as a fellow human. Archaic handprint art, especially when it is the handprints of children, and burials no matter how very different they appear to what is normal or expected on my experience.
These immediately hit me on an emotional level, and I feel genuinely connected by the shared experiences I have with the people who engaged in these activities, with and for their loved ones, and by the fact that what they represented, even tens of thousands of years ago, is no different to what they mean to people, myself included, around the world today.
Really appreciate your regular reminders that when talking about archeology, we need to keep in mind that these are people who deserve our respect and empathy.
Miniminiuteman: "If you're playing this in the background while you're cleaning your room"
Me, surrounded by all of my clothes sorting them into keep and donate piles: how did he know??
Many people watch his vids?
Same 😂 that was quite funny
Probably because most of us do it, seeing as there's not enough time in a day to do everything one needs to do while also engaging with the media one wishes to.
Not me thinking 'AHAH! You're actually in the background to me making bracelets!
I got called out for watching a video while sitting on the toilet one time but can’t remember which channel it was 🤣
Two things…
1. I’m literally cleaning my house listening. A little spooky being called out…
2. I can’t drink beer anymore and miss my Hazy IPAs… next time have an extra for me. 🍻
Ok. More more thing. Thanks for these vids. Learning so much, keep up the great work!
Hey Milo i was really happy when you joked about saying “your smarter than you think you are” that really motivated me to do good on a test that I was about to take, thank you so much
Aggressive positivity.
@@stuartbaxter-potter8363 how
I do not mean to be an ass, but I have to. "you're"
@@eccomi21Welp, mission accomplished.
@@stuartbaxter-potter8363Oo, somebody’s jelly.
0:08 - little, tiny man & mini, minute man 😂
I knew there was a reason I liked him, and then I realized he had a cat XD
I love the empathy with which you always describe ancient peoples. I was tearing up during your descriptions of the burials. I hope they lived beautiful lives and continue to rest in peace.
_Life is but a flame extinguished by the cold wind of death._
I just made that up.... Sounds pretty good, right?? 🤣🤣
@@johnsmithe4656 Very poetic
@@johnsmithe4656you basically just quoted a My Chemical Romance song lmfao
@@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit I'm not familiar with it. I'll have to look it up. What song?
@@johnsmithe4656 the song "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison". Contains the sentence "Life is but a dream for the dead", which imo is pretty close to what you said.
7:54 this is legit what I was thinking the moment you came into frame
I thought "WTF is he going to talk about for an hour!?"
Y'all truly dont understand the amount of information and knowledge that this man has accumulated and laid down as a foundational springboard to be able to explain any/all of this in a way that can actually be comprehended by folks who lack that entire foundation.
This is an amalgamation of more disciplines than most could ever imagine gaining knowledge of.
When he disappears rather than posting constantly, you can be certain he's coming back with high quality well put together information.
This is why I appreciate you, Milo👏
hoping he gives us the fire on plate tectonics .. I ain't got shit to do today 🍿🤓🌍
I really don't like being negative or an asshole for no reason either, so I'm not trying to do that when I say this. But while I understand finding a person's presentation skills as entertaining and easy for certain people to digest in a fun way, I can't help but become more and more almost grossed out in a sense of the utterly unfathomable number of parasocial fans glazing him up to such a degree using words in a way to make him sound like the second coming of Jesus teaching all of us unworthy students in a sheer act of selfless generosity, like as if he didn't have to be making these for us regular people who are unable to learn these things if it weren't for him. I just imagine him scrolling through all the comments and him just like thinking that he's the best ancient history teacher on this planet which is obviously not true. I admire the passion hw clearly has for making these but I mean, come on lol. You're basically giving him a handjob over a video essay covering extremely well known information that anyone could accumulate if they wanted to. I had to get that off my chest and maybe give some advice to anybody reading this that you should all calm down with the unnecessarily hyping up of the guy. Good day, and our ancient past itself is a gift we unknowingly have given to ourselves from the past all the way up to now which is something beautiful in itself.
@@beasthazard I definitely feel where you're coming from, which is why I made my own comment rather adding to all the ones I noticed as well.
Clearly it's been misconstrued so I'll attempt to clarify what I meant.
My entire comment wasn't to him, only the last sentence where I specifically directed my words to him.
The rest of the comment was an attempt(albeit failed) to point out exactly what you just said.
It's not that the information isnt readily available, it's that a very small amount of people actually put forth the time and energy to accumulate all of the information and turn it into knowledge.
I'm not just referring to laypeople either.
My own research spans multiple different disciplines and there are very scientists who can reach out to on a lot of it because very few educate themselves more than is necessary for their degrees.
Dont get me wrong, expert knowledge of those who focused on one thing their entire lives is absolutely necessary, but focusing on one thing doesn't allow us to connect the dots and understand everything as a whole.
Whether it be ancient history or biology, etc.
The point was merely the distinction between those who ramble senselessly based on their thoughts and opinions, or even specifically about one aspect of the topic based on their limited interest, and what he has presented here; which is an amalgamation of a lot of different disciplines.
If you wanna call that a handjob, you should probably take back the first part of what you said or go say to everyone in the comments who is actually doing that.
There are approximately 8 billion people on this planet and despite their capabilities very few are even making the attempt to accumulate information & knowledge.
Knowing first-hand exactly how deep that goes and how difficult it is, he has very much earned a small piece of my respect that I dont hand out all willy nilly.
I may go into Archeology because of him. May, because I'm gonna become an organic chemist. But, I may minor in archeology. Or study it later. It depends on how much I can study, and how much I can handle at once.
AND the time goes by SO quickly. It's so interesting I don't even notice the time.
Being Brazilian and seeing what is happening to the amazon rainforest saddens and worry me deeply. The desertification of amazon seens almost inevitable and the sahara anecdote seems almost a cautionary tale
When you consider that the phosphorus from Saharan dust brought by the cross-oceanic air currents is what the Amazon depends on to balance the loss of nutrients from the rain... it's double sad. Two interdependent systems (the Amazon is a major part of the global water cycle) are being desynced by our actions.
@@Oleandra-13 The phosphorus from the Sarahan sand that keeps the Amazon alive today comes from the dead microorganisms from the ancient lake beds that Milo talked about.
Ayooo Brazil mention!!!!!!
Oh man. at 56:41 I started crying like a baby at the thought of people just like us thousands of years ago. people with families and loved ones, collecting pretty things and making art just like we do now. the idea of a whole world before us, lost to the sands of time and desert, people who loved and lived and struggled under hardships, grieving their loved ones. its so beautiful. thank you, milo.
1. No you didn't
2. Lol how about you cry about the people losing the same literally to other people today right now? The Palestinians and the people in Hong Kong/Taiwan have been going through it for at least 20 years each
@@DUKEHadToDoItToEm edgy
@DUKEHadToDoItToEm just yesterday 37 people were killed in Gaza by American bombs those people were sleeping inside a school because they're housed were bombed there was 17 kids under 15 yrs old and the rest were women and elderly people and the excuse the zionists spokesman had there was hamas fighters in there even if that was true and I'm certain it's a lie but let's say they were there you still not supposed to kill innocent people sleeping in the hope of killing one hamas or two hamas fighters that goes against every rule in any war world wide but in Israel because America lost its manners and it's standards to protect an occupation regime they're allowed to kill as many as they want even if it's innocent kids sleeping.. This world is so unfair and so Unjust and American have double standers we treat Israelies as human and Palestinians as subhuman.. Shame on us I'm so ashamed to be an American after Gaza exposed our immorality and our unfairness @@DUKEHadToDoItToEm
@@DUKEHadToDoItToEm why are you so mean :(
@@DUKEHadToDoItToEm dude, come on.
what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza (not to mention, the west bank) is absolutely horrific, and bringing people's attention to Israel's atrocities is a good thing, but this is not how you talk to people.
there's no reason to put this person down because they aren't constantly thinking about Gazans. you're allowed to feel and weep for people that lived thousands of years ago while also caring about people that live today.
also Taiwan/Hong Kong? do you mean Xinjiang? because the Uyghur internment camps have since shut down completely, and even china's mortal enemy, the US state department, has admitted as much.
regardless this response is weird and unnecessarily rude, just be normal.
"Playing in the background! "
Me playing this while doing dnd session prep, subconsciously adding details of your videos to my games
The cave of swimmers has to be some of my all time favorite cave art, I often imagine if the ancient egyptians and other local cultures had oral traditions about the green sahara
The ancient Egyptians experienced the green Sahara in their earlier dynasties. It wasn’t history to them, it was current events.
I'd forgotten about this one and it's re-ignited my interest in Early Art! Plus, @miniminuteman, I had you on in the background while I cleaned the kitchen.
Kitchen = Clean, Passion for Cave Art = Reignited. W's all around boys.
@@troycongdon ancient Egypt existed for so long that it was *both* current events and then distant history.
As much as I love googledebunking, I would honestly enjoy seeing more of this content alongside it. This isn't linked to any pseudo archaeology or anything, it's just damn good history and I'm here for it.
I go to “It’s Probably (not) Aliens” for my full servings of googledebunking.
@@justjukkaThanks for the recommendation
@@justjukka YOOOOO fellow ipna fan/ space potato
I love the new kitty. I've long been fascinated by the art of the Cave of Swimmers. Back in the 1980s when I was studying art history, the swimmers were explained away as dancers who were just depicted horizontally, but I never thought that...held water. This is great stuff.
I see what you did there. ;)
Well, if you ask me, I think they weren't entirely wrong, just dumb.
But think about it, if you are painting swimming people... why would you be doing that?
That's why I say that I think they weren't _entirely_ wrong. I'm not a swimmer, but I am a musician. One thing most musicians do is play together. That feels like you're dancing with them. The other musician(s) move from note to note in their way, and you basically move along with your own steps if you're not the one leading.
I wouldn't be painting anything if it wasn't something that I really enjoyed for multiple reasons. And there aren't that many cave paintings. It's not like they made one every day to post on facebook. They were special things that were important to them. So, that swimming must have been important for some reason. There were no fish or weapons, so I'm tempted to think it was a friendship and a lovely day.
@stylis666 maybe it was a race or contest of some kind to swim across a body of water, and they were depicting the winners :) still has to do with having fun, but maybe it would also be more notable to the people who painted it
I’m so glad my son introduced me to this amazing channel! I’m enjoying learning about the green Sahara!
Thank you for including your assistant in this episode. They often aren't given the credit they deserve for laying on our laptops!
I loved that “RIGHT onto the laptop” like yeah, that’s their job ✨🫡
Reminds me of the one research who did some solo research, but accidentally used “we” in every part of the writeup, so he credited his cat as co-author
They have to make sure it stays warm
"You look so cute there"
@@thomasfrye6335 I don't reeked get his name, but if you're talking about a soviet guy that translated Egyptian hieroglyphs
he didn't write we on accident. The way his cat talked to her kitten vs grown cats vs humans helped him so much that he credited her as his coauthor
Milo, please continue making these videos for as long as you can.
You're a great teacher and make it fun learning all of the topics you cover
learning more here about the past then I ever did in school, so yes, please never stop, I love learning about this stuff
Your editor(s) are killing it, those infographics are insanely high quantities
And qualities!
This is easily, EASILY your best video
The green sahara, the entire story it tells, is endlessly inspiring
All these graves and the funerary rites performed, in a place that seems like a forbidden juncture between worlds, just like
Gah
Give me chills
I randomly saw Milo on the street in Massachusetts a few weeks ago and didn't say anything because I was in my car and it's my policy to never yell at anyone from a car, but I can confirm that he is indeed always wearing all those rings, and that it looks pretty damn cool.
Love the video!
Good policy, especially where I live.
Milo is just an urban Cryptid
He definitely looks like a type of guy who likes this stuff. As far as I understand, he found those jewelers himself! I mean, if I was as thin, I would too. But so far the only thin part about me is hair😂
@@ldmtagyou don't have to be thin to wear cool jewelry!
@@erinj9642as someone who has been catcalled from a passing car before, I figured it was best to not interact, hahaha.
"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”"
-Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is my second favorite poem and some of your closing points just reminded me of it.
Good choice. But if that's your second place, what's you favorite? Mine's the New Colossus.
Mine's Sicko Mode
nothing like a good ole poem about nebby
@@spacephantomrangeri thought it was Rameses II?
@@nate_storm i just remember learning the poem in school and the teacher commenting that its about Nebuchadnezzar. but that was a long time ago and they could have been mistaken too! so maybe it was?
milo i just want you to know that my household of autistic people loves your content. yesterday my roommate and i were both watching different videos of yours in the room over from each other. we're huge fans, i've been binging your videos lately while i draw and play games :)
If any educators are watching, people like me learn like this. Don't change a single thing. Freaking brilliant!!!
Man this is what the history channel should be. Thank you Milo you are amazing
Agreed, it’s a shame conspiracies and misinformation get so much attention when reality can be so interesting.
This is what the history channel used to be and it was great
Yeah, the history channel used to actually be informational, educational, and about actual history unlike what it has become which is just complete nonsensical garbage.
@barriegraham4306 - _The History Channel_ used to be about.... _HISTORY_ up to the point when the owners thought it would be a good idea to mimic _The National Enquirer._
@MossyMozart Not the same owners. It was bought out by FOX. All the large educational channels were.
My googledebunkers pin is on and I am ready!
I got the hoodie, I'm ready
Put my one on my hat
is the pin on or is one of the frogs holding it
@@qhu3878 🤫🤫🐸🤫
He should actually make that a pin, that would be absolutely googledebunkers
"There's no expensive beers"
Sour/fruited ales: "Allow us to introduce ourselves."
I laughed and then I realized I regularly pay $8 usd for a beer ... and that's not even the most expensive
Yea there r some pricey ones on the craft market
Miniminuteman and Casual Geographic, I eat those videos the second they spawn in.
it's weirdly comforting to know that people have always been at the mercy of a changing world. feels like they're reaching out across the millennia to tell us "you're not alone"
I really love that. We deal with so much climate change issues (where I live we are now have consistent 95 and above weather even though the averages used to be in the 70s-80’s in summer. We are in a drought and our river is evaporating. Knowing that humans always found a way to survive gives me a small sliver of hope.
pretty sure that razor tooth fellow had other things on their mind than making sure some rando a dozen millenia from them wouldnt feel alone... but keep cookin' i guess lol
Or, Y’know, “you’re alone and utterly screwed, just like we were”
Or they reach out across the ages to smack us... they were at the mercy of the climate, we choose to use our new found ability to shape the world in order to fuel economic growth even if it kills us.
Imagine their horror at being destroyed by something they had no control over, seeing a people who do have control and decide to not save ourselves.
@tophatvideosinc.5858 Google “metaphorical”, it’ll blow your mind
Hi Milo. I'm not even halfway through this video yet, but I wanted to thank you. The first 15 minutes of explanation for this are probably very simplistic to you, but it is my first time learning about as a 23 year old woman. I was raised in a conservative Christian school that taught a lot of psudoscience, and very basic things that most people know, I never learned. It means a lot to me that you break down everything into digestible bits that are easier to understand - you're a fantastic teacher. I still hold onto my faith, and I want to deepen my understanding of it and its relationship to science and history. Your channel has provided me a great resource to learn. Thank you.
I am very sorry that happened, that's the kind of thing I consider child abuse.
@@tsm688 it's definitely still something I'm recovering from. What happened to me is a result of generational trauma that started with decases of religious anti-science sentiment from conservative groups in America. A lot of pseudoscience is justified by saying its the "true interpretation" of the Bible, and for conservative Christians, that is an extremely hard narrative to shake. I truly believe my personal teachers meant well and just wanted to properly honor the Bible, but were mistaken in how they were doing so.
@@aurawryIf they were teachers they must have known better, yet decided to spread lies. There's ways to honour your faith without harming real people.
How interesting that some of the skeletons and thus people in this video are from a time that your good book claims never existed. Something to think about.
I felt such a huge amount of delight when I’d seen that you’d uploaded an hour long video, only to then have that delight be completely blown out of the water the second a cat appeared on screen! Hello Neets, I would die for you
17:22 * milo replaces cat with beer. threatens all of us if we comment *
That talk in the last 5 minutes is absolutely amazing😢
I can’t believe we can have these kinds of amazing, fun lectures on UA-cam for the low price of just paying attention. There’s so much information that most people would not otherwise have access to, or wouldn’t know where to even start looking.
I do care about Rudy Vallee, very cool that you have the sheet music!
I’m obsessed with the phrase “the low price of paying attention” that’s such an awesome and succinct way of putting it
57:30 "Their world is a vast expanse of sand".
I'm reminded of a poem because of that whole ending:
"...My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
_Ozymandias_ by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817,
inspired by the fragment of a colossal statue of Ramesses that the British stole that year from the Nile valley to place it in the British museum.
It appears that we have some Shelley fans among Milo's audience.
Man yapped about rain for an hour and we all sat amd listened to it like a bill nye episode. Good job Milo
Oh god
Milo and Bill Nye doing a special together would be heaven
Milo telling about the history of a phenomenon shaped the people/archaeology of an area and Bill talking about the science of the event
👀❤️
What's the 10% off code for established titles again? Can't figure out where in the video it was listed @miniminutemen
@@kiddykat Just so you know Bill Nye is apparently is a sexist asshole. So while we can talk about Bill Nye the personality, Bill Nye the guy is a piece of shit.
@notsogreatjagras4314 - "Gutsick Gibbon" just did an episode about the history of trying to teach fellow Apes to speak without the silly researchers recognizing that they already talk. She said that one of the main things that separates us from the other Apes is that we are the "yappers". I wonder if Mr Rossi watches the GG channel? I bet he would find it enthralling.
I like listening to long-winded science/history videos while I cook and do chores.
So glad to see a video, and about the Green Sahara! I'm South African, and I think my continent is so unbelievably beautiful and so rich in history, but I rarely manage to find people who go into deep dives about the forgotten past of this land. Growing up, Western media didn't really seem to think the same, so glad thats changed somewhat. Thank you so much for an awesome video :)
Man I can’t wait for the next African humid period in a few thousand years!!! I’m so excited!!!!
Already on its way. Thanks to CO2 the deserts are re-greening.
“A lot of people died; here’s why” is my favorite genre
Do you have a therapist?
@ABalloonInNeed you’re not alone
@@SewingandCaringit’s the entire basis of the field of archaeology and anthropology I fear
but also yes do you know a good one
@@ABalloonInNeed I'm a Criminologist and you are into this for the wrong reasons my friend.
@@SewingandCaring interesting. what are the right reasons to want to watch an archaeology video with a human skeleton in the thumbnail? am I somehow morally inferior for being interested in a common topic for a creator I like? girl what are YOU doing at the devil’s sacrament smh
Thanks for the primer on a stretch of history we don't often learn about in the U.S.
The importance of the relationship between history and science is underappreciated. It feels like we are collectively forgetting that relationship in favour of comforting our own ignorance. You are an inspiration to me, Milo!
Weird "we", the people I know mostly do appreciate both natural sciences and social sciences like history.
@@PrimoSchnevi a lot of people I know do that too, but I noticed that a lot of people don't trust science and history anymore, and I believe it reflects in our current social, economic and political climate.
@@nofunallowed3382 I agree with the observation, im afraid the to discuss the "why" we dont have the space here :/
Probably my favorite youtuber right now, the focus is never on making money or nothing, but genuine passion for architecture and spreading it with well put together, researched and funny videos
ah yes, miniminuteman, my favorite building enthusiast
@@igotwect3174the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid thing really altered his trajectory
Architecture 😂 lmao
The first time i learned the sahara was once green was in school in the 90s. It wasn't given much attention in the lessons. Hoeever. The thought of it has NEVER left my mind.
Years later i drove through death valley for the first time and kept thinking during the hot hot drive about the potential of deserts to spread.
Lately I've seen alot of stories about desert transformation projects. Since my first impactful learning about how nearly an entire continent dried out (proprtionally to the rest of the world), this news about desert reclamation has made me super excited.
Im very pleased that i happened across this video. It's another piece of a global story that I've been nurturing and clicking together for nearly 35 years.
The algorythm shall be fed.
On another note, incredible video. I've always liked studies of ancient civilisations from an architectural perspective, but milo pulled me into a whole new world of discoveries of subject I would normally not touch.
Thank you so, so much for all of this.
i'm an english major and seriously know absolutely nothing about archeology or climate science but i watched this entire video. great job making this material so engaging and interesting!
I also am an English major..hi. I graduated in 2016
im an english major with a minor in archaeology lol im right there with you guys. I love Milo's videos, dude puts in some serious work for the truth.
Oh hi! I'm a Spanish major and I have very basic concepts of both (a bit more on archeology due to my family) but I'm joining this little nook of linguists that enjoy Milo's videos. Not sure if your majors included linguistic.
@@danielaroblesaguirre2140 oh yeah required for all liberal arts degrees at my university
hiii, same. i can barely understand this stuff but it's so fascinating
milo: "look, i actually have original sheet music from the stein song."
me, a music nerd: "oh, shit. thats kinda cool. plus, i recognize the name of the composer-"
milo, crushing my soul: "who am i kidding, why would you care about this"
immense pain
My favorite thing about history is no matter how far back you go and what part of the planet you’re looking at, you can find something about the people there that resonates with you, because people are people and always have been, even before we were all the same species
Ancient wall paintings are so magical. ❤
"We do so much to view our ancestors as something other than us"
God that hit hard
Milo mentioning the cave of swimmers reminded me of a mockumentary about mermaids that use edited pictures of the awesome illustrations in the cave of swimming.
Do you recall what it was called?😮
is this the "The Body Found" one from Animal Planet or is there another bizarre one out there
@@L-o-l-b-i-t yeah the body found
I remember that one, what a load of mind boggling nonsense was that. Entertaining if you shut your brain off but my god.
Yes, "The Body Found"
A friend had watched that back then while st*ned. A few days later we had lunch and he told me how utterly shocked he was that mermaids were actually real. We watched it again together, this time sober, and had a great laugh. That was a well made and entertaining mockumentary.
Milo dude the opening narrations were absolutely INSPIRED. Chefs kiss, no notes. also congratulations on giving birth.
It truly was inspired, but I'd feel remiss in my duty if i didn't make a couple small corrections... 2000 was discmans not walkmans, and the classic African convoy is made of land rovers not range rovers. Lol... fr tho
I love learning things with Milo. He has some very reasonable opinions and I like the way he presents these things.
I think my favorite thing aboit Milo's content is not only incredible humor, but Milo knows how humans work. He knows how much we love a good story, that entertainment make it easier to remember things, and he uses that to prepare us for the information.
Few things get my more hype to hear a bunch of technical stuff than a really engaging anecdote of a man with a camera and his buddies digging for bones and getting excited for them ❤ literally goosebumps in preparation for the details i now really really really really need to know
I love how he always emphasises how human the people he's talking about are. I feel like a lot of people can lose sight of that sometimes.
Getting ready for work this morning and your description of the woman buried on the bed of flowers made me pause. Someone clearly loved her deeply, and now we get to see and experience a form of that love thousands of years later. Humanity can sometimes truly be beautiful.
I WAS ACTUALY CLAENING MY ROOM AND HAD TO PAUSE IT WHEN YOU CALLED ME OUT. but then i was pushed play and had a wholesome interaction so here is my interaction.
definitely thought this was going to be a debunky type video
BUT
I love seeing Not-Angry-Milo talk about something for a change (for the most part)
He's still constantly shouting instead of speaking
@@nussknacker9827 that's just milo though
Is there a more concise and adult version of this video?
Yea,, AGW alarmism is easily challenged. "scientists say" only goes so far, especially with how incredibly biased and political "science" is become these days. "Scientists say" is not a scientific argument and their models are not scientific evidence. Fact is earth and it's deserts are greening due to co2 fertilization. FACT!
His debunky videos are funny, but actually talking about something he's interested in in a constructive manner brings out all of Milo's best qualities.
“Playing it in the background while you clean your room”.
Well, you don’t have to call me out like that!
Glad I was just washing the dishes. I dodged that calling out!
😂 I was showering
Erm I'm working
I am crocheting
12:09
Miniminutemen: which would result in exactly what u would expect
Me: desert!
Him: Monsoon
Me: fuck
This is cheese sauce, guess what it’s made out of.
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"What the heck nonsense is Dad going on about" - The Cat
"I bloody love this guy" - Me
"I'm shipping up to Boston to get more of that sweet, sweet Dropkick Murphys" - The Universe