Extinct Animals The Ancient Egyptians Saw
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- When people think of Ancient Egypt, we often think of mummies, pyramids and hieroglyphs, in other words, the human-y things. But did you know that despite only being 2,000 years ago, ancient Egyptians also lived alongside many different animals that are no longer around? We're talking giant lions, massive cows, 2-meter birds, and more...
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0:00 Ancient Egypt Timeline
1:31 The Barbary Lion
4:11 Aurochs
6:25 The Kobe Bryant Sized Bird
8:22 The Animal Known Only From Art
9:43 The North African Elephant
12:20 Pharaoh Killing Hippos
14:17 Announcements
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Whoops, quick correction, for the Barbary lion the weight should be 300kg not 200kg - sorry for any confusion there!
There are no more Barbary lions on earth!!!
@@daveyhouston *in the wild
As long as you said the weight in lbs. Im good. I wouldnt know the difference between 300kg and 200 kg.
Should've weighted in Big Macs for the Neanderthals
@sinnerchrono an easy rule is double the number of kilograms to get 90% of the true number. So in this case 300kg= 600lbs, but in reality it would be 660lbs.
“Were you killed?”
Hippos: “Sadly, yes…but I lived!”
“Phew”
Ice age 3 reference
Ice age 3 reference isnt it?
😁🤣
Now they have a population in South America thanks Pablo Escobar
That giant heron is so cool i wish it still existed
There's a Goliath heron that's 5 foot 5 but not as big as the 6 foot 6 one.
I’m not Egyptian, but the Giant Heron seemed like such a unique and formidable animals it probably would have been the national animal of that country if it still existed
Big Bird still lives on Sesame Street!😂
who else misread the op as giant heroin?
😫 my brain is broken...
@@john-ic5pz😂😂
Can you also make a video about long-extinct animals in Mesopotamia? It would be interesting to see what the first civilization of humans thought about these animals.
That would be great!
Is was kind of a desert and close to Egypt, so the same animals were there
I have been thinking about this ever since the recent Gilgamesh "monkey tablet" and it's description of the Cedar Forest (a jungle full of monkeys and cicadae)
Mesoamerica too
We can't. The ancient Mesopotamians killed and ate them all. The only remark they left was *burp*.
the barbary lion is very cool
Were really cool.
@@garethjudd5840 thats true
It's also very dead.
Pretty sure many lions in the zoo are descendant of them@@thomashenebry8269
And atlas bear
The Ancient Egyptians sure could depict animals a lot more accurately than people in the Middle Ages. 💀💀
Cuz they saw them right outside 😅 them guys were assuming from gossip
@@jakefrost8017😂 gotta love that
One would swear it be as if art devolved during the middle ages
Drawings of animals in the Middle Ages are fine as long as the animals lived nearby the artist. Horses, sheep, wolves, cows all were drawn very accurate lions and elephants not so much
@@knuxuki1013 I might not be completely right but I believe it was due to religion taking center stage throughout a big portion of the middle ages. It was only after the trust in the Catholic Church began to crumble that the art became better again. The Renaissance shifted the focus from god and religion back onto science and humans themselves. People began to thoroughly analize the human anatomy, the anatomy of animals, they experimented with angles and such. Art had literally reached a new dimension. While humans used to draw 2 dimensionally before, they had now begun to draw 3 dimensionally. Art had not only become anatomically precise again, it had become better than ever before.
"Yes... Thats a dude using a Baboon to catch a bad dude"
Words of Extinct Zoo
14:14
i would've done the same thing tbh
a monkey catching a slave
friendly fire will not be tolerated
You gotta have something if police dogs aren't available.
People still do this. I saw a video where a shopkeeper had a dog sized monkey that was trained to catch shoplifters. He did a pretty good job, wouldn't let the thieves go until the shop keeper took his stuff back each time
@@VVabsa 'a bit like the german shepherd of egypt' was my first thought
Despite being used widely today by the Egyptians to carry people and goods, Camels are relatively new to Egypt if you count their entire history. It was only introduced to Egypt from Assyria in 500 BC during the Persian rule (Achaemenid Dynasty).
I read that Egyptians didn’t bother with wheeled transport any more once they got camels.
Some never even bothered with wheels anyway. Really good video on here titled, approximately "why didn't sub Saharan Africans adopt the wheel? "
@@spjr99yup the wheel was terrible with african terrain. You are better off with a donkey
@@spjr99Sub-Saharan Africans are not Egyptians.
Camels are facinating animals . They truly are biblical animals and im so glad that they are looked after and taken care of by the people in those regions.
I see new Extinct Zoo, I click.
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Simple as
Who cares?!
Extinct Zoo video* not Extinct Zoo
I don't believe anyone asked
Another animal that went locally extinct in Egypt is the African crested pocrupine.
Thank you.
That is so sad 😢😢😢
Don't forget the red-tailed buck-toothed proto-wallaby
Now do with Aztecs and mayans
Cocacola is older than aztec empire
Aztecs didn't live that long ago relatively. Incans would be better
@@rowanmelton7643 so great Idea!
Aztecs may have not lived that long ago but the old world settlers killed a ton of native species (through disease) when they arrived, there is plenty of material for a video
@@johnappleseed9546I’ve never heard of that. Which animals went extinct? I don’t know of many diseases that are transmissible in that way.
Never heard of the Bennu Heron, what a beautiful amazing animal. Like a spinosaurus bird. Surprised ive never heard of it, given its recent extinction and notable size. Has to be one of my new favourite extinct creatures. Love a big ass bird. They definitely ate babies lol
Same, I instantly got another favourite bird (although i have many favourite birds lol) 😊
Love a big assed bird has to be the comment of the day 😂 I think many will agree but not all will be wannabe ornithologists
You eat babies! You have to. To survive -Some random spearslinging Egyptian before killing the last bird
At least one of these birds survived, and he lives on Sesame Street!😂
@@randybarnett2308 omg right! 😳😂😂
I am NO web designer but I have a Bachelor's Degree in English w/ a creative writing concentration. My plan is to juggle a zoo career (my minor was zoology) with writing fantasy and sci-fi and this channel has been such a helping hand for world building my prehistoric-themed fantasy novel I started writing this past summer, which is full of dinosaurs and warring tribes of anthropomorphic ice age mammals. It's set in the savanna region of this world where a Lioness and a Hyena join forces to tame dinosaurs and unite all the tribes of savanna mammals against an invasion from the Leopards in the neighboring desert region, which is gonna have a lot of inspiration from Egypt and other desert civilizations from around the world. I could not have clicked on this video faster, keep up the excellent work, Extinct Zoo
Please let us know when the book is finished, and where we can get it. Sounds fun and original.
Can you get yourself a Talented Graphic Designer to draw the members of the tribes which you put at the end of the book?
that sounds super Hype
@@Gnomeof9they did their story very little justice, its all in the way they describe it. i want to believe this comment was more or less a statement of content, and not necessarily a summary.
@@Gnomeof9why do you have to say that?
Vietnamese audience here, currently not in great health condition to cooperate in meaningful ways but really appreciate your effort and video quality. Peace and love! 🤘
Hopefully we can bring some of these back, due to how recent they are
Hoping most for the Bennu Heron
Bringing it back to egypt is impossible due to the habitat and human populations that has changed since then, bringing the extinct animals back to a place where it’s voided of humans is very possible tho
HAVE YOU NOT WATCHED JURASSIC PARK!? 😂😂😂 HELL NO.
@@freshguy4that's the thing everyone overlooks. They died off because their *world* died.
Even without humans, the bennu crane's time was running out as the geographic Egypt it lived in was turning into the geographic Egypt of today just from shifting weather patterns.
It would be more than a bit cruel I think to force something to exist in a world in which it has no place
@@noodles5004 It's one thing to bring back animals extinct by nature, it's a different thing to bring back animals extinct by human intervention like hunting.
The Bennu heron is the least likely to be brought back because it is a completely different species while all the others are subspecies of animals that still exist.
Currently, I am deeply interested in ancient Egyptian history, civilization and culture, and I am looking for materials, and it was a useful study because the animal groups were properly organized at the time.
The fear and awe of animals that the Egyptians must have felt at the time are well revealed.
Imagine the fear that these creatures felt of humans, before they went extinct of course.
Fascinating! The giant heron is the coolest. The North African elephants were also used by Carthage and the Numidians as war beasts. . Other extinct big cats, such as lions, tigers, and leopards that once roamed across Eurasia would make as nice video.
Yeah, sadly, the Romans killed most of these great animals for public games.
@@MiguelPerez-zx2wgthe romans didn’t make them extinct, they mostly went extinct in the 1600s - 1800s
BE CAREFUL!!!! That king of numidia was king MASSANASSUS. He was a black ethiopian king that joined rome when he could not marry hannibals ethiopian sister. Yes hannibal was black ethiopian. The king joined Scipio africanus in 202AD at the battle of zama. He was a MOOR. Yes moors were black. Moors translated means black. They ruled Spain and were chased out through the streets. That's where the 'running of the bulls' ceremony began for this celebration getting them OUT of spain. And hey those moors began the italian race by raping those poor pale women in sicily. Rome destroyed carthage for this. Big hidden history many professors don't know. It's in the libraries already.
@@user-nl6ej3py6t So you're saying that black people are responsible for a lot of colonization too? Actually lots of people already know that fact already outside of USA
@@UhtredOfBamburgh ethiopian blacks yes. Not us black americans.lol.lol. Ethiopian blacks began the wheel, mathematics,and these letters I'm using now. In the city of KEMET to be exact. Began geometry from right there. Astronomy began right there. That's amazing. That alone is 100k years to develop that thought.
Absolutely love that you take the time not only to provide the artist for each piece of art, but also the differentiation of "hey this is actually a on screen" when appropriate. Massive kudos
4:30 That is a male and female aurochs, not the wild aurochs vs. domesticated cattle.
Bull aurochs were black, while cow aurochs were brown, and you can see the cow's distinct aurochs horns.
Those wall carvings depicting lion hunts were Assyrian not Egyptian…..
It Ain that deep
Looks similiar enough.
LIONS indigenous to africa not assyria. No lions exist in Syria. The black ethiopian painted what they're seeing daily. Be careful with this history it'll hurt some feelings. It ties to moors,olmecs,andromeda,Hannibal and his father hamilcar....carthage. It also destroys islam overnight. Its why that zahi hawass the guy in egypt keeps things hush. Be careful.
@@HarvardArchaeology lions still naturally exist in india. lol at your username
That the Barbary Lion still exists at least in descendants in captivity gives me hope of a resurgence. At least elsewhere in the globe if not North Africa.
they’re not coming back lil bro
When I was a very young teenager my parents took me to a world tour and in the desert of Morocco we saw pair of Barbary Lions😂🎉 that was 45 years ago😮
You're one of the very few channels I subbed to after just one video and I haven't regretted it so far
Same here
Amazing video as always, it would be so cool to see a video on Hawaii’s lost birds (both pre and post contact extinctions) or for a more general video the lost fauna of New Zealand, Hawaii, or any other island like Mauritius
Lest we forget, such extinctions were often at the hands of those we call indigenous, and whom some naives still think of as "noble savages".
The New Zealand Maori arrived on these shores just a few centuries before European explorers but in that time managed to s0almost totally denude the Southern Alps as they burned the bush to force out the the great flightless birds which they then massacred.
SomeEuropean settlers were lucky enough to see the last survivors of the giant moas and the beautiful huias, the latter killed for their decorative feathers. (Maori migrated to NZ to escape the heat of what is known in the northern hemisphere as the medieval warm period, and so arrived naked, but as the temperature cooled into the Little Ice Age clothing was adopted.
it was likely the change in temperature and cold associated illness that led to falling Maori population. I imagine that was also responsible for much of the death in the Americas which coincided with and is attributed to to arrival of Europeans.
Extinctions in Africa have also been largely at the hands of indigenous peoples. Sure, products such as ivory were traded to the Orient and the Occident but as with the slave trade the perpetrators were largely the local populations.
@@jeremyashford2145 oh yes, it’s often a topic that is overlooked, especially in the Humanities, where it doesn’t fit into modern discourse’s interpretation/incarnation of “ indigenousness”
A quite good read I’d recommend on the topic is: Sick Societies: challenging the myth of primitive harmony by Robert B Edgerton that delves into various areas/topics/practices that a lot of anthropologist atr reluctant to widely talk about/publish/mention in their studies because of the fear of being label as a bigot. (Mind you this was written in the 1990s)
This delves more into the cultral aspects, but it does cover the relationships with various socities and the ecosystems they inhabit.
I remember reading that book a while back.
The aurochs played a role in a major rebellion against the Romans. In the early first century CE, the Frisii (Frisians) were socii (associates) of the Roman Empire. Part of the deal was for the Frisians to provide cowhides to be turned into leather for Roman military equipment. Frisian territory was administered by a mere centurion named Olennius who unilaterally changed the deal. He wanted aurochs hides. The quintessentially Germanic utensil--the drinking horn--was a status symbol because they were made from aurochs horns and you had to be a badass to take one down. Unable to meet the demand for aurochs hides and tired of selling their children into slavery, the Frisians ran amok. There is no record of reprisals after the Romans reasserted control, perhaps realizing that they had gone too far.
Thank you.
We all know mammoths were tamed to build the pyramids. 👍
Bro thinks this is ark
10000 bc thinkin ahh
Nephiliam were ethiopian race of blacks that really lived over there. That is who built those pyramids. Because the real egyptians were ethiopian. 50k years old is what egypt is. It takes that long to build our calendar they created. And we know the city of Kemet was a Harvard college campus. Those elephants back then were big as the wooly mammoth. No air pollution then.....no disruption in the food chain. And like he said the cows (auroch)were extremely bigger.
@@NYUArchaeologyQuit smoking weed.
@@malluk3065 do your homework. Hit the library boy. No more videogames n youtube for you. Greek historian named HERODOTUS in 450BC already told you that true history, not me. Be mad at grandpa.
Excited to hear of your website project! I will definitely visit it as i love to get back to my artistic roots of scientific visualisation- where we can’t get a photo i want to make a drawing 😊 it is so much work though to gather information so i really appreciate your effort for your project and am excited to see and use it someday!
Next Video: Extinct animals that the Dinosaurs saw
Hey, I have an idea and I’m not really fit to research this myself. So I’m pitching it to you instead😂
Since the CHLCA is speculated to be around 5-13 million years ago, I think a video about the “non-human primates” that co-existed alongside humanities ancestors would be really neat. Bonus points for drawing comparisons to ones alive today so I can envision it all a little better 😂
Wow, Egypt, cooler and wetter. What a huge paradise. The green Nile floodplains must have been kilometers wide. Can you imagine the wheat, dates, chick peas, and lentils. They could have fed millions and millions. That’s how they could build the pyramids. The wether.
It’s funny that the more food you have the more people can exist and likewise advance resources are everything.
Egyptians didn't build the pyramids, the Pharaos weren't Egyptians but Atlantean like Thoth the Atlantean.
no. egypt is greener than it has ever been today thanks to desert reclamation and millions of kilometers of artificial canals. even during the african humid period egypt was mostly arid desert.
I'm new to the channel, but I'm enjoying it very much!!
As always, great one! :)
An animal everyone seems to forget about is the Bubal/Northern Hartebeest which was a VERY common herbivore in Egypt, it was a subspecies of modern Hartebeest that's still found throughout sub-Saharan Africa today. It survived to as recently as the 20th century in regions of North Africa, & its disappearance was one of the reasons the Barbary Lion went extinct.
So unique thank you! Hope your world project brings awareness to stop current extinctions, thank you so much💖
Now do with medieval times
Wow, great video! First time here, but definitely subscribing! Not sure if you've done this or not, but a video about extinct animals the Romans saw would be interesting. The Roman Colosseum and the arenas around the empire must have played a large role for a majority of extinctions
did ancient Egyptians see Syrian elephants too? since they were relatively close by and it is thought that the last Syrian elephant survived till the Punic wars( some people believe Hannibal's elephant was a Syrian elephant and the very last one)
Hanno’s elephant was actually from a northern desert based population of African bush elephants, which used to be more populous and widespread than today.
Middle Eastern Oriental parts of the Roman Empire, east of Egypt, used to have Syrian elephants (related to Indian elephants by the way, as they’re a part of the Asian elephant complex) instead.
Yes. They are mentioned, but not particularly sought after, once the Empire started traipsing through upper Canaan & Syria during the New Kingdom.
Those Egyptians were black ethiopian with 4billion there at the time right next to the Sudan. I'm SURE they seen elephants because the elephant is indigenous. Lion is too. Papyrus is too. I teach this daily sorry guys.lol.
Hmm.. Ancient Egypt did have ancestors of modern day Nubians, but the majority of Ancient Egyptians were themselves related to their descendants, the Copts.
@@SlapstickGenius23 most modern day nubians are j1 and genetically similar to sudanese arabs. while most modern egyptians just like most ancient north africans are still e1b1b
Love these videos, keep the good work, sub
There are cows and bulls wheighting around a ton in present day! Domesticated ones. Maybe in other places too, but here in Portugal specialy at Minho (Minho is a important region on northern Portugal) they are imponent beautiful animals
Thank you.
it’s very true in the past, cows did not weigh as much as they did now and did not yield as much beef
This was super interesting, as usual
Thank you
200kg = 440lb
1 kg=2.2 lbs
1kg = 2.20462262lbs
1lbs = 0.45359237 kg
❤ if somebody wants to be more accurate and has need for being a litle bit closer to perfection😢
@@alpaka7154 WHAT THE HELL IS A LBS, RAAAH!!! :insert european music:
@@DomiK-im3su i am from Europe too :)
lbs plural. lb is a written abbreviation for pound, when it refers to weight.
Example: The baby was born three months early at 3 lbs 5 oz.
@@alpaka7154 Use of the metric system precludes perfection.
Me and my friend benny watched you vidoes, hella dope information also we was high asf so it jus adds another layer to your commentary
Shout out to Benny
Love the passion, you are going places!
amazing! i cant have wished for a better topic.
I love it when I see two of my interests mash together like this, makes it a lot of fun lol. Awesome video, and please do more of these types of videos!
I loveee this regional focus. I am wondering if we can have some about ancient Asia, and also specifically around the Great Lakes bc I live here and I’m curious!!!
6:21 they actually survived a bit longer cause recently an incomplete skull was found in Bulgaria and it was dated around the first half of the 1800.
Also about the Bennu Heron, we're not even sure it actually existed
Interesting info, source?
AFAIK, bennu heron did existed, but the remains were found not in egypt
Love this channel
It was interesting and the illustrations were great, thanks!
Before there were the Beaver War in Canada and the Emu War in Australia, there was the Hippo War back in Ancient Egypt.
Poor elephants, hippos and lions :/
One day it will be "poor" humans 😢
This is all so amazing to see and learn. Thank you!!!!
Great video♥ form Egypt
That’s why the spinx is a Barbary Lion
Lions in ancient times were much more common in Europe. They certainly lived in Spain, southern France, and the Balkans. The northernmost lion remains found were near the Hungarian-Slovakian border, but they certainly occasionally ventured further north. In contrast, in the east, the farthest found remains were found in western Ukraine and were less than 2,000 years old. In general, Africa, Europe and Asia had a more similar fauna as recently as 14,000 years ago.
Hey, great video! I really loved how you presented everything without showing any bias, ehich is rare in people talking about ancient history.
I have a suggestion for a new video: Look at Gompotheres, the 4 tusked elephants. It had been mentioned in the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, now most European historians came and said it is just 5000 years old, but they dated the last surviving written records of it, not the original, many theories and astronomy based references in the epic has been used to trace the exact timeline of when it happened, and by many of these theories it is 12000 BCE, or 14,000 years ago. Mention of a 4 tusked elephant is there which is seen gaurding the palace of the main antagonist of the epic.
It is definitely Gompotheres which were discovered, and it went extinct around 11,000 years ago as per the best research available.
Thank you for a most interesting and informative presentation.
Cheers!
Your quite a good channel honestly you can’t get bored by these unless shorts have rotted your brain
My daughter and I just read the Egyptian creation story Cry of the Benu Bird last night before bed! :) it's really cool to think that it's modeled off of a real once existing bird.
Man I really like the fact you want to make your channel multilingual
Appreciate the Kobe reference 💜
You should do a video of all animals featured in the Roman colosseum
Subscribed.
This is so interesting! I love content like this. Thanks! 😃
Great info. Thanks!
It’s interesting that hippos would be targeted, considering they represented the childbirth goddess Taweret, who had a hippo's head on a female human body. I suppose defensive responses by humans would’ve been understandable. The most lethal mammal in Africa is the hippo…
As Egyptian i said 😮
Great video!
I love these type of videos 👍
We should bring these animals back.
And birds
@@major2707 well birds are animals….
Just in time for The Mummy (Fraser version) 25th anniversary 😌
Very interesting, thank you for sharing.
Very well done 👏...I like & subbed.
Now do incans
Who are “incans”? I’ve heard of Incas. 😅
@@derin111 Sorry NOT from this country
How do you not have a million followers
Great video
This makes me wish time travel was currently possible. Imagine being able to be a time traveling tourest and being able to see Ancient Egypt along side these amazing animals. It'd be quite the experience
@0:11 It probably feels so good to do this
4:57 those are gaurs. Probably a decent comparison. 👍🏼
this is more entertaining than history channel 👌
Thank you so much for this video,
I didn't know about that bennu heron for example!
It makes me sad that all those species were killed off, 😢tragic😢
Maiden Goose looks a bit like the beautiful Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
2:18 NL mentioned
Greetings from India. Stumbled upon your channel, absolutely loved the work ! As like Egyptians, ancient India is also a civilisation with roughly the same time frame and a much bigger variety of wildlife. Can you do a similar video on ancient India just like this one. Would love it. 😊🙏🏻
Me being an Egyptian absolutely happy with a video like this (haven't watched it still)
Do ancient China PLEASE (begging)
Will Northern Africa ever have this biodiversity again?
Long after humans are dead perhaps
Northern Africa has always gone through cycles of hot/dry and cool/wet. We are obviously in a dry cycle of Northern Africa/Sahara today, and have been for about 3,000 years. But during the 'Green Sahara' periods, biodiversity was always higher. This also gives way to the 'Sahara Pump Theory'. In short: More animals and people migrated from Africa to Eurasia(and vice versa), when the Sahara/Northern Africa were at it's greenest, most fertile periods.
Great video.
Great video. I was kind of hoping crocodiles would be on the list, since there were at least two Egyptian deities based on them (Sobek and Ammit)
Bro Face is so MENACING💀 12:47
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Do ‘extinct animals the Mesopotamians saw’.
(Also, imagery from an article I wrote for The Extinctions. Thanks)
Wow, it is amazing that Egypt 🇪🇬 used to have amazing wildlife and it is sad that they went extinct in Egypt.
I hoped one day these animals will be rewild and reintroduced in a special wildlife national park in Egypt. 🦁🐘🐃🐦🦒🦏
I’ve got bad news
They’re all dead.
Great video - made with care and attention to zoological and historical detail. Thanks!
I see new thumbnail well it's working
Bro Bennu herons are like avian azhdarchids
Just found this, I absolutely love it
I love the website idea 😊
the kobe Bryant sized bird 😭
fun fact: Hippos are called Nilpferd in German
I find it strange to consider the Ptolemeic era as still being ancient Egypt, given that it was basically Greek Egypt.
Ancient Egyptian culture lasted even more to the end of the Byzantine era.
@@seikhsawanyeah in upper Egypt/Sudan
Very cool video