@world of antiquity, Dr Dave, just a thought on the pre-Christian sexuality/promiscuity question. The laws of Hammurabi and the later laws of, I think Tiglath Pileser III, place some serious repercussions on adultery and unchaste behavior well before Rome and Greece.
Excellent collaboration!! Nice to see people who actually have the education to talk authoritatively about a subject putting these common misconceptions to sleep, hopefully once and for all!
Excellent presentation. Dr Miano is also an excellent collaborator whose channel I've been following for a while. Now I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to more excellent, informative content.
I am looking forward to watching your videos!!! I think I'll start binge watching tomorrow Dec 29, 2021, on a rainy day in California's Bay Area!!! I have been watching Dr. Miano's for most of 2021 and have enjoyed his programs. I can't wait to see yours!! I was so glad that one of the questions was about Nero!! I work at a winery in Napa Valley and I also taught a Wine Appreciation class at a Sacramento area Park and Rec for 6 years. I did a month (4 Thursday's) about Italy and their wines. You can only talk a little about the wines themselves so I spent a large amount of time on Italy's history. Nero was not the evil person as history has been taught. I loved your answer about him and I wanted to add a little bit I read. It seems he also opened up some of the royal palaces for some of those people that was displaced due to the fire. Now he did build a large palace on some of the property, I think, and that may be way some people think that it was his fault. If you do get a chance to read this, please let me know if I am correct. Thank You!!!! Again, looking forward to watching your vides. Which is why I had to subscribe!!
I love the coloured statues and I think Museums should have exact copies of ancient art with the colours. I think this would really bring them to life to see them as they were seen. This would be especially wonderful if you have an ancient statue and they could display the exact coloured repleca next to it. However, even if you didn't have the original artwork how wonderful to see an exact replica panel from ancient Greece in full colour. I'd LOVE to see the Parthenon frieze recreated as new in full colour. One point that was passed over is in the list was that you stated they had to bring in a law that you should only cut a baby from a woman if she was already dead. It makes me wonder what was happening that they felt they needed such a law?
On life expectancy, my friend and I would often wander through graveyards, checking death dates. It was fascinating finding clusters of "hey, a lot of infants died during this time period" and researching it. Seems like, at least in our region, that there was a major disease culling every hundred years or so. This has led to researching the early 20th century plague in the Bay Area, as well as various other ailments.
One of my dearest friends got her online handle, which she's kept since the 1990s, from walking around the graveyard and seeing a gravestone lamenting the loss of a baby named Desolina.
Well considering the oldest cemetery in America is only around 200 years old, I really don't see how you're concluding this "major disease every hundred years or so".
It is super interesting (even for me, coming from a background of an enthusiastic Geography-Histology teacher dad, religious studies, seven years of Latin and currently on a forensic anthropology course haha XD). Love the background work - we need more of this educated content! :)
On ancient lifespans, here is an interesting quote from the Bible: 'Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong'. (Psalm XC, v.10). So for the ancient Hebrews an adult person could probably expect to live until about age 70 in a fortunate life.
Just had to react to the first item: the virtual disappearance of most "childhood" diseases & others (tetnus, smallpox) raising life expectancy is about the best argument against "anti-vaxers."
Yeah the problem is is that anti vaxxers don't have a consistent logic about this stuff. I wasn't vaccinated as a child (once I realised how bad it was I got fully vaccinated just to be clear) and I once asked my mum why and she said "well you were protected by herd immunity", to be clear I wasn't immunocompromised as a child so I was in fact the hole in herd immunity and I very may well have killed someone by accident and I have to live with that. Sorry, got off track. My point being that I think my mum would be pleased that these diseases were eradicated but that she just felt her family was special somehow and not want to take the potential risk of these scary things she heard of and didn't understand with her precious kids. And I think that may be an attitude of a lot of the more privileged anti vaxxers, where they feel they're different from the rest of the plebs.
@@AM-kr4pv -- I had measles several times as a kid. It wasn't until I was an adult, and many infections later (including TB, HPV-mediated cancer, & viral meningitis x 2), that I and my sib were finally diagnosed as having been born with an as-yet unknown immune deficiency. [Thanks, ancestors.] So, even though we were vaccinated with all the prescribed shots, we sill were susceptible because there are some kinds of antibodies that our bodies do not make. We now get immunoglobulin infusions every 4 weeks (no more infections!!!). Between vaccinations, the IGs, _AND_ herd immunity, we get to stay out of hospitals and save society some money. -------- My heartfelt thanks to those of you who donate your blood AND plasma (where the IGs are taken from) so that others can live. (I've just teared up.) ------- _And get those children vaccinated against HPV - those are cancers we can wipe out if people just get vaccinated!_ For those of you not vaccinated as a kid against HPV, they now give the vaccine to people up to 45 years old. Ask you doctor!
As entertaining and eye rolling many of these myths are, the origins of the myths and the actual history is so much more interesting than the myths themselves!
If you happen to travel through Athens airport (ATH), spare a few minutes to visit the in site museum (1st floor) of the local archaeological excavation. You can see there between other things, two statues with their colours preserved.
So cool! Thanks guys - I just found this channel because of the team up. Any thoughts about the toy bull (with wheels) from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture? Is this real? If so, what do you the chances could have been that they could have used wheels for transportation? Thanks again /\
The ancients even applied paint to bronzes, though from the photos I've seen, it was more subtle. The polychroming of the building and statuary is spectacular. Even the statues that were removed from the façade of Notre Dame Cathedral were originally polychromed. I wonder if they are to be restored to their original colors before being replaced. I suggest that you look at - - - "Gods in Color: Polychromy in Antiquity" (It is a "digitorial for the exhibition" from Liebieghause Museum) = _digitorial +Gods in Color_ Another "digitorial" that show some building polychromy is --- "Athens: The Triumph of Imagery" = _digitorial +Triumph of Imagery_
I love learning about history and archeology and enjoy Dr Miano's videos very much. But it's not easy finding channels with the same rigor and truthfulness. I've investigated other "archeology" channels that were a big disappointment >_< , so I stopped looking. I really appreciate Dr Miano's recommendation of Ms Raven.
As someone who knows a lot of trans people who have had top surgery and a friend who had a radical double mastectomy because of cancer, removing breasts even now is a pretty big deal with long recovery time where you can't do shit with your arms. The idea that ancient people who didn't have anaesthesia or antibiotics in case of infection, would remove a breast just for better archery is wild. I mean what if you didn't heal well and you just had a tight, painful scar in that area forever? Hardly conducive to great archery. Especially when you can literally just compress your chest with layers of fabric if they get in the way so much.
living a long life back then wasn't just about class and access to medical care, you'd just have to get lucky. It's like those grandpas that smoke their entire lives and live till 90, or old men refuse to ever go to the doctor but still have great health.
What's the difference between an Archaeologist and an Historian? Nobody knows for sure but we think it has some sort of ritualistic or religious significance.
On life expectancy, life span, chilhood mortality and so on: -If we go mathematically, life expectancy would be the average of life span, while maximum life span would be the maximum value. -Not only childhood mortality, but also the prevalence of illnesses. Many diseases that now are easily treatable could then be lethal in high numbers (some of them still are lethal in poorer countries). Since medicine was far less developed and expensive, and antibiothics didn't exist.
Wow you are both awesome I will be subscribing. I am struggling with finding a job right now I want to do something that will make my life feel like I’m doing something important but I don’t have a degree is there a new career path I could take that you have heard of? Open to anyone answering
I hope you managed to find something suitable. Remember, we work mainly to be able to eat, clothe ourselves and have a roof over our heads. Enjoying what you do in those 8 hours of the day is a bonus. It's often something we would not do unless we were being paid for it.
I think the misconception about life spans is that we are more likely to live our full lifespan now, and not that it got longer. Because I also see people claim we were healthier before civilization. While it's true we have a lot more man made pollutants and processed chemicals and metals to contend with, and those do cause great harm to us and through bio-accumulation our descendants even more so. They assume that the consumption of grain and livestock were a detriment to our lives and have worsened our health. That the very catalyst for civilization somehow ruined our species and weakened us, is ludicrous when you just look at how vast civilization is, how populations not just grew, but grew faster and stronger and smarter with the wealth of stability brought on by consistent food.
If you made it past 5 years old, the life expectancy was 49. Much better than the overall 29 year old expectancy rate. Sure some made it to their 60's and fewer to 80's.
About life expectancy: What might that of sea turtles might be? They lay roughly a hundred eggs each year and most of the offspring really emerges but our planet isn't overcrowded with sea turtles.
@@theonlygoodlookinghabsburg2081 You know, I thought it was ridiculous as well. Fun, but silly. That is until I listened to Dan Carlin's take on Thermopylae. More or less, he posited that since most of what we know about this is drawn from Herodatus' histories and Herodotus was prone to exaggerate in such a way that maximized Greek glory and such. He also tended to play to his audience and wrote what he thought they wanted to hear. This should go without saying, but, Spartan/Laconic society was very martially orientated and valued prowess in battle very highly. Mix Herodotus' propensity to write in a propagandistic manner and the Spartan's societal self-image and you end up with an account that more closely resembles Frank Miller's source graphic novel and its film adaptation, '300.' Thusly '300' ended up at least somewhat true to the spirit of the ancient text. When I think about '300' through that lens, I find it much more interesting. (Plus I am a sucker for stories of valiant last stands.)
@@roll4initiative872 Before I say anything let me say first of all that I am also a sucker for heroic last stands.. or just impressive military feats of any kind.. I also appreciate last stands that end up in failure. That being said:
@@roll4initiative872 The Greek and Roman historians wrote for performance, not silent reading. Wealthy or cultured families and their friends would listen to a stirring tale of their ancestors' deeds while relaxing after dinner. That's why there are all those set piece speeches put into the mouths of characters. "History" was one of the literary art forms. It had its own muse, Clio. The audience wanted to be diverted, amused, perhaps stirred, and come away feeling good about themselves. That's not conducive to scientific accuracy. Maybe some writers were more objective than others, but those that were most copied by the mediaeval monks may have been what they themselves enjoyed hearing. Ancient histories were closer to scripts for a radio programme. Perhaps the closest in our time was the Victorian Music Hall, where dramatic recitations of prose or poetry about imperial losses and victories were performed by Rudyard Kipling or some look-alike.
Great clip, nothing like the power of facts. I like your relaxed and passionate way of presenting as well. I’m a tour guide starting with history clips as well. Would you like to check out if you had a minute? Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Women gladiators! Did they occasionally wear Timex watches, like some of the men, as seen in the historical documents that came out of Italy in the 1960's?
Re: the uninhibited sexuality myth, I was curious if you could tell us more about temple prostitution in regards to ancient Mesopotamia. It's something I've been trying to research but haven't found much about. Any book/essay recommendations?
The sexuality myth is so easy to explain to. Given that its obviously a cultural thing. Many cultures would have sexual things we dont. And many may have been even more strict than early christians
Lots of labor, NON inept hunters (grins) and My Mom's side of the family...and my Dad's side as well...the females get to 100 candles easily. BUT...people are surprised that I am still alive ;)...NEW nickname for Raven: Gladiator Girl!!!! Nicene was more about doctrine/ determination about the Godhead and was followed by a "sequel" in Constantinople. Both were politically motivated...and we all know how well that works. And Raven can read hieroglyphics without moving her lips! No touch screen? Raven...tell us more about the olden days! Like...were rainbows just black and white when you were a kid? Like TV was? No doubt statues had colour (note the spelling) but lost it...look how often they repaint Disneyland!
Speaking of lifespans, the life expectancy of modern residents of the United States is declining. We are also the only industrialized nation for wich this is happening.
For the US as a whole, life expectancy and infant mortality are closer to Eastern than Western Europe, but if you look at specific areas (inner cities versus outer suburbs) and communities the picture is different.
If you wish to consider "statistics" relating to something you must take into account the nature of the data you are using. Here is what I mean. Consider a nation which has a relatively "small" population which further has "universal healthcare" so that access to healthcare is ubiquitous. Since healthcare access as well as the quality of that care figures heavily in life expectancy + you're dealing with a relatively small population group = statistics vis a vis "expectancy" will likely reflect this fact and be good. Now say you additionally do not see a lot of immigration coming into your "model" nation and thus its demographics represent a somewhat "closed" system. It therefore becomes easier to improve upon life expectancy of those there because you do not have "outside influence" to account for in your statistics. Moral of the story: the US is a large country - both geographically as well as population wise. It further sees a fairly high level of immigration influx compared to other nations. More important here however = what is the relative health status of those immigrants. Ergo if the US sees millions of people immigrating to it each year + its own population does not have consistent access to healthcare and other socioeconomic necessities of life + its demographics and hence access to such things varies from locality to locality as alluded to by others + and finally the big one here - it has an extensive public health surveillance system for tracking health issues = all of this will impact overall statistics vis a vis health expectancy. So even if "native born" US people are in perhaps better health - if people who come to live in the US are not and they are included in your surveillance statistics as far as diseases etc.. and subsequent mortality = your "overall" statistics will reflect this. It is no different with "averages" in that 60% might be good with 40% not so good but that 40% lowers your averages overall despite most doing okay. There are 300+ million people in the US and their access to services in not universal - hence the wide disparity of outcome reflected in statistics. 🤔
If you made it to adulthood in the ancient world, you had a decent chance of making it to old age, but you were still a lot more likely to die young than you are today. More people died from infectious diseases, which could strike you at any age. As well as childbirth, a lot of people died from infections resulting from minor injuries and dental problems, from food poisoning, and in the case of the poor, from malnutrition and dangerous working conditions. Most Ancient Egyptian mummies are not of 'old' people by today's standards, with the average age at death of adult mummies being in the 30's. Child mortality was the biggest factor affecting life expectancy in the ancient world, but was not the only one. This would have made the ages of the people in the streets of an ancient settlement seem very odd by today's standards- there would have been lots and lots of young people and children, with comparatively fewer middle-aged people. There'd still be a fair few old people, but they'd be a rarer sight than today.
7:42.... Sapho's work suggests people ran the gamut of human complications , of love , till it soured. But inter family affairs are going on in royal house. King Solomon s harem ... And Roman wives being punished , made to become street prostitute. Also just what sort of " Entertainment ". .was Empress Theodora famous for ? " Temple Prostitute " .....This was that prostitution was going on around temples ....because the Deity ( of the Temple was blamed for the licentiousness. ( Got away with it ...lf anyone noticed ) St Augustine , in , The City of God , writes a description of a ' Roman Pagan Ritual ' at a Pagan site , and sex is being had in public view. Hmmm ?
It was a pleasure working on this project with you, Raven!
Had a blast debunking and ranting about history (virtually) with you :)
Thanks for introducing me to this channel, it looks great! Your collaborations are awesome.
Thanks for sharing. Why did they have so many sexual depictions?
@world of antiquity, Dr Dave, just a thought on the pre-Christian sexuality/promiscuity question. The laws of Hammurabi and the later laws of, I think Tiglath Pileser III, place some serious repercussions on adultery and unchaste behavior well before Rome and Greece.
It was a pleasure watching both of you too.
David sent me here.
Great discovery!
Excellent collaboration!! Nice to see people who actually have the education to talk authoritatively about a subject putting these common misconceptions to sleep, hopefully once and for all!
David 'unearthed' your channel for me, subbed.
15:11 BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA Was not expecting David S. Pumpkins to make an appearance in this video!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Excellent presentation. Dr Miano is also an excellent collaborator whose channel I've been following for a while. Now I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to more excellent, informative content.
Finally, a new (to me) archeology channel. Great collaboration and I look forward to listening to your content.
Ahh thanks and welcome aboard!
I am looking forward to watching your videos!!! I think I'll start binge watching tomorrow Dec 29, 2021, on a rainy day in California's Bay Area!!! I have been watching Dr. Miano's for most of 2021 and have enjoyed his programs. I can't wait to see yours!! I was so glad that one of the questions was about Nero!! I work at a winery in Napa Valley and I also taught a Wine Appreciation class at a Sacramento area Park and Rec for 6 years. I did a month (4 Thursday's) about Italy and their wines. You can only talk a little about the wines themselves so I spent a large amount of time on Italy's history. Nero was not the evil person as history has been taught. I loved your answer about him and I wanted to add a little bit I read. It seems he also opened up some of the royal palaces for some of those people that was displaced due to the fire. Now he did build a large palace on some of the property, I think, and that may be way some people think that it was his fault. If you do get a chance to read this, please let me know if I am correct. Thank You!!!! Again, looking forward to watching your vides. Which is why I had to subscribe!!
Something often overlooked, is that if you’ve got a potter’s wheel, you’ve got a lathe. A potter’s wheel is, in fact, a specialized lathe.
I love the coloured statues and I think Museums should have exact copies of ancient art with the colours. I think this would really bring them to life to see them as they were seen. This would be especially wonderful if you have an ancient statue and they could display the exact coloured repleca next to it. However, even if you didn't have the original artwork how wonderful to see an exact replica panel from ancient Greece in full colour. I'd LOVE to see the Parthenon frieze recreated as new in full colour.
One point that was passed over is in the list was that you stated they had to bring in a law that you should only cut a baby from a woman if she was already dead. It makes me wonder what was happening that they felt they needed such a law?
On life expectancy, my friend and I would often wander through graveyards, checking death dates. It was fascinating finding clusters of "hey, a lot of infants died during this time period" and researching it. Seems like, at least in our region, that there was a major disease culling every hundred years or so. This has led to researching the early 20th century plague in the Bay Area, as well as various other ailments.
That’s really interesting!
One of my dearest friends got her online handle, which she's kept since the 1990s, from walking around the graveyard and seeing a gravestone lamenting the loss of a baby named Desolina.
Well considering the oldest cemetery in America is only around 200 years old, I really don't see how you're concluding this "major disease every hundred years or so".
It is super interesting (even for me, coming from a background of an enthusiastic Geography-Histology teacher dad, religious studies, seven years of Latin and currently on a forensic anthropology course haha XD). Love the background work - we need more of this educated content! :)
I just posted a comment about this series on Dr. David's Channel. You are both terrific and now part of my Go To Channels.
Blindly subscribing because Dave told me to.
That is much appreciated!!
So did I. And I blindly subscribed to him because History With Cy and Atun-Shei told me to.
@@vladtheimpala5532 if you don't already check out Stefan Milo.
@@mickdipiano8768
Checked, watched a video, subscribed. Thanks 👍
On ancient lifespans, here is an interesting quote from the Bible:
'Seventy is the sum of our years,
or eighty, if we are strong'. (Psalm XC, v.10).
So for the ancient Hebrews an adult person could probably expect to live until about age 70 in a fortunate life.
Hey Raven! Here from World of Antiquity. Good job. Thanks to you both for these videos.
Another cool and educational video concept! Along with your pyramid building videos you're becoming the myth busters of ancient history!
Hi! coming over from World of Antiquity.. Thank you both for your Videos and sharing your education.
Just had to react to the first item: the virtual disappearance of most "childhood" diseases & others (tetnus, smallpox) raising life expectancy is about the best argument against "anti-vaxers."
Yeah the problem is is that anti vaxxers don't have a consistent logic about this stuff. I wasn't vaccinated as a child (once I realised how bad it was I got fully vaccinated just to be clear) and I once asked my mum why and she said "well you were protected by herd immunity", to be clear I wasn't immunocompromised as a child so I was in fact the hole in herd immunity and I very may well have killed someone by accident and I have to live with that. Sorry, got off track. My point being that I think my mum would be pleased that these diseases were eradicated but that she just felt her family was special somehow and not want to take the potential risk of these scary things she heard of and didn't understand with her precious kids. And I think that may be an attitude of a lot of the more privileged anti vaxxers, where they feel they're different from the rest of the plebs.
@@AM-kr4pv -- I had measles several times as a kid. It wasn't until I was an adult, and many infections later (including TB, HPV-mediated cancer, & viral meningitis x 2), that I and my sib were finally diagnosed as having been born with an as-yet unknown immune deficiency. [Thanks, ancestors.] So, even though we were vaccinated with all the prescribed shots, we sill were susceptible because there are some kinds of antibodies that our bodies do not make. We now get immunoglobulin infusions every 4 weeks (no more infections!!!). Between vaccinations, the IGs, _AND_ herd immunity, we get to stay out of hospitals and save society some money.
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My heartfelt thanks to those of you who donate your blood AND plasma (where the IGs are taken from) so that others can live. (I've just teared up.)
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_And get those children vaccinated against HPV - those are cancers we can wipe out if people just get vaccinated!_ For those of you not vaccinated as a kid against HPV, they now give the vaccine to people up to 45 years old. Ask you doctor!
As entertaining and eye rolling many of these myths are, the origins of the myths and the actual history is so much more interesting than the myths themselves!
Awsome collaboration! Enjoyed it very much!
Love you, Raven 💓 keep up the amazing work 😍🥰❤️
So Glad I found your channel from the Doc, who I found from Stephan Milo.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
If you happen to travel through Athens airport (ATH),
spare a few minutes to visit the in site museum (1st floor) of the local archaeological excavation.
You can see there between other things, two statues with their colours preserved.
I love your enthusiasm!
Thank you Raven 🤗 new subscriber here, from Dr. David's channel.
This Video was so Mambo Jambo, i gave it a big Kongo Bongo !
As always support to watch the ads and give a like help out this Raven and stay inside.
Love these I have seen the one that David did with you Raven and that's how I discovered your UA-cam channel
Damn, my information level just rose 200%! The misconceptions were fun but the truth is more useful.
As to Alexandria, what about Hypatia?
I see your emoji level is... hieroglyphic! 🎩🧐
No way Holy Koolaid too
Hey HK
Such a great pair of videos. Got me to subscribe, can't wait to see what else is on these 2 channels.
So cool! Thanks guys - I just found this channel because of the team up.
Any thoughts about the toy bull (with wheels) from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture? Is this real? If so, what do you the chances could have been that they could have used wheels for transportation?
Thanks again /\
Now this was not vomitrocious. Thanks for helping us dig it! Thumbs Up #366!
This is so interesting, you all killed it.
Damn your channel is interesting! I'll be here often. I like your style! Very good and educative work :)
Great collaboration with 2 channels I follow. Looking forward to more!
Congo bongos! Love it.
I love them too.
Such a great idea for a video series and great introduction to your channel for me, subscribed !
Welcome to the DIWR team! 😊😊
Hooray, another another ACTUAL archeology channel to add to my bloated subscriptions list.
Welcome to the club!!!
Nice clay pipes. I need to visit the Thames eventually.
I was so intrigued by "emoji" that I had to wiki it. It's only from the 80's and 90's from Japan.
The ancients even applied paint to bronzes, though from the photos I've seen, it was more subtle. The polychroming of the building and statuary is spectacular. Even the statues that were removed from the façade of Notre Dame Cathedral were originally polychromed. I wonder if they are to be restored to their original colors before being replaced.
I suggest that you look at - - -
"Gods in Color: Polychromy in Antiquity"
(It is a "digitorial for the exhibition" from Liebieghause Museum)
= _digitorial +Gods in Color_
Another "digitorial" that show some building polychromy is ---
"Athens: The Triumph of Imagery"
= _digitorial +Triumph of Imagery_
Woohoo! Another antiquity channel!
Hope you enjoy!
“I don’t math….”
😂😂
Thank you Raven
Is "Congo Bongos" a term that came out of the Old Kingdom? I'd like to see that hieroglyph!
Lol!
I love learning about history and archeology and enjoy Dr Miano's videos very much. But it's not easy finding channels with the same rigor and truthfulness. I've investigated other "archeology" channels that were a big disappointment >_< , so I stopped looking. I really appreciate Dr Miano's recommendation of Ms Raven.
Regarding statues, the Terracotta Warriors near Xi'an were brightly painted also but the paint is lost with exposure to the air.
Superb!
In Dutch the word for cesarean is "keizersnede" which litterally translates as "emperor"s cut". That is probably a reference to Julius Caesar.
Awesome!
Came over from WOA to subscribe.
As someone who knows a lot of trans people who have had top surgery and a friend who had a radical double mastectomy because of cancer, removing breasts even now is a pretty big deal with long recovery time where you can't do shit with your arms. The idea that ancient people who didn't have anaesthesia or antibiotics in case of infection, would remove a breast just for better archery is wild. I mean what if you didn't heal well and you just had a tight, painful scar in that area forever? Hardly conducive to great archery. Especially when you can literally just compress your chest with layers of fabric if they get in the way so much.
1. Silence of the Lambs
2. ???
3. Cast Away
4. ET
5. The Sixth Sense
7. Blood Diamond
8. Psycho
9. ??Les Miserables?? -not quite sure
10. ???
11. Moneyball
12. ??The King's Speech?? -if that's right, the thought bubble emoji doesn't quite fit
Very nice video.
Nice collab. 🤗
Thanks so much :)
Those painted stone statues look amazing!
Aren't they crazy?! Will definitely be doing a whole video on them soon
good stuff
Encore, Encore🎉🎉🎉. More, more….
living a long life back then wasn't just about class and access to medical care, you'd just have to get lucky. It's like those grandpas that smoke their entire lives and live till 90, or old men refuse to ever go to the doctor but still have great health.
I used to have an album by a band called Raven....can't remember if they were any good..
What's the difference between an Archaeologist and an Historian? Nobody knows for sure but we think it has some sort of ritualistic or religious significance.
Congo bongos!!! LMAO😂❤
One word for the urge to stare at these is "mazophilia."
Is that a Norwegian "helleristning" in the background there??
Are those mudlarking examples behind you?
On life expectancy, life span, chilhood mortality and so on:
-If we go mathematically, life expectancy would be the average of life span, while maximum life span would be the maximum value.
-Not only childhood mortality, but also the prevalence of illnesses. Many diseases that now are easily treatable could then be lethal in high numbers (some of them still are lethal in poorer countries). Since medicine was far less developed and expensive, and antibiothics didn't exist.
Thank you 🤣
Tht ws gr8 :)
Congo bongo i love it.
13:25 - "congobongoes" - Would you happen to know the etymology of this terminology?
Wow you are both awesome I will be subscribing.
I am struggling with finding a job right now I want to do something that will make my life feel like I’m doing something important but I don’t have a degree is there a new career path I could take that you have heard of?
Open to anyone answering
I hope you managed to find something suitable. Remember, we work mainly to be able to eat, clothe ourselves and have a roof over our heads. Enjoying what you do in those 8 hours of the day is a bonus. It's often something we would not do unless we were being paid for it.
I think the misconception about life spans is that we are more likely to live our full lifespan now, and not that it got longer. Because I also see people claim we were healthier before civilization. While it's true we have a lot more man made pollutants and processed chemicals and metals to contend with, and those do cause great harm to us and through bio-accumulation our descendants even more so. They assume that the consumption of grain and livestock were a detriment to our lives and have worsened our health. That the very catalyst for civilization somehow ruined our species and weakened us, is ludicrous when you just look at how vast civilization is, how populations not just grew, but grew faster and stronger and smarter with the wealth of stability brought on by consistent food.
Every place I like used to be Atlantis. Every place I dislike used to be the homeland of the sea peoples.
Is "Ludia" where we get the modern words like "lewd" or "luddite"? (or maybe "Luder" in German?)
If you made it past 5 years old, the life expectancy was 49. Much better than the overall 29 year old expectancy rate. Sure some made it to their 60's and fewer to 80's.
About life expectancy: What might that of sea turtles might be? They lay roughly a hundred eggs each year and most of the offspring really emerges but our planet isn't overcrowded with sea turtles.
Is it true that the Spartans fought barechested, and in slow motion? I saw a movie once that gave me that impression.
I swear to god that movie was just.. so uniquely bad; it's umbelievable how insulting it was to both the Greeks and the Achaemenids.
@@theonlygoodlookinghabsburg2081 It's about as historically accurate as The Lord of the Rings. I was waiting for orcs to appear.
@@theonlygoodlookinghabsburg2081 You know, I thought it was ridiculous as well. Fun, but silly. That is until I listened to Dan Carlin's take on Thermopylae. More or less, he posited that since most of what we know about this is drawn from Herodatus' histories and Herodotus was prone to exaggerate in such a way that maximized Greek glory and such. He also tended to play to his audience and wrote what he thought they wanted to hear. This should go without saying, but, Spartan/Laconic society was very martially orientated and valued prowess in battle very highly.
Mix Herodotus' propensity to write in a propagandistic manner and the Spartan's societal self-image and you end up with an account that more closely resembles Frank Miller's source graphic novel and its film adaptation, '300.' Thusly '300' ended up at least somewhat true to the spirit of the ancient text.
When I think about '300' through that lens, I find it much more interesting. (Plus I am a sucker for stories of valiant last stands.)
@@roll4initiative872 Before I say anything let me say first of all that I am also a sucker for heroic last stands.. or just impressive military feats of any kind.. I also appreciate last stands that end up in failure.
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@@roll4initiative872 The Greek and Roman historians wrote for performance, not silent reading. Wealthy or cultured families and their friends would listen to a stirring tale of their ancestors' deeds while relaxing after dinner. That's why there are all those set piece speeches put into the mouths of characters.
"History" was one of the literary art forms. It had its own muse, Clio. The audience wanted to be diverted, amused, perhaps stirred, and come away feeling good about themselves. That's not conducive to scientific accuracy.
Maybe some writers were more objective than others, but those that were most copied by the mediaeval monks may have been what they themselves enjoyed hearing.
Ancient histories were closer to scripts for a radio programme. Perhaps the closest in our time was the Victorian Music Hall, where dramatic recitations of prose or poetry about imperial losses and victories were performed by Rudyard Kipling or some look-alike.
18:20 - Doesn't the cognomen, Caesar mean 'hairy'?
This lady has charm and moxie!
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Great clip, nothing like the power of facts. I like your relaxed and passionate way of presenting as well. I’m a tour guide starting with history clips as well. Would you like to check out if you had a minute? Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Women gladiators! Did they occasionally wear Timex watches, like some of the men, as seen in the historical documents that came out of Italy in the 1960's?
15:23 The channel Nativlang did some videos on Hieroglyphs: ua-cam.com/video/ZBiuJ40t4rk/v-deo.html
Interesting how Egyptian and Chinese symbols are both phonographic and logographic.
Miano looks like Ben Stiller
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Hard physical work will often lead to a shorter life.
Re: the uninhibited sexuality myth, I was curious if you could tell us more about temple prostitution in regards to ancient Mesopotamia. It's something I've been trying to research but haven't found much about. Any book/essay recommendations?
This is a super interesting topic that I've been reading into lately! Will be doing a video on it this year and will link all my resources for it 😊
@@DigItWithRaven Yay, I can't wait!
@@elihinze3161 Eli, I recommend the book Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature by Gwendolyn Leick.
@@WorldofAntiquity Thank you so much!
The sexuality myth is so easy to explain to. Given that its obviously a cultural thing. Many cultures would have sexual things we dont. And many may have been even more strict than early christians
Lots of labor, NON inept hunters (grins) and My Mom's side of the family...and my Dad's side as well...the females get to 100 candles easily. BUT...people are surprised that I am still alive ;)...NEW nickname for Raven: Gladiator Girl!!!! Nicene was more about doctrine/ determination about the Godhead and was followed by a "sequel" in Constantinople. Both were politically motivated...and we all know how well that works. And Raven can read hieroglyphics without moving her lips! No touch screen? Raven...tell us more about the olden days! Like...were rainbows just black and white when you were a kid? Like TV was? No doubt statues had colour (note the spelling) but lost it...look how often they repaint Disneyland!
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According to the Bible we use to reach the 1,000’s at our debut on this planet.
So rich people lived about as long as we do...
Speaking of lifespans, the life expectancy of modern residents of the United States is declining. We are also the only industrialized nation for wich this is happening.
For the US as a whole, life expectancy and infant mortality are closer to Eastern than Western Europe, but if you look at specific areas (inner cities versus outer suburbs) and communities the picture is different.
If you wish to consider "statistics" relating to something you must take into account the nature of the data you are using. Here is what I mean. Consider a nation which has a relatively "small" population which further has "universal healthcare" so that access to healthcare is ubiquitous. Since healthcare access as well as the quality of that care figures heavily in life expectancy + you're dealing with a relatively small population group = statistics vis a vis "expectancy" will likely reflect this fact and be good.
Now say you additionally do not see a lot of immigration coming into your "model" nation and thus its demographics represent a somewhat "closed" system. It therefore becomes easier to improve upon life expectancy of those there because you do not have "outside influence" to account for in your statistics.
Moral of the story: the US is a large country - both geographically as well as population wise. It further sees a fairly high level of immigration influx compared to other nations. More important here however = what is the relative health status of those immigrants.
Ergo if the US sees millions of people immigrating to it each year + its own population does not have consistent access to healthcare and other socioeconomic necessities of life + its demographics and hence access to such things varies from locality to locality as alluded to by others + and finally the big one here - it has an extensive public health surveillance system for tracking health issues = all of this will impact overall statistics vis a vis health expectancy.
So even if "native born" US people are in perhaps better health - if people who come to live in the US are not and they are included in your surveillance statistics as far as diseases etc.. and subsequent mortality = your "overall" statistics will reflect this. It is no different with "averages" in that 60% might be good with 40% not so good but that 40% lowers your averages overall despite most doing okay. There are 300+ million people in the US and their access to services in not universal - hence the wide disparity of outcome reflected in statistics. 🤔
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If you made it to adulthood in the ancient world, you had a decent chance of making it to old age, but you were still a lot more likely to die young than you are today. More people died from infectious diseases, which could strike you at any age. As well as childbirth, a lot of people died from infections resulting from minor injuries and dental problems, from food poisoning, and in the case of the poor, from malnutrition and dangerous working conditions. Most Ancient Egyptian mummies are not of 'old' people by today's standards, with the average age at death of adult mummies being in the 30's. Child mortality was the biggest factor affecting life expectancy in the ancient world, but was not the only one. This would have made the ages of the people in the streets of an ancient settlement seem very odd by today's standards- there would have been lots and lots of young people and children, with comparatively fewer middle-aged people. There'd still be a fair few old people, but they'd be a rarer sight than today.
You guys should do a video on marijuana throughout history.
We even white washed the statues!
7:42.... Sapho's work suggests people ran the gamut of human complications , of love , till it soured.
But inter family affairs are going on in royal house. King Solomon s harem ...
And Roman wives being punished , made to become street prostitute.
Also just what sort of " Entertainment ". .was Empress Theodora famous for ?
" Temple Prostitute " .....This was that prostitution was going on around temples ....because the Deity ( of the Temple was blamed for the licentiousness. ( Got away with it ...lf anyone noticed )
St Augustine , in , The City of God , writes a description of a ' Roman Pagan Ritual ' at a Pagan site , and sex is being had in public view. Hmmm ?