The Kentucky hoard makes sense, it was something known as a "Farmer's Bank" Farmer's used to bury money on their property often, normally within 20 yards of a landmark (Giant stone, tree, bend in a river) for safe keeping. Many farmers died without digging up their account. BTW if this makes no sense to you remember 100 years ago your bank could go out of business and you might not know until you actually go to the bank! And phones/cops were an hour/DAY away at best
Actually until the early 1900s, a lot of banks would only be local. Great if you were in town or near it. But if you were on a farm equidistant (ish) between 3 towns? Completely useless. Banking at Sudstadt and the road is washed out? GL using the money you had banked there.
@@maxwirt921 If you've come this far... maybe you'll come a little further. OK that sounded sexual but I didn't write it!!! Just spewing it back up... DAMN that was just as bad!
15 year's ago. Middle Tennessee. I was digging in my yard. Building a BMX track of sorts. Came across a solid steel box. It was a beautiful box. Whoever crafted it did a beautiful job.. Thought it may be money or previous metals inside. Got my dad and some friend's over to help me open it. And we did. All that was inside was a piece of paper and a few bigger rocks. The note was waterlogged and couldn't read but 3 words. Sigh. I was so excited about what it could have been. Or what that note said.
Ha ha ha. I bet it might have been a decoy. Bury a box of rocks and some scoundrel comes by and sees the raw dirt and decides to get rich, but surprise, it's just rocks. No joke on you though, it's a cool story still.
The images may look weird, but they are somewhat useful and illustrativ. All I ask is, that the words 'AI Depiction` are written in MUCH bigger caption. To avoid viewers thinking, that those are actual illustrations
That reminds me of mapmaking. I had a local metro area map with a small notation reading “Detection devices inherent”. I, knowing the area reasonably well, found a couple of errors across the map. I believe these were the ’devices’, things deliberately inserted that would escape the notice of a copy and paste cartographer stealing the originator’s work, and leave the source’s metaphorical fingerprints intact for legal action. This may be a modification of the sourced material to put Sideprojects’ stamp on this use. You want to use the materials he used? Go get it for yourself from where he got it, don’t rip it off from his video as a shortcut.
I don’t know anything about bronze or bronze swords, but I’ve always wondered if the ledgend of Excalibur, specifically it being extremely strong, could’ve come from stories of the first steel swords, which presumably would’ve only been owned by the wealthy, i.e., kings, going up against older bronze swords.
@@desperadox7565 It very well could have been passed down orally for generations before anyone wrote it down. My understanding is that if Arthur was real, he was probably a Roman Briton near or after the end of Roman rule, which would coincide with iron’s introduction to Britain. I could be wrong though.
@@maxwirt921 Iron was 1st used in Britain in @ 800bc, or nearly 800 years before the Romans arrived. Also a sword that would eventually be known as Excalibur was 1st mentioned in the 900's ad. It would be very unlikely for it to have been an oral history for nearly 2000 years. At any rate exceptionally well made swords often received a name and they were some of the more rare items that would last long enough to be passed down to subsequent generations.
All of your channels, just drives to a depth of your videos, me watching video after video falling of to sleep, and getting up with new knowledge of history, conspiracy, and just awesome thoughts of history. 😅 I find I retain alot of the information that's said with your voice. Much appreciated learning and watching
Bronze swords, especifically. They knew bronze spears and such were used, but as it tends to happen, a good number of people believe that the finesse needed to make bronze swords effective weapons (except as a last ditch) was unattainable to dirty barbarians from the past, so they must all have been ceremonial (doesn't help that there were, indeed, ceremonial swords). It's the same kind of mindset that pushes people towards Ancient Aliens.
According to legends, the Knights of the Golden Circle buried caches of gold and silver all throughout the South to help finance a second Civil War. If true, there are literally millions of dollars worth of treasure hidden in the South.
I like the map, the photos, the text of Simon's speech, the photo of the news article. I can cope with the AI images even; but PLEASE I beg you, No More Floating Lights.
@@M-_-O I'm sorry, ok? wont happen again lmao. btw that town is one of only a few that still have a complete medieval city wall and its the town that inspired the walled city of the anime Attack on Titan. So kinda not suprised they found that here.
I pulled apart my washing machine to repair it and found 6 random socks down in between the drum and the side and front panels. Those machines DO eat socks.
I'm glad you're not using unlabeled AI images, but I request that you do not use AI imagery in depicting non-fiction objects. This channel's primary use is as informative entertainment. While the script is the main form of information delivery, the imagery is ALSO a major method of delivering information. Extensive use of AI imagery inherently undermines the authenticity of the information provided, and significantly reduces the trustworthiness of this channel.
You should probably note that you're talking about a different Heraklion than the one on Crete, which is far more important historically and was never lost to historians
Yeah.. We cast parts in bronze where I work and it's NOT a soft alloy... not sure what that's about... It is quite heavy/dense though, so that might be the problem with using a weapon made of of it.
There's a farmer that lives near me and in Missouri and he's found many $20 gold coins over the years when he plows. All are 1860s pre and mid civil war.
Simon! Please have discussions about paying an artist rather than using AI art! As creatives and performers AI is a massive threat to our incomes! Doesn't it make more sense to use AI for tasks, so that WE can create the art, rather than the other way round? P.S I hope you never get replaced by an AI voice over
Wait, that sword hoard, wasn't it out to auction recently? There is a channel called "Skulligraud" or something, and the host of the channel got to talk about the swords on auction. I think they were also found in Germany. Could have been a different pile of dug up swords in good condition from Germany. Sadly it seems like if the sheath didn't rot away over time, than they just became part of the sword. I don't know if they found any intact sheaths.
I've wanted to ditch med school for archeology for years now and this video proves there's still cool things going on out there 😭 especially on those 'black cloud' nights in the E.R I get to thinking, "well... my career is already with the dead; bagging, tagging, and transporting somewhere else and inventorying their belongings..." At least with archeology there's less emotional wear and tear on the soul. Sure, there's never that amazing feeling of a "save" or getting to make your patients laugh at stupid jokes to take the edge off, but the chances of a family member blaming me for not saving their loved one in time are zero. And if someone does, something more concerning is going on 😂
1:57 So many Kentuckians, today, are unaware of the commonwealth's status during the Civil War and claim flying the confederat flag is "MY HERITAGE!" Kentucky isn't in the South. It's the southernmost Midwestern state.
I dug up my WHOLE YARD...took out 29 Tree stumps all I found was an old HORSE SHOE and some broken bricks . The HORSE SHOE didn't bring any luck. Maybe I can get $20 for giant boulders I had to dig out 😢
Maybe one day they'll discover where the Stonehenge Blue Stones originally formed a henge in Wales? The Roman road from Carmarthen to the Preseli Hills, where the stones were quarried, changes direction at a point where there are unusual earthworks that have never been researched. There may have been a trackway from the Preselis to this site before the Romans came. The location of this site has a panoramic view of the surrounding countryside.
I found an old brick while digging in my yard. Looks hand made, probably 100+ years old. I haven't decided yet whether I should auction it off or not. It has to be worth upwards of $2.
I like Simon’s vids in general, but for the love of god, please stop applying distracting and unnecessary “antique film stock” visual effects to everything! I don’t want fake film scratches and floaters competing with the actual subject of the video.
A land owner in Northern California was walking his property and kicked a rusty can half buried and found mint condition gold coins. By the end of their search they had found 1470 coins dated 1847-1894. Face value of $27,000 valued at $10 million.
The great Kentucky HORDE?? Really? Good grief you're supposed to be educating and that's the first thing I see? I was expecting a horde of Kentukians doing something, not a Hoard. I'd have a word with your staff, the word should be Dictionary!
If I ever found something like this. I'd never tell another soul. I'd be taking that to the grave. I wonder how many times that's actually happened. "Unfound treasure" that was actually found 50 years ago.
The town of Nördlingen is interesting enough in its own right, having been built in a 15 million-year-old impact crater. Stone used in the town’s buildings contains countless tiny diamonds, created by the impact.
I must strongly protest the use of AI materials in a video of this type, where authenticity is the whole point and undermines the message. I hope whoever edited this takes this criticism to heart.
Addendum: General John Hunt Morgan, of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, was captured twice and escaped twice from Union arrest. When he was captured a third time, he was murdered to prevent a third escape. That might explain why the gold hoard was not reclaimed. If my speculation is correct, then the rightful owner of the treasure in question is the United States Government. Side note: General Morgan's nephew Charlton Hunt Morgan won the Noble Prize for proving that genes found on chromosomes are the basis of heredity.
Conjecture time: The Kentucky gold hoard may have come from a Union gold shipment sent to North Alabama- Google "Legend of Keel Mountain Gold". The dates on the found coins seem to match, and there is a Kentucky connection. Confederate cavalry General John Hunt Morgan, also known as the "Lightening Bolt of the Confederacy", made 2 or 3 raids from North Alabama to his other home State of Kentucky. These were the northernmost raids into Union occupied territory during the American Civil War. Could it be that the gold was taken north to Kentucky to finance the Confederate resistance?
Please, Simon, stop using Ai images! There's no reason to do so, it eighter looks like a cheap effect and honestly a little lazy, or you're creating false images of historic places, people and cultures. Please, Ai needs to play a far, far smaller role in the future if the internet is to have any hope of being useful in the future, and a creator like yourself could be a great role model to show that one doesn't need to use Ai!
Please let me edit the audio, Simon. I’m an audio engineer and I will do it for free. These vocals are way too harsh. The highs are way too present and your “S” and “T”s are overpowering. I am going to keep commenting and die on this hill until the audio is fixed because I care about the quality of your content and want it to be as good as possible.
More like "I'm interested in your content and I like the sound of your voice as you present it but I would prefer not needing to torture my ears as payment". This video isn't great but in some cases I can't listen with headphones because the S's hurt my ears.
Is that's what all is wrong with his videos? I got tinnitus in late 2023 and there's a few UA-camrs I cannot listen to. Simon is really bad. They trigger the tinnitus and it rather hurts. Occasionally (obviously) I still try to watch videos but I'm not making it through entire videos and I'm only rarely watching one or another bc it's generally, waste of time, I only make it a couple of minutes. Gawd. Please help him tidy this up!! I can't believe it's something so dumb that's killing me over here and prevent me to watch (well, listen. But what point to watch if I can't listen?!)
Those hordes haven’t been found -that we know of.. anyone who might have found them at some point could have done so on land they didn’t own, and quietly sold it to private collectors
Looks like the trend of showing AI images and images unrelated to the subjects has reached Simon's videos. Personally, I want the real deal, not made up shit that results from shortcuts and lazy editing.
Those images that you were speaking of taken from space a guy who worked for the company that made the lenses. He had one of those pictures on his wall that look like a microchip. With a huge Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass on the table below it. He explained that that's taken from space and he worked on the Optics and if you pick up the magnifying glass. you can read newspapers license plates to our surprise we could.
@fahq4this is it considered lazy to have something created that doesn't infringe on any copyrights so they can continue providing us with new content on schedule? Or is it lazy to not want to pay a fortune to use other people's property and have everyone bitch regardless? Maybe it's lazy not to want to use the same old generic free use content that's available...
As much as I want things archaelogically speaking to be revealed, I too would keep them out of it had I found the first hoard. Too many nosy people who want in on the hoard show up in the greedy USA.
FYI its summer most places, why does your editor think it needs to be snowing in every video? At this point, the amount of snow, weird sounds, and stupid back ground videos that have nothing to do with the story. Built his channels off of this, love the stories though
Wow, a discovery that was made in the 60s or 70s being made again, but like for real this time, nowadays? It's weird that that's happened twice this week. Such as life being found on Mars in the 70s but nobody actually admitting it til now.
What was the other? (If it's your last sentence, check that you source is not The Onion or Giorgio Tsoukalous' social media. PS. Interesting that I could easily find the guy's name by inputting "weird ancient aliens guy with the weird hair" in a non-google search engine.
There's probably a comment on this already, but I'm too lazy to search the comments, so... What if Thonis/Heracleon was the basis of the story of Atlantis? Clay liquifying and tsunamis sinking an island city sounds close enough to the legend. Perhaps not the actual city of Atlantis, per se, but a starting point for a legend that the Greeks used to warn of the power of Poseidon. Not that far of an extrapolation from the truth of Thonis as we understand it and something that was very likely done, in my opinion.
Simon, Sorry to tell you but the images, whether AI generated or plucked from some image-bank, are cheesy, unrepresentative, sometimes laughable, and mostly just not very appropriate. Please put an actual human brain in the editing chain-of-command and decision-making process. If those brains are already there, they are not doing their jobs very well, and put in doubt their designation as 'brains'. Thank you my good man. Michael Barrett
Maybe people own the images and charge people to use them Maybe everyone will bitch because the free generic images are all the same Most importantly, Maybe everyone should stop whining about it, it's only just beginning and it's not going anywhere
I clicked on this so fast that I thought this was going to be about chicken and Colonel Sanders. Before the page loaded but by the time my brain finished processing the rest of the title, I started to feel disappointed. Sorry about that, but it was such a strange feeling like I just witnessed the 13 milliseconds of time it takes to see something. Okay back to whatever this was again....oh I could finish that roach. 🤔
Isnt 1500 bce the late bronze age meaning high quality bronze work shouldnt have been that rare? Not to diteact from the coolness of thay artifact but it wasnt a super early example of bronze work.
I bet all the others mentions have been found, BUT those people were SMART and told no one including THE TAX MAN! who wants to give 20% to some BS fed waste of money!
Dollar 1 ($1)or 1 dollar (1$). The European way does make sense however the way we in the US uses it is more recognizable. They tend to write as spoken
I wish this video had more real pictures of the artifacts and less stock footage or AI generated content, and the video indicated what was real and what was not. I kinda feal that this was more questionable on what was what in the pictures than the Ancient Aliens program.
Bronze is tough, anti corrosive and nigh indestructible. Its not FRAGILE. Only advanced processing technology emerging around 500 BC in China to 800 BC in the middle east and southern europe made iron based weapons possible (though the average quality remained pretty bad for many centuries), thus it became economically feasible and manageable to replace bronze weapons by the much cheaper mass produced iron based (and usually more fragile and bendable :D) successors. The actual quality variation of iron/steel weapons remained massive until even modernity. Bronze was far more consistent in quality as its formula is simple and the alloy production straight forward, requiring less sophisticated smelting techniques for good results with nearly equal tensile strength to high quality iron, and vastly lower temperatures, and even until the 17th century mainly used for naval guns, cast iron was inferior, due to impurities and prone to catastrophic failure. Nevertheless bronze casting is a ardous high skill time consuming process and difficult to perform even for highly trained specialists retaining the core disadvantage of bronze, mass production/economics. Even the wealth of entire kingdoms was measured by the amount of bronze cannon they could afford at some times. Specialists in metallurgic production were priceless assets for states. The English poached a master of that technology from one of the german states of the time giving them a massive advantage in naval warfare artillery tech enabling them to defeat the spanish empire and the dutch and establish the Royal Navy as the most powerful Navy on the planet in the coming centuries. British ships werent even that good (french ships of the age of sail were considered the pinnacle of speed and manouverablity and highly sought after prizes renamed for use in the Royal Navy) , but the logistics,regiment,firepower,the training ,skill and discipline of crew and officers was one of a kind for nearly 300 years. A bronze cannon would only crack ..not explode on failure, and worn out ventholes could be renewed, which was impossible for cast iron. Some bronze cannons used on naval warships were used for 200 years and didnt fail. Only the arrival of high quality steel (fueled by the coal based industrial revolution) of sufficient purity,tensile strength, and larger quantities starting at the early 18th century into the 19th century made steel artillery and large caliber guns possible. Full metal hulls and other large metal constructions, became possible due to steel being much stronger than iron requiring less mass for a better result. Superhigh temperature smelting enabled by coal based heating technology made all this possible. The emergence of the Railroad was the other main driving factor for iron and steel proliferation as well as bridges (world first fully iron bridge 1779 Coalbrookdale)..which until the 18th century and even beyond were still made out of stone,brick and wood like in ancient times. Im a bit fan of bronze as a material one can easily determine by this prolonged totally overkill essay in reaction to a simple statement in a popular science youtube video. LMAO.
Just wanted to let you know, as one purveyor of Massive Missive (c) comments [not really copyrighted 🙂] to another, I much appreciated your perspective on this corner of technical knowledge. It makes sense that the very plethora of options available in making iron and its offspring, steel, would be a liability until the variables were sorted out and controllable. Carbon is a simply phenomenal element!
0:45 - Chapter 1 - The great kentuchy horde
3:30 - Chapter 2 - 3000 year old swords in germany
6:15 - Chapter 3 - The tomb of cerberus
8:35 - Chapter 4 - 396 roman forts
12:00 - Chapter 5 - Underwater egyptian temple
'Hoard', not 'horde'. I do expect better editing from your group.
@@JohnWesleyHardin1853 Wow. Thank you. Useful.
The Kentucky hoard makes sense, it was something known as a "Farmer's Bank" Farmer's used to bury money on their property often, normally within 20 yards of a landmark (Giant stone, tree, bend in a river) for safe keeping. Many farmers died without digging up their account.
BTW if this makes no sense to you remember 100 years ago your bank could go out of business and you might not know until you actually go to the bank! And phones/cops were an hour/DAY away at best
@@ku8721
A guy I met in the joint by the name of Andy Dufresne told me there was one up near Buxton, Maine by an old stone wall. 😂
To hide from family, freinds, theifs, government
Problem was if you die say falling off a horse no one knew where
And would be multiple stashes
@@maxwirt921 If you came this far maybe you'll come a little further
Actually until the early 1900s, a lot of banks would only be local. Great if you were in town or near it. But if you were on a farm equidistant (ish) between 3 towns? Completely useless. Banking at Sudstadt and the road is washed out? GL using the money you had banked there.
@@maxwirt921 If you've come this far... maybe you'll come a little further.
OK that sounded sexual but I didn't write it!!! Just spewing it back up... DAMN that was just as bad!
15 year's ago. Middle Tennessee. I was digging in my yard. Building a BMX track of sorts. Came across a solid steel box. It was a beautiful box. Whoever crafted it did a beautiful job.. Thought it may be money or previous metals inside.
Got my dad and some friend's over to help me open it. And we did.
All that was inside was a piece of paper and a few bigger rocks. The note was waterlogged and couldn't read but 3 words.
Sigh. I was so excited about what it could have been. Or what that note said.
Ha ha ha. I bet it might have been a decoy. Bury a box of rocks and some scoundrel comes by and sees the raw dirt and decides to get rich, but surprise, it's just rocks. No joke on you though, it's a cool story still.
I'm glad the channel labels the AI images, but those images look weird af
The images may look weird, but they are somewhat useful and illustrativ.
All I ask is, that the words 'AI Depiction` are written in MUCH bigger caption. To avoid viewers thinking, that those are actual illustrations
I'd rather they paid an actual artist
@@shig.bitz.3205
…which probably means You would need to pay more, for an actual artist…
No free lunch.
Why is there snowfall throughout the video during b-roll?
Odd, confusing, distracting and ... pointless.
was strolling the comments to see if any one else was commenting on this. Is this to do with video recognition for copyrihts ?
Yes! I have enough floaters in my own eyeballs without having them on the screen as well.
Confusing! 😂🤦🏻
Why with the artificial dust? I hope not the new normal? Terribly distracting.
That reminds me of mapmaking. I had a local metro area map with a small notation reading “Detection devices inherent”. I, knowing the area reasonably well, found a couple of errors across the map. I believe these were the ’devices’, things deliberately inserted that would escape the notice of a copy and paste cartographer stealing the originator’s work, and leave the source’s metaphorical fingerprints intact for legal action.
This may be a modification of the sourced material to put Sideprojects’ stamp on this use. You want to use the materials he used? Go get it for yourself from where he got it, don’t rip it off from his video as a shortcut.
I don’t know anything about bronze or bronze swords, but I’ve always wondered if the ledgend of Excalibur, specifically it being extremely strong, could’ve come from stories of the first steel swords, which presumably would’ve only been owned by the wealthy, i.e., kings, going up against older bronze swords.
I don't think this legend is *that* old.
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It very well could have been passed down orally for generations before anyone wrote it down. My understanding is that if Arthur was real, he was probably a Roman Briton near or after the end of Roman rule, which would coincide with iron’s introduction to Britain. I could be wrong though.
@@maxwirt921 Iron was 1st used in Britain in @ 800bc, or nearly 800 years before the Romans arrived. Also a sword that would eventually be known as Excalibur was 1st mentioned in the 900's ad. It would be very unlikely for it to have been an oral history for nearly 2000 years. At any rate exceptionally well made swords often received a name and they were some of the more rare items that would last long enough to be passed down to subsequent generations.
@@robo5013
I didn’t know that. (After watching so much of Simon’s content I probably should have) Thank you!
Came from the Middle East as they knew how to make good steel then
It's HOARD, dammit! A Horde is a mob.
For the hoard!
@@Urduhkhan For The Alliance !
For the Fatherland
For Frodo!
😂
All of your channels, just drives to a depth of your videos, me watching video after video falling of to sleep, and getting up with new knowledge of history, conspiracy, and just awesome thoughts of history. 😅 I find I retain alot of the information that's said with your voice. Much appreciated learning and watching
Who thought bronze was never used as a weapon?
Museums are full of them
Until wide use of iron and steel was the best around
Bronze swords, especifically. They knew bronze spears and such were used, but as it tends to happen, a good number of people believe that the finesse needed to make bronze swords effective weapons (except as a last ditch) was unattainable to dirty barbarians from the past, so they must all have been ceremonial (doesn't help that there were, indeed, ceremonial swords). It's the same kind of mindset that pushes people towards Ancient Aliens.
Dam I live in Kentucky I'm going to start digging!!!
Yeah it was around perryville
According to legends, the Knights of the Golden Circle buried caches of gold and silver all throughout the South to help finance a second Civil War. If true, there are literally millions of dollars worth of treasure hidden in the South.
“…in an unspecified place in Kentucky”
Goodie Translate : None of your damn business
It is nice to see people actually finding the goods..so many vids about what if....
I like the map, the photos, the text of Simon's speech, the photo of the news article. I can cope with the AI images even; but PLEASE I beg you, No More Floating Lights.
This week a tiny cuneiform tablet was discovered in Turkey..... As always, great videos Simon!
This one was very interesting. So many things go on around the world that I would never learn about without videos like this! 💜
I completely forgot about that sword... thats literally where I work.
That's cool, what do you do there?
@@Nepheos why did you leave your sword there? Look what you’ve done.
@@M-_-O I'm sorry, ok? wont happen again lmao.
btw that town is one of only a few that still have a complete medieval city wall and its the town that inspired the walled city of the anime Attack on Titan. So kinda not suprised they found that here.
Can't wait for incredible discoveries that will be discovered this year.
I still can't find my missing socks from the washing machine.
did you look in Kentucky
Me either. There might be a "sock zone" (like the "twilight zone") where all of our missing socks go to ..
Missing socks from the wash is mentally exhausting.
They will be found by future researches who will speculate that there are no matching pairs due to some ritual sacrifice. Obviously. 😂😂😂
I pulled apart my washing machine to repair it and found 6 random socks down in between the drum and the side and front panels.
Those machines DO eat socks.
Great topics and coverage. THANK YOU!
I'm glad you're not using unlabeled AI images, but I request that you do not use AI imagery in depicting non-fiction objects. This channel's primary use is as informative entertainment. While the script is the main form of information delivery, the imagery is ALSO a major method of delivering information. Extensive use of AI imagery inherently undermines the authenticity of the information provided, and significantly reduces the trustworthiness of this channel.
Somebody lost they job to A.I😅
>this guy going on an uncalled-for rant about AI like it slept with his wife lmao
What are all those floaty things? Reverse dandruff?
You should probably note that you're talking about a different Heraklion than the one on Crete, which is far more important historically and was never lost to historians
Bronze is not soft, it is a very hard alloy of mainly copper and tin.
Yeah.. We cast parts in bronze where I work and it's NOT a soft alloy... not sure what that's about... It is quite heavy/dense though, so that might be the problem with using a weapon made of of it.
There's a farmer that lives near me and in Missouri and he's found many $20 gold coins over the years when he plows. All are 1860s pre and mid civil war.
We bury the dead as treasures also.
Simon! Please have discussions about paying an artist rather than using AI art! As creatives and performers AI is a massive threat to our incomes! Doesn't it make more sense to use AI for tasks, so that WE can create the art, rather than the other way round?
P.S I hope you never get replaced by an AI voice over
Wait, that sword hoard, wasn't it out to auction recently? There is a channel called "Skulligraud" or something, and the host of the channel got to talk about the swords on auction.
I think they were also found in Germany.
Could have been a different pile of dug up swords in good condition from Germany.
Sadly it seems like if the sheath didn't rot away over time, than they just became part of the sword. I don't know if they found any intact sheaths.
I found an 1874 penny just laying on the ground, while walking through a customer's yard.
WAS IT ONE OF THOSE PENNIES THAT IS LARGER THEN A MODERN QUARTER? I THINK I SAW ONE OF THESE ONCE.
@@Genesh12 No, it was a US indian head penny was the same size as a modern US penny
I've wanted to ditch med school for archeology for years now and this video proves there's still cool things going on out there 😭 especially on those 'black cloud' nights in the E.R I get to thinking, "well... my career is already with the dead; bagging, tagging, and transporting somewhere else and inventorying their belongings..." At least with archeology there's less emotional wear and tear on the soul. Sure, there's never that amazing feeling of a "save" or getting to make your patients laugh at stupid jokes to take the edge off, but the chances of a family member blaming me for not saving their loved one in time are zero. And if someone does, something more concerning is going on 😂
I mean if you like being poor sure go for it
Dun duhdun dunnn
Dun duhdun!
Dun duhdun dunnn
Dun duhdun!
Dun duhduuun dun duhduuun...
Better off metal detecting on a Florida beach
@@tomhenry897what’s there to find on a Florida beach?
@@cam5816 obese grandmas
1:57 So many Kentuckians, today, are unaware of the commonwealth's status during the Civil War and claim flying the confederat flag is "MY HERITAGE!" Kentucky isn't in the South. It's the southernmost Midwestern state.
I dug up my WHOLE YARD...took out 29 Tree stumps all I found was an old HORSE SHOE and some broken bricks . The HORSE SHOE didn't bring any luck. Maybe I can get $20 for giant boulders I had to dig out 😢
Maybe one day they'll discover where the Stonehenge Blue Stones originally formed a henge in Wales? The Roman road from Carmarthen to the Preseli Hills, where the stones were quarried, changes direction at a point where there are unusual earthworks that have never been researched. There may have been a trackway from the Preselis to this site before the Romans came. The location of this site has a panoramic view of the surrounding countryside.
Wasn’t one stone came from Scotland
I found an old brick while digging in my yard. Looks hand made, probably 100+ years old. I haven't decided yet whether I should auction it off or not. It has to be worth upwards of $2.
I have $2. I want it.
I live in Kentucky and I’ve never heard about the coins. Asked my family, nope. Weird. Once again, the internet teaches us something everyday.
0:45 you mean the Great Kentucky Hoard? Talk about Rouge Angles of Satin... (again at 1:19)
I like Simon’s vids in general, but for the love of god, please stop applying distracting and unnecessary “antique film stock” visual effects to everything! I don’t want fake film scratches and floaters competing with the actual subject of the video.
I'm calling that overlay "drifting pollen." Very distracting and annoying.
But I like trying to wipe the dirt off my screen.
Go watch someone else's videos then, bye. Don't come back
Maybe it avoids accidental copyright strikes from other vids using the same stock clips?
Imagine thinking that these floaters are a visual improvement and everyone in the process agreeing. Fk me
Today on Time traveling UA-cam with Simon.
Thanks sir for your videos, I apologize sometimes I forgot to hit like button, sorry
A land owner in Northern California was walking his property and kicked a rusty can half buried and found mint condition gold coins. By the end of their search they had found 1470 coins dated 1847-1894. Face value of $27,000 valued at $10 million.
The great Kentucky HORDE?? Really? Good grief you're supposed to be educating and that's the first thing I see? I was expecting a horde of Kentukians doing something, not a Hoard. I'd have a word with your staff, the word should be Dictionary!
Yeah…that was just sloppy.
Please stop using AI images
Agreed
@@nmgg6928 pathetic
Very cringe
@@nmgg6928 weakness breeds weakness
You actually watch the videos....background noise for me 😂😅
I could listen to Simon all Day, even if he's saying bad news
What's with the distracting/ annoying snow bullshit. Stop it!
If I ever found something like this. I'd never tell another soul. I'd be taking that to the grave. I wonder how many times that's actually happened. "Unfound treasure" that was actually found 50 years ago.
I would probably sell it as soon as possible.
And then you risk it gets found by somebody without any scientific responsibility and it gets excavated without care and sold on the black market.
That’s cool however how do you spend what you found
Be smart
Sell a few at a time
That way government won’t tax or seize it
Or the X take it
I would take most of the gold, and then let them survey that last couple pieces in situ.
Love this content. Much prefer it to the more wAcKy ad LiB ones (though I appreciate there’s a market for both and I’m a fan in general!).
Cutting it close on that intro to finding the 3k year old swords 😅🤣 I work at a prison, my mind always goes to the nefarious lol
The town of Nördlingen is interesting enough in its own right, having been built in a 15 million-year-old impact crater. Stone used in the town’s buildings contains countless tiny diamonds, created by the impact.
I must strongly protest the use of AI materials in a video of this type, where authenticity is the whole point and undermines the message.
I hope whoever edited this takes this criticism to heart.
Some years ago I was chatting with an archaeologist in Egypt . He said he thought there was 60% or more yet undiscover .
Addendum: General John Hunt Morgan, of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, was captured twice and escaped twice from Union arrest. When he was captured a third time, he was murdered to prevent a third escape. That might explain why the gold hoard was not reclaimed. If my speculation is correct, then the rightful owner of the treasure in question is the United States Government. Side note: General Morgan's nephew Charlton Hunt Morgan won the Noble Prize for proving that genes found on chromosomes are the basis of heredity.
Conjecture time: The Kentucky gold hoard may have come from a Union gold shipment sent to North Alabama- Google "Legend of Keel Mountain Gold". The dates on the found coins seem to match, and there is a Kentucky connection. Confederate cavalry General John Hunt Morgan, also known as the "Lightening Bolt of the Confederacy", made 2 or 3 raids from North Alabama to his other home State of Kentucky. These were the northernmost raids into Union occupied territory during the American Civil War. Could it be that the gold was taken north to Kentucky to finance the Confederate resistance?
Please, Simon, stop using Ai images! There's no reason to do so, it eighter looks like a cheap effect and honestly a little lazy, or you're creating false images of historic places, people and cultures. Please, Ai needs to play a far, far smaller role in the future if the internet is to have any hope of being useful in the future, and a creator like yourself could be a great role model to show that one doesn't need to use Ai!
Please let me edit the audio, Simon. I’m an audio engineer and I will do it for free. These vocals are way too harsh. The highs are way too present and your “S” and “T”s are overpowering. I am going to keep commenting and die on this hill until the audio is fixed because I care about the quality of your content and want it to be as good as possible.
Also his way of speech feels like a rollercoaster making him harder to understand
Thank you! There's way too much sibilance on his vids.
More like "I'm interested in your content and I like the sound of your voice as you present it but I would prefer not needing to torture my ears as payment". This video isn't great but in some cases I can't listen with headphones because the S's hurt my ears.
Shut up
Is that's what all is wrong with his videos? I got tinnitus in late 2023 and there's a few UA-camrs I cannot listen to. Simon is really bad. They trigger the tinnitus and it rather hurts. Occasionally (obviously) I still try to watch videos but I'm not making it through entire videos and I'm only rarely watching one or another bc it's generally, waste of time, I only make it a couple of minutes. Gawd. Please help him tidy this up!! I can't believe it's something so dumb that's killing me over here and prevent me to watch (well, listen. But what point to watch if I can't listen?!)
It’s impressive how the swords were lost for 3000 years.
AI just doesn't belong in these videos. Stop it, please....
The Beal Treasure? Is there an old legend about a treasure map or code?
Those hordes haven’t been found -that we know of.. anyone who might have found them at some point could have done so on land they didn’t own, and quietly sold it to private collectors
Wtf with the AI images...
Looks like the trend of showing AI images and images unrelated to the subjects has reached Simon's videos. Personally, I want the real deal, not made up shit that results from shortcuts and lazy editing.
Those images that you were speaking of taken from space a guy who worked for the company that made the lenses. He had one of those pictures on his wall that look like a microchip. With a huge Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass on the table below it. He explained that that's taken from space and he worked on the Optics and if you pick up the magnifying glass. you can read newspapers license plates to our surprise we could.
I have to slow down the audio and use captions to understand him.
Hoard? Horde? English is so dumb, but I am almost 💯 that this should not be spelled horde.
really not a fan of all the AI images, reeks of laziness instead of research and even with the "fine print" its spreading false information
@fahq4this is it considered lazy to have something created that doesn't infringe on any copyrights so they can continue providing us with new content on schedule? Or is it lazy to not want to pay a fortune to use other people's property and have everyone bitch regardless? Maybe it's lazy not to want to use the same old generic free use content that's available...
6:10 Soooo, they found an old doghouse . . . 😜
When Hades forgets his wedding anniversary. Persephone: "You can sleep with the dog tonight."
@@ScionStorm1 Ehh, he was just going to get her another pomegranate . . .
This man has some healthy, strong lungs!!!
Was the Kentucky Hoard found near Somerset?
As much as I want things archaelogically speaking to be revealed, I too would keep them out of it had I found the first hoard. Too many nosy people who want in on the hoard show up in the greedy USA.
No complaints or suggestions! Thanks
FYI its summer most places, why does your editor think it needs to be snowing in every video? At this point, the amount of snow, weird sounds, and stupid back ground videos that have nothing to do with the story. Built his channels off of this, love the stories though
There is a guy in Wisconsin named David Hoard. He is a famous dairyman.
Hoard’s Dairyman magazine! Been years since i thought of that. Dad got it when i was a youngster.
Everywhere a Roman legion stopped they built a fort.
Wow!
Hey crew, hope your day is smooth sailing.
Wow, a discovery that was made in the 60s or 70s being made again, but like for real this time, nowadays?
It's weird that that's happened twice this week. Such as life being found on Mars in the 70s but nobody actually admitting it til now.
What was the other? (If it's your last sentence, check that you source is not The Onion or Giorgio Tsoukalous' social media.
PS. Interesting that I could easily find the guy's name by inputting "weird ancient aliens guy with the weird hair" in a non-google search engine.
Ive found a gold coin from 1860 metal detecting 🙂
Good 'ole Kentuk.
There's probably a comment on this already, but I'm too lazy to search the comments, so...
What if Thonis/Heracleon was the basis of the story of Atlantis? Clay liquifying and tsunamis sinking an island city sounds close enough to the legend. Perhaps not the actual city of Atlantis, per se, but a starting point for a legend that the Greeks used to warn of the power of Poseidon. Not that far of an extrapolation from the truth of Thonis as we understand it and something that was very likely done, in my opinion.
The city is under water it seems, why not sack the mayor... Tanis goddammit
Giving a thumbs up because good, and I want to annoy the crybabies.
So that’s where all the gold in Fort Knox went.
That went to China
1/137
It's that or e
@@theswiv Only if you have unlocked the Higgs Boson
Wow man
Only a matter of time till it says "ai depiction" when simon is on camera 😂
They just haven't admitted it yet.
Simon,
Sorry to tell you but the images, whether AI generated or plucked from some image-bank, are cheesy, unrepresentative, sometimes laughable, and mostly just not very appropriate. Please put an actual human brain in the editing chain-of-command and decision-making process. If those brains are already there, they are not doing their jobs very well, and put in doubt their designation as 'brains'. Thank you my good man. Michael Barrett
Hoard of treasure ; Mongol horde
Hoard? Only the first was a treasure hoard (pirates and all) as he described this video synopsis.
There are plenty of images of Roman forts. No need for unhelpful and inaccurate AI depictions.
Maybe people own the images and charge people to use them
Maybe everyone will bitch because the free generic images are all the same
Most importantly, Maybe everyone should stop whining about it, it's only just beginning and it's not going anywhere
@@josekentucky86 No images is literally better in this context than BS images.
@@FreeManFreeThought why is everyone so terrified of a simple picture?
I clicked on this so fast that I thought this was going to be about chicken and Colonel Sanders. Before the page loaded but by the time my brain finished processing the rest of the title, I started to feel disappointed. Sorry about that, but it was such a strange feeling like I just witnessed the 13 milliseconds of time it takes to see something. Okay back to whatever this was again....oh I could finish that roach. 🤔
Isnt 1500 bce the late bronze age meaning high quality bronze work shouldnt have been that rare? Not to diteact from the coolness of thay artifact but it wasnt a super early example of bronze work.
Three dollar and fifteen cents
I bet all the others mentions have been found, BUT those people were SMART and told no one including THE TAX MAN! who wants to give 20% to some BS fed waste of money!
Sup
all these ai pictures are borderline misinformation just weird and sus at the minimum
There's no "borderline" about it, they are incredibly damaging to the credibility of the entire channel.
Starfishes
And starfishi and starfishae.
"1$ Gold Coins" Come on, Sideprojects, you know where the dollar sign goes....
Dollar 1 ($1)or 1 dollar (1$). The European way does make sense however the way we in the US uses it is more recognizable. They tend to write as spoken
On the right side ;)
I wish this video had more real pictures of the artifacts and less stock footage or AI generated content, and the video indicated what was real and what was not. I kinda feal that this was more questionable on what was what in the pictures than the Ancient Aliens program.
The dragon's precious "hoard" was looted by a "horde" of goblins.
Words mean things, and they matter. Stop talking around with your zipper down..
Bronze is tough, anti corrosive and nigh indestructible. Its not FRAGILE. Only advanced processing technology emerging around 500 BC in China to 800 BC in the middle east and southern europe made iron based weapons possible (though the average quality remained pretty bad for many centuries), thus it became economically feasible and manageable to replace bronze weapons by the much cheaper mass produced iron based (and usually more fragile and bendable :D) successors. The actual quality variation of iron/steel weapons remained massive until even modernity. Bronze was far more consistent in quality as its formula is simple and the alloy production straight forward, requiring less sophisticated smelting techniques for good results with nearly equal tensile strength to high quality iron, and vastly lower temperatures, and even until the 17th century mainly used for naval guns, cast iron was inferior, due to impurities and prone to catastrophic failure.
Nevertheless bronze casting is a ardous high skill time consuming process and difficult to perform even for highly trained specialists retaining the core disadvantage of bronze, mass production/economics. Even the wealth of entire kingdoms was measured by the amount of bronze cannon they could afford at some times. Specialists in metallurgic production were priceless assets for states. The English poached a master of that technology from one of the german states of the time giving them a massive advantage in naval warfare artillery tech enabling them to defeat the spanish empire and the dutch and establish the Royal Navy as the most powerful Navy on the planet in the coming centuries. British ships werent even that good (french ships of the age of sail were considered the pinnacle of speed and manouverablity and highly sought after prizes renamed for use in the Royal Navy) , but the logistics,regiment,firepower,the training ,skill and discipline of crew and officers was one of a kind for nearly 300 years.
A bronze cannon would only crack ..not explode on failure, and worn out ventholes could be renewed, which was impossible for cast iron. Some bronze cannons used on naval warships were used for 200 years and didnt fail. Only the arrival of high quality steel (fueled by the coal based industrial revolution) of sufficient purity,tensile strength, and larger quantities starting at the early 18th century into the 19th century made steel artillery and large caliber guns possible. Full metal hulls and other large metal constructions, became possible due to steel being much stronger than iron requiring less mass for a better result.
Superhigh temperature smelting enabled by coal based heating technology made all this possible.
The emergence of the Railroad was the other main driving factor for iron and steel proliferation as well as bridges (world first fully iron bridge 1779 Coalbrookdale)..which until the 18th century and even beyond were still made out of stone,brick and wood like in ancient times.
Im a bit fan of bronze as a material one can easily determine by this prolonged totally overkill essay in reaction to a simple statement in a popular science youtube video. LMAO.
Just wanted to let you know, as one purveyor of Massive Missive (c) comments [not really copyrighted 🙂] to another, I much appreciated your perspective on this corner of technical knowledge.
It makes sense that the very plethora of options available in making iron and its offspring, steel, would be a liability until the variables were sorted out and controllable. Carbon is a simply phenomenal element!