When Macedonian soldiers under Alexander the Great's command returned home many of them recalled and wrote about having seen the hanging gardens of Babylon when they conquered the city.
The skull cup was famously employed in the early 9th century by Khan Krum the Horrible, ruler of what is now Bulgaria. He declared war on the Byzantine Empire, known to itself as Eastern Rome, centered in Constantinople. Their Emperor Nicophorus led an army to Bulgaria and defeated Krum. But Nicophorus himself, deranged by frustration and battle fever, refused to stop fighting. He was eventually found dead on a dungheap. Krum ordered him decapitated and the head boiled. The skull, chased with silver, was made into a drinking mug with which the Khan drank his own health to the end of his days out of the head of the Byzantine Emperor.
Your story is only partially correct. Indeed, there is such a legend about Krum, even though we don't know if it is true. However, he declared war on the Byzantines only after they betrayed him. In fact, the two states had concluded a peace treaty. On the Byzantine side though, the treaty was simply a ruse. Not long after that they attacked with the purpose to eliminate the Bulgarian state. To cut a long story short, they were eventually soundly defeated and the emperor killed. The story about the head is very likely just a legend perpetuated by Byzantine historians, who did not loose any opportunity to paint the Bulgarians as horrible barbarians.
it makes me soo happy when i hear "hello, I'm Simon Whistler" love his voice n style, one of my fav presenters. can hear him talk about stuff that i have no intrest in what's so ever, but still get captured into watching who vid.
now this is what i like of the top 10 channel its the odd ball history facts or just odd balls in itself. not feeling singled out or confidence being crashed. Keep it up
Despite the miw between the names, Galileo actually never needed to drop anything from the tower, it is never mentioned in contemporary texts and it has probably never happened.
It was not the roman empire that was involved in the Punic wars, it was the roman republic. The last (third) punic war took place almost 100 years before the far of the roman republic and the rise of the roman empire
the biggest misconception: the Vikings lived in the ancient world. They did not. The people we know as Vikings didn't appear on the European stage until the late 8th century.
While Galileo didn't drop balls from the Leaning Tower, he did roll balls down an inclining board to prove Aristotle wrong. He also, by the same setup, was the first to measure kinetic force and put it into math, by measuring how far the balls would roll with a given elevation.
Pay careful attention regarding the hanging gardens. I wish they would expand on the fact that they did exist, in Nineveh! I recently heard a much more in depth explanation of that woman's findings. I wish I had a link... It's fascinating. For some time the people of Nineveh literally called their city Babylon, so, we were actually looking in the wrong Babylon!
3 is not actually fully true. While that was an explanation how some of them were moved it still does not explain where they got all the wood ( that entire island if it was covered in woodland would not be able to provide nearly enough number for all the statues placed there ) or how they moved some of the bigger statues that are buried some 2 - 5 meters in the ground, indicating that they were there a very long time.
I actually made one in my high school art class but due to a miscommunication with the teacher (she thought I wanted it for show and not to actually use) it ended up being rendered unusable (it had to be glazed and wasn't) so I ended up giving it to a friend of mine. I was going to do another one but ended up running out of time.
Number 6 - WTF?! It was *Galileo Galileo* who supposedly dropped the cannon balls from the Tower of Pisa, not Leonardo da Vinci... who lived over a century earlier than Galileo.
Jason Toddman No you were right, it's Galileo Galileo Figaro....Magnifico-o-o-o-O-O, oh mama Mia, mama Mia, mama Mia let me go, Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me.
Spooby - As a matter of fact I *was* listening to Bohemian Rhapsody earlier the same day that i wrote that; but it didn't occur to me until you said this that it might have influenced me unconsciously. lol
@@damianwhite-graham3667 Yes it was prime farmland; and at one time was the "bread basket" of the Mediterranean and the Middle East and eastern Europe. That area of the world is where most of the modern domesticated farming animals we're familiar with in the West, were first bred. The popular image of a Middle East that's nothing but desert comes from geographic features like the Arabian Peninsula's deserts; the Syrian Desert; and the mountainous steppes of Iran. The Fertile Crescent refers to a more narrow area around the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, and also the Nile Delta region. That area was marshland (much of it flooded by the Nile every year) and excellent for farming. It's been speculated that the early Egyptians' need to accurately measure land so track ownership of farm property after each flood was a major reason for their development of geometry. Many centuries of over-working the land, changes in the courses of rivers, a number of natural disasters, and some climate changes largely reduced that area's usefulness as farming land. The British in particular started growing Egyptian cotton and other foods in this area to replace their lost supply when the American Civil War broke out - without any concern for land husbanding, crop rotation, or ensuring future fertility of the land, beyond what was necessary to satisfy their immediate economic needs. A series of irrigation and electric power projects in the mid-20th century also substantially dried out the area.
There most likely are. A team used various methods to predict the location of another pyramid a few years ago and then confirmed its likely existence with satellite imagery. Unfortunately when they arrived to start the digging an Egyptian suburb had begun to be built on its location. It was within a few KMs of the Giza complex. Many of the Ancient Egyptian monuments that we know of today were discovered buried beneath the sand. There is every likelihood that more lay beneath the sand.
You know what gets me about the hanging gardens? Every city in the US could look like the illustrations, no advanced technology or ancient secrets required; just some plants and the will to do it.
Correct! Julius Caesar was born in 100 and lived until 44 BC. the third Punic war was fought approx 54 years prior. as J-Caesar was the first emperor, anything prior was roman Republic.
@@bomcabedal i see where you are going with that, but ifs mearly symantecs. By systmatically dismantling the rules that prevented him from being remoced from the consol position, he was able to serve 13 years befor his death, and thus enabling augustus' reign of 40 years. Tl;dr your right, augustus is often cited as thd first.
Well, it's a bit more than semantics (Symantec is an anti-virus software corporation, FYI) in fact. Caesar still functioned as a functionary (the word "serve" appears ill-suited in his case, though) of the Roman Republic, albeit an exceptional one. What made Augustus and subsequent emperors unique was first the assumption of (near-)divinity bestowed by the Senate, and second the fact that the position became hereditary. However, there was never an "official" position of emperor; rather, it hinged on the combination of offices in what was nominally still the same state as the republic for a long time. But that doesn't mean the qualification is artificial; certainly in later times the people of Rome did consider someone to be emperor.
5. MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS: A lot of people don't realize that with the advent of newer special effects technology, Peter Jackson was able to incorporate into his 2005 version of KING KONG scenes that stop motion animator Willis O'Brien had storyboarded for the original 1933 version that, for reasons of budgetary, time, and techonological constraints, couldn't be filmed back then.
I think what you call "the ancient world" is somewhat different than practically everyone elses. To me and many others, i would say that this period would be in the ballpark of 1000-2000 BC or even earlier. Napolean or Da Vinci for example are definately not in the ancient world.
Lol many countries have had such short histories that what's ancient for them is medieval for others. The British might consider Vikings to be ancient warriors and Americans might consider George Washington to be ancient. lol
For the Afro-Eurasian continent around 600AD is regarded as the approximate cutoff between Ancient and Medieval. But no date will be precise. For the Americas, though, the Incas and Aztecs etc. are regarded as Ancient History, however, they are as recent as the 1500sAD. As Europeans colonising the American continent is regarded as Modern History and overlaps with the Ancient cultures of the Americas, you can see there are grey areas. But roughly 600AD for Europe, and 1500AD for America.
+Permafrost - I'm sorry, but the ancient refers to a fairly specific time period, it's not something that's open to wide interpenetration. The Vikings didn't appear in the ancient world, they appeared in the middle ages, that's not debatable or open to interpretation.
James Davenport I have met several Scandinavians: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Icelandic. They all say "Skol" when raising their glasses when drinking. There was even a beer made with the same name.
Joseph Stoneman Yes indeed, I always spelled it skol as well, but when I double-checked it before commenting, apparently I got back skal. Maybe there's different spellings for different Scandinavian languages, I dunno? ;) Anyway, goes to all the trouble of trying to get skol/skal right, messes up FOND for found. LOL Oh well! :)
James Davenport vowels often get mixed up between languages but it is clearly the same word. You could see how someone might mix up skol or skal with skull.
It is written Skål in norwegian, but there is an "old" way of writing the letter å in norwegian for the same pronounciation. aa equals å. for example "Haakon" which is another spelling of håkon.
Top Tenz, Concerning the Galileo story, (which you have attribute to Leonardo) there is absolutely no reason to DOUBT that Galileo dropped balls of the Leaning tower. The picture that you have shown is ridiculous because one of the balls is so large they could never have got it up the stairs. No-one needed HUGE balls to make a point here. A ball the size of a tennis ball and a ball the size of a marble would be of more than adequate difference. Was Galileo ever in Pisa? Almost certainly YES, because he studied the pendulm action of the lamp in the Cathedral. The Leaning Tower is right next door. Did Galileo go up there? Well, he would be silly if he didn't!
jason taylor it was Kath an African plant similar to cocaine. It is thought to originate in Somalia and is used extensively in Yemen. It could also be the forbidden 'fruit' in Eden but that's just s theory
The Hanging Gardens had to have existed. They are one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Why is that important? Because the wonders was actually a list of tourist stops for rich people on vacation. Why would the gardens be on the list if they never existed?
The hanging gardens did exist. They latest research shows they actually existed in Assyria, not Babylon. The Babylonians were fantastic record keepers and braggarts; no Babylonian records mention the hanging gardens.
Note: Rome obviously did not render Carthage permanently uninhabitable, because later they resettled it, as a matter of fact, by Julius Caesar. It later became a leading trading city in the Empire.
Various steppe peoples of Eurasia did in fact make skull cups out of their defeated enemies. For example, it is said that when Byzantine emperors Nikephoros I was defeated by the Bulgarian Khan Krum, the khan lined his skull with silver and used it as a drinking vessel for several years.
My understanding was that it was a Turkish invasion of Egypt that resulted in the loss of the Sphinx's nose. Which I thought dated back to the fifteenth century. One of the biggest misconceptions about Vikings is the horned helmets.
Salt would have been vastly too precious to waste in such a way. Salt was actually used as trade or payment, our word Salary is derived from the Roman word for Salt
Some french guy found internal ramps and a series of pulley and roller marks going down the great hall that likely assisted in moving the massive multiple granite slabs that cover and protect the main tomb.
Eh? that's the first time I've heard they were supposed to be cannibals, they killed lots of people, enslaved some but didn't eat them, they still find graves of Viking victims in north west Europe/parts of Med, Russia and there's no teeth marks or butchery marks on the bones.
I heard that the term "viking" was actually just the term for the job/profession of raiding other lands, similar to how one that works with stone is called a mason. So not all Scandinavians are vikings, only those that chose to raid other lands are considered vikings. Others might already know this, but I just recently learned this so forgive me if I'm behind the curve.
In the African country of Dahomey, the king was guarded by a female unit called the Amazons. When the king died, they were all killed.This was ended after the country became part of the French Empire.
The "vikings drank from skulls" thing must only be "a thing" outside of Scandinavia. Everyone born in Scandinavia know that that's not the truth we know they drank from drinkinghorns. From a Dane.
On the contrary. Here in Norway we use the word skål for cheers, and skål also means bowl or saucer. It is also reputed to come from skalle. But according to story, it was only the top section of the skull that was used for drinking vessels. This was in addition to the drinking horns, and probably most popular in the warrior brotherhoods, like the Joms vikings and such.
#3, Easter Island statue movement. There's a very good documentary about a team that went to Easter Island and, using a group of volunteers, successfully re-enacted the theory shown. So it's been proven that this was very likely the way they were moved.
Proving that it can be done is a far cry from proving it was done that way. Thor Heyerdahl also proved it was possible to move the stone statues, but his method was pulling them along on rolling logs. It's the same with the building of the pyramids. There are many possibilites, but no one can really prove just how they constructed them.
Never heard the salt story. Sounds even more bonkers considering that salt was very valuable at the time. Roman soldiers were often payed in salt, and Theories are that the word soldier comes from salt.
It could have been a symbolic act born from magical thinking, that somebody understood too literally. The thought that Romans tried to destroy the soil by oversalting it, is ridiculous; but I wouldn't put it beyond them to perform rituals that may or may not have involved salt to ask their gods to make sure Carthage never rises again.
Top Tenz, why if Egyptian peoples have never been to the Grand Canyon are there Egyptian statues carved into the rock formations still to this day? Understand it makes no difference to me one way or another but I think we still have to say that this is unsolved History. Kinda strange that these caves are off limits by the American gov. now as well.
Yeah my thing with that has always been if the Smithsonian adamantly denies that there's anything like that there, why not show us that? Instead, like you said, its been closed off and no one can go inside. His saying that is a myth is based solely on "important people" saying so. No evidence. It could be either way and we have been given nothing but empty claims. I tend to believe the people who aren't attempting to hide the evidence.
I've seen a drinking cup made from a skull - it was mounted in silver and decorated with turquoises and garnets. it was in an antique shop in Simla, in northern India; it wasn't Viking, it was Bon, from Tibet. The place also had a waistcoat made from human vertebrae. I didn't buy either of them. There were times when wished that I'd bought the cup - sitting at my computer, sipping tea from it, I guarantee all the "hands-on managers" that used to breathe down my neck all of the time would have quietly shrivelled up and vanished - but I couldn't imagine what I might do with the waistcoat. There aren't many places where you could wear such a thing - or at least I hope there aren't.
The skull cup thing seems to be more associated with horsemen who migrated into Eastern Europe from the steppes of the southern Ukraine region and other peoples who had contact with them. The Scythians, Lombard king Alboin, King Krum of Bulgaria, and the Pecheneg Khan Kurya.
You do realize that the Egyptians actually did have transoceanic contact with America. After all, some of the mummies of pharaohs contained cocaine and I think tobacco. These things were only found in the New World at the time, so there had to be some trans-Atlantic voyages to get them.
The only one historically proven skull drinking is made by Bulgarian khan Krum in year of 811. After he defeated the Byzantine emperor Nikifor he made a cup from his skull. It will be great if you make a video about the Bulgarian empire.A lot of cool and almost unknown stuff.
Then it isn't true that Cleopatra VII wept when her copy of Homer written in silver letters on purple velum was destroyed? It always gave me pause to recollect that Galileo (your intended leaning tower climber) died in the year in which Newton was born.
the Roman REPUBLIC may not have salted the fields but essentially what occurred at the conclusion of the third Punic war was a Carthaginian genocide. Roman legions killed anywhere between half to 85 percent of the population (depending on the source there was anywhere between 100,000 and 200,000 inhabitants in Carthage at the time) and took the city apart brick by brick; the remaining 30000 - 50000 residents of Carthage that were not killed were taken as slaves. salting the fields was no longer really necessary.
The long feud with carthage made the romans not only plant the carthagian fields with salt, but also the demonified all the phoenician heritage to the degree that we now know nearly nothing about their greatest historian senkhoni-aten, the mother city of carthage, Tyr became the root for vile words like tyranny.
Where is the sources for the Library of Alexandria? I am an Ancient History major and I have NEVER saw anything with your theory that was credible. If it comes from an expert of the Hellenistic Age I might be willing to take it seriously and do my own research.
Fascinating information. Though, don't be so quick to discount the ancient alien theories... (I shall duck now from objects being hurled in my general direction) LOL
actually Dr. Dalley from Oxford indeed postulated the theory about the hanging gardens being in Niniveh, but she never actually proved it and most of the assyriologists don't believe in this theory.
Regarding 2. There is a school of thought that the Romans did not attack Carthage at all, and the salting was propaganda to instil fear into other enemies.
Wasn't that regarding the battle of Zama? That was a different Scipio. Cornelius Publius Scipio, better known as Scipio Africanus. He defeated Hannibal at Zama in 201 BC, forcing Carthage's surrender. But the razing of Chartage happened later, in 146 BC, and the victorious roman force was led by Scipio Aemilianus. But that the salting of the earth was an exaggeration is probably correct, given that neighbouring tribes got the land handed over to grow their crops on.
I always thought that salt was too precious a commodity and that most people would consider using it to salt land would be wasteful. Especially is the old tales of the Romans used to pay their soldiers in salt are true.
That depends alot on location. Salt was a very rare commodity far inland, but if you lived by the sea, salt would be more available. Several places there formed natural salt flats, and other places people built vats to trap sea water that then evaporated, leaving salt. If there were such salt flats close to Carthago, salt could have been available in abundance. But we pretty much agree here that it was probably an exaggeration of the destruction at Carthage.
At the very latest, I would put the Ancient World are no later than about 500 to 600 AD, or roughly the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. That would put Galileo, Napoleon, and the Vikings well outside of it. With respect to the nose of the Sphinx, that was apparently battered off by a Muslim objecting to any depiction of a human being in stone. While the question of how the Pyramids were built is still up in the air, there are quite a few wall reliefs and painting showing the Egyptians moving large blocks of stone by hand over a clay surface lubricated by either water or milk. As the Babylonians were one of the groups that knocked off the Assyrians, the possibility of the Hanging Gardens being transferred to them would appear reasonable. The Mesopotamian civilizations pretty much all developed irrigation to a high level, with much of the damage to the systems being done by later wars, particularly Tamerlane's invasion of the area.
Some Egyptian mummies have been found to have traces of both cocaine and tobacco on them. Neither substance is native outside the Western Hemisphere. Also, some mummies have been found to have red hair, and there is the legend of the Egyptian princess Scotia, who chose to marry outside her family's wishes and was banished. She and her husband finally found a place to settle, and Scotland was born. You can still visit her grave there.
The cocaine and tobacco in mummies thing was proved to be an error in the testing process by follow up studies. There are other native compounds that mimic the signature of cocaine and tobacco. More thorough testing confirmed this. There is however tantalising evidence that the Egyptians did reach south america. There are ancient stone statues that depict Caucasian looking men with beards, they look nothing like the natives. The Egyptians certainly had boats capable of crossing the Atlantic intact.
It was Asterix and Obelix who destroyed the Sphinx's nose. Duh.
Hahahahhaha
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If only Obelix had listened.
When Macedonian soldiers under Alexander the Great's command returned home many of them recalled and wrote about having seen the hanging gardens of Babylon when they conquered the city.
The skull cup was famously employed in the early 9th century by Khan Krum the Horrible, ruler of what is now Bulgaria. He declared war on the Byzantine Empire, known to itself as Eastern Rome, centered in Constantinople. Their Emperor Nicophorus led an army to Bulgaria and defeated Krum. But Nicophorus himself, deranged by frustration and battle fever, refused to stop fighting. He was eventually found dead on a dungheap. Krum ordered him decapitated and the head boiled. The skull, chased with silver, was made into a drinking mug with which the Khan drank his own health to the end of his days out of the head of the Byzantine Emperor.
Your story is only partially correct. Indeed, there is such a legend about Krum, even though we don't know if it is true. However, he declared war on the Byzantines only after they betrayed him. In fact, the two states had concluded a peace treaty. On the Byzantine side though, the treaty was simply a ruse. Not long after that they attacked with the purpose to eliminate the Bulgarian state. To cut a long story short, they were eventually soundly defeated and the emperor killed. The story about the head is very likely just a legend perpetuated by Byzantine historians, who did not loose any opportunity to paint the Bulgarians as horrible barbarians.
it makes me soo happy when i hear "hello, I'm Simon Whistler" love his voice n style, one of my fav presenters. can hear him talk about stuff that i have no intrest in what's so ever, but still get captured into watching who vid.
now this is what i like of the top 10 channel its the odd ball history facts or just odd balls in itself. not feeling singled out or confidence being crashed. Keep it up
This is one of the most underrated channels on YT
TopTenz Thank you!!! Keep up the great work!
Leonardo da Vinci was not known for the Pisa experiment, it was Galileo who dropped the weights from the tower of Pisa.
Despite the miw between the names, Galileo actually never needed to drop
anything from the tower, it is never mentioned in contemporary texts
and it has probably never happened.
Dr Daily came & gave a lecture at my college 3 years ago on the hanging gardens of Babylon & she was amazing!
It was not the roman empire that was involved in the Punic wars, it was the roman republic. The last (third) punic war took place almost 100 years before the far of the roman republic and the rise of the roman empire
the biggest misconception: the Vikings lived in the ancient world. They did not. The people we know as Vikings didn't appear on the European stage until the late 8th century.
Wait somebody actually thinks that they lived in the ancient world?
You could make: Top 10 Forgotten technological gadgets that where used alot in everyday live
I could listen to Simon talk all day long.
number 6 is Galileo not da vinci
That's what I was thinking, too.
While Galileo didn't drop balls from the Leaning Tower, he did roll balls down an inclining board to prove Aristotle wrong. He also, by the same setup, was the first to measure kinetic force and put it into math, by measuring how far the balls would roll with a given elevation.
the vikings and the rapa nui cultuture didn't exist in the ANCIENT WORLD. ps, wrong pronunciation of moai
I want that mug at the end
Looks like Wonder Woman will need to get completely rewritten now :/
Pay careful attention regarding the hanging gardens. I wish they would expand on the fact that they did exist, in Nineveh! I recently heard a much more in depth explanation of that woman's findings. I wish I had a link... It's fascinating. For some time the people of Nineveh literally called their city Babylon, so, we were actually looking in the wrong Babylon!
King Nebuchadnezzar was apparently big on bragging about everything he did, so for him not to mention a garden that elaborate is pretty telling.
The legend with the iron balls dropped off the leaning tower in Pisa is about GALILEO! Your videos are good, but you should do your research, mate :)
3 is not actually fully true. While that was an explanation how some of them were moved it still does not explain where they got all the wood ( that entire island if it was covered in woodland would not be able to provide nearly enough number for all the statues placed there ) or how they moved some of the bigger statues that are buried some 2 - 5 meters in the ground, indicating that they were there a very long time.
I'd love a human skull coffee mug. I mean, that looks like a human skull. Yeah that's it.
david hutchins indeed
I actually made one in my high school art class but due to a miscommunication with the teacher (she thought I wanted it for show and not to actually use) it ended up being rendered unusable (it had to be glazed and wasn't) so I ended up giving it to a friend of mine. I was going to do another one but ended up running out of time.
Sign me up for one of those, please.
Da Vinci loved balls too much to drop them off a tower! HA! Gotta love him!
annette fournier He dropped my balls of iron. I'm a badass
Number 6 - WTF?! It was *Galileo Galileo* who supposedly dropped the cannon balls from the Tower of Pisa, not Leonardo da Vinci... who lived over a century earlier than Galileo.
Oh well; I also messed up. I *meant* to say Galileo *Galilei*.
Jason Toddman
No you were right, it's Galileo Galileo Figaro....Magnifico-o-o-o-O-O, oh mama Mia, mama Mia, mama Mia let me go, Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me.
Spooby - As a matter of fact I *was* listening to Bohemian Rhapsody earlier the same day that i wrote that; but it didn't occur to me until you said this that it might have influenced me unconsciously. lol
No, it was Galileo.
Blame the writer but the one that read this obviosly did not notice.
Thank you very much for actually mentioning the Assyrians, such an important part of human history but often neglected.
you should do a set called "Ten things I said which were utter garbage and are now thought fact by the ignorant"
Babylon wasn't in a desert land lol.. it was fertile back then, hence the "fertile crescent"
Young Savage it was fertile, in the desert.
@@damianwhite-graham3667 Yes it was prime farmland; and at one time was the "bread basket" of the Mediterranean and the Middle East and eastern Europe. That area of the world is where most of the modern domesticated farming animals we're familiar with in the West, were first bred.
The popular image of a Middle East that's nothing but desert comes from geographic features like the Arabian Peninsula's deserts; the Syrian Desert; and the mountainous steppes of Iran. The Fertile Crescent refers to a more narrow area around the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, and also the Nile Delta region. That area was marshland (much of it flooded by the Nile every year) and excellent for farming. It's been speculated that the early Egyptians' need to accurately measure land so track ownership of farm property after each flood was a major reason for their development of geometry.
Many centuries of over-working the land, changes in the courses of rivers, a number of natural disasters, and some climate changes largely reduced that area's usefulness as farming land. The British in particular started growing Egyptian cotton and other foods in this area to replace their lost supply when the American Civil War broke out - without any concern for land husbanding, crop rotation, or ensuring future fertility of the land, beyond what was necessary to satisfy their immediate economic needs. A series of irrigation and electric power projects in the mid-20th century also substantially dried out the area.
I absolutely love your work :) thanks
Da Vinci was not ancient
He was Renaissance
And the myth is not about Da Vinci but Galileo Galilei but who cares...
milinm ancient means anything 2500 years ago actually
LapraLapso anything before the fall of Rome
Jamie Mason Rome is still an active city, if you mean the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire exited into the 19th century.
Isn't ancient history anything from 1000 years ago or more?
This will sound dumb, but what if there are pyramids lost in the Sahara desert, lost under thousands of feet of sand
There most likely are. A team used various methods to predict the location of another pyramid a few years ago and then confirmed its likely existence with satellite imagery. Unfortunately when they arrived to start the digging an Egyptian suburb had begun to be built on its location. It was within a few KMs of the Giza complex. Many of the Ancient Egyptian monuments that we know of today were discovered buried beneath the sand. There is every likelihood that more lay beneath the sand.
Z3DZ1LL4 wow. Glad I'm not as dumb as I thought I was
You know what gets me about the hanging gardens? Every city in the US could look like the illustrations, no advanced technology or ancient secrets required; just some plants and the will to do it.
It was Roman republic,not empire that destroyed Carthange...
Correct! Julius Caesar was born in 100 and lived until 44 BC. the third Punic war was fought approx 54 years prior. as J-Caesar was the first emperor, anything prior was roman Republic.
He wasn't really, that honor goes to his successor Octavianus as the emperor Augustus.
@@bomcabedal i see where you are going with that, but ifs mearly symantecs. By systmatically dismantling the rules that prevented him from being remoced from the consol position, he was able to serve 13 years befor his death, and thus enabling augustus' reign of 40 years. Tl;dr your right, augustus is often cited as thd first.
Well, it's a bit more than semantics (Symantec is an anti-virus software corporation, FYI) in fact. Caesar still functioned as a functionary (the word "serve" appears ill-suited in his case, though) of the Roman Republic, albeit an exceptional one. What made Augustus and subsequent emperors unique was first the assumption of (near-)divinity bestowed by the Senate, and second the fact that the position became hereditary. However, there was never an "official" position of emperor; rather, it hinged on the combination of offices in what was nominally still the same state as the republic for a long time. But that doesn't mean the qualification is artificial; certainly in later times the people of Rome did consider someone to be emperor.
Carthago delenda est
lol. When he said "below me now" it sounded like "Blow me now."
I actually got to attend a lecture about the hanging gardens of Babylon where that professor spoke and it was awesome!
Since there are no records of the Library, there is no reason to believe it ever existed. It could be just a myth about how much learning was lost.
alg11297 I believe there are a lot of records about the library.
It did exist.
5. MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS: A lot of people don't realize that with the advent of newer special effects technology, Peter Jackson was able to incorporate into his 2005 version of KING KONG scenes that stop motion animator Willis O'Brien had storyboarded for the original 1933 version that, for reasons of budgetary, time, and techonological constraints, couldn't be filmed back then.
I think what you call "the ancient world" is somewhat different than practically everyone elses. To me and many others, i would say that this period would be in the ballpark of 1000-2000 BC or even earlier. Napolean or Da Vinci for example are definately not in the ancient world.
Lol many countries have had such short histories that what's ancient for them is medieval for others. The British might consider Vikings to be ancient warriors and Americans might consider George Washington to be ancient. lol
For the Afro-Eurasian continent around 600AD is regarded as the approximate cutoff between Ancient and Medieval. But no date will be precise. For the Americas, though, the Incas and Aztecs etc. are regarded as Ancient History, however, they are as recent as the 1500sAD. As Europeans colonising the American continent is regarded as Modern History and overlaps with the Ancient cultures of the Americas, you can see there are grey areas.
But roughly 600AD for Europe, and 1500AD for America.
+Permafrost - I'm sorry, but the ancient refers to a fairly specific time period, it's not something that's open to wide interpenetration. The Vikings didn't appear in the ancient world, they appeared in the middle ages, that's not debatable or open to interpretation.
Maybe it should be misconceptions about the past.
Vikings/Norse were found of drinking with lots of Skals, not skulls! ;) *raises drinking horn* SKAL! :)
James Davenport I have met several Scandinavians: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Icelandic. They all say "Skol" when raising their glasses when drinking. There was even a beer made with the same name.
Joseph Stoneman
Yes indeed, I always spelled it skol as well, but when I double-checked it before commenting, apparently I got back skal. Maybe there's different spellings for different Scandinavian languages, I dunno? ;) Anyway, goes to all the trouble of trying to get skol/skal right, messes up FOND for found. LOL Oh well! :)
James Davenport vowels often get mixed up between languages but it is clearly the same word. You could see how someone might mix up skol or skal with skull.
It is written Skål in norwegian, but there is an "old" way of writing the letter å in norwegian for the same pronounciation. aa equals å. for example "Haakon" which is another spelling of håkon.
DancingfearEU
Kewl! :)
Simon you make great videos
One of Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, loves was an "Amazan" woman who fought by his side.
I always love your stories ❤
Gallileo dropped the balls from the Tower of Pisa as a demonstration of gravity is constant regardless of mass. As per Wikipedia. Thanks for playing
Top Tenz,
Concerning the Galileo story, (which you have attribute to Leonardo) there is absolutely no reason to DOUBT that Galileo dropped balls of the Leaning tower.
The picture that you have shown is ridiculous because one of the balls is so large they could never have got it up the stairs.
No-one needed HUGE balls to make a point here.
A ball the size of a tennis ball and a ball the size of a marble would be of more than adequate difference.
Was Galileo ever in Pisa? Almost certainly YES, because he studied the pendulm action of the lamp in the Cathedral. The Leaning Tower is right next door.
Did Galileo go up there? Well, he would be silly if he didn't!
that last picture for Amazons was a Celt not a Scythian
What about the report that cocaine was found with mummies?
jason taylor it was Kath an African plant similar to cocaine. It is thought to originate in Somalia and is used extensively in Yemen. It could also be the forbidden 'fruit' in Eden but that's just s theory
Khat.
jason taylor- the skinnies love it!
What about the tobacco?
Retro AP no tobacco or cocaine, many things mimic those
The Hanging Gardens had to have existed. They are one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Why is that important? Because the wonders was actually a list of tourist stops for rich people on vacation. Why would the gardens be on the list if they never existed?
The hanging gardens did exist. They latest research shows they actually existed in Assyria, not Babylon. The Babylonians were fantastic record keepers and braggarts; no Babylonian records mention the hanging gardens.
Entertaining as usual.
But the Scythians and Sarmatians did use the skulls of their defeated enemies as drinking vessels. This silly steppe people...
Can u plz do top 10 *Emperors* or *Empires* ?
Sōsukè Aizen isn't it obvious?
Not really I would still like the list tho not many people know how big the Mongolian empire was .... I would really like to hav a list 🤔😅😂😂
*still like to hav oppss typo 😅 Sorry _/\_
Me. In my galaxy wide empire.
Was Galileo, not Da Vinci
Barrank Obama Right?
Paula Ariza Yes. Not to be confused with the more famous Barack.
***** It can happen :)
i like snacks! snacks is my dog.
Note: Rome obviously did not render Carthage permanently uninhabitable, because later they resettled it, as a matter of fact, by Julius Caesar. It later became a leading trading city in the Empire.
Various steppe peoples of Eurasia did in fact make skull cups out of their defeated enemies. For example, it is said that when Byzantine emperors Nikephoros I was defeated by the Bulgarian Khan Krum, the khan lined his skull with silver and used it as a drinking vessel for several years.
Back in ancient times, salt was worth its weight in gold. No one would have wasted it on the land of their enemies.
The Danish word for cheers is "skål." Meaning skull.
And it's a very old word. Goes back to the Vikings.
Skål means bowl, not skull...
My understanding was that it was a Turkish invasion of Egypt that resulted in the loss of the Sphinx's nose. Which I thought dated back to the fifteenth century.
One of the biggest misconceptions about Vikings is the horned helmets.
Another misconception: As you see in the picture, the Pyramids are not in the middle of the desert like postcards imply.
Salt would have been vastly too precious to waste in such a way. Salt was actually used as trade or payment, our word Salary is derived from the Roman word for Salt
Some french guy found internal ramps and a series of pulley and roller marks going down the great hall that likely assisted in moving the massive multiple granite slabs that cover and protect the main tomb.
Simply awesome.
I am so happy Simon changed the way he says his intro... everytime he said "you are watching Top 10s NET UA-cam channel" was so cringy
The story is not that Leonardo da Vinci dropped the iron weights from the leaning tower of Pisa, it was Galileo.
poor Vikings, nice artistic people but misunderstood as cannibal
Eh? that's the first time I've heard they were supposed to be cannibals, they killed lots of people, enslaved some but didn't eat them, they still find graves of Viking victims in north west Europe/parts of Med, Russia and there's no teeth marks or butchery marks on the bones.
I heard that the term "viking" was actually just the term for the job/profession of raiding other lands, similar to how one that works with stone is called a mason. So not all Scandinavians are vikings, only those that chose to raid other lands are considered vikings. Others might already know this, but I just recently learned this so forgive me if I'm behind the curve.
The Library getting screwed by cutbacks, even in ancient times.
In the African country of Dahomey, the king was guarded by a female unit called the Amazons. When the king died, they were all killed.This was ended after the country became part of the French Empire.
"The pyramid of Geezer"??? Where the heck is that? Isn't that part of one of those Ghostbuster movies?
The "vikings drank from skulls" thing must only be "a thing" outside of Scandinavia. Everyone born in Scandinavia know that that's not the truth we know they drank from drinkinghorns.
From a Dane.
On the contrary. Here in Norway we use the word skål for cheers, and skål also means bowl or saucer. It is also reputed to come from skalle. But according to story, it was only the top section of the skull that was used for drinking vessels. This was in addition to the drinking horns, and probably most popular in the warrior brotherhoods, like the Joms vikings and such.
Skål bliver også brugt i Danmark, men det er ikke refereret til et menneskes kranium :)
#3, Easter Island statue movement. There's a very good documentary about a team that went to Easter Island and, using a group of volunteers, successfully re-enacted the theory shown. So it's been proven that this was very likely the way they were moved.
Proving that it can be done is a far cry from proving it was done that way. Thor Heyerdahl also proved it was possible to move the stone statues, but his method was pulling them along on rolling logs. It's the same with the building of the pyramids. There are many possibilites, but no one can really prove just how they constructed them.
Hello simon !! Can you do top 10 failed state ??
Or maybe the translator purposely chose to say the vikings drank from the skulls of there enemies because it makes them sound 10x more savage.
Never heard the salt story. Sounds even more bonkers considering that salt was very valuable at the time. Roman soldiers were often payed in salt, and Theories are that the word soldier comes from salt.
0ldFrittenfett and the word 'salary'
and the phrase 'worth their salt'.
Chris McWilliams
And in german, the soldiers' pay is called "Sold", pronounced like the englisch "Salt" with a softer S and a very soft T.
0ldFrittenfett Yeah.
It could have been a symbolic act born from magical thinking, that somebody understood too literally. The thought that Romans tried to destroy the soil by oversalting it, is ridiculous; but I wouldn't put it beyond them to perform rituals that may or may not have involved salt to ask their gods to make sure Carthage never rises again.
Top Tenz, why if Egyptian peoples have never been to the Grand Canyon are there Egyptian statues carved into the rock formations still to this day? Understand it makes no difference to me one way or another but I think we still have to say that this is unsolved History. Kinda strange that these caves are off limits by the American gov. now as well.
Yeah my thing with that has always been if the Smithsonian adamantly denies that there's anything like that there, why not show us that? Instead, like you said, its been closed off and no one can go inside.
His saying that is a myth is based solely on "important people" saying so. No evidence. It could be either way and we have been given nothing but empty claims. I tend to believe the people who aren't attempting to hide the evidence.
I thought the ball dropping story was about Galileo Galilei, not Da Vinci?
I've seen a drinking cup made from a skull - it was mounted in silver and decorated with turquoises and garnets. it was in an antique shop in Simla, in northern India; it wasn't Viking, it was Bon, from Tibet. The place also had a waistcoat made from human vertebrae. I didn't buy either of them. There were times when wished that I'd bought the cup - sitting at my computer, sipping tea from it, I guarantee all the "hands-on managers" that used to breathe down my neck all of the time would have quietly shrivelled up and vanished - but I couldn't imagine what I might do with the waistcoat. There aren't many places where you could wear such a thing - or at least I hope there aren't.
The Sphinx lost its nose when the sculptor saw Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fly by on the magic carpet. Duh.
Also, the ancient world is more ancient than we have realized as shown by sites like Göpekli Tepe.
Groovy beard, Simon Whistler!
Easter Island stuff was quiet wrong
The skull cup thing seems to be more associated with horsemen who migrated into Eastern Europe from the steppes of the southern Ukraine region and other peoples who had contact with them. The Scythians, Lombard king Alboin, King Krum of Bulgaria, and the Pecheneg Khan Kurya.
You do realize that the Egyptians actually did have transoceanic contact with America. After all, some of the mummies of pharaohs contained cocaine and I think tobacco. These things were only found in the New World at the time, so there had to be some trans-Atlantic voyages to get them.
The only one historically proven skull drinking is made by Bulgarian khan Krum in year of 811.
After he defeated the Byzantine emperor Nikifor he made a cup from his skull.
It will be great if you make a video about the Bulgarian empire.A lot of cool and almost unknown stuff.
Then it isn't true that Cleopatra VII wept when her copy of Homer written in silver letters on purple velum was destroyed?
It always gave me pause to recollect that Galileo (your intended leaning tower climber) died in the year in which Newton was born.
Did she even own anything like that?
So goes the legend. It's plausible since was said to have been exceptionally well-educated, though her "beauty" was less compelling.
the Roman REPUBLIC may not have salted the fields but essentially what occurred at the conclusion of the third Punic war was a Carthaginian genocide. Roman legions killed anywhere between half to 85 percent of the population (depending on the source there was anywhere between 100,000 and 200,000 inhabitants in Carthage at the time) and took the city apart brick by brick; the remaining 30000 - 50000 residents of Carthage that were not killed were taken as slaves. salting the fields was no longer really necessary.
The long feud with carthage made the romans not only plant the carthagian fields with salt, but also the demonified all the phoenician heritage to the degree that we now know nearly nothing about their greatest historian senkhoni-aten, the mother city of carthage, Tyr became the root for vile words like tyranny.
Where is the sources for the Library of Alexandria? I am an Ancient History major and I have NEVER saw anything with your theory that was credible. If it comes from an expert of the Hellenistic Age I might be willing to take it seriously and do my own research.
Still to this day,with all this "technology" still cant explain how the pyramids was built....
Do facts about Ragnorok
Facts about a myth? Sounds like a short video. :)
Chris McWilliams Nice
Paula Ariza I'm glad you liked it.
Chris McWilliams Well, it was funny
Paula Ariza Thank you.
very good!!👏👏
I have never heard #7. Or if I did, I scoffed at it and quickly forgot that I heard it.
Fascinating information. Though, don't be so quick to discount the ancient alien theories... (I shall duck now from objects being hurled in my general direction) LOL
I've been to the modern library in Alexandria. It has a museum in it. 😊
You could make a video on why we use the word May Day.
9:57 - *Blow me now?!* WTH dude!!! lol
actually Dr. Dalley from Oxford indeed postulated the theory about the hanging gardens being in Niniveh, but she never actually proved it and most of the assyriologists don't believe in this theory.
Regarding 2. There is a school of thought that the Romans did not attack Carthage at all, and the salting was propaganda to instil fear into other enemies.
Wasn't that regarding the battle of Zama? That was a different Scipio. Cornelius Publius Scipio, better known as Scipio Africanus. He defeated Hannibal at Zama in 201 BC, forcing Carthage's surrender. But the razing of Chartage happened later, in 146 BC, and the victorious roman force was led by Scipio Aemilianus. But that the salting of the earth was an exaggeration is probably correct, given that neighbouring tribes got the land handed over to grow their crops on.
Actually you could be right.
I always thought that salt was too precious a commodity and that most people would consider using it to salt land would be wasteful. Especially is the old tales of the Romans used to pay their soldiers in salt are true.
That depends alot on location. Salt was a very rare commodity far inland, but if you lived by the sea, salt would be more available. Several places there formed natural salt flats, and other places people built vats to trap sea water that then evaporated, leaving salt. If there were such salt flats close to Carthago, salt could have been available in abundance. But we pretty much agree here that it was probably an exaggeration of the destruction at Carthage.
Havar Eriksen actually there are several places round Africa where you can find salt far inland just a few meters down (often just 2 or 3).
The Napoleon shooting the sphinx nose. There were accounts of soldiers shooting at it. It did a little damage. But they did not take off the nose.
They failed to mention some of the sources, inuding:
-Pronounciation for dummies, (da Vinzi LOL)
-History for dummies (ancient world ≠ Da Vinci)
1. Galileo, not DaVinci did that (please! "da-veen-CHEE", not "da-vin-TSEE")
At the very latest, I would put the Ancient World are no later than about 500 to 600 AD, or roughly the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. That would put Galileo, Napoleon, and the Vikings well outside of it. With respect to the nose of the Sphinx, that was apparently battered off by a Muslim objecting to any depiction of a human being in stone. While the question of how the Pyramids were built is still up in the air, there are quite a few wall reliefs and painting showing the Egyptians moving large blocks of stone by hand over a clay surface lubricated by either water or milk. As the Babylonians were one of the groups that knocked off the Assyrians, the possibility of the Hanging Gardens being transferred to them would appear reasonable. The Mesopotamian civilizations pretty much all developed irrigation to a high level, with much of the damage to the systems being done by later wars, particularly Tamerlane's invasion of the area.
Some Egyptian mummies have been found to have traces of both cocaine and tobacco on them. Neither substance is native outside the Western Hemisphere. Also, some mummies have been found to have red hair, and there is the legend of the Egyptian princess Scotia, who chose to marry outside her family's wishes and was banished. She and her husband finally found a place to settle, and Scotland was born. You can still visit her grave there.
The cocaine and tobacco in mummies thing was proved to be an error in the testing process by follow up studies. There are other native compounds that mimic the signature of cocaine and tobacco. More thorough testing confirmed this. There is however tantalising evidence that the Egyptians did reach south america. There are ancient stone statues that depict Caucasian looking men with beards, they look nothing like the natives. The Egyptians certainly had boats capable of crossing the Atlantic intact.