man foreo really spending some money on these sponsorships and out of all the sponsors it seems to be the most snakeoil like. at least this one has some kinda moisturizing pads with it rather than the normal oh it massages your face and magically removes wrinkles.
Just want to point out that the Hittites and other ancient residents of the Anatolian peninsula were most certainly not Turkish or proto-turkish. The Turkish people originating in central Asia didn't migrate into the area until around the 11th century.
It's a strange mistake to make. He even says Hittite people a few moments later, but then calls them turkish again. Maybe several takes were strung together.
I do believe it was intended to mean "people who lived in what is now modern day Turkey," but of course that sort of abbreviation isn't great when talking about historical matters.
There's still a good proportion of Bronze Age genes to be found in the modern inhabitants of Anatolia, with genes from Central Asia contributing maybe around 10%. (Although studies vary.) The influence of the Turkish migrations seems to have been more cultural than genetic.
Sea levels were considerably lower during the ice ages. I'm convinced there may be a myriad of prehistoric archeological sites near the edges of the continental shelves if any have survived.
@@Vordb666 You say that as if what the OP said was crazy, but the fact of the matter is, losing coastal cities is EXACTLY the thing people are worried about climate change over. What is your evidence that ice age humans didn't live near the coasts, like we do today? No archeologist has ever made that claim, that I have heard. What are you on about?
I was just making fun of the fact that OP's comment was a completely asinine, unoriginal thought which the woo woo conspiracy people parrot 24/7 but I was probably just in a cranky mood or something and misunderstood their comment. That being said their comment is just like...a statement of fact? Yes there are already coastlines of former habitats that are now underwater. Not really up for debate lol @@Tijuanabill
@@Vordb666 The issue that the OP raised, is all of the underwater archeology is focused on finding shipwreck gold, which is of no historical value. All around the the world, there are interesting underwater sites, just off our shores, that nobody seems to want to try and learn more about. You can laugh at the explanations for these megalithic stone sites, and the like, but nothing is more laughable, than thinking they are no big deal, and fit in with what we know.
- Hattusa was the Bronze Age capital of the Hittite Empire, not Turkish. There would be no polity that could fairly be called a Turkish empire until much, much later. - Cuneiform is not a "proto-language" but an early writing system ultimately used to write many different languages, some entirely unrelated to the others, from Sumerian to Akkadian to Hittite to Hattic to Hurrian to Persian to this newly discovered language, and inspired the alphabetic system of Urartian. - Hittite is the oldest *attested* Indo-European language. There were certainly older IE languages including the reconstructed proto-Indo-European, but they weren't written down. - The newly found Kalasma language doesn't contain an ancient "idiom that stuck." We can't call it a "saying" either, because it hasn't been deciphered even though it appears to be another IE language related to Luwian. Most sources are calling it a "recitation", based largely on its context in a ritual text. It probably has to do with the Hittite habit of transporting gods of people they conquered to their capital, where they made an effort to honor them as in their native country in the original language. That's also how we know languages like Palaic and Hattic. Whether it's a prayer or a kind of ritual manual, or something else is not yet known. - Although a great deal of the Bronze Age Anatolian genome persists in modern Turkey, Bronze Age Anatolians can in no way be termed "ancestral Turks". Ancestral, yes. Turks, no.
The discoveries of the Cerberus fresco and the sunken Nabatean temple to Dushara were also supremely amazing finds; especially the fresco as it was in impeccable shape! Further, the Hittites existed in what is modern day Türkiye way before the actual Turks did; the area originally being called the Anatolian Peninsula. Also: Cuneiform was an ancient logo-syllabic *script* not a “language”. It was used to *write* languages, but it didn’t function as one itself. Sumerian, Akkadian, and the recently discovered Kalašma (or Kalasmaic) are prime examples of *languages* that all used the same general script concept.
@@callumgriss5422in a sense. But the distinction of writing system here is important. There is a good video by Tom Scott explaining all types of writing systems. A syllabary has characters for each syllable. An alphabet has characters for each sound, at least in principle. A pictographic system has images that relate to the word and an ideographic/iconographic system has symbols that represent words or ideas. Japanese hiragana is a syllabary, same as Korean Hangul. Western languages mostly use the Roman alphabet, Cyrillic script is also an alphabet. Chinese is iconographic as also Japanese Kanji, which inherited from Chinese writing. Cuneiform script was used both as phonetic and iconographic in some languages, while purely as phonetic in others as far as I remember
So I gotta be a tiny bit pedantic here since I'm a graduate student studying Hittite and other Anatolian languages, but cuneiform is emphatically NOT a proto-language, it's just a writing system used to write lots of different languages like Hittite, Akkadian, etc. That said, I should be attending the event this February where they release the first real information about Kalasmaic and I am STOKED!!!! Thanks for putting it in the video Simon, it's super exciting!!!
@@RadeticDaniel it was interesting! I don't have a ton of new information that I can really distribute since the paper discussing it has been delayed, but if you're interested in following it, Dr Elizabeth Rieken should be publishing that paper on it here in the next few months. The language shows some really interesting features from the other Anatolian languages, and I'm not 100% sure what that means in terms of its classification, but I imagine Dr Rieken will have some stuff to say about that in her article. I'll try to remember to update this whenever it comes out!
@@TheGryphonSun They did! Matter of fact, they invented the system. They were part of what I had in mind with "etc." Besides Sumerian there was also Luwian (one form if it anyway), Ugaritic, Old Persian, and several others beyond what I originally mentioned. Cuneiform was pretty much the go-to writing system for a couple thousand years until the Phoenicians developed the alphabet
A swamp en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body or a glacier en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi#/media/File:Otzi-Quinson.jpg would be perfect, the less your body gets in touch with air (and animals!) the better OT: Here's a creepy song of mine: ua-cam.com/video/LRjnhOPEM9Y/v-deo.html
0:40 - Chapter 1 - New ancient language discovered in Turkey 2:25 - Mid roll ads 3:55 - Chapter 2 - Sunken egyptian temple to aphrodite 6:00 - Chapter 3 - Roman swords in dead sea cave 8:05 - Chapter 4 - 500k years old building unearthed 10:10 - Chapter 5 - Mayan palaces 11:40 - Chapter 6 - The golden mummy
Just wanted to say thank you for doing videos like these. Besides being just generally fascinating and informative, I find that they also act as amazing inspirational resources for my D&D campaigns, of all things. Who knew!
Imagine if the proposed dam at the Straight of Gibraltar was actually made and the Mediterranean drained. Archaeologists would have a field day with the previously sunken cities mentioned in this video.
Interesting idea, but I reckon the water would flood in faster than they could pump it out! Just googled the tributary rivers, doesn't have a number, but some of the biggest rivers in Europe and the nile... thats a lot of buckets of water!
@@andygarside2418 The Mediterranean evaporates faster than all the rivers combined can refill it. Versions of those rivers existed when it was a hypersaline wasteland about 5.5 million years ago, and they weren't enough. Even today, we can measure that more water flows into the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar than out.
Another great documentary Simon. This one was especially good! Something that I really liked was the way that you showed quotes from authorities on the subjects of parts of the video.
What boggles my mind is 400k years ago we know we started building structures yet 12k years ago having structures with non hunter gatherers is just ludicrous in ms archaeologists minds
00:43 There were no Turks in Anatolia during the Bronze Age. They arrived there on the mediaval period, many thousands of years after the Bronze age collapse. I think you are refering to the Hittite Empire.
Meh I enjoy Simon’s videos but this seriously needs fact checking. Hittites were not Turkish. They were indo European and their language was as well. There was no Turkish empire in Anatolia at that time. They didn’t arrive until much much later from Central Asia, Mongolia, and China.
@danidavis7912 it's worse now, the double adds now require you to skip both of them back to back instead of the first skip hitting both, and all of the adds I've been getting are several minutes long each, meaning when listening in the background I have to stop what I'm doing to double skip instead of sitting through a 15 second ad every now and then. I don't listen to videos on the road anymore, the adds are so egregious.
I think some of the best underwater archaeology might be around the original coastline of Sahul, looking for first settlements from around 60k years ago. It could be the one series of finds that might push back the evidence for boat construction, which is currently inferred.
Or just on the continental shelves in general. For example, we're pretty damn sure that the first humans to go to North America HAD to have arrived by boat, and we discover new things all the time that push back how long people have been in North America. The white sands footprints are dated to 21-23,000 years ago, and they're in New Mexico. At the time, there was no way to walk the thousands of miles over Beringia/Alaska/Canada, as it would have been covered in ice.
I would love to meet someone that's as Charming and BRILLIANT as you who would keep me thinking, learning and accomplished as you. Every single episode of your Brilliant research and encouragement is absolutely refreshing. Best of Luck! CHEERS!
The old simon whistler approach of graphics - close enough is good enough, ffirst2 seconds of the video he talks about archaeology and depicts paleontology
We have found dozens of lost civilizations in my lifetime. Why wouldn’t people expect to find more? That’s a conspiracy theory? It must be really comforting to think humanity has so much figured out.
We are told there is nothing to find, but the same people say if it was abandoned by humans, New York City wouldn't exist in 10,000 years of the earth reclaiming it. I don't think there are any New Yorks to dig up, but the time factor cannot be ignored. Unless it's made of stone, or was coincidentally encased as a fossil, nothing exists after 10,000 years. They are saying there is no chance a Medieval Europe level of technology existed, despite everything but the castle being made of wood.
Haha exactly “Fringe lost secret civilizations” Not sure what’s more cringey his exaggerated smarty posh voice or his ancient closed minded views on human history. The pyramids are tombs guys! We know it!
What a surprise, things just keep getting older. Yet the notion of lost ancient civilizations is still considered "conspiracy theory", which is a complete misnomer anyway.
That 500k year old structure blew my mind. We keep pushing back the time of emergence of civilization, meanwhile creationist nutjobs are still talking about Earth being 6k years old.
Excellent subject matter and great video... but at times the audio is unintelligible and nearly impossible to understand. I would try using a limiter that will automatically boost whisper-level tones, or just mix the audio better so the whisper-tone audio is audible.
One silly note, Aphrodite shouldn't be seen as a godess of love primarily. Sexual desire itself it more her domain. Good episode, always enjoy this topic!
Wasn't desire her son's Eros' domain? Aphrodite was love, Ares was war/aggressiveness and their son Eros was sexual desire (hence the word erotic, like Eros)
Around 2 mins 2:10 seconds he calls the people "Ancestral Turks" This is incorrect as the Turkish people arrived thousands of years later in the 11th century AD with the Seljuks. The Hittites may have descendants today but they were not "Ancestral Turks".
As for the Egyptian mummies being better quality the older you go in the past. It’s my understanding that’s a common feature of ancient Egypt across a lot of technologies and practices.
A long while ago when shows like Ancient Aliens first started I didn't think much of it. Id watch it for the lulz. Despite 99% of it being absurd, I got a kick out if it. Every now and again they would bring something up that is intriguing and I can get on board with. Like, panspermia and other things akin. But, not by aliens doing it on purpose to start life here. Now I'm rambling, point is. But I did not see most people taking everything on it as fact. And take them to even more extreme places. Luckily we have shows like Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates. Hes cool. One celebrity I'd love to spend the day with and just ask him questions and geek out.
It's literally not that people think there was some amazing lost civilization; it's that the narrative we are told about our early history is clearly nonsense. Both things can be true that there was no hyper advanced civilization, and that human beings didn't behave completely unlike human beings for 200,00 years, then suddenly start building pyramids. Just because the ancients didn't build out of stone, doesn't mean they ran around like Tarzan in loin cloths, doing basically nothing for all that time.
This comment will get buried but Ive had a shit day, and I watch your ads anyway because you're a seemingly solid dude and I want to contribute my fraction😂
I'm surprised Netflix hasn't come out with a new "documentary" about how the Aphrodite worshiped at the temple in Egypt was black, and how the race of Alexander the great was ambiguous. I guess they're still working on it...
If the dating is correct then the civilization that built them is much older. As you said, Simon, they were opulent structures. A civilization doesn't just go from mud huts to brick and fitted stone overnight. The skills required evolve with each generation making novel improvements and passing the state of the art down to their young... It takes at least several hundred years, to thousands of years to refine such skills to the point that someone would have the planning skills, surveying skills, management and oversight and the resources to dedicate all the dedicated specialist skills to such a project. They're going to find older architecture using the same techniques and materials but smaller, cruder and less planned looking... And eventually graves or tombs. It's just a matter of time.
The fact they found a mummy wrapped in gold leaf, yet they have zero records of his name. Tells me how little we truly know, while being told we know everything there is to be discovered.
@@nalinux did I say we don't know what his name is, or zero records of his name? Records as in, know who he was 🤦♂️ Egyptologist's say they know the history of Egypt all the time. You definitely lack critical thinking. What I would consider a 101 type mind, simply the basics.
@@tankeater Do you really think we can know the name of everybody, even today ? :) "Egyptologist's say they know the history of Egypt all the time." --> Right. And do they said we know everything ? Does is mean we no nothing ? That's just stupid.
She wasn’t the goddess of love though she was the goddess of war … in the illiad the that Aphrodite was one of the few named as being on the field by the Spartans in fact she was actually not a Greek goddess but a eastern goddess that was adopted during the Herculean era
So they've never seen this language before. But they know what it says and what it's about that is extremely concerning. How does no one find that suspect?
The Hittites WERE NOT Ancestors of the Turks. The Hittite Empire was located on land that is currently in Turkey, but the Hittites were Indo-European (along with some of the region's original inhabitants.) The Turks are an unrelated ethnicity who moved into Anatolia long after the Hittite Empire was gone and forgotten.
Herodotus wrote: Moreover the naming of almost all the gods has come to Hellas from Egypt: for that it has come from the Barbarians I find by inquiry is true, and I am of opinion that most probably it has come from Egypt, because, except in the case of Poseidon and the Dioscuroi (in accordance with that which I have said before), and also of Hera and Hestia and Themis and the Charites and Nereïds, the Egyptians have had the names of all the other gods in their country for all time.
The Hittites were not a Turkish empire. The Turks did not begin colonizing Anatolia until their victory over the Eastern Roman Empire at Malazgirt in 1071 AD.
"Conspiracies about secret lost civilizations". Discovering lost civilizations is literally what archaeology is about. Gobekli Tepi, the Maya, Astecs, etc etc. All were lost and then found.
Probably just the large number of subscribers/views this channel attracts. Despite Simon’s description, moisturizer isn’t really a niche beauty item. It treats dry skin. For a *truly* niche product, it probably makes sense to seek out specific types of channels, but I suspect sponsors that have a wide enough interest base just look at the number of subscribers/average number of views. Once the viewership is high enough, the odds are good that at least a few viewers will be interested in the product.
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man foreo really spending some money on these sponsorships and out of all the sponsors it seems to be the most snakeoil like. at least this one has some kinda moisturizing pads with it rather than the normal oh it massages your face and magically removes wrinkles.
That dude is a liar. Can't watch him. Blocked
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the last one is fake, clearly ancient egyptians were black africans. The pyramids were built by placks and all Egyptian history is black!!1
Just want to point out that the Hittites and other ancient residents of the Anatolian peninsula were most certainly not Turkish or proto-turkish. The Turkish people originating in central Asia didn't migrate into the area until around the 11th century.
Fact-checking has never been a big priority for Simon's writers.
It's a strange mistake to make. He even says Hittite people a few moments later, but then calls them turkish again. Maybe several takes were strung together.
I did notice this. There was no Turkish empire in ancient times. The writers really need to do a bit better imo
I do believe it was intended to mean "people who lived in what is now modern day Turkey," but of course that sort of abbreviation isn't great when talking about historical matters.
There's still a good proportion of Bronze Age genes to be found in the modern inhabitants of Anatolia, with genes from Central Asia contributing maybe around 10%. (Although studies vary.) The influence of the Turkish migrations seems to have been more cultural than genetic.
Sea levels were considerably lower during the ice ages. I'm convinced there may be a myriad of prehistoric archeological sites near the edges of the continental shelves if any have survived.
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@@Vordb666 You say that as if what the OP said was crazy, but the fact of the matter is, losing coastal cities is EXACTLY the thing people are worried about climate change over. What is your evidence that ice age humans didn't live near the coasts, like we do today? No archeologist has ever made that claim, that I have heard. What are you on about?
I was just making fun of the fact that OP's comment was a completely asinine, unoriginal thought which the woo woo conspiracy people parrot 24/7 but I was probably just in a cranky mood or something and misunderstood their comment.
That being said their comment is just like...a statement of fact? Yes there are already coastlines of former habitats that are now underwater. Not really up for debate lol @@Tijuanabill
@@Vordb666 The issue that the OP raised, is all of the underwater archeology is focused on finding shipwreck gold, which is of no historical value. All around the the world, there are interesting underwater sites, just off our shores, that nobody seems to want to try and learn more about. You can laugh at the explanations for these megalithic stone sites, and the like, but nothing is more laughable, than thinking they are no big deal, and fit in with what we know.
- Hattusa was the Bronze Age capital of the Hittite Empire, not Turkish. There would be no polity that could fairly be called a Turkish empire until much, much later.
- Cuneiform is not a "proto-language" but an early writing system ultimately used to write many different languages, some entirely unrelated to the others, from Sumerian to Akkadian to Hittite to Hattic to Hurrian to Persian to this newly discovered language, and inspired the alphabetic system of Urartian.
- Hittite is the oldest *attested* Indo-European language. There were certainly older IE languages including the reconstructed proto-Indo-European, but they weren't written down.
- The newly found Kalasma language doesn't contain an ancient "idiom that stuck." We can't call it a "saying" either, because it hasn't been deciphered even though it appears to be another IE language related to Luwian. Most sources are calling it a "recitation", based largely on its context in a ritual text. It probably has to do with the Hittite habit of transporting gods of people they conquered to their capital, where they made an effort to honor them as in their native country in the original language. That's also how we know languages like Palaic and Hattic. Whether it's a prayer or a kind of ritual manual, or something else is not yet known.
- Although a great deal of the Bronze Age Anatolian genome persists in modern Turkey, Bronze Age Anatolians can in no way be termed "ancestral Turks". Ancestral, yes. Turks, no.
"Gold coated mummies,hidden swords and sunken temples" will be the title of my book! Lol what a great description! 🤣Thank you Simon!
The discoveries of the Cerberus fresco and the sunken Nabatean temple to Dushara were also supremely amazing finds; especially the fresco as it was in impeccable shape!
Further, the Hittites existed in what is modern day Türkiye way before the actual Turks did; the area originally being called the Anatolian Peninsula.
Also: Cuneiform was an ancient logo-syllabic *script* not a “language”. It was used to *write* languages, but it didn’t function as one itself. Sumerian, Akkadian, and the recently discovered Kalašma (or Kalasmaic) are prime examples of *languages* that all used the same general script concept.
so like the alphabet? where the individual characters are used in different languages but aren't a language themselves?
@@callumgriss5422 kind of, though I’m not a studier of alphabets or languages.
@@callumgriss5422in a sense.
But the distinction of writing system here is important.
There is a good video by Tom Scott explaining all types of writing systems.
A syllabary has characters for each syllable. An alphabet has characters for each sound, at least in principle. A pictographic system has images that relate to the word and an ideographic/iconographic system has symbols that represent words or ideas.
Japanese hiragana is a syllabary, same as Korean Hangul.
Western languages mostly use the Roman alphabet, Cyrillic script is also an alphabet.
Chinese is iconographic as also Japanese Kanji, which inherited from Chinese writing.
Cuneiform script was used both as phonetic and iconographic in some languages, while purely as phonetic in others as far as I remember
So I gotta be a tiny bit pedantic here since I'm a graduate student studying Hittite and other Anatolian languages, but cuneiform is emphatically NOT a proto-language, it's just a writing system used to write lots of different languages like Hittite, Akkadian, etc. That said, I should be attending the event this February where they release the first real information about Kalasmaic and I am STOKED!!!! Thanks for putting it in the video Simon, it's super exciting!!!
How was the event?
Really curious about some fresh news =)
@@RadeticDaniel it was interesting! I don't have a ton of new information that I can really distribute since the paper discussing it has been delayed, but if you're interested in following it, Dr Elizabeth Rieken should be publishing that paper on it here in the next few months. The language shows some really interesting features from the other Anatolian languages, and I'm not 100% sure what that means in terms of its classification, but I imagine Dr Rieken will have some stuff to say about that in her article. I'll try to remember to update this whenever it comes out!
I thought Sumerians used cuneiform tablets too.
@@TheGryphonSun They did! Matter of fact, they invented the system. They were part of what I had in mind with "etc." Besides Sumerian there was also Luwian (one form if it anyway), Ugaritic, Old Persian, and several others beyond what I originally mentioned. Cuneiform was pretty much the go-to writing system for a couple thousand years until the Phoenicians developed the alphabet
So if I wanted to be found by future people when I'm dead I should bury myself in those little moisture absorbing packets you get with products.
4052: "An ancient corpse has been found, mummified by innumerable little absorbent silica balls"
If you eat them it's a shorter wait relatively.
Dessicants for the win!
A swamp en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body
or a glacier en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi#/media/File:Otzi-Quinson.jpg
would be perfect, the less your body gets in touch with air (and animals!) the better
OT: Here's a creepy song of mine: ua-cam.com/video/LRjnhOPEM9Y/v-deo.html
Yep. Include an AK-47 so they can make up a grand story about you being a warlord or something.
0:40 - Chapter 1 - New ancient language discovered in Turkey
2:25 - Mid roll ads
3:55 - Chapter 2 - Sunken egyptian temple to aphrodite
6:00 - Chapter 3 - Roman swords in dead sea cave
8:05 - Chapter 4 - 500k years old building unearthed
10:10 - Chapter 5 - Mayan palaces
11:40 - Chapter 6 - The golden mummy
Just wanted to say thank you for doing videos like these. Besides being just generally fascinating and informative, I find that they also act as amazing inspirational resources for my D&D campaigns, of all things. Who knew!
This was a great one. Never cease to amaze me on how much we know, and how much we have forgotten.
I’m still finding seashells in the sands of Egypt 🐚🐚🐚🐚🐚
Imagine if the proposed dam at the Straight of Gibraltar was actually made and the Mediterranean drained. Archaeologists would have a field day with the previously sunken cities mentioned in this video.
Unbelievable things would be found
Interesting idea, but I reckon the water would flood in faster than they could pump it out! Just googled the tributary rivers, doesn't have a number, but some of the biggest rivers in Europe and the nile... thats a lot of buckets of water!
Damming the Straight of Gibraltar would not drain the Mediterranean. If anything, the opposite.
There was a mega project about this and draining the Mediterranean, iirc, it basically in the long term it would kill humanity
@@andygarside2418 The Mediterranean evaporates faster than all the rivers combined can refill it. Versions of those rivers existed when it was a hypersaline wasteland about 5.5 million years ago, and they weren't enough. Even today, we can measure that more water flows into the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar than out.
Another great documentary Simon. This one was especially good!
Something that I really liked was the way that you showed quotes from authorities on the subjects of parts of the video.
What boggles my mind is 400k years ago we know we started building structures yet 12k years ago having structures with non hunter gatherers is just ludicrous in ms archaeologists minds
Simon talking about dry skin in the winter for the sponsor is a cruel irony in a southern hemisphere summer.
00:43 There were no Turks in Anatolia during the Bronze Age. They arrived there on the mediaval period, many thousands of years after the Bronze age collapse. I think you are refering to the Hittite Empire.
The writers really need to do better
I love when Simon delves into this kind of stuff because his writers do such a good job of sorting through the fake stuff to give us the truth
If you haven't seen it before check out the why files. They do a great job with this as well.
Meh I enjoy Simon’s videos but this seriously needs fact checking. Hittites were not Turkish. They were indo European and their language was as well. There was no Turkish empire in Anatolia at that time. They didn’t arrive until much much later from Central Asia, Mongolia, and China.
Like the part where they tried to suggest apes were building structures
300,000 yrs, did humans just pop out of the mud, or did they evolve over millions of yrs previous ?
@@JaBrandonSpoons Technically, we are apes. So, apes built the Burj Khalifa, the Eiffel Tower and the Hoover Dam too.
This brings to mind that as we advance as a species technologically, it will become increasingly common to discover and decipher ancient artifacts.
Hey!! One of those familial figurines, in the tomb, looks just like Zahi Hawas!
This was really cool, i would love to hear more about finding that are made all over the world. Love the format.
I think it'd be hilarious if they deciphered the carvings to say something like , "Bob ❤ Jenny" 😂
Lol funnily enough there's quite a lot of graffiti in Pompeii and some of it is like "BESTIES 4 LIFE" kinda thing
Can't wait for new discoveries in 2024.
4 minutes in and UA-cam has forced 2 ads in your video as you where in the middle of your promotional offers
My man do something usefull with your time. Nobody cares how many ads a video has
@@sXsKidd Yeah, we kind of do. It's becoming a real pain in the ass.
@danidavis7912 it's worse now, the double adds now require you to skip both of them back to back instead of the first skip hitting both, and all of the adds I've been getting are several minutes long each, meaning when listening in the background I have to stop what I'm doing to double skip instead of sitting through a 15 second ad every now and then.
I don't listen to videos on the road anymore, the adds are so egregious.
I think some of the best underwater archaeology might be around the original coastline of Sahul, looking for first settlements from around 60k years ago. It could be the one series of finds that might push back the evidence for boat construction, which is currently inferred.
Or just on the continental shelves in general. For example, we're pretty damn sure that the first humans to go to North America HAD to have arrived by boat, and we discover new things all the time that push back how long people have been in North America. The white sands footprints are dated to 21-23,000 years ago, and they're in New Mexico. At the time, there was no way to walk the thousands of miles over Beringia/Alaska/Canada, as it would have been covered in ice.
Human civilization is definitely older than we’re taught it is, I have no doubt about that
Simon needs to do his video with a toupe on when April 1st rolls around.
And please oh please let keeps be the sponsor 😂
you will not believe it 7 minutes in and UA-cam has forced 2 more ads in your video
These ads are getting worse and worse. UA-cam obviously doesn't give a sh*t about the veiwers.
ublock origin+sponsorblock on pc or revanced on mobile. your welcome....
plus the ad he does about the skin care product!
Hey man. What was written In The Dead Sea cave? It was the reason they found the swords. Damnit haha that’s gonna drive me nuts now
I would love to meet someone that's as Charming and BRILLIANT as you who would keep me thinking, learning and accomplished as you. Every single episode of your Brilliant research and encouragement is absolutely refreshing. Best of Luck! CHEERS!
Only one criticism, man, why is a video about archaeology opened with a clip of someone doing paleontology?
This comment is so early it'll be discovered in an archeological dig
but I see some from at least ten minutes earlier
What are you doing under my house?
@@mosesgossett Getting discovered!
And still no one will care.
Ohhh siickkk.. nice one
I thought he was going to say we could find the artifacts in the British museum 😂
The old simon whistler approach of graphics - close enough is good enough, ffirst2 seconds of the video he talks about archaeology and depicts paleontology
Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜
We have found dozens of lost civilizations in my lifetime. Why wouldn’t people expect to find more? That’s a conspiracy theory? It must be really comforting to think humanity has so much figured out.
We are told there is nothing to find, but the same people say if it was abandoned by humans, New York City wouldn't exist in 10,000 years of the earth reclaiming it. I don't think there are any New Yorks to dig up, but the time factor cannot be ignored. Unless it's made of stone, or was coincidentally encased as a fossil, nothing exists after 10,000 years. They are saying there is no chance a Medieval Europe level of technology existed, despite everything but the castle being made of wood.
Haha exactly “Fringe lost secret civilizations” Not sure what’s more cringey his exaggerated smarty posh voice or his ancient closed minded views on human history. The pyramids are tombs guys! We know it!
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What a surprise, things just keep getting older. Yet the notion of lost ancient civilizations is still considered "conspiracy theory", which is a complete misnomer anyway.
I just started learning about the Akkadian empire .brutal stuff .
Thanks for sharing.
In every single video this man makes you can notice certain words and or phrases which reappear.
Actually Over 100,000 Clay Tablets Cuniform, Less Than 10% Are Translated
Well, now you ask Simon, No, i have never ever wondered how to handle dry skin and i am 75 years old.
9:27 You left out H. Whistlerus, Brain Boy...
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I don't see where he left out an H. Was it in one of the names of the earlier species of humans?
what we would recognize as humans have been evolving for 1.3 million years, we just categorized the evolution
This video thumbs should be " Atlantic confirmed?! " 😂😂
That 500k year old structure blew my mind. We keep pushing back the time of emergence of civilization, meanwhile creationist nutjobs are still talking about Earth being 6k years old.
Excellent subject matter and great video... but at times the audio is unintelligible and nearly impossible to understand. I would try using a limiter that will automatically boost whisper-level tones, or just mix the audio better so the whisper-tone audio is audible.
Fascinating egg skull
One silly note, Aphrodite shouldn't be seen as a godess of love primarily.
Sexual desire itself it more her domain.
Good episode, always enjoy this topic!
Wasn't desire her son's Eros' domain?
Aphrodite was love, Ares was war/aggressiveness and their son Eros was sexual desire (hence the word erotic, like Eros)
Great insights!! H*ll yeah, science!! 😎
Thank you great job keep doing what you like to do.
I long for the day I can say with sound mind I have found every channel hosted by our Simon, alas today is not that day.
Around 2 mins 2:10 seconds he calls the people "Ancestral Turks" This is incorrect as the Turkish people arrived thousands of years later in the 11th century AD with the Seljuks. The Hittites may have descendants today but they were not "Ancestral Turks".
Busy archaeologists! Indiana Jones, Lara Croft and Nathan Drake must've teamed up!
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As for the Egyptian mummies being better quality the older you go in the past. It’s my understanding that’s a common feature of ancient Egypt across a lot of technologies and practices.
Because the damn younger generations get lazier and don't want to work anymore!
Lol
@@ChaseSchleich hahahaha
Bronze Age Turkish Empire 3500 years ago? What??
Anatolian empire, not turkish. 2000y ago there were mostly greeks in nowadays türkiye
FOREO ! 🏆
Why, at the beginning when you're talking about archeology, do you show a clip of paleontology?
I was wondering that myself.
Anyone else see the irony of Simon promoting the "UFO 3?"
Two words: Time Team.
A long while ago when shows like Ancient Aliens first started I didn't think much of it. Id watch it for the lulz. Despite 99% of it being absurd, I got a kick out if it. Every now and again they would bring something up that is intriguing and I can get on board with. Like, panspermia and other things akin. But, not by aliens doing it on purpose to start life here. Now I'm rambling, point is.
But I did not see most people taking everything on it as fact. And take them to even more extreme places.
Luckily we have shows like Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates. Hes cool. One celebrity I'd love to spend the day with and just ask him questions and geek out.
I'm hoping with all my being the Antikithera mechanism isn't on this list.
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I'd expect half of it to be on the list.
5:44 Sorry, all my attention was drawn to the vase shaped like a duck. XD
About the swords , if I had to guess, I would say , the occupants may have killed Roman scouts and hid them for fear of death.
wow-ads are out of control
That last subject ...
Resources References would be so helpful. 3200 BCE
(South American mummies might be an objection to that West comment.)
9:07 Europeans are older than they think. It is hilarious to me how dogmatic some of these dates can be
It's literally not that people think there was some amazing lost civilization; it's that the narrative we are told about our early history is clearly nonsense. Both things can be true that there was no hyper advanced civilization, and that human beings didn't behave completely unlike human beings for 200,00 years, then suddenly start building pyramids. Just because the ancients didn't build out of stone, doesn't mean they ran around like Tarzan in loin cloths, doing basically nothing for all that time.
Pyramids are not 200.000 years old, and didn't appeared "suddenly".
Are you really surprised people from Stone Age could work with stone ?
I have watched this multiple times and the only thing I can remember is skin care.
Thanks.
Simon I know it's for an ad here, but please stop saying you're old, I'm a couple years older than you 😂
Things just keep getting older.
There were no Turks 3500 years ago in Anatolia. The Hittites were in charge.
This comment will get buried but Ive had a shit day, and I watch your ads anyway because you're a seemingly solid dude and I want to contribute my fraction😂
The logs one seems like a bit of a stretch, and how could they know what the writing is about if they can’t read the language?
It's a section of the writing that alludes to another previously unknown language. The rest is in Hittite.
Everyone knows early Egyptians looked like Errol Flynn and Gerard Butler
Simon promoting a product called UFO is slightly ironic.
I'm surprised Netflix hasn't come out with a new "documentary" about how the Aphrodite worshiped at the temple in Egypt was black, and how the race of Alexander the great was ambiguous. I guess they're still working on it...
I expected a mention to the hidden chamber found at Cheops pyramid
In 2023 ?
@@nalinuxyes
Gotta love all of the experts in the comments 😂
If the dating is correct then the civilization that built them is much older.
As you said, Simon, they were opulent structures. A civilization doesn't just go from mud huts to brick and fitted stone overnight.
The skills required evolve with each generation making novel improvements and passing the state of the art down to their young... It takes at least several hundred years, to thousands of years to refine such skills to the point that someone would have the planning skills, surveying skills, management and oversight and the resources to dedicate all the dedicated specialist skills to such a project.
They're going to find older architecture using the same techniques and materials but smaller, cruder and less planned looking...
And eventually graves or tombs. It's just a matter of time.
Bronze age Turkish empire?? Oh boy! 🙄🤦♂
The fact they found a mummy wrapped in gold leaf, yet they have zero records of his name. Tells me how little we truly know, while being told we know everything there is to be discovered.
Nobody told we know everything about history.
The name of the mummy is Hekashepes. Simon said it clearly.
@@nalinux did I say we don't know what his name is, or zero records of his name? Records as in, know who he was 🤦♂️
Egyptologist's say they know the history of Egypt all the time.
You definitely lack critical thinking. What I would consider a 101 type mind, simply the basics.
@@tankeater Do you really think we can know the name of everybody, even today ? :)
"Egyptologist's say they know the history of Egypt all the time." --> Right. And do they said we know everything ?
Does is mean we no nothing ?
That's just stupid.
She wasn’t the goddess of love though she was the goddess of war … in the illiad the that Aphrodite was one of the few named as being on the field by the Spartans in fact she was actually not a Greek goddess but a eastern goddess that was adopted during the Herculean era
So they've never seen this language before. But they know what it says and what it's about that is extremely concerning. How does no one find that suspect?
Timestamp 7.10. The fellowship of the rings exists!
The way timeline of humans are going earlier and earlier, it will not be surprise that humans were present in Jurassic age. 🤣🤣
Half a million years old
London Hammer : "Hold my beer"
This thing is a hoax.
The Hittites WERE NOT Ancestors of the Turks. The Hittite Empire was located on land that is currently in Turkey, but the Hittites were Indo-European (along with some of the region's original inhabitants.) The Turks are an unrelated ethnicity who moved into Anatolia long after the Hittite Empire was gone and forgotten.
I'm telling you Simon, you need to tell your writers to improve their almost non-existent fact-checking skills.
Herodotus wrote: Moreover the naming of almost all the gods has come to Hellas from Egypt: for that it has come from the Barbarians I find by inquiry is true, and I am of opinion that most probably it has come from Egypt, because, except in the case of Poseidon and the Dioscuroi (in accordance with that which I have said before), and also of Hera and Hestia and Themis and the Charites and Nereïds, the Egyptians have had the names of all the other gods in their country for all time.
People have probably been around for millions of years and we were probably on mars at one time
What about the red haired mummies in China? Seems like EVERYONE knew how to do it back in the Old World. 🎉
The gold covered mummy is still 1,000 years older than the red haired mummies from China.
@@zarasbazaar So someone says- but it’s all been lies!😉
Nobody has thought of that place maybe being a caldera?
The Hittites were not a Turkish empire. The Turks did not begin colonizing Anatolia until their victory over the Eastern Roman Empire at Malazgirt in 1071 AD.
The only UFO Simon believes in.
"Conspiracies about secret lost civilizations".
Discovering lost civilizations is literally what archaeology is about. Gobekli Tepi, the Maya, Astecs, etc etc. All were lost and then found.
Im truly curious to what lead to that sponsor writing an email
Probably just the large number of subscribers/views this channel attracts. Despite Simon’s description, moisturizer isn’t really a niche beauty item. It treats dry skin. For a *truly* niche product, it probably makes sense to seek out specific types of channels, but I suspect sponsors that have a wide enough interest base just look at the number of subscribers/average number of views. Once the viewership is high enough, the odds are good that at least a few viewers will be interested in the product.
I imagine the Roman general laughing as his empire began to fall, understanding even after his death the stupid will continue to haunt Israel.