10 Horrifying Archaeological Discoveries

With archaeology, we are able to take a peek into the past. Ancient texts, though revealing, often times are subjective, written by conquerors and victors, skewing the facts to make themselves appear in a more positive light. But ancient relics, buried deep in the ground by time or people, tell a more complete story of what happened hundreds, if not thousands of years ago.
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9. The First Victims of War - Kenya
8. The Pit of Death - France
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5. The Shackled Skeletons - Greece
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I was so happy to see something from Poland. I feel Poland gets left out of everything. I may be biased because I am Polish though.

[@maggiee639]

Humans are so amazing... how did anyone even imagine the concept of a boomerang?! Sharp pokey stick is probably the best I could come up with 😂

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Maggie E Maybe it started with someone throwing a length of bent tree branch and got refined from there. Taking down small game by throwing sticks has been around for ages.

[@carbon-basedrcavatar3214]

In a video with comments full of human violence and death, you find a positive attribute. I nominate Maggie E to be our spokesperson to the gods/alien overlords. :)

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Maggie E . I’m an Aussie. I tried for hours to get my boomerang to come back but it refused to do so. Then somebody said, “Son, If you want your boomerang to come back, then first you’ve got to throw it.”

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[@Divertedflight]

The most horrifying archaeological discovery I saw on television was a dig around a ancient Roman brothel in Jerusalem. They discovered in the broken underground drains all these small bones which they thought were chicken bones to begin with, but there were all these small dish bone plates. Turned out they were unfused skulls from freshly born babies. Then that they were all male. Conclusion; when the female worker (many of whom might have been slaves) got pregnant, if they gave birth to a male, the baby was killed, if it was a girl they were brought up to be prostitutes. I felt ill watching that.

[@kerriewilson5185]

That's a load of crap, the bodies were mixed boys and girls, it wasn't that they killed the boys and kept the girls as prostitutes it was because they had no form of reliable birth control and abortion was too dangerous so ALL babies were abandoned at birth. I hate when people add bits on to stories to make them sound more sad or dramatic

[@Divertedflight]

I'd like to think they wouldn't skew the evidence for TV drama. But then, now that I think about it, it has happened before.

[@nunyabiznez6381]

Actually that has been a common brothel practice for thousands of years. The sewer near a 19th century New Orleans brothel was found to be full of baby bones, almost all male.

[@corvettedm1]

Divertedflight Thank you for the view of an interesting time in history. I can't get enough!

[@_epic_dyslexic_]

Either way is awful. Tossing a baby down a well to die or only tossing a certain gender to keep the other as a prostitute are both equally monsterous to think of. I heard them keeping them girls as well and also that babies had no value until a certain age so it wasn't as much a big deal to get rid of the child after birth. With the infant mortality rate they shouldn't have bothered murdering babies, they most likely wouldn't have survived long with parents like that in the first place. Poor babies.

[@jmhinnen]

At No. 2, I was expecting a mention of two things about the doomed Franklin expedition: 1) up to a third of those provisions that Franklin procured for the long voyage were canned food that were soldered with lead on the inside of the can. You read that right: CANNED FOOD with LEAD. Because of this, the whole crew had lead poisoning from the very sustenance that they needed when trapped in the ice. With lead poisoning comes derangement and a multitude of other health problems. Being unable to make sound decisions, one by one the crew of the Franklin expedition died in the Canadian wilderness not just from the harsh environment but from unsound actions. How do we know this? 2) Mummies of some of the crewmen were discovered during the 1980's in the Canadian arctic, in graves marked by creepily lonely markers. Upon excavation and analysis of these ice mummies, lead was found in their hair and other body parts, confirming that lead poisoning from their very food spelled doom for Franklin's crew.

[@AhNee]

How about the issue that the Inuit told people for decades where the ships were, but, as usual, who's going to listen to Indigenous people? "Oh, yeah, they're right over there..." "No, these were Sir Lord Foofiepantses ships, and..." "Yeah...over there..." "But you don't understand, these were caught in the ice..." "Uh, yeah. Over *there*." "No, but really, you don't understand..." "Uh, yeah, we do...they're right. over. there." "But, really, you don't...oh, never mind, we'll find them ourselves..." Long afterwards---FOUND! Right. Where. The. Inuit. Said. They. Were.

[@_epic_dyslexic_]

Aniyunwiya Ageya That made me laugh more than I care to admit and you laid it out to be read as a gloriously Monty Python-esque skit and I thank you for the giggle! Also, Foofiepantsies is a majestic name! Lol

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The HMS Terror was part of the "Battle of Baltimore" (War of 1812) in which the US Nat'l Anthem was written.

[@SimonRancourt]

Jonathan Hinnen plus, the mummies had been otopsied

[@LucianCorrvinus]

There has been a update in this, apparently the lead was in the water as well, visit Catlain Dougherty's "Ask a Mortician" Vlogs....

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Is it because of the word "husband"?

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Here comes the pig dun dun dun dun

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Haha! You're not the only one....

[@AshKetchum442]

so i dont doubt that the ancient man hit with a boomerang died a painful death, but any body buried without its mouth wired shut will in fact appear “screaming” due to the muscles relaxing and decomposing.

[@wheelslifts851]

AshKetchum442 not true. There were multiple skulls shown in this video, the boomerang one was the only one that was wide open. I didn't see any wire holding the skulls shut in any of them. I don't claim to be knowledgeable about this topic, but you are clearly wrong, just by using the evidence of this video

[@mehnah3581]

Wheels Lifts it depends on thier orientation, if they are burried standing or sitting they appear scraming because the jaw is quite heavy. It also depends on how hard the dirt was packed and what they wore and so on I suppose.

[@mejoanunot4830]

As a fan of crime and forensics, I know that the reason skeletons appear to be screaming is the disintegration of the connective tissue between the mandible and skull. Tendons attach muscle to bone, ligaments attach bone to bone. Perhaps an explanation as to why some skeletons don't appear this way is their position in the grave. If you're buried with your neck bent forward and chin on your chest the mandible might not move after decomposition. Maybe conditions change within the burial (settling or cave ins) that prevent the skeleton from "screaming". I'm certainly no anthropologist or archaeologist, but wiring the mandible shut to prevent it from dropping away doesn't make sense. Who would care? Then again, human burial rites can be pretty strange and wiring the jaw closed could be important culturally. I love this stuff!

[@AshKetchum442]

mejoan unot if i recall correctly wiring the jaw shut is part of the preparation a mortician makes for an open casket viewing

[@Hitsugix]

AshKetchum442 This is true. The wire or cotton yarn goes around the lower jar and through the nasal septum. If you use cotton yarn as it is common in Germany, the mouth will plop open again during the decomposition process. I am a professional mortician, btw.

[@Maedroth]

6:25 That's my mum digging up those skelys!

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You got a cool mum!

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How amazing🤩🤩🤩 Are you able to give us some more information about them?

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Really

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So much iconic corpse potential... (askamortician fans anyone?)

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[@raphaello5898]

Archaeology is important because it allows people to view history in a scientific way.

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@@jasondoucette6236 Hopefully our technology will one day reach a point where it can allow us to more accurately determine dates of artifacts and planets in deep space. Well, I'm sure it will, I mean I hope to see it in my lifetime.

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I can dig that, man

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@@jasondoucette6236 there's so much wrong with what you said I'll pick the biggest ones. 80% is an abitrary number arrived at by you as you were typing. Science isn't without it's share of inferences, but it is FAR from just a wild guess like you make it sound. Also, the Out of Africa theory is in no way shape or form being overturned and remains the prevailing theory of our genesis Plus if you spent less time spewing nonsense on youtube you might be able to polish up your terrible grammar.

[@carrieeloff2220]

They never tell us the really important finds. Hence the gap

[@209karenbabe]

As a historian, not all archeology work is 100% accurate. As someone previous stated, archeologists spend time theorizing what truly occurred. Historians provide facts to what actually occurred. Archeology does use science, but not all of it science.

[@joheyjonsson2825]

Most horrifying thing I've seen was areal shots of the March of Death across the Scandinavian Alps. Most of the remains have been destroyed by animals and exposure, but there were enough remains left after 300 years to paint a really viceral picture of the desperate march.

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Better than normal history.

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Would you be interested in making a video about 10 geological discoveries? For example, the understanding of tectonics led to the reconstruction of Pangea, or the understanding of Banded Iron Formations which led to the evolutionary story of photosynthesis that fundamentally made Earth as the one we know today.

[@tbird5514]

Dude! I can't believe you said #1 was found with his mouth wide open. As human remains decompose, the jaw muscle loses its grip, and the jaw drops open. We all end up looking horrified (and horrifying).

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[@lauracullen8122]

Not correct. This is an assumption, uneducated, this is Not a verified conclusion. Back to school.

[@barbaravenek610]

@@lauracullen8122 it's correct. Unless something is blocking your mouth from opening, your mouth open because your facial muscles relax. Just like sometimes when people are sleeping with open mouth.

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kpb96m1 is the best you can come up with?

[@KM-ld9ln]

Laura Cullen the muscles do relax and often would drop. Especially in situations like today where we have coffins so there’s spare room for the jaw to relax. In super packed earth or certain positions/conditions it won’t happen. But in today’s average death, yes it tends to. It’s why morticians use sutures or a staple like method to tie the jaw up for presentation. Caitlin Doughty has a wonderful channel called Ask a Mortician if you want a more in depth and experienced answer

[@CrippledMerc]

The first skeleton looks like he literally died clutching the right side of his face that had been wrecked by a boomerang. Like he curled up to protect the rest of himself and just died there. Eerie picture.

[@donHooligan]

he was the first to discover that boomerangs come back.

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One of my ancestors was a Scot and he fought in the Battle of Dunbar. He was taken prisoner and sent to Massachusetts as a slave in 1654 or 58.

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@@furiousfajita1685 if he was scottish were all related we scots are just irish with a smaller gene pool lol. alot of my ancestors woulda ship off to colonys iv family in north America few people acknowledge the gaelic slave trade u must be a smart cookie cuz. tiocfaidh ar la

[@benr.4238]

I'm descended from Scottish loyalists who were planted in the colonies to sure up support for the crown in the years before the US revolution (Spoiler : It didn't work). I guess not all of us had that Scottish rebellious spirit.

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Whoa…. I thought all slaves were from Africa. Does this mean that they can get reparations too?

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Irish man buried 1,000 years ago was brought back up by a storm! This proves it even death can't keep the Irish down!!!! 🤣

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He just wanted little drink.

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John Doe Or also doesn't want them

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I like watching TopTenz like this... learning History you Might not learn in school.

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When will Simon Whistler actually whistle?

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NiGiVlog asking the real questions here.

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No doubt he'll have 10 good reasons why he won't.

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And just who is Whistler's Mother?

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Harvey Abel Mrs. Whistler.

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@discovery could we get your comment translated into english. Can you use the universal translator

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@kpb96m1 Lol. British 😂

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I love the photo of the Queensland archaeologist drinking Bundaberg rum out of a jam jar. LOL. Yep, we're a sophisticated mob, us Aussies.

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using a jar not the bottle. Sheesh...may as well keep the lil' pinky extended if you're gonna be all fancy pants

[@MrJayzilla101]

Great video, made me do more research on my own, thanks for the inspiration 🙂

[@scottmcintyre2809]

Franklin's second ship was like the ultimate example of European arrogance when it comes to archeology. HUndreds of years people had searched with no luck, then someone got the bright idea "Hey, we should ask some of the local First Nations villages if there's any legends about it, that could give us a clue." and one of the first villages they went to was like "Oh, no one's ever asked. It's right over there, you can still see the masts on a clear day."

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I had forgotten how to throw a boomerang...but it finally came back to me.

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You didn't...

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Frontier Violence is an interesting way to say attempted Genocide

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That particular terminology might go against the KZbin laws of acceptable language for monetization,especially with such a violent subject.

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Killing people as you travel for protection or racism. Happened anytime people explored or conquered.

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[@erictaylor5462]

8:20 I think it very unlikely that these children were taken by force. Considering they were messengers to the Gods, you would want a voluntary victim. After all, an involuntary victim might be upset about being killed and not only not deliver your message, but they might hang around as a spirit and cause even more misfortune.

[@frenchguitarguy1091]

Eric Taylor likely that they were drugged, if not well religion proves as especially persuasive at getting people to harm themselves for its sake..

[@melissacraig4839]

@Aika Papa Lying to the child would still make the spirit upset. Unfinished business and what not. It's the same mentality as cults. When they do their mass suicides. These kids would have been brainwashed into thinking this was their destiny. That it was an honor. The Gods wouldn't be happy if someone forcefully and/or violently killed some children. I don't understand why they needed such young children to be messengers. Not so much the older girl but the baby.... I tried to convince myself everyone was wrong and it was a horrible accident. Like they weren't drugged that they ate something that made it appear like they had drugs in their system. Or were lost and perished after eating or drinking something laced. Idk I was young so I tried to rationalize the situation. Since the truth is very disturbing.

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Boy** I have no clue why I typed girl.

[@erictaylor5462]

@@frenchguitarguy1091 A drugged person might still be POed they were killed.

[@erictaylor5462]

@@melissacraig4839 Maybe your fingers are trans gendered. I've done that myself, having typed something I didn't mean to type. You should know, punishing your fingers doesn't work. They just sent the pain to you, the little jerks.

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The way you move when you all makes me think of Grover from Sesame Street

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I love your videos, Simon, they are so informative. I also enjoy your sense of humor

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[@nevetsmahgnirtle8961]

When a person dies the lower jaw drops open due to the fact that the muscles aren't working. It doesn't mean the person died horrifically, it just means that nobody thought to tie it shut at the time. When rigor mortis sets in, starting not long after death, the jaw then becomes difficult to close. Also, after so long in the ground, compression is at work which often breaks long bones and caves in skulls, so would it not also displace an already dis-articulated jawbone? This stuff is commonly known, why sensationalise it?

[@bluesira]

Sure, all of that is true. But while some skeletons have the dropped-open jaw due to natural postmortem factors, there are others where their position is counterindicative of those processes. In other words, archaeologists can look at more than one thing to tell the cause of death. Mentioning the gaping jaws is an easy visual for the audience to see "proof" of what they are saying. It's less sensationalizing and more just over-simplifying for viewership.

[@LadyWhinesalot]

Nevets Mahgnirtle the dropped lower jaw was only PART of why they classified it as a horrific, painful death

[@LadyWhinesalot]

@Naomi Jean Sterling Faria my comment was not addressed to you

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Best Top 10 Channel EVER. Well on your way to 1 million subs, and for a very good reason.

[@flowerpower8722]

It must be amazing to live in a place where you can dig up ancient history virtually in your own back yard. I also think that mankind really hasn't evolved much, if at all.

[@napoleon8017]

What do you mean we haven't evolved at all

[@haydenstockwell252]

I think he’s referencing, for lack of a better term, spiritual evolution. Violence against one another was, is, and may always be in the nature of our species.

[@donHooligan]

@@napoleon8017 evolution only occurs within the community of life. money-spenders insist that they are separate from said community.

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[@globalcitizen8314]

Ian Harvey it happened

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[@Zeldarw104]

Fascinating! I learn so much from this channel! I love history.👍

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[@webecruzng]

love your videos! Thank you!

[@Monada79]

The Incan child looks more like the mummy nicknamed "Juanita" who suffered the same fate. She was about 14, Virgin, high as a kite on coke leaves , intoxicated with beer , hence the vomit found on her and left in the mountains after being hit on the head.

[@julialvarez968]

Morgana Madrid well she was a sacrifice just like him .So of course the circumstances were the same:l (By the way they knew they were going to die since they were previously chosen by the rest of their community as decent offerings for the gods)

[@jennifergurevich8105]

Morgana Madrid the female sacrifices had braided hair. This picture looks more like the male child, “Lightening Boy”.

[@davehallett3128]

@@jennifergurevich8105 michael jackson was the. Lightening boy

[@Bettinasisrg]

I guess there were crap parents back then too!

[@ginak5802]

@@Bettinasisrg More like crap societies, though that doesn't excuse parents willing to drug their children and send them into the mountains to die

[@jamalwayans545]

I never thought that simon speaks fast just until i read on the comments section...yep..he does....but understand him so well....

[@MrMagoo-hf8yk]

seems normal to me

[@russrocks22]

Nice vids man your channel and watchmojo take up all my time on yt haha

[@saintjackula9615]

OOh that was a great video, nice research! Thanks!

[@belovedgoddess]

I still have a lump on my chin from that one time I managed to get a boomerang to come back

[@donnajackson2907]

Lol!!!

[@EarlFaulk]

A few of these misconceptions appear to be because of cultural relativism taken to an extreme. Not too mention the noble savage myth

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[@ToothbrushGuy]

Interesting that my country (Kenya) would be featured.... anyway, Turkana in "Lake Turkana" is pronounced "too-rkana" :)

[@genli5603]

Yeah that was weird...

[@jrt818]

I found it interesting.

[@ladyfalstaff7364]

Have they changed the name of the lake. Because I labelled turkana in a poster for school in 04 and was told it was wrong and that the atlas I used was out of date

[@Azraile]

Yo-Yo's where also weapons before they where toys.

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honest..or u just playing?

[@Zeivusgaming]

@@MrMagoo-hf8yk - it is true. They were made of stone and were primarily used in hunting animals.

[@joelombrdo]

Very interesting video. Thanks for posting.

[@JoniBaloni]

Love your interesting choices. Enjoy all of them

[@TheWacoKid1963]

TopTenz has taught me something new today, The Durham Uni mass graves. I live only 15 miles from the city of Durham, And never knew of this fact, Even though I've been at the location in the photo a number of times.

[@TwofourA]

No one cares

[@kingcosworth2643]

That first pit, all skeletons had their legs cut off just below the knees, ouchie...

[@blairmarshall8285]

Another great video

[@kimberlypatton1810]

I enjoyed this episode very much!!!

[@atri-us]

“Often sometimes subjective.” Interesting use of English

[@newnewnwo4-life497]

99% of top 5 or top 10 video hosts need to watch this man. This is how you speak. He's politely spoken (not an American accent) passionate yet mild mannered and always does his very best with pronunciation and paces himself nicely. I never feel like it's to long nor to quick. This is how it's done! He even makes new videos to correct old videos when new evidence is found. Definetly my favourite to watch and hear

[@janieriddle7254]

I love your channel. Thank you

[@caesarisared1320]

Love your videos

[@zhoubvs]

You showed Nike's temple not Athena's temple.

[@candiceyoung8244]

This was the profession i started college for,i wanted to be the next Howard Carter,but i started having children and had to give up my dream,but i follow it very closely still

[@SmoochieKatt]

Candice Young it’s never too late! ♥️

[@sharonballantyne1735]

Never give up on your dreams!🙂

[@candiceyoung8244]

@Wee Mac lol

[@lynneelliott7471]

a great video as usual.

[@Turnbull50]

Very interesting video thanks for making it

[@_epic_dyslexic_]

No matter how much I hear about or more I watch about the Andean mummies I only think, I really hope those children were either ignorant of what was coming and too drugged or that if they knew, they weren't scared awaiting their fate and they were again well drugged. They look so peaceful considering they died of exposure.

[@CasuallyObssesed]

Not to be mean but it was most likely they did know. The children were brought up knowing what they were chosen for. They were kept away from the public and had vital roles in certain ceremonies performed by the Inca. They were also forced to make the pilgrimage of 1,000 miles on foot to the mountain they were to be sacrificed at. If I recall correctly, they were treated quite well in life though, if that's any consolation.

[@MairiVoorhees]

10:33 I could be mistaken, but it looks like someone has shoved a stone into his mouth. Even the jaw is cracked. And it appears like a couple of them have stones in their mouths.

[@lesgallivan4159]

A stone in the mouth was one of the earlier methods of keeping a vampire from rising

[@MairiVoorhees]

@@lesgallivan4159 yes I know. That's why it caught my eyes...

[@MairiVoorhees]

@Wee Mac lol😂😂

[@1943maryellen]

Unless a mouth is closed & held in place, the human mouth will open in time when buried. Love everyone of your videos, Thank you for what you do.

[@andrewwhite1305]

Cool stuff sir, and I can completely understand you.

[@sfbuck415]

naming a ship Terror seems like tempting fate

[@rexpopuli4833]

Sort of like calling a massive iron ship "unsinkable"

[@thunderloong]

The "land bridge" theory has been disproved. Sumerian era included sea travel all across the pacific coast of both North and South America.

[@jim4.403]

I heard the story about the HMS expedition. The way I remember it, they awarded the contract to the cheapest canning company, to can their food, for the voyage. The cheapest canning company used lead solder which leaked lead into their food. The effect of lead poisoning caused their brains to swell. They made a number of mistakes as a result, like pulling a lifeboat, silver wear, and porcelain dining wear. If you have to walk a thousand miles you do not want to drag anything. This is why you never want to use the lowest bid.

[@drew1054]

In my home town we have this place called Graveyard Pond. It's part of the peninsula, and it got its name because a ship docked there for the winter. They had plenty of food, clean water, ways to keep warm, etc. However, when small pox began to spread, the solution was to wrap the corpses in canvas, put a cannon ball on their chest, and drop them into the water, and the bodies are still down there over a century later. Some stories say that, to keep the disease from spreading, people would be wrapped up and dropped in while they were still alive.

[@neviksmithtree7568]

16 is NOT A CHILD, especially in ancient times!

[@barbaravenek610]

Finally someone said it.

[@patrickireland9922]

Agreed. 15 is usually believed to be life expectancy in the time of Christ.

[@strawberrymilk467]

You’re right, in ancient times 16 was not a child. Buuuut in modern day 16 is a child

[@nathoncroft103]

Is that important? Wtf idiot.

[@jonathanjones770]

@@patrickireland9922 Those low life expectancies of the past don't control for the fact that most babies died. If they made it past infancy, and especially if they made it past puberty, they usually lived fairly long lives, easily into what we would call middle-age if not senior

[@helmeteye]

I can't believe anyone thought warfare hasn't been with us since the beginning.

[@prinsesofpersia]

Great video to watch as a archaeology student

[@vinniecarnahan4056]

Simon has made me 900% more intelligent. I am forever following.

[@dynamiths86]

Did you know why they didn't bother to make DNA testing on the Ottomans? Because genetics is not a way to tell if someone is a Turk. It's a confederation of ethnicities, DNA won't tell you if someone is muslim or not. And genetically Ottoman officials and soldiers were the same as every other person in the empire. Which is pretty much the same for the descendants of those people, modern day Balkan and Asian Minor people. Put this thing in perspective when you're thinking of all this squabbling in the Eastern Mediterranean.

[@mikeg90]

dynamiths86 Muslims are in breed they can find that

[@andrewhatherall915]

no they can just tell from the skulls no need to test

[@_epic_dyslexic_]

dynamiths86 If someone really needs it pointed out in such a way, and you did a fabulous job of it and made a beautiful point but if someone literally needs DNA to see we are all the same, biologically, that person truly needs a long soul searching, if they even have a soul. Although I didn't know just how much of the same the turks were to the Romanians. Sad that they were literally fighting and killing each other for being "different" basically and wanting to not share and live in peace, when really they were the same. As we all are really.

[@JustTubbyRich]

dynamiths86 that's because Muslim is a religion and not a nationality, asshat.

[@MrYfrank14]

DNA shows who you are related to. if your ancestors came from Africa and moved to the ottoman empire, the DNA would show it. DNA does not show race, because we are all the same race. DNA would not show you as a Muslm, because Muslm is a religion. if the body is blown up, or was haveing sex with a goat when they died, they assume they were Muslm.

[@elenabob4953]

Author Adrian Chirilă, now I know why Romania was included :)

[@AdiC87]

Heeey, some people do notice the author now and again. :)

[@bathypelagiczone]

Great video

[@amityreynolds3326]

Your lists are my new addiction

[@suzeallyn4578]

The mouth opens wide during decomposition, so many skulls have an open mouth.

[@reverendken4113]

When does it change from grave robbery to archeology?

[@MollieFrieWeevilGenius]

Reverend Ken I wonder about that, too. At some point it changes from creepy and defiling to necessary and educational? And they don't rebury the people, even when they know they have violated the cultural beliefs on death and afterlife. How long does a person have to be dead before they're not really human anymore? Or does it have more to do with them not having living relatives protesting?

[@deenaparsolano7241]

Reverend Ken, I think it's when they feel the remains are 'old.' I think it's subjective. I'd it fits the archeologists belief, it's archeology.

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

@Ken Simple - when instead of dreaming of finding gold, you dream about generous research grant.

[@jadereynolds1204]

Motive. Grave robbers want money, archeologists want knowledge

[@anastasiastellar5338]

When it began being funded and people started paying attention to what they were doing

[@mamaslittleman6104]

I'll watch anything hosted by Simon Whistler. Awesome Narration Skills!!

[@jacquikalich3873]

Interesting. Thank you.

[@jakobflores5382]

The first signs of "Human Savagery"

[@tiffa808]

Jakob Flores and not the good kind.

[@_epic_dyslexic_]

Jakob Flores The true first was probably the moment we came out of the trees as bipeds and one caveman whacked the other on the head for being the first one out the tree.... We've been petty since the dawn of time.

[@Tommy-5684]

@@_epic_dyslexic_ i think the point is war has to have some level of organisation beyond peron A staving in person B's Skull for whatever reason. for example Apes have been shown to participate in organised violence as bands or groups fighting over territory or food they have even been known to take trophies from dead enemy's

[@bellsnowgrehg3501]

Those possible cylon rebel skeletons have rocks shoved in their mouths. I've seen that before in northern Europeans who would do that to people suspected of being vampires so if they Rose from the dead, they wouldn't be able to bite or infect anyone else. Did a vampire scare ever hit Greece?

[@soroh0062255]

bellsnow grehg they don't have rocks shoved in their mouths. Those skeletons were completely covered in dirt that compacted over thousands of years. When excavating, layer upon layer of dirt is removed, and the inside of the skull isn't cleared out immediately. They clean around the teeth first, because those can provide a lot of information. This results in mounds of dirt in a skeleton's mouth. A rock that big would not fit in someone's mouth. Smaller pebbles and rocks were sometimes put in a corpse's mouth in case of vampires, but that looks different.

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

Vampires were a big part of ancient Greek culture; it was believed there were multiple types and there were many superstitions surrounding the subject.

[@ARaven-xf2lg]

Cylon's ooooo frack!!!!

[@calska140]

I forget the name of the cave but there's a cave in the historically spartan area of Greece that goes straight down seemingly endlessly. Bodies of people living or dead were just disposed in there for hundreds of years it is unknown how deep the bone pile at the bottom is but from what archaeologists can tell it is tremendous.

[@todddougherty8883]

How can it be that TIFO is at 1 million and TTZ is not? I don't understand how you can subscribe to one and not the other? Gotta have both. Like steak and potatoes...

[@alixena9340]

Dear TopTenz, you sound like an intelligent man. Please note that Aboriginal is an adjective, as in "the man was Aboriginal". The noun is Aborigine, as in "the man was an Aborigine". He was not an Aboriginal. Just Saying.

[@chuckkline2970]

FFS... get a woman.

[@dawudidris9106]

Chuck Kline lol

[@user-hx5xq6tl9f]

Pedantics!!

[@sarahmcglasson3064]

K when you’re doing educational videos generally you want to get as much correct as possible, the channel even liked the comment.

[@dawudidris9106]

@@sarahmcglasson3064 I agree with trying to get facts correct, and if what the guy was correcting was a fact then fair enough. But it was a simple grammar mistake. It wasn't a big deal. People that know the meaning of the word will know the correct way to address it and he most likely did too. Probably just a simple mistake.

[@paulinemcintosh7582]

yeah,,you do speak fast Simon,,and very clear,,your vids are always very interesting,,I always look forward to a new vid from you,,,thanks buddy

[@RorRiiZzLE]

Your sweater looks super comfy!