10 Mysteries of Ancient Civilizations

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10. The Romans May Have Discovered the New World
9. Ancient Roman Mystery Cults
8. The Lost City of Paititi
7. The Economy of the Incas
6. The Lost City of Tenea
5. The Mystery of Teotihuacan
4. The Mystery of the Origin of the Sumerian Language
3. The Fall of the Akkadian Empire
2. The Lost Ruins of Vlochos
1. The City of Akkad
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Imagine a couple thousand years from now people ask ahh yes we may believe we found the ancient city of New York after we dug up some timbs near a destroyed bodega

[@SEB1991SEB]

They might then assume the city of York existed only in legend.

[@williamhardway6436]

I like to imagine that guys like Sargon the great wanted to be remembered, so they left stories in stone. And it worked, because here we all are, listening to the story. Fascinating.

[@benr.4238]

I think it was more like a dictatorship plastering pictures of their leader all over the place. "Our leader is so fearless and great, here's all the amazing things he did." It was less about wanting to be remembered, but more about legitimizing their rule over their subjects.

[@williamhardway6436]

Maybe they were trying to be remembered as great?

[@benallen7704]

@@benr.4238 You're both right.

[@scooby45247]

Best prank ever; confuse the future.. get ancient artifacts from Rome.. dig a hole in America by layers.. bury the artifact layer by layer..

[@jamesbuck2378]

Carbon scanning would show that they were exposed to the open air relatively recently and thus your prank would immediately fall apart, I'm afraid.

[@swirvinbirds1971]

@@jamesbuck2378 so would the disturbed layers above it showing it was burried recently.

[@ringo1692]

@@swirvinbirds1971 not if you said that you (as a non-academic) said that you were digging a hole for a fence or something like that and you found it there, it might fly especially in pseudoscientific circles 😜🤣😂😂

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@@ringo1692 there’s still probably a way to prove it to be false

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What's his script writers name? Sounds like you like the channels but if you can't remember his name...you're complimenting the wrong person

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I can’t be the only one feeling like they’re drowning in Simon’s stream of consciousness, can I? No way am I connecting all the dots but fun to learn about these things.

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Simon, avid follower and love all ur channels. My wife is Ukrainian and asked if u can do a video biography for Anna princess of Kiev, daughter of Yaroslav the wise

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What's his script writers name? I agree , Anna of Kiev would be cool

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Sneakers are trainers. Sweaters are jumpers. What does it all mean !?!? Edit: 2 weeks is a fortnight! Oh the humanity!

[@AcornElectron]

And the Union is called a pinstraddle. Those fiendishly fiendish British chaps. Although they did invent the darned language... Oh and color is actually colour and they couldn’t care less (not could care less). It’s the one thing the Queen would like Americans to stop saying..

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Pants are trousers not erm..pants and football is a game played with the hands. Colonials are a strange bunch lol

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@@meetoo594 Didn't the word pant come from the word pantaloons though?

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[@btetschner]

That video was VERY interesting. Those are some thought-provoking mysteries. Thank you for the video.

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Have you ever done any video about Sialk Hill in the province of Esfehan in Iran? It's about 8000 years old and the head of the household was the mom, their entire military personnel where women. Head of the village was a queen and not a king. Inheritance would go from mom to oldest daughter. Herodotus wrote about Amazon women who resided South of Russia. Are these the women he talked about?

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[@danjones4432]

A man of culture i see

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DANNY!

[@thebountyhunter993]

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Thanks now I'm buying shoes ... I just wanted to learn about Roman Cults!! 👍

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Everone: Em-pire. Simon: Em-pahr.

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Funny how they use R’s where they don’t belong (Africur, Americur, etc.). I bet if they stopped that they would have enough R’s left over to say firepower instead of fahpah.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

He certainly has his own version of the English accent, mostly attrocious

[@graceskerp]

The Western Hemisphere was discovered at least 17 millennia ago by someone who crossed from Siberia the Bering Land bridge. We'll never know his or her name.

[@parrotenthusiast1181]

yeah. while finding out who the first old world explorers in the americas were is very intreseting and should definitly be reasearched, who discovered the americas is pretty clear. The native peoples of both north and south america were there first, and should be credited as such

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It was Josh, cool guy

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It was Steve, we knew it. Ohw, sorry, you made the joke already.

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It was Steve Josh running bear

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Simon said “Roman artifacts” literally JUST as I picked one up in AC Valhalla. What a coincidence

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How is that game? I've never played ac but Valhalla looks awesome. Is it worth buying?

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Ah a fellow gamer of class listening to random fact stuff while gaming

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As a Nordic man I've not been able to look at that game or its commercials without laughing at the protagonist name! Eivor is a female name still in use! If they'd given it even an hour they'd found out a ton of real male names like Ivar FFS!

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They expect people with wide feet to be amphibious mer-people with no need for waterproof fin-wear.

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right or just big in general i wear a 15 in some brands....

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Everyone has identical width feet And every woman has identical size calve as Finding boots is a nightmare!

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Wow! Thanks for the video!

[@traviswilson5649]

My guess about the Sumerians is that they came from the sea. Their mythology talks about a flood that drowned the world. If they came from people who settled on the coast during the last ice age, when the glaciers melted, their land became the Persian Gulf.

[@golddragonette7795]

There's all sorts of giant floods to choose from, it certainly could have been the Persian gulf

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Anyone else imagine Simon evoked the gods of scrubbin bubbles before he showed clips of his sink and shower?

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I imagine his place is pristine and spotless

[@5ynth3ticNZ]

Why would the romans sail across the ocean and leave a stash of coins? Or what would be the point in other people stashing them?

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That's why it's likely just a hoax. These coins wouldn't have held any value to anyone back then in the Americas. If they were real, someone would have melted them down ages ago to make something else.

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@@benr.4238 yeah that was my thinking too. Only other option is perhaps just some more shiny things to gift to one of their god's?

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Tax avoidance?

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Just for attention. People live their whole life not being special or anything and this one time made then a celebrity. Like the time the kid got stuck in a weather balloon and turned out the kid was in the attic

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Filling my brain for the next Jeopardy championship.

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Jeopardy is rigged.

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Early as hell to this one

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number 4 announcing slide is messed up

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Suggestion: The top ten female explorers. Also, top ten non-European explorers.

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There weren’t any sorry

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Troll ^

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@@Void0420 Honestly he is fairly correct. The resources to explore almost always belonged to Europe . Or the mid-east but they never went too far.

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@@Void0420 rekt

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[@fredblonder7850]

Regarding the Chandar Stone: How do you radiocarbon date a stone? It’s not organic. Also, if it’s a map of the Ural Mountains at a 1:1 scale, it would be pretty large, wouldn’t it?

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Add "Reached the Americas" to "What have the Romans ever done for us?"

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What is your quest? What is your favorite color? What is the capital of Assyria?

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As always, very interesting. thank you.

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Those shoes are hella dope 👌

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How? Any shoes can be waterproofed, except come in better aesthetics. These look ugly

[@69TheGG]

Thanks for the update

[@multiyapples]

I hope we solve these mysteries.

[@claudiodeugenio]

The video starts @ 1:11. You're welcome!

[@logicalsnuffleupagus1822]

How about? Top ten facts about the Boy With The Blaze! Top ten facts about Simon!

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forget the shoes, where can i get those socks lol

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he looks like my history teacher, he is also bald, also had a beard and also wears glasses. his name is bart. but im dutch. im sorry for this not interesting important information

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Wooly Willy.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

I simply don't go outside, problem solved. Raining, not raining, heatwave, hurricane, tornado, flood, plague, none of that matters so don't need $200 shoes (even if they are more practical than silly overpriced brand names like Nikes). In fact I can just stay naked and avoid needing to buy clothes as well.

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😂😂😂

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Oh dang, well you will never know what you are doing for your comunity by not leaving home...no one wants to see ya naked, you're gross lol What's a nikes

[@KEVMAN7987]

These mysteries are being studied by top men. TOP MEN.

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I want to know who built Puma Punku, the Easter Island moai, Kailasa temple, Bimini road and the Yonaguni monument. And HOW they built them.

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Hewy nice boots, I would totally buy those after the same demonstration with running the water over the lases, because that is where the water goes in, if it can handle that, it can handle the hewy rains here in Pretoria

[@adriankruger6004]

Big claim "waterproof" for such an educational channel one would think to use the term "water resistant" to avoid comments like these of course

[@MagdaleneDivine]

How was it at anytime actually a new world. It should be refered to as "new to everybody else but the natives that already were there since the ice ages"

[@RJLbwb]

did Simon say "puzzle of the success of the Internet economy" and one of the mysteries of the past?

[@deementia6796]

What's up with the various different fonts used in this video?

[@sivonni]

There's been walls with Chinese artifacts found on the west coast dated earlier than Roman artifacts.

[@johnbarber4549]

Yes. They found written evidence of their voyages in China also.

[@AMR_k400]

They found south semitic writings in caves and boulders in Colorado

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Yea...as someone who is a historian and lived in the west coast..there's no Chinese like that anywhere. Yes the Chinese sent treasure ships but they came just before columbus, no where near the Roman empire. Let me guess you seen one thing say this and decide to do no research and just assume it's correct? It would have taken two seconds to find this info is fake. But way to share fake news. Earliest Chinese would have been 1405-1433 which was before columbus but not anywhere near the Roman days. Next time just Google it, you would have found the truth 6 months ago

[@dylanwickund9109]

Lidar scanning would be better for looking for lost inca cities like they do in the amazon

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Don't know. Think I might use code blaze on vessi sorry

[@coreytripp9939]

i guess your saving the chinese stuff in canada for more content later

[@rcrawford42]

I'm skeptical of the Roman artifacts, BUT, the Romans did have ships capable of crossing oceans -- but as far as we know, they only used them to cross the Indian Ocean for trade with India.

[@theclandestinewitness]

Happy Leif Erickson day!

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Nice socks bro.

[@mm-yt8sf]

"humanity needs to keep digging to learn the truth lest we repeat our past mistakes" that would be true except for the super human power to willfully forget or just not listen to historians, which can happen even within a lifetime of the events. they should all take on the name cassandra when they decide to study history ;-) technology seems to both help and hurt. :-(

[@jenniferdnoseworthy2348]

Thanks for mentioning New-finned-land. We teach the pronunciation to people from away like this....Newfinnedland, understand. Land and stand sounding the same. 🙂😁 at least you didn’t say Newfundlund

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Ubisoft: *WRITE THAT DOWN!! WRITE THAT DOWN!!!!*

[@_Ben___]

05:31 they didn't have apples, so of course they only traded without ciders.

[@579Glenn]

Starts at 1:45

[@RR-in7do]

1:33 if you like hot archeologists.

[@DimBeam1]

0:55 SIMON YOU'LL HAVE THE FOOT FETISH WEIRDO'S AFTER YOU NOW!

[@lindemannfranceska3471]

Hey boys, could you make a video about IQ tests ?

[@ffrreeddyy123456]

And they say archeology isn’t sexy? @1:38

[@anthonyemmanuelrafanan4120]

Ka sayu gud nako. Hahahaha

[@keithkahler1327]

as for Paititi the the 2018 video game Shadow of the tomb Raider Takes place there.

[@shadowgb]

How did Atlantis not make this video?

[@112313]

I think its better u use the blaze vessi intro

[@MrWizeazz]

Can you do a video on the Sea People?

[@chicken2jail]

Akkad was obviously built on Rock and Roll.

[@FeedScrn]

BTW, saying BCE or CE is not correct. It's a misnomer. We are not using the J calendar when referring to the years.. They did not invent year 0. We are using the Christian Gregorian calendar.

[@ryanrood515]

@ 1:37, hot archeologists.

[@multiyapples]

The Norse didn’t discover the America’s and the Roman’s and Christopher Columbus didn’t discover it either. The Native Americans did.

[@MagdaleneDivine]

Nothing pisses me off more than dry feet

[@RR-in7do]

1:38 👀

[@twocvbloke]

If you don't look after it, it'll be lost to time... :P

[@hankwilliams150]

Every time I see one of Simon's excellent videos, I think of a scene in the series "Rome" when the family of the now assassinated Julius Caesar is meeting in their home. In the background there is wailing and keening of women in mourning. Every time I watch a video here, the sound the backgroud reminds me of that that scene. Not sure why I feel the need to share this..........

[@coreytripp9939]

why is ladyliberty on a roman cult slab

[@taskermorris]

Squish squish y'all

[@TheHikeChoseMe]

i found paititi in tomb raider

[@BaronessErsatz]

Thank you, Professor Whistler.

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those shoes make Walmart shoes look classy! Simon you are the man, but those shoes are hideous.

[@lewys9204]

Apparently theres been several troy cities some how and why just built over upon the last.. theres been 20x Troy's built over and over.. 🤷‍♂️ imagine a tank ful of sand its 25cm high.. but every cm up is an age when troy was built.. so 20x Troy's built over the last is a complete mystery..

[@golddragonette7795]

That's normal for cities over time, especially pre industrial ones. Why waste all that effort shifting rubble? Take what is reusable and flatten the rest as a stable platform to build on. This was done in Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, Africa, Asia. It's the most practical way to do it And we have dated the layers of Troy, that construction method means that dating artefacts are often found in the constructions or buried under floors

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Is advertising on da Tube "counterintuitive"? I can tolerate advertisements at the beginning or end of the video but the interjecting in the video does not translate to my style of attention span and I tend to hold it against the company in particular, without noting much else other than the subject of the video i'm trying to keep track of, being interjected upon.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

There's two things humans do, wander everywhere and trade with one another!

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

I maintain than homo sapiens is a misnomer. A better and less hubristic name would be homo verro, man the wanderer. 🔥😈🔥

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Stop advertising version, they don’t sell them to the uk ☹️

[@alexbooyse9053]

Font malfunction

[@AcornElectron]

8.9/10 ou est le blaze?

[@jaimesroe]

2:03 You mean the first _Europeans_ to discover the Americas. They had been discovered thousands of years before by other people.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Im pretty sure he would never have meant to say that, Captain pedantic

[@jaimesroe]

@@jamesmeppler6375 But he said it. And it is factually incorrect. I'm just pointing out the ridiculousness of the statement so he can avoid it in the future. You'd be surprised how many times people act like indigenous people don't count as the first people to "discover" a place.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

@@jaimesroe though you are technically right, most of the western world will never use more accurate wording. I mean take a look at the planets Galileo Galile discovered. Some people say the Chinese were the first to discover it, but will we change our history 500 years from now, after we find out an alien civilizations been on them since the Normans invaded England? No Galileo will always be the one who discovered them, sadly there's no aliens yet

[@jaimesroe]

Nothing you said made any sense. I've heard a lot of Eurocentric apologist garbage arguments in my time, but you didn't even try. 0/5 stars. Disappointing. Why even reply?

[@Steelz5000]

You mean discovered by the European civilisation as the americas had been inhabited for thousands of years already

[@kimsim4647]

I use a sirivoice similar to your's

[@kenaa3aurom]

You can't discover a place that was already inhabited...

[@Michaelengelmann]

For the first one maybe ppl were illegally smuggling in Roman artifacts in the 15th century 🤷🏽‍♂️ 👀

[@abbylopresti3659]

Sargon, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh 🎶

[@mancavegamingandgardening9901]

Damn Simon this is like the 4th channel these Vessi guys got an ad slot on, you throwing in a bulk deal now for the ad reads?

[@Evvyana]

EMPAAAR

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They don't have a size 18.

[@AcornElectron]

Or is it la blaze?

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We all Miss the blaze bro

[@avgjoegaming8271]

Probably Rome and Carthage discovered america

[@PRWarrior1986]

Paititi is the a real location in rise of the tomb raider

[@FeedScrn]

I'm going.... Wait up... I'm packing my bags.