Most of Human History Is Unknown

[@dalitso31]

Everytime he mentions someone who has destroyed our history it makes hate grow in me for leaders who were/are too foolish to know the value of information

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

Oh they knew how valuable it was. That's why it had to go for them to be in power

[@jimschultz2179]

Survivors write history.

[@johnstringer5359]

Despotic tyrants and their armies repeatedly set the clock back. The latest in this long line is Putin.

[@MyNameThe1st]

To gain power and control is to seize power and control on the flow of information. They knew what they were doing, and they did it well. It was in their best interest not in the interest of humanity.

[@Sajuuk]

​@@MyNameThe1stDon't give them too much credit. Many, many leaders throughout history were not smart or academic and did not understand the value of great libraries. They were simply brutal and ruthless.

[@sleepingduty2987]

As an Indian resident, stories like these fill me with despair. I am sure this is the same case with many other civilisations and communities in Middle East and Africa which have had rich historical traditions but have been upended in the last 500 years, the Egyptians, Babylonians, Mesopotamians and who knows how many others.

[@TJayZ07]

Barbarianism has no limits it is the duty of us civilised cultures to protect, preserve and practice our wisdom and knowledge. Jai hind Jai bharat

[@books4739]

@@TJayZ07 if it wasn't for the barbarians you'd still be in the jungle jai hee hee hai

[@one_three_eight]

@books4739 Rather that jungle than this jungle…

[@DanielAusMV-op9mi]

Gandhi and other Yogis have said Truth is indestructible I wish you a happy day and greetings from Germany ❤

[@books4739]

@@one_three_eight you can leave, no?

[@parthasarathyvenkatadri]

The funny thing is our digital knowledge could be accidentally wiped

[@LukeBiggs-o3g]

And easily changed or manipulated

[@9000ck]

There is quite a bit of back up around the world. It would be hard to wipe it all - although not impossible.

[@jayBBvid95]

I often see people say that “students will be forced to study our memes in 500 years” but with things such as bit rot, and the fact that upholding the internet requires enormous energy use… I don’t think much of what we upload will be remembered.

[@thepooaprinciple5144]

@@9000ck coronal mass ejection....POOF!

[@SqueakyPhilosopher]

We probably won't lose everything at once. At best some hacker will take down popular databases

[@gersonbn8415]

Crazy how much information we lost throughout time

[@gottasay4766]

So much will be lost in the future about our times because of the ephemeral nature of digital media.

[@edoffher]

Lost or suppressed ? They can’t let us know everything can they ?

[@thewanderer4509]

Modern-day authoritarian​leaders do not need to suppress information, they just hire state-linked groups and dogmatic followers to flood the internet and offline public discussion with conflicting information (disinformation and misinformation), in order to discourage members of the public from knowing which parcel of information is the truth and discourage spread of organised rebellion. Ad hoc solo or small group dissidents are easier to quash@@edoffher

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

​@@edoffherwell burning down libraries is pretty much suppression

[@dharmaqueen7877]

We haven't lost any important information, like how to produce food and build things. All the rest is unnecessary for survival.

[@nashrul7102]

You forget the Grand Library of Baghdad / the House of Wisdom, one of the largest public library at the time, destroyed by the Mongol invasion in 1258.

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

2:10 he didn't forget, he specifically said there are many events. Use that brain

[@vicvic2081]

Or ancient nubia

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

@@vicvic2081 well, we also need good news. there was a faamous west african scholar that saved recently thousands of 1000 year old documents in west africa. i dont remember the name of the library, but at least he was successful

[@khaliphanimziwakhe8327]

The last one for the year. Thank you for a wonderful year it has been. This busiest in channel. Keep inspiring

[@Blackcaseman]

So early it feels like I’m on the first bench of the class

[@chillaxer8273]

Let's leave comments like this in 2024. Useless and irrelevant, you are a child. Stop using this sht bro

[@SqueakyPhilosopher]

Lol rightt

[@nomanrao7385]

I'm literally on the first bench of class, watching this 😅.

[@myjourney9730]

Bench? Where in the world has benches in a classroom, that's interesting

[@nomanrao7385]

@@myjourney9730 bench as in classroom table + classroom chair. Basically Seat = Bench.

[@jamesonpace726]

N.D.Tyson just pondered, "how much sooner would we have gotten to the moon if we weren't constantly starting over?", the same question you've asked....

[@jonjosenna5581]

Nalanda, the libraries of Bagdad and Alexandria. All destroyed, these places had so much knowledge that it could have triggered an Industrial age centuries before the Victorians somewhere in the world.

[@Gold_gate]

I hate it when a library is burned, when knowledge is taken, when knowledge is censored, suppressed

[@woutervandijk9961]

The enlightenment triggering the industrial age was much more about developing a mindset where applying scientific rigor was prized with less regard for religious superstition and dogma. The knowledge to build on had been there for centuries, it just took societies which fostered scientific advancement. In just a few centuries great scientific thinkers and innovators like Laplace, Euler, Newton, Mendeleev and Gauss (to name a few famous ones) laid the foundations for a lot of the technology the nineteenth century came to take for granted like steam engines, gasbulbs, electricity and later on the combustion engine, vaccines, basic hygiene and artificial fertilizer. Little the old libraries could have done to expediate that progress.

[@jonjosenna5581]

@ I do agree with a lot of what you say. But I do still think the Newton and Euler of say a couple of centuries before were stifled by knowledge loss. Remember the enlightenment was a rediscovery of Greek and Roman thought. I mean just look at the theistic puritan thinking that stopped free thinkers of the era after classical age or dark ages. Imagine if the Romans and Greeks took up the Hindu- numerical system or if gunpowder and paper printing was more widespread earlier in history. I think it could have easily changed history.

[@freesoul8188]

Basic tenet of !$lame religion

[@nipunajmera3904]

Nalanda is from current India

[@gslim254official]

The last video of 2024❤❤❤❤ To everyone reading this, have a blessed and prosperous 2025

[@justinc1482]

I’m happy to be part of this community

[@Phantomselbst]

But are you really?

[@krytzzz]

​@@PhantomselbstThis has two meanings

[@patrickt6227]

Looking back at the last 3 years of watching this channel, I realize that your videos have helped liberate my mind more than any other source on earth. Thank you so much for the work you do. You really saved my life

[@trip_s1mulat0r]

9:31 "There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination." ✍️: Yuval Noah Harari 📖: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

[@Antichrist1]

Great statement, but I believe this should be seen as a collective reality rather than mere imagination. While gods may not be real and nations might be just constructs, these concepts are rooted in realistic attributes that reflect human emotions and perceptions. If something doesn’t exist in reality, it cannot be imagined-therefore, everything ultimately stems from our collective reality.

[@alexandroxbloem6195]

Amazing video, it's an insane thought to think on what we could be today if those ancient books and manuscripts survived until today.

[@mikulover12]

i wish people cared more for history

[@dylanseward810]

Why?

[@JZsBFF]

Accurate history is never to the benefit of the ruling order.

[@HalfBlackSahraoui]

No, let them stay this way

[@JZsBFF]

@@HalfBlackSahraoui Why?

[@ayanpandeydpsn-std9005]

​@@dylanseward810 So that future generations can learn from mistakes of the past which led to a mess from which the present still suffers from.

[@NV2-Kauiki]

Love this channel so much

[@TabexFTW]

Happy new Year everyone! these videos are one of the bestest things in all of this platform

[@InternetDarkLord]

The problem with this view is that there were many sources of knowledge in ancient times. Rome alone had over 20 libraries. Losing one library was a disaster, but not set back human progress.

[@CrazySamycraft]

In case of Nalanda, it wasn't just a 'library' It was like an international University which started which started around 500 CE and was burnt around 1190-1200 CE. It was like a knowledge hub for people all around the world and students and teachers from many countries of the world used to visit it and information from throughout the world was collected and stored there, it was built in one the most powerful place in Indian history that was taxila that was popular for its knowledge and was more than 1400 years old when Nalanda was burnt, for reference taxila was the capital of mauryan empire which was one of the biggest empires in the human history during the reign of King ashoka(he was the most powerful and revolutionary king of Indian history) in 200 bce Nalanda itself ran for about 600 years and who knows the books present there would have been even thousands of years old It has been said that around 9 million books were present there which consisted knowledge of mathematics, medicine, religions, spirituality etc !!! It was like a trustable place for people all around the world where they could keep and store their knowledge to pass it to next generations for thousands of years For reference it is said that the king who burnt it down was very sick and went to Nalanda for finding a cure and one of the acharyas (teacher) handled him a special Quran and told him to read it after which he was cured Later the shocked king asked him how that happened and the acharya explained to him that he put medication of his illness in the Qur'an which he(the king) inhaled while he was reading the Qur'an Hearing this the king felt extreme jeolusy of the knowledge and development that he burnt it down The knowledge at Nalanda would have definitely taken todays humanity way ahead than it is today The knowledge present there might have also included many things and knowledge of maths and science which we don't have

[@InternetDarkLord]

@@CrazySamycraft Many ancient libraries like Alexandria were international research hubs, more like a research institute today. They created knowledge instead of learning it. Also, ancient legends like the king's cure should be taken with a grain of salt. Ancient records are full of legends, rumor, and conjecture.

[@CrazySamycraft]

​@@InternetDarkLordyears you're right we don't actually know if the story is real or not that is why I said 'it is said' instead of saying it actually happened It hits me hard in the heart knowing humanity has had made many great people and libraries throughout the world where people shared their knowledge, discoveries, legends etc and many of those things which are a very important piece of human history is unknown by us and we can't even find it

[@agmhelena7266]

bro its past midnight for me wtf, im using this to fall asleep thanks PoW!

[@urlocalbylershipper]

I love your videos I've been watching them for years ❤

[@vasileosk.7203]

Destroying history is how we ended up with savages trying to convince us they wuz Kangs and sheeet.

[@pokecuz]

Exactly. Europeans claiming Egyptian history.

[@alexcallender]

Many of them are in this very comment section.

[@alexcallender]

@@pokecuz Hilarious cope.

[@JacktheDoctor]

6:35 Most historians no longer consider this to be the event in which the Library of Alexandria burnt down. There was a fire in Alexandria during this event, in which Caesar's toops endured a siege, and indeed, it did spread to the library, but the library overall survived, and survived for centuries, falling much later on for reasons independent of this fire. Historia Civilis comments on this further in his video on Cleopatra and the Siege of Alexandria (timestamped here) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJ7TgqmVn9B1jaM

[@VicusUtrecht]

Just by the few comments here I ain't wasting time watching. Ty

[@CallMeSpace]

I'm pursuing wonder right now

[@HistoryBeyondBordersTV]

Thank you for sharing this video! The content is very helpful and easy to understand.

[@jhonma5122]

Don't forget the Chinese emperor who burned all written records. Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty, is known for ordering the burning of books and burying of scholars. 213 BCE.

[@faridmaulaui3644]

libraries you didnt mention, the fall of abbasid baghdad and the burning of its library, and the fall of the city of idlib in 2014 looting the entire library of ebla library the first ever library

[@antwan1357]

I really liked this topic great job bravo.

[@martinross6416]

The internet, oddly enough, will lead to the loss of a great amount if information. Web sites with info that WAS print are going dark at an alarming rate.

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

But at the same time, there are probably more books being printed now than any time in history. Certainly than in ancient history.

[@konarkmadan4782]

Whatever has the nature to arise will also pass away

[@mariaeviljoen672]

Thank you so much!!!

[@reboooot]

The notion that humans didn't learn math and by extension efficiency through foraging is akin to someone telling me they think the earth is flat.. the amount of data we would have to ignore about human cognition for that vacuum indicates it's more of a stoner thought than anything scientific

[@carlcampa4195]

thank you very much as part of the collective experience of reality I am pleased to know that there are many individuals working on ways to overcome the igonarce knowledge of reality and to be able to learn from it. As it is the past which tells us stories from the future. 😊❤ Much luv

[@Methodmadness002]

Thanks we have been waiting on your next drop. Great video like always 🍿

[@Kyle-d5j]

Brilliant video, I've subscribed.

[@snicketysnickets]

Great video. You're my nost inpairing KZbinr ♥️

[@sfkeepay]

“Its effects on, and role in, our development, cannot be understated.” (05:12) You want “overstated” not “understated.” If you’re having trouble using these terms so that they make sense, just remember that, in this example, you can easily understate the impact of writing. Here, I’ll do it right now: “Writing systems had a modest impact on human history.” Or how about radically understating it?: “Being able to write things down never made any difference to anyone, at any time, and learning how to write has been a huge waste of human effort.” See? UNDERstating it is easy! Next I’ll try to overstate it: “Writing has transformed the course of human history.” That’s a very strong statement, but it’s factually indisputable, so it didn’t overstate it. Now I’ll try to massively overstate it: When humans learned how to write, they gained the ability to steer the futures of every living thing on the planet.” Well, as bold as that is, it’s also totally true. So…yup…it’s really hard to OVERSTATE, or exaggerate, the effect of writing…

[@wardharrison]

I couldn’t love this comment any less

[@sfkeepay]

@wardharrison Clever

[@rygarisfun8164]

You must be fun at parties

[@tuckerbugeater]

they stole the documents and then burned the rest

[@pyewackett5]

It was said the rest got burned

[@zazaza903]

in my country Bosnia in 1990s during the war muslims burned land owner books and documents of croatian and serb land and property owners . it was such a problem to sort out all that after the war .. and till this day still left few croats cant return in their homes because of that ..

[@mqureshi86]

What are you even talking about? First, this video is about lost knowledge, not your false victim hood. Second, the whole world recognizes the genocide committed by Serbs against Bosnian Muslims, but you are crying over some made up lost books. Third, this was the 1990s. When we have not just the printing press but computers and early internet. It’s not “lost knowledge” like Nalanda or Alexandria or Baghdad. Stop trying to play victim and apologize for the genocide you committed against the Bosnian Muslims.

[@zazaza903]

@mqureshi86 my grandparents ends up in muslim camp for croatians..just because they are croats .. l dont deny srebrenica but how you dare to deny croatian victims..?? uvjek ste dezurna zrtva a mi svi ostali nemamo pravo na zrtvu?? istjrali su nas sve iz domova i zapalili svaku kucu.. koju nisu uvalili su se muslimani..u opcini u katastru su zapalili sva dokumenta ..moja obitelj je iza rata morala u bec da kopa po starim austrougarskim knjigama da nadje dokaz da je zemlja njihova a ne muslimana koji su se uvalili tu iza rata .. dao sam taj primjer kako je lako nesto izbrisat u moderno vrijeme a kako li je tek onda u tako dalekoj povijesti..

[@kingramsey_j]

One of your best research yet

[@tlobillyjoe]

Such good quality content. Ty!

[@jeffsummstl]

Why use CE instead of AD?

[@alexcallender]

For the same reason he cites Harari.

[@VicusUtrecht]

For no other means than performative atheism. CE/BCE is the same fucking scale as AD/BC, but with atheism also comes condescension.

[@alexcallender]

@@VicusUtrecht 100% spot-on It’s become little more than a shibboleth for pseudointellectual redditors.

[@artman2oo3]

Is it not a myth that a whole lot of books, etc, were lost in the Library of Alexandria? I recently watched a video about that and how, actually, copies of many of those books existed, and still do.

[@VicusUtrecht]

You are correct

[@everythingisconnected7932]

Is there a link to the credentials of the individual(s) providing the information on this channel?

[@lost2see]

there are certain patterns of discovery humans gravitate to, for example pyramid like structures being built by unrelated cultures with no contact whatsoever around the globe

[@xyuv6769]

Well I'm happy to inform that our government never forget the Nalanda University, and just this year they finally resurrected it, as a university. I'm happy to see that our government cares about the history or legacy of this nation but still what we lost is priceless.

[@Teelirious]

It takes one evil man to destroy the work of thousands. The only war is against narcissists and those who worship them. Narcissism is the purely human evil.

[@SolracCAP]

In a way, this is why ancient civilizations are so fascinating to begin with. If we knew everything about them, they wouldn't be as mysterious and interesting as we see them.

[@RahulGupta-hx3ze]

Humanity, despite the loss of monumental repositories of knowledge, such as the burning of Nalanda, carries within it an unbroken chain of evolutionary wisdom. Evolutionary psychology reminds us that we are not merely the inheritors of written records but also of deep-seated instincts and cognitive mechanisms shaped over millennia. Among these, the Reticular Activating System (RAS) filters and prioritizes what is vital to survival and meaning, preserving the perennial truth: our mortality and the path to transcend it. The destruction of intellectual treasures likely caused seismic shifts in cultural determinism, historical determinism, and other frameworks of thought, altering how civilizations perceive and structure reality. Yet, the essence of human consciousness remains untouched. Across time, individuals with heightened awareness-figures attuned to truths beyond the ego and personal identity-emerge as living repositories of this knowledge. These sages intuit and articulate the timeless realization of the self's immortality within the mortal frame. Their insights, encoded in scriptures and oral traditions, ensure that the awareness of "awareness beyond the self" endures across epochs.

[@Juan-kd5nz]

I like the idea behind the Imprint app, but..Why does it need to collect so many data from us?

[@My-Nickel]

Thank you sir 🙏

[@iivarilappalainen9836]

As everything will eventuallyget buried in time, we should appreciate the present.

[@Facepalm-Guy]

It doesn't even need to be grandiose history, like lost advance civilization. Even the mundane day to day stuff is fascinating.

[@raglemon3758]

Not being able to filter misinformation is something I see a lot of few people in social settings check the source or even question rumors but they are also the ones I see creating rumors

[@sandygehrmann6309]

lol "Stonehedge [sic]" at 8:42

[@smallstudiodesign]

Yes. Properly pronounced “ *Stonehenge* “ …

[@sandygehrmann6309]

@@smallstudiodesign exactly

[@hansolowe19]

Around 5:20, the audio reminds me of mass effect - vigil.

[@Razorhaloforever]

History has been written and rewritten by the victor of the cultural and geographical conflicts.

[@hernanluciani2666]

i love this videos so much, but sometimes are hard to understand in english, would you consider to do a IA translate to spanish?, you may also reach more people!!

[@justinfournier3894]

It’s not lost. It’s reset

[@joseMgarcia0711]

There's a romanticizing of "lost" history. But, what does it say that we're here despite the lost of that history or knowledge. It's all meaningless in the end and will be lost despite any efforts of preservation.

[@dfmdoes]

It’s terrible that it is seen that one person cannot change the world…. But it’s history. So many times things have happened because of one human…

[@pawpawbenson9584]

Everything and anything will be lost and forgotten eventually…Earth May one day disappear like any other stars in the sky. We’re just a speck of dust..

[@iivarilappalainen9836]

"Shadows of dying sun - insomnium"

[@gozergozerian3192]

10:42 "...and that is why we have partnered with Ground News..."

[@velikigospar]

Me at the start of the video: Don't tell me this wonderful place of knowledge was burnt down. Me later: Nooooooooooo

[@SandyYoe-j1y]

What is CE? Is it different ftrom BC?

[@alexcallender]

Nope, the dating system is the exact same, which is why it makes very little sense to use over BC/AD, unless you just really want to distance yourself from Christianity.

[@dru4670]

The digital treasure troves of the history of the yesteryears are very fragile and can easily be lost. All of humanities knowledge that seemingly looks like it would last forever requires expensive hardware and maintenance. The only we way to keep essential data is to chisel it into stone Egyptian style

[@TheLaReece]

I recently lost everything in my notes app. I get it

[@rjscleaneditsandytps]

it hurts knowing that some history are lost

[@michael2244]

What does CE stand for?

[@yinnky]

Common Era, It is the same as AD (anno domini) and just means that's it's after Christ like 2025, the current year is 2025AD or 2025CE it is the same

[@mick6157]

Good stuff

[@wojtekkowalski8983]

There is a theory about a global cataclysm which took place around 12000 years ago. Before that human civilization was already developed. The cataclysm kicked humanity back to the stone age. There are many signs/ evidence proving that this really could have taken place. If it did imagine how much knowledge our ancestors could have had and lost.

[@nKarje]

You just reminded me that there's a 2nd season of Ancient Apocalypse! Watching now.

[@bobdillaber1195]

If the human species does continue after the inevitable fall of civilization, writing will have to be discovered all over again.

[@weatherreport8471]

As a native American from el Salvador 😢 its a real tragedy, its seems like no one cares for any history..

[@Mortus19]

What is this background music at start

[@intellectually_lazy]

i think a lot of things got lost during the making of this essay

[@pelagiajones7963]

Thank you for showing the truth of history, humans have done nothing except hating. I feel you when you say humanity may have been a better place if we had kept the knowledge of our pass but instead our existence has come about greed some humans live by with no empathy 😢

[@TZFFN]

I think the library of Alexandria was basically empty when it burned and slowly lost their collection from lack of funding much later

[@warrenbradford2597]

In that case, we must keep recording ourselves for future generations. We will keep doing so as long as we, the humanity, continue existing. Until the end of our time.

[@ethanemmerich9698]

“Cue Nay Uh Form” is how the people I have met who study ancient the Mediterranean pronounced Cuneiform

[@joeprince728]

The Butterfly Effect

[@scottconlon5124]

Don't be forgotten

[@duesouth180]

What does CE mean?

[@idem0david]

Common Era, year 1. About 2025 years ago.

[@PhiliusMaximus]

Great stuff, love this discussion , thanks! The destruction of information should be considered a form of genocide

[@JZsBFF]

How do you know it's 99?

[@salm8159]

amazing VIDEO

[@williamniland761]

It’s bc. And ad. Not bce and ce.

[@blackman7186]

When it comes to writing down history, the chinese were the true pioneers in this regard. Through their scholarly culture, they have recorded most of their history and in great detail which i find admirable.

[@PowerfulRift]

We are not a collective species!

[@Pnanyapa]

Calling heiroglyphics "crude" 7:35 is not very cool, they are actually also very important historcal texts

[@thetruthisonlyperspective4872]

Not cool?? Do you not understand what crude means?

[@Pnanyapa]

@@thetruthisonlyperspective4872 Crude- constructed in a rudimentary or makeshift way. Dawg, they are just as valid as any other writing system, many heiroglyphic texts are hugely important for historical understanding and hold just as much if not more historical knowledge.

[@cipriantuca6135]

I heard somewhere that Dacia was the first empire to invent writting, not Sumerians.

[@parthasarathyvenkatadri]

the indian state's name pronounciation is more like bee-haar ..

[@arvindhmani06]

Also the map used for Bihar is outdated; it was split in half more than 20 years ago

[@kalpataruscienceacademynir6302]

it is nalanda not nainda

[@thanatosor]

My friend is a book collector, he said that History is just like after every war, winner burn it all & rewrite history the way he like it to be. So now all we have is something to agree in general like wikipedia - which was still kinda political orientation 😂

[@kristoferhutter3873]

Just think, writing was such an important invention, that it's upgrade via the printing press rocketed civilization by a factor of ten thousand in just a few hundred years.

[@beastvg123]

Anatomically modern humans have probably only been around 300,000 years or less. If by "human history," you mean the history of our genus, sure, millions of years are accurate.

[@Ghostly8895]

It's unknown to about 99.5% of the world.

[@ADucksOpinion]

its happned so many times.

[@ANIRUDDHANILOY-ju9so]

Make playlist of your videos

[@omarbaba9892]

Highly speculative future technology but it’s possible that if we got a few thousands light years away from earth and built a huge telescope we could see these events as they happened

[@mercedes.c.w.]

makes me think of the alexandria library

[@Iconoclasher]

Another avenue of lost information is the planned obsolescence of computer operating systems. Can we really be certain JPG, PDF and MP3 files will be readable in a hundred years? Don't bet on it. There are plenty of lost documents today that are on hard drives that are almost unreadable because of extinct programs and operating systems. Every time a computer gets an update something quits working.🤔