Ancient Tombs that Archaeologists Can't Find

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[@alexmendoza4261]

Is simon back? Or was this recorded A while back?

[@Makabert.Abylon]

Checked it out, still over $300 with a $100 discount 😬 some other time perhaps

[@joshmajor8662]

You forgot to mention foreo is a company of insane people haha 😂 $300+ dollars Simon!???…… come on man! 🤷‍♂️😂👎

[@joshmajor8662]

@@alexmendoza4261he’s NEVER not been back Lol 😂

[@simplegunsmith]

🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆

[@igotthejuice]

"We made it of solid gold and killed the gravediggers, thats why the coffers are empty" "Seems legit"

[@ArionRDAW]

Sadly, the more likely story is some construction site or developer had discovered something and then destroyed it to avoid being tied up in bureaucracy.

[@JDUCSUDMU38948]

literally, like the king in the parking lot 😭

[@claywest9528]

Somewhere, Richard III is lamenting that he could have made fact boy's list had he not relatively recently been dug up out of a parking lot and reburied.

[@JenneeB927]

In fairness, fact boy did give Richard his own show 😂😂😂

[@claywest9528]

@@JenneeB927 I have to say, you have a point there. Plus Richard did get a Royal reburial, which was pretty nice. ☺️

[@JenneeB927]

@@claywest9528 true dat😁🤙

[@SkunkApe407]

​@@claywest9528don't forget the recent revival of his reputation. There's been quite a bit of work done to clear his name of much of the slander levied against him. I'd dare say the old chap is probably tickled with how things are going, as of late.

[@hannahn3484]

Richard III isn’t ancient.

[@KleineKassiopeia]

Simons "... I didn't even know was a problem ..." made me think of a quote, a wise internet factboy once said: "If someone tells you have a problem and is selling you the solution, it's probably a scam"

[@jrmckim]

Or you're just dumb 😅 I remember as a young teen girl I didn't push back my cuticles until my friend told me. That friend has passed away now so when I get my nails done. I always think about her.

[@KleineKassiopeia]

@@jrmckim but she wasn't selling you the solution. For money. If a friend tells me something that's one thing. This is another

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:55 - Chapter 1 - Genghis khan 1:55 - Mid roll ads 3:40 - Back to the video 5:40 - Chapter 2 - Alexander the great 9:15 - Chapter 3 - Caligula 12:20 - Chapter 4 - Attila the hun 15:10 - Chapter 5 - Cleopatra

[@willowmoon7]

Stealing Alexander the Great's breastplate from his tomb feels very on brand for Caligula

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Caligula has had some very bad press. Modern historians are starting to question the narrative around him, as there is some evidence that he wasnt quite as bad as he has been portrayed.

[@luckyspurs]

Caracalla must have been pissed he didn't get to that first.

[@dawsynasay4841]

@@bipolarminddroppingsFrom what I’ve read, he started off quite well but his mental state deteriorated throughout his reign. I’ve read some theories that he could have been poisoned which led to his mental state deteriorating

[@six6thdisciple]

WHAT WOULD U CALL THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK KING TUT’S ENTIRE TOMB

[@joshua7233]

@@dawsynasay4841 Lead poisoning perhaps?

[@jackvos8047]

If Caligula was even half as despised as people are saying, what was stopping them from just scattering his ashes to the wind and thereby denying him of a final resting place?

[@bamatat]

1hp H&

[@drayle71]

Depending on how religious the people that dealt with his remain where because in doing so they would most likely be punished themselves in the afterlife for doing so, or if it got out they did it rival of theirs could use it to remove them from power after all that would be mortal interfering with the business of the gods. Afterall though he was disliked by many elites and those that wrote the history that doesn't tell use what normal Romans thought and again desecration might have simply been seen as so bad even if he was disliked again because of the general beliefs of the people. Same reason if true that Augustus allowed both Anthony and Cleopatra to be buried as not doing so would have been optics wise far worse, Afterall Anthony had been the right had of his own uncle Julius and Cleopatra gave birth to a son of Julius who was known as Caesarion and was the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt who Augustus also had executed.

[@danf7411]

​@@drayle71they didn't have an issue with letting people rot off crosses or other execution methods. Maybe he was liked by commoners or a faction of the elite. They could have always erased him from history and records which they did occasionally to people who really fd up.

[@StoneInMySandal]

Caligula had been deified. While he did bad things, nobody wanted to be responsible for angering a god who had access to the primary gods.

[@stunner9005]

No one wants to anger Pluto(Hades).

[@Fuchswinter]

Regarding caligula, there's a theory that he developed mania/an unspecified mental illness due to lead and/or mercury poisoning. It's described that he suffered a fever/ an illness between the peaceful start of his reign and his sudden 'insanity', and since wine was cooked in lead pots and water transported using lead pipes it's not unlikely he suffered from the toxicity. Obv everyone else would as well, but being an emperor he probably drank more wine than others which would contribute to a toxicity event.

[@ProbablyNotLegit]

Also both lead and Mercury were used in medicines at that time so

[@BOYVIRGO666]

Its actually alot worse than that. Lead was used as a sweetener in wine at the time. In the form of Sapa, a lead based crystal mixed as a syrup. Its been somewhat suggested that this lead to alot of the insanity of rome.

[@gsosas3376]

​@@ProbablyNotLegitused in makeup as well.

[@melissawickersham9912]

Caligula wouldn’t even need to have mercury poisoning or lead poisoning in order to be permanently damaged from a severe fever. If he recovered from a severe encephalitis with a high fever ( 104 Fahrenheit or above)...that would be enough to cause permanent psychological and neurological damage. Encephalitis is often caused by infectious pathogens ranging from viruses to multicellular parasites. Fevers are usually caused by systemic infections.

[@WolfRamAndHart]

Here's an interesting topic...what would Julius Caesar's signature be worth, and what does it look like? There is mention in Pliny, that people collected his signature, but few existed. The problem also is, that the vast majority of things done by Caesar and others was by using an engraved ring, with his stamp. Just needed a little of ink.

[@tristanhallmark2724]

Crazy horse should've made this list, he had no official "tomb" but his final resting place is a complete mystery

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

Possibly a hidden sky burial. May be nothing left as he was returned to nature.

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

@@BBtheKing86 i don't if he was immolated but what I described was the old way of the Lakota people. Tree burials.

[@michellejones5541]

I've just watched a documentary about Sitting Bull and how his remains were stolen in the dead of the night and if it is actually his remains that are supposed to be buried under 20 tons of concrete in Mobridge North Dakota or if his body was secretly taken to Turtle Mountain Canada shortly after his murder. It is historical fact that a large party of native Americans had gone from North Dakota to Turtle Mountain at the right time and the American army wanted the Canadian army to see what they were up to although they visited the resident chief they only reported back that there was no war party present. If it was Sitting Bull who was taken there he could be anywhere within a 50 mile radius of Turtle Mountain. I for one hope his final resting place is never known and he is left in peace

[@loke6664]

I think the reason he wasn't put up here was the time scale. besides Genghis we are talking about the classical era here. I mean, we could go further back and talk about Sargon the great or far later like Crazy horse but fact boy could basically go on for 100 hours about famous people who's tomb is lost. We still miss almost half of the Egyptian Pharaoh's graves for instance. No matter what he does, a lot of interesting characters would be missed but if this get a lot of views I will expect follow ups so maybe then.

[@SkunkApe407]

What are you talking about? Charles Bennett is still alive. Only MMA fans will get the joke.

[@aragos32727]

I'm surprised there's not an Assassin's Creed game that has you interacting with Genghis Khan

[@elagabalusrex390]

Caligula may not have done all the things attributed to him by the ancient historians (historians can be pretty biased sometimes), but there can nonetheless be no doubt that he was a pretty bad emperor. When it comes to historical bad press, where there's smoke there's usually fire.

[@IdowuEsther]

I would really like to see the stats for that statement.

[@BruceBoyde]

​​@@IdowuEstherThat they were biased? The thing about ancient Rome is that the primary group of literate people who had the time and resources to write were of the Equites and higher classes, especially senators. As such, people like Caligula who were specifically hostile to the Senate were unlikely to get a totally fair treatment in the histories. Rome (and all ancient time periods) also present us with the problem of very few surviving texts, primary or otherwise, so we don't have a hell of a lot of options for cross-reference most of the time. When we DO have multiple sources, they often disagree on the more sensational things. Suetonius in particular was basically an ancient tabloid writer who reported absolutely every salacious rumor he heard, and he's by far our most complete source for Caligula. He was also working nearly a century later without any firsthand knowledge.

[@josefstrauss9017]

He spent too much money, thats why i would consider him a bad emperor. But the thing with the shells and neptune etc could be either slander or mistranslation, Toldinstone made a pretty good video about this. The biggest case in my opinion of Slander was that one of Domitian, he was beloved by people and army (and was the only emperor to fix the inflation of the denarius) but the senate didnt like him (and he didnt like them either) so they assasinated him and his memory (also in written texts). Same can be said about William II Rufus of England, he was a good Leader and King but was disliked by the church, the church was one of the rare institutions who wrote stuff down so they discredited him and his achievements.

[@CamMackay96]

​@@IdowuEsther not many people could write back then so it was much easier to force a narrative about someone, not to mention its rare to get contemporary sources - almost everything we go by was written 100yrs+ after the events. By comparison, if people 2000yrs in future are looking at people from our time, there will be endless sources from all sides of the story so it'll be much easier to ascertain the truth, as opposed to all the info about X person being written by one or very few people looong after X person was dead.

[@willowmoon7]

History is written by the victors, as they say

[@Reddgie512]

the netflix series Marco Polo is an incredible depiction of Ghengis's grandson Kublai Khan and his time with Marco. 1000/10 reccomend

[@mandoperthstacker]

Great show, glad they also made a side series of just one of the other characters

[@DMS-pq8]

Caligula had pretty much killed everybody that might have cared enough about him to give his ashes a decent burial so most they were just thrown in a random hole somewhere

[@rcrawford42]

"Throw him in the Tiber" was an ancient Roman cry of how to deal with the bodies of the unpopular.

[@brittany4652]

Hey fact boy, we want our note book.😂

[@LordRefa]

Its gone and gone. Mentioned and sold on the platform formerly known as twitter. Sadly.

[@MaesRuth]

​@@LordRefaI wish it would come back

[@slevinkolebra]

Joe shmo hold my beer this crane money is gonna pay for a statue

[@SkunkApe407]

Agreed! My father-in-law is a simulator instructor for JetBlue, and I fully intend to gift him one for work.

[@SkunkApe407]

​@@LordRefathat's quite a letdown, since it was hyped so much. You'd think he'd have sold it on the merch site.

[@kelsieh3056]

Makes you wonder how much is decided as historically accurate that would be completely changed if more evidence survived

[@SassyShay7]

Or uncovered in the possession of.

[@the-chillian]

Among those who posit Attila was stabbed by his wife is the Eddic lay Atlakviða, which tells of his dealings with the Burgundian ruling family. The king of the Burgundians, Gunnarr, was summoned to the court of Attila ("Atli") but received warning from Attila's wife, his sister Gudrun, that Attila was planning to kill him and his brother and to seize their treasure. To make a long story short, this works out well for no one involved and everyone dies. If some of this sounds familiar, it's because Gunnarr was based on the same historical figure as Gunther from the Nibelungenlied, with whose family Sigurd/Siegfried became entangled in the Nibelungenlied, on which Wagner's Ring cycle was largely based), the Nibelungs being identified with the Burgundian royal house. The historical king's name was Gundahar. As for Siegfried, he may have been based on the Merovingian king Sigebert I, but no one knows for sure. The main character of most Germanic legends can be clearly identified, but not Siegfried.

[@hrishikeshmasurkar8434]

Very informative video, thanks a lot Simon!

[@jacoblind5390]

She is right, finding cleopatra and Marc Antony would be the archeological discovery of the century.

[@coops1992]

Didn't J Lo have a husband Marc Anthony?

[@jacoblind5390]

@@coops1992 yes Anthony. Not Antony

[@paulallen8304]

One of your most intriguing videos so far!

[@katherinebreeggemann6973]

Went to the British museum this year, and they have one of the other Cleopatras on display in their Egyptian section. Everyone was crowded around the big plaque that read “Cleopatra” (but that did not clarify that it was not in fact THAT Cleopatra). Just found it to be so shady of the museum

[@melissawickersham9912]

It’s also possible that the Cleopatra who died alongside her lover Mark Antony wasn’t mummified like the rest of the Pharaohs were. Augustus Caesar could just have had both Cleopatra and Mark Antony cremated and he just lied about what he did to their remains.

[@stunner9005]

Cleopatra was a common name for the Ptolemy dynasty.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

​@@stunner9005as was Ptolomy. Weren't basically all the girls called Cleopatra and the boys Ptolomy?

[@richardsanchez5444]

1:17 those stop oil and tree hugging hippies oughta love this dude

[@antoniocorreiasampaio9056]

May I suggest doing an episode on VICKERS SWALLOW. A beast of a supersonic, variable geometry plane that never was.

[@julianaylor4351]

The best way to find some of these graves, may be ground penetrating radar, which has already found iron age archeology in the UK, lost cities in the Egyptian desert and Thai jungle, amongst other things. Several early English kings, had their bones scattered, when the original abbey they were buried in, was sacked and destroyed. They were gathered up and buried in boxes on beams in the medieval Winchester Cathedral, most likely mixed up.

[@ridethecurve55]

I'll just come out and say it - Occam's Razor is the most likely explanation. Lost to Antiquity is the most reasonable conclusion of all of these cases.

[@SkunkApe407]

It would be literally impossible to do what you're suggesting. As a Land Surveyor and Archaeological Surveyor, I can assure you we'd have already done so, if it were as simple as all that. GPR sleds are the size of a lawnmower. Do you understand just how much work goes into doing a GPR survey on a single jobsite? And you want to do a GPR survey of the entire planet?

[@JamesFromTexas]

I think you mean LiDAR from flying over sites like in the Amazon not GPR which takes forever.

[@stephjezo6470]

​@@SkunkApe407 I believe it can be done from space and cover a greater area far faster. If I recall, one has been done somewhere in Egypt that found a large series of yet undiscovered chambers.

[@stephjezo6470]

​@@JamesFromTexasLiDAR isn't ground penetrating so much. If at all. It does, however, look at ground heights and can see through trees as they have done in South America.

[@WhoIsCalli]

Very good vid

[@laughingoutloud5742]

I've been following Dr. Kathleen Martinez for a while, and it's really exciting what she's found so far!!

[@dianecheney4141]

Some Practical Archeologists working from a Roman military report, did the math and proved that the number of horses and men that attacked the Romans would have been an impossibility giving the amount of forage there was at that time of year

[@leedogification]

This also seems to be a list of famous historical figures that died "...possibly from poison".

[@bipolarminddroppings]

The reason we cant find them is that time travellers already dug them up and took everything back to their time...

[@briannam3140]

that’s definitely it 🤔😂

[@theawesomeman9821]

Time to dive into the Simon Whistle-verse!

[@barrybarlowe5640]

With Caligula, his final resting place may have depended on what Claudius, his successor and uncle thought of him.

[@kaldo_kaldo]

Can't help but wonder if Alexander the Great is in the Temple of Osiris

[@TheAnon03]

@14:00 I may me misremembering but didn't Atilla live humbly when not putting on a show? If so it seems unlikely he'd have wanted something too extravagant.

[@jamesricker3997]

Caligula was hated by his contemporaries. They probably dumped his ashes down the sewer.

[@melissawickersham9912]

That’s probably what Augustus Caesar did to Cleopatra.

[@sarahcoleman5269]

5:39 Did they search AI video of "people climbing stairs"? Why does this look so unreal?

[@joshmajor8662]

Yeah, where’s our notebook!??? Lol 😂

[@ohioagainsttheworld676]

wow, that's Batshireet crazy....

[@redruml5872]

Most of these tombs were robbed almost right after they were buried

[@StoneInMySandal]

Schliemann gets a lot of flack, but he is the progenitor of scientific archaeology. What he was doing wasn’t uncommon, and if he hadn’t done it at Troy everybody from archeologists to paleontologists would still be destroying sites on an industrial scale in hopes of finding huge treasure instead of sifting sand looking for small things.

[@maxstrong6915]

I would love to hear how foreo works through a thick beard

[@thelostlegendsoflewesandhamsey]

Batshireet crazy man.

[@AdamPFarnsworth]

When my wife and I moved we ended up throwing away a lot of stuff so as to not move it. It was actually kinda fun driving into the landfill and tossing things in lol

[@GiornoJovani]

0:10: 🔍 The video discusses famous historical figures whose final resting places have not been found. 3:48: 🔍 The video discusses the mystery surrounding the location of Genghis Khan's burial site and the various legends and theories surrounding it. 7:05: 🔎 The location of Alexander the Great's tomb remains a mystery despite numerous searches and claims over the centuries. 10:40: 🔍 There is uncertainty about the burial place of Emperor Caligula, with some believing his tomb lies elsewhere. 14:18: 🔎 The search for Attila the Hun's tomb and its riches continues, with scholars optimistic about its eventual discovery. Recap by Tammy AI

[@ambition112]

Thanks for saving my time! amazing summary with lovely time stamps! where you get this Tammy AI?

[@Hylander27]

Unless those Tombs where found but are now in private collections...

[@Dr.William_Weir]

Nice video fact boy.

[@kyleochoa9004]

7:27 Did anyone else actually roll around laughing when they saw what "Leo the African" looked like?

[@SpidermanandJeny]

Was the death of Anthony and Cleopatra part of the basis for Romeo and Juliet's death? There's a few similarities there.

[@rodcab2973]

It's infuriating to know how much wealth has been lost to the ages.

[@JosiahGennell]

Im obsessed with finding these tombs but I know it's near impossible

[@mrsantoro8306]

Please have the sponsor at the end of the video.

[@guidorotunda1321]

You forgot a big one Nefertiti

[@julianaylor4351]

There's a theory that she is buried in her sarcophagus, behind Tutankhamun's tomb, through a secret door.

[@guidorotunda1321]

@@julianaylor4351 I believe her tomb & artifacts were reused for Tutankhamun's tomb & I believe her mummy was found in KV21 the mummy is known as KV21B

[@koevirel8350]

What's big about her? Just wife of many and even her husband wasn't that big at all, made more famous by west idiots then by actually historical facts.

[@jwsaxe]

General Peridiccas? Any relation to Biggusdiccas?

[@michaelgallagher3640]

Or the Russian ruler Boris Cutyourcockoff

[@AP-nj1mr]

😂

[@LucienSabre]

If Alexander the Great was buried in Alexandria of Egypt, his tomb is probably underwater now as most of the original ancient city of Alexandria _pulled an Atlantis_ (meaning it was destroyed by an earthquake tsunami and sank) about 600 years after Alexander’s death.

[@alexnielsen3488]

With Cleopatra it’s sad because their children had been killed and actually it’s more likely that she took her life so that she wouldn’t be taken prisoner

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

In general we find a small amount of human civilization and writings in archaeology.

[@ralfjansen9118]

Yes ... but a king's tomb is usually better taken care of than a slave's burial, so the likeliness to find a high status person is much higher than a peasant

[@HoundMonkey]

I have already made arrangements for possession Simon's remains when he dies. I made a promise after a previous video to use his skull as a cereal bowl exclusively for Magic Spoon...

[@WolfRamAndHart]

Most of these locations were found, I thought...it was in a colorful re-enactment called "Arise Serpentor, Arise!"

[@alexmendoza4261]

So is simon back or is was this recorded awhile back? I can't get anyone to answer thus question. As far as i know he quit.

[@tacaloking4]

as far as i know it is just geographic and biographic he no longer is hosting with one other channel i cant remember which were another guy is temporary making videos but simon will still be the main person making videos

[@michellejones5541]

​@@tacaloking4I think the other channel is Top10s

[@Nathaniel_McVie]

@@tacaloking4 Geographics, biographics and top10 are all being done by someone else, and highlight history has been taken over by the co-host Daven

[@22espec]

I thought Genghis Khan's tomb is more about Archeologist being denied the permit to look for it.

[@firestorm8471]

So that Bear firms skin ? Hell im 58 years old , I may get one and drop it in my shorts and see what happens.

[@benzomanic2972]

We want Simon back on Toptenz and Biographics!

[@IrishMike22]

Any of 'em find my car keys?

[@TrapperAaron]

That's Bat Shareit crazy!

[@josefstrauss9017]

Why no new videos on casual criminalist 😢

[@Svartalf14]

Caligula? was he not so hated his body ended up in the tiber?

[@Svensk7119]

Simon, you didn't mention Cochise.

[@davewolfy7485]

Does the fact genghis khan reduced carbon emissions so effectively inspire new "techniques" for us to consider?...

[@Hobbes4ever]

8:47 some painters seem to be obsessed with naked dudes 15:52 she was also a cold blooded killer who killed her own siblings

[@Stroopwaffe1]

I thought theyhad justfound a site they believe once had a river flowing over the top of it.

[@Zschmitty9896]

Prof Ralphie getting mentioned was not on my Bingo card today. I-L-L

[@cromo6132]

If Caligula actually was buried at Nemi his remains would have been looted by all the northern european "archeologists" that come down every summer to make "discoveries" and bring them back home....

[@sokar_rostau]

...for the last 2000 years. Tutankhamun's tomb is famous for a reason.

[@majestyc0359]

Love the Minecraft meme.

[@boudicaastorm4540]

Idk, I kind of feel like in cases where thousands of people were killed in order to keep the tomb's location a secret...if we found it and dug it up, those people would've died for nothing. And I feel like that's sad- as fascinating as such finds would be, it's kind of like, I would also want to respect the lives of people who were callously thrown away by their leader who they (probably) revered so highly in life. We may not remember those people's names, but they were still people and they still mattered. Although on the other hand, would defiling such a tomb by finding and looting it, be like a big middle finger to that ruler, like as a sort of revenge for throwing away people just for secrecy purposes? It's a difficult question.

[@threethousandbees7260]

Had to stop the video and rewind a bit because i thought the video was being sponsored by Oreo.

[@This_Is_Something]

Last time I was this early to a Sideprojects video, Simon said.

[@feanacar]

At what point does grave robbing become archaeology? Can I go into an old cemetery to see what kind of jewelry they wore in the 1940s etc?

[@rick43pen]

Meanwhile I'm still searching for Waldo.

[@saiynoq6745]

Yeah some people skin are more connective then others haha

[@wut37inarow]

I heard there might be accounts of his body encased in honey

[@sydhenderson6753]

And apparently preserved for centuries afterward. The process is called mellification.

[@wut37inarow]

@@sydhenderson6753 I think I heard it on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

[@andykelly6812]

Alexander's death was in 323BC big fella

[@snorkz455]

Look at 7:50 in the background on the left side 😂 someone threw a 🧹

[@aaronoshea3453]

Thanks fact boy.

[@Romanempire809]

you made a mistake Alexander died in 323 BC not 321 BC.

[@potemadunne1350]

They should check the British museum

[@IdowuEsther]

Nice doen

[@chrismeulen8108]

what a retarded comment, even IF the British stole some objects, which is most likely just not the case, or at least not as portrayed as in the media, SURELY they'd be smart enough to know what kind of artifacts they'd have in their possession, any material related to these people's graves would have been known by now.

[@rousseau_la6853]

Buddy, You still doing beard Blaze?

[@tequilamokkingbyrd2016]

Didnt think they did burials always thought they did the thing were the eagles and vultures eat u

[@KieranChakravorty]

Well. Leo the African is getting a Google as that's a title that's piqued my curiosity.

[@duncancurtis5108]

Explorer Simon has risked all and been to every castle of doom to find the winning lotto ticket. I'm rich! 😂

[@PetrSojnek]

How would they actually know if the remains are this famous person's remains? Do we find who is in the tomb because we know whos tomb it is? Or do we find out whos tomb it is by identifying the remains?

[@QBCPerdition]

They usually identify the remains based on the things buried with them. There may be things with their name on it, or burial goods that are identifiable theirs some other way.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@QBCPerdition Or, if you are extremely lucky (like with the cached mummies of the Egyptian Kings and Queens from Thebes/Luxor) you have the opportunity to use modern DNA testing to determine their exact relationships. Just unlucky that we won't be around a century or 2 in the future when they run some tests on Ginger Harry! 😉😁

[@jasonvanover3076]

😮 seriously Simon, may have removed, carbon emissions, how much emissions did he create to remove them?

[@gaaraattithunder]

Alexander the Great secretly made an order to move his body to be with Hephaestion after he died. And they were roommates.

[@RavenFilms]

10:40 No joke, I thought you were gonna say the more famous scene was Jon Snow by the Nights Watch. 🤣

[@jimmysharman2217]

Great idea, let’s go dig up the “scourge of god’s” body.

[@canonwright8397]

I once found the ancient tomb of the King of Rock-n-Roll. Born - Jan 8, 1935 - KTB'd Aug 16 1977. It wasn't hard to find; in fact, you could get a slurpy and a snack bar at the local Gas Stop. No! I didn't eat at the grave sight! I ate it in the car. Put the cup and the raper in a bag and tossed it out later on the highway. =]. Have a nice day.

[@mikehawke2374]

Fun fact: Paradicis was the first recorded case of erectile dysfunction.

[@jamesnewstead7099]

I've got a feeling cleopatra was just found by grave robbers and ground into mummy dust

[@ironlordcayde3888]

NGL this whole time I thought Gengis Kahn and Attila were the same person

[@hsmd4533]

Their different names didn’t give you a clue that they were different people?

[@VintageJunk1e]

soon as i seen a face massager changed channel

[@TheKlaun9]

Graves of well documented people are overrated in the grand scheme of things. They may be good for some trivia and to construct a tourist trap around them, but that's pretty much it. I cannot 100% discount the possibility that something truly groundbreaking is hidden inside them, but I fail to see how that's in any relation to how famous the person still is. Anything that really adds to our knowledge can be found in any tomb.