Awful Archaeology Ep. 5: The Dendera Light by Miniminuteman - I Lost Brain Cells Edition - Reaction

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

Miniminuteman has a whole series on the errors of Hancock's "Ancient Apocalypse" series.

[@excalibur3245]

It's too long for old man to react to on the channel

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

@excalibur3245 it's split into episodes, and he's reacted to some lengthy things in the past.

[@clicheusername7182]

​@excalibur3245 Milo actually covered 2 episodes in each of his episodes. So this reaction could break it back down into 8 reactions.

[@TalsarGeldon]

One thing someone should never do is jump to conclusions with insufficient evidence. To quote Christopher Hitchens. "What can be asserted without evidence. can be dismissed without evidence."

[@bookmaster0306]

I love you finding the Minimintuteman and I hope you continue these.

[@GreebleClown]

46:22 I have an olive oil lamp. I can’t use it often because the smell makes my dad hungry and he keeps thinking someone is cooking something, which then gets him worried if no one is in the kitchen.

[@justinw-s1694]

Oh not to worry, he does explain the Sphinx enclosure in his series on Hancock's netflix show.

[@LukasJampen]

What I hate about the whole ancient alien thing is that they think ancient people were fucking incompetent to do anything by themselves. They on one hand vastly overestimate the the quality and complexity of ancient structures and then attribute them to someone else. Those ancient people weren't dumber than us, they just had worse technology and not as much understanding of physics. We humans are creative if we want to do something and most of those structures are perfectly doable by skilled craftsmen with bronze tools. Definitely a lot of exhausting work but doable. Give those people who worked their asses of all those centuries ago some credit.

[@jusdon7522]

They were better with tools and we are better with technology, both take time to master

[@John2r1]

The Baghdad Battery is the name given to a set of three artifacts which were found together. Consistting of a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron. It was discovered in present-day Khujut Rabu, Iraq in 1936, close to the metropolis of Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthian (150 BC - 223 AD) and Sasanian (224-650 AD) empires, and it is believed to date from either of these periods. A model was tested and they found that when filled with vinegar - orany other electrolytic solution - the jar produces about 1.1 volts. Lined up in series it produces just enough voltage to do electroplating on metals. At least actual scientist's believe this was what these batteries were used for. Which is actually how electroplating is done in Iraq today. The first light bulb we know of took 110 volts. Made by Thomas Edison. The pyramids were constructed between about roughly 2700 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Yeah you can all do the math on that timeline difference. But needless to say the Baghdad Battery wasn't even invented at the time of the construction of the pyramids. Nor was it invented in Egypt. Nor have any Baghdad Batteries ever been found in Egypt.

[@IONATVS]

And the electroplating theory is one of like 5 theories generally considered “equally viable” by archeologists of the period and area. One other does legitimately conclude it was a battery, just used for a different reason, but the other 3 note that the components that make them seem like a battery were not all found with the same jars, and no jar was found with all of them, and conclude it was related to storing or destroying papyrus scolls-which were also found in similar jars.

[@John2r1]

@IONATVS True but none of the logical theories have them being used to power electric lights. Because to put it simply they don't produce enough electrical current to be used for that purpose.

[@IONATVS]

@@John2r1 oh absolutely. the main other electrical theory has them being used similarly to leden jars in the enlightenment period-mostly as novelties for the curious polymath.

[@trifontrifonov4297]

Someone else already gave a comment about the Baghdad Battery, but let me add that Minuteman actually did an episode on it and it involved interviewing an actual archaeologists who was an expert on the subject. Its worth watching. Also for April 1st he and a friend got high and created a complex conspiracy theory about the Bass Pyramid. That is also great watch.

[@NPC-nn4qe]

22:34 Old Man Reacts: "Now, one thing I would like to see him address." How my dumbass heard it: "Now, one thing I would like to see? Him in a dress."

[@DemitriVladMaximov]

Wait, so the British guy though the ancient Egyptians were essentially Ork Mechboys? There is an irony there.

[@peggedyourdad9560]

Funny you mention drinking, Milo does actually have a cocktail with him in later episodes of this series. The cocktail is usually themed to the episode. Good job quitting drinking btw, not an easy feat!

[@Wicked_Knight]

12:30 Ahh good! I'm not alone in this feeling.

[@Grizcat-]

Ah yes, the channel and video series I’d listen to in the background of my massive halo infinite grind last year

[@sookendestroy1]

When you were in school the oldest civilization was likely told as being babylon or assyria, then it was sumeria iirc. Nowadays we also know of norte chico and some of the ancient andean civilizations which are truly ancient, the indus valley civilizations and their connections to even older persian and siberian ancestor civilizations which have potential to be even more a root of civilization than the fertile crescent as we have thought for ages.

[@peggedyourdad9560]

I love the further expansion and discovery of the scientific process.

[@sookendestroy1]

You know whats interesting with the spinx enclosure? They recently have been re examining it and they suspect that it might actually be a little older than previously thought, they also suspect that it may have had a twin facing opposite of it (as is common in most of egyptian culture) which was eroded basically to nothing by the movement of the nile.

[@grank6]

50:05 I had no idea the discovery about Troy was that young. Everyone I knew talked like we had known about it for a lot longer

[@giuseppe9653]

I couldn't recommend any harder his videos on the bagdad batery, both of them, as they have great info

[@chaosXP3RT]

So glad to see you reacting to Milo! He deserves so much more awareness! He's snarky, but also very educational!

[@dontshanonau1335]

FYI: The city of Troy wasn't a myth when you were a kid. It was excavated by German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s (announcing it to the world in 1873).

[@lizaliza8367]

As a fellow lover of documentaries and scientific approach I very much enjoy your commentary.

[@Eserchie]

I now have an irrational desire to try and assemble a working lightbulb from a glass bulb, a flower, and a live snake. I mean, has anyone tested to make sure it doesn't emit light?

[@smolgoblin5196]

Would love to see more miniminuteman reactions!

[@LilRedWitch]

That’s my MAIN and HUGE issue with graham Hancock - he works outwards in as in he makes the hypothesis he WANTS to be true and then crams his “proof” into his theories that could even mildly support it, basically using the scientific method backwards to make him “correct.” ANY scientists work from a crafting hypothesis and work outwards to challenge it, change it, rework the thesis, and oh my god the scientific theory we learned at 8 years old 🙄 Remember kids, think horses not zebras, and just because it looks like it doesn’t mean it is. And PLEASE. PLEASE! Check your S O U R C E S. Rant over: love the fat electrician shirt, and love the content. Highly underrated youtuber 💜

[@skolumbo1671]

I love how you approach a lot of varied topics and sources, from warhammer to fantasy to even stuff like this c:

[@KILLEROFGOD]

Stay on the wagon boss if you fall off now you might never get back on.

[@LukasJampen]

As a Swiss I sincerely apologize for Erich von Däniken. We are immensely embarrased for having him unleashed on the world.

[@LeoM2332]

Highly recommend you checking his playlists if this is a theme that interest you, I personally love miniminuteman’s channel and would love to have an excuse to rewatch his videos!! 😂

[@afluffydeathclaw2644]

I'm on the verge of changing my active request on the discord to Miniminuteman's series on Hancock; it would be eye-opening for you, boss. I do still really want to see the raft vid, though... *sigh*

[@afluffydeathclaw2644]

Not that I think you think his pre-ice age shit is credible, it just sort of illustrates his thought process when he's coming up with that shit.

[@johnc1047]

Definitely watch his Baghdad battery reaction. He made a video and then got corrected by a professional in the field. Really recommend watching his reaction to it.

[@k.a.p.x3642]

You'll never know, maybe an advanced transportation device uncovered in Egypt is currently housed in a secret facility inside a mountain somewhere in the US.

[@tmanknoll9702]

This is my first video seeing you react to miniminuteman. I definately hope you do his whole aweful archeology series!

[@lizaliza8367]

On guy once said: " I am a keen idiot" and I love it

[@redactedredacted4080]

29:26 forward to the conspiracy theorist I really can’t remember a lot of really well known megalithic construction in Europe.

[@cerberus0225]

Hey, sorry if I ragged on you a bit with my comment on the last video. That wasn't my intention, but reading back, I can see how it could read that way. I appreciate your curiosity and willingness to learn! Hope you do more of these reactions! Edit: Ahh...sorry. I wanna be perfectly clear that I didn't think *you* believed in a pre-Ice Age civilization. I phrased that poorly. The part about the "pre-Ice Age" civilization was me being slightly confused on the meaning of some terms. Hancock thinks his civilization was around 14000 years ago during a brief warm pulse at the end of the Ice Age, before a cold pulse wiped them out, and then things began warming more regularly. That's my bad for calling it "pre-Ice Age" and I'm not sure why I called it that, to be frank.

[@OldManReacts]

Oh it's all good!

[@falsehero2001]

Regarding ancient civilizations, I have a fan theory that the Old World of Warhammer Fantasy was inspired by Dogger Land and May have originally been mentioned to be Earth roughly 15,000 years ago.

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

Milo is actually a little off on that bit about ancient aliens. The show actually did get around to rolling all of Europe and America into those conspiracies as well. But he is right that outside of the show, those ones get way less play in the public.

[@woodchuck94og]

I love his video: The truth about the bass pro shop pyramid

[@AmatMN]

episode 6 on the baghdad battery is very good, but only in combination with "The Baghdad Battery? Archaeologist Reacts!" by Artifactually Speaking where he brings up corrections to the episode. Or at least in combination with awfull archaeology episode 6.5 where Milo reacts to the Artifactually Speaking video.

[@ReinaSaurus]

egyptians had good wallpaintings anyway, can someone put a snake into a lotus flower for actual results on the experiment? if the snake emits light, the assumption was right 🤣 bagdad battery (also known as parthian battery) was kinda nice of a theory. supposedly used for galvanization of objects. only 2000 years old though, so younger than the dendera hieroglyphs. made use of vinegar for about 1.1 volts.

[@tulsibeepat3453]

As he mentioned the national geographic there was a very good one from the early nineties named 1491 before Columbus the whole magazine is dedicated to all first nation tribes and people's from the tip of Cape Horn to Alaska in as much detail for that time myths legends etc included ❤️

[@chill-lady-brook]

His video on the 1855 history textbook is great

[@williamarmandsosa5036]

The Dendera Light is working model of a stellar nebula (aka The Egyptian Creation Story)... The Djed pillar lifts the envelope and creates the Sun in the Sky eternal - Dendera. The Dendera Light and the Electric Universe ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXauqJ6PlKxjhq8 )

[@OldManReacts]

I'd love to one day sit down and learn more about ancient Egypt!

[@dariustiapula]

Sorry. I have stop at five minute mark. I value whatever braincells i have left.:(

[@captain-commander8138]

trust me the boss is worse off he is never getting that time or brain cells back from this.

[@PiratePawsLive]

I watched Ancient Aliens as absurd entertainment a few years ago. You feel your brain cells dying tho :/. And its so damn repetitive. This was a dark time for me with nothing to watch :(. Anyways if you can suffer through the bad and repetitive episodes you may get a perverse pleasure from watching that insanity, like a train wreck in slomo xD. And let me make this clear, next to nothing in the show is factual.

[@themalcontent100]

You don’t need a fan mail, you have comments. How about reading comments?

[@OldManReacts]

No.

[@themalcontent100]

@@OldManReacts if you get a PO Box i shall send you vegimite and tim tams.

[@OldManReacts]

@@themalcontent100 LOL

[@darthrevan4933]

29:10 ok Purly to play devils advocate. I have heard greec and by extension Atlantis brought up by these nuters more than a few times

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

Well, he uses Atlantis as proof of how Ancient Aliens/ancient advanced humans theories are racist because it gives whites credit as the advanced culture that helped the browns/blacks or whatever... Though I'd also argue that there aren't that many ancient sites in Europe that could get an Ancient Aliens spin besides Stonehenge, nothing else is old enough.

[@peggedyourdad9560]

Eh, doesn't count since a lot of conspiracy theories believe that Atlantis was the origin of the master race of mankind, specifically the white master race. This was popularized by the Nazis.

[@DR_REDACTED]

YES Do mpre of his content🙏

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

I have one issue with his assertion at 28:40 -ish, about how Ancient Aliens theories are inherently racist because they never talk about Ancient European constructions... there aren't any Ancient European magolithic sites on par with the things like the Pyramids Stonehenge is the exception, and as he said, they talk about that one. Hell, I'm pretty sure I've seen Ancient Aliens stuff on the Greeks. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's no shortage of racists who have contributed to AA theories, especially early on in the concept's development, but there isn't a lot of European archeology that it could attach to anyway...

[@MrKangaroo123]

I watched the reaction until Minimintuteman let his politics slip with that back handed comment about tucker carlson and I had to mute the rest of the reaction and let the video play Sorry Pug Man.

[@OldManReacts]

I tend to just roll over most political stuff

[@AshenVanguard]

To be fair, there's nothing good to say about Tucker either

[@abjectlyterrible]

I like Milo but he just gives more credence to my belief that academics can't do anything without talking about white supremacy

[@Asterion_Mol0c]

True most of them are complete political ideologues

[@DalionHeartTTV]

You've got my views, so long as you're on the Miniminuteman train.