Awful Archaeology Ep. 5: The Dendera Light

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[@kardashev99]

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[@freyja4818]

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[@isabelfranqui9587]

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[@coriander_sun]

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[@deathkorpsofkriegguardsmen8488]

It’s a American tv show in America for some reason some people here I the USA like to feel either superior compared to other races (the south) or simply don’t want to believe that none white people could be smart (the south)

[@FTZPLTC]

Because there is only one truth, but effectively limitless quantities of lies.

[@jordansjournal1324]

TBH the half-finished set kind of goes along with the whole 'archeology professor steadily losing his sanity' vibe that is this channel

[@dogeclark2265]

This is the best description that I’ve seen so far lmao

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

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keep this set

[@miniminuteman773]

Maybe over the course of this series Ill just take the set apart. The last episode is going to be me writing on the drywall while standing over a pile of shattered slate and wood.

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@@miniminuteman773 I can see it now: you there, missing a shoe, hair unkempt, a pair of glasses on with a lense missing, drinking your cocktail out of a broken piece of pottery and using a piece of shattered slate to carve your points into the drywall lol

[@ZhutyArt]

As an indigenous person, I can personally confirm that the Mohawk tribe gets its name from the fact that they exclusively hunt and fight with tomahawk cruise missles

[@joshuahadams]

There’s a reason the US army names it’s helicopters after natives, I guess.

[@omnipocket3055]

I thought it was because they were named after the hairstyle they all had

[@John.McMillan]

​@@omnipocket3055Nope Its because the natives were using Tomahawk Cruise Missiles hundreds of years before the US did.

[@ladylark10884]

also indigenous, can confirm 👍🏼

[@Ruffceyx530]

I just spit up my coffee.🤣

[@careernerd2135]

The thing that was screaming out to me when they were saying "where the soot" was "hmmm, maybe Egyptians kept their holy places clean? Maybe they washed the walls and ceiling from time to time?"

[@bungus5774]

Pretty sure they didn’t even need torches at the initial construction of the pyramid when they were painting and carving the walls, long as the ceiling was still open they could paint by the sunlight for the most part. Think that was covered by a video Milo did…

[@matthewferraro8020]

If you were in the temple of Love and Pleasure you'd probably also want to clean up any Love and Pleasure you leave

[@leodesalis5915]

Didn't the Egyptians use olive oil or castor oil lamps, which burn very clean compared to most other fuel sources. Like you say a little cleaning and a fuel source that doesn't leave much soot easily explain any issues with residue.

[@Ghost-ql6tn]

This reply section is great because it shows so much thinking even before you got to the section of the video where Milo said all the things everyone here listed

[@Keram_urt]

​@@matthewferraro8020 No, you leave it as a sacrifice.

[@OsirisLord]

All psuedo-history claims fall into three categories. 1. Thing looks like another thing, therefore it is that thing. 2. Making stuff without modern power tools is really really hard. 3. I don't understand this therefore aliens.

[@Emelefpi]

4. If you reject any or all of these claims, then you are a 'mainstream archaeology' meanie-head who isn't 'open minded' and just wants to suppress the 'truth'

[@tommerker8063]

3 could be jsut "i don't understand math, therefor aliens"

[@OsirisLord]

@@tommerker8063 aliens can be used to fill in anything one is ignorant about which for most conspiracy theorists is everything

[@thrashbin2001]

3 is mostly just "white people didn't make this so it must be aliens" 😱😱 im rewatching this for the 8th time or so since it came out,,comfy witty content. Happy to see newer comments here :))

[@OsirisLord]

@@thrashbin2001 yeah but in the context of this conspiracy it's going the other direction and saying that these people had more advanced technology and they did it on their own

[@Galzilla]

the absolute level of smooth-brain it takes to call ancient egyptians “primitive” because you assume they just “thought the filament looked like a snake”, and to then turn around and say that you KNOW it must be depicting a lightbulb because it… *checks notes*…kinda looks like one.

[@max_punch]

Egyptians: *literally "create" the filament themselves* Also Egyptians: ayo what is this thing we made again? Uhh idk, kinda looks like a snake. Screw it, i'll just draw a snake on our oversized lightbulb

[@AWriterWandering]

@@max_punch Well the whole point is they don’t think the Egyptians made them. These people don’t believe the Egyptians were capable of ingenuity, but were simply given things by “THE ALIENS”.

[@martletkay]

Pure undistilled truth omg, these people

[@zachsheffee8458]

The pharaohs may have known how to create technologies. The slaves could’ve worked like factory workers to produce these technologies with instructions. The average Egyptian may not understand what something is at first. Just like some people were amazed with the iPhone first came out.

[@martletkay]

@@zachsheffee8458 Yeah, but we didn't think the iPhone was full of snakes and made a temple about it. And sure, let's just project onto them that they were amazed 'at first', and then they promptly forgot about all it and never depicted any of it ever again even though they all worked in 'factories' making it? And none of them ever pieced it together using their intellect and went out and started their own production thus spreading the technology over time? And there was no further innovations even though these pharoahs (who are the only smart ones apparently? why do you even think this??) are certifiable geniuses. And no actual examples or traces of them were ever seen, described or found again? And no words for it exist in their language? And the literal descriptions that go with the images describe that it was religious imagery and not technology? And the workers of ancient Egypt were not slaves???? Lordy, Keep reaching. (and yes, they had slaves in ancient Egypt, but the people who worked on these monuments were tradesmen and artisans and farmers in the off season. It's like driving by big construction sites and being like, yup, all slaves, just because some people somewhere in the world are actual slaves. or maybe you just get your 'history' from the Bible).

[@LiyemEanapay]

The most infuriating thing about this theory for me is the fact that the hieroglyphics say exactly what the fucking mural is depicting.

[@alexanderzack3720]

but that would require translating something they don´t understand...... or believing the translation of others. which would make their fun theory impossible

[@davidnewcomb7466]

@@alexanderzack3720Quite the contrary, it makes their conspiracy theories possible, since they have some imaginary authoritarian figure to refute.

[@alexanderzack3720]

@@davidnewcomb7466 if hey refute it then they don´t believe the translation

[@davidnewcomb7466]

You assume that they genuinely believe their own position to start with and aren't simply latching onto a conspiracy for their own self aggrandizement @@alexanderzack3720

[@mndlessdrwer]

More evidence that nobody ever reads the captions. When I went to school they used to ask questions that pertained to images and which required you to read the captions around the images to answer them.

[@gabrielpelletier6202]

The fact that the specific relief colloquially known as the "Dendera Light" only shows up 4 times in the Temple of Hathor in Dendera means it was probably the same carver doing their specific artist's interpretation of the creation story of their religion. Which is super cool, because artist's interpretations are amazing things, and too many people just kind of ignore that ancient artists would have had their own interpretations as well.

[@Stellra52]

I love this and also love that because of this theory their artwork is now experiencing a surge of popularity, just like other dead artists. 😁

[@sammykat2hb]

You have the energy of an irreverent professor randomly appearing in the oak-paneled classroom of a historic university to deliver a lecture completely unrelated to the syllabus until the real professor stumbles in, hungover, and chases you out with a broom. You escape through a floor vent. Faculty have no idea how you keep getting in. Students have devoted an Instagram account to sightings of you. P.S. I love your drawings.

[@Pippis78]

This reminds me of an actual case of something similar. I can't remember how it all got started, but a university in Finland had an honorary professor of sorts that they let give lectures of his wild pseudoscientific theories. He was very popular among students and loads of people attended his lectures. Everyone was aware that the theories weren't real, but he wasn't ridiculed for it. Can't remember if he himself believed what he taught or if anyone knew whether he did or not. I think he was even given an office of his own at the university. I think it started by him just coming to hang out at the university and getting into conversations with the actual professors and students ...or something. Kinda shame nothing like could probably happen nowadays. In the USA this probably would have ended up in people taking his theories seriously...

[@roonkolos]

I love how incredibly specific this got XD

[@Fledhyris]

Would totally chase him out with a broom myself for FAILING TO GET TO THE POINT. If you're going to make a 30+ minute video explaining why a bunch of folks have gotten something (spectacularly) wrong, you could at least spend FIVE minutes giving a brief summary of what it ACTUALLY REPRESENTS, not just "a creation myth". That tells us nothing!!!

[@seekerstheshy3842]

@@Fledhyris he.. did explain the creation myth, the myth is that the world came from a lotus flower

[@Pippis78]

@@seekerstheshy3842 Not an "atleast 5 minutes" explanation. I do have to agree actually. While I enjoyed the video, it could have been a bit more consentrated, less repetitive, and have a bit more info on the actual facts.

[@hlibushok]

I like how the Egyptians took it upon themselves to explain what the hell is the thing depicted, yet pseudo-archeaologists still insist it's a lightbulb.

[@E.T.42]

Wanna bet it's because none of them actually want to put in the work to learn to read Middle Egyptian?

[@hlibushok]

@@E.T.42 None of them want to put in the work to do anything, they're conspiracy theorists.

[@E.T.42]

@@hlibushok Good point...

[@mudawott]

@@hlibushok Why do research when it looks like a lightbulb! (if you rotate it on its side, squint a fuck ton and you barely know what a light bulb looks like) The proof is infallible!

[@yaseenlaher3614]

@@mudawott honestly, it looks more like a dick than a lightbulb... The snake just strengthss the metaphor

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Ok. I did my best. I went back to your first video with "The Wheel" (tm) and tried to write down everything you had on it. Some of it was difficult to make out but you should be able to figure out what I got wrong. *Castenedolo Skull *orchester vase ?The Lost Tribes of *oxy River Prints ?Greek Inscription Martian Archaeology *uscan Terraco *alam olum pict(ographs)? Emanuel Velikov...? Antelope Springs *olomne Pstle Columbian Airplane Shroud of Turin Ley Lines The Kabwe Skull Gobi Prints Zecharia Sitchin Cardiff Giant Burrows Cave *Diprothomo Plate The Nambia Figurine *Pultdown Man Asoka Pillar Fisher Canyon P... Erich Von Daniken Coso Artifact The Paraiba Stone Gostford Glyphs *Nineven Lens *The Jalpiot Tomb *Ahmed Osman *The Baringer Hoax *Piri Re'is Map Grave Creek Stone Atlantis Smiley Seashell Graham Hancock The Antikythera... Lost City of Apollo? *Dendelabra of the....? Brontius Finaeus? Rawandan Alien C... Wall of Severus Rockcastle Count... Forbidden Archeology? Wonderstone Sp... Foxhail Jawbone? Welsh Colonization Mu The London Ham... Jesus Brothers... Crystal Skulls Oreopithecus The Sirius Mystery... Calaveras Skull Jackson County... The Dropa Stones Davenport Tables Beartooth Highway The Starchild Dendera Light Los Lunas Inscription...? Baghdad Battery Fawcett's Idol Calaveras Skull Stegosaurus Pict... Ivory Pomegranate...? ...Supai Dinos... ...uippe Bauche'...? The Glastonbury... Lemuria Newark Holy Stone? The Metcalf Stone The Kinsington... Persian Princess Glozel Artifacts? Ica Stones Oldoway Man Gurit's Cube Nebraska Man Egyption Airplanes Los Lonas Decal... America's Stonehenge Camparo Figurine?

[@danthiel8623]

Interesting 🤨

[@emeraldadventurer254]

I think i know what some of these are, “*oxy river prints” are the Paluxy river footprints that he talked about in his video about creationist footprint conspiracy theories “Shroud of Turin” is a piece of cloth that some believe to have been what Jesus was buried in, but was a forgery made long after Jesus’s time “Ley Lines” are patterns in the placement of historic monuments that seem supernaturally even “*Pultdown Man” is actually Piltdown Man, and it was a forged hominin skull made from a human skull cap and an orangutan jaw with shaved teeth. It was proven to be fake by dentists studying the tooth wear patterns, and by using fluoride dating to prove the skull and jaw were from separate animals. “Fisher Canyon P” Fisher canyon print, also talked about in his creationist foot video “Erich von Daniken” wrote a book used in this video “Grave Creek Stone” was a small stone found in a native American burial site. He talked about this a previous video “Atlantis” is self-explanatory “Brontius Finaeus” may be Orontius Finnaeus, which he talked about in a previous video, but I don’t know “Oreopithecus” is an extinct ape “Dendera Light” is what this video is about “Baghdad Battery” is a jar found in Baghdad that people claim to have been a battery “Stegosaurus Pict” is likely stegosaurus pictograph, and may refer to a small carving in an Indian temple that resembles an outdated depiction of Stegosaurus “Ica stones” are fake stone carvings of dinosaurs used by young earth creationists to prove humans coexisted with dinosaurs “Oldoway Man” is a fossil hominin that he talked about in a previous video “Nebraska Man” is a pig tooth that was misidentified as an ape tooth that some claimed was a “missing link” in the evolution of humans, but was never truly accepted by most scientists “Egyptian airplanes” are small gold figures that slightly resemble airplanes. He talks about them in this video There are some others that I may have heard about, like “Jackson county…” and “The starchild,” but I don’t know these ones off the top of my head. Hope this clears some stuff up Edit: I just rewatched the video, and he talks about south American airplanes, not egyptian airplanes

[@NatetheNerdy]

Bumping

[@brotherkhrayn3525]

Good shit my guy.

[@lukasuhlenkamp9850]

wow, you did archeology on the video itself lol

[@Kraaketaer]

As a Norwegian whose brother is an electrical engineer (but not a conspiracy theorist), I am happy to confirm that the image used to illustrate the Norwegian electrical engineer is highly accurate yet still broadly illustrative of the Norwegian people as a whole. The butter packet is especially well done. Hats off to you, milo.

[@fligglebobbin]

I love how that one lady is like "the light bulb is depicted as a snake in a lily flower". THAT IS THE LITERAL THING THEY WERE TRYING TO CONVEY.

[@demo2823]

"It looks like a lightbulb that looks like a snake and a lotus." Lol. Should just remove the middleman.

[@Mr.Marbles]

its crazy. the romans depicted a pc as a person standing next to a window. which tells us, that windows existed long before bill gates was born. what is the government hiding?

[@judethaddeus9856]

What do you love about it?

[@KaladinVegapunk]

@@judethaddeus9856 that the clueless hack is trying to twist a very literal mythological depiction into symbolism for a nonexistent item? It would be like an image of fenris devouring Odin and saying the wolf is a submarine Or that Hermes winged sandals are a jetpack

[@DrewLSsix]

@@judethaddeus9856 I imagine the sheer absurdity of it.

[@itsumayo]

Going off the argument of “because it looks like it”, I could say the Egyptians had a ritual of having a very tall person use a comically large club with a snake on it to whack sitting short people. Yet that holds just as much water as the light bulb idea

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

That's honestly _far_ more likely than it being a lightbulb

[@addyshorhnr3544]

Sometimes I want to make a religion purely to make the weirdest crap up for people to do.

[@drakenheimlord]

Or perhaps a "Big Fish" story about a prize winning aubergine.

[@wadespencer3623]

Given how snake-obsessed the ancient Egyptians could be and how they liked to kill kneeling captives sometimes, not at all unrealistic.

[@MintMilk.]

It holds more because, unlike light bulbs, clubs existed.

[@Fluffkitscripts]

“Disgruntled professor vs internet”’is rapidly becoming one of my favorite genres of thing

[@rebeccacummings6697]

I'd recommend fish biologist vs. megalodon proof also known as AVNJ.

[@eriksteffe]

@@rebeccacummings6697 that's how I found my way to this channel.

[@Huzaku]

21:39 i love the baghdad batteries powering it. Really helps the theory that they have like .3 volts powering the worlds largest filament

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Considering there were no Baghdad batteries in Egypt, they clearly had wires running through the entire near east. Soon we'll find huge spools of copper wire in Jordan ;)

[@tarettime9392]

"The primitive Egyptians who created the most complex wonders in history through their advanced mathematics and architecture thought the hot filament was a magical snake" damn

[@LemurDreamer87]

Of course, what the conspiracy nuts like to imply (or outright state) is that the "primitive" Egyptians could do none of that, and it was all done by aliens, because the Egyptians were not whi...I mean *ADVANCED* enough to stack rocks on top of each other.

[@hocolate271]

tbf this guy looked at the relief and thought that the snake was a fucking lightbulb, so maybe he just assumes everyone else is as stupid as him

[@AZACadman]

Fun fact: my uncle was featured on ancient aliens when they covered the pyramids at Giza. They hired him as a marine engineer when in reality he worked on a crab boat for a season or two and has no formal education. Edited for typos.

[@JoshNotJohn0]

You mean hired him as a marine engineer?

[@metaforth]

That's what they do with all their sources. Would he vall himself a marine engineer? Maybe not Would ine be technically vorrect in calling him a matine engineer? Well if he had any certification for maintaining and operating the boat he witked in, then absolutely. It doesn't matter of his experience in "marine engineering" is relevant to whatever hes discussing It matters that he can TECHNICALLY be called something that looks official

[@user-trolololololol]

@@metaforthI just had a stroke reading that, what

[@ravenouself4181]

@@metaforth for fuck's sake, learn to spell.

[@StoryEnjoyer220]

​@@user-trololololololikr? I thought maybe you exagerrate but I couldn't for the life of me understand what's written.

[@jinxcat90]

The most hilarious thing about Egyptian-centric conspiracy theories is that there is no mystery to be unraveled. They WROTE everything down like a bunch of nerds.

[@hollymccombs7316]

Exactly. If aliens had ever visited Egypt, the Egyptians would not have hesitated to write it down.

[@blackforestghost1]

@jinxcat90 If they wrote everything down like a bunch of nerds (what you said), allrighty then, explain to us, HOW they built the pyramids, and where can we find those writings! Enlighten us ! 🤣😂🤣🙄

[@Tut_exe]

@@blackforestghost1 The thing is, we do have the writings. The Diary of Merer is a series of papyrus logbooks that are most likely about the shipping of the stone blocks used on the exterior of the Great Pyramid of Guiza, along with the amount of workers, the amount of stones they shipped and how much time they spent, among other data.

[@tommerker8063]

@@blackforestghost1 nope, religious text are not evidence for anything

[@BuhBaBiBeBo]

​@Tut_exe Bro was told "Where's your evidence?" And actuallu provided it 💀

[@dudepersonvids]

I've heard of them before but a "Baghdad Battery" sounds very much like a mixed drink to me.

[@KS-PNW]

The recipe they came up with for the Baghdad Battery Cocktail sounds really good

[@magoshighlands4074]

I would just like to say, I showed this to my electrician grandfather and he said and I quote "Looks like a lightbulb and a cable, funny how humans make connections like that right?" Like, this man is in his early 80's and barely finish secondary school and even he knows it's nothing more than human pattern recognition

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

That is just like all the old dudes on ancient aliens. Their only evidence is "well it kinda looks like that to me"

[@aterriblespartan5051]

@@stehfreejesseah7893Except in this case he’s just like “Yeah just kinda looks like that, funny isn’t it?” Instead of “THIS PROVES THAT THESE PRIMITIVE PEOPLES WERE GIVEN MODERN TECHNOLOGY BY ALIENS!!!1!1!”

[@Wired_User]

Just like flat earth nutjobs. Human pattern recognition and refusal to ever think that you are wrong or do basic research makes people stuck on “obvious” stuff. The earth “looks” flat, but changing your viewpoint (getting in an airplane or looking at the flat horizon of the ocean as ships approach and seem to “rise” above the curve) or doing research shows it obviously isn’t. But that would require thinking, or realizing you were wrong, and people don’t want to do that. Just like dendera light requires knowing hieroglyphics or research to see what the hieroglyphics say.

[@dieSpinnt]

When depicting such a remarkable item (for this ancient time, or compare with patent drawings for the 20. century), you would draw it with TWO connectors which is essential for the function. That is what an "ancient electrician" or inventor would've done. Ask your grandfather again, he knows what I mean;) Apart from that, ignoring accompanying text or instructions is not a modern phenomenon. At that time, the same thing was often expressed in image and text, because very few people could write. This can be seen very well not only in old temples, but also in churches and old leaflets. Of course, imagery/symbolisms have the problem that they are much more open to interpretation than language. In contrast, that excuse doesn't apply so much to people today, who simply ignore context and construct conspiracies out of thin air. These people are just plain ignorant idiots!

[@cerxusinvellum2289]

Well I would expect him say that thats 80 years of knowledge and common sense

[@Philter-Coffee]

I'm afraid to say I think you have it all wrong. It is a complete diagram, no metal plate addition or interpretation needed. It's actually depicting a very advanced tool which I have experience using, called "a snake in a glass tube" or what my friends generally call "what the hell is that, get out of my house".

[@charleshash4919]

I thought it looked liked Austin Powers with his pump try to get his snake to stand up.

[@williamrosenbloom215]

"Friends"

[@3bugsinatrenchcoat]

​@@williamrosenbloom215 real friends accept you, giant snake in a glass tube and all

[@phoebe8598]

honestly hate the "it resembles X" argument, because sure, a dolphin resembles a shark more than it does a cow, but dolphins are mammals just like cows. Like that argument is so wrong and so easy to refute and people still use it EDit: would also like to add that they claim these people are too primitive to build pyramids or whatever so "it must have been aliens" while, at the same time, claim they are advanced enough to have working electricity... pick a side

[@lorddestrustor8828]

Even that recent fad of making cakes that look like other things disproves that stupid argument. No matter how much you make your cake look like a roast chicken, it doesn't magically become a good source of protein. And it's doubly stupid with the dendera light "replica" in that guy's museum. Of course if you deliberately engineer a working lightbulb that looks like the fictional object in your theory it works; *you made it so*. It proves nothing.

[@JunpakuKarasu]

Because the Ary- I mean Aliens gave them that too. They gave them everything, including beer ("Das Licht der Pharaonen" calls it Astronaut Brew). Like totally go read that first link, it dunks on that book so hard and talks about how it's not even the fun kind of ancient astronaut books, it's just bad and contradicts not only science and history but itself too.

[@onbearfeet]

I'm told that Salvador Dali's lobster telephones (seriously, look it up) actually function as telephones...but it doesn't make them crustaceans.

[@FrenkTheJoy]

Especially since the other way around makes more sense - that the Egyptians built the pyramids but aliens gave them lightbulbs (I don't believe that, just that it makes way more sense)

[@hedgehog3180]

@@JunpakuKarasu You can literally accidentally discover beer by just forgetting about some seeds in a wet place for a while.

[@d.w.stratton4078]

The REAL Wheel of Pain is how every other video the poor bastard shoots he has to record it twice because somehow the footage gets corrupted or destroyed. What a champ for being ADHD af but still managing to overcome that huge setbacks and get the videos out. Respect, fr, from one long haired King to another.

[@averythepyro]

one long haired man to a god*

[@Bi_Panda]

I’m also ADHD af. If you watch my sh1t you would know that I cannot stick to an update schedule

[@Bi_Panda]

*Upload

[@nooneinparticular469]

I’m gonna use “looks like a thing” logic to declare that ancient Egyptians honored their gods with enormous corndogs. This is now a fact, because I said so. I will not be taking questions at this time.

[@greebler_elf]

"Primitive egyptians may have mistaken mustard for some kind of magical spicy snake"

[@gracenantaya8394]

Bro you should start a museum

[@kawawangkowboy9566]

Bruh, you're on the internet, and you said it. It's canon

[@RepubliKING]

I'm sure your doctor is at the top of the list with questions

[@nooneinparticular469]

@@baronvonslambert The aliens gave them the corn. Duh. We all know there’s no way Egyptians could have practiced agriculture on their **own**

[@Nymaz]

Since the other "recreation" added a whole bunch of stuff that didn't appear in the carving, I decided to do a more accurate recreation. In other words, I took a snake and shoved it into a light socket. I will be publishing my findings as soon as I am released from the hospital.

[@Sienisota]

🤣

[@Bacony_Cakes]

is the snake ok

[@lobsterworshiper298]

Are you hospitalized for snake-related issues or for electricity-related issues?

[@Toaster278]

You have discovered the origins of the electric eel

[@katherinemclean1448]

We of course wish you a speedy recovery and appreciate your sacrifice and efforts in the name of science. 😂😂

[@LadyViscera]

A lot of conspiracy theories seem to boil down to “I’m smart, so if I couldn’t do it myself, I don’t believe that anyone could. Guess it must be aliens”

[@ashscott6068]

Hammer, meet nail. Right on the head. They don't even provide arguments for how a thing can be done. They just try to find problems and then deem those problems impossible to overcome. Do they not realise that an aeroplane or the International Space Station, are also essentially just made out of rocks? If that doesn't require alien help, why does stacking them into a crude pyramid shape? Hard work and intelligence appear magical to these people, because they have never experienced either.

[@fruitydickens6291]

@@michaelmolyneaux-swann We have pretentious people like you poking their noses around our Rez quite frequently. We call them dumbasses. Today, we actually have groups of academic "experts" occasionally asking for our elders for advice on environmental issues...probably because we actually know about the environment and live within it rather than read about it.

[@fruitydickens6291]

A lot of conspiracy theories turn out to be factual. All forms of government feed you what they want you to believe...how to think. Propaganda is a tool best suited on the ignorant. For some odd reason, pseudo-intellectuals will religiously defend the mainstream propaganda. Those dense individuals are tools.

[@swfcocs1]

Yep, truthers also love the idea of being part of an elite that are the only ones "awake" enough to really know what is going on, meaning they are superior to us mere sheep

[@joshuahadams]

@@ashscott6068 Qallunait like them are uncreative. They see their industrialized capitalism as the peak of humanity and anything else is backwards savagery that couldn’t stack two stones or carve a sculpture without someone “civilized”, as they see themselves, to help them. Look at any “ancient astronaut hypothesis” situation and it will be that 100% of the time. From Stonehenge to Cuzco to Giza it’s always undermining the efforts of someone _other_ that they can’t comprehend as intelligent, creative, and resourceful.

[@jimmygravitt1048]

I LOVE the changing cocktail idea. Your girlfriend or wife, or whatever deserves huge props for that. You could even get a little drunk and belligerent. It would be hilarious.

[@greysen3859]

I like the idea that Egyptians would have known how to make a lightbulb and then didn't use it ever to light their homes or pyramids or cities. They're just using torches for the aesthetic.

[@miniminuteman773]

Ptolemy IX was quoted as saying after creating the lightbulb that is depicted in the Dendera Complex "yea, we have done this for it is a vibe."

[@NatetheNerdy]

There's another carving that nuts like to claim is a helicopter. This is hilarious, because shortly after the temple featuring that carving was finished, Egypt suffered a major defeat that I want to say lost them the war they were fighting. A defeat that would have easily been avoided if they had something like a helicoptor.

[@samuelsmith5124]

@@NatetheNerdy what’s more, if that’s the helicopter hieroglyph I’m thinking of, it’s been all but debunked as one symbol somehow being carved over the top of another one, coincidentally resembling a machine that wouldn’t exist for several thousand years!

[@keithbaker1951]

Funny u mention this... the insides of the underground tunnels have ZERO BLACKENING FROM TORCHES.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

I think I could get behind that, actually. Can we do that? Yankee Candle could sponsor everyone for a year. Couldn't hurt global warming, could it (it might lol)? But only candles for a year sounds chill. And idk about you guys but I think we deserve that :)

[@a.harrington1634]

This went from Awful Archeology to Angry Archeology to Alcohol and Archeology. 😆 Wonderful! If you so drinks, please post up the recipe, so that we can drink along. 😃

[@miniminuteman773]

There will absolutely be recipes at the start of future episodes! Belle is thrilled to make some new drinks and I am, needless to say, thrilled to drink them. (Pls drink responsibly I am not responsible for your delinquency).

[@a.harrington1634]

@@miniminuteman773 I fully blame graduate school for my delinquency. 😂

[@viggor2951]

Was going to write this exact same comment just worse worded so all praise the great A Harrington

[@Irobert1115HD]

@@miniminuteman773 hey i have a theory about those golden ''insects and birds'': they all share a vertical plane at the end and i just realised that they could realy easily be attempts of making small fishes from gold. it would explain basicaly every reason why those things look like airplanes: they are just some crudly made golden fishes that got misslabeled by archeologists and conspiracy theorists.

[@dayl0vebunny]

@@miniminuteman773 I also love the custom graphic for each drink. Please do more lol

[@melskunk]

Since that "lightbulb" is over 2 metres long, it would mean it's clearly a Christmas light for all those giant trees before they got petrified 😌👌

[@Linguae_Music]

Is that... a mudfossil reference xD

[@TasthePap]

The crossover no-one expected

[@VisonsofFalseTruths]

@@Linguae_Music I don’t know what mudfossil means but I DO know there’s a conspiracy that claims all the plateaus in the world are the petrified stumps of massive trees. It’s…SORT of linked to flat earth, I think?

[@customsongmaker]

Since that "flower" is over 2 metres long, it must have bloomed from all those giant trees before they got petrified

[@MLIOGJXNUYAT]

The people around it are of such varying size, I'd hesitate to guess at its length. The smaller figures -- and (at least in the first relief) -- the clearly human arms coming out of (or behind?) the "capacitor" are all clearly supporting it. And lotus flowers would be just the end bit because they don't stick out like that anyway. My assumption is that long bits are stones, but hopefully the hieroglyphics clear that up.

[@FreekUnique]

Really love the mental image of an artist carrying around a lightbulb bigger than themself to see what they're doing, as if that's easier than any other option.

[@hbomberguy]

love the new audio quality

[@jackwyattwyatt2220]

OH MY GOD ITS YOUUUU HAIL SOBEK

[@tybronx2446]

aye it's Harry :D

[@ar6543]

I am somehow not surprised to find you here.

[@distinguishedkorok]

Harry

[@UnironicallyToast]

OOOO

[@philtkaswahl2124]

"Ancient Aryans" is one of the most fitting Freudian slips ever.

[@Lucius1958]

Sounds about white...🤣

[@texaskc]

You kill me. ROFL OMG

[@martletkay]

I might just start celling them this from now on, it's too perfect. Who else but white people from space could have helped these 'primitive' brown people make stuff?????????

[@charnelhousedog2394]

Well, if I remember my UFO lore correctly 2m tall fair-skinned blue eyed and blonde haired Nordic aliens from Pleiades were relatively common back in the day (early 1950s) before they got overtaken by the greys.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

@@martletkay Or as said by SF Debris to mock the idea as related to a Star Trek: Voyager episode showing that Native Americans were "uplifted" by aliens, "Space: White Man's Burden."

[@clodolcmidnights837]

If it looks like a snake coming out of a flower And it’s surrounded by writings of a myth talking about a snake coming out of a flower Then it’s probably meant to be a snake coming out of a flower

[@AlbertaGeek]

Nah, that's what Big Archaeology™ _wants_ you to think, man!

[@danafloraladd]

Or they thought poetry was more fun and interesting, and private than writing something so magnificent as dull and an ikea handbook. Life is more beautiful than to carve ikea handbooks in stone. Plus, they probably saved their technology for the elite and ritualistic practice, less so that they can stay up all night.

[@beepbeeplettuce5890]

@@danafloraladd the fuck are you talking about?

[@JohnYoo39]

Bro, that's just what Big Ptolemaic Priesthood wants you to believe. They were hiding the technology from commoners with code, but allowing the pharaohs to recreate life luxuries in the afterlife. /s

[@beyondtherealmsofdeath]

BuT!!!!1!!¡ mOdern technOLogy can!!! ExpLain!!!

[@Merrifieldsam]

My very first thought when reading about the Dendra lightbulb was "that's really cool! Where is the lightbulb though? This is just a carving."

[@EllpaFox47]

you're smarter than every conspiracy theorist ever

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Yeah, that's the thing. You can interpret and word salad all you want, but you need physical evidence for what you're saying actually having happened. For this "lightbulb", it would be stupidly obvious that the Egyptians had both access to clear glass and some near-impossible glass manufacturing techniques, just from other sites. But they didn't, so of course there's no evidence for that or anything about any understanding of electricity or anything else required to make a lightbulb.

[@seanrowshandel1680]

ANCIENT WESTERN FRONTS! ANCIENT EASTERN FRONTS! I'm better at making conspiracy theories than all the conspiracy theorists COMBINED! Ancient debunker!

[@EllpaFox47]

fun fact: hathor's other deific roles essentially made her the goddess of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll

[@SCP_Wandsman13_13]

Now I know where the 21 club went to

[@cherylmarcuri5506]

Lol, the patron goddess of the DnD generation (face it: We were NOT boomers in any sense of the word).

[@dutchess406]

​@@SCP_Wandsman13_1327

[@LongJohnLiver]

The Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rolla

[@Anon26535]

Hathor isn't gone, just planning her big comeback in the grim darkness of the far future...

[@Avellania]

I almost expected these "archeologists" to just shove an electric eel into a vase and then wonder why it doesn't work.

[@neeneko]

don't give them ideas....

[@maxlutz3674]

That would be experimental archeology. Also it might create solid facts and show that the old egyptians could not have powered the light with an electric eel even if they had one. The hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy comes to my mind: "We don't demand solid facts! What we demand is a total absence of solid facts. I demand that I may or may not be Vroomfondel!"

[@scottcantdance804]

I might be missing context here, but eels absolutely produce enough electricity to light up bulbs. There are videos of them doing it in aquariums, powering Christmas tree lights for example. I'm not saying I think they were used for that in the ancient world, that would be ridiculous... I just wanted to say that they definitely produce more than enough electricity to do that.

[@willmfrank]

That kind of what Kenneth Branagh did in "Frankenstein."

[@maxlutz3674]

@@scottcantdance804 Those Christmas tree lights are typically low output bulbs orLEDs. For producing a meaningful amount of light, an incandescent bulb of the claimed size of the Dendera "light" would require a massive amount of electric power (both voltage and current). Even a big eel might be challenged to produce that over a longer period of time. Also I might be wrong with my assumption.

[@groofay]

"It looks like a lightbulb, so it must be a lightbulb!" Ah yes, the renowned Rorschach method of archaeology.

[@CoolCrimsonJaguar]

it could also be argued that the "bulb" looks like an eggplant. so its an eggplant obviously. im a mcfucking genius 🧠🧠🧠

[@washipuppy]

Especially since, upon showing the picture, and with no knowledge of what the frik-frak we were talking about, I immediately thought "Oh hey, it's a snake in a lotus flower." And upon taking a second look, "Oh wait, that snake is actually being lifted to heaven on a thingie by a pair of arms attached to a pillar (of heaven?). My bad."

[@martletkay]

@@washipuppy And it comes with clear instructions on exactly what is going on in the picture??? Pish! Those primitive people didn't know what they were doing as they were creating highly advanced technology, and I can't read hieroglyphics, so it's irrelevant!! Also although I myself acknowledge that the snake is symbolism in the 'lightbulb', clearly people that primitive couldn't possibly have a series of highly complex depictions of concepts using symbolism... everything must be literal! But also symbolic when it suits me! My racist brain hurts with knowledge!!1!1!!!!1!!!

[@RubyBlueUwU]

@@washipuppy I thought (literally from the thumbnail) it was a man holding a staff and it was being depicted as glowing, I get “hey, that looks kinda like a modern lightbulb” but I do not get thinking that must mean they fucking had them and, idk, just forgot about it immediately? Also I love how the assumption is then that it must’ve been aliens or something, even if you’re vacant enough to believe this you don’t wanna believe the ancient Egyptians were just really smart or anything.

[@imyourmaster77]

@@CoolCrimsonJaguar and eggplants are made out of eggs and plants, so its an egg.

[@Prince_Luci]

I never bought the light bulb idea but i was always confounded by how they saw once everything had been finished. Now i know. Olive oil lamps. Thank you Milo

[@OrNaurItsKat]

I used to play a drinking game with ancient aliens, you had to take shots anytime they said "ancient astronaut theorists", "star gate", "could it be possible blah blah something ridiculous or low-key racist blah". Anyways I got alcohol poisoning.

[@rachel_sj]

We’re glad you’re still alive from that drinking game to tell the tale!! 🤣

[@sealeo5772]

Put "Is it possible...?" on the list and you won't survive a single episode.

[@bradleyowen9117]

Did you get that off of memeulous yea

[@TimothyCollins]

Ugh… don’t get me started with that show. A friend tried to get me to watch once and halfway through it I sounded like a sailor with Tourette’s in how I reacted to it.

[@commit7059]

Never watched history channel, but I have watched Stargate. But holy shit... They actually think the Stargate exists? Or am I just interpreting this wrong

[@raedaphne]

Your partner is the most precious thing. The offering of different cocktails was so nice and smart. Might I suggest the King Tut-long island?

[@neutrinobuddy]

This man is validating every angry thought I've ever had towards those ancient aliens variety shows. I look forward to more episodes

[@alliebean3235]

if u want more i really recommend the podcast "it's probably not aliens", they're all about debunking ancient aliens theories!

[@neutrinobuddy]

@@alliebean3235 I'll check that out, thank you!

[@georgecisneros5281]

So, in other simpler words…he feeds your confirmation bias? Cool.👍🙄😂

[@dantemaquiavelli9039]

@@georgecisneros5281 It's still better than getting your evidence out of your ass.

[@DeShawnMcDonald]

@@georgecisneros5281 as opposed to being on your side feeding your confirmation bias? Lol you people would be hilarious if you all didn't have the same right to vote as a sane person

[@em01455]

21:08 I love your partner! She seems freaking awesome. You could hear her get so excited about planning drinks 😊

[@annalee9793]

literally not even a month ago someone i work with got contacted by the history channel to drive a boat while they do some like atlantis shit and the crew was like "we are 500 miles away from shore" and they're like... maybe 3 miles off the coast of florida. they had to reshoot things because they were getting land and civilization in the background, 3 miles off the coast of florida.

[@tjenadonn6158]

Gravity Falls is less fictional than anything on the History Channel.

[@meg2249]

Don’t forget all the crazy drug addicts getting arrested for doing bizarre crimes too… Florida Man indeed…

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@meg2249 As an anarchist I object to anarchism being compared to Florida. Anarchist societies have rules, they're just decided by the collective and enforced non- hierarchically. Florida doesn't exist in a state of anarchy, it exists in a state of pure unbridled chaos.

[@demo2823]

@@tjenadonn6158 "Anarchists have rules," what, lol. You're not anarchist. You're anti-establishmentarian.

[@artemis_smith]

@@demo2823 tell the world you don't know what anarchy is without telling the world you don't know what anarchy is

[@verylostdoommarauder]

Interesting related story: Back between the late 60s and early 80s, there was this new age thing called "Pyramidology" where people thought that the pyramids and pyramid shaped objects have powers like food preservation and "trigger sexual urges" (not making that up). Apparently these ideas were a big influence on the fantasy novel Pyramids by Terry Pratchett.

[@peterprime2140]

I mean, pyramids trigger sexual urges for me. But that might be related to my crippling triangle fetish.

[@Syzygy2048]

Unfortunately that is still a thing. I saw people shilling that within the last 5 years.

[@dragconen]

@@Syzygy2048 These are the same people that have the balls to call others primitive.

[@Annie_Annie__]

My mother was in to manifesting in the 80s and she thought pyramid-shaped prisms or crystals had extra powers when it comes to manifesting what you want. So she tacked some money to the wall and hung a pyramid crystal in front of it, that way she could manifest money and some would come to her, but having that on the wall would increase her manifestation power by, something like 10 fold. She wanted to put these all over the house but she also didn’t want them anywhere people could see them because she worried what others would think. She and my stepdad each had a pyramid crystal on their nightstand. I don’t even want to contemplate why.

[@juliaboon9741]

Still a thing. I saw a man wearing one on his head the other day in a video. He called himself something like “The Black Airbender” because of course he also had to be a breatharian.

[@gonzalofraguasbringas8617]

Using the same logic I present: The Ancient Eggplant theory! Looking at it, it looks like am eggplant with a snake on it. Therefore, I conclude with only my imagination to support as evidence that, not only did egiptians celebrate local agricultural fairs, but this is (irefutably) a carved picture of the winner, the priced giant eggplant. We can tell it was the winner by the totally-not-a-snake symbol, meant to represent a prized ribbon. I will take no comments to dispute this theory, because it is flawless.

[@birb180]

Beautiful

[@dynamicworlds1]

At least it actually LOOKS like an eggplant, so you're already on more credible grounds!

[@MerkhVision]

Great theory! Surely it must be true lol. Just one small correction: it should be “prized,” not “priced!”

[@gonzalofraguasbringas8617]

@@MerkhVision got it!

[@spoopioopi]

real

[@MelKay-qj2ri]

It's 2 AM. I heard Ancient Aliens from my roommate's bedroom and started yelling "NO! THAT IS A SNAKE! OLIVE OIL LAMPS! " When he falls asleep I will put this video on and sneak away.

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

To be clear, did he shout that or did youʔ̥

[@SaltExarch]

"Here's a carving on a wall that looks like a snake coming out of a lotus flower, and the inscriptions next to the carving says it depicts a creation myth where a snake comes out of a lotus flower, and there's no logical reason or physical evidence to suggest that the Egyptians had the technology to create a giant 2-meter lightbulb, and EVEN IF THEY DID there's no logical reason why they wouldn't just... carve a lightbulb instead of a snake and a lotus flower, but... uh... it kinda looks like a lightbulb to my modern eyes so clearly that's what it is." And we have the fucking gall to call the ancient Egyptians "primitive".

[@ultravioletiris6241]

Who calls Egyptians primitive? Lol

[@strelnagaming]

@@ultravioletiris6241 the narrator in the first video Minimuteman reviews does

[@miyamoto8733]

@@ultravioletiris6241 18:17

[@hedgehog3180]

On the size thing I will throw them a bone and point out that sizes in Egyptian art were never actually to scale and instead were based on importance, the largest figure in any piece of art was always the most important one not whatever was actually physically the largest.

[@matematicarka]

RIGHT!

[@johnbell1222]

I love the image of Van Danekin's 'reconstruction'. It looks like the set of an eighties Doctor Who episode.

[@rocknrollmandolin]

You put the words i was looking for out there thabk god

[@hollymccombs7316]

And the reasoning behind it is as bad as the writing in the latest seasons.

[@Rystefn]

It's kind of endlessly hilarious to me that we all recognize the shape of Aladdin's lamp, but for some reason, almost no one connects that with the actual word "lamp" and recognizes that it's an actual light.

[@Newfiecat]

Nawww, everyone knows those are genie containers! What other function would they have?

[@KasumiRINA]

Yeah and in most media period pieces, everything is lit with torches, which burn out too fast. Lamps had oil in them and a wick submerged in it, burning slowly like a candle. For thousands of years people kept lighting stuff up with souls of tortured genies before some guys in Ukraine invented kerosene lamps running on plane blood.

[@ZijnShayatanica]

​@@KasumiRINA PLANE BLOOD. 💀💀💀

[@KasumiRINA]

@@ZijnShayatanica yeah, a lot of innocent biplanes were poached to get fuel for kerosene lamps in the past... 🙏

[@TheMinidow]

​@@KasumiRINA there used to be great flocks of biplanes that would migrate across the globe, but we hunted them to extinction in the wild during world war one, and as we all know, biplanes breed at a similar rate to whales, so the ones in captivity are barely maintaining a population.

[@davidwalend2057]

You know... If you squint... just right... the NordVPN logo kinda looks like an incandescent light bulb.

[@CDN_Bookmouse]

There absolutely must always be a cocktail now. And to honour the spirit of the series, please just make a well-known cocktail and then call it whatever the hell you want based on what it LOOKS like.

[@olenickel6013]

This is how he chooses the topics of the next videos.

[@CDN_Bookmouse]

@@olenickel6013 Let's spin the Wheel of Alcohol and Suffering wheeeeee!!

[@d4n737]

"Their primitive minds thought that the inside of a lightbiulb is a glowing snake" Said the guy who thought a snake was the inside of a lightbulb.

[@undergrounddojokeyboardcag701]

I mean.... snakes are great conductors of electricity.

[@chadkingoffuckmountain970]

@@undergrounddojokeyboardcag701 Particularly the wet ones, like Eels.

[@AverageUnknownMain]

@@chadkingoffuckmountain970 yeah, a eel is just a wet electric snake. Not a completely different species or anything.

[@d4n737]

@@undergrounddojokeyboardcag701 So are children :D

[@jar-of-bees]

@@AverageUnknownMain hey, I'm not saying that sea snakes are the best electrical conductors but they certainly can conduct electricity

[@mikedahuman]

Honestly it looks more like an Eggplant than it does a lightbulb. My theory is that its a depiction of a giant eggplant at an eggplant growing contest, and the snake is being used to verify its size. The snake was actually the preferred unit of measurement in ancient Egypt due to the great ruler extinction that ravaged the local ruler population in Egypt.

[@gypsylee333]

Boooo you stole this idea the other guys comment was months before yours

[@garyhost1830]

It is an egg plant and it's the first meme in history

[@ethnobotanyboy]

I mean, this theory makes about as much sense as the light bulb one!😂

[@kklh7918]

This channel is the worst and the comments really reflect that.

[@theproceedings4050]

Nah, everybody lost their arms, leading to a drift of the cubit, and therefore lengths were standardized to the snake before the Pharaohs grew back their arms first and therefore a palm was added to their cubit to commemorate their badass nature.

[@derin647]

I want one of these conspiracy theorists to search up “salt mining truck” and then look me in the eyes and seriously tell me that we could not build the pyramids now.

[@commitfelonyfeline]

Look up "Big Muskie" or "Bagger 288" 💀

[@DeaconPain]

Or, ya know, a crane? How do they think we get the big bulky bits up skyscrapers?

[@samuelmelcher333]

The whole “These primitive people couldn’t possibly have understood how to invented this. A superior civilization must have helped them” explanation sounds very similar to the “These primitive people couldn’t possibly understand how to govern themselves. We, the superior civilization, simply have to help them” justification for empire.

[@quuenC]

Totally, every time they find that a non european civilization, that was proficient in mathematics, astronomy and other sciences, did a big cool construction some random dude pops out out of nowhere saying that it must have been the aliens.

[@jdsguam]

A very progressive/liberal point of view, for sure.

[@intorian1149]

@@jdsguam ???

[@cancerbucket2245]

U read to much into that my friend

[@boejudden9011]

@@cancerbucket2245 Lol or it makes you uncomfortable so you don't read into it enough

[@philippschmitt4142]

I absolutely love this "looks like a duck" reasoning. Like, some ancient celt could have drawn a stylized Pear, and pseudoarcheologists would be like: Behold, a lightbulb!

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Unfortunately, it is not merely enough to make a scientific conclusion based on sight alone. It must also act and sound like a duck in order to pass rigor.

[@PongoXBongo]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio And weigh the same as a witch.

[@petriew2018]

makes you long for the good old days when any roughly bulb-shaped object of uncertain origin was just automatically assumed to be a penis...

[@johnwicked1132]

​@@petriew2018 tbh for me it looked like the magnum opus of a weenor

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

@@PongoXBongo Who are you that is so wise in the ways ov science?

[@wrenmassey6876]

The blackboard makes me feel like I'm in a brand new college professors class and I'm here for it

[@eazy8579]

I love that vibe; he’s like the best professor we’ve all had

[@Tiger89Lilly]

Hold up let me get my glasses and pink fluffy pen and notepad ala Elle Woods

[@dontmindme5239]

new professor new class w/o the pressure of tests its ideal

[@AWriterWandering]

This is the first time I’ve seen a blackboard in years. In uni they all had whiteboards.

[@elenap15227]

If he gets a projector to show his reference images I WILL SWOON

[@yeeteater51]

"Bro I just put a snake in this big jar, take picture lol" *Couple millenia later*: "DID EGYPTIANS HAVE LIGHTBULBS?"

[@otk-8746]

Not to mention what little glass the ancient Egyptian’s had was naturally occurring and opaque. There is no evidence they made hollow structures out of glass, if they were able to make an 8 foot long lightbulb surely they would make vases to.

[@E.T.42]

Sorry, but not quite. The Ancient Egyptians potentially invented glassmaking and even if not, were definitely among the first civilisations to work glass over 3500 years ago. They also seem to have had some idea of how to make translucent glass and absolutely made glass vases and vessels (the book "Studies in Early Egyptian Glass" even has some on the cover). By the time the temple in question was built, they were also able to make transparent glass. The one thing I agree on with you is the size. There's absolutely no evidence they were even remotely able to make glass structures that size.

[@spoonoftheuniverse7233]

@@E.T.42 thank you for that information! gods I wish these conspiracy theorists did enough research to say that we know they did glass making. At least it would be another thing to debunk with at least some credibility

[@KuK137]

@@E.T.42 This. In fact for hundreds if not thousands of years Egypt was actually a major source of glass making raw materials that were hard to find anywhere else...

[@jords844]

I like the idea of “oh no why didn’t the Egyptians use wood torches to light their workspace?” Is similar to asking someone who works in oil/fuel processing why they don’t smoke on the job

[@geraintwd]

This. I was surprised not to see this mentioned in the video, actually. Using a smoky torch in a confined space, you'd asphyxiate before you'd carved the power cable.

[@NWolfsson]

9:53 Ah yes, the famous "This stylized depiction of a bird/flying insect looks awfully like an airplane! (which looks in return like a stylized bird because it's the best we've found as of yet in terms of aerodynamism and surface needed to actually glide)". Always love when they add unrelated tangents to "Looks like a bird, probz a bird."

[@johannageisel5390]

Actually the "airplane" thing looks like a flying fish. They have these long pectoral fins.

[@FinGeek4now]

Its not that birds and flying insects look like airplanes, its that airplanes look like birds and flying insects.

[@Fledhyris]

It might just be me, but I thought the main body/head of the things looked remarkably phallic, too. And at least one of them was a very credible facsimile of a modern bullet! Now we could make up glorious theories of magical golden winged fertility bullets, no doubt shot from a sling or some sort of tubular projectile device, since we know they didn't have guns. Which is why you can't just go by what something looks like to be sure of what it actually is. (Although if they WERE magic fertility bullets, I called it, high five!)

[@scottcantdance804]

This thing so obviously isn't a "light"... It's clearly Cleopatra's vibrator.

[@NWolfsson]

@@Fledhyris I love that. Hurray for Meso American Cupid's arrows!

[@colemanjunior9773]

That’s clearly a corndog. Don’t believe me? Can you guarantee they didn’t eat hotdogs? Checkmate, big archaeology.

[@comiccat4650]

You know what would be awsom? A little battery powered desk lamp in the shape of the dendera light bulb and the battery compartments looks like the baghdad battery

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

Yoo new miniminuteman merch idea

[@melody3741]

Make super long cables and a pyramid too. So you can put the light on one side of your desk with a pyramid, and then put the battery on the other side of the table

[@anarchoyeasty3908]

@@melody3741 Can't. Our modern technology can't recreate pyramids. It's too complex.

[@queeny5613]

Tesss

[@justin_glen_with_1_n403]

if this comes true, it will only strengthen the beliefs of the idiots on the internet. They would use it to say that it really does work and the baghdad battery was meant as a energy source lol

[@elennapointer701]

Aside from the assassin-level debunking of the conspiracy theory BS, what I love most about this channel is the rough-and-ready, amateur-hour genius of the presentation. It takes a rare kind of skill to make an esoteric subject entertaining, and the ramshackle presentation is a gift in itself. Promise me that if you ever get the funding you deserve, you won't jettison the out-takes (or the booze). They're what make this channel so worth watching.

[@miniminuteman773]

I humbly promise to do all I can to stay true to my style and presentation. I have already rejected sponsors and potential managers who would have cramped my style too much. If someone reaches out to work with me, they are working with me not changing what I do to work with them.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

This is a much smarter way of saying what I came here to say. Your presentational style is genuinely remarkable; please never change too much man :)

[@alexkaen1701]

"This model looks like a plane" "Or a bird" "But if I take this design and add a few bits, it'll fly" "You mean, like a bird..."

[@Neslakim]

It's a bird, it's a plane. NO! It's -

[@julianaguilera998]

It looks like a golden flying dick!😂

[@ZelenskyPlane]

@@Neslakim the Ak wielding Columbians!

[@GoredonTheDestroyer]

If you take the outline of a bird, and completely change how it looks, what do you get? An airplane! Coincidence? I think not! Checkmate, Atheists!

[@Noob4745]

@@ZelenskyPlane What's a Columbian?

[@SpiffoGaming]

Holy shit, this reminded me i gotta save some things onto my personal drive before i graduate. Thanks milo from a year ago

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

"the goddess of love, fertility and pleasure". OR, as Daniel Jackson noted in Stargate SG-1's Season 1, Episode 14 (Hathor) "Hathor was the goddess of fertility, inebriety and music." To which Jack O'Neill replied, "Sex, drugs and rock and roll?"

[@mildlymarvelous]

Yesss SG-1

[@somerandomschmuck2547]

SG-1 probably the only thing even vestigially related to ancient astronauts theory I actually like.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@somerandomschmuck2547 "Vestigially related"? Now come on. Jack O'Neill's not *that* old! 😸

[@squeekyclean1644]

Is this channel about pandering to the mainstream archeology narrative ? Aka anti ancient alien theory

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@squeekyclean1644 If there were any "ancient aliens" who had "visited" at one time, they took one look at humans and put a sign up on the dark side of the moon stating, "Stay away! These humans are insane and violent!"

[@Tareltonlives]

Ancient Egyptian temple writing: "The lotus and snake created the universe" Ancient aliens people: "That won't stop me because I can't read!"

[@Shalheretical]

They're on that reformed Egyptian shit

[@ocsed346]

I got excited for a second and then I realised it's gonna premier 2 days from now.

[@mr.commonsense]

Same

[@daisyisbreadtalks]

Same aye

[@Sain240]

big F

[@mijoges6288]

fr fr

[@unwillingsoul7395]

Pain

[@thalmorbiznitch4028]

I’m loving your videos (your channel Was recommended to me a couple days ago) and I just wanna saw I also love your off-topic bits too. Sometimes I find interruptions annoying but your personality just sells it. The bits with your partner are so fucking cute. You calling her cute but also her bantering with you about the drinks about the series is fantastic. I’ve also liked seeing your cat on other videos too.

[@makutateridax4788]

I remember watching some Ancient Aliens knock-off special about the golden "jets" found in South America. I'll never forget the part where one of the "ancient alien theorists" suggested that they were models of modern aircraft that time traveled. The face of his partner was priceless: It was the face of a man having an existential crisis because he realized that everything he believed for years was probably bull shit.

[@badrequest5596]

22:06 i love how they even put some baghdad batteries on there even though they're not even depicted anywhere. great way of connecting "ancient tech" for the AACU (Ancient Aliens Cinematic Universe)

[@outdoorscholar6016]

It’s even more funny when one of the archeologists working at the site revealed that the shape of the “battery” is just a vase where the top half was broken off.

[@Dr.Slaughter]

I bet you will feel real silly when someone comes along and makes a functioning light bulb out of a snake.

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

Give me enough voltage and I can make anything a lightbulb.

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

​@@Mostlyharmless1985but only for a few seconds before the poor creature explodes 😊

[@unprofesinalidiot3388]

but hey for those few seconds it was really bright so that counts... definitely@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174

[@paavobergmann4920]

But it will explode brightly! @@thebaseandtriflingcreature174

[@davidnewcomb7466]

@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174SCIENCE!

[@lostgubbins]

if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then surely it must be a complete and uninterrupted relief depicting an ancient egyptian creation myth

[@IHomie1]

The gall that man had to say that of course Egyptians would confuse a glowing static object with living animals that move around. Which is also implying that if it had existed, the Egyptians would have had no way of turning it off. It breaks apart his argument that the Egyptians could have built it if they apparently had no idea of how to properly draw what they made

[@kayleescruggs6888]

Maybe, it was purposely misdrawn so thier enemies couldn't replicate it. Either that, or it wasn't a light bulb.

[@Nobody-zl3kk]

@@kayleescruggs6888 Drawing something but making it purposely misdrawn so it can't be replicated if included in the argument also makes it so the argument just fucken implodes in on itself. XD

[@kayleescruggs6888]

@@Nobody-zl3kk we all know that it couldn't possibly be anything else like art depicting their creation myth. That'd be silly.

[@Nobody-zl3kk]

@@kayleescruggs6888 Yeah that be silly, the only civilization interested in creating any sort of art were the europeans of course!!!

[@pencilpauli9442]

Definitely a neon lightbulb. Or the pharaoh's willy. Or the pharaoh is using his willy as a light sabre. Pharaoh's mom: If you don't stop using your willy as a light sabre, young Ramses my lad, you'll go blind.

[@ratinc.t3748]

No its a laser sword AGGRESSIVE HALO NOISES

[@urmom2052]

Ummmmmm wtf did I just read

[@KBJade39]

Its a vibrator.

[@imhalfhere]

His willy has a snake-like parasite in it :)

[@philtkaswahl2124]

@@KBJade39 It's even plugged into the wall for charging.

[@pleasestaycalm5439]

Whenever I draw a lightbulb, I always make sure to put a snake in it.

[@MeganVictoriaKearns]

Who the hell makes a light bulb 💡 without a snake 🐍in it? Why are you acting like you're special?

[@serenityphawx]

Anytime I draw a Crookes tube, I always attach an entire man to it.

[@arc8687]

whenever i draw a light bulb I make it look like a massive co-

[@Solar_Corpus]

Well dude it would would make sense for an ancient Egyptian to interpret a bolt of electricity as a snake. How the fuck would they know what they were seeing wasn’t some sort of snake???? Two things can be true at once. You people are so ignorant and think just because something can be explained means that that’s all it is.

[@you2uber530]

a snake can become a light source. it just requires a larger amount of electricity you'll need to run through it.

[@SuperStormNora]

I just found this series this week and I am so glad it exists. you are a great teacher and i love breaking conspiracy theories! pls keep making these!!

[@TheRealDanTheManYT]

I live with my uncle. He is about 50 years old and has spent the past 20 years on the internet. Ancient Aliens is his favorite show and he avidly swears by the dendera light being a lightbulb. He goes on very very long tangents about his conspiracies. Your videos help me a lot. I feel like I finally have an opportunity to listen to someone who's not completely insane. Thank you.

[@michealpersicko9531]

You should show him this video and see if it will knock some sense into him that's no way to live the last few decades of your life and 50 is kind of old to start losing your mind so severely.

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

@@michealpersicko9531 It won't it will shatter his identity, just look around the commemts people are always losing there minds about this.

[@Sgt.chickens]

@@stehfreejesseah7893 happens every day. If your identity is based on utter bollocks wouldnt you rather shatter it and start over?

[@albertgaspa1670]

a part of explain him why is all of this a big piece of shit fuelled by far right withe supremacist linked to nazi organisations...try to ask him why those things are so important in his life. Maybe he feels alone, or anxious, and thos daydreaming tales about racism overview on ancient non-withe civilisations are the stimulous stuff he need to dream about thing can be better that they are because the truth is not the present pain, or anxiety, or lonelyness or social or profesional frustrations, but an unveiled world made out of fairy tales....is actually how it works the belief of heaven for religious people...the promise that everything is going to be alright later so just have to keep on throug a pain, or existential desolation they just do not understand.

[@Bugg...0_o]

God. I'm old enough to remember when the History Channel actually had history, not just aliens and hillbillies.

[@SavinoAF]

Doing cocktails inspired by and named after each awful archaeology you cover is a brilliant idea and i really hope to see that happen!!! :D

[@jamiewarren2307]

I especially like the ide of publishing the drink recipe a little early, maybe in a community post. That would hype the episode and make it so viewers can make the same drink if they feel like it.

[@robc1775]

If you look closely at the image you’ll see the tail of the snake actually ends before the lotus flower. So it’s actually not even connected to the end of the “bulb”.

[@mrsupaconducta]

I guess Mr. Stabby Kitty to the right of the tube is about to embrace the afterlife.

[@nicethanatos6580]

imagine being an alien capable of traveling through space comes down here to only show us a LIGHT BULB.

[@jacquelineking5783]

Nah my favorite is how they bothered to give technology out. Eurasia got wheels and metal working, the Mayans got the ability to represent nothing. Which is cool don't get me wrong but a technology leg up might have been better so they might have had a better chance at dealing with the Europeans.

[@LunnaJannah]

@@jacquelineking5783 they stole wisdom from all natives haha 😂

[@HungerGamesFan00]

i mean it would be kinda funny to show people 10000 years ago some of the most mundane shit we have today and watching their response

[@paavobergmann4920]

Catweazel to Harold after Harold switched on the lights: " Oh, Master, teach me your electrickery!"@@HungerGamesFan00

[@getgaymin]

well, they just came to have hot inter-planetary sex, mostly... it's kind of like when you have a one-night tryst with a long distance dalliance and you're looking for a memento, so you settle for a pair of his ratty boxers that you wear whenever you're feeling nostalgic... and then when you die, they carve your likeness in the ratty boxers and 4K years later kooks claim the Shorts of Power were the secret to all human virility

[@cadencesenn1688]

Hey man! I love your content. Im a 13 year old aspiring archeologist and you have inspired me to try and become an archeologist as an actual career. Thank you for sharing knowledge for anyone on youtube to see. Keep up the good work!

[@frickinfrick8488]

Good luck in your aspirations! :)

[@dalailarose1596]

That's awesome, I'm sure you'll make it!

[@TTeuio6969420]

We believe in you, hope you have a good time on your journey towarss becoming one!

[@Tiger89Lilly]

Good luck with your aspiration. Can I recommend Time Team classics on KZbin. It's a UK archaeology TV show from the 90's - early 2000s so the technology is very outdated but still very interesting

[@RubyBlueUwU]

Good luck kid, that’s amazing! 👏

[@thomaswalsh4552]

16:20 actually the Egyptians had a habit of making more important people/things relatively larger in carvings, so you’ll often see a pharaoh towering over others, perhaps several times their height, for example. In the Medinet Habu inscription, the pharaoh is shown shooting a bow as big as a chariot, which itself was taller than most of the other people in the inscription. All of this is to say that scale in Egyptian inscriptions can’t always be taken at face value.

[@lorenwoirhaye4687]

It's called hieratic scale.

[@tedzer94]

Maybe but there were also people much larger than today giants if you will loads of skeletons have been found in mounds across North America very interesting

[@Lucifersfursona]

Hierarchic scale is in a lot of early (various forms of) Christianity too. Lotta paintings of gigantic Saints next to rows and rows of tiny ones

[@minjaarsic3327]

@@tedzer94 no there weren’t lol. that’s also a conspiracy theory on the level of dendera lightbulb. it’s also (from what i’ve seen of people trying to convince me of the same thing) mostly based just on the fact that some cultures had myths about giants, completely ignoring the fact that most myths are not literal, and are not actual historical sources. another example of something with the same level of sources is Atlantis because it’s just based on an ancient greek story written by Plato that was supposed to be a story of an empire falling because of greed and corruption. one guy in ancient greece told a story to teach his students a moral lesson and now we’re here, dealing with a gazillion atlantis conspiracies.

[@TitaniusAnglesmith]

@@tedzer94 Show me evidence

[@fionnachmahoney-richardson7328]

That Shel Silverstein joke was 100% the funniest shit ive heard in a sec

[@tofusoybearleftyhugmonster2273]

Ra-Pte woke up and turned on the lights in his small alcove. He stretched out his arms, tired from using the sonic-stone-moving device that his good friend Quetzoquatl had given him. The old Atlantean half-alien had been especially friendly to Ra-Pte since that evening at Hatsheps mead-house...

[@ribozyme2899]

Ra x Quetzalcoatl is my new favorite power couple.

[@mizzshortie907]

Golden 😂

[@vekaroni135]

I would read that fanfic tbh.

[@mrpuddingpop1]

300 years from now “so according to these ancient sketches, women of the 21st century had two inch wastes and breasts larger than a human head”

[@davidpetit6902]

One piece?

[@Bacony_Cakes]

"And also, tails."

[@MerkhVision]

@@Bacony_Cakes and cat ears, don’t forget the cat ears!

[@richardmangelmann4975]

And hips and butts that look like everything that was supposed to be in the waist just went down there

[@SnailHatan]

They will soon. The average breast size in the US is now 34DD. A size which used to be considered quite large is now commonplace. It’s only apparent that by the end of the century breasts will grow brains of their own and plot to dominate the solar system through their superior storage of fat, which allows them to travel vast distances with few supplies and ability to absorb great impact before sustaining damage.

[@Happy_Tunafish]

It blows my mind how they ""prove it would've worked"" by creating a modern day lightbulb in the same shape and design as back then (with stuff tweaked to make it work) and then being like "ah yes, as you see it is possible".

[@williamallbutt690]

I'm just disappointed they didnt follow the instructions exactly and put an entire snake in the tube.

[@davidhitchen5369]

The amazing part is that it isn't even the same design as what is in the picture. The Crookes tube doesn't even have a filament and it has two connections.

[@collinliles1928]

I only recently found your videos and I just love how well you put the achievements of ancient people into context. It really gives me such a great respect for them when I think about how much they were able to do without the use of modern technology.

[@Jame5man]

“If you squint… and then rapidly move your fist towards your own face” I’m stealing that. That’s fucking money

[@JustEditingFUN]

"Gave them a crate of ak-47s and a tomahawk cruise missile". literally describes more than one Harry turtledove book

[@cherylmarcuri5506]

Ikr?? I enjoy the fictional musings of a Byzantine history professor very much.

[@Terralncognita]

Guns of the South be like

[@darran311]

Saw some ancient aliens it was pretty funny one guy "oh they needed the bulb because they couldn't use naked flames in that temple I tried using my lighter in there and it wouldn't work" 2 episodes later cut to van Danican looking at the carvings by the light of his lighter

[@Raethrean]

i'm genuinely waiting for some of these ancient aliens conspiracy videos to show footage of stargate sg-1 and trying to pass that off

[@xenon8927]

Milo's new set with the blackboard makes him look like the one substitute teacher that was everyone's favorite, and I love it.

[@morley364]

Love the consistent reminders about anthropology's deeply problematic beginnings. As someone who works and studies in both sociology and anthropology, I often joke that the difference between the two is that sociology still likes a lot of their founding people, whereas anthropologists would shove theirs into a puddle if they ever met them on the street.

[@TheParadoxGamer1]

Depends on the person, I wouldn’t push them in a puddle! I’d shove them into a lake.

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@TheParadoxGamer1 Make sure it’s one of the Great Lakes for extra effect lol.

[@Foolish188]

@@TheParadoxGamer1 Volcano.

[@blackpanther3912]

Anthropologically speaking, how does one explain "star forts" or "bastion forts" and explain how every single continent/country/island on the planet has had one on it at some point (footprints of foundations of these can be found even on the islands near Antarctica.... Or maybe.... why government buildings worldwide look very similar... consisting of about 3 different styles..... and in light of this, when did Vietnam have a Romanesque Revival? Why would every country in the world celebrate "roman" construction? Rome didnt even have it's own technology, it overthrew different groups of people and absorbed their tech, claiming it as their own creation.... so "Roman architecture" is an oxymoron.... wierd how the Greeks were building Roman style buildings before Rome was even a thing. Right?

[@DeShawnMcDonald]

@@blackpanther3912 Jesus dude calm down it'll be ok

[@DrSlobGoblin]

Even if you didn't invent "Golden Airplane Phenomenon," you are definitely the citation used on urbandictionary. That has to be an academic accomplishment to rival most.