Creepy Archaeological Discoveries

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[@bhgtree]

"In a thousand years archaeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment." Olivia Wilde

[@tardvandecluntproductions1278]

It's a torture machine with a delay. Skin cancer!

[@MartaWomack]

Funny! You're probably right, tho.

[@wallykimball8829]

As well as all the cemeteries. The only people who dont eventually get exhumed are the ones that dont turn up during construction. Or archaeological investigation.

[@mafiousbj]

She has a point indeed. Same happens with those "amazon" women. Archeologists want them to fit the narrative of them dying in battle, but really they only see the weapon damage on the bones...it could have been a ritualistic sacrifice or even something weirder and we would have no idea.

[@CornPopsDood]

They’ll find them all grouped together & come to conclusion that the sun wasn’t enough UV rays, & there was cult of people who essentially cooked themselves to a slow death.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

Saw a archaeological dig and turned out they were digging for a burial ground in the wrong place....they did not appreciate when i told them they had made a Grave mistake

[@IlRyanWilsonlI]

Buh dum tss

[@collincovid6950]

So they moved on to the actual place and began coffing? I think best to put a lid on that one, as it is nailed

[@SaraBanartist]

Eeeeeyyyyyyy

[@Sideprojects]

OHHHHHHHHHHH BA DA BUM BUM TSHSHSHSHSHHSHS!!!"£$!$"^&$£**(((

[@EastyyBlogspot]

@Jimjimmyjames Smith to tiring can I sit down instead ?

[@morphman86]

You missed one of the most interesting parts of the Dorset Vikings: There were 54 bodies, but only 51 heads. And only one skeleton showed defensive wounds, a slice to the hand as if he had raised his hand in an attempt to stay the sword. This skeleton is believed by some to be of the first one killed, and all subsequent kills were most likely tied down to avoid this happening again. All of the remains show signs of being alive at the time of the beheading and most of the cuts were not clean. This means the means of execution was beheading for all 54 men and it was performed by someone who had little to no experience in this execution method. Thus, it's unlikely that this was done by other Vikings. One of the most clear "botched" beheadings was of a man with the top of his head sliced off, rather than his entire head. This shows signs that not all beheadings were performed by the same person, and it might even have been 54 different executioners taking turns. This type of "mistake" were most common among reluctant executioners, who would look away as they swung the sword. Also, it is unknown if these were actual Vikings, or just Norse nomads. Only 3 of the skeletons showed signs of being a warrior, but this could have just been physically fit men. A few even showed signs of crippling deformations, which would have excluded them from the warrior lifestyle. Their diet had been of mixed origin, meaning they most likely spent most of their lives travelling around. So this was most likely NOT Englishmen fending off an attack, but rather a town executing travelling merchants for breaking some perceived local law. As the execution was not done efficiently, it was not a ritual nor sanctioned criminal justice.

[@bastadimasta]

They cannot be Germanic or Slavic in origin. They were probably Turkic.

[@morphman86]

@@bastadimasta They were definitely Scandinavian. That much is visible from the skeletons and the items found. But they were not staying in Scandinavia, their bones showed clear signs of a mixed diet from all over Europe.

[@TientifyT]

What one might learn when the tube hole applies.

[@IrradiatedMushroom]

Did you make that all up or is it true(anonymous citing won't go)? If it is true, for me, it makes history evermore fascinating and also very believable.

[@luxinvictus9018]

A 'viking' was not necessarily a warrior. Norsemen who went off on ship, aka "went *on a* viking", are what we usually call vikings, but excludes merchants and traders I think. If they were merchants, then no, but if they were wanderers or explorers, we could call them 'vikings'. It's possible the people who killed them had been attacked by Vikings before or had witnessed Vikings raids (or maybe were prejudiced against Danes in general), hence why they showed such brutality.

[@jamsky1558]

Web Archeologists in the future: "Internet archeology is very hard, especially around KZbin . We get clues about about some extra information to be added "in a link bellow", but in the end most creators didn't do it for some reason "

[@chesh1rek1tten]

At least with Simon they get the reason "I'll probably forget" 😅😂

[@RBEO22]

What's the difference between grave robbing and archeology? About a thousand years.

[@jaybee9269]

Good one!

[@cherrydragon3120]

Lol... kinda true to be fair lol

[@malavoy1]

Closer to 150 😁😁

[@slappy8941]

I've seen some version of this ignorant comment a thousand times, and there simply aren't enough crayons in the universe to make you understand.

[@foxhound963]

This is a good place to explain that a good archeologist systematically records as much as possible so as to learn everything they can from an excavation. It's stll true though, that each new generation is horrified about the crudeness of their predecessors and everything they may have missed that more modern methods would have found. Learn from the past.

[@SlurpeeBoy9999]

"Why did you replace your hand with a knife?" "Because it's cool."

[@DarthSk8r]

"shop smart, shop S-Mart"

[@FortuneZer0]

I feel like thats the answer to most archeological oddities found.

[@JustArtsCreations]

"I have knife hands!"

[@arcturionblade1077]

Edward Knife-Hands

[@popuptarget7386]

A spoon hand would be more practical but not nearly as manly.

[@lizardcameron66]

One conversation I have with my kids is, "What would you do with unlimited money?" I always say go back to school for fun classes instead of necessary ones. Simon saying archeology is so cool warms my cold dead heart. 😁

[@kevgorry1850]

Ha so ur sayen ur dead in side ha ha h

[@sheep9546]

@@kevgorry1850 just like you Hahahahaha

[@gg-creggnhffghjyy617]

@@sheep9546 haha us

[@GrimSleepy]

@@gg-creggnhffghjyy617 H ha ha Are there any living that even remain? A-ha ...I'll be gone! In a day or twoooo!

[@Nollic15]

Imagine being so conditioned by our “education” system from birth that you think sitting in a classroom is good for your mind. You have the freaking internet! Unlimited free information.

[@golfgrabu]

Black Sarcophagus sounds like an amazing name for a death metal band

[@natas3.14]

I don't know, sounds more power metal to me. Maybe a lyric from a song by Nile...but, ....NILE!! In case there were any lack of understanding Nile fucking rocks

[@ClickClack_Bam]

Putrid Sarcophagus is a little better.

[@golfgrabu]

@@ClickClack_Bam yeah Black Sarcophagus for black metal and Putrid Sarcophagus for death metal.

[@janbadinski7126]

Indeed it does.

[@DeathProof132]

@@natas3.14 fuck yes they do! \m/

[@davidhanson4909]

All in all, I think I would've preferred the Wile E. Coyote falling rock to being air-fried where I limped along.

[@waynecampbell9107]

I agree with that statement entirely! Who the f*ck wants to become an air fry while trying to run from some natural disaster you can barely comprehend?!

[@InsanityPlea100]

Yup. Then again. Wasnt there also a body cast found of a guy... ahem... having some fun with him and himself? 🤷‍♂️ may be a decent way to go out. Lmao

[@johncox2865]

That, or lightening.

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Extra crispy limp-chimps.

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

Best comment

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Simon at this point owns 80% of all KZbin channels. Pewdiepie is just Swedish Simon Whistler

[@Chef_PC]

PDP is not a legend though.

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

GooTube owns Simon... Simon isn't actually real.

[@louisebrillo06]

@@Chef_PC Huh?

[@ROMAQHICKS]

That comparison is not a complement. Simon is not annoying and childish.

[@Tchnfrq]

@@ROMAQHICKS also not using antisemetism/facsim for „comedy“

[@seanrose1720]

"Archaeologists now believe that he was trying to get away from the pyroclastic flow while possibly looking over his shoulder..." Sounds like some MF DOOM bars. Fun video, Simon!

[@Moodymongul]

15:18 - Knife arm man, the leather strapping may have inadvertently helped his hand injury too. There is a fungi that grows naturally on leather, that happens to be a form of penicillin. Wether they knew it or not, the use of leather (in the past) saved lives in many ways :)

[@AK-fr5zv]

You mean the assassin that made the knife stuck in the body of the victim and then just pretend to be a poor helpless cripple? Cause that's what I decided he was.

[@Rykiz_Vidz]

​@AK-fr5zv I thought of assassin's creed right away and said yeah he was an assassin. There's no other really good explanation for having a hidden blade arm.

[@user-ng7rt9jt2i]

Don't be absurd! This was obviously a gambler, and that blade arm is the past version of a deringer on a spring.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:35 - Chapter 1 - Russian "amazon" warriors 5:45 - Chapter 2 - Headless vikings 8:15 - Chapter 3 - Black sarcophagus 11:15 - Chapter 4 - World's unluckiest man 13:45 - Chapter 5 - Old "knife arm"

[@drumsofspace]

you rock

[@bubbahottep8644]

Thanks for the guide. Saved me some time.

[@jenlf2855]

Thank you.

[@stevedave70]

Not all heros wear capes. Unless you do then props on the bold fashion choice.

[@claresmith7437]

Thank you!

[@IlRyanWilsonlI]

Crazy fact about Pompeii : Some people caught in Mt. Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows were hit with such intense heat that their heads exploded.

[@jakecode103]

Thats a real mind blowing fact right there 😂😂

[@waynecampbell9107]

That's actually true. And it happened to have occurred for some of the Japanese people who were killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The thing that volcanoes and nuclear weapons have in common is that both can certainly ruin your day!

[@Sideprojects]

Woah

[@Phil_Cleaver]

Simon to cut in a scene from "Scanners".

[@arcturionblade1077]

Didn't their brains also become glass? Talk about smooth brains.

[@malavoy1]

The woman warriors were most likely Sarmatians. According to Greek texts their woman fought with the men until they had made 3 kills, then retired to having children. They were also a separate tribe than the Scythians who had been a thorn in the side of Greeks living along the north shore of the Black Sea.

[@dontchewglass]

The Scythians were also known for having women warriors, the Sarmatians were one of the groups known as the "Scythian cultures" who inhabited the steppe, with the Sarmatians displacing the Royal Scythians and succeeding them as the dominant nation of the western Steppe

[@malavoy1]

@@dontchewglass Yes, but the relationship is more like the relationship between France and Spain, different nations with similar backgrounds, but differing outcomes. The Hittites, Persians, Cimmerians, Parthians, etc. all came from the same area but at different times. All of these were steppe nomadic cultures descended from the original one that spoke proto-indo-european. The Royal Scythians were just the Scythians aristocratic warriors, not the entire Scythian group of tribes. The entire Scythian culture was defeated, first by the Acheamenid Empire, then by the Sarmatians who lived to their west.

[@susanyoung1600]

Facinating. Is there reading material you would recommend?

[@dontchewglass]

@@susanyoung1600 I would recommend Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe by Barry Cunliffe

[@malavoy1]

@@susanyoung1600 "Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World" by Phillip Matyszak, and "Empires of Ancient Eurasia" by Craig Benjamin.

[@Votrae]

You know it's nasty when some of the world's most privileged archaeologists open something and immediately close it again.

[@barbaralanders6049]

I once had such a bad asthma attack, I thought I would have to crap and pee at the same time, so my idea is that the excrements and pee, etc., in the black sarcophagus were due to the fact that people were buried alive. Perhaps they were Egyptian priests or witches, so the sarcophagus was made from granite to make sure they wouldn't get out...

[@Loralanthalas]

Or a site far larger than planned and funded. Being responsible adults: they'd bury the site again to preserve it for future teams who DO have the funding. Thanks for your stewardship.

[@henrylivingstone2971]

Privileged? What the hell does that mean?

[@Votrae]

@@henrylivingstone2971 yeah I agree it was a strange word choice. I basically meant established professionals, connected enough to get access to something like that.

[@umopapisdn6932]

​@@VotraeI got what you meant lol

[@mrjones2721]

I’m afraid to subscribe to all of his channels, lest my notifications become a continuous 24-hour blow-by-blow of the life of one very tired, gloriously bearded nerd.

[@eldraque4556]

the pyroplastic blast segement showed a video of a lava lake

[@craigbryant9925]

Binge watch Business/Brain Blaze and you can actually witness the decent into madness. It's rather glorious.

[@tr7938]

He's a creepy weirdo.

[@dunther]

But, I mean, it's my understanding that you gotta, ya know, catch 'em all, so... Just click it.

[@CornPopsDood]

It’s a good life. Interesting at the very least.

[@the-chillian]

5:45 -- You'll actually find something like this in the monastic communities on Mt. Athos in Greece. Not that they deliberately dismember bodies, but there's very little land for cemeteries. So the deceased are buried for a few years, shrouded but with no coffin, until the flesh is consumed. Then the bones are exhumed and moved to an ossuary. There, for the sake of efficient use of space, the different sorts of bones are all stored together: skulls over here, femurs over there, etc. The name of the deceased is written right on the skull, but the other bones are unmarked.

[@mrjones2721]

Many cities, like Paris, did something similar in their cemeteries. Unless you were wealthy enough to own a permanent plot, your bones would eventually go into an ossuary.

[@rycarr]

Nope… I read the Night Angel trilogy… I know where this story ends up.

[@NWPaul72]

Ossuary, what a great word.

[@Lorenzo-sq7tu]

I thought all cemeteries did this

[@lancewalker2595]

Gotta prevent the Draugr from claiming revenge.

[@glenndavis4452]

Looks like the ladies won their last battle, since they were buried with honors. How weird to bury three average people in a 60,000 lb stone coffin. Must be more to that story we’ll never know.

[@a.s.3567]

Seems super sus… got to be more to it than that.

[@nerdingout322]

Hypothesis: possibly a wealthy dudes 3 concubines? Caught them with his son/brother. Got mad and buried them alive in a black box because he had a flair for the dramatic? Egyptians were wild back then. The Osiris myth is where I rest my case.

[@riftvallance2087]

Maybe they were afraid of them.

[@hannahvilleneuve9328]

Maybe they were involved in an assassination plot against the Pharoah and buried alive

[@simonodegard]

Apparently they were all put into the dark sarcophagus at different times during the reign of the Ptolemies (332-30 BC) or later. Very strange, if y'ask me

[@roosjen]

“They found a burial site containing headless vikings” * proceeds to show images of skulls partially covered in dirt *

[@nothingmusic42]

@@TheInfidel_SlavaUA the British invaded half the world in the name of spices just to decide beans on toast is the greatest breakfast ever. their food choices suck.

[@chunktruffleshuffle1606]

@@nothingmusic42 hahaha never thought of it like that

[@pseudonayme7717]

I thought that too but he did then explain that they piled different pieces in different places, so it eventually made sense😄

[@pseudonayme7717]

@@nothingmusic42 Beans on toast for breakfast?! What are you talking about?🤨 That fine culinary example is strictly for suppertime😛

[@NWPaul72]

Whew, I thought it was just me

[@cowsharkdefin6376]

The thing I love about finds like knife arm dude is that it shows that caring for injured, sick, or disabled people is not just a modern thing. If prehistoric people can be decent, we have no excuse not to be.

[@sislertx]

They were more DECENT...especially.whennu look.at.present.day libtards

[@user-vv1do1wg1j]

@@sislertx lol

[@chasetruman8676]

@@sislertx do you not realize how ignorant it is to randomly bring up politics in every comment section. You look like a fool

[@jordinagel1184]

@@sislertx imo, anyone who sinks to the level of using words like “libtard” (or “Trumptard,” for that matter) excludes themselves from being “decent”

[@ic3olate]

This is a wonderful point and a fantastic argument against the "inherent evil" of humanity that is often brought up in discussion of particularly morbid or traumatising events in history. It isn't even a unique trait of modern humans...a few neanderthal sites have shown near irrefutable evidence of communal healthcare practices. People living in a world where a single bad cut could seal their fate, mothers uncertain if they will wake to find a predator has stolen their child away in the night...and they still found time to care for others without the guarantee of return.

[@Erinxh]

When you heard his beard blaze speech so often, not only can you dream and memorize ever single word from it but also predict and depict ever movement he does while giving the speech.

[@norahughes3145]

“Lathered myself” always sticks

[@pakde8002]

Simon's beard is looking exceptionally good today.

[@Sokanoted]

There is zero chance 3 people were buried in a 60,000 pound granite coffin without having some kind of immense wealth and social standing.

[@uidsea]

I wish I could adequately express how much I enjoy all of Simon's channels. I love learning random information.

[@PositronWeaponD]

Am I the only weirdo out there who finds a lot of the Sideprojects content more interesting than much of the Megaprojects content? (I still watch both lmao)

[@craigbryant9925]

I watch very little MP. Very little. Like, I think I've watched 3. Sideprojects though, I usually watch them twice.

[@Evelyn_2401]

Definitely! I'm not interested in half the videos on mega projects... Too may planes and ships and shit... It's too repetitive.

[@jmaaybraak]

Far from it, friend....

[@omgdflea]

69 likes on this comment. Nobody like anymore keep it at 69

[@PositronWeaponD]

@@omgdflea Nah, they have to keep liking it until we get to 420!

[@otgenesis7410]

Man found buried with removable knife blade in Italy. Me: *Ezio, is that you?*

[@cherrydragon3120]

Aww shut

[@collectingonthecheap56353]

Ash Williams sent back in time again, this time did not return to the present day.

[@CaliforniaCarpenter7]

Scythians! That's pretty cool. The whole area of The Gobe Desert that separates China and Mongolia is steeped with history. The Tarim people were in the area so long ago that there was an old growth forest in the desert. Mostly Desert Poplar trees, they used to get up to four feet thick. It is thought that Western Europeans made their way out there at some very early point, perhaps even pre-Stone Henge. The textiles found with "Cherchen Man" are distinctly European, both in patterning and in the species of lamb that produced the wool. Mongolians were long thought to be the people who invented warfare on horseback but it turns out that the people of the Tarim Basin were probably waging war on horseback with expert archery marksmanship. The "Amazon" women from the first part of the video could very well have been mounted warriors. The Tarim people were buried with their bows!

[@marooned_space_princess]

You should do a video on the elongated skulls in Peru (and other places in the world), that appear not to be created by head binding. Talk about possible origin, what the dna reveals, etc...pretty please :)

[@onemoreguyonline7878]

When you realize 194,000 years of human history weren't written down or recorded in a way we can easily recover or recognize. Damn it would be absurd to be able to analyze human thoughts way back when.

[@PhilJonesIII]

Did you write that down? No, I thought you were doing it.

[@HaydenX]

"Damn...I guess those berries WERE toxic..." *thud*

[@zethloveless7238]

Try twice that long 😀

[@jelly434]

"The hell is this? The hell is that? Wtf is going on!?"

[@vsGoliath96]

@@HaydenX Always remember, in order for us to figure out that something was poisonous, some poor sucker always had to eat it first.

[@bunnygirl2448]

They generally tell the difference in gender by looking at the pelvis. The pelvis’ of men and women are differently shaped (obviously for child bearing reasons) The pelvis differences also means the leg muscle, thigh, and glute muscle and tendon attachments are in different places too. But obviously soft tissue won’t that won’t show up skeletal remains. . I suppose if the pelvis is missing or too degraded, they might have trouble But this is how archeologists most often determine the sex of a Skeleton

[@bunnygirl2448]

It was a imperative evolutionary change that had to take place to accommodate the increasingly large skull of hominids. (Btw our huge heads are why childbirth is still so risky for our species than it is gif others). But the evolutionary trade off was that while the pelvic changes allowed hominids to have increasing skull sizes, it came at the cost of mobility efficiency for women. The male pelvis is the most efficient for running and mobility. But if the female pelvis had not changed our species would not be the “big brains” we are today. ;)

[@katherinegilks3880]

@@bunnygirl2448 Considering the female pelvis is the default pelvis, I fail to see how male ones are more efficient for running or mobility. Maybe the most efficient at sprinting, but not every type of mobility required. Women’s pelvises are way more efficient at turning, twisting, and moving in ways other than a straight line, which is why male athletes suffer more groin injuries than female athletes. I would think that would be considered more efficient.

[@katherinegilks3880]

I think what Simon is referring to is that archaeologists have not always examined skeletons closely in the past, especially when they assumed their sex or other trait. So skeletons found with weapons and appearing to be from a battlefield were just assumed to be male. This has happened before with individual skeletons as well - assuming a skeleton is female because it is buried in a convent cemetery, for example.

[@mrjones2721]

Sex can be told from the skull, too. The jaw shape and the size of the muscle attachment behind the ear are the most obvious clues.

[@--enyo--]

It’s not as black and white as people (and especially fiction) tries to make out. Even in forensic pathology it can be challenging, and once you get to forensic anthropology with only bones to work with, not the surrounding tissue it gets less certain than is supposed. It’s generally a ‘most likely’ based on size, as above pelvis and skull etc, and (yes) what they’re found with. Sometimes you can be pretty sure, sometimes it can be basically a fifty/fifty guess even if you have the full skeleton. Humans come in a wide variety of physical phenotypes, and their bones reflect this. Plus unconscious bias can slip in based on what people expect to find based on the surroundings/possessions etc of the body. Unfortunately media often doesn’t like ‘maybe’ or ‘probably’s, so often omit this.

[@noralee6787]

My weekend is looking better, I found another fabulous Simon Whistler channel!!! Good day to you!! 😊

[@anangryblooddk7966]

How about this theory for the Black Sarcophagus: The three people inside murdered whoever the bust was made from. In punishment, they weren't given the usual burial rites, and were instead buried alive with the bust, sort of like what happens to Imhotep in The Mummy.

[@sylviayoung1901]

However they were buried, the soup inside that sarcophagus is beyond comprehension. I can not imagine how it was for the "diggers" that first opened it! Especially with the excitement of thinking it was Alexander the Great. Ooo eee what a nasty let down!

[@Ivan-Manzo]

I can not believe you didn't mention the recently discovered Mexica (Aztec) Tzompantli underneath the Metropolitan Cathedral in México City. A huge palisade of thousands of skulls and two towers literally built from skulls too.

[@DriftKing18594]

Was there a stone mask too?

[@Ivan-Manzo]

@@DriftKing18594 Well, plenty actually, although they won't give you any vampiric powers. Something that always bothered me is that the stone masks in JoJo don't look anything like real Aztec masks. LoL

[@DogKacique]

It's funny that the conquistador descriptions of Tzompantli seemed so absurd that archaeologists for years believed they were an exaggerated account

[@allenanderson4911]

Proof that eating shrooms dosen't stop you from believing in human sacrifice. So much for easy enlightenment.

[@AK-fr5zv]

Oh, we have a bit of a smaller thing where I live, the place is pretty awesome. I mean, any and all ossuariums are awesome! There is even that one cathedral, in Italy, I think? Where they decorated the most of the cathedral with bones, including a boney chandelier.

[@BRADSPIG]

Hey, a whole Sideproject episode on the cultural history of beard oils. It'd be a hoot I bet.

[@JillShaw]

Is there no limit to the things that we can find interesting? Speaking for myself I sincerely do not think there is. ☺️😉#lifelonglearner

[@solderbuff]

Calling Scythians "Russian women" is like calling Roman soldiers found in Britain "British men". Incredibly silly!

[@halfsquatchshortbeard3435]

Ever see the show “Time Team?” …love that show. Being American, it was awesome just to find an arrowhead or stone axe head in a field…imagine the random stuff you could find living in Eurasia

[@mattiemathis9549]

Right?! I lived in an old cavalry outpost as a kid. The different cool things I found were awesome for an 8 yr old. I couldn’t even imagine living in an area with such rich diversity for so long!!! Unfortunately, if it had been 8 yr old me, if it wasn’t worth money, I probably wouldn’t have been interested…😂

[@YeeSoest]

We all know what made this video happen: We did. We watch everything titled "creepy archaeology" and Simon knows it. It's that simple and I'm glad he acknowledged it right away^^

[@travishart9278]

dang never been this early to a video lol hope everyone is having a good day

[@michaelcollins9210]

#49 for me

[@noyopacific]

#203 for me

[@dweathereddecorator]

Home from work. Weed and whistler. It is a good day. Hope you are too Travis Hart😉👍

[@michaelgallagher3640]

#1,117 here, feels like I'm in Squid Games

[@Hello_Fuckers0]

@Travis Hart a good day to you as well sir! 🤘🏼

[@jerrygereckegod8224]

You're awesome SW! And hilarious! I remember an episode of when you were narrating Side Projects (I think it was) about the Slip N Slide and the Atomic Laboratory Kit. Sure, give a 5 y.o. 4 jars of radioactive dirt and a Geiger counter... what could go wrong? "Mommy, I don't feel good and my leg hurts."

[@TheArbiter10]

Less creepy and more profoundly fascinating. Through archaeology we get these tantalising glimpses into tales lost to the ages. For all we know of ancient history, it just makes me wonder at all the things we probably don't know.

[@chompachangas]

Pliny the Elder was killed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. He was trying to rescue people from the eruption, but his ship could not leave the port quickly enough. Alas, poor Pliny the Elder perished.

[@mehmedduska924]

No shit? I never knew that.

[@jwenting]

Which led to Pliny the Younger having to explain to generations of students of Latin why he is called the Younger.

[@eldermillennial8330]

Feh. He used that as an excuse to go on a suicidally stupid, improvised geological expedition to satisfy his scientific obsessiveness, putting his whole entourage in grave danger. The fact that he passed, then ignored, Herculaneum’s harbor, well within view of desperate people waving for help, is proof enough of that. It would have been EASY for him to pull ashore there, fill his boat, then take them with him back to Naples. The winds delayed the worst flows front reaching Herculaneum for several hours after they had hit Pompeii, so he had time for TWO trips! There’s at least 100 skeletons at Herculaneum that DO NOT have to be there! He LEFT them to die as he chased after his own foolish death.

[@eldermillennial8330]

@@jwenting Basically what “Junior” means.

[@anaussie213]

He also said his famous "fortune favours the bold" quote before heading out and dying from the volcano.

[@ricksullo557]

“I rub them into my beard like some type of lab rat” 🤣🤣thank you for your service Simon

[@em-ho5dt]

currently studying for law school finals and taking a break once every 2 hours to watch a video...thank you for making the studying more enjoyable

[@thatoneguy1407]

How’s law going?

[@Amethyst_Dragon_]

Love these archeological videos they're my favorites

[@XthTerrorOfDeath]

"There is a link bellow" [Into the Shadows] As usual, there is not lol.

[@traciy2]

Ok so I’m not missing it then. Well, I missed it because it’s not there, not because I didn’t see it. Y’all know what I mean.

[@--enyo--]

Big brain Simon strikes again.

[@henriklarsen8193]

I just complained about the "missing link" myself. Dammit, brain boi!!1

[@TheQuickSilver101]

This was a lot of fun. Looking forward to part 2!

[@kanedNunable]

i would have loved someone like Simon to be one of my teachers, there are ways to tell information to make it enjoyable.

[@lvlister2005]

When you see Guy de la Bedoyere has done the CC you know it’s going to be an event greater video than just with Simon :D

[@JayeEllis]

Drinking game: When watching a Simon Whistler video, take a shot every time he mentions another channel.

[@theConquerersMama]

I don't think my liver could handle it.

[@JayeEllis]

@@theConquerersMama 🤔🤣

[@sirswayze5288]

Such an interesting video! So grateful for such an amazing channel to get my historical information from!

[@ianelliott229]

Beard Blaze: you should say that it's effectively unavailable outside the US - 150% postage cost

[@K8E666]

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ! Thank you ☺️

[@izyj.8679]

Just went on the beard blaze website. Crazy seeing Simon do his own ads. But definitely ordering some for my beard.

[@poncho6784]

Knife arm man clearly didn't have United Healthcare. Otherwise he would STILL be waiting for prior authorization from the health insurer. 🤣

[@jaybee9269]

Too funny.🤪

[@emilyprice178]

". . . if he might have worked in an industry where the knife came in handy." Very good pun there. 😂

[@theweirdsistersoracle2]

Wow. Archaeology is really cool! Thank you, Simon & crew!

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

Ancient Alien viewers be hella triggered by Fact Boy's unawakedness.

[@wkehrman]

So am I the only one that had "CC - Guy de la Bedoyere" pop up in the top left at 1:05? Or have I been watching too many episodes of Time Team? Incidentally, I now notice a similar "CC-" on some of Simon's other videos. How long has this been going on and why have I not noticed it before?

[@savagejourny]

I noticed it to, and with the channel/video content, my money is on it being a refence to Guy Martyn Thorold Huchet de la Bédoyèr, who is a British historian.

[@wkehrman]

@@savagejourny Yeah, a fellow by that name got called in every time the Time Team crew dug a Roman site.

[@jbrisby]

There's no such thing as black granite. Granite is defined by two things: crystal size, and chemical composition. If it's granite, then the chemical composition is mostly quartz, which is light in color. Iron and magnesium content, which makes the stone darker, means that the rock is classified as a 'gabbro'. Or basalt, if the crystal size is small enough.

[@CornPopsDood]

I’m not 100% on the technicalities based off composition alone, but I am interested in stones, & gems. As quartz can show up in almost any color. Iron can also present in a fairly wide array of colors. Magnesium is a silvery gray color typically. There must be a way under the right conditions, & amounts could become pretty black looking. Not the most trustworthy sources, but having a wealth of experience in building/remodeling homes, “black granite” is in almost every counter, & flooring showroom. 😂

[@eggreedgious5194]

hard to tell since it’s covered in dust, but my first thought was that it was onyx

[@alexritchie4586]

That citation of Guy de la Bedoyere took me right back to the good old days of Time Team 😁

[@matthewwigley1613]

Another good un, I always enjoy your stuff no matter which channel your on. You have so many!! Do you fancy doing a talk about the mass scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney after WW1. It's something worth remembering and I reckon it isn't that well known. There's also the North Sea mine barrage of WW1 for your Side projects or maybe even Mega projects, it was after all quite a large undertaking on behalf of the Americans. Keep it up, love your presentation style, it always makes me smile.

[@emmahealy4863]

OOOO, I love bear the Tyne and the German mines have always fascinated me. It would be class to have a youtube video on them.

[@TerenceClark]

Simon: "Pyroclastic flows are dense, rolling masses of ash..." B Roll: Shield volcano spewing lava I mean, I love Simon's stuff and this is a gentle ribbing. But yeah, that's a totally different type of volcano from the type that produces pyroclastic flows.

[@badgerello]

Erm; 5:59 - graves contain headless remains spoken over images of skulls. Blaze boi doesn’t do his own editing but yeah; quality control is important.

[@eadweard.]

@@badgerello Comes on. It doesn't matter. No one cares about pyroclastic flows.

[@TerenceClark]

@@eadweard. I do care about accuracy on an ed channel, and I'm a geology nerd, so I care about pyroclastic flows. Relax, I'm not saying the video is crap or anything. It's no big deal, remember?

[@eadweard.]

@@TerenceClark yes I see now you're quite right.

[@Skooozle]

15:00 "Is it common for someone to lose the use of their eye because a seagull pooped in it?" Pirate: " No, it was me first day with the hook."

[@aidencottingham7157]

Love the beard blaze idea plus how affordable it is; I will definitely be suggesting this to my bearded friends

[@IlRyanWilsonlI]

I love how unabashedly pragmatic Simon is lol

[@kayakMike1000]

I love Simon's unabashedly legendary hipster beard. If only I could grow a beard that full...

[@asb2106]

i enjoy it as well. I find it refreshing

[@PenReshwet]

Simon I listen to all of your shows all the time. I work alone and can stream via my blutooth so your content is GREAT!!!! THANK YOU!!!

[@jorgemercado4428]

Ironically fell asleep too much and I now have a beard, this video has given me a good product I needed incidentally.

[@markadams7046]

"Archeology is amazing." Indiana Jones shoots a guy with swords. Gotta love that bit of humor.

[@ryandowney8743]

A pile of bodies and a pile of heads? Proof that Venom has been around a lot longer than we thought!

[@cherrydragon3120]

Nom nom nom

[@natas3.14]

Or someone has been digging around out behind the toolshed again.

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

I'm currently growing a beard pretty much only so I can buy some Beard Blaze!

[@janemf]

Im not sure it only works on beards

[@JM-ic9yx]

Every few months I find a new channel with this guy narrating

[@TerryOnTuesday]

6:36 - 'Grimly Soforth' will be the pseudonym that I sign into hotels as from now on. Thanks, Simon.

[@waterfallsandrain]

Archeology *is* so cool!

[@FigmentForever]

Beard Blaze has made my female loin-beard so fluffy, perfectly kept, and appealing to my wife. Thanks Simon!

[@kyrab7914]

Ah, the bottom-beard

[@FigmentForever]

@@kyrab7914 a fluff muff 😬

[@chesh1rek1tten]

More info than anyone need but very interesting. Never thought of an implementation like that. That's pretty amazing, thanks for sharing!

[@stevenmiller2427]

When you are constantly at war with your neighbors, everybody has to learn to fight to the end.

[@jasonhumphries9434]

I love watching these before bed! It helps me relax & chill out! Am I weird? Lol 😂

[@bishoukun]

The flows were what left the death-throw shells; heat and toxic gases, however, killed significantly more people, including Pliny the Elder.

[@ThursonJames]

I would DEFINITELY buy Rotting Turtle as a gag gift for people if it came in smaller sizes. $50 is a bit rich for a joke gift and I don’t know anyone who wears fragrances. 😢

[@paulroberts7620]

I'll wear it for you 😉😂

[@AND-od5jt]

Your passion for (most of) the subject shows -- great vid(s)! Greetings from Austria 🤟

[@BasementPepperoni]

I remember reading about people wanting to drink the corpse goop inside of that black sarcophagus. Something religious or something like that.

[@mehmedduska924]

Wait.. If that Russian "Amazonian" burial site was looted before archeologists discovered it, how did they miss that 70% pure gold headdress? I mean, that's just leaving money on the table.

[@andreyradchenko8200]

The looted one was a single grave in Armenia, the gold was in a multiple burial in Russia.

[@mehmedduska924]

@@andreyradchenko8200 You may be right, it's a little confusing because he starts talking about this Armenian woman in the middle of the segment about the Russian burial site, but then shows the same images of the Russian site when he says, "sadly, archeologists concede that the grave was ransacked and looted long before they discovered it.." It's a bit confusing, tbh.

[@bluebasementmusic]

You don't mess with a guys hat bro. Unspoken grave robbing rule.

[@waynecampbell9107]

I found that curious as well! The only thing I could think of would be if the lead warrior had a golden shield encrusted with precious gems that was heavy enough to impede the looters hasty retreat, - OR, because the shield weighed so much and was so expensive, it got the looters caught by their betters, who probably confiscated the shield and killed the grave robbers, denying them the opportunity to go back to the grave to collect the other gold objects?!

[@mehmedduska924]

@@waynecampbell9107 Hahaha. That's quite a scenario.

[@tracytoltien]

"Rubbed them into my beard like some sort of lab rat" that was amazing. i needed that laugh today, thank you

[@daniele4568]

You don't bury a nobody in a 60,000 lb coffin. There's gotta be more than what the archeologists were able to find.

[@brettAnichols]

A hex or curse is (at least) as "real" as the 'nocebo' (opposite of placebo) affect.

[@citrus1225]

Get me through my hangover

[@OG-Paul-Valentine]

Most honest advertisement plug I've ever heard. Absolutely not guaranteed. Lol!!!

[@jemckee]

Solving all of life's problems with fine facial hair. Seems legit.

[@kyrab7914]

Anyone else rather touched by the end implication of knife arm? Archaeology is full of cool examples of humans taking care of each other, often long before we thought humans would be that altruistic (hey Simon and/or Simon's minions, can we get an episode on archaeological examples of altruism etc?). Ofc, it's hard to confirm now what their particular motivations would've been, but I find the fact heartwarming nonetheless.

[@hangoutwithme346]

It still seems odd that they would use so much material and resources for the tomb of servants though, no?

[@rosiehawtrey]

Depends. They were either being honoured or dishonoured - I'm thinking dishonoured because if the bodies reduced to soup they won't be going to the after life. Almost a ritual erasing of their existence. Maybe a religious crime or a crime against the pharaonic family.

[@hangoutwithme346]

@@rosiehawtrey interesting

[@sid2112]

I hesitate clicking on a Simon video, because for the next week my wall will be covered in them.

[@Witchofthewoods.]

All I'm hearing is "heads will roll, heads will roll!" 💃🕺💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@T3H455F4C3]

"The worlds unluckiest man" is clearly laying on his back, not face down.

[@robertlongtin5003]

Per your comment I noticed the same in the image and wondered how Simon could get it so wrong. I did my research and discovered that the pictures used in this video don't do the details any justice and so it is hard to know which way he is actually facing. If you go looking for better images on a quick google search you will clearly see his spine and tailbone are above his hips, so either he is truly face down or he deserves to be called "the world's unluckiest man" for an entirely anatomical reason (/j).

[@T3H455F4C3]

@@robertlongtin5003 Not sure witch photos you were looking at. I just looked at high resolution photos of the skeleton in question. His sacrum is against the ground and his pubis is pointing at the sky. He is clearly laying on his back.

[@robertlongtin5003]

@@T3H455F4C3 this has become the blue and black dress of archaeology. 😂 It certainly doesn't help that the top part of the body was disconnected from the bottom part a couple centuries ago either. Looked at some other images and now I'm back on your side. The pelvis looks facedown to me but the individual vertebrae in the spine in a better image look faceup.

[@T3H455F4C3]

@@robertlongtin5003 The problem with the blue and black dress analogy is that it was objectively a blue and black dress. Everyone who says otherwise is wrong. If you look at the sacrum you will see that the Medial Sacral Crest is not visible. If you look at the lumbar vertebrae you will see that the Spinous Processes are not viable (you already made this observation). If you look at the Femurs you will see that the Lesser Trochanter are pointing towards the ground. The orientation of every single bone that is visible is consistent with the guy laying on his back. I'm not trying to be a dick. However if someone is trying to tell me that up is down, I'm going to push back. :P

[@robertlongtin5003]

@@T3H455F4C3 to be fair anyone who says the former unluckiest-man-in-the-world was facedown is also objectively wrong. XD Neither of us had actually pointed to specific images so constructive debate was basically gone and we were both left to our own devices, but the sacrum was the part I found most convincing for the body being face down but then my images may not have done justice to it. However I did mention in my last comment that finding a picture that gave very clear detail of the spine and being able to positively identify the front facing sides of the visible vertebrae as pointing upward was what sold me that he is indeed faceup.

[@Chi_Loutman]

Actual archeologist checking in. The first segment about the "Russian Amazonian Warriors" was full of modern day feel-good-ery about women warriors being commonplace and treated as equals to the men in both status and physical prowess. It is simply not a theory that has any backing based in the reality of the evidence. Usually this channel does a good job with research, but they really missed the mark on this one.

[@taylorbug9]

How hard is it to accept that not every single society in human history was sexist?

[@lelsewherelelsewhere9435]

@@taylorbug9 very...

[@Chi_Loutman]

@@taylorbug9 That is not the claim I made.

[@taylorbug9]

@@Chi_Loutman it pretty much is though just like everybody else that's getting bent out of shape in the comments about this. Y'all are really just out here trying to claim that there weren't societies with women warriors? It's just like when old white historians and archaeologists and all of those fields refused to believe that black people could create magnificent cities. I'm literally talking to a guy right now in another comment section on the same video that is literally having a f***ing aneurysm about the idea that not every single society was sexist and made women stay home and raise the babies.

[@Chi_Loutman]

@@taylorbug9 Incorrect. I said female warriors weren't common (which is accurate). Also, while there is plenty of evidence to suggest some societies were sexist, it is far more common that societies had mutual respect for their societies established gender roles. Archeology, while having a certain amount of subjective deduction, is based in evidence. And the segment in this video I was critical of, is not substantiated by the breadth of evidence. You will not win this argument, I know the literature.

[@njoYYY]

Isnt it crazy that Pompei survived so long that we managed to discover it and can still look at it in modern days?

[@skydivingcomrade1648]

I appreciate Simon whistler's videos. I have his channels on auto play and listen to then while doing daily chores

[@Amandaa6]

I bought some of the beard products for my fiancé and he actually really loves them and they smell reaallllyy good (:

[@bid84]

Have you tried it on your beard?

[@Amandaa6]

@@bid84 yeah i have!

[@jarozita2715]

Wait, wait....are you saying that strong women are "creepy archeological discoveries?!"

[@eadweard.]

I think he was talking specifically about the ones whose remains were in the ground and subsequently dug up.

[@williambell3893]

🤣 you saying they're not?!

[@capncorncob7918]

dude gratz on the beard oil - i know id have felt giddy getting ready for my first ad on it

[@EvilMrFoo]

"wow... that's a bit rank... better get the hazmat suits!" LOL... good idea fellas! (insert eyeroll here)

[@myragroenewegen5426]

Finding female warriors is amazing and awesome, but, once you know that the context for the broken-boned posed one is likely to do with horse-riding this ain't creepy. Far kinder simply to pose the body than to kill the horse and bury it with her, anyhow.

[@olliefoxx7165]

We don't know they were even warriors at all. Being buried with weapons could have been a way to show their status as being from a warrior nobility class. I think there's to much projection of today's pop culture onto the past. We know next to nothing about the Scythians and their society.

[@laurenr5446]

In the video he said that archeologist were almost certain that the women’s graves had be robbed over the years. Weapons are are super valuable and would be one of the first things to be taken by looters besides jewelry.

[@AK-fr5zv]

@@olliefoxx7165 But they allegedly died of battle wounds! Why would they be in the middle of the battle? Well, yeah, coulda been an overrun city, but we know for a fact that women have, in many cases, been warriors, even if to protect the village from an assault.

[@joperamod5760]

@@AK-fr5zv warrior is a bit of a strong word here