Mausoleum of Halicarnassus: The Ancient World’s Most Fabulous Tomb

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[@anyoneofus9948]

So you deleted my comment, Also your comment at the end, Just remember this, when someone decides winners write history much like nukes, there won't be any winners.

[@anyoneofus9948]

Also, The new grade to your video for deleting comment is F-

[@jacksonbachman2486]

Halicarnassus is one of my favorite words to say.

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00:35 I don't think it's one of Simon's

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[@patmurphy8622]

Really enjoying how casually Simon says “brother-husband” 😂

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

My sister-wife doesn’t understand your comment

[@yasinmumcuoglu2566]

Fantastic video! I live in Bodrum and always love sharing with friends and family that we here have one of the Seven wonders of the Ancient world on our doorstep. So many people drive and walk by the location without knowing it's significance. You can still see the quarry in Koyunbaba Bodrum where it is rumoured the Marble came from. It is about 20km away from Bodrum centre to the West.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:00 - Chapter 1 - The city & the king 2:50 - Chapter 2 - Building the tomb 5:20 - Chapter 3 - Alexander & the end of halicarnassus 8:00 - Mid roll ads 9:10 - Chapter 4 - Wonders of the world 10:50 - Chapter 5 - Destruction 13:10 - Chapter 6 - Uncovering the past 16:00 - Chapter 7 - Legacy

[@Toadspring]

I build this in every civilization 6 game I play 😁

[@Bubbaist]

You should do an episode on the ancient city of Merv in present-day Turkmenistan. It was a huge metropolis and may have had the highest population of any city in the world for a period before it was completely destroyed by the Mongols. The incredibly harsh desert it occupied makes it hard to believe that even a town let alone a huge city ever thrived there. But a system of canals and holding tanks made it green. It was one of the most important Silk Road cities until the Mongols left it a pile of rubble and bones.

[@Beryllahawk]

"ground into lime for making the walls" I winced. It isn't at all an unusual thing, to take stones and rubble from some handy ruins and make them into new and useful things. Recycling, in a way, right...but at the same time there's a certain pain to hearing that this magnificent structure ended up literally picked to pieces and scattered.

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

the mausoleum is one of the better ancient era wonders in civ 6, giving big boosts to nearby coastal tiles

[@justinbell1596]

The Masonic Temple in Washington DC is also designed and built to look like the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus! Across the Potomac River in Alexandria Virginia is the George Washington Masonic Temple, which was designed and build to look like the Great Light House of Alexandria! (Even though Alexandria Virginia wasn’t named after the famed city.. sadly, it was named after Alexander- a merchant who built the very first warehouse along the Potomac River in the area, in what is now the most southern point of Alexandria VA)

[@duncancurtis5971]

We're at no.2 in the list of sparkly ancient things that don't exist any more. Simons countdown!

[@charlieduke6393]

Love this video Simon and team. Excellent stuff.

[@markstott6689]

"...articles now stored in the British Museum..." Proceeds to show Liverpool and the Liver Building on screen 😅🤣😅🤣

[@lucretialee3691]

I thought I was seeing things and had to go back, but you're right, that is the Pierhead in Liverpool showing the three Graces. Not to forget the Museum of Liverpool that looks like part of an exhaust system.

[@markstott6689]

@@lucretialee3691 I've never seen it in the flesh but it's such a distinctive building that it couldn't be anything else. I'm not used to Simon's minions making school boy errors. That's more like the Dark Channels behaviour.

[@lucretialee3691]

@@markstott6689 I was surprised by the mistake too. Maybe they mixed the waterfronts up because London has a weird shaped egg, and Liverpool has a couple of birds. 😁

[@Ditchdigger2005]

Came here to say this. I guess the editor typed British Museum into a search engine and the top result was a Museum in Britain rather than The British Museum and didn't bother checking. I guess they don't know that The British Museum is in London and in the picture it clearly say Museum of Liverpool!

[@harperwelch5147]

“The equivalent of a 15 story building”? That’s huge!!

[@eaphantom9214]

04:30 - What a beautiful magnificent building! 😍 I remember seeing this temple for the first time years ago in the pc game RTW

[@anyoneofus9948]

It's also been brought up in Final Fantasy games. In FF12 they even made a location in the game that kind of looks like it.

[@resileaf9501]

Ha, loved that cheeky ending!

[@saladinbob]

Given that the legend is usually greater than the person the King would probably be pleased.

[@anyoneofus9948]

Actually, the reason it was built has been snuffed out and is insulting to say the least.

[@l.a.t.1810]

The way you say "brother husband"... gets me every time😂!!

[@zaco-km3su]

Mausolus was a satrap, not a king. A satrap was a governor of a region of the Persian Empire. It was also a title, a high ranking aristocrat. The British equivalent would be a duke I suppose.

[@anyoneofus9948]

He started a rebelion and seceded from the Persion empire. I guess you've never heard of the Satrap war.

[@zaco-km3su]

@@anyoneofus9948 No, he didn't. He was a satrap. There was no "Satrap war".

[@IapetusStag]

The Mausoleum seems to mirror the story of Taj Mahal - but this time it was the wife who build it in honor of her most beloved brother-husband. This how far love can take people, I guess - a specially emotion within our biology.

[@anyoneofus9948]

There is a lot of things that happened there that almost nobody would ever know that led to it's constuction, what was told isn't even the tip of the iceberg. There is more to the story but certain political parties decided to cover it up to sell their BS.

[@maxdanielj]

The only place I can remember hearing about this is the civilization game series

[@noahlogue3807]

Never really knew that much about Mausoles. Only ever really hear about Artimesia and her role in The Battle of Salamis.

[@sydhenderson6753]

And even that was the first Artemesia, not the one who started the Mausoleum.

[@RobinPortnoff]

Please do Great Fire Of London next.

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Great video Thank you

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Remember folks: when painting stone always use primer n sealer, it'll last thousands of years!

[@HackDaPlanet]

The House of the Temple in Washington DC is modeled after the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

[@williamp2359]

You should do a video on the largest asteroid to ever hit North America - specifically in the Chesapeake Bay area.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Ancient Greeks created five of the _Seven Wonder of the World._ Wow! Greece has been asleep for a while now.

[@anyoneofus9948]

They did, but how many found a way to summon lightning?

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[@multiyapples]

Fascinating.

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Grave robbers got the jump on the other grave robbers. Guess the other grave robbers were just too slow

[@loddude5706]

Judging by the rest of their relationship, joining her for a drink was the least of his problems . . .

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Queen "ARMETESIA" u didn't think we'd catch it but we did.

[@maggotmusic757]

Ah yes, the Civ wonder that gives me yields galore on my coastal tiles lol

[@pmgn8444]

So, after he is frozen, should Fact Boi's beard be removed, preserved, and displayed in a shrine grander than the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus? Located in Rotherham, UK, perhaps? (Right Danny?)

[@dudedudes6077]

You left your key in the mausoleum down in Dixie!

[@lucretialee3691]

The British Museum is in London, not Liverpool! 🤣

[@martinmaynard141]

Had come on here to say the same but wanted to check if anyone else had picked up on that

[@anyoneofus9948]

room 21.

[@Phil_Cleaver]

“The height of a 15 story building” The origins of the Tube meme. Geoff Marshal.

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Can you do the maralinga and emu nuclear test sites

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The pyramid of Cheops screams out "Please hold my beer!"

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How did he keep such a straight face saying “brother husband”😂🤣

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[@kerred]

7 Wonders card game players rejoice in the S Teir wonder of the game with this :)

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Who has more channels? Simon here or Çaptain Sparklez?

[@papacheese1039]

I always thought the mausoleum was one of the more interesting because id never heard anything about it

[@mwamburi]

The British Museum Strikes Again.

[@jtswaffles]

No shoutout to Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Pittsburgh??? It's a dead ringer

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❤

[@davidevans3227]

i am learning Turkey has such history..

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The bequests in my will are contingent on the intended recipient attending my funeral.

[@Kitty-oe2sd]

Great, as always, but you sound like your voice could use a break.

[@Hellgash]

Brusband

[@eliscanfield3913]

I suspect the wine story was made up, or at most she did it once or twice in the days following the cremation. There isn't all _that_ much ash left over

[@chiphausl]

1/137

[@caustichonu]

If you watch this with captions, it says that Korea was ruled by the Persian Empire. 😆

[@nickaustin8334]

The British museum isn't in Liverpool...

[@barbiquearea]

This was the original Taj Mahal.

[@azwris]

Halicarnassus was founded by Dorian people from the Troezen of Peloponnese of Greece. It was inhabited mostly from Ionian Greeks who later took the side of the Persians in the invasion of Greece in 480 BCE. The most famous ruler of the city was a woman, Artemisia, who served under Xerxes' command. Therefore Halicarnassus wasn't a Persian city but a Greek one! Even Persians' origins are Greek, as they got their name from the initial Pelasgian ruler Perseus!!!

[@TheColombiano89]

This was apart of the Persian Empire. The Persians had ruled this area for centuries. The Persian Empire had more Greeks in it than the "Greeks" themselves including Macedonia.

[@herberthoover2469]

Why is this man always suggested?

[@Mike-tg7dj]

Great video this is yet another affirmation to being cremated and scatter my ashes in a wilderness.When the Lord Jesus steps out, with voice of the Archangel and shout the dead in Christ will rise first. I don't want to be preserved and for what? Look at this mausoleum in all its magnificent beauty and it was still leveled by an earthquake.

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DIS Like # 1? Ask the populus Pyrimid!

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This guy is funny ,,, all of his hair fell down 2 the bottom of his face.

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Like deployed 👍

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Why arent those statues newton found returned to turkey?

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Because if they were, they would be ground up and used to make lime plaster.

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your videos so quiet :(

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Do you think it's time for the museum return the items it stole?

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First comment !!!

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This isn’t that channel. 🙄

[@lecyd]

cringe on other channels, pathetic on this one man..

[@michaelhowell2326]

I assure you that no one cares.

[@vitorpereira9515]

The pyramids and Qin Shi Huang's tomb are much more impressive than the mausoleum of Halicarnassus, and they are more durable too.

[@Hillbilly001]

I agree with the tomb. Considering, they've only unearthed a portion of the thing. I think Simon in the Whistlerverse somewhere did one on that. I think? The pyramids are out though. They were built with alien tech. Allegedly. LoL. Cheers.

[@JW-uv7ww]

So, those artifacts were stolen by the British. Funny how Simon glossed right over the fact that they were stolen and just talked about how the thieves were knighted!!

[@PitboyHarmony1]

Yet another story and another few items of antiquity, stolen by the English and hoarded still by the British Museum.

[@aroneaton2639]

Please stop saying BCE. It's just ignorant.

[@jazzhandssixninesixninesix40]

Before Common Era??????

[@aroneaton2639]

@@jazzhandssixninesixninesix40 Right, so..... what exactly distinguishes the "common era" from what came before? It's just silly that people have beef with the previous system, but the one they propose to replace it is literally just copy and paste. The only difference is that the proponents of the new supposedly scientific system are sticking their fingers in their ears and singing lala lahhhhh la la la la!!! Personally I'm not pegan and I think anyone that believes in the Norse pantheon these days is an idiot. Does that mean that I need to be upset that Thursday is named after Thor? That's just trying to ignore the past and the truth. No one is turning pegan because of Thursday and no one is becoming Christian because they see "AD".

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@@aroneaton2639 Bro its not ignorant to use non-theistic words to describe time, what meth have you veen smoking?

[@spoonman-youtubechangedmyhandl]

Knights Hospillater? Again? As if the siege of Malta wasn't bad enough. Armetisia? Are you doing this deliberately Whittlser, you mother-husband? You start saying Aberjazan like Cappy on Task&Purpose and i'm unsubscribing from all your channels, i tish you not.

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Good on you, I too will no longer watch this Rusty Venture looking history butcher.

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U TALK JUST A TAD TOO FAST😢

[@Russo-Delenda-Est]

Please don't hop on the BCE bandwagon Simon, it's hypocritical and pointless, unless you want to rename most of the months and days of the week as well.

[@Ubique2927]

BCE. STOPPED WATCHING.

[@ElPolloDiabloCH]

eh? not interested in ancient history?