Awful Archaeology Ep. 7: The Gosford Glyphs

[@shleaumeau7740]

5000 years ago, the Pharaoh was so ashamed of his dyslexic sons that he banished them to Australia and expunged their names from the historical record. All their servants, priests and scribes died on the journey, but they overcame their staggering disability and borderline illiteracy to tell their story…

[@GrueTurtle]

Someone please make this movie

[@michalipiperakis9380]

Don't forget the part where they discover time travel so that they can carve more carvings into it during the 18 and 1900s

[@robync1366]

Finally someone has the courage to speak the truth

[@bauhnguefyische667]

And they crossed the sea on ships pulled by giant Nile River crocodiles.

[@EMurph42]

@@GrueTurtle hell yes!

[@shariem3928]

Absolutely love the “you don’t need to makeup a shadow government to be angry at, you can just be angry at the real government” because it basically summarises all of these crazy conspiracy people. Love this series keep it up!

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

Hey there man, some of us can multitask and be mad at both the real government and some made up shadow government at the same time/s

[@RoonMian]

Free after xkcd, it's much more fun to play conspiracy theories against each other: of course these petroglyphs are fake. The entirety of Australia is fake because the earth is flat. Do you think Australia was clinging upside down to the underside of the earth somehow?

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

Eh, it's pretty easy to be angry at one in the same. Because come on, it is pretty obvious that we have at least a couple unelected jackwagons with Tyrannical ambitions behind a few people in the government.

[@SavageGreywolf]

@@maythesciencebewithyouI for one am getting sick of this inaction and am going to write my shadow senator letting him know my displeasure.

[@jsmith3798]

Unfortunately, being angry at the real government just doesn’t do it for some people. It doesn’t have the same ‘I figured it out, one of the clever ones, in the know.. 😏’ value that makes them feel special/smarter than everyone else.. So, shadow government it is, and that must mean the earth.. is a different shape for some reason..

[@taylregene]

Instead of being fancier his new set just makes him seem even more like an unhinged archaeologist trapped in a conspiracy theorists basement doing the only thing that can keep him sane

[@MinDeRien2658]

Right?! It's absolute perfection

[@IzzyElectricGlass]

Who is saying that isn't the scenario and the new house thing isn't just a cover up lmfao

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

Squirrel conspiracy theorists.

[@SaintJoi]

That's the vibe I'm here for.

[@ragingwoodcock]

The Joel Hodgson of the archeological world

[@raphaeldagamer]

The quote "You don't need to make up an invisible shadow government to be mad at, you can just be mad at the actual government" has earned my highest respect. That probably doesn't mean a whole lot to you since I'm just some guy, but it means a lot to me because I now have a new avenue for content to enjoy.

[@thebuilder2018]

its destroyed NOW , the council went and destroyed it due to the pressure from the aboriginal elders... they were threatening to destroy live on radio because it conflicts with their agenda being the first inhabitants... google gosford glyphs on google maps, youtube and reddit and look at the images/videos people uploaded while trying to visit the site during council construction... the relatives of the aborginal elders that own the land claim that is was a sign of "vandalism" and said they would destroy it live on national radio then a few weeks later the council apparently went there for their "regular rock testing" and it was determined the integrity of the rocks was decaying and they would collapse soon and one of the rocks has already fallen(after decades of being perfectly fine)... they blocked off the entrance and put up signs forbidding people to enter and threatened with $500,000AUD fines... the rock they were talking about that apparently "fell" looked like it was being smashed into with a jack hammer in different parts and at different depths... there is videos of people visiting the site on youtube during the councils construction they set up scaffolds used heavy equipment and heavy plant equipment to destroy it all... they then even went a step further to destroy the entire pathway there which is about a 5 minute walk... the council completed obliterated it and its just a massive pile of ruins now and they installed steel gates and barricades preventing anyone from getting to the pile of ruins 😂😂😂 unless youre small individual there is no way you can get there now... i'm 5'5 and was barely able to crawl and climb through and wouldnt do it again now because of how dangerous the council made it to there just to see a pile of smashed rocks. there's signs there now on the way there and at the big steel gate they installed saying the site is closed due to the collapsing rocks yet if you look at all the images and videos from people during the construction step by step they were actually destroying the entire site and they did this project during the one time of year people would be at home instead of out travelling through bushes... CHRISTMAS TIME HAHAHAHAHAHAHA MILO IS A FLOP!!!

[@MelKay-qj2ri]

Means a lot to me.

[@robotnoir5299]

That's exactly what an invisible shadow government WOULD say. _"Be angry at the puppet show!"_

[@j.kearney484]

A friend of mine once told me a story of how his school made a fake 'ghost haunting' video and put it online. This was all done by teenagers, and I think he would have been 14 at the time. It was a couple minutes of CCTV cameras filming doors and bags being pulled by strings at night, and was apparently pretty fun to make. Fast forward to 2020/2021. One night I happened to be clicking through a bunch of those obscure documentary channels that have weird shows about UFOs and bigfoot. I settled on a show about supposed 'real ghost footage', and lo-and-behold it was that same video from my friend's school. We had a good laugh, but it was also pretty disheartening to see how shamelessly that show was flaunting it as evidence of the supernatural.

[@horseheadkid]

i wish we could bottle that feeling and make conspiracy theorists drink it. i've often thought about similar scenarios and how the people who made a lot of the original videos would be like "um... yeah... lol... i was joking... what are they talking about"

[@Serenity_Dee]

I'm pretty sure I've seen that TV show and that episode. I was watching it like, "I'm about 99%* sure the students were fucking with the admin or something." I love those shows because it's hilarious how often I know exactly what's happening there and they just don't put anyone on camera who can Milo it. *That 1% is because I've seen some Weird Shit in person and I allow that sometimes other people see some Weird Shit too. But I don't take it as anything more than Weird Shit that defies ready explanation based on the available data and that's impossible to rigorously study, and is therefore not anything worth spinning my wheels over.

[@lolcatsravenight]

Corridor Crew debunking ghosts and aliens is still my favourite thing on the internet. Milo is a close 2nd

[@MrBeetsGaming]

@@horseheadkidYou say that as if "conspiracy theorists" are never right....

[@WastedTalent-]

You should look up the Morristown UFO Hoax on YT. A couple of guys in NJ decided to pull off a UFO hoax by tying flares to weather balloons. They recorded everything. The news reports were great.

[@atallus_]

I'm an archaeology student from australia, and i did three courses on egyptian hieroglyphs. we talked about the gosford glyphs as a little case study to train our eye in hieroglyphs and point out inaccuracies. this was really early in the first course as well, our professor used it as a way to show us that we knew more than we thought we did about hieroglyphs. i distinctly remember our class going absolutely wild doing some cursory research on the glyphs, we were just shouting about how insane it was. wonderful experience to do it with a professor who has been studying and teaching hieroglyphs for like 20+ years i won't lie

[@JohnMRossi]

Let’s dial that Prof and you into a Podcast with Milo.

[@jade.smith.99]

was this with Andrew Jamieson by any chance? I never did Hieroglyphics but I had him for Ancient Egypt subjects / other archaeology subjects and he remains one of my favourite professors

[@valkeakirahvi]

That's exactly what I was thinking too, there's plenty of mistakes that are so easy that they should be entirely obvious to introductory class students :D Like the inconsistent writing direction and awful placement of the symbols, ooooof. Not to mention the modern stick figure for a human and something that looks like an fn snowman lol

[@thebuilder2018]

milo is only referencing ancient aliens and apparent egyptian experts that studied egyptology at a western world university in their own country lmao he makes no reference to UNCHARTEDX's investigation into this where he went to actual EGYPT and showed the images to ACTUAL ANCIENT EGYPT EXPERTS BORN AND RAISED IN EGYPT 😂😂😂😂 and by the way its destroyed NOW , the council went and destroyed it due to the pressure from the aboriginal elders... they were threatening to destroy live on radio because it conflicts with their agenda being the first inhabitants... google gosford glyphs on google maps, youtube and reddit and look at the images/videos people uploaded while trying to visit the site during council construction... the relatives of the aborginal elders that own the land claim that is was a sign of "vandalism" and said they would destroy it live on national radio then a few weeks later the council apparently went there for their "regular rock testing" and it was determined the integrity of the rocks was decaying and they would collapse soon and one of the rocks has already fallen(after decades of being perfectly fine)... they blocked off the entrance and put up signs forbidding people to enter and threatened with $500,000AUD fines... the rock they were talking about that apparently "fell" looked like it was being smashed into with a jack hammer in different parts and at different depths... there is videos of people visiting the site on youtube during the councils construction they set up scaffolds used heavy equipment and heavy plant equipment to destroy it all... they then even went a step further to destroy the entire pathway there which is about a 5 minute walk... the council completed obliterated it and its just a massive pile of ruins now and they installed steel gates and barricades preventing anyone from getting to the pile of ruins 😂😂😂 unless youre small individual there is no way you can get there now... i'm 5'5 and was barely able to crawl and climb through and wouldnt do it again now because of how dangerous the council made it to there just to see a pile of smashed rocks. there's signs there now on the way there and at the big steel gate they installed saying the site is closed due to the collapsing rocks yet if you look at all the images and videos from people during the construction step by step they were actually destroying the entire site and they did this project during the one time of year people would be at home instead of out travelling through bushes... CHRISTMAS TIME HAHAHAHAHAHAHA MILO IS A FLOP!!!

[@ThermicLight]

So if the glyphs are crude or contain typos it must mean they're fake? If people want to say they're fake then fine. What would I know. Though I think it's rather silly that some have the mentality that the same people smart enough to build the pyramids are not smart enough to sail the seas.

[@ZiemakAttack]

One of my old boomer coworkers tried to tell me about how real he thought these were, that they completely changed the official history of human civilization. If only people actually tried reading things, instead of believing everything they see on the internet.

[@madtabby66]

Even if they were true, how does “guys got lost & ended up somewhere they shouldn’t be” change human history?

[@miniminuteman773]

Show him this video if you think he'd be open to having his world view challenged by a long-haired zoomer hippie.

[@ntfoperative9432]

@@madtabby66exactly, it’s not like it was an established trade route, it was some dudes that got shipwrecked. At the very most they might have introduced the local aborigine tribe to Egyptian culture

[@mikehunt3688]

@@madtabby66 the elections were rigged by the ancient Egyptians

[@tyrongkojy]

Precisely. Some king, probably insane, decided to travel the world and got shipwrecked. This doesn't change human history if it were to have happened. It's a cool story, but....@@madtabby66

[@Kalius2154]

I love how he said the words "looks like" himself and still took a drink 26:56

[@8-BallBlues]

Australian here! Can confirm that a Frozen Coke is more like a slushee. The reason they’re so popular over here is because Macca’s sells them year round for only a dollar. As far as I’m aware, the only reason they’re a permanent menu item here is due to how hot it can get in summer.

[@Kendall-vy6kw]

Thanks, bro. I was wondering how it came to be.

[@fridayKILLSYOU]

Not necessarily, new Zealander here (hey neighbour) and maccas, bk, and kfc all sell them year round here too, even down south and on the west coast where its pretty cold most of the year, leading me to the conclusion that they're a permanent fixture on the menu because they fuckin slap

[@roksforbrains]

They’ve upped the prices recently, at least where I am. Bs

[@totenkray]

McDonalds.... not Maccas.

[@meb0887]

man doesn't know what slang or dialects are ​@@totenkray

[@daanwilmer]

Fun Fact: Reinoud de Jonge (pronounced "Rye-nowt duh Yong-uh") is in fact Dutch, and apparently he studied in Leiden, which has a quite renowned faculty of archeology and an antiquities museum featuring an actual Egyptian temple (donated by the Egyptian government). If you're wondering what went wrong: the dude studied chemistry.

[@elif6908]

🤦‍♀️

[@TryinaD]

Why would anyone go to Leiden Universiteit for chemistry, aren't they definitely most well known for history and archeology? Eg. KITLV

[@ursidae97]

​@@TryinaDthis is what happens when you go there and don't study archeology. This is who you become

[@BloodWolfXZ]

​@@ursidae97 that or a result of the usual mental and emotional trauma that is inflicted upon chem majors.

[@FunnCubes]

Leiden is idenically spelled to the German word for suffering or if you chose to keep the capitalization it's the word for ailment.

[@-Fritz-]

They may be smoothed brain koalas, but their ability to skillfully carve out fake glyphs into solid rock with nothing but a eucalyptus leaf is quite impressive.

[@aymuhspunj]

Come on, man. That's really disrespectful. They used eucalyptus *branches*

[@lethargogpeterson4083]

Wow. I've heard they tell stories of Drop Bears to scare the tourists, but the depravity of koala kind really knows no bounds, does it.

[@peterbuckley3877]

They were carved by drop bears using the blood stained fangs.

[@peterbuckley3877]

The big giveaway that these are fake are the cock and balls along with the Kilroy carvings, I wouldn’t be surprised if the nearby aboriginal carvings are fake as well.

[@fajaradi1223]

​@@aymuhspunj They use both. Leaves as the chisel Twigs or branches as the hammer

[@ColossusOfChodes]

The biggest mystery here is how Milo managed to sneak audience retention limes out of the SCP Foundation without getting [REDACTED].

[@SuperanonymousUhhuh-pc1li]

Limes? Man I love those SCP limes

[@TacticalFoxAndFriends]

Pls time stamp

[@joshayala3688]

I’m from here! It’s pretty widely known in the area that the glyphs are fake, and the entire rock face is littered with modern day carving because of it. I’m pretty sure they recently took down the boulders too, so you can’t see them any more. There’s also some legitimate ~200 year old indigenous carvings nearby, and you can really see the difference in an old carving vs new. The rocks themselves erode quickly, so anything thousands of years old likely no longer even exists.

[@SkyPerson]

It’s a real shame that these crackpot conspiracy theories so often take away from the real history of the area/people

[@MsFotsvett]

I started watching this series when I was pregnant with my first. And then I gave birth, she's now 1,5 years old and start preschool tomorrow. A human learned how to walk, talk and climb in between episodes.

[@emmaelstub6156]

I started watching when mine was a newborn, and she is about to turn 2 lol. I of course plan on this being her main source of education.

[@marcusarce6739]

This thread is very wholesome, hope you two and your children have a fun time watching this series together along with us!

[@oharehatmancaleb7]

Milo’s being held captive. He learned too much on his cross-country trip, and now he’s trying to tell us the truth, but the squirrels can’t have that. They have their secrets to keep.

[@baphometsvomitcomet2350]

The soulless minions of Squirrel Orthodoxy

[@madoldbatwoman]

If you're suggesting that grey squirrels work for 'Big Archaeology' by doing all they can to discourage people from discovering The Truth - I'd believe it.

[@strikerheadshot7215]

The moment I read this comment he says "the squirrels are in the attic" 😭😭😭

[@IntrovertedBear]

You're telling me squirrels have a hivemind?

[@skywalkerchick]

I’m just trying to imagine how these ancient Egyptians were supposed to have sailed to Australia, like what kind of route they’d have to have taken. Can’t imagine the Suez Canal existed at this point, so they would’ve had to have sailed across the Mediterranean, through the strait of Gibraltar, out into the Atlantic, down the coastlines of West Africa, and through the Cape of Good Hope at the southernmost tip of the African continent, where I imagine their ships sunk and they all drowned because the Cape of Good Hope is one of the most unpredictable and treacherous routes on the planet.

[@zacharytrevino6321]

Don’t forget at this point in history, boats were essentially glorified canoes.

[@helendunn9905]

Yeah, and didn't stop anywhere on the way...

[@jothesharkrider]

*this is a joke* They could have carried their boat east until they hit the Indian Ocean. Simple explanation with definitely no flaws in my logic lol jk

[@garymaidman625]

I'm not saying by any stretch of the imagination that this took place. Saying that, to answer your question, no Suez Canal didn't exist back then, but there was a port on the Red Sea known as Berenike. Bear in mind the western shore of the Red Sea is actually Egypt. Berenike was such an important port that it was adopted by the Romans. I'm sure this was one of many ports on the western shore of the Red Sea.

[@legalwaterdrinker3286]

They could be carried by swallows

[@andrewjohnston8982]

He totally nailed the aussie tradition of forgetting you left a can of coke in the freezer, having it explode when you open it, and resorting to extraction with a can opener.

[@AceOfBlackjack]

Nah he actually used his nails, not a can popper.

[@horseheadkid]

i've learned thru cleaning the freezer over and over (takes a while for these things to get thru to my pea brain sometimes) to set an alarm on my watch. even that doesn't work if i'm busy and think "oh yeah, i gotta take that can out, prob needs a few more minutes anyway" and then i find myself cleaning out the freezer again

[@B2WM]

The "Randy! Your sticks!" energy is real.

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

only to find out the carnonic acid froze to death 🤨

[@rosshalford4041]

Do we tell him we get the frozen coke from Maccas?😂

[@mddawson1]

Australian here. I suspect these Glyphs have more to do with excessive beer consumption than ancient Egyptians.

[@subwayfacemelt4325]

And rooting pigs..

[@scottessery100]

😂😂😂😂

[@Sergote12]

Must be the work of drunk drop bears 😂😂😂

[@subwayfacemelt4325]

@@Sergote12 Drop Bear claws are too long for tool use, and too soft to use against the rock. Most likely Yowies, tripping on DMT. Aliens gave them the recipe for it, and the MAO-inhibitor. The "Wee Folk" told me this. You know, right?... From The Philosopher's (urine) Stone. Puts you in touch with the other side... Deep State made Harry Potter just to cover that up. Ask Isaac Newton, he discovered it, and that's how he is still alive. Conservation of Momentum is a psy-op.

[@andysmith5806]

Either that or meth

[@ashikat413]

Dude if I have to wait a year and a half in between unhinged deepdives while you TRAVEL THE WORLD and REALIZE YOUR CAREER and BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR that is so worth it and I am so proud of you and happy for you! And I assume MOST of us are! Congrats Milo!

[@ArgentLeftovers]

The mental image of a group of archeologists in a dirty, Fight Club-inspired basement covered in blood and dust, fighting to the last man over who gets to be in the latest "Aliens Exist And Founded Pompeii" paper is funny enough to me to forever be head canon

[@jackabug2475]

And then it turns out that the last two standing are the guy who started it and his own id?

[@Thandiel3791]

I’ve missed you. My dad somehow became a flat earther who falls for every awful archaeology conspiracy, and this channel helps me stay ahead of him (or at least helps me predict what he’ll fall for and what counter points I should know in advance). Thank you for everything you do and I’m glad you’re back!

[@scharpmeister]

I can only imagine how painful that must be for anybody who enjoys this channel

[@NatLaS]

Hey! If you’re interested in other channels that deal with debunking you might like: - Professor Dave, he has done a lot of videos on Flat Earth which might help you with your dad. And also, - Dan Olson aka Folding Ideas has a wonderful video on Flat Earth and the people who believe in it - Myles Power deals mainly with medical quackery as in miracle cures, diets and such - Jeff Holiday is a bit varied but he often goes after pseudo-gurus that give out harmful advice Hope you find something you like in there

[@Bob-Jenkins]

My condolences mate, that must be devastating.

[@VelvetEagleI]

Sorry for your lose

[@gexgaming6954]

Same

[@ashurean]

Ancient Egyptian princes getting lost in a storm on the Red Sea and ending up in Australia sounds like the introduction to a children's magic adventure book.

[@tate7511]

literally it's some magic treehouse shit 💀

[@gerbill13]

Would make a good anime

[@Enyavar1]

Now, the carvings that ancient Egyptians did in Terabithia however, are much more believable.

[@theolympiyn8670]

Also that’s a long trip, why would they have the food for that

[@matthewwhale4514]

Sounds like something from the Book of Mormon, Australia edition.

[@moaskarab]

"but that did not stop Australian Johnson from taking out my appendix anyway" is a line we should have engraved onto the gold plate on the voyager for aliens to learn about us.

[@wingdinggasterfyoutubeforthis]

We'd have to send more voyagers. The first one has started malfunctioning, and is very far away

[@bradymenting5120]

that sounds like a joke out of Team Fortress 2 and I love it

[@wadespencer3623]

@@bradymenting5120 Demo: "And WHEN ah came to, mah appendix was gone! Th' doc took it!" Scout: "Was it burstin'?" Demo: "Th' weirdest part is nah! It was fine! He just took it!"

[@EllpaFox47]

@@bradymenting5120the TF2 music started playing as soon as I heard that line fr tho

[@therileybirb]

The Audience Retention Lime is probably one of my favorite things someone has used to get me to watch an ad read and more people should utilize it

[@ae_bae]

Another great one is someone who does skits (Daniel thrasher) used to make balloons animals and say I bet I can finish this ad read before I can make whatever balloon animal or something similar

[@Bevtone]

Thank you milo, as an Australian this one really grinds my gear's because not far from this site are some exquisite indigenous cave paintings, ya know legitimate and important Australian archaeology that people ignore in lieu of a fantasy.

[@sarahcoleman5269]

I was thinking that I hope the dickhole who made the carving wasn't doing it over actual indigenous art. Milo said that previous surveys "found nothing", so I hope "nothing" means nothing and not "not important enough to care about" nothing.

[@Fortigurn]

It's a disgrace that indigenous art and records receive so little interest from the public in comparison with this kind of sensationalist nonsense.

[@CapnBlud]

Judging from the words "my gear's because" I assure you that this man's gear definitely has a because.

[@thetentmedia665]

I've been trying to find out more about Australian archaeology since finding milos channel, so I started with a search on youtube to see if there were any local channels similar to Milo only to find out that the majority of videos that come up were conspiracy nonsense trying to tell me that aboriginal culture is made up by the white man and struggled to find anyone with a brain cell left. If anyone could help me out to find a sorce of legit scientific research happening that would be great

[@vivecald-vehk6978]

​@@CapnBludmade me giggle

[@HenningII]

I've been waiting for the Gosford Glyphs episode forever! Awful Archaeology has been one of my favorite series by Milo and friends, can't wait.

[@rosevidler1663]

As a Australian same

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

There's a helluva lot of Aboriginal Rock Art, all the way from Lane Cove, Mosman (yes, that $$$ Mosman, on the lower North Shore of $ydney Harbor) all the way up to Mt Ku-ring -gia National Park, all the way up through Hornsby and the Hawksbury River and yes, then on up to Gosford and a little further. But if I hear about one or any crew of f-kn Wombats trying to make out some sort of "definite connection with ancient Egyptian Hyraglyphics, so help me God I will kick your guts in!! And if you want me, come on down to Redfern in Sydney and find me!!

[@miniminuteman773]

Hope it was worth the wait! It feels good to be back in this series again

[@rachelotley1511]

Yeah bro, you’re correct X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

[@loke6664]

Nah, I think this one was a bit too easy for Milo. With the guy arrested for adding new ones and witnesses to how more and more was added, I don't think even Graham Hancock would buy this. There are plenty of a bit more believable fakes or misinterpretations take could use an episode. Frankly are the ones where people either purposely or by mistake think a real artifact is something else way more interesting then obvious fakes. We also have some cases when it is possible a lot of fakes actually makes us write off something real, or might at least. Heard of the Hope stones? A dude found a stone that seems to have been written by one of the Roanoke settlers. He then did the stupid idea of offering money for anyone finding more. So this stone mason found like 30 of them over the next 2 years and they are fake like a 3 dollar bill. But the original stone is actually using the correct language of the time unlike all the later ones, so it might actually be genuine. Yeah, it could also a be a planted fake, that is rather likely but it isn't implausible it is real and no one really checked it that close die to the large amount of fakes which is awful archaeology. I can bet you that if you offered a high cash price for finding other sites with hieroglyphs in Australia, we would rather soon have them all over the place. F***, if it wasn't basically as far away from where I live as possible on the globe I would go there myself and make some if the price was good enough, if someone stupid want to give me lots of money I wouldn't mind (but I would be careful so I wouldn't do them near any real petroglyphs, taking money from idiots is one thing, destroying peoples cultural heritage is a different).

[@ThalassTKynn]

Australian Aboriginal people have a bunch of fairly detailed oral histories, about specific events. If this had actually happened they probably would have some memory of it.

[@MrGksarathy]

Exactly. Especially for something so extraordinary.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

I feel like I'd be a really funny story "Oh yeah one day a couple of weird people showed up in a boat, the guys there spoke really weird and started to draw in the walls with chisels for some reason, then one of them died and the rest followed suit... weird"

[@samtimo3002]

Or at least a dream time story about people on boats...

[@Serenity_Dee]

Indigenous Australians navigated across the entire continent using songlines - literally songs that were maps preserved in oral form. The Maori accurately dated their arrival in Aotearoa to circa 1200 CE solely through oral tradition before settler colonialist archaeologists confirmed the date. And there are _so many_ other examples of Indigenous people in the Americas and Oceania having detailed oral histories that are proven correct time and time again. If the dynastic Egyptians had landed in Australia a mere 5,000 years ago, when Indigenous Australians have oral histories that appear to describe animals that went extinct circa 50,000 years ago, they _absolutely_ would have cultural memory such an event.

[@sam-is-a-human]

the one problem with this is, as always, massacre. some groups were brought down to one or zero people, so it's possible that the stories about the Egyptians were lost. That being said, i'm pretty sure their neighbours would probably be taking notes if the story was "THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE OCEAN BUT THEY DIED"

[@kevinlawrence1582]

6:58 man I totally thought he was going to say "hold your horus". That would have been so funny

[@HunchbackJack]

I'm not asking why you haven't done an awful archaeology episode in a year and a half, because I know the answer: your channel blew up, you said yes to 17 different opportunities that had you branching out in 17 different and amazing directions, and you've generally been kicking serious ass. I don't recall exactly when I started watching your channel, but it was roughly 2 years ago, and the success you've had since then has been incredible and a joy to watch. That you've decided to come back to this series after all that, seems nostalgic, almost.

[@kylepeters8690]

our professor went from a nice classroom with a chalkboard and a marble column to looking like he's explaining history in a crack house

[@tarajh]

This was pure chaos and I loved every minute of it.

[@justindunlap1235]

I would go to crackhouse if milo was giving a lecture there.

[@margodphd]

​@@justindunlap1235Yeah, usually average crackheads aren't really that into archeology and they get a bit rant-y 😂

[@SnausageKing]

Some of us do awful things to feed our demons. I once gave a 2 hour long lecture on the Non Partisan League for some shake n bake meth

[@Sembazuru]

Ex-crack house. He kicked the crack-heads out when he moved in. Only pot-heads are left. (you don't think those are squirrels making noises in his walls, do you?) 😅

[@NordicCarved]

I love how rough this series looks. It’s part of the charm

[@Manigeitora]

It's called "awful archaeology" not "amazing videography" after all lol

[@NordicCarved]

@@Manigeitora pretty much. But it honestly somehow brings it together. I wouldn’t be able to take it as seriously if he had like, the staging of Crash Course

[@Fruckert]

It helps drive the point home that it doesn't actually take much effort to debunk these things. Just the facts, basically.

[@mrCabbages_]

Yes. I do miss the blackboard though.

[@dave2.077]

the show is being held together by repurposed ducktape and old screws and we love it

[@theonecalleddoc]

You’ve inspired me, I’m going to start a club, create my own completely meaningless hieroglyphs, and start carving them around the world to fuck with future archaeologists.

[@megansaddington5109]

Girl born and raised in Gosford here - I was obsessed with ancient Egypt as a kid. I never heard about the so-called "Gosford Glyphs" until I saw them on Ancient Aliens. Gosford was so small when I was growing up and my best friend was Aboriginal. If these glyphs were legit everyone would have known about them. Thanks for the laughs of this episode!

[@thebuilder2018]

its destroyed NOW , the council went and destroyed it due to the pressure from the aboriginal elders... they were threatening to destroy live on radio because it conflicts with their agenda being the first inhabitants... google gosford glyphs on google maps, youtube and reddit and look at the images/videos people uploaded while trying to visit the site during council construction... the relatives of the aborginal elders that own the land claim that is was a sign of "vandalism" and said they would destroy it live on national radio then a few weeks later the council apparently went there for their "regular rock testing" and it was determined the integrity of the rocks was decaying and they would collapse soon and one of the rocks has already fallen(after decades of being perfectly fine)... they blocked off the entrance and put up signs forbidding people to enter and threatened with $500,000AUD fines... the rock they were talking about that apparently "fell" looked like it was being smashed into with a jack hammer in different parts and at different depths... there is videos of people visiting the site on youtube during the councils construction they set up scaffolds used heavy equipment and heavy plant equipment to destroy it all... they then even went a step further to destroy the entire pathway there which is about a 5 minute walk... the council completed obliterated it and its just a massive pile of ruins now and they installed steel gates and barricades preventing anyone from getting to the pile of ruins 😂😂😂 unless youre small individual there is no way you can get there now... i'm 5'5 and was barely able to crawl and climb through and wouldnt do it again now because of how dangerous the council made it to there just to see a pile of smashed rocks. there's signs there now on the way there and at the big steel gate they installed saying the site is closed due to the collapsing rocks yet if you look at all the images and videos from people during the construction step by step they were actually destroying the entire site and they did this project during the one time of year people would be at home instead of out travelling through bushes... CHRISTMAS TIME HAHAHAHAHAHAHA MILO IS A FLOP!!!

[@thebuilder2018]

all milo has done was reference ancient aliens 😂😂😂 he makes no reference at all to unchartedx's investigation into this where instead of using egyptologists that went to western world universities and studied egyptology in their own country, uncharted x actually went to EGYPT and gave the images to ACTUAL ANCIENT EGYPTIAN EGYPTOLOGIST WHO WERE BORN AND RAISED IN EGYPT. milo makes no mention of that but does he? lmao because he is one of these new school poofters that were born yesterday and thinks he already knows how the world works better than the people before him that paved the way for this little rodent

[@Cecilpedia]

Similar boat here. I live close to where the Grave Creek Stone, which Milo did a video on, was found. If a lot of these "groundbreaking discoveries" were real, the actual people who live near them would absolutely know

[@megansaddington5109]

@@Cecilpedia they totally would

[@rosiekickett2617]

Therefore if they were a hoax MANY PEOPLE would've heard about them ... and with hoaxes aren't they put on display to be discovered

[@l0rf]

A great return to completely unhinged form, Milo. And the ending really hit the Egyptian nail on the head; why make up shadow conspiracies and hidden agendas when the visible agenda already should infuriate you. Here's going we get to Nebraska sooner than the journey to Australia took.

[@benthomason3307]

conspiracy theories are actually motivated by narcissism and a need to feel smart and important more often than anything else.

[@KaladinVegapunk]

I got into his channel back when this was his thing like 2 years ago so it's nostalgic to see. As a history anthro major I'm genuinely jealous he did what I always wanted to but never committed on haha, it's great motivation to just say fuck it and try to make videos on shit I love

[@glennotropolis]

Ok, for slushy coke: use a half liter bottle, not a can. put in the freezer, horizontally. dont let it fully freeze. Check it like every 15 mins. Between the half hour to 45 mins you will be able to see some ice building inside the cap, feel it really cold. Open and serve immediatly. It should slush up due to the pressure easing up. Can also use a single lone ice cube to help it become slushy too

[@xstarsystemsx]

This is what I went to the comments to find out. 👍

[@myownprivatejoke]

Yeah, don't put a pressurised coke can in the freezer. It will explode. It will sound like a bomb going off.

[@Hardcastle83]

@@xstarsystemsx I feel like this advice is more misleading than the gosford glyphs. For a frozen coke what you actually need to do is go to the nearest fuel station.... that is it.

[@xstarsystemsx]

@@Hardcastle83 well, maybe, but if my fuel stations sold frozen coke, I wouldn't be looking for how it is made, would I?

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

My wife was the registrar for an excavation in Israel and her favorite part of the day was checking on her bottle of coke in the lab’s freezer as to when it was “ready” for opening and watching it slush up! 😆

[@spockamania]

It just clicked with the over the top body movements at the 7 minute mark... I think miniminuteman is the Brian David Gilbert of archaeology

[@mamasimmerplays4702]

Wow. If you want to get lichen growing on a rock, spray it with skim milk - which for convenience when you're out and about, can be mixed up for the purpose from skim milk powder and whatever creek water you can find. Lichen don't mind if the water's a bit funky! Just don't drink the leftovers and you'll be fine. And your glyphs will have that lovely lichen coating so they don't look quite so freshly-carved.

[@Akredlm]

I want to spread vigilante lichen around the local forests at large so I need to know if this actually works. It’s research time.

[@LeafHuntress]

As a vegan I don't want to use cow's milk. Would soy milk powder work too? That stuff is pretty undrinkable imho so finding another use for it would be nice. So happy we live right now & i can buy soy milk, instead of having to make/mix it myself like earlier generations of vegans did. 🙂

[@mamasimmerplays4702]

@@LeafHuntress I haven't tried soy milk - give it a go and find out?

[@Lucifersfursona]

Moss graffiti is fantastic. You can paint it into words and shapes

[@twilightparanormalresearch186]

@@LeafHuntressmilking nuts is inhumane, use human milk murderer

[@IzzysIssues]

"You don't need any qualifications to write a book!" has the same energy as my classmates in seminary saying "literacy is optional for a master’s degree"

[@Darasilverdragon]

Having myself a masters in cellular biology... I mean, yeah.

[@jonathanj8303]

Based on the calibre of some candidates, let alone those who own downloaded degrees from diploma mills, I have a horrible suspicion they may be right.

[@66Roses]

Of all the KZbinrs who have made me wait almost two years for something, you are by far the one who has the least need to excuse himself. You're doing amazing work, Milo!

[@sleazymeezy]

I mean, Internet historian and lemmino would be right up there too but yea, I've been hanging for a new awful archaeology, like a junkie needing my fix.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

"It's been a minute." You could even say it's been a *dons sunglasses Mini minute.

[@anon9469]

Just going to point out that, to reach the south coast of New South Wales, they would have to: A. sail directly across the Indian Ocean to Western Australia, then all the way around the south coast, leaving no trace of their passage and not bothering to settle down anywhere along Australia's fertile belt. B. sail south from the Torres Strait, which means traveling directly along the largest coral reef in the world (literally known as the "Great Barrier Reef"), and past several of Australia's largest and most inviting harbors. C. sail across from Argentina (?) or up from Antarctica (??)

[@RuthBhmand]

Yeah that struck me as well. And right on the edge of a modern city, not in the remote west coast, odd. Anyway I’m getting myself a chisel and will make my very own forgeries, saying ‘Kilroy was here and ate burgers’.

[@meej33]

Well, when you have aliens building your pyramids, you have a ton of excess resources you can use to sail to Australia. Checkmate, atheists.

[@barthoving2053]

You miss D The whole ship/fleet was transported by aliens. 😋 Which make sense as I still do not get why the carvings where on Ancient Aliens. Although my guess is that Ancient..... is a clever ploy to travel the world and have other people pay for it.

[@Ozzy08018]

You fool! Clearly they used the super advanced light speed, space ships the aliens gave them to get from Egypt to Australia so one of them could die of a snake bite and then have it recorded in hieroglyphics that look like they were drawn by idiots but also being from completely different periods of Egyptian history!

[@joearnold6881]

Wooden submarine like the Mormons’ fake Israelites

[@cuteincolour4289]

Ive been to them. I live 20 minutes away. Im so surpised your doing this. The horrible thing is that the area where they are is covered in Aboriginal rock paintings which are very real and very ignored in favour of the fake hieroglyphs

[@CharlieApples]

Europeans and their descendants try not to ruin other cultures by making it all about themselves challenge: Impossible

[@theangryaustralian7624]

You live over east have you ever even seen an Aboriginal

[@MJIZZEL]

​@@CharlieAppleswoke bs

[@piotrwisniewski70]

​@@MJIZZELwell, he is right. Usually those historian theories are made by white people who are unable to comprehend the fact that nonwhite culture can create anything without outside influence/have no connection to Europeans

[@eh1702]

Maybe it’s not a bad thing that the rock paintings are left alone and all the traffic hoes to these carvings.

[@t.dominey4150]

I had this video on in the background, and when it ended I thought "huh, that was short. Couldn't be more than ten minutes". I was completely shocked to find that it had been half an hour. I think its a sign of a brilliant videographer that your content flows so well that they just fly by like that

[@Memerath]

11:35 "It went on for _how many seasons!?_ " "Oh ok nevermind" "IT WENT ON FOR *HOW MANY SEASONS???* "

[@tobers_is_lost]

you'll be absolutely flabbergasted to learn that there's 20 seasons, and the 20th one started *january of this year, and is still ongoing*.

[@capcloud652]

It’s amazing how a pranksters with a hammer, chisels, and a couple of books on hieroglyphics can bring all of the tinfoil hat freaks out of the woodwork

[@zadarasimoleons1019]

The carvings were reportedly carved with a Dremel, which is even dumber. At least if they used non-electrical tools for carving the glyphs, it might look more real

[@marschma]

Nah man, the faker was just being as authentic as possible. He knows that ancient egypt hat electric dremels too :brain:

[@karamia1392]

😂

[@naysayer3084]

​@@zadarasimoleons1019hey man... Reported where ? No one would have had battery rotary tools at the time of the first carvings.

[@Kellethorn]

You forgot enough alcohol to supply a season of NASCAR.

[@juanjuan6601]

The transition from Shakespeare to fucking Skee-lo killed me.

[@BloodWolfXZ]

I want more. This has to be a thing already, right? Mashing up Shakespeare and modern lyrics? Maybe it's a side channel idea for Milo.

[@madamsloth]

Same 😂

[@RufusShipton]

Had me choking on my food 😂

[@frostyvoid827]

20:44

[@Russian_engineer_bmstu]

​@@BloodWolfXZ you can look up "be historian in the year 3k" part 2

[@greenockscatman]

Have to say this is the most dilapitated studio I have ever seen, but I'm glad to have you bring Awful Archaeology back regardless!

[@marowakcity3727]

Honestly the dilapidated studio is part of the charm

[@greenjacques]

The two princes gag was amazing!

[@rily8329]

That Two Princes joke needs more recognition, it was funny as hell

[@lizerdspherex]

15:24 made me choke on my drink

[@robertstull8759]

I do love a great needle drop lol

[@WhiteSpyder170]

I was just mindin' my own business, eatin' dinner and nearly choked to death when the joke dropped

[@Flipbounce]

I did a spit take. "Was that the spin doctors!?" my brother said from the back of the room. Goddammit

[@silverandexact]

I DIED 😂

[@SectorSos]

"I wish, I was a little bit taller, I wish, I was a baller" part, by Skee-Lo, seamlessly smacked right into Shakespeare's poem, literally made me spit my coffee out. 😂

[@AugRing]

old Willy Shakes would be proud tbh

[@DamienDarkside]

I have Skee-Lo on my casual playlist, so having that come up on my side monitor as I'm trying to do work training at home cracked me up. Remember, if work makes you do training at home, play Awful Archeology on the side. Makes it fly by, and you get paid to listen to Milo.

[@BalrogsHaveWings]

Classic Will-e Skee-lo 😂

[@drrandom2639]

20:45

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

He forgot to narrate the part where Shakespere wrote "ktsfijmfig mnhisdfuj4 piozjhfdsgsiou" like in the gosford glyphs

[@aias8209]

The deep look of disappointment on your face when the wheel stopped on Nebraska man... For a moment there was a real flash of existential dread in your eyes.

[@DondarfSnowbonk]

I love that you had that nice bespoke new set for about two episodes of this series. You've definitely upgraded on a personal level (congrats!) and I really enjoy the unhinged vibe of this set.

[@DondarfSnowbonk]

7:40 So supposedly these glyphs tell a sort of reverse version of the let's play A Scotsman In Egypt.

[@thetwelfth9987]

“It’s been a minute” has gotta be your _iconic catchphrase_ to use whenever you make a triumphal return

[@NWolfsson]

It's been a short minute. Some might say it's been a mini minute, man. Now I will leave with my shame.

[@fandomcringebucket]

​@@NWolfssonleave with shame, because you beat me to the punchline.

[@devdanferguson7616]

Something genuinely so satisfying about the newest episode of awful archeology having the same if not worse production quality as the last episode even after all this time, all in all we're so back

[@wrenmassey6876]

It's about creating a consistent brand lol

[@__sanchez2094]

Tbh if Milo came back one day with a 4k resolution camera and a full studio budget, I'd assume he was bought out by Big Archaeology

[@Sparkle8205]

Real…

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

😅😅😅😂😂​@@__sanchez2094

[@wadespencer3623]

@@__sanchez2094 I think he can have a 4K resolution camera but in exchange he films in an abandoned shack in the woods.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

I'm gonna co-opt "Smooth-Brained Eucalyptus Chlamydia Bear" as a band name. Now I and some friends need to somehow gain some musical talent overnight. Edit - also those glyphs are the equivalent of tattoos of Chinese characters put together in a way that makes no sense by people who haven't actually studied Chinese.

[@stonefox2546]

A band with the name "smooth-brained chlamydia bear", nobody is going to expect musical talent.

[@corrosivecabal]

But they aren't actually bears. Despite having all the necessary Koala-fications.

[@itookallthenames]

I like it

[@outdoorfrenzy]

I thought the same thing about them! A tattoo of a Chinese Hanzi that’s supposed to read power or strength or something along those lines but actually reads plain rice or no parking or something is exactly what I was thinking!

[@blakksheep736]

​@@outdoorfrenzy that being said, having "no parking" written on you _on purpose_ can be very funny and slightly intimidating. Sounds like a gangster name. 😆

[@hookedentertainment9089]

Since when did frozen coke become our national drink? I must of missed that one It's clearly mildly warm beer in a can

[@peteredwards2318]

The first thing that struck me about these glyphs, is that unlike Egyptian markings, these are just lines cut into the rock, but Egyptian heiroglyphics tend to have depth and bredth to the way they are cut. For example, heiroglyphics featuring birds in profile, tend to have the whole body of the bird cut out, with just the eyes left in relief so as to stand out from the rest of the body. The glyphs in Gosford are just lines, crudely cut into rocks depicting similar objects, but that is where the similarity ends.

[@jimartymcfly5061]

I still remember the day my dad dragged me out of bed at 6 in the morning and took me on a 2 hour road trip to see something that he said would “shock and amaze” me, and it turned out he was taking me to see the glyphs.

[@Bluetongue.]

Still a nice day out with dad.

[@willowarkan2263]

was he bitten by the same two snakes as the Egyptian prince?

[@jimartymcfly5061]

@@willowarkan2263 no but he did have 2 strokes

[@King.K.Kingston]

@@jimartymcfly5061what

[@willowarkan2263]

@@jimartymcfly5061 maybe the "ancient" text was speaking of metaphorical snakes. Also oof 2 strokes in a year.

[@tigeresssa5208]

As an Australian my heart DROPPED when he said “frozen coke” and then pulled out what I can only assume was a whole can put straight into the freezer 😭🤌🏻🤌🏻 so close but yeah the explosion was exactly what I thought would happen 😂

[@tigeresssa5208]

(Also a frozen coke is a “slushie / icy / slurpee” just fyi if you needed the Aus translation)

[@tanithetiger]

I am not Australian, but I have accidentally left cans of soda in a freezer before so I knew where this was going 😭😭

[@AlbertaGeek]

@@tigeresssa5208 Thanks, I needed that.

[@the_actual_alex]

i thought it was just a bunch of people playing a prank on him and trying to get it to explode on him

[@miniminuteman773]

Do I LOOK like a chemist????

[@skyemcdavid]

To elaborate on Milo's point about not gatekeeping: for some fields of science, you need knowledge and experience. That is typically gained through formal education, but not necessarily. There are plenty of researchers who are "unconventionally" or "informally" trained, especially in my field. Milo's point (at least as I understand it) isn't that Australian Johnson isn't an Egyptologist because he lacks formal education, but rather because he's putting out nonsense instead of real research.

[@phrayzar]

I live in the area and have been walking past these for 35 years. Even in that time the carvings have eroded quite substantially. The reason is that Sydney is made of sandstone. Not just any sandstone but very loose, very soft sandstone. It was easy to cut to make buildings by the early europeans/convicts because of this feature. Even inside houses where the stone is not affected by water erosion, you have to constantly vacuum up the shedding sand. These carvings will be illegible in another 50 years due to erosion. Just another little fact to try to lever forcefully into infantile minds.

[@cavramau]

Yes, but with constant visits and revisits by the Ancient Aliens who redraw the Egyptian Glifs, they have lasted 5,000 years and can last another 5,000. That's not strange, I visit the graves of my ancestors in Europe and ensure the markings and engravings are visible.

[@possumintheblossom]

​@@cavramauSadly some people recently defaced some authentic indigenous carvings in the area by "helpfully" doing this.

[@phrayzar]

@@cavramau The first part of that comment looks like a joke, the second doesn't.

[@graceelizabeth1299]

Things ive learned in this video: - Ray Johnson, Ray Johnson and Ray Johnson are three different people - Squirrels can cheap -never be caught without your mittens -ufos had dongles -dogmas are a serious problem in the modern age

[@VoltasP]

It's giving, "The bombs dropped two years ago, we've been in nuclear winter for six months, the bunker grows restless as we struggle to keep ourselves entertained but luckily we found a cynical archeologist whose rants don't always make sense to us but he tries his best" vibes.

[@Theover4000]

How do you convey a feeling so well this just.. Fits.

[@VoltasP]

@@Theover4000 Vivid imagination and zero filter.

[@Theover4000]

@@VoltasP Fair enough!

[@1FatLittleMonkey]

To be fair, his motorcycle-trip outfit did have a post-apocalypse vibe to it.

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

I'm pretty sure you have a gas leak in ur home

[@darkravenswings]

"You don't need to make up an invisible shadow government to be mad at, you can just be mad at the actual government." That is a slam dunk.

[@ryanbyrne6367]

As a person who used the pandemic to study 2 semesters of Egyptian Philology, I love this video. Heiroglyphs are remarkably like the Phoenician alphabet. 26 basic letters representing mouth noises. Sometimes they combine to make more elaborate noises. Although sometimes pictographs are used at the end of a word to elaborate its meaning, it is not a language you can understand if you are trying to read the heiroglyphics as pictures. One of those walls looked like someone who wrote a comic book where each panel was a single English letter determined by a random number generator.

[@Gustoberg]

I imagine people in the future making english forgeries "yes, this is a story about loss and grief about an american man from the 2010's" and they literally write something like ¡ | ¡ | ¡ ---- ¡ ¡ | ¡ __ |

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@GustobergI'm at a loss of worlds before this wonderful carving

[@E.T.42]

Hey, cool, I also used the pandemic to fulfil a long-time dream of learning Egyptian!

[@Magrijack]

@@GustobergI’m sorry, you’ve lost me.

[@requiembeeblebroxx]

I'm so glad you kept the awkward title cuts; they're an integral part of this series and they make me giggle every damn time

[@lachlanrussell18]

As an Aussie, this is my favourite awful archeology episode ever. Seeing Milo try to make a frozen Jack nd Coke and then go “I need a pair of gloves, my hands are freezing!” not knowing about the existence of a stubby holder really made me cackle

[@SpasmGazm]

Major missed opportunity for him to have a Milo

[@lachlanrussell18]

@@SpasmGazm I was confused and then I realised and was awed by your genius

[@Baud307]

Would have been awesome if it was a Bundy Rum and Frozen Coke

[@jamesbeggs4324]

As someone who lives IN GOSFORD - It was bloody amazing to see my backyard on KZbin :P

[@LayennEitar]

Stubby holders are not really a thing in my country. I'm impressed, my horizons have been broadened. I'm going to try and get or DIY one now. Thank you, stranger on the internet, for expanding my knowledge.

[@weathered19]

When I was taking linguistics in college I thought it was pointless until the first class. It gives you an understanding of language that 99% of people just don’t

[@karebushmarebu233]

Please don’t stop doing these. As an Archaeology undergrad student spending so much personal time studying I sometimes get burnt out on the valid archaeological content, but these more light hearted videos revitalise my soul. Academic vigour boi

[@wizardthewormzard4634]

I really appreciate the addition of built in subtitles, and not relying on auto-generated ones! That being said, as fun as the subtitles are, small discrepencies like omitting curse words, and "awesome" instead of "awful" archeology is less fun for people who rely entirely on subtitles to enjoy your content. If you feel comfortable swearing in your videos, your subtitles should reflect that. People who rely on subtitles deserve the same access to information in your videos as people who don't. It's harder to parse information when the subtitles don't match the spoken words, and you're relying on both. Thanks for another great video! I can't wait to see what's next

[@Aelotyola]

It could be that the auto mod system is harsher on swear words showing up on screen vs them just beeing said. I know from other channels that have done lots of tests that certain words can be said but not shown. Really weird but apparently how it works.

[@emil3533]

I think I also noticed a few misspells and small words that were straight out not said, like "and", "so" etc. I thought I was tripping and mishearing stuff but then I realised, that the built-in subtitles are probably auto-generated as well in some way... I hope Milo sees these comments and could fix the subs a bit :D Ps. curse words can just be censored in the subtitles manually, so them being left out is, I think, a testament to them probably being auto-generated as well.

[@mariposahorribilis]

Absolutely agree. Subtitles are great clarifiers for the hard of hearing, but listening to the audio gives more of a sense of connection. But it's discombobulating when the two don't match.😢

[@marinary1326]

Man, when the "if there was old english combined with text slang you'd tell there was something wrong" came up I was so hoping for an actual demonstration, and Milo did not disappoint. Next time on dragon ball z, he goes to the legendary land of "nebraska" to find a mythical "man"

[@katelickfield5980]

The only part of that I found disappointed was that Shakespeare spoke and wrote in Early Modern English. Old English poetry is "Scealas wæron scearpe / scyl wæs hearpe / hlude hlynede / hleoþor dynede / sweglrad swinsade / swine ne minsade" But I can see how that might not work so great for the joke.

[@marinary1326]

@@katelickfield5980 I considered mentioning that, but I figured that was a nitpick and someone else would have me covered lol

[@loriblue179]

​@@katelickfield5980THANK YOU

[@michaelkindt3288]

@17:40-.- It's so funny whenever people say something "looks like a ufo" because it's like "hum, yes, this object has the appearance of something that is simultaneously flying and unidentified".

[@kaiandersonflynn1846]

I'm so glad he took the time to make other projects, he seems so reinvigorated about this series.

[@JennyLongma2001]

As a person who struggles with Auditory Processing Disorder, and who's first language isn't english, I very much appreciate the addition of subtitles! I hope every video will have them from now on! :] Thank You, Milo!! ❤

[@barbara_LL]

exactly the same for me, I really love the subtitles

[@adamyo9003]

15:30 bro, the Spin Doctors reference had me on life support hahaha

[@aadorablecat7832]

Milo, I can’t express how happy I am to see this video. Your Awful Archeology series is one of my favorites. I lost my mom on the 1st and seeing this posted today, on my birthday, did bring a bit of joy back into this day. Keep it up Milo, your happy energy is infectious

[@what_equals_42]

There are a lot of Aboriginal stories about strange-shaped people/spirits from the sky, but Milo is right. Those are so vague they could describe just about anything. A parachuter in a white jacket also resembles one of the sky spirits. Heck, if you put my guinea pig in a little ghost consume and sat him on a white wheeled side-table, that would also look a lot like a sky-spirit.

[@FaeQueenCory]

According to the traditional religion of my American people: everyone came from the sky. As Sky Woman fell off the floating island... And she's the mother of humanity. That's right... According to the ancient Kanienkeha'ka religion, everyone is a god.

[@miniminuteman773]

WAIT YOU MEAN TIME TRAVELERS PARACHUTED TO AUSTRALIA??

[@quiestinliteris]

​@@miniminuteman773 Time traveler standing on top of a recent manmade structure: This will work just fine.

[@horseheadkid]

we need the pigs name ♡

[@hedgehog3180]

Shockingly the idea of people descending from the heavens is a pretty commonly found one, it's almost as if for most of human history flying was an unattainable miracle so someone being able to fly in any way would instantly mark them as divine or important in some way.

[@sherrismith8874]

At his young age, Milo has already done enough to dine out on stories for the rest of his life. Extremely cool guy.

[@Materogringo]

My man just stood here and repeatedly said “Australian Johnson” without cracking a smile. Might have well been saying “Australian Richard” the whole vid lol

[@Beacuzz]

25:00 They got there the same way the "indian" paintings and the "arrow heads" got in the "grinding holes" up by my family's cabin in northern California got there. Someone thought it would be cool. Put them there. Then told the story to others. My family now tells the story of who painted them (my grandma and a great aunt) and who placed the arrow heads (grandpa) and how the holes actually came about (regular floods and some cool erosion). But notice we told the tales to the kids so they would find it cool and go exploring. We tell the truth so they know how to tell fact from fiction. Also it makes the story cooler to know the real truth.

[@Beacuzz]

My grandma and a great aunt painted 3 beautiful paintings on a rock enclosure that have lasted over 50 years. They are inspired by native American designs but not copies. And they are so important to Our family that my cousin got them tatted on his arm as a sign of our family. It is so much cooler to acknowledge the tale and the truth. I can't wait to pass it on

[@EleMexican]

As an Aussie I'm very impressed by Milo's pronunciation of Brisbane.

[@rhzyo]

I know it's weird hearing it said right instead of "Bris Bain"

[@koshermal]

Briss bah nay or bust.

[@wolfspade1646]

Not surprising for a practicing, traveling archaeologist to take pronunciation research seriously

[@atlanticamnesia]

I DMed Milo on insta like a year ago when he was asking about Australia to ask that he pronounced the cities correctly (like brisbN and melbeN) and he actually did 😅 it makes my tiny heart so happy

[@Axius27]

@@rhzyoI I've heard it pronounced "Bris-Bae" before. It was a fairly alright video where they made a pokemon region based on Australia, but my god, "Bris-bae" is the only thing I remember :/

[@mass_stay_tapped_in528]

The “I wish I was a baller” transition during the Shakespeare bit made my day 😂😂 keep up the great work Milo!

[@Darcover2309]

Timestamp?

[@alihashim3855]

​@@Darcover2309 20:44

[@Darcover2309]

@@alihashim3855 thanks :)

[@queenchaosyet]

20:46 I need to put this timestamp here to come back to later because its such a good way to convey how bs the gliphs are next to each other. Its also hysterical

[@impishlyit9780]

The butchered sonnet was my favorite gag in this video, actually sounded like something people would upload on its own. It just sounds really funny! XD

[@OrangeNash]

It's going to end up in some conspiracy theory that Shakespeare had a time machine and got his ideas by travelling into the future. And the gatekeeping mainstream scholars hide those real texts to stop duh peeple seeing the troof.

[@utsukushiidesu3966]

Its so beautiful

[@student6393]

I love that both the production value and sanity levels going down, makes both go up

[@niroshanaperera7330]

This channel is the epitome of _Came for the history, stayed for the laughs_

[@somenerdonline9627]

“Australian Johnson stole my appendix” should be on a shirt. I know that’s not your exact words but it’s just too funny

[@ValeriePallaoro]

As an archeology student; I'm particularly surprised about the patina change in such a short time. It's been used in relative dating of Australian petroglyphs on some sites, but ... well, that it accrues so much degradation in such a short time is incredible. If nothing else, this is research archaeology in a nutshell. Create something, and see what it looks like over time, much like forensic science is done on body decay at body farm. Thanks for that!

[@Boardwoards]

could you elaborate?

[@nathanvanatta5977]

As someone who went to grad school to study Shakespeare, I cannot give a more ringing endorsement of this reading of Sonnet 29.

[@sage5296]

if shakespeare was alive in the 21st century, this absolutely seems like something he would've done ngl

[@larctrinx8960]

Milo has reached peak levels of massachusetts in this episode. Red beanie, large sweatshirt, beat up jeans. Old ass non insulated house. Just... beautiful.

[@coverstealingbadger]

6:25 “… This ‘Great Value’ brand Anubis…” was truly inspired, good sir.

[@izzywasbusy]

First time finding this channel, not even 5 minutes in yet, but this is exactly the sort of videos i enjoy. Real information, good jokes, and a bit of chaos. Only sad part is that I have another hear to go before I can drink along. Now if you will excuse me, i am going to finish the video and then binge the whole channel. :)

[@xolhex9220]

Dont worry, you'll already be able to drink along once episode 8 comes out

[@cotati76]

I’m in my late 40s and hate how older people bash young people. I’m really impressed with a lot of the young people I see including this channel. Science and astronomy are more popular now than they’ve ever been in my lifetime which is a good sign. My parents generation valued profits over the advancement of the human species. Sure there are some dopey kids but there are dopes in every generation and age bracket. Keep up the good work!!!

[@Alkeeros]

It's confirmation bias, I think. If I think selfies are dumb, I'm way more likely to notice all the people taking selfies and miss the people who aren't. So I think older people tend to see a lot of the behavior they think is dopey and add it to the list, but don't consider the opposite

[@erynlasgalen1949]

​@Alkeeros Just like the comment above, which says that his parents' generation (Boomers) valued profit above human advancement and ignores the ones who weren't and aren't that way. Personally, I take much more joy in giving to others than feathering my nest.

[@K8E666]

Please keep this up Milo !! As a REAL historian I bloody loathe the ‘History’ Channel - it’s not HISTORY anymore it’s skipping the light fantastic !!! I love these videos - thanks.

[@youraveragetemplar5810]

History Channel? Don't you mean the Science Fiction Channel?

[@hpau87]

As a scientist, I relate to this comment so much

[@SilverMe2004]

OK now I'm really starting to get confused. Every thing says that this is a recent video but this is another post discussing things that happen decades ago as if it was recent.

[@dylanb2990]

@@SilverMe2004what are you talking about? The history channel is still on air dude.

[@SilverMe2004]

@@dylanb2990 but it hasn't been relevant to history for decades

[@Kimberton149]

This is like the time I copied out a birthday message in Tamil for my friend's mum, and she couldn't stop laughing because "it looked like it was written by a toddler"

[@-desertpackrat]

21:00 God this is such a good analogy, I love this, you're so good at putting the concepts into words, it's so much less of a headache trying to explain to people why something doesn't make sense when you have a solid analogy like this to use as an example. And you always have one and they always make great sense, I really appreciate that.

[@Outsideville]

Yeah, except he flubbed it referring to Shakespeare and Old English instead of Early Modern English.

[@outdoorscholar6016]

@@OutsidevilleI don’t blame the guy. He’s inside his new crackhouse, drinking frozen coke probably around wintertime, and on constant high alert due to the squirrels that loiter in the attic.

[@Outsideville]

@@outdoorscholar6016 valid points I had not considered.

[@kurathchibicrystalkitty5146]

Putting the 'glyphs' side-by-side with actual Hieroglyphs makes them look even more like a child's crayon scribbles, and that's an insult to children, sheesh. I'm so happy you're back with Awful Archaeology, Milo, and [*raises cup of cherry-pomegranate juice*] here's to many more fun videos! 😄

[@miniminuteman773]

They really did themselves dirty with that. Whoever did that in the editing booth should have picked a different graphic to show

[@Nerdnumberone]

To be fair, carving stone is more difficult than drawing with crayons. The glyphs are definitely fake, but I don't think I could do better.

[@splinte111]

@@Nerdnumberone which is why actual royalty would have people who learned and were trained in the art of writing glyphs.

[@wingedfish1175]

I mean if we take the story at face value, it was effectively a rush job final message not surprised they'd look worse than temple cravings

[@benrockefeller6334]

​​@@Nerdnumberone I had an archaeology professor once literally demonstrate how to make a stone flake, and pass around multiple pieces of sharpened granite and obsidian to the class. So needless to say, I may not be able to do it, but I think I know a guy.

[@wumbumbaroo404]

welcome back milo- the hype is actually unreal im so excited edit: chat got up to 8k holy cow, it was wild but the video is amazing! glad your back, see yall next time

[@miniminuteman773]

9K at the premier! Insane turn out.

[@wumbumbaroo404]

@@miniminuteman773 9k!?! That’s actually insane dude, you deserve every bit of it! it’s been so exciting to see this community grow

[@Haunted-doublewide]

It's fucking hysterical to watch the disclaimer in the beginning about being gone for a year and a half, while being seven months in the future right know knowing it's taking forever for the next episode because it's Atlantis and that is gonna take so much time and research to cover 💀 hope it's going well!

[@sanablue]

I just love how chaotic this is while also being so well researched and interesting to learn. it makes watching this a really unique experience that i don't think I've ever seen on any other channel or series ever. I missed the awful archaeology series and am happy to see it return, no matter how long the break. Once again, great job and can't wait for the next one!