Mystery of The Lost Legions: 5 Ancient Armies That Vanished Without A Trace

[@BingleBangleBungle]

One has to wonder how many legitimate discoveries were labeled as "unreliable" because the archeologists who discovered them did not ask permission from Zawi Hawas.

[@DennisMoore664]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@Spectre-wd9dl]

My favorite is the 250,000 yr old site in Valsequillo in mexico.

[@nautifella]

There is a more recent find believed to be the army of Cambyses II. A large concentration of bones and artifacts of persian origin. But alas _Hawas_ the _big guy_ (needs his cut) of Egyptian studies declared it false, and the area is now part of a military training ground.

[@juanelorriaga2840]

I can’t stand that money hungry loser he is only in it so he can excel his name and most likely stole other peoples he cares nothing for archaeology

[@threeten310]

well ya know there no Longer Resides need to ReQuest Mr Zawi's All Exclusive Permission Concerning Egyptian AntiQuities the Ever Esteemed Royal Gate Keeper & Human Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt Mr Hawas was Totally Assed Out & made to Swallow Humility & Humbly Stand Down Quite some considerable time Ago -alReady

[@BaronFeydRautha]

"One cannot die from a sand storm" As a Harkonnen...This hits different.

[@stefanschleps8758]

The Spice must flow.

[@BaronFeydRautha]

@@stefanschleps8758 Always make sure you have seen the bodies.

[@ProfessorToadstool]

...no.

[@colonelblastpack169]

the water belongs to the Tribe

[@mikepalmer1971]

Lol

[@samhall3821]

"Can't die from a sandstorm". No? Can you die if your baggage train is lost with all your food and water? If your legion is separated and scattered? If you suffocate when you sheltered in a depression that fills up quickly with sand? Can you die, slowly, because you breathed in sand fines? Or if you unluckily proved the existence of dry quicksand?

[@JohnDoe-px4ko]

Entirely agree

[@marcussmith4913]

what if your commander forced you to pull down your pants bend over and receive 30 lashes to your buttocks' during the storm?

[@Bridge_with_a_T]

The only sandstorm that isn't deadly is the one by Darude

[@garymaidman625]

Then you would be dying from other causes, perhaps caused by a sandstorm, but the sandstorm itself doesn't kill someone.

[@argantyr5154]

@@Bridge_with_a_T True, but that one makes people go insane.

[@dwaynemadsen964]

5:14 "Roman Noses" I was in Milano, Italia in 1986 and used the term "Roman Nose" to describe my grandfather. The Signora Italiana to whom I was speaking seemed to take exception to this and questioned me about what a "Roman Nose" looked like. She seemed placated when I said he looked a lot like the busts of Caeser.

[@aymonfoxc1442]

Nice anecdote 🫡

[@davidponseigo8811]

As a Italian I find the term very offensive, I advise you stop using it. Racism comes in all colors and nationality.

[@Sanguivore]

​@@davidponseigo8811For what it's worth, I find aquiline noses to be endearing and flattering to the face. I've always thought they were beautiful, and it's the things that make us different and unique that should be celebrated, not discarded.

[@Qwepzy]

A time of exploration and curiosity gave us all these great times

[@LindaMortimore-f8p]

What I enjoy most about your channel is the videos are about stories I never heard before

[@BuckeyeExpat]

You could make a movie out of any of these events. Very well done

[@llywrch7116]

I wondered if you'd mention Legio IX Hispania. Latest evidence does point to its transfer back to the Continent, after which it is lost to history, more due to a loss of records than any military disaster.

[@thomatherton5759]

they may have been decimated. i think the most plausible as some legion were humiliated and later destroyed for this.

[@SamFisher007]

@@thomatherton5759 Decimated? As in the Roman act of Decimation or just slaughtered? We saw what the Roman response to Teutoburg Forest looked like when nearly an entire legion was slaughtered. So I highly doubt that if such a thing occurred to the Ninth, Rome would just write it off and destroy records that it existed, considering how prestigious that legion had become.

[@thomatherton5759]

@@SamFisher007 I think it's possible at least. Humiliation was not tolerated.

[@SamFisher007]

@@thomatherton5759 Yeah but what was the humiliation caused by lol. The ninth was a legendary legion.

[@thomatherton5759]

@@SamFisher007 well obviously from being slaughtered 😂 defeated 😂 plenty of other reasons buddy

[@gibbnasta]

This has become my favorite D5 channel. Keep on keepin on

[@StEboue]

Its pointless searching for these lost armies. Most of them would be dead by now.....

[@Drakman89]

Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it

[@MidMo4020]

Best comment!💯🤘🏻🔥

[@patrickglaser1560]

​@Drakman89 history is in cycles so it's a moot point

[@muss8587]

too soon dude!!

[@rogermoore8977]

Say stay thirsty, my friends,. Too soon?

[@OsoBlanco17]

Woah woah woah why am I just finding out you have an ancient mysteries channel too? Awesome and subbed!

[@shawnl9545]

I like how it says they dont know what happend to the army that Ivan guided into the woods or why he did it but Russia still made up an elaborate story and made him a martyr

[@History45096]

One of my favorite channels. Thanks guys!

[@gratchets]

The "experts": Can't die from a sandstorm. Oh? Let's stick you out in big one and see if you can die. *snort* I once heard an "expert" say no one could die from blood-loss. I don't have much respect for so-called experts anymore. XD Fascinating vid, Dark 5. Thank you!

[@HubertofLiege]

Jet fuel can’t melt steel, lol

[@Kneon_Knight]

It depends on what you mean by "die from a sandstorm"...if you mean "get buried and suffocate" then no, you can't - the wind blows the sand off as fast as it is blown onto you.

[@tomhenry897]

Your body blocks the wind which deposits the sand on you

[@DennisMoore664]

@@Kneon_Knight but that blowing sand also gets into your nose and mouth, suffocating you. Into your eyes, blinding you. And as the wind starts to die down as the storm moves on, the sand will cover your lifeless body. At that point, dead is dead.

[@Mutski1579]

I have a standing wager with my housemate: Did you ask this 'expert' to explain the meaning of exsanguination? This self named expert wouldn't have liked you very much after that. 😂 It has to happen often enough to require a name. 😜

[@adamward6463]

My day just turned extraordinary.

[@diGritz1]

Given Varus's legions that disappeared in the Teutoburg Forest were found, I think in 2017, there's every chance the fate of others will be discovered.

[@andrewmccutcheon4650]

can't watch that, I can't hear the narration over the background music. Shame, it looks like an interesting subject.

[@molek5823]

Another excellent video!!

[@mred8002]

If Egypt undertakes any dig, the finding are not fully published, unless it is in compliance with their official approve narrative.

[@gaylereid8264]

You mean Zahi Hawass??

[@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204]

What's their narrative

[@mred8002]

@@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 From what I read, it is that everything in Egypt was built by the current settlers in the region, and are relatively recent accordingly. Any discoveries that suggest otherwise are suppressed, or ‘the tomb was empty’ when it clearly was not. That “narrative”.

[@mred8002]

@@gaylereid8264 The poster child of shady archeological dealings.

[@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204]

@mred8002 we all know who the original Egyptians were .. there is too much evidence to suggest otherwise.

[@mathisurien4031]

what's the possibility these armies only existed on paper? imagine a corrupt noble, he swears blind to be loyal to the king and that he will totally go to war for him, he swears that his lands economic hardships have nothing to do with his own incompetence and are simply the result of supporting such a large army of troops, an amount that just so happens to be slightly more than his political rival. imagine the panic when he later gets called on the bluff, when the king orders him to send this army to fight for him. the noble then insists he'll send it at once, and when it doesn't arrive makes up an outlandish tale of how it went missing and how tragic it is he lost so many good fighting aged men. now of course, this is now responsible for everything that is going wrong in the nobles lands and as the king was the one who ordered these men be mobilised he should take responsibility for it and compensate the noble accordingly. corruption and embezzlement with a little political intrigue thrown in for good measure.

[@sw40c]

Check out “Lt. Kije” - an early Soviet film about the czar that’s eerily similar to what you’re saying.

[@torliebenfels5618]

Can barely hear the dialog over the background music in places

[@chrislong6541]

I can assure you it is very possible to die from a sandstorm but an entire army is entirely unlikely

[@snewsh]

Id say the sandstorm only has to destroy most of the army. The desert will kill the rest.

[@Svensk7119]

Not if they are not desert dwellers, and don't know how to survive in a sandstorm.

[@dee.jax42]

As someone who is from upstate NY and moved to Phoenix AZ region, I can confidently tell you that heat alone with no water could wipe out an army. Not adding in other elements.

[@chrislong6541]

@@dee.jax42 this is an army whoever was in charge of logistics would've brought at least SOME water I doubt 10,000 prepared men would die as a result of a sandstorm alot of them sure but ALL that absurd

[@ontrous]

unlikely, but no impossible.

[@tylerbrooks2492]

Ive been watching this channel for years. Thank you

[@momososa6789]

😂😂😂 it's been 4, 5 months it started😂😅😅 not even a year old

[@tylerbrooks2492]

@@momososa6789 dark seven/ dark five have been around a lot longer than that. It's been rehashed a couple times but it has remained the same over the whole

[@mikeypiros6647]

​I'm sure he watches his other dark channels

[@chipmanky]

Then you would know this ain’t the channel

[@KrasseOdaVonBayern]

How could the Mansa have beat the Vikings when his Journey was believed to have happened in 1307-1312… when the Vikings made it in 1020… 🤔

[@Indubidably0]

Not to mention the Norse invented the first vessels capable of traveling open ocean. Mali fleet never made it to the Americas as their ships weren't even capable of it, and there's never been any evidence to say they did just speculation from armchair internet idiots.

[@arturobarron9511]

I learned more in these 13 minutes than I have in the last 13 years.

[@austinlee4156]

I didn't even know this channel was a thing, when I seen this vid in my suggestion I literally went "ooooooohhhhhhhh!" Quite loudly 😆 lol

[@juanelorriaga2840]

I have read a lot on the 9th Legion and I believe they def were redeployed somewhere else.But who know someone will find something someday

[@thomatherton5759]

or decimated and removed from further history

[@aymonfoxc1442]

A lot of Brits seem to struggle with idea of Rome having greater priorities beyond their island.

[@maddog46]

Love your work.

[@Zorro_c.s.]

It’s nice to hear a narrator without a runny nose.

[@johncook3817]

Very interesting video. Thanks.

[@JamesMcCLaren-ri7js]

I'm glad you put the 9th roman legion. It's one of the most mysterious disappearing acts all time

[@davidmassey4114]

Fantastico. Muy excellente. Mi amigo es fuego

[@awomanmotherw2kids393]

The music is too loud hard to the narrator!

[@aanchaallllllll]

0:57: 💨 The vast Sahara desert consumed an entire army in 525 BC, led by the Persian ruler Cambyses II, who sought to crush a rebellion in Egypt. 3:35: 🏛 The Roman Empire was a powerful force, but they did not conquer the entire world, including ancient cultures in the Far East. 5:51: 🇷🇺 Political chaos and foreign invasion in Russia led to the rise of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613. 8:32: 🔍 The fate of the ninth Roman legion remains a mystery, with various theories suggesting they vanished in Scotland, were attacked by British rebels in London, or were transferred to fight elsewhere. 11:17: 🚢 The Mali Empire in the 14th century embarked on a series of expeditions to explore lands beyond the Atlantic Ocean. Recap by Tammy AI

[@JohnPetro-d6f]

Whats tammy ai?

[@ryanblystone5153]

Thank you

[@JohnDoe-px4ko]

The place where the Romans were settled may have sounded like “legion” in old Chinese, but the Romans used the word “legio” so the argument falls down somewhat.

[@McknamersonMcklaststerson]

Nice

[@macwilbz]

yep 2am here in the Philippines I can finally sleep

[@kurtlovef150]

3pm mount airy NC America

[@Cincy32]

🇵🇭👍🏻

[@danielprice7521]

Background music too loud, but an excellent video

[@Justin.Martyr]

*The Dark5cum Kept MumbLing & Back Ground Noise* *Made Listening ImpossiBLe!!!* *BLOCKed Dark5 !!!!*

[@mattpavey3062]

Makes me think BIG!!!!!

[@htennek1]

I like how Egypt arrested a guy for bringing a airplane into egypt, even though he had written permission from the government and only let go when he 'donated' it to egypt (as a 'jewish spy plane as it is now labeled). I wish more talk about the Crassus and how maybe some survivors made it to China would have been spoken on.. but, oh well.

[@Chris-zn2pz]

I found Los cal gold and was so hard to be certified and all permits approved. I had to do on my own. Author John Hart has started a cliff book for a possible novel.

[@cjthebeesknees]

Certified, Licensed, Permits. Whoever fooled us into accepting and then expanding these concepts, hindering folks in many ways sucks rhinoceros balls.

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

@@cjthebeesknees You are going to need a permit for those endangered rhino balls you're sucking and those fat rhino nuts better be coming from a licensed source.

[@thokim84]

Mansa Musa was centuries after Leif Ericsson and the Icelandic Sagas. The 11th century precedes the 14th by 3 centuries. Also the trans Sahara trade doesn't come close to Siberia.

[@GeordiejesterTV]

Another muppet trying to rewrite history

[@jesuspallares6212]

I remember in middle and high school I learned about the 9th Roman legion they would have been like the navy seals of todays modern day those guys were the best of the best of the best at that time. Training starting at 5 years of age well into their 20s these men were speculated to be the deadliest legion that has ever grazed the battlefield.

[@eclipse7436]

Grazed the battlefield, they are not cattle!

[@ChefDAlessio]

Sparta Disagrees

[@mayonaise8861]

Hey I’m early! Neat

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

Might be interested to know wartime stories has a us soldier in Vietnam say he saw a ghost of a Roman soldier there

[@scrubsrc4084]

"Cant die from a sand storm" the dudes never been outnin one clearly.

[@kennydoggins1712]

The Valkyries needed quick supply of reinforcements during Ragnarok, duh

[@richardchaparro2830]

Cant die in a sandstorm? DUNE begs to differ

[@GravesRWFiA]

The 9th legion is pretty much solved. it was sent into north britain and is believed to have suffered losses but not been destroyed but the unit was effectivelty disbanded and survivors were sent to fill the ranks of other units, hence the stuff in the netherlads-men of the 9th were there and left markers as a show of unit pride even as it was disbanded. liek a killroy was here' move.

[@qadirtimerghazin]

Well, if you’re looking for suggestions, and since it happens to be Yom Kippur, you might want to consider making a video on Khazar Khaganate, an empire of steppe nomads who converted into Judaism

[@ScotChef]

Well known clan lore says the romans came to scotland built a wall to keep us in and lost a legion they stayed behind their wall after that. ✊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@nicholashodges201]

Unless you're decended from the Picts you've been getting lied to. That wall was built about 400 years before the Scoti landed there.

[@pauls3204]

They built the wall to keep us OUT not locked in ! They were concerned we’d rouse an English rebellion Just like today , our English neighbours are a spineless bunch idling by as their country is overrun by third world illegals

[@DH-.]

One topic of interest is: locations locked in time like forest that have never had men step foot, sahara oasis with dinosaurs, Amazon deep were plants eat men and snakes are so huge they cant move so they resort to waiting dormant and coming to life when an animal crosses their path .. theres more examples but im currently stumped

[@neilwilkes]

Mansa Musa was also one of the biggest and wealthiest Slave traders in history too, yet this is usually overlooked for some strange reason........

[@johndavidson2365]

Remember folks, if a scientist can't or won't prove it, it's appocroful.

[@mikepalmer1971]

Yes they are the “experts” and know everything ever. We should worship them like the gods they are. Trust the science after all.

[@mike7652]

Apocryphal, points for trying though!

[@gbgildemeister]

The volume of the music at back is too loud!! Not possible to listen the narrator..

[@DW-op7ly]

That last one was suspect. You assemble a 2000 ship fleet and the guy after you does not know who you are

[@WhiskeyTango0420]

Sick thumbnail

[@johncook3817]

That eagle is a civic eagle not a legion eagle. There are no legion eagle in existence at this time. A real shame!

[@ste76539]

1) If Herodotus said it, it's definitely not true...

[@SMac8170]

Great video but the music is distractingly loud

[@Justin.Martyr]

*The Dark5cum Kept MumbLing & Back Ground Noise* *Made Listening ImpossiBLe!!!* *BLOCKed Dark5 !!!!*

[@ericsmith4994]

Background music is too loud

[@garymcatear822]

My theory about the Roman 9th legion is they were lured and ambushed by the Picts in Northern Scotland, they were lured to a particular Loch atleast 4 kilometers in length and attcked from the tree line. Their remains will be found underwater in a Scottish Loch and this is why their remains have never been found. This is how i as a Scot would have disposed of 5000 foreign invaders.

[@lessonzlrnd]

La Orden de Soldados de Santo Benedicto 🥀 Yo si recuerdo.....

[@javedkhayum890]

background music is too loud, please try and correct it

[@Minoltalphafan]

Take at least 2 zeros away from that 50000. You can do that with pretty much every victors estimation of their defeated enemy's numbers up to around the 14th-15th century.

[@PaIaeoCIive1684]

There was almost certainly no Malian voyage to the Americas in '1311' or any other year. Only one near-contemporary source, an Egyptian chronicler, Al Umari, claimed it happened and as the Muslim kingdom of Mali was then literate, surely its own records would have included accounts of it? Mansa Musa's bragging about his ancestor does not prove anything either. People should be wary of certain YT 'history'.

[@TheUnatuber]

I'm betting on the Scots. Hey, why do you think Hadrian built that wall?

[@forgetmenotjem1147]

Please putting music over the top of the narrative. People like myself with hearing difficulties find it almost impossible to separate the different sounds

[@poopmcgee3826]

NO

[@forgetmenotjem1147]

Lol. Always one

[@haveraygunwilltravel]

Didn't bring up the army the Japanese lost in New Guinea. Java was heaven, burma was hell but no one comes back from New Guinea.

[@alessiodecarolis]

Well, for this we can thanks the allies troops, expecially the Aussies, with a not so Little help from local diseases and (VERY big) crocs.

[@jomorken4853]

Egyptology is not science, but politics. Egypt just obscures anything not flattering to them. Also they claim that non-egyptians have no right to speak about Egypt or say anything. Zahid Awazz is one such figure, who tries to dicredit anyone rivalling his writings and knowledge. He has ruined so much

[@arvindominguez5743]

What is the music for the last part?

[@Justin.Martyr]

*The Dark5cum Kept MumbLing & Back Ground Noise* *Made Listening ImpossiBLe!!!* *BLOCKed Dark5 !!!!*

[@plagadivina1332]

Warrior lost army are chosen and taken to a beyond inconceivable realm of battle to fight for pivotal battles!

[@mitchellculberson9336]

Legend has it that the Chinese captured an entire legion & marched them into slavery without losing one single legionaire.

[@gancarzpl]

With that loud music, you are sabotaging your own work. It is hard o understand what is said. On the other hand, if I would like to listen to the music, I would select a different channel.

[@Justin.Martyr]

*The Dark5cum Kept MumbLing & Back Ground Noise* *Made Listening ImpossiBLe!!!* *BLOCKed Dark5 !!!!*

[@jtmoore662]

I think the 9th were attacked and disbanded. Those who survived assimilated into the local culture of the brittons and probably taught them war tactics and how to survive a possible future invasions

[@maxluken1909]

Thought the predecessor of Mansa Musa was Abu II? I've seen/read elsewhere it pretty confidentially stated. I know there was an Abu II just don't remember the whole line of succession

[@808bigisland]

Low quality research. D-. Do better next time.

[@jessejames7757]

I told them to stop and ask for directions.

[@TexasTimeLord]

Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell?

[@Dominucastro47]

So a lot of nations are found in other nations a lot of other nations armies are found in other nations so everyone was not in their respective countries for the past 6,000 years people did travel

[@nicechoicee]

bro the wording in this comment is bad lmao

[@Kneon_Knight]

@@nicechoicee Both of you could do with some lessons in capitalization and punctuation. Heil Grammatik!

[@michaelfritts6249]

Yes, punctuation matters.. Very good point though! Nations are created by culture, conquest, geography, common goals, assimilation.. Short answer? I totally agree with your conclusion that people move around. It has not always been peaceful nor has it always been due to aggression. People are everywhere... (Side Note: I am not an anarchist) Nations are a relatively new concept... Empires, Kingdoms, City States or any population with cultural, linguistic or simply regional ties could all be considered a "nation".. 🤔 Yep!! 😉😎😁 Be Well!! 😃 (Edit) This has been going on much longer than 6000 years. 😁😎

[@laktisandpipik9265]

One has to wonder how Timbiktu got to Siberia!

[@gilbertlopez183]

Obviously that archeologist has never been caught in a sandstorm, not a dust storm but an actual sandstorm where the day becomes dark as night.

[@richarda996]

I have witnessed a sand storm lasting four days with fifty mph winds in west Texas in the fifties.

[@derekpierkowski7641]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@donald8066]

In case of the ninth legion, the most likley Exploration is simple. It was quitley disbanded as " unlucky " and there men were Transfered to other understrenged legions. Her ex members would not be speak of her again, as her number was bad luck. ( Roman were very supersitious )Her History was a string of near desasters, with heavy losses and only small victorys. Many legions were disbanded for much less, so nothing special, the only difference is, that there is a urban legend of her.

[@ray7419]

Really bro. Just delete this, and remake the whole video without the background music.

[@milo-qh7cv]

I am surprised no roman legion just went fully mercenary or tried to create their own piece of empires

[@rastiga9196]

Yeah, but Ben Afflack was the bomb in Phantoms!

[@ray7419]

Snooch to the muthafukin nooch!!

[@sterling5052]

You either don't have your audio on seperate channels, or you don't have them leveled properly with proper dock padding. I can barely hear your voice consistently over the background audio. Your mic should have a padding of -18db on its mixer channel, and the other audio should be -20 to -25db, this allows for your voice max range limiter to be shorter than the other audio, making your voice at a slightly different mechanical volume on the mixer in relation to the rest of the audio, therefore making your voice stand out more, you could also limit the lowtone frequencies on your mixer for the background audio so that there's no chance for the other ambient audio to mix with your voice causing a cancellation of certain consonants. Just some light advice if you care to look into it. And no I'm not just some hermit who is best friends with google, I'm a Centennial College graduate for their Broadcasting program, majored as an Audio Technician certified for live performances.

[@Zeldaschampion]

The skeleton in the thumbnail looks like he's flipping off something off screen.

[@Nobodyimportant696]

a lot of people in the comments are sandstorm experts. we're lucky to have their expert opinion on hand. 😂

[@carsonrasmussen9963]

The bigger mystery is why the skeleton in the thumbnail has ears

[@harryzero1566]

Does anyone else find this narrator sphincter tensing?

[@SharonLaBolle-u6d]

It's my theory that many soldiers of the disappearing 9th had become Christians, and would no longer worship the Emperor. He no longer trusted them, so killed the Christians and disbanded the rest to other legions.

[@cjthebeesknees]

Spare legions? Anybody got any spare legions?

[@HubertofLiege]

Get an army, bum

[@ElishaFollet]

Says the roman general sitting in his box inside the fortress.

[@LindaMortimore-f8p]

If it was a sand storm they probably scattered and just got buried

[@AFpaleoCon]

How many times you gonna change the thumbnail bro?

[@kcstafford2784]

Love your work...hate the loud background music.....I'm out

[@DrJRaven]

Especially for people with hearing impairment

[@kcstafford2784]

@@DrJRaven i don't understand why Utubers think it so necessary????

[@dananorth895]

There was also a roman army vanished in the deep forests of germany. Not mentioned here, it was the reason I clicked. Lol

[@sheliarangel3828]

Music too loud!!!!