Fascinating Relics from Ancient History

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[@rustyhguitar1]

Surely every coast of Antarctica is a “northern” coast?

[@javiermarcellus5780]

sorry to be so offtopic but does any of you know a tool to log back into an instagram account? I was stupid forgot my password. I love any assistance you can offer me

[@dsxa918]

Southern, eastern and western would all be more common, I'm sure.

[@CAMacKenzie]

@@dsxa918 When you're at the South Pole, any way you go is north.

[@SickSkilz]

Can we do a Top Tenz "Channels narrated by Simon Whistler"? There has to be 30 or so 😅

[@spacealienrissley]

Its so his channel isn't a monopoly

[@jwhitely7]

How in the world would Simon Whistler know anything about Indiana Jones movies? Don't try to fool me I'm a business blaze OG

[@lyleslaton3086]

Danny is the script author. Probably also a footnote telling Simon to watch the movie first.

[@adamloverin231]

Maybe it was mentioned on Star Trek?

[@jeffersonott4357]

@jwhitely7 I gotta agree, I mean, dude mispronounced David Bowies name like 10 times in a video. David Bowie. I'm American and just about the same age as Simon, and to never heard David Bowies name as a Brit, where I know he is even more famous than here... Continues my theory that he is a robot sent from the future to make KZbin channels.

[@chubbiMommi]

Allegedly

[@WarHawk-]

Has any scientists ever attempted to spin the Jade Disks as if their were an ancient form of a CD in an attempt to 'read', through light or sound refraction, to see or hear what they may reveal?

[@Ken_Scaletta]

They didn't have metal but you think that had CD's?

[@mikitz]

Looks like you're too young to realize there were these things called 'records' made of vinyl or shellac some time ago. They should try spinning one and use a needle instead of a laser beam.

[@Ken_Scaletta]

@@mikitz Vinyl records also have grooves cut into them and need to be played with a metal needle. I'm in my 50's, dude. I remember when cassettes tapes were the newest technology..

[@WarHawk-]

@@Ken_Scaletta - And I'm in my 70's young one and remember when 8-tracks were the 'cutting edge' in music LOL

[@rick43pen]

It's an old AOL Disk.

[@badmiker]

Can you answer this one: what's the oldest object still in use? Not in a museum, not the foundations of a wall but a thing: a jewel, a relic, a national treasure? Is there anything in the world which is thousands of years old and it still working? The best I've come up with are the national treasures of Japan which may be 2500 years old, but nobody has actually seen them for centuries.... @Simon, I'd love to see a video on this.

[@johndiffer7498]

I agree. That would be an interesting video, for sure.

[@-MarcusAurelius]

The wheel, gears, pulleys, piping, etc. If you’re talking about more valuable things maybe stuff like the Queen’s crown or other ceremonial items used by old royal families.

[@badmiker]

I mean, actual object. The koinoor diamond in the UK crown jewels is maybe 800 years, the stone of destiny (aka toilet lid joke) is 1000, there's Christian relics which are *maybe* 1800... The Japanese treasures might date back to the bronze age but that's impossible to verify without seeing them. Is there anything else, anything older? A pot, carved stone, some piece of gold jewellery?

[@CAMacKenzie]

@@badmiker I think there are a some Roman bridges. The Puente Romano in Mérida, Spain, crossing the Guadiana, is just over 1900 years old and is still in use, pedestrians only since 1991. Another, near by, is Puente Romano sobre El Albarregas, about 2000 years old, also pedestrians only since 1993.

[@Svensk7119]

The Bible. Definitely a relic, by one hand, and still in use. The bow and arrow. An ancient design, but still in use. The knife.... Okay. I lost my shock value.

[@lb8141]

Super cool. I enjoyed watching this immensely.

[@KashikoiBaka29]

I u derstand that we want an explanation for everything, but I wonder how many masks, statues, etc. are just a simple "I was bored" or "look what I made!"

[@WarHawk-]

I agree. So often our archeologists and paleologist equate their finding with some form of ancient religious ritual. Sort of like several thousand years from now scientists decide that our BBQ's were being used to sacrifice animals to our gods rather than ;just being a cooking device LOL.

[@WarHawk-]

@Kevin Cline - Or uncovering a BBQ thinking it was used to sacrifice animal parts (chicken,m ribs, beef, etc.) to the gods LOL.

[@adamloverin231]

History Channel: Not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens. Archeologists: Not saying it was religious, but it was religious.

[@kyliepechler]

Exactly. Why couldn't the archaeologists have thought that maybe the "Ubaid Lizards" statues (number 1 in this video) were the artwork of an ancient Pablo Picasso-minded person.

[@crispytoast6936]

Oh, come on, everybody knows its the original "Lizard People" the conspiracy looneys keep talking about!

[@battymcbatson]

This could be a video about literally anything but it's by Simon so you're obviously going to watch it... fellow brit here keep up the amazing work guys 😄👋

Clearly those Lizard figurines are neolithic versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's the only answer.

[@djquinn11]

Your theory makes as much sense as the reptilian alien theory

[@danielseelye6005]

@@djquinn11 Actually it makes more sense as the Turtles _have_ gone back in time; see the third Turtles movie set in the Warring States era. If it happened before, it can happen again.

[@mikitz]

More like Argonians from Elder Scrolls. They even had tits and all, whereas the TMNT's were all guys.

[@NapoleonBonaparde]

No its figurines to honor the arch lizard Hillary Clinton

[@crispytoast6936]

@@NapoleonBonaparde yes! They must have found statues of her ancestors!

[@frankboogaard88]

The Jade Disks are the equivalent of the Gold Plaque on Explorer. They were totally convinced Future Generations, and even Other Beings, could understand them easily. They were wrong.

[@sierraisakson6796]

That is a mind-blowing idea people should really look into

[@thearmchairjournalist566]

Love ya work Simon, fascinating 🧐

[@DrewsAdventuresGo]

Fascinating video

[@209cherrypie]

I've been waiting for a codex and devil's bible TopTenz or other channel you have❤️ thank you

[@candiwright1926]

Truly the hardest working u tuber i learn so much from all of ur videos on all ur channels always amaizing videos

[@rogerfurlong1535]

Pretty fitting the 'Codex Gigas' both sounds and looks perfectly in place for Warhammer 40K

[@adenkyramud5005]

Exactly my thought xD but the emperor would want it destroyed I guess

[@thecosmiclullaby9533]

Agreed XD

[@fuckinantipope5511]

I love how the Nebra dish was shown here. I'm german and since I was a child facinated by that thing and seeing it being mentioned here is very cool!

[@jacques8762]

Magnificent. Thank you.

[@dernvader6876]

Those airplanes are birds and the upright tail is not a wing, but a place to hold the figure with thumb & forefinger so as not to cover up the bird itself with your fingers... Ta-da...

[@TheJoshMaggot]

Ta-DUMB.

[@moeenuddin6467]

and delta wings are that inspired from moths.

[@JHinDAmix]

Did the people who make them tell you that?

[@JHinDAmix]

And what about the one that clearly depicts a plane rotor? Is that so they can hold it from multiple sides? 😑🤦🏽‍♂️

[@dernvader6876]

@@JHinDAmix Doesn't exist - a *stylized dragonfly* ... or Mescalito fueled vision of the future? I could see that being true... you don't really think airplanes existed back then?

[@OcarinaOfBurr]

Excellent facts as always, Fact Boy. 🔥

[@franl155]

I knew of a couple of these, but the rest were completely new, so thank you for giving me some more Googling to do!

[@Ken_Scaletta]

Those "airplanes" are insects, birds, bats and fish.

[@quinnzykir]

4:43 it’s a toy plane. They probably did what DaVinci did as a child and used water and wooden paddles to test for lift. Everyone dreams of flying. Why is it so hard to see that ancient civilizations did as well

[@JudeNance]

Fascinating

[@staggeredpotato6941]

Resident Evil : 'Behold our newest horror'. Sculptor :'Hold my venus figurine'

[@samf7211]

All the years we have been watching you NOW you make this vid

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Sorry to disappoint on the Piri Reis Map: Missing Measurements! To understand this theory one needs to keep in mind that ancient maps where not drawn with a top down starlight view, but from measurements written down in charts. It is entirely possible for these charts to be missing bits of data, some unfortunate event that befell the exploration team is all it would take to lose whole pages of charts. With that in mind follow the coast line on the Piri Reis Map and you notice not one but two interesting 'zipper like' patterns. It is entirely possible these are signs that the cartographer may have been working with missing blocks of data. Just happens those zipper sections are also where the Piri Reis map match up *incorrectly* with satellite images.... Oh, and if you bend the zippers the correct way that 'Antarctic' section becomes the area around Rio Gallegos. This doesn't need any dimensions to really change, as the first zipper occurs between Sao Paulo and Buernos Aire. The one that juts out sudden east can be turned to bend south-westerly and the other bits begin to line up. This means we might be looking at the first exploration team to sail around the cape... but they didn't realize what they had done, perhaps they where down there through one of those long winters and their compass got stuck?

[@ewestner]

Do you have an episode on one of your 80 channels about the Codex Giga? Because that thing is amazeballs!

[@steenzysteenz7936]

The sky disk just looks like a smiley face to me 🤣🤣

[@d42kn355]

These are my favorite TopTenz/Today I Found Out’s!

[@ehunt7498]

I wish he does more like these too!

[@sandybarnes887]

Business Blaze Mega Projects Side Projects Top Tenz Today I Found Out Biographics Geographics Highlight History Xplrd Visual Politik EN The Simon Whistler Show I may have missed one. Visual Politk EN is now hosted by someone else. The Simon Whistler Show hasn't had new content for a while.

[@bgirl5036]

Sandy is a legend

Are we sure those gold aircraft aren't just gold representations of festival kites? Because they look like gold representations of festival kites.

[@djquinn11]

Im not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens!

[@titmusspaultpaul5]

A PHD in the field of aeronautics actually made large models of these and they actually flew... without ANY modifications. Amazing stuff as you need to get the shape just right to get lift and fly (he put a motor on it and flew it with a remote control).

[@quinnzykir]

@@titmusspaultpaul5 actually if you compared the two they heavily modified it so it could fly.

[@quinnzykir]

@@titmusspaultpaul5 ancient aliens debunked goes into great detail on why that guy was wrong

[@quinnzykir]

@Janice Brown it’s not

[@StephanieElizabethMann]

When academics question the amount of time they believe an artifact would take to make I think they forget time and it's measurement is different now. They illuminated manuscripts would have taken time to write and illustrate. Humans are very inventive when they want/need to be. It only takes one person to understand one way to do something and that way can inspire others to stand on their shoulders to find more and better ways.

[@tomfisher9737]

Sleestaks, from land of the lost

[@spacealienrissley]

Me red dust was in the yard around when I was born n before but spsce and its cloudy when the two planets are aligned In Milwaukee wi

[@MusashiSamurai]

... Oh dear... the Lizard-People conspiracy theorists are going to be all over this one... surprised Simon did that last one with a straight face! 😂

[@dontcallmebaby6927]

Sssh! Simon knows how to be respectful to the Lizard Overlords. 🤫😉 Allegedly

[@titmusspaultpaul5]

Great video but I remember you doing a video a while back with almost the same information. Is this an updated older video or have I made a mistake?.... cheers.

[@audreymuzingo933]

The same objects? I've not seen it. I've seen some of them on other channels.

[@jtb6737]

I am not sure why gliders and 'airplanes' models are so hard to believe. Birds have been around how long would it take to watch a bird glide, then copy it and make a model.

[@titmusspaultpaul5]

Doesnt work that way at all. Most Birds use a totally different way to fly compared to planes. Planes need a certain shape to give just the right amount of lift. In recent times (the past few hundred years.. even the great Leonardo Divinchi tried to make flying machines) many thousands of people over the years tried to make a flying machine and it only happened at the begining of the 20th century. Its a very complex thing, even for basic flight, and boiling the idea and process down as you did just doesn't work.... cheers.

[@nowayyearight9757]

Yea but except the fact is they are fish not gliders and airplanes but yea it is plausible but not in this case.

[@terryarmbruster7986]

Do A Future Fascinating Relics From Present History 🤔 ?

[@ralfsbeitans3769]

The Antarctic coastline part is pure speculation, it is just an old map, the overlap is pure coincidence.

[@saxon215]

All that I can definitively take from this is that men have always liked thick girls

[@audreymuzingo933]

There's thick and then there's CHONKY. Women probably couldn't even get that fat back then, due to scarcer food and the need to do everything manually (including move around to find food). So even a kinda-thick female probably was a sexy novelty, and stylized "ideal" females would be bigger than any real women around, just like doll and cartoon females are thinner than possible, now.

[@kimberly21392]

Thick girls keep you warm on dark cold nights😍

[@willjackson7531]

@@kimberly21392 Amen

[@ewestner]

Obviously #1 is the best entry on this list.

[@tinaharnish]

The original hockey goalie mask!

[@shanepye7078]

When I hear “Relic”, I think of Tia Carerre in Relic Hunter

[@loekstrobbe626]

Shigir idol looks scary dooooo, if I find that in the forrest at night I shall panic like an mad lad

[@StripedLime]

You should watch the BBC documentary on Malta, they too found the figurines of women there - 8000yrs old.

[@TheCutePyro]

Couldn't the Antarctica in the Piri Reis map simply be terra australis?

[@zioncardman18]

I am some glad that you do not use movie clips as context!

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

3:30 ... In other words he got hungry. 😂😂😂😂

[@eljanrimsa5843]

enlightened insight

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

@@eljanrimsa5843 ..... Yes. Learning form experience. I have had the same "insight" many times. 😋😋😋😂😂😂😂😂

[@umami0247]

This is a wonderful world we live in. And it gives us clues every once in awhile that we just can't figure out.

[@spacepeanut8993]

Anybody try putting those jade disks on a record player yet?

[@DreAmeoba1]

Those gold aircraft could be the work of a time traveler’s influence, that wanted to leave something to mess with our present age.....

[@Nipplator99999999999]

I told my brother that hockey was older than we thought...

[@djquinn11]

Hockey was started by Irish immigrants in Nova Scotia who adapted it from Irish hurling.

[@usernameinvalidforu]

@@djquinn11: works as a party starter.

[@Nipplator99999999999]

@@djquinn11 I just epically failed to make a joke about the stone masks... I'm an American, but not a complete idiot. I played hockey until I enlisted but injuries kept me from picking up the hobby again after. I may still have to rethink the idiot thing as I've never lived in areas cold enough for outdoor skating...

[@carllarsen]

@@Nipplator99999999999 i grew up in alaska and lived in minnesota for 17 years. never learned to ice skate. living in the cold sucks.

[@Opochtli]

More Aztec videos

[@gabbyn978]

a. The Himmelsscheibe von Nebra (sky disk of Nebra) was actually found near Ziegelroda. Nebra is only an adjacent town. It is estimated to be between 3,700 and 4,100 years old. b. The 'venus' figurines are very diverse in age, shape, and locations where they had been found. They might be as old as 30,000 years, which places them right in the ice age. In those times, agriculture was barely possible, btw. So the 'fertility' they were meant to promote, was that of women. c. You left out the Löwenmensch vom Hohlenstein-Stadel (translates to lion-human of the hollow-stone/hayrick) which is fashioned from a mammoth's tooth, 35,000 to 41,000 years old, and was found together with other artifacts in an area where neolithic hunters and gatherers settled for the hunting season over the course of a long period. d. The south american 'planes' might as well be depictions of various kolibris in flight. 3. What about the 'Lady of Elche'?

[@cartoonraccoon2078]

5:52 Significant importance, or important significance?

[@FoodLaneAdventures]

The page before that illustration of the Devil looks like a Donkey Kong stage.

[@audreymuzingo933]

I believe I have a Bi disk, but don't know where/how to get it verified. I got it in a lot of very old jewelry items (but not too old to figure out and verify), but this disk....it's freaky. When you just hold it, it looks dull brown/green, but hold it up against light and it glows orange like candy, with the carvings standing out boldly.

[@potatojazz7828]

Lol really?

[@audreymuzingo933]

@@potatojazz7828 Want to see it? I just posted it on Ebay tonight. On their search bar, type "vintage chinese bi disk lock" (that will narrow it down to mine because I made it a double-decker listing, with a cloisonne lock pendant).

[@christophermanning6146]

Antarctica has been covered with ice for 20M+ years.

[@Apis4]

If you have the Codex Gigas, you should have the Voynich Manuscript, that's almost as old, older than the Piri Reis map, and FAR more mysterious. Side note, in the 1960s the Cartographical division of the United States Air Force examined the Piri Reis map, and their conclusion was that it was genuine, and that it DID indeed show Antarctica... more, it showed Antarctica as that section of it is UNDER the ice... something which we have no evidence of them having ANY way of knowing in the 1560s. They also suspected it was actually an older map, that Piri Reis just hade copied, and few additions added, due to some of the actual artistic techniques. Some have suggested a date of around the 13th or 14th century, which make's it's existence, considering it's convinced at least one reputable organization, all the more astounding.

[@ferociousgumby]

Get me through the pandemic, baby!

[@ferociousgumby]

Is it bad that I "want" Simon? In my life, I mean.

[@TheDiplomancer]

I definitely believe in the theory that the Venus statuettes are self portraits. The exaggerated proportions are very much in line with a woman looking down at herself.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

9:05 Uh, that looks like me

[@carllarsen]

small head?

[@bdso9593]

Curious. What part of Britain are you from?

[@charlesbates6178]

The devil looks like it was drawn by Maurice Sendak.

[@jimbo1480]

No time stamps 🙁

[@Lady_Chalk]

How many possible SCPs can you find? I would say maybe 7. We already have a creepy mask.

[@deathdealer2573]

could those lizard figurines be depicting the naga?

[@Knight7562]

those lizard figures either they have a very strong imagination or they really saw something like that

[@audreymuzingo933]

Name an ancient culture that DIDN'T have animal-headed hominid gods. I'll wait.

[@lesismore49]

I got a kinder joy ad 😂😂😂

[@BlenderStudy]

6:55 The devil's bible was apparently written overnight. Thank you for the update, TopTenz..!! :)

[@robertkobus5266]

What if those things in the ubadian artifact was just the world's first action figure

[@haks11ence]

#3 .... Ay yay ayah!!!

[@greatjamahiriya8591]

Why was the Virginia Declaration of Rights not on here?

[@bluepanic2958]

Put those stone masks back we don’t need vampires in 2021

[@calebhogue8429]

Lol when you realize everything is just because of aliens you sleep a lot better at night

[@phantomwolf3300]

Simon= I've got another channel on everything.

[@stephensteegjr.8258]

Joke all you want. But you know hes the best teacher you ever haf

[@phantomwolf3300]

@@stephensteegjr.8258 maybe he should teach you to spell or maybe stop using KZbin to learn Jr.

[@phantomwolf3300]

@@stephensteegjr.8258 do you know what a sycophant is?

[@tacosaurus317]

That is not an accurate drawing of me...

[@Marc.1776.]

Legend has is that you made the drawing yourself

[@frankboogaard88]

Look at the stone masks.../Just look at them... They carved those to look like the deceased, but while they were carving the bodies were decaying, details got lost, features got lost. They ended up with a memory of a memory of a memory...

[@iloldthough6611]

"The looters were brought to justice" - Laughs in British Museum.

[@DreAmeoba1]

I heard a weird story that the “Devil’s Bible” was written overnight, by ‘old scratch’ himself, after making a pact with some unfortunate, desperate, monk....

[@TheExplorder]

Yes, that legend exists. There are multiple clips about it on youtube. Fourty2 has one I think

[@TheExplorder]

Also, 'old scratch' where does that nickname come from? Hmm

[@crispytoast6936]

@@TheExplorder what's in a name, right? I wonder about the Old Scratch nickname myself. Sounds Victorian era lol

[@crispytoast6936]

@@TheExplorder gotta love Google sometimes. Its likely Middle English, based on the word scrat, or demon/goblin.

[@TheExplorder]

@@crispytoast6936 cool, thanks!

[@tieck4408]

Jade's hardness: 6-7 Mohs. Out of 10. You can work it with steel tools.

[@mychemicalcookie]

The jade rings were made in a time without metal tools, he states this explicity around 6:05

[@CAMacKenzie]

@@mychemicalcookie Other minerals that are harder than jadeite (H 6.5 to 7) and especially harder than nephrite (H 6 to 6.5) could be used to carve jade. Quartz (H 7) beryl (H 7.5 to 8) topaz (H 8) chrysoberyl (H8.5) corundum (H 9). Obviously, they wouldn't have used gem quality stones for tools, but non-gem quality stones of some of these are fairly common (beryl enough so to be used as beryllium ore) and are used now as then as abrasives. Even non-gem diamond (H 10).

[@steveswangler6373]

the "ancient planes" do not represent modern aircraft. they are toys and/or charms representing birds.

[@hschaggar1]

You mean the 'Punjab's' classical period, not 'Pakistan's' :)

[@dardell2001]

Captain Kirk is to blame for much of this. He messed with time too often........

[@canaan5337]

Thoes masks makes me think Jason Voorhees is a time traveler.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Gee, I thought I was eating chicken fingers, oops so sorry I didnt mean to eat your messiah's fingers!

[@ericday3538]

Antikythera Mechanism has left the chat..

[@quinnzykir]

4:52 bugs, fish, and birds. Art. Not aircraft’s.

[@thetrink9759]

I love your videos but man, you talk fast

[@dontcallmebaby6927]

Yeah, I often have to repeat sections to catch up on what I miss.

[@Son0fCarthage]

No those look way more like flying fish than planes

[@phalanx1790]

i missed the airplanes at the gold museum in bogota. oops

[@martinstuart5755]

When i hear relic i hear aoe2 music

[@banditvinchenzo347]

Im not sure if you've included it in a video, but you shohld cover the vimanas (alleged flying machines of ancient india) theyre an interesting and controversial topic and theres a lot of cultural information surrounding them you could probably make entire videos out of

[@karandavis5197]

So is that where we get Lizard People from?

[@anthonyC214]

Number 10. Could later people had found the log and made the carving much later than 11,000.years ago. Granted the wood could be 11,000 year old, but not the art

[@shebbs1]

There are tests for that, which is why a similar test done on a 2000 year old Greek or Roman statue will indicate the age it was carved, not when the marble was formed. Such tests ate done on wooden and non-wooden objects. Usually such statements regatding age are made after several different tests, on different aspects 9f the statue agree.

[@sripadabhat9520]

"Pakistan's classical period" :LOL Pakistan was created in 1947. Before that there was no such concept

[@jaysalisbury193]

That’s interesting. I didn’t know. Thank you for the information!

[@carllarsen]

i took that as meaning the islamic classical period.

[@antoniusbritannia8217]

Italy was not a country until 1861. I took it to be a geographic reference

[@JC-ks3yk]

Simon, Superior Overlord of the Lizard People, just showing off some ancestral sculptures....

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

those judean stone maks kinda remind me of the ReDeads... or could have been used in funerary rites for condemened criminals / victims of fatal violence to keep them coming back as undead monsters.

[@jeffersonott4357]

So what makes those Germans who found that sky disc looters? Didn't they just dig it up? Why did they need to b brought to justice?

[@alanprokes1430]

As a Christian I have never associated relics with Christianity although some Catholics may.

[@Zionisthunter]

I like Turtles 🐢

[@bitingfinger]

he says the looters of the nebra sky disc were brought to justice. could someone explain what crime they have commited, they found a object and then attempted to sell it, they didnt steal it from someone, otherwise it would have already been catalouged, they simply dug it up and sold it, most counties have finders rights which allow anyone who finds something of value to own said object until the original owner can be found, due to it being several thousand years old i rather suspect the original owner is dead and therefore it belongs to them

[@carllarsen]

maybe it was on public or someone elses land. or maybe the laws of germany at the time said all finds belonged to the government.

[@CAMacKenzie]

@@carllarsen It's fairly common worldwide that ancient artifacts belong to the government, regardless of who owns the land where found. Also, they destroyed archaeological context and damaged some of the artifacts, and were operating without a license. Even here in the U.S., if you want to dig for ancient Indian artifacts, you need a permit from the applicable tribe and can be arrested for operating without.