Why 99% of Humanity Is Lost to Time

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[@ApertureThinking]

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[@shanedude120]

Have you read about the Nalanda university? would be great to see a video about it with your editing skills

[@HYPERT0N4L]

how about the palawan massacre (1944) & invasion of palawan (1945)?

[@johngeiger3770]

99% of humanity is lying hidden and untended in the archeological evidence shelve labeled as 'anomalies' where thousands of relics and fossils indicating that modern humans have been here forever with advancement in science and technology that is multilinear dwarfing our simple narrow unilinear view of advancement. Modern archeology is circular reasoning at its best. They've already concluded and anything that doesn't fit the cult's narrative are either made to "disappear" or shelved at "anomalies" section. Michael Cremo's 'Forbidden Archeology' makes for an interesting read.

[@itdoobielikethat]

Well the whole library didn't get burned down, just a section of it was burned, lot of info was still in there after the fire

[@dougg1075]

They found an ancient Egyptian tablet/note that said a widow was down by the river trying to sell an old piece of cloth or clothing because she was poor , the letter said he bought it from her for much more than it was worth to help her out. Good people are and were the same

[@Alpha-mr2kk]

Do you maybe have a source? Not that I don't believe you but I would like to look into it

[@cjclark1208]

Our collective will in regards to our hope that this really happened speaks for itself, more good people are needed.

[@ghaleon1103]

Who is "he"?

[@AcrylicGoblin]

Why would someone write about it? Proud of themselves for pay a little extra for some cloth?

[@Smoko-9]

​@@AcrylicGoblinwhy not write about it

[@KJ_1611]

In 1193, Nalanda was set fire by some Turkish ruler, that fire burnt over a span of more than three months. This library was believed to house an extensive collection of over 9 million books and documents from diverse regions like China, Persia, and Greece. We can't even hope to grasp the amount of knowledge that was lost from that fire.

[@REHANKHAN-en5zn]

That's a reach but it really was tragic

[@talhaabdullah2859]

@@REHANKHAN-en5zn yeah Indians with their nalanda library again they say as if that was the only library

[@W33BN4VIGATOR]

Man shut up with this library, that was a lot of others library that we’re destroyed thru out history

[@KJ_1611]

@@talhaabdullah2859 ya some jackass from ur side burned our literature yet we doing leagues better than your country in every metric, i guess that gotta suck. 😄

[@hindu_1188]

​@@W33BN4VIGATORname a library more majestic than Nalanda

[@aanchaallllllll]

1:10: 🔥 The Library of Alexandria burned down, resulting in the loss of a significant amount of historical knowledge. 4:12: 🌍 Prehistoric humans had a good understanding of math and engineering, leading to the creation of structures like the Great Pyramid and the Library of Alexandria. 5:40: 🌍 The evolution of tools, weapons, government, and religion marked the beginning of written history and the Iron Age. 8:37: 🌍 Exploring the possibility of ancient civilizations and their impact on our understanding of human history and the world. 11:45: 📚 The burning of the Library of Alexandria serves as a cautionary tale about the deprioritization of institutions that preserve and share knowledge. Recap by Tammy AI

[@bankcity9246]

Thank you for the detailed time stamp! You freaking rock.

[@AlanSilva-pv1mt]

Thank a lot :)

[@juliekeeney1538]

Doesn’t seem like all that stone would burn very well

[@Healthandwealth9422]

As a human I truly don’t know 99% about humans

[@Quitumbe954]

I'm ecuadorian do u know what that is

[@JonnieAlpha]

and majority of us don't particularly care what will happen after we are dead

[@CapC-C]

​@@Quitumbe954that is a coubtry in Americas

[@Quitumbe954]

@@CapC-C best country world

[@nolongerusingthisaccount]

Same here, brother. Same here.

[@Hippida]

I've had this feeling for a long while now, that much of The Library of Alexandria is in fact a part of the Vatican library

[@dennisblair9626]

Astras like Brahmashira, Brahmasthra, Pasupatasthra, Vaishnavasthra, Narayana Astra, Agneyasthra, Vayavasthra, Nagasthra, Vajrasthra, Varunasthra etc. were used in Mahabharata along with positive indications of the use of Nuclear weapons, otherwise how could the war cause the death of around 1.5 billion people in a matter of 18 days. The wide degree of devastation found at the site of Mohanjo Daro corresponds exactly to Nagasaki. Davenport, who published his findings in a book named, "Atomic Destruction in 2000 B.C.", in 1979 had said that there was an epicenter about 50 yards wide where everything was crystallized, fused or melted.

[@wutangisforever2798]

Thank you for posting a more in depth version of what I was going to post. Well said.

[@madhavpraveen6946]

you're crazy. an epic poem, intended to glorify events, mentioned the death of 1.5 billion people and you believed it. you were even stupid enough to quote that as evidence of nuclear weapons. this is why india is still at 3.45 trillion. look at the chinese. they destroyed their culture and they're at 18 trillion

[@leandrodrace]

Thanks for bringing this up, most ppl would never think of such questions but they are important.

[@lovethyneibor22736]

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?” -Arthur Schopenhauer

[@Adizzle235]

Existing for 1 second is better than never experiencing existing at all - some dumb comment on KZbin

[@tawchaentertainment1488]

Evil still has a place in this world, without evil humans still become corrupt and ungrateful leading inevitably into lawlessness and immorality, evil is inevitable and useful to teach humans about good. Evil exists because of free will, evil cannot exist if there is no free will imposed. Stop looking at life as something that ends at death, people continue to live on we need to see past our wordly lives and see life for what it truly is, a constant struggle to develop ourselves.

[@cjclark1208]

That’s heavily nihilistic, don’t get me wrong sometimes I lean into nihilism but not on such a topic as this. Go experience an adrenaline rush.

[@tawchaentertainment1488]

@@cjclark1208 learn wat nihilism is, what did I say that was untrue? nihilism doesnt even acknowledge good or evil

[@_hector__]

Lame life is not worth living thought masturbation #291678

[@Ken19700]

In 48bc Egypt had already been Egypt for 3,000 years. There were no muslims until 647ad. Egyptian hieroglyphs wasn't the first writing system, that would be Sumerian cuneiform. The library that burned in Alexandria was one of many libraries in the city and wasn't even the main one. The big library died of neglect hundreds of years after the city converted to Christianity because those ignorant fools only cared about one book.

[@Ken19700]

That's where I stopped watching this nonsense.

[@user-rb3kh9yv3i]

Same here

[@nerychristian]

Proof for your rant?

[@Anarchist369]

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an Ocean

[@robrick9361]

Did you go back in time and have a son who ends up having sex with your sister?

[@huzaifahzr5881]

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[@kingki1953]

Apa bedanya ama konten Ardianzy?

[@arcadia6795]

Chatgpt?

[@nayabnoor8985]

Glad someone talked about this I was also thinking about this 👍

[@Loan-Lee]

Dear aperture, are we the same person? I was literally having this exact same thought when I was in the shower today and I also imagined (almost like a vision) someone making a video on my thoughts and watching the video in awe, didn't know it'll be you. Crazy worlddd.

[@That_One_MF_0]

I just want to thank you for your videos. I found this channel just a few weeks ago and you’ve provided me with some great information and with a calming voice. Really regret i didn’t find it years ago.

[@selfdiscardedkingofruin7291]

Better late.....

[@gergomi7289]

Yep. 💀🧠🤙

[@baronvonjo1929]

Ive been thinking how sad it is how many generations of people are just gone. Like think of more recent history like the 1800s. There is a lot of pictures and recent history there and society is easier to imagine than say the 1200s. But not a single person is left of the millions of people who lived in that century. They are all gone. The 1800s are just the past. Nobody really thinks much about it. All thoae people had so many grand, happy, mundane, and sad lives that is just gone. One day the 21st century will be a distant past. Nobody will think much about us in their day to day lives. If they have across to all the stuff on the internet today maybe they will be watching stuff like this video. But eventually even if it takes millions of years, one way or another the 21st century and all of us will be meaningless and the distant past like how we think of Babylon or we might be completely forgotten as humanity itself is gone. Who knows?

[@julius43461]

21st century will be unique in that procreation will stop almost completely, and people living in the coming centuries will be the ones born in this one. However, even if we do live forever, our memory will fade regardless.

[@imaadahere]

AI will remember...

[@cibriis1710]

Some think they are still in their own time

[@ricf9592]

Check out Grays elegy in a grave yard.

[@0ptimal]

I suspect the universe doesnt forget anything.

[@SassyShay7]

How many times has we been knocked back to the stone age?. The world can erase all signs of us in the blink of cosmic time.

[@UnCannyValley67]

“Have we”

[@workingstudentera]

We have created and gathered more information in the last century than all the other centuries of human history combined. Imagined what history and knowledge we could have today if they survived.

[@apaturainc7876]

I'm not sure it was lost. Probably stolen... hidden and used by the elites of the time. There's no way we could have bounced back this quickly, would have taken thousands of years to rediscover it all 😒

[@lonelybones8576]

That is nothing more than an assumption and you have zero data to support it.... I say with absolute confidence, that you didn't do a lick or research before you went ahead and put it out there as a fact. I can do that because if you had, you would discover an overwhelming amount of evidence in every corner of the known world that says the exact opposite. I don't wanna ruin all the good parts but I'll just say that generally speaking, every ancient manuscript from every ancient civilization that we have been able to study has pretty much the same damn stories and those stories speak of advanced technology of all kinds that we still have not been able to replicate. Even in the regular King James Bible there are more than 1 first hand accounts of flying crafts, devastating weapons, DNA harvesting.... Artificial insemination, medical devices that are far beyond what we have.... Seriously, if you haven't read about Ezekiel being picked up in a manned drone-like craft and taken all over Persia and Iraq before dropping him back off in Israel a few days later. How about the Direct Energy weapon that crumbled the Walls of Jericho to ruble with nothing but precision sound waves? The same way they levitated the megalithic blocks when they built all these pyramids and shit. You are gonna learn about all kinds of shit about advanced technology that has been lost to disasters and floods or just straight up, destroyed by entities that got concerned about certain scientific discoveries... Like splitting the atom to give you an example...... Anyway, just do yourself a favor and at least have a quick Google search to see if your made up facts are even close to true cause there is nothing more valuable than your words. They should mean something or they won't mean shit to anyone ya know?

[@RissaFirecat]

@@lonelybones8576 Glad you read the Bible, and the book of Enoch. Research is a valuable tool as well. The only problem with that is you can only do so much until you hit a brick wall. That is called a lack of information.

[@gergomi7289]

Crazy peeps 👀🧠.

[@dudedude6664]

@@lonelybones8576Well the only thing that could refute the claim that we have recorded more information in the last century than all other centuries combined is a way to record information way faster than modern electronic devices. And also there have never been anywhere close to as many people on the planet than right now and we know this with decent precision from DNA analysis and such and no historical records surviving is needed to know that. A person who's taking pictures in Paris for example can record more information in a day than someone writing down their all their knowledge for an entire lifetime, those pictures of paris might not be as meaningful of course but it's still information.

[@bradoalfredo5203]

To assert we Homo sapiens are the first “intelligent” animal on earth would certainly be rooted in egotistical narcissism and/or religious beliefs. I listened to the George Hotz interview on Lex Friedman today. George has a very similar fear of centralized power having full control of humanities most powerful technologies and institutions. Can’t wait to watch more of your video essays, thank you.

[@cjclark1208]

His fear is already realized.

[@TwoCiggyStory]

Us being the only hominids left may be where the superiority comes from

[@SGN30]

What is the first intelligent animal on earth

[@j.macjordan9779]

That assertion would certainly be rooted...in the definition of "Intelligent" &/or "Intelligence"...or so it would seem to me...(?) & In order to define such requires contemplation, debate, etc.; namely, by Humans with the assistance of Human Language(s), Human Thought, Human Interaction, Human KZbin, etc. & We Humans are necessarily Humans -- which, unfortunately, strictly limits the assistance we can call upon in that Contemplation, Debate, etc., to the Human varieties of assistance. This means that, for example, Humans will not be able to engage in productive debates using Human Language(s) with other candidate "Intelligent" species to receive their direct input in establishing a definition -- e.g., the definition we will determine will be absent, say, any/all Octopus Language(s) OR Dolphin KZbins OR Ant Colony Interaction, etc. BUT! We're good with the Human varieties of assistance in establishing the definition we seek because, again, we Humans are necessarily Humans. So, in Philosophy, it's famously understood that in order to start, one must first start -- if there's a way to include the Dolphin KZbins that is discovered in the meantime, we'll just deal with it then; otherwise, we're not making any progress whatsoever to any definition of "Intelligent"...(?) So, we should start AND! Immediately, it's apparent one candidate "Intelligent" species firmly qualifies as being "Intelligent" -- our mere thought experiment, in itself, is indicative of Intelligence definitively. & Since Humans are necessarily Humans, no other candidate "Intelligent" species attempted to forward a supplementary presentation on the matter at hand using the assistance of Human Language(s), Human KZbins, nothing. But, we could also infer "Intelligent" by Human Empirical Observations of the other candidate "Intelligent" species. It would almost certainly be a highly abstract contribution, but perhaps we could gauge "Intelligent" or not based on observations of their overall impact globally, either in terms of today or, maybe, in the distant past if there is the discovery of ruins belonging to the respective species; albeit, that would be immensely difficult to identify anything that would predate approx. ~20,000 yrs BP... So, that leaves Humans (Homo Sapiens), to the best of our knowledge, as the first Intelligent animal on Earth because it was our thought experiment & we can only really know that we are definitively intelligent because we were the only candidate "Intelligent" species to show up to make their case & through Empirical Observation, Humans are the Apex Predator of all Apex Predators by order of magnitude as a direct result of our intelligence (& otherwise, fairly worthless adaptations that might further contribute to our Apex Predator status -- Humans notoriously have poor vision, a poor sense of smell, poor hearing, we're pretty much useless for 3-4 years after exiting the womb...we have nothing else but our intelligence vs the rest of the animal kingdom, yet there is no question what species has the mf bombs ready to go on a minute's notice! ~"Did that whale just speak English!" ~"Yes! It did! Get the goddamn nuclear launch codes now!!" ~"Understood ... Here you are! Hurry!! Nuke that crazed whale!! It'll kill us all! ~"Greetings Human Friends! I'm here on behalf of the Whale People to make peace & deliver to you all our advanced Whale technology that will enable you to... *Bright Flash ...Ahhh, Oh Jesus Christ! My Whale blubber is being cooked off my back by Earth's 2nd Sun?! When did that show up?! I really need to make it to the surface more often! But, do please excuse me for one moment though; I'm afraid I must return to the ocean! This is a pretty intense exp.... *Whale explodes I don't think "egotistical narcissism" &/or "religious beliefs" have anything to do with how & why we define intelligence the way we do. We do so instead out of our radical limitations; we have no other benchmark that we can be certain is currently, or was at one time, of an intelligence that rivals our own & in a comprehensible way on our terms. Therefore, to the very best of our knowledge, Homo Sapiens as the first Intelligent Species on Earth is an unbiased fact. It's the only thing we could really ever assert, epistemologically speaking. & As far as Hypothetical Deductive Empiricism is concerned, it's the only plausible thing we can, at present, assert there as well....(?)

[@And_stuff8]

Their has only ever been one Our cousins weren't smart enough for the hardships of this planet

[@luverigtous116]

I would definitely teach my kids survivalist skills, you know its the only insurance you can give them. And i would do this now.

[@MoneyShack]

This is such an amazing channel to just stumble across.

[@rightplaceeverything464]

Our questions of the past are conditioned biases that may be completely pointless. It’s difficult for people to notice that life’s big questions aren’t really inherent. For example: “what’s my purpose?” seems like a natural question, but it implies that the questioner is to be used by something/someone else. It’s a slaves question.

[@JailanSimon]

My English teacher used to say we'd be living on the moon already if Alexandria wasn't destroyed.

[@AlexBigShid]

That's just a myth, alot of knowledge was lost obvs, but the majority of it was religious based, not mathematics.

[@_ee75]

​@@AlexBigShidthere is way other lost knowledge. The one story about christian monk overriding a piece of paper that probably would have fast forwarded the industrial revolution hmmm

[@cedrienenglish6344]

@@AlexBigShidhow could you possibly know that!?!?

[@kalebmitchell22]

@AlexBigShid What the hell are you smoking? The purpose of the library wasn't to keep religious texts. The purpose was to record ALL literature around Greece and beyond. This includes academics such as math and science. They would confiscate books simply to copy them. When the library was burned by ancient Christians, it set the world into the Dark Age. Having lost hundreds of years of information, it was easier to control the populace and assimilate them to the new culture. Killing and silencing dissenters well until the Renaissance. Do you research, don't spew random Bull$#!t.

[@JailanSimon]

@@cedrienenglish6344 He was there.

[@_Ojala_]

Please never stop making videos I LOVEEEE your channel it’s one of the only ones that have substance

[@BatMan-oe2gh]

I remember a Scientist from years ago, who stated if he could travel back in time to the stone age and grab a just born baby and brought it back the 20th century, with proper education and social interactions the child would grow into a Human just like us, albeit looking different. A lot of history has been lost due to fires, war and conquest that we will never know of.

[@lilyrose4191]

Liked. Subscribed. Shared. Thank you! 🙂

[@GustavoPinho89]

That one hit me hard. Made me remember the National Museum fire here in Brazil. It seems like every year there's an event of Alexandric consequences. And, on top of that, there are the American kids going to Uni and having to sell their kidneys to purchase textbooks. "Pay up, or we'll Alexandrise you!". Dover books in maths and physics are still $10 to $20 but, unfortunately, the Soviet MIR publishers, who printed translated versions of all it's collections, is gone. Another Alexandric event...😢

[@thh420]

there not one person in the usa thats had to sell organs to get schoolbooks. stop the reddit lying please.

[@stevesetzer3361]

First time watching an APerture video....great job!

[@hristinatrajkovskatrajkovs74]

I cannot believe that anyone will burn entire library without taking the books out and keeping them in secret place for their own benefit.

[@imalloutagum6083]

Correction: The earliest discovered writing is the Sumerian Kish tablet dated to around 3500 BCE. It was discovered in the Sumerian city known as Kish in what is now Irag. Not Egyptian.

[@imalloutagum6083]

Iraq*

[@davidleesample]

I had heard about a similar incident, with a few nuanced differences... and perhaps I'm conflating events - there was a village found 60/80 kilometers NNE of UR, 27 figurines, with pottery - 2 details, was dated to 6000 to 7000 B.C. AND the pictures of these figurines were humanoid, in different; with reptillian heads... othwise

[@think_again82]

Amazing channel, congrats

[@007thematrix007]

📝 ..... " ..... well i took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind 🎵 i left my body lying somewhere in the sands of time 🎶 but i watched the world walk through the dark side of the moon 🎵 i feel there's nothing i can do, yeah! 🎶"

[@freethinker3054]

9 Million Books Burnt in 1193 CE by Bakhtiyar Khilji in Nalanda University.

[@gcanaday1]

Ohhhh boy. So much to unpack.

[@pauls5745]

I'm sure there are so many things we were supposed to always remember, then something happens and we forgot in just a couple generations. We are so shallow.

[@sabelkowalk558]

Look into the history of the Sahara. Apparently the desert was a lush green land containing huge lakes and rivers. Who knows what kind of people lived there.

[@cameron2794]

Am I stupid or did you say that Egyptian hieroglyphics were the first writing? I don’t think this is correct if so

[@joshuarichardson6529]

Egyptian Hieroglyphics are one of the oldest known forms of writing. It developed around the same time as Sumerian Cuneiform and Chinese Oracle Bones. There were a few other writing types being developed around this time as well, but their civilizations didn't survive long enough to produce enough samples of their writing for us to translate the texts.

[@sweetpotato24]

Dude also said a Muslim guy burnt the library in 48 BC(Before Christ, and 650 years before Islam was founded) to destroy Christian documents,

[@necropolistc6357]

makes me think of the one conspiracy that nobody actually knows what we're doing and we're just building upon what was left to us

[@ricopena2053]

It doesn’t help that every time a new empire or warlord came along, they burned down the old ones

[@squignnewg120]

Video just started but I did want to add real quick that Ryan, in fact, started the fire.

[@gabydize]

Awesome content! But were Egyptian hieroglyphs the first writings? What about Sumerian cuneiform and the following Mesopotamian writings adopted by it?

[@earlhudson2497]

Exactly, I mean it’s good content but how u do research without running, stumbling or tripping over earlier civilizations writings. There’s So much more to this content.

[@sajad105]

The first Alexandria fire was in 48 BC. This fire cannot be done by Muslims because Egypt was invaded by Muslims under Omar in 639-646 AD. Though, it was burnt again.

[@Impasse413]

Our past is far deeper than the vast majority will ever know.

[@djtuben]

I LOVE your videos and the way you explain them, so everyone can understand. i have a suggestion, TRAUMA BOUNDING? hope you will take it up for consideration... your friend Martin

[@ejtattersall156]

1:41 "Despite the modern belief that the Library was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually declined gradually over the course of several centuries. This decline began with the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria in 145 BC during the reign of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, which resulted in Aristarchus of Samothrace, the head librarian, resigning and exiling himself to Cyprus. Many other scholars, including Dionysius Thrax and Apollodorus of Athens, fled to other cities, where they continued teaching and conducting scholarship. The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter.

[@JanoschNr1]

300.000 years ago supossingly the first human pre- species apeared, a year or two ago they found a viking like style boat in the nordic baltics if I recall correctly wich is supossingly 450.000 years old. Ergo humanity has to be way older than first expected ... either that, or timetraveling vikings, I let you choose.

[@aittit]

I really appreciate what you're doing, I get an immense level of knowledge from your yt videos in each and every day. Thank you!

[@Shaunt1]

Good video.

[@deepindersingh8781]

Takshashila University in india was much older and had a much bigger potential information than the library of alexandria tho

[@nipunnanda8613]

Actually Nalanda University is even older than Takshashila University, definitely both Indian 🇮🇳 institutions are more ancient than Alexandria. May be existed much before Iron Age ❤, how rich was our culture unbelievable 😮.

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

We've lost ~90% of silent films and ~50% of sound films

[@cyberdaemon]

We dont even know where consciousness originates from.

[@thebulegila]

Julius Ceasar didn't burn down the library in Alexandria completely. Only a portion of it burned down, when the Romans torched the Egyptian fleet docked in the royal harbor. Don't you think they had a backup of all the information stored there? You can blame anyone but Ceasar for that fire as Pompi the great fled to Egypt after the battle of Pharsalus. Also, if the Egyptians wouldn't have attacked Cesar and his legion, the Ptolemaic dynasty would have last much longer, thus preserving the scrolls stored in the library at Alexandrea.

[@thesharkormoriantm274]

I recommend the documentaries "Zeitgeist" and "The Revelation of the Pyramids." As well as the film "Dinotasia".

[@permofit]

1:03 when asked if the nukes first tested were indeed the first Oppenheimer said yes in modern times and that on top of desert glass that looks like it could have been from something very very hot

[@nakliumer]

Love the video and content but why is the audio so bass-y

[@scottguy87]

Excellent

[@SootyGrouse]

“We will never discover anything if we don’t ask.” Nice. Boom goes the dynamite.

[@chuck7916]

You're slick the way you slide promos in, it's not annoyingly disruptive.

[@JM-ro9oq]

No knowledge was lost at the Library of Alexandia. Every ship that docked in Alexandria was required to have their documents copied, and the duplicates were kept at the library. The information still existed; it just wasn't all centralized into one place anymore, after the fire.

[@johnsimun6533]

Correction; fires not fire. Multiple fires, and not just a single fire.

[@redmoondesignbeth9119]

There are places where glass has been found that only could have been made by something as hot as an atomic bomb.

[@rc-dk6by]

1:36 Ryan……. RYAN STARTED THA FIREEEE!!!

[@BarKeegan]

This is where the books Memory Craft and The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly step in

[@meh1175]

Remember that there was a copper age before the bronze age but we have almost no relics of that time because they were all melted with tin to become bronze

[@meh1175]

Another reason knowledge becomes lost - things get reused. Stones from old ruins are used to build new houses etc.

[@lildubuoy]

@1:36, Ryan started the fire...

[@EmptyRedBullCan]

NEXT VIDEO: WHY THE 1% OF HUMANITY IS FORGETTING EVERYTHING

[@casenswartz7278]

One way I think we can get closer to what they were like, is through religious stories. For example, Adam and Eve, are not just a story in Jewish and Christian and Muslim circles, rather lots of religions have a very similar beginning story. Same with the flood, and other biblical epics found in the scriptures. I think with these and understanding how they evolve in culture, can help paint a picture.

[@chadcadsonvii5258]

The tower of Babel is an interesting tale, how all the world was united until the tower fell. The people were scattered and their tounges were twisted so that they no longer understood each other.

[@aelfredrex8354]

They have found evidence of a submerged town off the coast of India that may put the story of proto-civilization back a few thousand years. A colony of artists/priests probably, occupying a ritual center and supported by the local tribes. Man had been working with stone for over a million years, so there must have developed masters of the craft by then.

[@vatsshivam1076]

Correction: World's largest library in ancient times was in Nalanda, India and Hindu scriptures suggest that ancient Indians knew the nuclear physics and we had one such bombing in Kurukshetra in India

[@tigerscott2966]

That happened in the first Terminator movie, it also happened in the first Matrix movie.... That's predictive programming.... The real thing happened starting in March of 2020... Great video... Thanks.

[@TheRotnflesh]

The collective that is 'Humanity' (both past and present, in all of its variations) is one chord of frequencies in the symphone we call 'Earth', playing for the Universal Orchestra. We are of the Earth and shall exist as long as it does. We are as eternal as all of the energy of the Universe is, and our collective energy resides here on Earth. Our consciousness as the Earth is represented through the trillions of living things on it. I know our brother planets out there (billions across the cosmos) play their own orchestras, observing and feeling the real 'body' of our self in minutiae like we do. Sometimes we meet each other but mostly we have our own instruments to play.

[@mohibisweeboooh6735]

ah yes my daily dose of existentialism

[@DNihilHEAVYIndustries]

This is an awesome video I really really like it. I wish we knew more than we do about our ancestors.. this is what I don't understand; when it comes to it the pyramids somebody had to head known what they were doing, it's not like somebody just slapped it all together and said 'oh well this stone will go here and that one will go there and..." no that's not how it works, they must have planned it out. They must have done it on a smaller scale first and all of it's just been lost of time. anyways cool topic!

[@farzanali5910]

Caliph Omar lived around 634 AD. How could he have done that?

[@viktorhorvath6879]

Because the library burned down more than once. The guy in the video just failed to mention that. There were centuries between him and Julius Ceasar. Also the Library at that time (muslim invasion) was just a shadow of its former self

[@farzanali5910]

@@viktorhorvath6879 It is historical fact, that all of the four Caliphs, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali protected and gave security to Churches, synagogues and temples. For example, the first Caliph Abu Bakr Siddique (ra) would issue clear orders not to “desecrate” Churches and leave those who are attached to their religions alone. So yeah, not true

[@vivavois8966]

01:00 read the Mahabharata, you'll find description of nuclear weapons like weapons used in the war. This war is supposed to have happened about 5000+ years ago.

[@dekisugi3436]

We'll know a lot about this civilization in future thanks to the technological advancements 🤝🏻

[@marcalvarez4890]

One solar flare and EVERY silicon based memory is gone. Forever. Computers are worse than paper....and paper is near disappearing. Historically speaking.

[@jamiemunn9200]

​@@marcalvarez4890Exactly

[@julius43461]

​@@marcalvarez4890What about DNA?

[@ghaleon1103]

​@@julius43461How will we be able to examine and read DNA without technology? Without electricity, maybe?

[@julius43461]

@@ghaleon1103 Invent it again I guess. It's important that data gets preserved

[@SatyamSingh-fm2bn]

Would you please make a video mentioning Nalanda University of India and Ancient Indian Temples...?

[@yashdabhi160]

@aperture ever heard about Nalanda library?

[@Dan-mc7xg]

I didn't even have to watch to give a thumbs up... you are spot on... it's crazy how much we DON'T know and how easily it is lost. More reason to live for today!

[@user-fw5qn2tp9k]

well you did not talk about the indian texts in which how they describe the civilization and the nalanda university

[@nipunnanda8613]

Exactly 💯 % they're best 👌 source of knowledge at the time ⏲ 👌

[@-handala-]

Hieroglyphics were not the first form of writing. Sumarian cuneiform was.

[@charlesblithfield6182]

I have had a series if chats with GPT3.5 about the design parameters of a “forever object” an object so durable, so beautiful, so utilitarian that future intelligent beings will respect and care for it and if it happens to be lost, geologic forces of erosion and weathering will not be enough to wear it down enough that should some far future intelligent being on this planet were to dig it up, there would be a record of our presence. GPT3.5 “thinks” such an object could be made but it would be challenging.

[@takenname8053]

It's always Alexandria, what about other burned libraries? Aztec Emperor Montezuma II "Great House of Books" China's Hanlin Academy Library or Couoh's Mayan Library

[@JohnBigboot]

The burning of the Library of Alexandria has been sensationalized by people over the years. Who burned it, how many times, and how much information was actually there in the first place has been exaggerated and condensed into a single moment that didn't happen, much like an entertaining, yet historically inaccurate movie. There are some good videos about it on KZbin, but more people need to realize it likely had little impact on the progress of civilization.

[@voice-of-the-flame]

Before that there was the library of ashur banapal of Assyria. Which held the complete works of what even Alexandria did not have.

[@AayushPatil]

Peace guys!

[@kalam9230]

I got recommended to visit shitty Canada via an ad pressing play on on this

[@laurelsilberman5705]

Anybody: alludes to the library of Alexandria Me: **clenches fist and shuts my eyes as a single tear slides down my cheek**

[@Kyle_Warweave]

I really wonder about Oppenheimer's fascination with the Bhagavad Gita and the words he quoted from it at the first nuclear explosion he was the creator of at Trinity, White Sands: "Enormous blasts "more brilliant than a thousand suns." And of course : “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist (well...) who knew the Gita and he knew the power of his invention. I do not think it was coincidental. Radioactive ashes have been found (still are) in several places in India. A precise resemblance to the impacts of the fallout that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In addition, the rocks, stone, and other materials found appeared to have changed into the glassy substance that is caused only by nuclear explosions with temperatures high enough (1500° C). Except: this had happened 5000 to 10,000 years ago. These findings may also have been from nuclear aircraft because plenty of construction drawings, and designs with descriptions from that same ancient period have been found indicating such knowledge existed (some models have been built and successfully tested in today's labs). However, the scientific community is very timid about bringing out this information. And this is really not (only) because they are too proud to acknowledge that there have been further developed civilizations before us. There is more to this. The Smithsonian Institute keeps a lot of discoveries hidden, along with the CIA and the NSA. Worldwide. And certain "laws" give them the right to do so. The really important finds end up in private collections and/or Masonic temples in full view next to important government buildings (like the White House...). Except not every visitor gets value for money.

[@Waffles4903]

I still don't understand humans, and I’ve been trying for years! I swear, sometimes we make absolutely zero sense.

[@rafaoul]

Well if I know something it's that I'm hard stuck in Silver in Overwatch 2...

[@robertgcode965]

*Says we barely know how humanity has like a few 100 years ago. "Alright, so 300 000 years ago..."

[@iamsid7049]

@ApertureScience Please read about Takshashila and Nalanda Universities as well.

[@matthewseed3386]

Big tech took down your video link on big tech destroying ownership

[@the_guy_who_sleeps_with_yomama]

Less go aparture video!

[@mikescholz6429]

I would be willing to bet a significant portion of the material lost in the fire was pornography and fart jokes.

[@kevinsayes]

Not being a doomer by any means, and ostensibly, if not clearly, it was selected for so seemingly helped the species (unless it just developed and rode along), but I wonder if the world would be “better” or “worse” without romantic attachment. Sure it can be a good feeling, but can also cause people to become something that doesn’t fulfill them in the end, and can also lead to horrible feelings that cripple and damage people, sometimes for a long time. Just a fun and potentially useful thought experiment to wonder how things would be if we never knew the difference, or if that attachment existed to a much lesser degree.

[@urmom13st.]

"The stone age lasted until about 3000bc" Gobekli Tepe disagrees.

[@grantbartley483]

Neolithic Levant had multistory houses about ten thousand years ago.

[@somebdy1173]

As a human I can confirm this.

[@Amphibax]

Guys do your backups