0:55 - Chapter 1 - Sarcophagus of menkaure 3:10 - Chapter 2 - Flor de la mar 5:45 - Chapter 3 - The merchant royal 8:05 - Chapter 4 - Peking man 10:45 - Chapter 5 - Great bell of dhammazedi
The thought of telling authorities that I found a hoard of old treasure is HILARIOUS. I'd hate to think I'd ever put my would-be fortune into the hands of uncle Sam to decide if I get anything for it other than an attaboy and local news story. Hell knowing the government I wouldn't be surprised to find a certified letter in the mail letting me know I owe taxes on the treasure they took from me
Yep. Nobody benefits from reporting their treasure finds. Even worse than the government taking it, I think, would be some insurance company taking it. Which happens. Not to me! Historic value be damned. I’m melting everything into ingots and selling it to people who hang out in bunkers and pawn shops.
...you think your influx of new money is gonna go unnoticed by the IRS? And when they find out where it was coming from, you'll be facing even more legal issues then tax law. Like, come on man.
Bell is probably not under river but beside it. Civil War steam ship was discovered a few years back in a soy bean field 80 yds. from the present day river bed. I'm just saying.
Possibly a good point! Rivers do move, especially in their flood plains. Babylon, once defended by the greatest river of the Middle East, could hardly be drier now. At the other end of the scale, the mouth of Britain's little Arun used to move with every flood season until it was fixed by human intervention.
What happened with all these numerous "ships sunk with treasures" was .. The cash was loaded on to another ship and the "fake carrying ship" was purposely sunk .. then the cash was shared among the shipmates ... so simple, so profitable.
Especially the Spanish loading 100 tons of gold onto a British ship? The sister ship survives but the ship with the treasure is lost? That is mighty suspicious. Money to fund an army, lost at the hands of a foreign government. I can almost promise there were shenanigans.
Right. And everyone involved avoided attacks of conscious or drunkenness to spill the beans for the rest of their lives, on top of hiding the loot from everyone they know. 🙄
Very interesting, what great treasures are still out there! It would be so cool to look for treasures similar to that. It is hard to pick my favorite, maybe the Flor de la Mar simply because it seems to be the biggest treasure. Thank you for the video.
Well I’ve gone from being a slight hater of these channels but I’ve came to the realisation that I’m more envious of their success . Great context and great job with everything. All the best for the future
Menkaure is pronounced "Min-car-ray" for those curious. Im guessing Simon either didn't look it up or his pronunciation dictionary didn't have it listed for some strange reason. This is a Pharaoh's name that's relatively well known given his association with the Great Pyramids of Giza. So pronunciation if his Pharonic name is also relatively well known
"It's best if whoever finds this treasure just pockets whatever gold coins they can, and leaves the rest for the beaurocrats to decide." I have a hypothesis: Many "never found" shipwrecks have in fact been found, but their discoverers chose not to make their findings public, instead profiting from the find. But I don't think it's a very strong hypothesis. If it has happened a lot, you'd expect many more reports of finding sunken vessels to state that the treasure had already been stolen. Instead, it always seems to be untouched.
When you think about it, if all the lost gold were to be found today, the value of gold could drop to the point it's just a useless yellow metal (fiscally speaking, it's great for electrical and electronic purposes), which would be nice, would be fun having one's house wired with gold cable instead of copper... :P
I love how lately, no of the end screen video links haven't been what Fact Boi has been saying they are! Haha It would be nice, tho, if those videos he throws to were linked in cards or the descriptions. Most of them have sounded rather interesting!
Yeah, it's disappointing as I rarely have time to go and search. Meh, that's just me being lazy. But I'm with ya, he shouldn't say they are linked when they aren't. He needs an editor that takes their time and doesn't miss these sorts of things. I love the other channels editors, top notch, like Jen & Sam.
Har, Matey! And thank ye very muchly for the "TIPS" pertinant to them Drowned Treasures. Pumped life back into me aged bones. As to the Great Bell of Dhammazedhi... It's where it belongs and has been since 1610. Although popular Social Myth claims it was lost somewhere in a Burmese river (The River Mont de Python), nothing could be farther from the Truth, or its location. I should know, I moved it. Took the contract in the steamy bowels of Bangkok, that Sailor's Wet Dream of Earthly Delights of Old. Long story short: We loaded it aboard my Ship, The Virgin Cunny, in Bangkok (what's in a name?) and hauled (more like KEELHAULED) it up the Ganges to its confluence with the Brahmaputra. Its ultimate destination: TIBET. Yuh sees, the one that sunk in the River Python was a papier maché copy, which promptly melted as it sank into the murky river. Somewhere in the night preceding, some crafty Tantric Buddhist Priests switched out the entire Raft! BELL and all! ... All papier maché! The GHANTA of MAHADEVI -- Mother of Reality, is what them crafty Tantric Buddhists call it. The REAL THING was featured (briefly) in the Movie "2012": BING-BONGGGG! Kiss your arse goodbye! Somehow appropriate for the Dawning of the Age of Unreason... Mark me words, Sailor, every inch of this tome is true to the mark; dead-on the Cosmic Wazoo, as it were. Thanks agin' for the Tips. Indeed and practice, TIPS are a Sailor's favorite snack! Sincerely Yurz, Cap'n Hannibal "Pissgums" Lecter Bane of the Seven C's 🤙 p.s.: Love that cranberry sweatshirt!
Funny how it's not even economical enough to go after some sunken treasure ships, yet people want to go to asteroids to mine things far less valuable and useful than gold.
The Peking Man reminds me of a [dirty, lame] joke: What do you call a Chinese voyeur? - A Peking Tom Also: Why are there so many foreign artifacts in the British Museum? - That's easy: Gun beats spear *** About sunken treasures: Is it possible most of those were the crew & captain going through a bunch of hassles, only to get a Sailor's Pay, so they simply absconded with the treasure, changed their names, sank the ship in deep waters, and lived wealthily ever after? If I knew my only Sailor's Bonus was an extra Grog ration for doing something really well and not being whipped for any minor offense...yeeaahhh, some of them gold coins might make me feel a little better about a mutual mutiny. *** Finally, who's to say some adventurous opportunists did find some of these sunken wrecks in shallow waters, but didn't tell anyone their "fishing trips" weren't angling for Goldfish?
Just saying .. It Might have been a good idea to set a few GPS locator tabs in the gold and jewels .. but lets realize people were not that smart .. back in the day.
Kinda lame that the example for a "rather enormous compensatory structure " used by the editor at 11:15 is the Freedom Tower built over Ground Zero at the World Trade Center. Its literally smaller than the two monoliths that used to occupy its space and its construction and facade have a lot of meaning to people with connection to that tragedy and the city. It was a poor taste choice. The Burj Khalifa too hard to find footage of?
Can someone answer this question? Just by sure fucking luck and I mean luck 😂😂😂😂 if someone or some organization found any one of theses treasures today, who owns it now????
I think you have pushed your brand too far, i'm sick of you and unsubscribing from your billion channels I wish you well and hope you've made a shit load of money.
The idea that Peking Man skull was turned into traditional medicine because it's not made of bone but stone. I shouldn't have to explain how a fossil is a stone so don't be stupid
@@StoneInMySandal you don't listen do you you little troll. All stones are minerals. When someone says don't make me explain it, do not say stupid crap, especially to a geologists.
What made Simon act so condescending and arrogant lately?? He’s becoming a walking “captain hindsight”…. What have you ever accomplished? You’re a talking head that reads what smart people wrote for you…
Menkaure died cd. 2500BC. Oldest known gold coins are from 6th century BC. So, there probably was no gold coins in the ship transporting Menkaures sarcophagus - unless they were discovered from a ca. 2000 year newer site.
There are of course many other lost treasure ships. I'm in South Africa. A well known one here is of the treasure of the Grosvenor. It was a British galleon returning to Britain from India, in the 1700's, and ran aground at the southeast coast.
If Simon started Narrating bigtime Historical Documentaries and/or Audiobooks, I'd be all over those!
I would say he doesn't have the time but then again he keeps making new channels lol
Rumour has it Simon will replace David Attenborough one of these days.
He technically already does.His channels definitely fall under the "historical documentary" style.
🟫👃
@@jcdock I’m convinced he has a clone or twin because now does he do it all? So many channels, so many well researched topics. 🤯 he might be an alien
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Sarcophagus of menkaure
3:10 - Chapter 2 - Flor de la mar
5:45 - Chapter 3 - The merchant royal
8:05 - Chapter 4 - Peking man
10:45 - Chapter 5 - Great bell of dhammazedi
Simon's pronunciation of Menkaure also plumbs new depths!
The thought of telling authorities that I found a hoard of old treasure is HILARIOUS. I'd hate to think I'd ever put my would-be fortune into the hands of uncle Sam to decide if I get anything for it other than an attaboy and local news story. Hell knowing the government I wouldn't be surprised to find a certified letter in the mail letting me know I owe taxes on the treasure they took from me
International laws of salvage. And if it’s not within US costal waters they can’t tax it or make any claim on it ;)
@@KillaAkuma We will tax your taxes until you are taxed from existence. Then tax your children for yourlife insurance policy after youre gone 😈
Yep. Nobody benefits from reporting their treasure finds. Even worse than the government taking it, I think, would be some insurance company taking it. Which happens.
Not to me! Historic value be damned. I’m melting everything into ingots and selling it to people who hang out in bunkers and pawn shops.
...you think your influx of new money is gonna go unnoticed by the IRS? And when they find out where it was coming from, you'll be facing even more legal issues then tax law.
Like, come on man.
They tax the money they take out of my check every month.
Nice video, but should also make one about FOUND treasures at sea 👌
He will have.
Bell is probably not under river but beside it. Civil War steam ship was discovered a few years back in a soy bean field 80 yds. from the present day river bed. I'm just saying.
Possibly a good point! Rivers do move, especially in their flood plains. Babylon, once defended by the greatest river of the Middle East, could hardly be drier now. At the other end of the scale, the mouth of Britain's little Arun used to move with every flood season until it was fixed by human intervention.
What happened with all these numerous "ships sunk with treasures" was .. The cash was loaded on to another ship and the "fake carrying ship" was purposely sunk .. then the cash was shared among the shipmates ... so simple, so profitable.
How dare you accuse these honorable sailors of such a thing. THEY ARE SAILORS NOT PIERATES!! What is wrong with you sir??
Especially the Spanish loading 100 tons of gold onto a British ship? The sister ship survives but the ship with the treasure is lost? That is mighty suspicious. Money to fund an army, lost at the hands of a foreign government. I can almost promise there were shenanigans.
Darn good point. Follow the money.
Right. And everyone involved avoided attacks of conscious or drunkenness to spill the beans for the rest of their lives, on top of hiding the loot from everyone they know. 🙄
I feel like with all the lost treasure videos Simon's made by now he's just preparing us for a new naval channel
Impressive
Simon did a butt load of reading of shipwrecks, and decided "that's too much reading, I'll just make two videos out of the same thing"
Simon always talks about the most interesting, random things and I’m here for it
I think Simon underestimates the willingness of Chinese peasants to grind odd things up for medicine.
July's Winning Post.
I wonder if he's going to mention the Heart of the Ocean as joke. Just started. Lets see.
Update: Nope. Not today, Satan.
Has he even seen Titanic?
@@RHCole good bloody question
Expedition Whistler. Paid for by multi channels.
you fool. simon hasn’t seen movies
He's also got yet ANOTHER brand new channel called "Science of Science Fiction"
Very interesting, what great treasures are still out there!
It would be so cool to look for treasures similar to that.
It is hard to pick my favorite, maybe the Flor de la Mar simply because it seems to be the biggest treasure.
Thank you for the video.
Well I’ve gone from being a slight hater of these channels but I’ve came to the realisation that I’m more envious of their success . Great context and great job with everything. All the best for the future
This isn’t even a coherent sentence. Read a fucking book.
Self recognition and self reflection is a really good trait to have man. Keep it up. Don't ever lose that.
Good comment!
Hi Simon! I'd love it if you could do one on the Romanov families lost treasures, ESPECIALLY the Fabergie Eggs 🤩
He did.
@@MeanBeanComedy what's the name of the episode? I'll check it out
When you said "he did know about explosives," I gasped in horror.
Ancient artifact : exist
British museum : its free real estate
Good video 👍
Great video as always, but the stock music is obnoxious af
2:40 “Sent to the British Museum with ‘proper authorization’,” he says with a straight face.
Made me chuckle.
Excellent video. Always learn new things watching your videos.
Menkaure is pronounced "Min-car-ray" for those curious. Im guessing Simon either didn't look it up or his pronunciation dictionary didn't have it listed for some strange reason.
This is a Pharaoh's name that's relatively well known given his association with the Great Pyramids of Giza. So pronunciation if his Pharonic name is also relatively well known
"It's best if whoever finds this treasure just pockets whatever gold coins they can, and leaves the rest for the beaurocrats to decide." I have a hypothesis: Many "never found" shipwrecks have in fact been found, but their discoverers chose not to make their findings public, instead profiting from the find. But I don't think it's a very strong hypothesis. If it has happened a lot, you'd expect many more reports of finding sunken vessels to state that the treasure had already been stolen. Instead, it always seems to be untouched.
Just think of how many pirate ships went down during war with the Spanish and British that contained treasure we didn’t know about.
When you think about it, if all the lost gold were to be found today, the value of gold could drop to the point it's just a useless yellow metal (fiscally speaking, it's great for electrical and electronic purposes), which would be nice, would be fun having one's house wired with gold cable instead of copper... :P
205,238 tonnes of gold has been mined throughout history, of which around two-thirds has been mined since 1950. So no, it wouldn't devalue.
Yeah the value of gold moved from one mine a day these days is staggering
I love how lately, no of the end screen video links haven't been what Fact Boi has been saying they are! Haha
It would be nice, tho, if those videos he throws to were linked in cards or the descriptions. Most of them have sounded rather interesting!
Yeah, it's disappointing as I rarely have time to go and search. Meh, that's just me being lazy. But I'm with ya, he shouldn't say they are linked when they aren't. He needs an editor that takes their time and doesn't miss these sorts of things. I love the other channels editors, top notch, like Jen & Sam.
How many of those lost treasures were simply re-appropriated by the ships crews and even the captains
carrying antiquities more like looting.
I once lost a butt plug with 50k in diamonds and made entirely of Pt and Au. It is yet to be recovered.
Har, Matey! And thank ye very muchly for the "TIPS" pertinant to them Drowned Treasures. Pumped life back into me aged bones.
As to the Great Bell of Dhammazedhi... It's where it belongs and has been since 1610. Although popular Social Myth claims it was lost somewhere in a Burmese river (The River Mont de Python), nothing could be farther from the Truth, or its location. I should know, I moved it.
Took the contract in the steamy bowels of Bangkok, that Sailor's Wet Dream of Earthly Delights of Old. Long story short: We loaded it aboard my Ship, The Virgin Cunny, in Bangkok (what's in a name?) and hauled (more like KEELHAULED) it up the Ganges to its confluence with the Brahmaputra. Its ultimate destination: TIBET. Yuh sees, the one that sunk in the River Python was a papier maché copy, which promptly melted as it sank into the murky river. Somewhere in the night preceding, some crafty Tantric Buddhist Priests switched out the entire Raft! BELL and all! ... All papier maché!
The GHANTA of MAHADEVI -- Mother of Reality, is what them crafty Tantric Buddhists call it. The REAL THING was featured (briefly) in the Movie "2012": BING-BONGGGG! Kiss your arse goodbye!
Somehow appropriate for the Dawning of the Age of Unreason...
Mark me words, Sailor, every inch of this tome is true to the mark; dead-on the Cosmic Wazoo, as it were.
Thanks agin' for the Tips. Indeed and practice, TIPS are a Sailor's favorite snack!
Sincerely Yurz,
Cap'n Hannibal "Pissgums" Lecter
Bane of the Seven C's
🤙
p.s.: Love that cranberry sweatshirt!
Thanks
Causing a national shenanigan is now a life goal
Great video
My bed time stories
I wish you wouldn't use background music, it's slightly too loud and just not needed at all.
If you just arrived in a flying Delorean, you won't want to miss this video.
What is one of the quickest ways to " Go Broke" ? Treasure Hunting !
I thought the pyramids weren't tombs because no sarcophagi have been found, nor the usual decorations?
Great video as usual, but the background music was a bit to loud.
At times.
Yeah the sound balance seems off on his more recent videos. I've noticed that on some of his other channels too.
Huh? I thought no mummies have ever been found in any of the Great Pyramids... 😲
.simons old material is bang on😂 repeats
Anyone know what the music is at 3:07?
How in the God's name you manage all theses channels 😱
I'm starting to suspect there actually more than one Simon.
Danny in the basement.............?...Allegedly
Copious amounts of cocaine and Magic Spoon. Allegedly
Speed
The little white pills
The Flor de La Mar is an enormours wasp nest to find since three countries are prepared to fighr to the end when it's found
Whomever animated that bell needs a physics lesson.
Funny how it's not even economical enough to go after some sunken treasure ships, yet people want to go to asteroids to mine things far less valuable and useful than gold.
Dissolve the streets to discover treasure beneath.
We no more about space rather than whats in the ocean
Just an fyi... Lost with the Titanic was not linked on the screen. Instead, two other videos were.
How many different channels you making bro? Taking the mic man. Lol
13 youtube channels and the brainfood podcast. He would have more but he don't do Visualpoltic or Xplrd anymore because reasons
@@leighpowell1062 He also used to have a blog channel back in the days. It didn’t last long though.
Seriously question Fact Boi, are you having so many channels to avoid the kids? I know a bit about diaper duty and how loud kids are.
Simon you should definitely consider the comment below this one👌
What background music is this?
How funny, Simon. I've never heard you use the word "bell" in such a neutral way. 🙂
Yeah...Usually when Simon mentions the word "bell," it's often in relation to the end thereof.
The Peking Man reminds me of a [dirty, lame] joke:
What do you call a Chinese voyeur? - A Peking Tom
Also: Why are there so many foreign artifacts in the British Museum? - That's easy: Gun beats spear
***
About sunken treasures: Is it possible most of those were the crew & captain going through a bunch of hassles, only to get a Sailor's Pay, so they simply absconded with the treasure, changed their names, sank the ship in deep waters, and lived wealthily ever after? If I knew my only Sailor's Bonus was an extra Grog ration for doing something really well and not being whipped for any minor offense...yeeaahhh, some of them gold coins might make me feel a little better about a mutual mutiny.
***
Finally, who's to say some adventurous opportunists did find some of these sunken wrecks in shallow waters, but didn't tell anyone their "fishing trips" weren't angling for Goldfish?
The treasure of the Real Life Gold Roger, Olivier Levasseur is still lost at sea somewhere, or so legend says
I like Sideprojects better than Megaprojects.
Just saying .. It Might have been a good idea to set a few GPS locator tabs in the gold and jewels .. but lets realize people were not that smart .. back in the day.
Oh you know they did, problem is the salt water ate the batteries. They should have put them in zip lock bags..
I must stop binge watching your videos. Your voice has literally started narrating my dreams. It's weird as fuck!! I'm still gonna watch though...
If you eat the Magic Spoon his voice leaves your dreams.
@@StoneInMySandal or is it more that he just lives in my head now and you're reminding me to feed him.
Kinda lame that the example for a "rather enormous compensatory structure " used by the editor at 11:15 is the Freedom Tower built over Ground Zero at the World Trade Center.
Its literally smaller than the two monoliths that used to occupy its space and its construction and facade have a lot of meaning to people with connection to that tragedy and the city.
It was a poor taste choice. The Burj Khalifa too hard to find footage of?
ummmm sorry?......giant hyenas?? fucking hell!!!
oh irony, in commenting on 'grave robbing' of a pyramid, literally recomends .... grave robbing of a shipwreck.
OMG Simon has another channel?!?😅🤣😭
Eventually half of RUclips will be Simon's
Sounds like a Job for Scrooge McDuck!
^_^ John Donne crack much appreciated.
one day i will be adult enought not to laugh at " homo erectus"
btw, James Blunt ? the creepy stalker singing "you're beatiful" guy ?
i will go to land’s end and find the treasure mark mu words
I thought humans evolved in South Africa??
Why don’t people evolve elsewhere?
Silly comment tbh
@@nickcook7408 Uh yeah dude I was referring to the Cradle of Humankind right outside of Johannesburg.
More Kenya
The notification sound effects that you keep using are the worst....
It sounds like my phone is getting messages. Do you troll us on purpose
Sound mixed poorly with music too loud as related to your voice..I'm old....it was hard to understand you.
Can someone answer this question? Just by sure fucking luck and I mean luck 😂😂😂😂 if someone or some organization found any one of theses treasures today, who owns it now????
#not legal advice! 😂😂
Psss, #notlegaladvice! Hahahahahahaha!
Please work on your delivery Simon. Your volume is all over the place.
dude why is your janky background music louder than your voice ? We didn't come here to hear that crap. Skipped
first
I think you have pushed your brand too far, i'm sick of you and unsubscribing from your billion channels
I wish you well and hope you've made a shit load of money.
The idea that Peking Man skull was turned into traditional medicine because it's not made of bone but stone.
I shouldn't have to explain how a fossil is a stone so don't be stupid
It’s mineralized. It’s not stone. Don’t be stupid.
@@StoneInMySandal you don't listen do you you little troll. All stones are minerals. When someone says don't make me explain it, do not say stupid crap, especially to a geologists.
That was the most boring story of lost treasure I've ever heard.
3:00- it's cute how you think the british museum gives a crap about how their antiquities were acquired...
What made Simon act so condescending and arrogant lately??
He’s becoming a walking “captain hindsight”….
What have you ever accomplished? You’re a talking head that reads what smart people wrote for you…
Simon, another channel? Blink twice in your next video if you need to be rescued from the RUclips overlords.
No mention of the one he debuted a few days ago
Everytime I watch one of his videos he announces a new channel..... i think where at double digests by now right?
Menkaure died cd. 2500BC. Oldest known gold coins are from 6th century BC. So, there probably was no gold coins in the ship transporting Menkaures sarcophagus - unless they were discovered from a ca. 2000 year newer site.
The real treasure was the friends... nope, the gold was the treasure.
I find the music between each story is somehow both relaxing and unsettling. It could even be the music that first plays after you die lol
When will they make the transition music match the volume of the rest of the video 🙉
Looted and Plundered Treasures being claimed by the ocean...
How in the frick does he do all these freaking channels I just found out about decoding the unknown
I can't hear this video. Can you mix the sound up next time please?
just wait a few billion years when our sun turns into a red giant and boil away the ocean 😂
Coins didn't exist at the time of the pyramids.
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
There are of course many other lost treasure ships.
I'm in South Africa. A well known one here is of the treasure of the Grosvenor. It was a British galleon returning to Britain from India, in the 1700's, and ran aground at the southeast coast.
Cinnamon is for elves.
Want a table this evening?
The dude with the power strip really hut hard on you xD! It like the Pedro Lopez of "Decoding the unknown"
WHAT?!slow down!!
BIOGRAPHIC: Albuquerque, Master of the Indian Ocean.