18 Excellent Archaeological Facts
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
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Its my day off, I've got my coffee and toast, now give me my FACTS, FACT BOY.
fact boy.
Fact me hard
ahh yes! this fact me right up
😂
Fact this guy
"Nothing says 'making babies' like a spider with knives"
...definitely pushed my laugh button.
Hey some of us are turned on by different stuff :v
Maybe it's more of a "Make babies, or else..." thing
@@Sol-mr1lv that's exactly what turns me on :v
This channel is becoming Simon's archeology channel. I am not complaining!
I might would give up time team if Simon did actual archaeology vids lol
Suits me too. I mostly, really only, watch history related channels anyway.
@@joeyr7294 hard call that.
I appreciate than more than videos on war machines.
@@joeyr7294 Time Team is too good. I'd have to have both.
That'd be Chris over at Clickspring creating the tools and re-creating the Antikythera
Yup! Awesome videos and beautiful work! 😁
If anyone is interested in more info on the Antikythra Mechanism there’s a really good PBS NOVA episode that was released ~10yrs ago. Definitely worth a watch
Not only is Chris (Clickspring) remaking it, he has identified modern errors in the gear sets and corrected them. He has written a paper on it as well.
His workmanship is outstanding!
THAT gets #1 on my list. I mean DAFUQ? Amazing old wonderfulness to the Nth degree.
One of my favorites
"Giant spiders with knives"
Someone's been tapping into my nightmares
Meso-American mythology was pretty messed up
they didnt even show it
@TheJudgmentalCat is that spider over there smiling at you,,,,,,🕷🔪
Wait until they get guns. That should be a reason against the 2nd ammendment
Former archaeologist here! I can confirm it’s A LOT of lab work. But it’s fascinating lab work and surprisingly a lot of fun!
Do you get much field work? I don’t know if I pursued a degree like that if I’d want to mostly be in a lab. But I do love history.
What was it like in that sort of career any interesting conversations or theories?
the line between channels are blurry and I love it
I especially love seeing the influence of Beard Blaze .... I mean Business Blaze creeping into his other channels.
Clickspring rebuilt the crazy greek calendar.
LEGEND. You must be an OGBB.
One of my favorite channels. He also created a working clock from scratch.
@@AlanTuringWannabe It is so calming. Two minutes in and I am dead asleep. Works better than Ambien. Bob Ross with a lathe.
@@GuntherRommel #freedanny
He hasn’t finished it has he? Unless I’ve been unsubscribe to him without my knowledge
The narration between 16:40 - 17:03 made me feel like I'd been using some paraphernalia of my own.
Yep! Simon does the Time Loop!
@@moodymillennial me too
Yeah, and they gave two different sets of dates for the same thing.
BCE/CE? It's just a letter, almost the same thing
CLICKSPRING is the channel making an antikythera mechanism! One of my favorite channels.
THANK YOU SO MUCH
I'm a little late but, thank you!
I love how each of Simon's new channels start off with one goal and slowly morph into one topic. Megaprojects is the Cold War stuff. Business Blaze is giving Simon a chance to blow off steam.
Isn't that what business blaze had always been?
Yea I see where one would come to that conclusion. I still find it kinda funny yet amazing that him and his team basically went full content farm during the beginning stages of the pandemic while keeping the content entertaining and engaging while not becoming repetitive or boring.
I love that channel lul
Business Blaze is Simon on coke.
18 minutes 18 facts, you love to see it.
In all honesty, having seen the Rosetta Stone was one of coolest moments in my life. Totally history nerd here!!
I felt the same way when I stumbled upon Archaeopteryx. It was just sitting there in a backroom of the... I think it was the Natural History museum in London. Just sitting there like it wasnt one of the most epic fantastic pieces of history to unlock our past world. The Rosetta Store was much larger then I'd ever pictured it. Would LOVE to sit down in a presentation with it and have someone explain and go between the languages.
4:01 YT channel Click Spring is recreating it with contemporary tools and techniques
Unfortunately, Clickspring has not posted a video in over 5 months, hope they start back up
@@guyorsini1044 as far as I know the project was interrupted because he first published a paper with some of his findings. I am sure he will be back.
Click Spring posted a complete set of videos on the antikythera mechanism. i watched them all and i don't see anything missing
The Giant-Spider-with-knives deserves it's own video. If that's the fertility goddess, I'd like to see the rest of the pantheon...Cthulhu move over! 🕷️⚔️😸
😂
There is a chance even they used the spider as a symbol for women. No idea what the knives have to do with fertility, though.
@@mikitz Historically speaking, phallic symbology tends to be associated with men. If the spider is a symbol of femininity, maybe the spider having multiple knives is an indication of some sort of reverse harem (One female with multiple male lovers/spouses) situation.
...or maybe the whole spider monster girl fetish is older than otaku/weeb coomers think and this symbol is just straight up a spider girl giving eight simultaneous hand(foot?)jobs
I’m not sure where this recent find was in Peru, but a spider god is not uncommon. Ai Apaec, also known as the Decapitator God, is a Moche god often depicted with a tumi knife, sometimes taking the form of a spider or a mountain. He was their chief deity and the Moche held state-sponsored blood sport and sacrifice in his honor. The Moche were a pre-Inca culture in northern Peru.
@@friedrichsanktgermain7632 ....probably not but maybe.
I lost count of the number of times I burst out laughing during this video! Very good info, really interesting, but my GODS the humor! I can't safely drink water while watching anything Simon posts anymore, haha!
I’ve inhaled coffee watching BB, I nearly drowned myself with coffee. (Not an advised activity, it stings the nasal passages as it tries to escape)
The trick is to dehydrate for the sake of the video.
I see Buisness Blaze is leaking into Side Projects a little bit, and I approve.
@xirsamoht x SMASH THAT DISLIKE BUTTON!
@@kurtjoseph6232 Danny can't do these scripts he can only examine his own excrement and the copious dead insects in the basement, maybe Simon should start a basement architectural channel, Danny has first hand experience there.
Yeah BB is leaking into all his channels, I think fact boy is slipping a gear... totally fine with that 👌
I actually took a course to learn to read Akkadian Cuneiform in College. I only remember the symbol for beer, Simon. I was in college after all.....
I can relate. I only remember what relates to Sumerian heptatonic scales.
I knew if I looked I would find at least one person
So, you remember only the important stuff that applies to real life is what you're telling me!?
Funny thing is, I'm actually trying to teach myself Sumerian cuneiform. The alphabet and numerical system are fairly simple, but I'm struggling with context and phraseology. Unfortunately Rosetta Stone doesn't offer courses on Sumerian.
Me too. There’s a decent youtube channel. 🤓
@@chrisallen8139 what's it called? I'd be interested in checking it out.
I bought college archeology books years ago and self taught myself Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian, Sumerian, and Mesopotamian cuneiform. XD
Its a lot of fun! Im not as fluent as I use to be, but I love being able to go to museums and being able to read some of the artifacts on display
Nebekenezr ? Find morpheous, he will show you what you want to know.
@@nicholasfeiock7873 ....lol.
The effort clickspring and others he's worked with is amazing .
what? try english again dude.
@@MrOrchidion Clickspring is the YT guy who reproduced the Antykethera Mechanism.
@@MrOrchidion
The effort put in by click spring and the others he's worked has been outstanding.
Happy now 'dude'?
You obviously could see what I was trying to say but did it make you feel better about yourself correcting me on such a simple wording issue? 😂
Actually, Joshua, I was a little confused, too. Thanks for clarifying!
8:50 I like to imagine Irving Finkel eating popcorn & watching Sideprojects!
I want a guest appearance! Let Irv read some of the texts for us and lend some extra insights.
Awesome! He'd be a great guest!!!✌️😸
‘Thank god 2020 is over’, it’s starting to look like 2020 was just a warm up for 2021.
Simon's channels are just morphing into BB 2.0 and BB light, and I'm here for it!
@xirsamoht x I don't think they'll ever be identical. BB is a special flavour. But I love seeing him be more himself and having fun with it.
My wife is an archeologist and I can confirm there are lots of bricks.
0:20 - Chapter 1 - Finders not keepers
1:20 - Chapter 2 - Cheese dreams
2:20 - Chapter 3 - Under the sea
3:15 - Chapter 4 - Artifacts to the stars
4:15 - Chapter 5 - Stone temple giants
5:15 - Chapter 6 - The cave of horror
6:10 - Chapter 7 - My little unicorn
7:10 - Chapter 8 - The spider god is coming
8:00 - Chapter 9 - The OG archeologist
9:05 - Chapter 10 - What came first ?
10:05 - Chapter 11 - The past got hotter
11:10 - Chapter 12 - Let's get experimental
11:45 - Chapter 13 - Beware of greek bearing ships
12:45 - Chapter 14 - Blow up pompei
13:35 - Chapter 15 - How old is old
14:30 - Chapter 16 - Stone cold shoulder
15:40 - Chapter 17 - The modern mummy
16:35 - Chapter 18 - Just say nomad
I have some experience reading cuneiform, specifically pre-Sargonite ones. Sadly the books are unobtainium now, and you do really need them because it doesn't work like letters in the same way we have them now, it is more like Chinese or Japanese where a series of strokes together form a part of a phrase. As I recall later cuneiform is a bit less like that but as it often borrows from the old system you'd have to know both to read it.
“Does he keep stuff?”
*”IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!”*
Simon needs another channel for archeological facts, stories.
Omg don’t give him more ideas, even youtube has only so much space. 😂
His family may want to see him
Indy put everything either in a museum or under research by top men
The university bought his stuff. “No questions asked”
As a kid, my best friend was thracian. His Grandad used to sit in the grape arbor, drinking home made wine, smoking weed and telling stories about the glory days of the thracians and scythians. Cultural basis for his recreation? He bred horses as well. His favorite "joke" was that thracians had magic swords that could turn one greek into two.
ClickSpring is the channel Simon is referring to
Thanks!
Loved this format. Light, entertaining as well as being informative. I, for one, would definitely like to see more vids done in this style. Where were you when I was doing history at school? As an idea for another topic, how about amusing anecdotes from the world of rock and pop music? Just a thought.
I think it would be hilarious, and fitting, if Simon became the world's most knowledgeable man simply by hosting all these videos.
"In 2013 archeologists found some paraphernalia..."
I was surprised I heard this twice
I thought simons programming tripped
@@SRW_ he has to calibrate himself
video suggestion prob for biographics - augustus pitt rivers !! probably the modern founder of archaeology, founded a rad and weird museum in oxford its one of my fave places !! probably technically stole a lot of his stuff (oops)
the original butser story would be a niche but awesome one for geographics, a group of people lived there unknown to the modrrn residents as an experiment for over a year in the 70s, Lindybeige did an interview set with one of the participents :>
also re: bricks , i studied archaeology for 3 years at college and because of where i am all of my training sites were roman , i never want to see tessarae again , so many tubs , so much catalogging
If ever there was a time when I wanted Irv to leave a comment in a video. . . That would be epic, Irv giving Simon a cuneiform lesson and reading a bit of the texts for us.
Dr. Finkel’s spidey senses are tingling. With knives.
@@nmcgunagle
Hell yeah, can you imagine how he'd school Simon?
That old mechanism thing has always blown my mind
The world’s oldest wine cellar and the excavation at Megiddo! How did these get left out?
"It belongs in a museum!" Indiana Jones
...says the character who happily looted the world to sell stuff to his friend's American museum.
So do you!!!
The giant wooden horse may not be so odd: In the Illiad the Trojans are referred to as the Breakers of Horses. (Troy was also located in an area conducive for trade or tolls--and one of the more important items for export would have been horses.) One dawn The Trojans looked out on the beach to find that the Greek invaders gone, replaced by a sign of obeisiance or perhaps capitulation: a huge wooden horse. Honoring their status of the Breakers of Horses.
I think most people understand that the Trojan horse is metaphorical. I'm constantly trying to explain to people that your enemy can come in under any number of disguises. The old wolf in sheep's clothing is another Trojan horse metaphor. I think it's pretty cool that this channel rings attention to these topics.
This channel is becoming Simon's 'Other videos' channel. I am not complaining!
Bomb disposing archaeologists sounds like something found while sweeping the floor in Steven Spielberg's office.
It's odd that unicorns are not real, but yet a spotted horse with a 12' neck is
nobody is gonna point the fact that Simon did a *“bada bum bum tsss”* outside of Business Blaze?
so fun to see _“The Blaze”_ leaking slowly but surely into Simon’s other channels
Enjoyed the format. Fast Facts from Whistler's Beard, guaranteed to inform your day.
The channel for the Antikythera Mechanism is called Clickspring
Happy birthday, Simon! I really enjoy the content you create and hope you will be making videos long into the future.
Simon of BB coming out more and more. I love it Blaze boi.
In 2013, archeologists in Southern Russia discovered some paraphernalia belonging to the Siberian Nomads who were renowned for being pretty scary horse riding warriors around 700-200 AC.
Everyone thinks they're first, tell they refresh the page!
why a spider with knifes just why, i really like to think that the people from that time were just fucking around cause WTF that is nightmare fuel right there😂
Teaching the cat to use a cross bow.
He loves a good fight.
It's not unlikely that the people who made it were on nightmare fuel drugs, so that's what they came up with.
Oooo! You've introduced me to and piqued my fascination! Going to do some research on the Scythian Nomads. Thanks!
Great vid!
The channel is Clickspring, very interesting to see the precision he achieves in toolmaking and recreating all the bits and bobs.
OOOOH. My Thursday NEEDED an extra-long Sideprojects! Like button smashed!
"It belongs in a Museum" - indiana Jones
As a physics engineer that teaches mathematics, I loved to learn that Leibniz believed in a strange 🦄. Why not, the guy for sure had a great imagination 😆. I need a strange mathematician facts now!!!!
I'm mostly listen to these on my rounds working security or when I'm at home doing my half an hour every day of cleaning up, they keep me strangely motivated
Love this video.. fascinating! Absolutely love this channel 😊💕
Interesting and great fun! Thank you, Simon!
I think this is the first video on this channel I've watched, and I can't seem to get over the fact that this is a different room then we normally see on the other channels😅
A basket ten thousand years old... bloody amazing.
Mr, Whistler the recreation is on the Clickspring RUclips
Antikythera was remade by Clickspring. He has a whole set of vids making it, well worth checking.
Excellent. Thanks for the information.
From a metal detectorist the could was backwards....I will send you stock footage of a metal deyextor being used properly. You can get it all right especially with how many AWESOME videos you put on in your channel. I hope you're making bank from it Simon, you deserve it and your videos ROCK 🤘🤘🤙
"Because nothing screams 'making babies' like a GIANT SPIDER with KNIVES."
Made my evening. And I'm sure will also make my Pulp Cthulhu mini-campaign, if it ever happens.
Amazing work though like usual Simon. Keep blazing the great work fact boi.
Love all your archaeological posts!
soo, i just searched Pavlopetri..on youtube..its a rabbit hole..this channel is ! love it
TopEighteenz 🤣. I have no idea how well this video will do but I enjoyed it. Hopefully you make more like it!
"The story of the wooden horse of Troy is a bunch of.....
*MANURE* " 🥁
-Simon
Certainly some of your best work yet. I am still laughing.
Unicorns are definitely true I had one, funny enough it run away when my doctor change my medication, not sure if it’s linked
Please make another long archeology video? I've watched this 3 times
I love archeological facts. In answer to your opening...the question “who doesn’t love...”
I'm envious of Euorpe and other places because there is so much archeology right under your own homes and stuff lol. I'm American so we don't really have much of that. I'd love to dig up my garden and find Roman artifacts or bronze age pottery etc.
@Spartan625
Yeah, I was in England ,1979. Saw castles older than 1200's
and I was pretty much in awe.
I found a 1950's DQ whistle ,digging up dirt for a garden!WHOO HOO!
If you live in Texas or California, there are plenty of Native American artifacts to be found! I found tons of arrowheads in my backyard in Texas and saw a painted rock scorpion in Los Padres park in California! (The Native Americans in that area, I forget their names tbh, were known to paint caves a lot)
Yeah i know the feeling.
Yes. You do. Literally everywhere you step here in America has had humans here for eons before. Us white people are still too damned ashamed to bother to discover, find, teach, and remember the millions upon millions of people we murdered to make room for us. So we could pretend we're full up and have a border crisis. Meanwhile Europe is half the size and 200 million more population today.
To be perfectly fair, if you were going to build a wooden horse construct to give as a gift (hidden soldiers or no), you would use existing infrastructure and techniques to source and shape that wood. Said wood fragments bearing evidence of having been processed by a shipyard or even having spent time in the ocean isn’t evidence AGAINST a giant wooden horse construct- its quite logical that in order to build it quickly, they would have needed to repurpose drydocked ships or stored lumber.
It makes a lot more sense (and is more intriguing tbh) that a gift of a ship would be accepted over a wooden horse large enough to hide several soldiers in, and history is rife with examples of these mistranslations or idioms with lost context. But the past was also the past sometimes, both in actual events and mythos. For all we know, the legend of Troy’s founding centered on a divinely guided horse, so such a gift would have unusual significance to them.
It was probably the boat though.
Have to say having ADD I love the jumping around in this one.
Just brilliant thank you.
One of your better ones. Put this one in the archive
Excellent. Please do another
Gee, thanks, Simon, for taking me back to "It, pt. 2"
Clickspring is the channel making the ancient mechanism.
As an archeologist I hereby give you a well deserved thumb up... :)
Greetings simon! You're spot on about the ayodhya issue.
UNICORNS ARE REAL TOO 😭
Pretty sure Irving Finkle is fluent in that ancient writing.
LITTLE BUTTSER. 🤣😂
4:05 the youtube channel you are talking about is called Clickspring.
8:27 The depiction of that person can be found on megalithic ruins dating back to 10,000-15,000 ago ALL OVER THE WORLD. That same carving can be found in Peru, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and it always has a man wearing a hat like that, holding a pine cone/corn cob, with a wristwatch/bracelet and a bucket/hand bag. Sometimes they have him wearing a FISH hat or a Lizard Hat. This goes along with how all the oldest megalithic ruins are built/engineered the same way- huge 50 ton blocks carved with multiple sides and fitted together precisely to where a human hair can not fit in between the blocks.
“If anyone actually reads cuneiform, let me know in the comments.”
Irving Finkel has entered the chat
Damn you Simon an your multiple channels! you got me again.
Clickspring is channel you were trying to remember.
Was it Christmas somewhere today?! 😁😁 Fantastic!
"Clickspring" amazing channel making the Antykathera mechanism!
Simply put, more!
I absolutely love you Simon!!
Your shit is always right on point.
I have no idea how you discover your content,but you is good.2 good.
I'll keep watching this channel...
The most common artifact I found on digs were fire cracked rock. Literal pounds of fire cracked rock for any digs of plains tribe American Indian dig sites.
Same everywhere, it’s a sure thing for human activity when, in a, confined, area you find evidence of burning.
For many things other than warmth or cooking. Smelting, pottery and brick production...
@@HelensHistoryHunting2023 I've mostly done excavations in Montana and the Dakota's at bison butchering sites and at the end of the season I'd have tons of fire cracked rock from where they had dug pits in the ground to boil the bones. A few years back I got to take a look at the archaeological storage for Yellowstone and they had barrels just filled with the stuff.
Love the archaeology turn!!!
To be clear about something, whether it's ever done or not...
Digging up beanie babies will never be a worthwhile archaeological pursuit.
yes this was fun and easy to follow
Facts from the fact boy. Great video.
The wet suit fetish part cracked me up. 😂