The Original Seven Wonders of Antiquity
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Wonders? Psh. If you really want to impress me, BUILD SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T FALL DOWN.
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If I had to pick just one to go back and see, I’m definitely picking the
*Hanging Gardens Of Babylon*
Well that may of may not have existed. If I could go back and see anything it would be Tenochtitlan
Always thought the lighthouse of Alexandria looked like a new york skyscraper from the early 1900s
Yes, I too have noticed that...looks in many ways like the old Woolworth building for sure...
@@chicomarx213 Yeah exactly looks pretty similar
Ahead of its time
The aesthetic of ancient Egypt and Greece were very popular amongst architects in the early 20th century and you can find all kinds of little references to the ancient world in the buildings of 100 years ago. It was part of a decades long trend in art romanticizing all things "exotic." If you want to have your mind blown take a deep dive into the movies of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Free-masonry
1:45 - Chapter 1 - The lighthouse of Alexandria
3:55 - Chapter 2 - The mausoleum at halicarnassus
5:50 - Chapter 3 - The temple of artemis
7:40 - Chapter 4 - The statue of zeus at olympia
9:10 - Chapter 5 - The colossus of rhodes
10:55 - Chapter 6 - Hanging gardens of babylon
12:30 - Chapter 7 - The great pyramid
14:10 - Chapter 8 - The world wonders
Anyone else noticed how many of these are mysteriously Greek?
Not quite as bad as the "World Series" of baseball (American teams play against... American teams (and one Canadian team)
I love how Top 10s are basically as old as humanity itself.
They were poorer in the past though, so they had to settle for a top 7 list.
It's some nice travel recommendations of course so you could also call it a bucket list.
No, maybe as old as written history but humanity is much older than that...
@@Soniciscool1214 We may have no evidence of it but I'm sure people shared information about unusual and interesting sites as soon as they aquired speech or probably even earlier. I mean even bees do it.
"I'm Herodotus and welcome to TopTenz."
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
True, dude.
Sideproject: The amount of time it takes to watch all videos with Simon in them. Massive project.
Looks like "Business Blaze" is bleeding out to all other Simon's channels XD
Masai Saito I just commented this on another comment bringing this up, saying, ‘Simon’s real personality keeps coming through. Once he opened that bottle, he just can’t get his sarcastic, extremely humorous, potty mouth genie back in that bottle. As a Blaze fanatic, I love it.’
Or....cocaine. *ALLEGEDLY*
I was wondering on how to wonder on this wonderful wonder of a video. I will now wonder on, in a wide world of wonder.
I'd love to see a Sideproject on the 7 "New" Wonders of the World (Great Wall of China, Petra, Colosseum, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer)
Or how about:
Tower of the Winds
The Theater of Dionysius
The Lost Labyrinth of Egypt
The Great Ziggurat of Ur
Derinkuyu The Forgotten Underground City
Sigiriya Complex (aka Lions Rock)
@@josephteller9715 Oh wow! Never heard of those but jumping on Wikipedia right now! 👍🏼
@@onepiecepedia have you seen this ruclips.net/video/-pcKC_X-1Hg/видео.html
Or better still ruclips.net/video/B2Jl4HNDixc/видео.html
Or tenochtitlan
Petra, in particular the Treasury building, is part of the ancient world. The Treasury was built contemporaneously to the Flavian Amphitheatre aka the Colosseum.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria is my favorite ancient wonder. It must have been jaw-dropping at the time and I would have loved to visit it if I had lived during that time.
Another great video Simon & team. Entertaining and informative video as always 👌
I just got the image of the Colossus of Rhodes gloriously straddling the harbor and teabagging every ship. "Welcome to Rhodes." He would whisper as he stares at every sailor intensely.
My favourite ancient wonder for sure! Someone needs to build a replica in their harbour.
Perhaps I would finally witness a sack Larger than my own 🧐
This may be too small for side projects, but if not, it is interesting. It involves a project that was planned with multiple dams to control flooding on the Hudson River in New York State. As the population along the Hudson grew in the late 19th century, the annual flooding killed people and destroyed property. The state ordered that much of the Adirondack Mountain region should be surveyed, but nothing probably would have happened if it had not been for the advent of electricity as a commodity. Once there was the potential for a buck to be made from damming the Hudson River and tributaries [allegedly] was known, they got serious about building dams. They started with a big dam at Conklingville that controlled the flow of the Sacandaga River. Building this dam forced all the famers and other residents of the Sacandaga Valley out. It also surprised virtually everyone. After the gates closed in 1930, the Conklingville Dam and one other virtually ended flooding downstream at Albany, Troy, Menands, etc. That meant none of the other proposed dams were built. Eventually the Sacandaga Reservoir became the Great Sacandaga Lake. I headed a project for the local newspaper to produce a supplement that celebrated the dam's 75th anniversary. It completely changed the area. There still is occasional contention between the residents and the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District that controls the lake levels. I think this could make an interesting story for this channel. What do you think [allegedly]?
Herodotus, facts boy's aka Simon's ancient Greek counterpart
Not sure how much of his information sources were trustworthy though and how much was simply hearsay. But then the difference is difficult even today. Maybe esp. today as so much more information is floating around and accessable.
@@kaltaron1284 well indeed some things in ancient texts is better to be taken with a grain of salt like the total numbers of armies and how they can " drain rivers" feeding their horses but monuments usually are well preserved or at least we can assume how they where by their ruins 😉
the same thing goes about scientific discoveries although some of them are attributed to legendary or even mythical people we can roughly tell when the discovery was made..
As for the flow of information back then, just imagine how difficult would have been to duple check facts,, i mean even today in the age of digital information some times is difficult to make what is fake news and what actually worth your attention..
i thought it was "simon, known as peter", not "simon, known as herodotus"... ;p
Dear Simon; I so love it. You never disappoint. Always something to learn and think about. I’m going to get a hot cup tea and listen to your show. It’s the perfect way to start the day. Thanks 👍
Sideproject video idea: The Simon Whistler RUclips Empire
Or Danny’s set-up in the basement.
Great video. It's nice having quality content in less than 20 minutes.
Hello, I'd like to suggest the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec city. I'm from Montreal, Canada and I love Quebec's story. I think it would be great for the viewers to know our history a bit more.
Thanks for your videos !!!
I’ve been to the 8th wonder so to speak, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia. That would make a good Mega Projects episode.
That's seriously cool. If you wanted to share some pictures on a place like imgur and leave a link, that'd be even cooler.
@@thisistherevolt Isn't it? It's a magical place. Here are my photos on Flickr. The big occasion was Timkat, or the Epiphany, which is the biggest holiday of the year.
www.flickr.com/photos/10186213@N07/sets/72157600875770945/
60 minutes did a piece on the churches in Ethiopia.... Looks AMAZING!!
Aren't there like a couple dozen "8th wonders"?
I would love the idea of maybe a series of the different wonders of the ancient world from other lists complied. It would be interesting to know what other wonders did not make the seven wonders. Thanks for the video.
i wonder if he saw this comment bc he did end up making that exact video a year after you originally commented this !! 🤯
To paraphrase another video -
"I am become Simon, destroyer of words"
heh. Still the best thing on RUclips these days.
He didn’t read the quote incorrectly, it’s just his pronunciation. Allegedly.
It would be interesting to see a Simon Whistler curated list of the 7 Wonders of Antiquity, that goes outside the Greek world
Reminds me of that Xena episode where rather than a Miss World pageant, they had Miss *Known* World.
The single story thatched roof mud huts African built should have made the list.
I haven't even watched the rest of the video yet, but I know it's gonna be great cus that intro gave me serious Business Blaze vibes. Also all your stuff is pretty good so its kinda a given.
Why is this in "sideprojects"? Each of these was very much a megaproject in their own time. To proportionally match the scale of those projects today, we'd have to like build a 2 km tall suspension bridge for bullet trains across the Pacific ocean, or like build a space elevator, or like a 10 km floating island city.
like dubai?
@@cynicalminion Nope. Dubai has artificial islands that were made by dumping sand into the sea. I was referring to how some have suggested to construct actually floating islands to create more living room and to have these float in warmer oceans.
@@SmartassX1 or we could just figure out a way to fuse the south pacific garbage patch...
Love they way you tell your stories.
AKA, Top Ten: Reasons Humanity Can't Have Nice Things.
Bloody earthquakes :(
Hello Simon. My comment is this. After watching your channel I have concluded that if any of my college professors had your diction and interesting presentation my education would have been worth the massive amount of money I had to pour into the university. I enjoy each of your “projects.”😎
Simon you are cranking brother ...keep up the stellar work
Love it, Megaproject on all of em!!!!!! Is the Hanging gardens of babylon the tower of babyl? It would have been the tallest building ever in the region, thus the name tower.
"The ascent to the highest story is by stairs, and at their side are water engines, by means of which persons, appointed expressly for the purpose, are continually employed in raising water from the Euphrates into the garden."
- Strabo
The Classical period was dogged by earthquakes, it makes one wonder why we chose to stay in the area.
Probably because at the time, everything that happened in everyone's daily life wasn't out of free will. Everything, bad and good, was dictated by the Gods. So if an Earthquake destroyed something, then that meant the Gods were unhappy with what was previously there, so they would rebuild (or attempt to) bigger and better. That's just a guess by me, however, so don't take that as a fact.
Cause in strategy if you want to last you choose to build where is difficult and not where it’s easy ;). This is not just a would be clever remark, is true and explains why some civs are long lost and this one is still living and gone global ;)
So if you had to compile a list of Wonders of the Ancient world, what timeframe would you use and what would you put on the list. (Doesn't have to be 7, top 10 or whatever is also perfectly fine.)
The 7 wonders are just a „sideproject“ ? Wow.... 😜
Wondered about that too. Esp. as a single one of them had a megaprojects episode.
But hey, the distinction on these channels is blurry and I don't really care.
@@kaltaron1284 well let's be real. It's not a fighter plane so they can't really qualify it as a "mega" project 🤣
Maybe the fact that they are on Side Projects and not Megaprojects can be the 8th wonder????
Geographics?
The wonders themselves are megaprojects, compiling the list would belong here. Spending a decade visiting all 7 would be a big endeavor, but not on a "Megaprojects" scale.
Simon and co. Your in my good books because if your videos on Ireland. Big thank you. Nice to see
13:09 I suddenly start listening to the video. Stoned a little. It is all good, I will watch it again. Heck, I don't even know what he is talking about. This could happen more than once. I left this as a note to remind me that I was once here.
Ancients: This pinnacle of human power and achievement will stand for eternity.
Earth's crust: Get it off.
"It would be improper for one god to build a temple for another god."
Now that is how to turn down an offer from the most powerful man on earth.
Ive seen 2 out of the 7 current wonders of the world, The Coliseum in Rome and Chichen Itza. I was able to climb to the top of Chichen Itza and look around the rooms there. Unfortunately today, they no longer allow folks to go to the top and Im glad i was able to do it when you could.
I am subscribed to every channel that Simon has but i'm always shocked when he brings out a new one! How does he do it?
I have been listening to Simon before he grew his lush beard. 😁❤️
Indeed, the "7 Wonders of Ancient Greece" is more accurate considering global enterprises, then as now ...
I got a bit confused when BCE & CE was used. I asked my sister to “google” it & they mean Before the Common Era & Common Era, they’re used sometimes from there similar counter parts of BC & AD.
Same here.
It is all about getting Christianity out of history. Allah forbid we stick with tradition if it could offend someone somewhere in the world.
I still wonder if it has been somehow confirmed that the great pyramid really is made of 2.3 million stone blocks, OR if a great volume of it is just earth/mud/pebbles/sand and the blocks only cover a couple of the outer layers (and the inside chambers of course)! I haven't found a definitive answer for this.
The interiior structure indicates it is blocks all throughout, not a mound of rubble that has bedn encased in a layer of blocks.
literal wonders of the world would just be a side project for Simon
Your backgrounds (green screens?) are very stylish. Please can I live in them? Also, I was wondering, do you ever sleep? Really enjoy your channels...all of them. Best lockdown entertainment by far. Thank you. Cheers from Annie, in wet, windy, definitely dismal, Cornwall.
These channels must be some of the best yt channels out there...
No Like-hunting.
No sponsor advertising.
Clean sound.
Great formats.
One presenter. (And an awesome one)
To the point.
And a bit witty at times.
Do you have any patron to support?
Ancient wonder: exists*
Earthquakes: "I'm gonna do what's called a PRO GAMER MOVE."
1) highlight history
2) Simon Whistler (his vlog channel)
3) today i found out
4) top tenz
5) biographics
6) Geographics
7) Business blaze
8) mega projects
9) side projects
10) the casual criminalist (podcast)
jesus... lmao how have you not burnt out yet
The rebuilding of London, after the Great Fire.
Suggestion for your new podcast: Isn't Death Hilarious? merch. You have a little one to take care of now and, kids are expensive. Again, kudos to your wife for being so supportive of your endeavors. And letting you keep Danny in the basement.🤫
I would buy something that said that but I might wait on wearing anything like that for a while. A poster would be a definite purchase!
After watching the video you made on the topic, I’m pretty much on board with the pyramid being made of an ancient concrete.
Last time I was this early, my wife stopped talking to me.
It happens.
You mean last time you came this early?
i'm surprised that some of them actually survived till the middle ages
Simon's about to have the 7 wonders of RUclips. HOW MANY CHANNELS CAN ONE MAN HAVE???
For a video suggestion how about a look at the 7 Wonders of the World to see what makes them special?
Then look at some Existing or New Buildings / Statues to try guessing what will make the list, if it was extended to 10 or even 15.
Might be surprised Michelangelo's David could be in there with the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Or Michelangelo's David could miss out because it's been loaned out to different museums an one of the critical to make the list is that people must travel to see the Wonders?
Allegedly they were tombs Simon, Allegedly.
Yeah, Alleged by people who cannot handle rethinking what they were taught.
People like that hold back society.
@@ladykoiwolfe That said, most people who haunt YT sites on this subject have only mere conjecture regarding your claims they never were tombs, and no real evidence backed by research. Free thinking is fine, but uncritical acceptance of free thinking is also foolish and also holds back society.
No, they were tombs, as evidenced by artefacts such as sarcophagi found within them, the written works of ancient Egyptians describing their funerary purpose, the village and records of at least some tomb makers, including details such as how much they were paid, and an entire ancient Egyptian religion with its single-minded devotion to the preservation of corpses.
@@artistjoh so how did a ppl who had no concept of the wheel build such a complex “tomb” considering at the proposed academic time of construction their grandads were hunter gatherers, makes more sense that they inherited the Giza plateau complex
@@OzMate79 Just because your people at the time were hunter gatherers doesn't mean it was the case all over the globe.
Civilizations were built on agriculture. the Egyptian civilization existed two thousands of years before the construction of the great pyramid. and by civilization I mean cities, capitals, laws, courts, ruling systems, religious and administrative systems etc.
Hut dwelers do not count as civilizations. cultures, maybe, but certainly not civilizations.
so, for 2 thousand years the civilization was already established. and their grandparents were artisans who taught them the same professions since professions like masonry and military were family professions in ancient egypt passed down from generation to another. those pyramid builders who were chosen from the best masons in the country, were the sons and grand sons of the best masons of the previous generations, not "hunter gatherers" lol
And btw the concept of wheels was well around at the time because this was how they irrigated water via irrigation wheels that transport water from canals to the elevated ground and those drawings are on ancient walls, interestingly enough the exact same method is still used in family owned traditional farms in the country to this day.
sorry to disappoint you, but there was no atlantis or a mysterious alien race, just humans who put their minds into doing something. Just like the humans of today could go on space exploration
@10:55 @12:05 see "Secrets of the Dead" video about Stephanie Dalley whose research strongly suggests the Hanging Gardens were in Nineveh. The ruins outside Mosul seem to be where the gardens existed.
How was it possible for ancients to build such large things without heavy equipment? Another video?
I'm not saying it was aliens but it was aliens. LOL.
Massive whips
sometimes i think about the wonders, technology, and knowledge that humanity used to have, and have since lost, and completely forgotten about, and it depresses me. so much greatness lost to time.
Greetings!
Simon, I'm a big fan from Brazil. I love your British accent, it's very elegant. However, I have a hard time understanding when you say dates, weights and measurements. Would it be possible to put these numbers on the screen while you speak? It would greatly help the cognition of those who are not native English speakers. Thank you :D
Best Simon intro, that isn't from the Blaze
I swear I can see more and more of Blaze leaking into Simons other channels
@@redlightning2322 Simon’s real personality keeps coming through. Once he opened that bottle, he just can’t get his sarcastic, extremely humorous, potty mouth genie back in that bottle. As a Blaze fanatic, I love it.
@@deemariedubois4916 hes going to do a biographics and then start yelling at Danny to shut up
The obvious suggestion to this video is to make a video about the lost city of Atlantis also described by the ancient greek writer Herodotus.
And could you make a video about the lost civilizations of South America and the wunders the jungle might have consumed.
This dude is his own pub trivia team
Does anyone know what coins may have struck from the salvaged bronze of the Collosus? It would be cool to own one.
Suggestion: do the three Boeing plants in the Puget Sound - Seattle, Renton and Everett. It's and interesting and complex evolution.
Love your program. May I ask which channel the criminal project is. It doesn’t state below. Apologies, I’m not good at this Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺
Hearing Simon say “Nebuchadnezzar” (twice!) was fun.
There’s at least a couple you’ve missed
Angkor wat Vietnam
Kailash temple India
These 2 easily deserved to be on your list
They far outweigh in complexity than most of what’s been shown
But these are The 7 Antient Wonders. All built before common era, Angkor wat was built in 12th century, Kailash 7th
@@forzee42 , if think 1300 years ago is reasonably ancient, and certainly a wonder as engineers can’t work out how it was “excavated” (not constructed) and there’s no rubble from the build, definitely far more wonderus than some of the others on the list 🤷🏻♂️
@@spinnymathingy3149 Ancient usually means from 3000 bce to around the start of the dark age (around 500 ce). No one's questioning the magnificence of Angkor Wat or the Kailash temple or saying they're not wonders, just the fact they're not ancient wonders
I love your videos greetings from Turkey.
The lighthouse of Alexandria also being the one that collapsed the most recent, out of those 6 that did, of the 7 wonders.
I would like you to do one on the Sydney Opera House, Simon.
I would like to see a video about the Biltmore Castle in North Carolina. :)
The Raised Tombs of Lycia could be a good @Sideprojects I think. I'm a big history buff and honestly can't recall ever hearing or reading of them before.
A video on Project Habakkuk Please!!!!!
Anyone who has seen Futurama knows that the Ancient Egyptians’ influence reaches even beyond our own solar system. They taught the inhabitants of Osiris IV the secrets of pyramid building, space travel, and how to prepare their dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello!
how about a show or entry on the abandoned across Florida canal
On Business Blaze Simon said he would "NEVER" say Nike, the American way. But at 8:18 you can hear him do just that! Oh Simon, never say never.
Good video 👍
0:04
Me trying to impress a girl at our first date
🤣❤👍🏻
Not gonna lie. That made me laugh.
Ha! The lover-call baby!
:D
I would not try it on the first date but the first night you spend together 😉
Earthquakes have no respect for hard work.
I do believe the construction of NYC aqueduct and/or NYC subway system would both be a good topics for "Side projects" if deemed "not quite MEGA enough for Mega Projects"...have at it Simon
At first glance, I thought the title was The Original Stevie Wonder of Antiquity".
"Seven Wonders of the Classical World" would be more appropriate as the study of ancient Greece is called Classical Studies.
You can see a recreation of the Parthenon 🏛️ with Athena’s statue in Nashville, TN
Would love a whole like 6 hr Mashup of Simon messing up and just yelling fuck for bloopers xD
I wish someone in the future creates a virtual reality where we get to see these ancient sites from our own homes.
Honest question.. what would be a "location too unstable to excavate"? My layman mind can't think of a place too unstable to you know, remove dirt from.
So now I am wondering what “wonders” were on the first 7 Wonders list.
as a stable genius emperor i would make a wonder which will never fall! it will be pit of glory! a glorious hole! unfortunately shortly after my death it will be converted to a trash dump...but it would take nearby residents many years to fill it. :-)
Check out Jean-Pierre Houdin's theory on how the great pyramid was constructed. An internal spiraling ramp might have been used to transport the blocks which would still is in place.
5/7 wonders were created by Hellenes in Hellenic lands!
•The statue of Zeus at Olympia
•The temple of Artemis at Ephesus
•The mausoleum of Halicarnassus
•The colossus of Rhodes
•The lighthouse of Alexandria
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Many believe that the Statue of Liberty in NYC is a woman…yeah, in reality is inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes, a statue depicting the Helios God Apollo wearing a Sun-Crown!
Does anyone else feel that every new video a little bit of Business Blaze gets more and more into Simon's other channels? xD
It's a pity actually that those 6, out of the 7, wonders aren't still standing. That includes the temple that housed the statue of Zeus. They would have been quite a sight.
The Sphinx is older than the pyramid, that should be on the list and maybe stone henge
You forgot the most important information on these wonders .... the +1 to ship movement, +2 gold for quarries, and +15% prod for recruiting archers, etc ........ :P
Archaeologists are way off with that pyramid tomb thing. Yeah the later mud brick pyramids were replicas of the massive originals and those could be tombs but not the Great Pyramid. They've carbon dated a piece of wood from the Pyramid to at least 3000 bce. That's 100s of years before the accepted construction date. It just doesn't add up
Maybe do a video on modern marvels of the world?
someone explain why we say bce and ce now
Simon has given me a complex ... I'm currently looking for a second job 😂
4:32 Mausolus wife, Artemisia, was also his Sister.
I thought Petra was also one of the Ancient wonders and with the Great Pyramid the only 2 that survived the old list and are still on the new list?
The nazca lines or chan-chan
How about a longer running series on different castles, many of them must be big of enough to at least a sSideprojects video?