On modern air conditioning: The ancient Egyptians didn’t invent that, but they did come up with an early prototype for a swamp cooler. They would soak large linen sheets in water and hang them upwind to public gathering places.
Can confirmed the pervasiveness of the sand. It's unreal--I was once on a train from Cairo to Luxor, and was jotting notes on a notepad in my train compartment. The sand clogged the tip of my ballpoint pen.
I don't know about Eygpt, but in Saudi Arabia the sand there is wind blown and powder fine. It got into everything, for example engine oil. When you changed oil it was a thin sludge only after a month in the open desert.
I'm an amateur Egyptologist and from everything I've read, that's believed to be *part* of the reason why. A lot of ancient contraceptives were primarily just keeping men away from women
The worm problem in ancient egypt was so pervasive that they kinda just... assumed anything going wrong with their bodies was caused by a worm of some kind. Slight exaggeration, but there are medical texts from Ancient Egypt talking about things like toothaches being caused by worms, and it was a super common thing to blame illnesses on.
In art history class we learned that inbreeding among Egyptian royalty resulted in all sorts of physical deformities in their offspring, and other mutations, including congenital immune deficiency, which was another reason for the short life spans of many of the Pharaohs.
Thanks for putting the parasitic worms #1. I don't think enough people understand how truly debilitating chronic infection was for a large percent of humanity for a really long time.
Two ways they removed body hair. 1) They used blades that were shaped like a half circle. They would oil up their bodies and use the large, circular blade to scrap it off. It was very much like a sharpened large razon used by barbers. It is very effective and when mastered, was very fast. 2) they invented "sugarding" which is essentially the same as "waxing" they put the sugar all over their bodies and used strips of linen like we do at a spa to remove hair with wax. Stick it and rip it!
Having their nose cut off also meant their soul couldn't leave their body to enter the afterlife, it does that through the nose. That's why statues have the noses remove, to keep the person from the afterlife. Also, I went to Egypt in the winter and the heat is truly impressive. I grew up where it gets over 100°f in the summer, and I had a parasol to keep me cool, and I was still overwhelmed by the heat. No matter how much water we drank, neither of us ever had to pee outside the hotel, or for 3-4 hours after coming back. You just get SO dehydrated from sweating and your body tries to hold on to the moisture it has!
Civilizations separate from us are a boon. An education. The attraction of ancient Rome for me. And the memory of it re-booted the search for truth in the 1400s outside religious certainties.
I have read that the workers who built the pyramids had, as part of their daily wages, an allowance of grain as well as onions. Apparently onions were very important and actually caused strikes when the supply was lessened.
They also were fed garlic. The first strike is said to have been by Egyptian workers on the pyramids who had their rations of garlic withheld from them.
Small correction to some of the assumptions about ancient Egypt. The Nile area only began to dry in about 2200 BC. Before then Egypt was 'not so sandy'.
I was gonna say, if you even do 10 min of research, away from egyptology, youll find that egypt was indeed extremely rich in resources and an oasis. Heaven on earth, based on greeks
I know i was looking for this comment, he pushed it on that one. And now that makes me wonder eveyrthing else this guy has said that ive took at face value. 🙄
In the future they’ll be talking about the horrors of our time: 1: drilling holes in our teeth; 2: blasting our bodies with chemo chemicals; 3. eating overly-processed, highly-sugared food, among others.
@David 2488 It's weird that you did not say grow or cultivate you said create... Which leads me to believe that you are a mad scientist creating Artificial beings for sustenance using a Philosopher stone, you monster!
chase harward wow chase, you really like Business Blaze. If I wasn’t so lazy I’d try to beat you at you own game of promotion of what is probably my favourite of Simon’s channels.
Hey Simon, when taking about the diet of a Pharoh you implied that honey is cane sugar. Honey is actually pretty much all fructose and glucose, while sugar cane contains sucrose which we process into sugar. Stupid small detail I know but I wanted to point it out. Love your videos!!
Sucrose is a sugar. It's a disaccharide composed of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose. To the body, the difference is quite minute, and due mainly to differences in concentration and the fact that honey comes with bee pollen in it. The only reason you think honey is better for you is because honey has better marketing.
Stormi Suedonym : for me, local honey helps ease up my seasonal allergies. My allergy doctor recommended it and I put some in my hot tea. Also it does seem to help when I have a sore throat. It does have a natural antimicrobial component that helps fight infection.
@@slcRN1971 Evidence for honey helping allergies is anecdotal, at best. There hasn't been much, if any, research that found it helpful with them beyond the placebo effect. Honey's antimicrobial properties are lost when it's ingested. While useful as a poultice, if you don't have anything better, it's not useful for fighting internal infections.
I suppose that's the newer version of "Cleopatra was closer in history to you than to the Great Pyramid." The same is true of Tyrannosaurus, you, and Stegosaurus.
The average lifespan for any European visiting tropical climes was three years. There are accounts of men disembarking, walking a few hundred yards and collapsing, never to get back up. And antibiotics are no help against some of the parasitic infections like Guinea worm, Jigger-fleas, Bot Fly, and of course Malaria. Fevers and going blind were just two of the hazards faced. This all assumes you even survived the voyage there in the first place.
They had condoms in ancient Egypt. So there!! Your theory has been proven...which proves that aliens *_DID_* build the pyramids!!! Lol no jk. But they did actually have condoms though.
We have no idea what our past was like as far as I see it. A couple guys wrote something a while ago, we found it and took the little bit they wrote and made up a lot of our own stuff to fill in the blanks. Tons of speculation
For what we know, human societies since the adoption of agriculture have all been more or less distanced from our original lifestyle, the one that our biology and psychology to this day are still adapted to. So, just because you can point out flaws in some specific historic society, it doesn't render your own contemporary society beyond criticism, or invalidate the method of comparing how humans have come to live to how humans "by nature" should live. And I don't even intend to argue "past > present". I intend to argue there's no point in mindlessly worshipping either your own time period or some preceeding time period. It's like countries. Objective analysis and comparison between your country and the other countries helps you to improve your own country. You don't need to try to prove you're the bestest ever and everyone else lives in a shitholestan. Our modern society suffers from many structrual problems, many of which we aren't even conscious of. Sometimes it helps to look back and have some historical perspective. If the medieval peasants of all people had something better than us the rich modern westerners - such as their dentition and jaw structure - that's not a reason to wish you lived in the 13th century, it's a reason to start planning a healthier diet for yourself and your children.
The Sahara does indeed go through cycles but to say that the entire sahara was green and tropical during the time of the egyptians is nonsense; we see it in even the oldest sculptures that were made by proto-egyptians over 11 thousand years ago (yes; we are now finally starting to acknowledge the fact that egyptian culture may be waaaay older than we'd orgininally percieved). But sand, deserts, etc. have always been a part of their culture and you can see it in their clothing; ways of life, food, etc. Just like in another post; i don't say that the sahara was not lush and tropical in ancient times for big regions: what i'm saying is that the Sahara desert was actually there and people had to cope with it. Was it not in the capital(s) then it was further down south or west.
@@MrInsertyn Yes I didn’t imply that the whole was green and lush but it definitely was an entirely different scene and the age of the Egyptians is thought to be up to 12,000 years or higher now with the Sphinx erosion and all the new evidence that is coming out and I don’t know if sand was really incorporated with their culture
I don't know, they seem pretty smart to me. Like, not everyone knows that back in those days people was so, so, so dum that aliens had to teach them how to eat to stay alive :) And of course back then it wasn't born any "Einsteins" or anything like that. It was literarily idiocracy back then :)
@@imheretochewbubblegum , google "ancient genius list", then when you read the names and dates, keep in mind it is very likely there were previous geniuses lost to history.
@@joemag6032 I was just sarcastic :) It's the ancient alien guys, it seems like they actually believe people was just a bunch of idiots in the old days :)
@@imheretochewbubblegum , OK, my bad. I think "ancient aliens" makes sense to some people because they think ancient humans must have been dim-witted, simply because those humans did not have today's technology.
WHOA! This is the fastest action youtube has ever taken for a hacked channel!!!! Congratulations on making it back to us! (Or was Simon the hacker all the time...…? lol)
@@ewestner he lost control of at least toptenz, had some bitcoin scammer running livestreams from a legit source but with false bitcoin information and qr codes, and people were stupid enough to send coins to the places the qr codes too
@@bullbobby92 more like they assumed control,changed the profile pic, and started running false information bitcoin scams using a legitimate livestream to fool people
Honestly, I’m somehow not surprised Steve Irwin, of all people, gave hippos a wide berth. The guy may have been a combination of reckless and compassionate, but he was plenty intelligent. Hippos are just plain overpowered, even with modern human tech.
I have studied Ancient Egyptian life & culture for 1/2 of my life. I have been obsessed since childhood. You got it correct Simon👍. It was a damn hard life they endured, (even the higher class). I am though, 💯% sure that the people in Egypt do NOT believe aliens had anything to do with their culture or marvelous accomplishments! Love your channels!!!
We shake our heads at ancient cultures for using lead. Yet lead was not banned in gasoline until 1996 in our modern civilization. Breathing particulate toxic lead aerosols from car exhaust was a thing well into modern times. We have no claims to a sanctimonious attitude on that account.
"We have no claims to a sanctimonious attitude on that account." You've clearly not a Millennial. Is there anything those brats aren't sanctimonious about?
We still have not banned "lead" in Aviation Gasoline..! Piston engine light aircraft that fly over our Cities around the World - continue to spread the lead , on the wind.
Not to mention lead paint on houses. When I was growing up I'd hear stories of kids that got brain damage from eating flaking lead paint in old houses. This was back in the 1970's and 1980's. It was banned in 1978.
Ancient Egyptians used black eyeliner mainly as sunglasses, essentially, as lining the eyes with dark colors has the effect of cutting down on the glare from the sun. There is also accounts of workers going on strike because they weren't getting eyeliner from their employers, and they only returned to work after their demands were met. They didn't do it for vanity, although, it also did look awesome, but that was merely a cool side effect.
Blibla Blubb if you don’t like sand you should check out Simon’s other channel Business Blaze. It’s kinda crap and a bit sandy but also pretty cool unlike the Egyptian desert and Hippo/crocodile dung.
chase harward will be trolled. He was “promoting” Business Blaze one of Simon’s other channels so I decided to to the same only funnier. (At least you me that is. I’m sure nobody else is giggling as much as I am.) 🤪
Another thing to consider though is the fact that Egyptian sand consists of much smaller particles than say, American sand, and is therefore more difficult to keep out of things you would like to keep it out of, partly due to the fact that wind picks up and distributes those smaller particles more easily .
#10: Didn’t they have braces, too, or was that just a myth proposed by The Brady Bunch? When Marcia gets braces, Mr. Brady claims even Cleopatra had them in an attempt to boost her spirits.
History almost never looks at the common people. It's just a long list of battles fought by heroes and kings - in reality just a series of megalomaniac oppressors.
Yes, anthropologists get really excited when they find working class funds. The village where the builders of the pyramids was excavated and at least 5 peer reviewed papers were published in the findings.
So glad your back I only really watch your videos. With this lock down going on I need you more than ever. So sad when I thought this channel had gone. Never leave us Simon!!!! Xx
If you fear a world without Simon Whistler never fret he has a channel called business blaze where he can be more casual and make jokes and have a whale of a time. You should check it out.
I’m so excited about anything Egypt, but I’m super concerned that the profile pic says “T” and the home page for Top Tenz is bitcoin banner again! I hope those vultures didn’t swoop in again. Somebody is sneaky
Erin Murphy exciting new about Egypt. Go check out Business Blaze one of Simon’s other channels for more info. Definitely don’t say chase sent you. He’s probably a bit or a weird guy who drinks out of the toilet and wears pink pantyhose and swims in olive oil while wearing nothing but a wrist watch and a fanny pack full of $3 bills.
4000 -6000 years ago ancient Egypt was not all sandy desert! In fact it was a major agriculture center. They used emmer wheat a hard variety that required a longer more complicated milling process. The bread was harder, whole grain and had flakes of millstone in it.
The major agriculture areas were centered around the flood plains which were a very small percentage of Egypt's lands, the rest was all a sandy desert much like today. The only real difference was the path of the river.
In a few hundred years, there will be videos about the the obviously stupid stuff that we are doing now. It's going to be a long list! We are actually living in the future's past....
If you like bitcoin you should check out one of Simon’s other channels Business Blaze. Really I’m not a bit I’m just trolling chase who seems to be promoting one of Simon’s more obscure channels. It’s not bad really and actually a kind of casual affair and fun to see Simon stammering and ad libbing whilst talking about often serious business topics. Also screw chase, I refuse to capitalize his name because, well reasons. Also, because I think it’s a bit funny.
That's what happens when you become RUclips narrator. It's something to do with thinking you are better than everyone, because you can read. Still, glad you wrote what most of us are thinking. Thank you.
Very nice video and informative. Thank you for this great effort .. Greetings to you from my country, Egypt .. and anyone who wants to come to Egypt to see civilization .. I can help for free. I live in Aswan
For the same reason we refer to "Indians" as "Pre-Columbian Native Americans" and reference an explorer, a country he was trying to find and a map-maker while ignoring ANY Native's word for their land.
Or let's go back even further (Tameri) kemet Egypt is a copy of the old world! Egypt (tameri) was America, it was based on the Mississippi Nile ( Cairo) St Louis area to the south Memphis. The Nile in Africa was dugout manmade, they were mimicking tameri the beloved land all the pyramids in the Americas are older
You’ve also attempted to generalize about 30 centuries of history into one 10 minute video. Perhaps at least cut down to dynasty. In addition, know that much of the information about ancient Egypt runs into the Bronislaw Malinowski problem: too much bias and conjecture. Actually the Bronislaw Malinowski problem is something you should familiarize yourself with and perhaps do a video on. He is the father of modern anthropology but his sexism and bias was responsible for him missing the economic value of women in the trobriand islanders he studied extensively. Turns out women were mostly responsible for the economy, something discovered by one of his head students.
They lived next to a big river, didn't they know about fishing? The Mediterranean Sea fed many other folks with a wide range of seafood. I find it hard to believe that Egyptians didn't partake of Posiedon's bounty.
There was a crocodile cult of priests in Ancient Egypt that kept a bunch of crocodiles in a man-made pool. As part of their priest acolytes’ rite of initiation, they were made to strip & swim across the crocodile pool. If they made it to the other end, they were considered worthy to become priests. If they did not make it, then they were deemed unworthy.
The wine he keeps talking about was one of the most used drink. The major thing about the wine it was not fermented it was NON alcoholic. They would boil the grape juice to a jell like state and it would keep during the off season. When they got ready for juice/wine they would use 2 parts water to one part jell
Forced suicide was commonplace throughout the Roman Republic/Empire and the Ottoman Empire thousands of years after what is typically considered "ancient" Egypt.
Cleopatra was Greek. That said, the Greeks were a Mediterranean people, as were the ancient Egyptians, so probably not too dissimilar, genetically. I don't know you, so I can't comment on whether you could be closely or distantly related to them, but I'm Northern European, so I'd say that I'd be more distantly related to a pharoah than a Greek would be.
Republican governor, Republican legislature, Republican mayor, Republican courts. This is gonna play hell with education in Flint. Lead poisoning is a major cause of brain damage in children.
@@artair70 We had a Republican governor [patiently] and the rest of it. The Republican governor, a businessman with no public service experience. The governor, and the legislature agreed, thought the answer to Michigan's economic problems was to appoint "emergency managers" wherever they decided. Not elected. Voterrs had NO voice. Managers had total financial control. Cancelled contracts. Set pay scales for public employees. Set water policies, for example, if people did not pay their water bill the water was turned off, no water means the house is legally uninhabitable, so the city boards it up and kicks out everyone living there. Homeless. In Flint, the emergency manager did not like paying the City of Detroit for water treatment. He unilaterally canceled the contract, and hooked up Flint's water system to the Flint river, which went to Flint homes without any treatment. The untreated water peeled rust off Flint's old water mains. Underneath the rust, many of the old mains had been connected with lead solder. The lead solder got into the water. Look up what lead does to the human brain, especially the developing brains of children. The mains were known to have lead solder but it had been contained due to rust and debris. The emergency manager ignnored warnings from Flint's water department. For YEARS nothing was done, despite warnings of high lead levels being found in Flint's water supply. As if Flint doesn't have enough problems, it now has 1,000s of brain damaged children. Other emergency managers made other bad decisions, but Flint's was the worse. Many managers gave contracts to their own companies or their friends, embezzled money, interfered with police. Under a Republican governor, Republican legislature, Republican senate. [rage]
On modern air conditioning:
The ancient Egyptians didn’t invent that, but they did come up with an early prototype for a swamp cooler. They would soak large linen sheets in water and hang them upwind to public gathering places.
Can confirmed the pervasiveness of the sand. It's unreal--I was once on a train from Cairo to Luxor, and was jotting notes on a notepad in my train compartment. The sand clogged the tip of my ballpoint pen.
You really shouldn't stick a pen up yer arse, mate.
Clay soil + sand = cement
@@thewalkuk22631 lol
I don't know about Eygpt, but in Saudi Arabia the sand there is wind blown and powder fine. It got into everything, for example engine oil. When you changed oil it was a thin sludge only after a month in the open desert.
Sounds like west Texas.
My brother got hook worm by putting his hand in the Nile. We were on a family vacation and as usual, he found some way to get sick.
*think i would have found a better souvenir to bring home*
Are you Caucasian?
@@ceciliaageofaquarius1225 mostly
Some people with severe chronic allergies are deliberately infecting themselves with hookworms. Somehow the hookworms damp down the immune response.
@Zenon Antruzinon
Like I said, the hookworms damp down the immune system response to allergens. It has been reported to work.
'I don't like sand. It's course and rough and irritating.. and it gets everywhere." the Great Pharaoh Anakin of the Tatooine Dynasty ;D
Texas history books be like...
Pharohs banish sand from the kingdom!
coarse
I can easily see how croc dung would control pregnancies. It's side effect was abstinence.
LoL
I just want to know who was the first person to figure this out 🤔...lol
Yeah a lot of older contraceptives like that seem repulsive enough to kind of defeat the purpose
Haaaaa
I'm an amateur Egyptologist and from everything I've read, that's believed to be *part* of the reason why. A lot of ancient contraceptives were primarily just keeping men away from women
The worm problem in ancient egypt was so pervasive that they kinda just... assumed anything going wrong with their bodies was caused by a worm of some kind.
Slight exaggeration, but there are medical texts from Ancient Egypt talking about things like toothaches being caused by worms, and it was a super common thing to blame illnesses on.
Oh my!
In art history class we learned that inbreeding among Egyptian royalty resulted in all sorts of physical deformities in their offspring, and other mutations, including congenital immune deficiency, which was another reason for the short life spans of many of the Pharaohs.
Thanks for putting the parasitic worms #1. I don't think enough people understand how truly debilitating chronic infection was for a large percent of humanity for a really long time.
And still is, in some places.
@@williamwingo4740 you can scratch the "in some places" part.
@@Amphitera Maybe I should have said "except" in some places" like the "developed world."
Hippos have been seen eating meat in the wild, and may be under speculation as “herbivores”. Regardless of diet these animals are terrifying lol
Two ways they removed body hair. 1) They used blades that were shaped like a half circle. They would oil up their bodies and use the large, circular blade to scrap it off. It was very much like a sharpened large razon used by barbers. It is very effective and when mastered, was very fast. 2) they invented "sugarding" which is essentially the same as "waxing" they put the sugar all over their bodies and used strips of linen like we do at a spa to remove hair with wax. Stick it and rip it!
That’s so interesting! Thankyou.
Called a sickle. *Sugaring. Sugar was boiled into a syrup, then spread on the skin, and used like wax. It is used all over the world.
Having their nose cut off also meant their soul couldn't leave their body to enter the afterlife, it does that through the nose. That's why statues have the noses remove, to keep the person from the afterlife.
Also, I went to Egypt in the winter and the heat is truly impressive. I grew up where it gets over 100°f in the summer, and I had a parasol to keep me cool, and I was still overwhelmed by the heat.
No matter how much water we drank, neither of us ever had to pee outside the hotel, or for 3-4 hours after coming back. You just get SO dehydrated from sweating and your body tries to hold on to the moisture it has!
Anywhere in Australia....especially country WA would vaporise you in summer then! lol....45C which is 113F is common for some country towns haha
@Mo Fuggar I found Texas far more tolerable (save for the locals, who seemed entirely bereft of social graces) than the Middle East.
Civilizations separate from us are a boon. An education. The attraction of ancient Rome for me. And the memory of it re-booted the search for truth in the 1400s outside religious certainties.
I have read that the workers who built the pyramids had, as part of their daily wages, an allowance of grain as well as onions. Apparently onions were very important and actually caused strikes when the supply was lessened.
graham grasdal apparently, you believe everything that you read?
For egyptians onions were considered a sacred food linked with eternal life due to it's layered structure and were used in burials.
@Niggatello the 5th Ninja Turtle So that's why Ogres have gone extinct. The Egyptians ate them all.
Onions flavor everything
They also were fed garlic. The first strike is said to have been by Egyptian workers on the pyramids who had their rations of garlic withheld from them.
Simon: "They could, also, get parasites."
Me: "Alright, imma head out."
If you hate parasites you should head on over to Simon's business blaze channel
We get parasites too even in 2020 a massive amount of the population is infected with toxoplasma
Small correction to some of the assumptions about ancient Egypt. The Nile area only began to dry in about 2200 BC. Before then Egypt was 'not so sandy'.
Was just going to say that. Both eqypt and Iraq were extremely fertile lands at the time.
Noble Tarkan Gotchya.
I was gonna say, if you even do 10 min of research, away from egyptology, youll find that egypt was indeed extremely rich in resources and an oasis. Heaven on earth, based on greeks
I know i was looking for this comment, he pushed it on that one. And now that makes me wonder eveyrthing else this guy has said that ive took at face value. 🙄
@@bgl.1423 As well there is a tad SJW within his analyses. Not so much that I get tired of him but enough to distort many truths. Ah well.
In the future they’ll be talking about the horrors of our time: 1: drilling holes in our teeth; 2: blasting our bodies with chemo chemicals; 3. eating overly-processed, highly-sugared food, among others.
Not only highly sugared but 'artificial' sweeteners.
@David 2488 It's weird that you did not say grow or cultivate you said create... Which leads me to believe that you are a mad scientist creating Artificial beings for sustenance using a Philosopher stone, you monster!
Tell me about it
It is Very crazy really. Sometimes I want to stop eating all together and just drink water.
Putting concrete in the buttocks. 💩 In the lips. I hope history will b "white washed" like the days of old
The only animal that ever freaked out Steve Irwin..... thank you for the nostalgia.
Rumor has it he heard Bindy sing just before he met the stingray.
If you like nostalgia you'll love Simon's business blaze channel
The guy handled poisonous snakes but gave a wide bearth to hippos. Tells you something about just how dangerous hippos are.
chase harward wow chase, you really like Business Blaze. If I wasn’t so lazy I’d try to beat you at you own game of promotion of what is probably my favourite of Simon’s channels.
Joy Castle Hippos seem pretty freaking overpowered. At least against humans.
Simon has to be one of the hardest working people on RUclips.
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Their grain was ground on a grinding stone. This resulted in a lot of grains of stone being included in their flour. Bad for teeth.
Hey Simon, when taking about the diet of a Pharoh you implied that honey is cane sugar. Honey is actually pretty much all fructose and glucose, while sugar cane contains sucrose which we process into sugar. Stupid small detail I know but I wanted to point it out. Love your videos!!
Hey, its the little details that count 👍
Gotta have the facts, otherwise... well, without them, it's just considered "lying" 😉
Isnt sucrose just a combination of glucose and fructose? Im pretty sure thats what sucrose breaks down into while in the body, but im not 100%
Sucrose is a sugar. It's a disaccharide composed of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose. To the body, the difference is quite minute, and due mainly to differences in concentration and the fact that honey comes with bee pollen in it.
The only reason you think honey is better for you is because honey has better marketing.
Stormi Suedonym : for me, local honey helps ease up my seasonal allergies. My allergy doctor recommended it and I put some in my hot tea. Also it does seem to help when I have a sore throat. It does have a natural antimicrobial component that helps fight infection.
@@slcRN1971 Evidence for honey helping allergies is anecdotal, at best. There hasn't been much, if any, research that found it helpful with them beyond the placebo effect.
Honey's antimicrobial properties are lost when it's ingested. While useful as a poultice, if you don't have anything better, it's not useful for fighting internal infections.
It honestly blows my mind how many channels Simon has 😂😂😂 It's like every other week I find another channel he hosts
The man is a legend
An interesting Egyptian historical timeline, my daughter pointed out to me is: The smartphone is closer to Cleopatra than the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
I suppose that's the newer version of "Cleopatra was closer in history to you than to the Great Pyramid."
The same is true of Tyrannosaurus, you, and Stegosaurus.
Another one thrown about is 'your smartphone is closer to T-Rex than T-Rex is to the stegosaurus".....
That makes no sense. But the world wide web is closer to the great library of Alexandria than cleopatra to a smartphone... 😐
@@ceciliaageofaquarius1225 Makes perfect sense.
Dude, as woman I feel hella lucky to be born in this age, 😭😭😭 basically we are all very lucky
Simon, hippos do still live on the Nile, just not the part that is in Egypt. For example, they are abundant in Uganda.
@Taiwanlight I'm sure they can still be found there.
@Taiwanlight Pollution and hunting probably eliminated them from that region.
I doubt that tut was out hunting considering he owned so many canes.
If I am offered to go back in time, I won't go any further than the invention of antibiotics and anaesthesia. Life truly wasn't great before that.
Ah but think how rich and powerful you could become with all your modern knowledge! read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court!
The average lifespan for any European visiting tropical climes was three years. There are accounts of men disembarking, walking a few hundred yards and collapsing, never to get back up. And antibiotics are no help against some of the parasitic infections like Guinea worm, Jigger-fleas, Bot Fly, and of course Malaria. Fevers and going blind were just two of the hazards faced.
This all assumes you even survived the voyage there in the first place.
Nature has always had antibiotics, man just discovered some. It also has anesthetic, man just has to figure out how to use it properly, like oxygen.
Simon! your magical head is keeping me from being bored while quarantined.
Simon's superpower is that his head is so shiny it no longer reflects light, it reflects knowledge.
@@JohnnyTromboner surely if it reflected knowledge, knowledge wouldn't enter his head? Isn't it more like a lens which focusses it into his brain?
You should check out his business blaze channel. Its straight fire
chase harward again with the savage promotion. 😊
@@cheesyc4614 are there apples there?
Pharaohs were also inbred, which gave them all kinds of genetic mutations.
If you like inbreeding you should check out his business blaze channel.
They also used cones of scented beeswax that would be placed on top of the head to avoid bugs to
The Aliens didn't even give them condoms, yet built the Pyramids ? Absolutely outrageous behaviour from the Aliens.
Harry Brown 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Harry Brown it wasn’t aliens it was giants come on get your facts straight gawsh
@thisguy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They had condoms in ancient Egypt. So there!! Your theory has been proven...which proves that aliens *_DID_* build the pyramids!!!
Lol no jk. But they did actually have condoms though.
They were more happy to get light bulbs instead.
Welcome back! You were sorely missed.
You have been sorely missed over on the business blaze channel.
Sorely? You had one job😔
I love how few people understand how horrid things were in the past.
Exactly, most people doesn't realize that middle class citizens of today's world in fact have more luxuries than royalty from ancient times.
We have no idea what our past was like as far as I see it. A couple guys wrote something a while ago, we found it and took the little bit they wrote and made up a lot of our own stuff to fill in the blanks. Tons of speculation
B-but, b-but... paleo-diet!
/facepalm
I enjoy toilet paper, hot showers and the other nice things we have today.
For what we know, human societies since the adoption of agriculture have all been more or less distanced from our original lifestyle, the one that our biology and psychology to this day are still adapted to. So, just because you can point out flaws in some specific historic society, it doesn't render your own contemporary society beyond criticism, or invalidate the method of comparing how humans have come to live to how humans "by nature" should live.
And I don't even intend to argue "past > present". I intend to argue there's no point in mindlessly worshipping either your own time period or some preceeding time period. It's like countries. Objective analysis and comparison between your country and the other countries helps you to improve your own country. You don't need to try to prove you're the bestest ever and everyone else lives in a shitholestan.
Our modern society suffers from many structrual problems, many of which we aren't even conscious of. Sometimes it helps to look back and have some historical perspective. If the medieval peasants of all people had something better than us the rich modern westerners - such as their dentition and jaw structure - that's not a reason to wish you lived in the 13th century, it's a reason to start planning a healthier diet for yourself and your children.
A hippo’s bite can cut a crocodile in half.
Vegetarians are always cranky.
@@Robert_Browne 😆😆😆😆
If you like huge bite power you should consider tuning into business blaze Simon's best channel.
@@cheesyc4614 I hope you get paid for all the advertising you do for that channel
And they are not entirely vegetarians
Should be titled "Why you wouldn't survive life in ancient Egypt" lol
Egyptians: "I hate sand, it's coarse and gets everywhere..."
Anakin: "Hey that's my line!"
If you enjoy star wars you can see Simon discussing it over at business blaze
Spot on!! ⭐🌟👈
Young Dexter Morgan said the same thing
Well for the most part sand does suck.
And now we know why he hated it so much.
back when the ancients were around the Sahara was green and lush it goes thru a 10-12 thousand year cycle of desert to lush and tropical
The Sahara does indeed go through cycles but to say that the entire sahara was green and tropical during the time of the egyptians is nonsense; we see it in even the oldest sculptures that were made by proto-egyptians over 11 thousand years ago (yes; we are now finally starting to acknowledge the fact that egyptian culture may be waaaay older than we'd orgininally percieved). But sand, deserts, etc. have always been a part of their culture and you can see it in their clothing; ways of life, food, etc.
Just like in another post; i don't say that the sahara was not lush and tropical in ancient times for big regions: what i'm saying is that the Sahara desert was actually there and people had to cope with it. Was it not in the capital(s) then it was further down south or west.
@@MrInsertyn Yes I didn’t imply that the whole was green and lush but it definitely was an entirely different scene and the age of the Egyptians is thought to be up to 12,000 years or higher now with the Sphinx erosion and all the new evidence that is coming out and I don’t know if sand was really incorporated with their culture
"The guys at ancient aliens might disagree, they're wrong". Hell yea Simon.
I don't know, they seem pretty smart to me. Like, not everyone knows that back in those days people was so, so, so dum that aliens had to teach them how to eat to stay alive :)
And of course back then it wasn't born any "Einsteins" or anything like that. It was literarily idiocracy back then :)
@@imheretochewbubblegum , google "ancient genius list", then when you read the names and dates, keep in mind it is very likely there were previous geniuses lost to history.
@@joemag6032 I was just sarcastic :) It's the ancient alien guys, it seems like they actually believe people was just a bunch of idiots in the old days :)
@@imheretochewbubblegum , OK, my bad. I think "ancient aliens" makes sense to some people because they think ancient humans must have been dim-witted, simply because those humans did not have today's technology.
WHOA! This is the fastest action youtube has ever taken for a hacked channel!!!! Congratulations on making it back to us! (Or was Simon the hacker all the time...…? lol)
What happened??
@@ewestner he lost control of at least toptenz, had some bitcoin scammer running livestreams from a legit source but with false bitcoin information and qr codes, and people were stupid enough to send coins to the places the qr codes too
Lazurkri my brain is too small to understand how this affected Simon
Oh wait I get it. They used his channel for the subs to live stream
@@bullbobby92 more like they assumed control,changed the profile pic, and started running false information bitcoin scams using a legitimate livestream to fool people
Man, you never saw this kind of stuff in Yu-Gi-Oh.
Honestly, I’m somehow not surprised Steve Irwin, of all people, gave hippos a wide berth. The guy may have been a combination of reckless and compassionate, but he was plenty intelligent. Hippos are just plain overpowered, even with modern human tech.
Nerf the hippos in next update
I have studied Ancient Egyptian life & culture for 1/2 of my life. I have been obsessed since childhood. You got it correct Simon👍. It was a damn hard life they endured, (even the higher class). I am though, 💯% sure that the people in Egypt do NOT believe aliens had anything to do with their culture or marvelous accomplishments! Love your channels!!!
We shake our heads at ancient cultures for using lead. Yet lead was not banned in gasoline until 1996 in our modern civilization. Breathing particulate toxic lead aerosols from car exhaust was a thing well into modern times. We have no claims to a sanctimonious attitude on that account.
"We have no claims to a sanctimonious attitude on that account."
You've clearly not a Millennial. Is there anything those brats aren't sanctimonious about?
We still have not banned "lead" in Aviation Gasoline..! Piston engine light aircraft that fly over our Cities around the World - continue to spread the lead , on the wind.
Not to mention lead paint on houses. When I was growing up I'd hear stories of kids that got brain damage from eating flaking lead paint in old houses. This was back in the 1970's and 1980's. It was banned in 1978.
Ancient Egyptians used black eyeliner mainly as sunglasses, essentially, as lining the eyes with dark colors has the effect of cutting down on the glare from the sun. There is also accounts of workers going on strike because they weren't getting eyeliner from their employers, and they only returned to work after their demands were met. They didn't do it for vanity, although, it also did look awesome, but that was merely a cool side effect.
Yeah I can see where crocodile dung might prevent births.
*doesn't work too well on the crocodiles though...just an observation*
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. And it get's everywhere."
Anakin Skywalker, 1600 B.C., egyptian pharao
Blibla Blubb if you don’t like sand you should check out Simon’s other channel Business Blaze. It’s kinda crap and a bit sandy but also pretty cool unlike the Egyptian desert and Hippo/crocodile dung.
John-Paul Silke: Did you understand my reference?
Blibla Blubb of course but I am actively trolling someone. 🤪
chase harward will be trolled.
He was “promoting” Business Blaze one of Simon’s other channels so I decided to to the same only funnier. (At least you me that is. I’m sure nobody else is giggling as much as I am.) 🤪
"To hide their baldness and show off their wealth and power...I should get one myself" 💀💀😂😂😂😂
Guess I'll have to cancel my time travel vacation to Ancient Egypt... I hear mediaeval Mongolia is nice this time of year
I think sandless bread would be popular in ancient egypt. you can sell them there and charge them as high as one gold coin.
Say hello to Kublai Khan for me. Take a compound bow as a gift, he'll love it. 👍
The grit in their food probably came from grinding stones. The Saxons had this problem, thousands of years later in the UK.
Another thing to consider though is the fact that Egyptian sand consists of much smaller particles than say, American sand, and is therefore more difficult to keep out of things you would like to keep it out of, partly due to the fact that wind picks up and distributes those smaller particles more easily .
It is a known fact that persons with short, curly types of hair suffer less from lice.
Lice like clean hair. Lice is associated with bad hygeine but clean hair won't save you from lice.
That's total bollocks. As long as they have a food source, they are happy.
#10: Didn’t they have braces, too, or was that just a myth proposed by The Brady Bunch? When Marcia gets braces, Mr. Brady claims even Cleopatra had them in an attempt to boost her spirits.
That's true, the easter bunny told me.
@@jayrenee378 😂😂🤣🤣🤣👍
Wouldnt surprise me. They did outstanding cosmetic dental work. I saw some skulls with dental fillings and bridges that really blew my mind
Grats on getting this channel back
If you like people getting their channels back consider becoming an absolute legend by subbing to Simon's new channel business blaze.
History almost never looks at the common people. It's just a long list of battles fought by heroes and kings - in reality just a series of megalomaniac oppressors.
Well history is writen by the victors,right?
Yes, anthropologists get really excited when they find working class funds.
The village where the builders of the pyramids was excavated and at least 5 peer reviewed papers were published in the findings.
So glad your back I only really watch your videos. With this lock down going on I need you more than ever. So sad when I thought this channel had gone. Never leave us Simon!!!! Xx
If you fear a world without Simon Whistler never fret he has a channel called business blaze where he can be more casual and make jokes and have a whale of a time. You should check it out.
Simon there are hippos on the Nile river. Have been fishing on the Nile and saw 100's of Hippos.
I’m so excited about anything Egypt, but I’m super concerned that the profile pic says “T” and the home page for Top Tenz is bitcoin banner again! I hope those vultures didn’t swoop in again. Somebody is sneaky
Erin Murphy exciting new about Egypt. Go check out Business Blaze one of Simon’s other channels for more info.
Definitely don’t say chase sent you. He’s probably a bit or a weird guy who drinks out of the toilet and wears pink pantyhose and swims in olive oil while wearing nothing but a wrist watch and a fanny pack full of $3 bills.
Oh, Simon, you don't need a gold headdress. Never change.
If you cant Handle him at his weird zebra sex mask you dont deserve him at all.
4000 -6000 years ago ancient Egypt was not all sandy desert! In fact it was a major agriculture center. They used emmer wheat a hard variety that required a longer more complicated milling process. The bread was harder, whole grain and had flakes of millstone in it.
The major agriculture areas were centered around the flood plains which were a very small percentage of Egypt's lands, the rest was all a sandy desert much like today. The only real difference was the path of the river.
The access of pharaohs to meat, unavailable to the lower classes, would also have contributed to their cardiovascular disease and obesity.
Awww I miss Steve Irwin
What a legend 💜🐊
Yay! Glad you got the channel back so fast! I missed you Simon!
I missed the channel but thanks to his other 10000 channels I never missed Simon 😊
Simon Glad to see you looking healthy .
Another great one as expected from this channel. Thanks!
You're back. Yaaaaayyyyyyyy !!!!
If you are in need of a Simon Whistler fix you can see him in all of his comedic glory over at business blaze.
I am so glad you got your channel back...
He was spending time thrilling us with his hilarious business blaze channel while you were away
“Be glad you live in the future, people!” 🤣
Present??? Unless you talking relative to the ancient Egyptian people?
In a few hundred years, there will be videos about the the obviously stupid stuff that we are doing now. It's going to be a long list! We are actually living in the future's past....
Glad to have you back guys!! Hope it doesn't happen again! I genuinely got worried for abit till I saw the post on the other channel!
Ancient Egypt was more green than today.
They also bathed several times a day.
emart88 me too! Ha ha ha
Thank you, Simon. Very well done.
Sweet. You got your channel back lol. Can't believe it was hijacked like that. Glad your content is intact.
These videos help me get through the day now.
Check out his business blaze channel it's one of his best. You will be an absolute legend
Darn how am I gonna get scammed out of my bitcoin now?
SwatkatPvP ?
i checked that bitcoin address 12 hours after the hack 15 people fell for it and sent it
$29,000 +
It wasn't just on this channel, there were others who got hacked and the same "live"stream was broadcast to all of them.
@Hentai Senpai the ethereurm one they put up got them $19,000+
If you like bitcoin you should check out one of Simon’s other channels Business Blaze.
Really I’m not a bit I’m just trolling chase who seems to be promoting one of Simon’s more obscure channels. It’s not bad really and actually a kind of casual affair and fun to see Simon stammering and ad libbing whilst talking about often serious business topics.
Also screw chase, I refuse to capitalize his name because, well reasons. Also, because I think it’s a bit funny.
Yay! You got your channel back! Resubscribed with the bell.
This is the voice I imagine when I think of the word "condescending"
That's what happens when you become RUclips narrator.
It's something to do with thinking you are better than everyone, because you can read.
Still, glad you wrote what most of us are thinking. Thank you.
Oh, really, is *that* the voice you imagine when you think of the word "condescending"? 🙄
/s
And drifts into a Jewish accent in this episode.....
For people that don't know what the word "condescending" means. It means talking down to someone stupid.
That is what happends when you drink to much. Sand is pronounced, zand, see how it works.
I could listen to this guy talk all day! So interesting!
Simon you’re one of my favorite types of sarcastic 😋
You should check out his business blaze channel if you enjoy his sarcasm. It's at 1,000% over there
Glad to see y'all got your channel back👍
What's for dinner tonight? Sandy bread and beer...I guess we know why there are no Egyptian themed fast food restaurants...
@6:30
Pharoah: Is butter a carb?
Royal Physician:...Yes.
I think this is officially the first time I have been the first view on one of you guys' videos.... Damn life in quarantine is dull! 🤪😜😂
If you are sick of dull quarantine life you should consider checking out Simon's business blaze channel.
Where you can become an absolute legend
Glad you got your channel back up and running!!
If you like channels getting back up and running may I suggest Simon's business blaze channel.
@@cheesyc4614 thank you! I am already subscribed to all of his channels though, and his newest megaprojects. But i agree!!
Very nice video and informative. Thank you for this great effort .. Greetings to you from my country, Egypt .. and anyone who wants to come to Egypt to see civilization .. I can help for free. I live in Aswan
Welcome back. Glad you got your channel sorted xx.
When speaking of ancient Egypt why not use the name the ancients actually used Kemet.
I agree with this but I'm juat happy he doesn't say "too tank uh men" anymore
Oh you know why! Lol. Just kidding
For the same reason we refer to "Indians" as "Pre-Columbian Native Americans" and reference an explorer, a country he was trying to find and a map-maker while ignoring ANY Native's word for their land.
Or let's go back even further (Tameri) kemet Egypt is a copy of the old world! Egypt (tameri) was America, it was based on the Mississippi Nile ( Cairo) St Louis area to the south Memphis. The Nile in Africa was dugout manmade, they were mimicking tameri the beloved land all the pyramids in the Americas are older
I swear I watched this for 5 minutes before I saw the channel name and realised omg top tenz is back 😍😍😍😍😍😍.
"Smash that like button." Et tu, Simon?
Welcome BACK, Mr. Whistler & Toptenz! 👍
You’ve also attempted to generalize about 30 centuries of history into one 10 minute video. Perhaps at least cut down to dynasty. In addition, know that much of the information about ancient Egypt runs into the Bronislaw Malinowski problem: too much bias and conjecture. Actually the Bronislaw Malinowski problem is something you should familiarize yourself with and perhaps do a video on. He is the father of modern anthropology but his sexism and bias was responsible for him missing the economic value of women in the trobriand islanders he studied extensively. Turns out women were mostly responsible for the economy, something discovered by one of his head students.
Yet another extremely interesting video! Well done Top Tenz! ❤ X x
They milled with sandstone, that's what ruined their teeth. Cheers!
They lived next to a big river, didn't they know about fishing? The Mediterranean Sea fed many other folks with a wide range of seafood. I find it hard to believe that Egyptians didn't partake of Posiedon's bounty.
Not really. The sand was added on purpose, to make grinding easier.
There was a crocodile cult of priests in Ancient Egypt that kept a bunch of crocodiles in a man-made pool. As part of their priest acolytes’ rite of initiation, they were made to strip & swim across the crocodile pool. If they made it to the other end, they were considered worthy to become priests. If they did not make it, then they were deemed unworthy.
Ancient Egypt was hot , global warming right!
@macsporan 🤣🤣🤣🙃🙃
The wine he keeps talking about was one of the most used drink. The major thing about the wine it was not fermented it was NON alcoholic. They would boil the grape juice to a jell like state and it would keep during the off season. When they got ready for juice/wine they would use 2 parts water to one part jell
Forced suicide was commonplace throughout the Roman Republic/Empire and the Ottoman Empire thousands of years after what is typically considered "ancient" Egypt.
Wooo! You're back 👌
FINALLY!!! I’ve missed seeing Simon’s beautiful head every day❤️❤️
You know he has like 6 to 7 other channels?
Piet Lijnsvelt I do, but I prefer these videos
Jocelyn Hale heard this one got hacked
Check out his business blaze channel. It's by far the best
Yay! Toptenz is back!
aren’t we closer to cleopatra than she was to the pharaohs who made the great pyramids. weird
Cleopatra was Greek.
That said, the Greeks were a Mediterranean people, as were the ancient Egyptians, so probably not too dissimilar, genetically.
I don't know you, so I can't comment on whether you could be closely or distantly related to them, but I'm Northern European, so I'd say that I'd be more distantly related to a pharoah than a Greek would be.
William Blaker i was talking about years apart
So interesting thank you very much 😊
When it comes to lead ancient people didn't know any better. We do know better and yet Flint still doesn't have clean drinking water.
Republican governor, Republican legislature, Republican mayor, Republican courts.
This is gonna play hell with education in Flint. Lead poisoning is a major cause of brain damage in children.
@@veralenora7368 So Republican= Problem, what's your excuse for Commiefornia?
@@artair70 I have no idea what you're talking about.
@@veralenora7368 You're naive to pin it on being Republican
@@artair70 We had a Republican governor [patiently] and the rest of it. The Republican governor, a businessman with no public service experience. The governor, and the legislature agreed, thought the answer to Michigan's economic problems was to appoint "emergency managers" wherever they decided. Not elected. Voterrs had NO voice.
Managers had total financial control. Cancelled contracts. Set pay scales for public employees. Set water policies, for example, if people did not pay their water bill the water was turned off, no water means the house is legally uninhabitable, so the city boards it up and kicks out everyone living there.
Homeless.
In Flint, the emergency manager did not like paying the City of Detroit for water treatment. He unilaterally canceled the contract, and hooked up Flint's water system to the Flint river, which went to Flint homes without any treatment.
The untreated water peeled rust off Flint's old water mains. Underneath the rust, many of the old mains had been connected with lead solder. The lead solder got into the water.
Look up what lead does to the human brain, especially the developing brains of children.
The mains were known to have lead solder but it had been contained due to rust and debris. The emergency manager ignnored warnings from Flint's water department.
For YEARS nothing was done, despite warnings of high lead levels being found in Flint's water supply.
As if Flint doesn't have enough problems, it now has 1,000s of brain damaged children.
Other emergency managers made other bad decisions, but Flint's was the worse. Many managers gave contracts to their own companies or their friends, embezzled money, interfered with police.
Under a Republican governor, Republican legislature, Republican senate.
[rage]
For 2 days I couldn't access any Top Tenz videos. Now they are back. Has anyone else noticed a problem with them?
They got hacked.
@@ianr thanks for the explanation
He was spending more time on his other (better) channel business blaze. You should give it a watch or 2
All that sand must have been rough in the bedroom at certain times.😂🤣😭
If you like bedroom talk head on over to Simon's business blaze channel. All the weird zebra sex mask talk you can handle