Pls do a video about the Smithsonian obsession of lootin' & collecting all Giant Skeletons and not showing them to anyone (and why that is allowed in american constituion)
I don't usually care much about the pronunciation, but saying stele like 'steel' instead of 'STEL-ayh' is going to be confusing. It confused me at first, and I know what stele are.
I must preface my main statement with: I do believe Simon is a freaking global treasure. With that being said....I am constantly amazed at the fact he does so many videos, covers so many topics, and is exposed to so much information......and he seems to retain virtually none of it for future use or reference. It adds to the charm, I guess.
To be fair, the more information you learn, the less of it you remember, especially if you don't personally research it. The brain has finite space and will file away knowledge it does not use.
42:14 the small rant about the academic community made me think of a meme. Anytime someone says "the secret scientists dont want you to know", but have you met a scientist. Theyre screaming at the top of their lungs for you to look at their study.
To be fair, Egyptology is a pretty insular field that can be pretty up it's own ass. The fact that research needs approval from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities who's minister has actively dismissed new research about large voids within the Great Pyramid, until be started using it to start marketing that maybe the Pharaoh's tomb was yet undisturbed within those places to try an drum up tourism(but deny any farther research that might disprove that theory) He also talked about how they shouldn't disprove ancient alien theories because they drive tourism by nutters. Hawass is just a bad influence on the field.
There was a tweet on twitter recently that had someone replying to a right winger saying "scientists don't want you to look at their research" with "literally every scientist wants you to look at their research".
"Please read the acedemic paper!" they scream... meanwhile that paper is stored on a private section of the internet which requires a national university account to access which you only have if you're a graduate or doctor. The only way a normie can access these files is to use a TOR to bypass the surface internet of the web to see the papers stored in network NAS databases of the Univerities. Uneducated Normies who never went to Uni, only have access to TH-cam, news sites and Wikipedia which is all secondary information that is manipulated by politics or financial interest.
@luckyspurs The sciencetists want you to, but the institutions don't. The problem is the institutions, they want to control information. It is actually easier to access scientific papers by visiting a university or a library than going on the internet as all these papers are not publicly available on the web, only secondary accounts of those papers.
Clarification: Being a Prince in anceint Egypt didn't mean you would become Pharoah. Only the sons of the Great Royal Wife were destined to inherit the Two Crowns of Egypt. Sons of any Lesser Wives and Consorts didn't have that shoe in chance. Also, the eldest son of the Great Royal Wife was the heir to the throne. Younger sons of the Great Royal Wife only had a chance if their elder brother died without heirs himself. Occasionally a Pharoah would bypass the son(s) of his Great Royal Wife to name a lesser son heir, for reasons of his own. Or because his Great Royal Wife didn't give him any sons at all (though if she gave him daughters the daughter could inherit and her husband would become Pharoah if the daughter herself didn't become Pharoah. There are always exceptions to ancient Egyptian royal inheritance). So no, just because Thutmose IV was a Prince didn't mean he would necessarily inherit. Though, if I recall correctly he was the eldest son of his father's Great Royal Wife. Which would make him the preferred heir. Also, it's "Tut-moz-ah" not "Tut-moses" as you said it. *Edited for a typo*
The biggest problem with the Leo idea is that Leo is not universally known as a lion constellation. It's a backwards question mark and a triangle. The fact that the Greeks decided it was a lion does not mean even more ancient Egyptians would have considered it to be.
The Greeks did not decide that, they merely adopted it. The identification of this constellation as a lion is probably older than known human history. Suffice to say that it would appear that the ancient Egyptians did, in fact, identify this constellation with the lion, as did most ancient civilizations from the near east to India. In ancient Egypt it was considered to be part of a tableau depicting a lion reclining between two alligator gods.
From what I've found, the Egyptians did consider Leo as a lion. They just represented it as a laying lion (just like the Sphinx ^^) while most other peoples add other stars to represent it as a jumping or fighting lion ^^ The Greeks received the Lion constellation from the Mesopotamians, who were neighbours of the Egyptians, they don't do everything the same (the Bear constellation is the Hippopotamus in Egypt ^^), but they had some common points ^^
So true. Though there is this, 4k year or so, procession through the zodiac, Leo has been different things, or even parts of different ones. I doubt that 24k (6x4k) to 20k years ago, they were the same.
Kid me loves that show. Adult me looks back at it and sees it as cringe. Same as MacGyver. Most shows back then wore. Look at lamb chops and thunder birds.
Simon is exceedingly British: _"Yeah, they're big I suppose. It's bloody hot out here, innit?"_ ~Standard Brit, Standing Infront Of Ancient Wonders of the World
Kind of annoys me that he is so lucky to go and visit these marvels of history and civilization but is so damn cynical and just not bothered about it. I dunno, just really pisses me off sometimes when he does that.
Fun Fact: Protestants are why basically every movie about the middle ages shows the insides of castles as bare stone with little or no color. They were actually plastered and heavily painted because the residents were nobles who wanted to flex and expensive paintings built into your walls is a really good way to do that. But later protestant groups considered happiness a sin and destroyed a bunch of art around the same time they banned dancing. Murals are by definition hard to hide.
I saw a comment reviewing Hogwarts legacy saying it was unrealistic as the walls had things all over them. I was like no!!! The bare stone walls is the unrealistic thing
You mean the Puritans - a denomination of Protestants that left Britain because nobody could tolerate their zany beliefs, then left the Netherlands because could tolerate their zany beliefs, and then settled in America who made a a point of accepting everybody's zany beliefs and became part of the Pilgrim mythos that is celebrated during Thanksgiving.
@@wingerdingeven then it would be a wrong statement. there are 3 major branches in Christianity. In order of splitting off: Roman-Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. Most random sects can be assigned to one of them.
Does anyone really care how many fanfiction versions of a fictional story exist? Because in the end it's all bullshit designed to control weak willed sheeple.
"Have you checked the British museum?" 😂 Simon going for the jugular with that one Edit: Some of you are missing the joke. I know it would not be realistic cost wise, but they have so much stuff. That's the punchline.
@Loralanthalas Yeah, it's just funny to me. In another video, he commented a joke, "The only reason the British museum doesn't have the pyamids is because they wouldn't fit."
Except the British museum (among multiple other locations in London*) isn't the only place holding lots of foreign ancient relics. France has a ton of them (probably in the Louvre). The US has a ton more (Smithsonian or others). I'm sure another european country or 2 has a sizable collection. *The Victoria & Albert museum has a ton of ancient stuff, and the Ashmolean museum has a nice collection too, and if you want to go really olde skool the Petrie museum at UCL (close to the British museum) is practically dedicated to Flinders Petrie's Egyptian archaeology finds.
I attended Waseda University in Tokyo and studied with Prof Kowai, who likely is one of the experts cited here noting an anomaly around the Sphinx. Pretty cool to hear the shout out in this video.
Simon not realizing he is very wrong about how carbon dating works or that the whole "age of rhe rock doesn't mean the age of the statue" thing also applies.
@@Stonegolem6-He is a bit more fleeting thoughted and giggly than usual on this one..ive noticed an increasing pattern. I swear he's getting high before recording more and more these days. XD
Yes! I went to Egypt a few years ago and was very surprised when we went to see the pyramids and sphynx. I was the same as you Simon thinking that they were sort of out in the middle of the desert. It's because all of the photos we see are facing out towards the desert, but if they took the photos from the other angle you'd see KFC in the background and all of the shops of a main street. (Yes there was literally a KFC right across the street from them when I was there!)
@@finnyliverpool89 I said the pyramids and Sphynx... The Giza plateau is right there with a road and shops and the city, and yes a KFC was right there across the road
@inannanightingale9718 the giza plateau faces north. You need to be looking south. And south of the giza plateu is a city. A city of millions. However, there is no KFC in the picture. Nor McDonald's. Just jewelery shops, perfumeries, souvenir shops and the occasional rooftop hookah joint.
I think 90% of the mysteries surrounding Ancient Egypt would be solved if the Library of Alexandria was still standing. And every solution would be the most basic and obvious answer
Library being destroyed is a myth. There were at least two great libraries there and they slowly fell into misuse and disrepair. Sure some books eventually disappeared but there was NO giant pool of knowledge lost in one moment or another.
@@KasumiRINAI mean there was a portion burned accidentally by Ceaser, but the purging of intellectuals in 145 BC left the library in disrepair and the preservation of material impossible.
4:40 It seems no one really knows for sure just how old the Sphinx is. Some Egyptologist's say it was constructed around the same time as the Pyramids ... while others think it was several thousand years earlier.
Simon, Cambodia is one of my favorite countries. Angkor Wat is amazing. You should do a video on it. It's not only Angkor Wat, right in that same area you also have the ruins of Bayon Temple and Ta Prohm aka Tomb Raider Temple. And yes, it's sweltering heat any time of year but Cambodian/Khmer food is freaking delicious.
New channel idea: Simon Travels. He goes to all these amazing world sites and then tells us how they’re really just, meh. For example - at the Great Wall of China… Simon: yeah, it’s a big wall. It gets in the way of intruders. But chain link fences do that, too. It’s really not all that great, is it?
I'd like a virtual assistant on my phone with Simon's voice and sarcastic personality. Maybe you should sell your voice to Apple, Google, or OpenAI. Me: Hey Simon, set an alarm for 6am tomorrow. I'm going to the gym. Simon: Really? 6am? Gym? You?...
27:28 Yes. I just spent the day at a state park by the seashore that features an old military fort. The point at which the lookout pillboxes and defensive positions were set is 30 miles away from where the ocean met land 15,000 years ago. But it all depends on the ocean floor and the gradient toward land.it’s relatively shallow up to a certain point around here. So I imagine that the ocean would have crept closer faster later.
42:12 - “Publish or Perish” really is the best explanation for why any conspiracy of knowledge hoarding by academics is almost certainly untrue. The other explanation is that the academics have tried to tell other people but no one is interested in listening to us talk about our research.
Not true really because if you publish off color it's an INSTANT death kneels to one's career compared to the slow death publish or parish causes. It's like, the Climate scientist and professor who found evidence that the Coral reefs were actually growing and not getting smaller. He published his results and instantly lost his job, was kicked out of the field and will never get funding ever again from that one paper. He eventually sued for wrongful termination and won the case, but this is the unfortunate state of Academia right now. Due to the fact that Egypt is completely leaning on its antiquities were it to come out they were not the constructors of these monuments it would change everything including their legal standings over it all so if you attempted to publish anything in science which goes against the narrative its over for you. Fact of the matter is Egypt destroyed their history when they build the Aswan dam because alone the river is where everyone actually lived. They do not care about their history, only that you believe it is their history and it almost surely is not. I am not saying aliens or anything like that, but they almost surely were not the creators as they were not even around at the time. Hell, we know the Labyrinth is still right there underground, and they refuse to look at it and instead flooded it when the dam was built.
About that missing nose... A fella named Obelix accidentally broke it off when he wanted to climb on top of the Sphinx for a better view. It is buried between the front legs. Idefix wanted to dig it up.. Bad dog! :-)
Simon, you correcting yourself on the SG-1 trivia made me so damn happy.lol Great to see someone else showing some love to one of the greatest Sci-Fi properties of all time.
@Simon Whistler too many comments to go through so I'll add your correction was right, anubus was the baddie in seasons 7 & 8 of StarGate... have been binging it can't wait for your O'reye references soon 😂👍 keep up the great work
I love how every time something with an err of disbelief shows up Simon vehemently denies its validity, almost like he’s scared of suspension of disbelief
Napolean shooting off the nose IS an "urban" legend (we technically call them contemporary legends in folkloristics). Myths are totally different and have very specific qualifications.
@@KasumiRINA I know that's what was said in the video but they were wrong with that fact. The English have admitted to using it as target practice in WW2 . They have admitted to it!
1:35 - Mid roll ads 3:00 - Back to the video 5:15 - Chapter 1 - Meet the great sphinx 14:05 - Chapter 2 - Who built the great sphinx ? 25:45 - Chapter 3 - How old is the sphinx 33:05 - Chapter 4 - Was the sphink always a sphinx ? 39:05 - Chapter 5 - What happened to the nose ? 41:55 - Chapter 6 - Hidden chambers filled with treasure 46:30 - Chapter 7 - Did the sphinx had a companion ? 50:40 - Conclusion
Simon: Can't we just carbon date it?? Writer: The age of the rock is not the age of the statue Simon: Yes absolutely agree Dude Simon, tell me you don't know what you're talking about 😂
Wish you would of shown the photos of the hypothesized water erosion on the outter enclosure. It looks pretty cool and definitely makes you wonder. Just think when you're talking about controversial subjects you should show exactly what theyre referring too🤙
well, factboy, carbon dating kinda works like you say at 26:11. the problem really is that you'd at best find out when the organic thing was embedded in the limestone. not when it was cut or altered in any way. another magnificent watch overall, tho!
art history student here, I’m not egyptologist, but my research on the tablet of the king Namur has led me to have a decent understanding of the key differences pre dynastic and early dynastic era Egyptian iconography. the Egyptian civilization stayed remarkably consistent in their art styles, codes, and conventions, for the several millennia it endured. Fully animalistic representations of gods/pharaoh _are_ associated with the pre dynastic period, while animal headed humans or human headed animals are far more of a dynastic thing. On the other hand, the pre-dynastic cultures do not seem to have had a tradition of large monuments, and the posture of the Sphinx, symmetrical, rigid, and squared, is undeniably artificially en ligne with the early dynastic style and what they were up to. I believe that aspect is more relevant than the fact that the Sphinx may well have started with an animalistic head, as that theory has yet to be proven, and also might not be contradictory with the early dynastic period either. The time and ressources it would have taken to undo such a monumental project are undeniably reflective of the pharaonic state of mind and approach to power. It must also be acknowledged that the Pharaohs have been as times depicted as animals, long after the days of the pre-dynastic shaman kings who turned into full fledged animals were over. There is simply very little we do know of the pre-dynastic to proto-dynastic period, and that knowledge is just not enough to rule out the Sphinx as belonging to the early dynastic period. I think that, if the lioness theory holds any merit, it only shows that the shift in conventions and culture may not have happened as abruptly as we tend to believe. It is far more likely in my opinion that the Sphinx was built after the reign of the first dynasty, which is still incredibly old, and absolutely impressive. There was a technologically advanced ancient civilization in the Nile river valley… they’re called the Egyptians! There’s no need to make up one!
8:13 For what it's worth, I think Simon needs to remember that most princes don't then go on to become king/pharaoh/etc; since there is typically only ever one monarch at any given time while they can have many children, and therefore many princes all vying for that top spot once the original monarch is gone. I think Simon simply didn't clock on that it's likely that prince wasn't the one sole male among his siblings and may not have even been the first in line to the throne. 😅😅
They had not yet developed mummifying that far in the old kingdom and grave robbers have stolen virtually all pharaohs from that time. The mummies from the old kingdom that still exist are in much worse condition that the ones from the new kingdom and even middle kingdom. Most of them are just skeletons now. As interesting as the old kingdom is, the tombs of pharaohs of the 3rd-6th dynasty were quite basic compared to the 18th and 19th dynasty ones. Simple granite boxes with little to no decoration on them
Hearing Simon talk about ancient buildings makes me realize why the British stole so many artifacts. Because one person was like "Yoooo, look at this priceless artifact! You guys should come to this country to check it out" And everybody else is like, "Eh, thats really far for something kinda cool. The best I can do is a half day trip to London." And Boom, thats how the British Museum got started.
Hi Simon, if it had been possible to date, for example, the mussels in the limestone, then you would have only got a dating of the limestone .. not when the sphinx was built.
Simon, your recurring dream about being in a plane crash just means that on some level, you feel like you are flying too high and it will crash, i.e. you will fail. That's normal, with your success, to feel that at some level. Good news is, all you gotta do is just continue to be yourself. We love you for that, and that's where your success continues to come from.
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Pls do a video about the Smithsonian obsession of lootin' & collecting all Giant Skeletons and not showing them to anyone (and why that is allowed in american constituion)
We need that 3 hour video released..
I don't usually care much about the pronunciation, but saying stele like 'steel' instead of 'STEL-ayh' is going to be confusing. It confused me at first, and I know what stele are.
I smashed the like button and broke my screen on my phone. Thanks Simon
I smashed the like button and cracked my screen. Dam it Simon!
I must preface my main statement with: I do believe Simon is a freaking global treasure.
With that being said....I am constantly amazed at the fact he does so many videos, covers so many topics, and is exposed to so much information......and he seems to retain virtually none of it for future use or reference. It adds to the charm, I guess.
It's a mystery that deserves a video on this channel 😂
I guess you don’t need to when you sound like him.
It's clearly just something he plays up to like an inside joke.
Yeah…he’s as dumb as a rock.
To be fair, the more information you learn, the less of it you remember, especially if you don't personally research it. The brain has finite space and will file away knowledge it does not use.
How dare Simon tell us about a 3 hr Egyptian video and not release it!!! 😃
I for one would watch it.
Facs!!! I would watch that s**t like 14 times while I grind through my day-to-day law school busy work.
I wonder if it's actually three hours of Ancient Egypt, or mostly tangents and stargate references 😆
@@JeeVeeHaychDoes Simon ever reference Stargate SG-1?
@mariakelly90210 On occasions, yes but not that much. I watched that show myself, so it stands out for me 😆
42:14 the small rant about the academic community made me think of a meme. Anytime someone says "the secret scientists dont want you to know", but have you met a scientist. Theyre screaming at the top of their lungs for you to look at their study.
sure, a lot of them. Egyptologists, however? Zahi Hawass and his people certainly prefer hiding stuff and selling it off on the black market...
To be fair, Egyptology is a pretty insular field that can be pretty up it's own ass.
The fact that research needs approval from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities who's minister has actively dismissed new research about large voids within the Great Pyramid, until be started using it to start marketing that maybe the Pharaoh's tomb was yet undisturbed within those places to try an drum up tourism(but deny any farther research that might disprove that theory)
He also talked about how they shouldn't disprove ancient alien theories because they drive tourism by nutters.
Hawass is just a bad influence on the field.
There was a tweet on twitter recently that had someone replying to a right winger saying "scientists don't want you to look at their research" with "literally every scientist wants you to look at their research".
"Please read the acedemic paper!" they scream... meanwhile that paper is stored on a private section of the internet which requires a national university account to access which you only have if you're a graduate or doctor. The only way a normie can access these files is to use a TOR to bypass the surface internet of the web to see the papers stored in network NAS databases of the Univerities. Uneducated Normies who never went to Uni, only have access to TH-cam, news sites and Wikipedia which is all secondary information that is manipulated by politics or financial interest.
@luckyspurs The sciencetists want you to, but the institutions don't. The problem is the institutions, they want to control information. It is actually easier to access scientific papers by visiting a university or a library than going on the internet as all these papers are not publicly available on the web, only secondary accounts of those papers.
Clarification: Being a Prince in anceint Egypt didn't mean you would become Pharoah.
Only the sons of the Great Royal Wife were destined to inherit the Two Crowns of Egypt. Sons of any Lesser Wives and Consorts didn't have that shoe in chance.
Also, the eldest son of the Great Royal Wife was the heir to the throne. Younger sons of the Great Royal Wife only had a chance if their elder brother died without heirs himself.
Occasionally a Pharoah would bypass the son(s) of his Great Royal Wife to name a lesser son heir, for reasons of his own. Or because his Great Royal Wife didn't give him any sons at all (though if she gave him daughters the daughter could inherit and her husband would become Pharoah if the daughter herself didn't become Pharoah. There are always exceptions to ancient Egyptian royal inheritance).
So no, just because Thutmose IV was a Prince didn't mean he would necessarily inherit. Though, if I recall correctly he was the eldest son of his father's Great Royal Wife. Which would make him the preferred heir.
Also, it's "Tut-moz-ah" not "Tut-moses" as you said it.
*Edited for a typo*
❤thanks
Thankyou, now can you teach Simon how to pronounce Tutankhamun 😂
@bunyipdragon9499 I've tried, several times...
@@angelitabecerra me too
It's a different dialect
BRING ON THE EGYPT SERIES. Do it Simon, or to the basement with you! We'll promote Danny to presenter!
He mentioned it he has to 😂 (joking obviously)
How do you know Danny isn’t the presenter already?
Maybe he’s an actor playing the character of “Simon Whistler.”
I think we've all seen what happens when Simon gets replaced 😂
Lol too funny
@@Mazz3D We do not talk about Mr. Mumbles
The biggest problem with the Leo idea is that Leo is not universally known as a lion constellation. It's a backwards question mark and a triangle. The fact that the Greeks decided it was a lion does not mean even more ancient Egyptians would have considered it to be.
But the greeks could have gotten it from an earlier era.
The Greeks did not decide that, they merely adopted it. The identification of this constellation as a lion is probably older than known human history. Suffice to say that it would appear that the ancient Egyptians did, in fact, identify this constellation with the lion, as did most ancient civilizations from the near east to India. In ancient Egypt it was considered to be part of a tableau depicting a lion reclining between two alligator gods.
From what I've found, the Egyptians did consider Leo as a lion. They just represented it as a laying lion (just like the Sphinx ^^) while most other peoples add other stars to represent it as a jumping or fighting lion ^^
The Greeks received the Lion constellation from the Mesopotamians, who were neighbours of the Egyptians, they don't do everything the same (the Bear constellation is the Hippopotamus in Egypt ^^), but they had some common points ^^
So true. Though there is this, 4k year or so, procession through the zodiac, Leo has been different things, or even parts of different ones. I doubt that 24k (6x4k) to 20k years ago, they were the same.
I used to work on Stargate, so it warms my heart when you refer to it so often Simon
I thought you were being facetious, but realized that you probably meant the show😂
Miss Jack Oneill
We really want a new Stargate series. They did Universe dirty!
Thank you for your service.
Kid me loves that show. Adult me looks back at it and sees it as cringe. Same as MacGyver. Most shows back then wore. Look at lamb chops and thunder birds.
Simon is exceedingly British:
_"Yeah, they're big I suppose. It's bloody hot out here, innit?"_ ~Standard Brit, Standing Infront Of Ancient Wonders of the World
Kind of annoys me that he is so lucky to go and visit these marvels of history and civilization but is so damn cynical and just not bothered about it. I dunno, just really pisses me off sometimes when he does that.
"It's not a great wall, is it? It's alright. It's the Alright Wall of China." - Karl Pilkington
There's actually a Pizza Hut with a window view of the Pyramids of Cairo.
That's somehow awesome and awful
Fun Fact: Protestants are why basically every movie about the middle ages shows the insides of castles as bare stone with little or no color. They were actually plastered and heavily painted because the residents were nobles who wanted to flex and expensive paintings built into your walls is a really good way to do that. But later protestant groups considered happiness a sin and destroyed a bunch of art around the same time they banned dancing. Murals are by definition hard to hide.
Everyone knows protestants have had the biggest influence on movie making.
I saw a comment reviewing Hogwarts legacy saying it was unrealistic as the walls had things all over them. I was like no!!! The bare stone walls is the unrealistic thing
You mean the Puritans - a denomination of Protestants that left Britain because nobody could tolerate their zany beliefs, then left the Netherlands because could tolerate their zany beliefs, and then settled in America who made a a point of accepting everybody's zany beliefs and became part of the Pilgrim mythos that is celebrated during Thanksgiving.
I don’t doubt you, I’m just interested. Any sources ??
I believe that
Religion tends to ruin everything
Simon apologising for going on tangents is so funny given it's part of his brand appeal!
I love them and it cracks me up
Simon, when Egyptian cities first started to thrive, they were not all desert.
Petitioning for edit and release of Egypt episode.
You will get the views sir, have no fears
Thank you Ilze for putting this together. Have a great weekend everyone.
13:33 "There's like two Christian religions, right?" 😂 There's like a hundred, Simon!
He's speaking about Catholic vs Protestant
I thought he meant protestant and Mormon
@@wingerdingeven then it would be a wrong statement. there are 3 major branches in Christianity. In order of splitting off:
Roman-Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant.
Most random sects can be assigned to one of them.
Does anyone really care how many fanfiction versions of a fictional story exist? Because in the end it's all bullshit designed to control weak willed sheeple.
I assumed he was talking about Catholic versus Orthodox. The Orthodox Church was very against iconography and the like.
"A lion's a big cat... or is that a tiger?"
...are you serious? 😂
he is probably thinking of a cheetah the only "big cat" with the vocal structures that can purr like housecats.
"Have you checked the British museum?" 😂 Simon going for the jugular with that one
Edit: Some of you are missing the joke. I know it would not be realistic cost wise, but they have so much stuff. That's the punchline.
I mean you really can travel around the world for free in the British museum. They have a library Bell would kill for as well.
@Loralanthalas Yeah, it's just funny to me. In another video, he commented a joke, "The only reason the British museum doesn't have the pyamids is because they wouldn't fit."
“Ha ha sorry we stole all your stuff”
“Can we have it back then?”
“No. We are sorry though.”
Please finish that video
Except the British museum (among multiple other locations in London*) isn't the only place holding lots of foreign ancient relics.
France has a ton of them (probably in the Louvre).
The US has a ton more (Smithsonian or others).
I'm sure another european country or 2 has a sizable collection.
*The Victoria & Albert museum has a ton of ancient stuff, and the Ashmolean museum has a nice collection too, and if you want to go really olde skool the Petrie museum at UCL (close to the British museum) is practically dedicated to Flinders Petrie's Egyptian archaeology finds.
I attended Waseda University in Tokyo and studied with Prof Kowai, who likely is one of the experts cited here noting an anomaly around the Sphinx.
Pretty cool to hear the shout out in this video.
What conclusions do the Japanese come to about the age/creation of The Sphinx?
Simon not realizing he is very wrong about how carbon dating works or that the whole "age of rhe rock doesn't mean the age of the statue" thing also applies.
Yeah, I was hoping he'd get there but he moved on too soon for us to get that, 'oh wait, nevermind' moment this time.
@@Stonegolem6-He is a bit more fleeting thoughted and giggly than usual on this one..ive noticed an increasing pattern. I swear he's getting high before recording more and more these days. XD
@@buddyzilla4557probably just filmed a Warographics video and needed to change gears lol
@@buddyzilla4557it happens much more frequently on this channel and brain blaze than the others
28:10
Simon is like that guy that talks throughout the movie but he is the narrator /translator too.
😂😂😂
Alright so I really want that 3-4 hour ancient Egypt video.
Yes! I went to Egypt a few years ago and was very surprised when we went to see the pyramids and sphynx. I was the same as you Simon thinking that they were sort of out in the middle of the desert. It's because all of the photos we see are facing out towards the desert, but if they took the photos from the other angle you'd see KFC in the background and all of the shops of a main street. (Yes there was literally a KFC right across the street from them when I was there!)
KFC😂
Nah there wasn't mate. Across from the pyramids is the sphinx, then a thousand touts. Don't spread misinformation
@@finnyliverpool89 I said the pyramids and Sphynx... The Giza plateau is right there with a road and shops and the city, and yes a KFC was right there across the road
Search "Giza plateau facing Cairo" and you'll see just how close everything is
@inannanightingale9718 the giza plateau faces north. You need to be looking south. And south of the giza plateu is a city. A city of millions. However, there is no KFC in the picture. Nor McDonald's. Just jewelery shops, perfumeries, souvenir shops and the occasional rooftop hookah joint.
Who doesn’t love a bit of Whistler and his sarcastic sultry tones
Simon is living proof that you don't need any poetry in your soul to find success.
Giza plateau was a savannah at the time the Sphinx was built, supposedly.
I knew a girl named Savannah, supposedly.
Yeah, the Sahara was still a desert 4 to 5 thousand years ago. So, no. The Sphinx has never seen that much greenery.
Having been to Egypt and having seen the the Sphinx in person, I laughed my ass off when you said it’s a big cat like it was someone’s pet kitty. 😂🤣😂
I think 90% of the mysteries surrounding Ancient Egypt would be solved if the Library of Alexandria was still standing.
And every solution would be the most basic and obvious answer
That is a damn fine insight. I now believe you're right.
Library being destroyed is a myth. There were at least two great libraries there and they slowly fell into misuse and disrepair. Sure some books eventually disappeared but there was NO giant pool of knowledge lost in one moment or another.
@@KasumiRINAI mean there was a portion burned accidentally by Ceaser, but the purging of intellectuals in 145 BC left the library in disrepair and the preservation of material impossible.
@@mikeobrien6411 Yeah, it doesn't really matter *how* collections of lnowledge were lost, just that they were
@@KasumiRINA They didn't say "destroyed" though. They said "if [it] were still standing."
This is the perfect video to show someone when you’re trying to explain Simon and his channels as a whole
4:40 It seems no one really knows for sure just how old the Sphinx is. Some Egyptologist's say it was constructed around the same time as the Pyramids ... while others think it was several thousand years earlier.
Yeah some researchers think they found water erosion that dates it way, way back
@@ManWhorse y’all even watch past the first 5 minutes? lol
@@ShapeshiftedCow guilty
I love how much Simon loves Stargate that he geeks out about it every episode that’s even tangentially related.
I don't think he has too many shows to work with.
Simon's a Stargate fan? Excellent!
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Also, I still have a mostly non-backed belief that it was originally a carving of Anubis, a dog/jackal.
I would LOVE if Simon re-recorded his Ancient Egypt deep dive video in the style of this channel, BB and CC.
By far one of my top3 favorite channels in the wistleverse and the top 3 are tied for #1!
Simon, Cambodia is one of my favorite countries. Angkor Wat is amazing. You should do a video on it. It's not only Angkor Wat, right in that same area you also have the ruins of Bayon Temple and Ta Prohm aka Tomb Raider Temple. And yes, it's sweltering heat any time of year but Cambodian/Khmer food is freaking delicious.
New channel idea: Simon Travels. He goes to all these amazing world sites and then tells us how they’re really just, meh.
For example - at the Great Wall of China… Simon: yeah, it’s a big wall. It gets in the way of intruders. But chain link fences do that, too. It’s really not all that great, is it?
Didn't some people need a bulldozer or something to get through the wall.
Have you heard of "an idiot abroad" ? I have a feeling you'd really enjoy it 😅
@@JimmyS.25was thinking just this
I would love for you to do a 3-hour video about ancient Egypt!!! 😍😍😍
I am going absolutely mad every time Simon says he meant a LION and not a CAT like lions aren't...cats.
How can he be Factboi & not able to tell which lions are male or that they're just big cats with big teeth.
Simon just "recently" discovered the great pyramids are so close to Cairo, for years now 😂
I'd like a virtual assistant on my phone with Simon's voice and sarcastic personality. Maybe you should sell your voice to Apple, Google, or OpenAI.
Me: Hey Simon, set an alarm for 6am tomorrow. I'm going to the gym.
Simon: Really? 6am? Gym? You?...
27:28 Yes. I just spent the day at a state park by the seashore that features an old military fort. The point at which the lookout pillboxes and defensive positions were set is 30 miles away from where the ocean met land 15,000 years ago. But it all depends on the ocean floor and the gradient toward land.it’s relatively shallow up to a certain point around here. So I imagine that the ocean would have crept closer faster later.
“…and then promptly forget” 😂
Well done Sheath for becoming a UFC sponsor. That is a big deal.
And to Simon et al.... I ALWAYS love it. Thank you. :)
YES ALGORITHM FEED ME THE FACT BOIS VIDEOS
You were born in 1987!!! I've got older hangovers!!! 🤣🤣
Haha, brilliant. Right on, brother. Have a great weekend :)
Wait til you find out how old Liam is. 😂😂😂
Same here!
42:12 - “Publish or Perish” really is the best explanation for why any conspiracy of knowledge hoarding by academics is almost certainly untrue. The other explanation is that the academics have tried to tell other people but no one is interested in listening to us talk about our research.
Not true really because if you publish off color it's an INSTANT death kneels to one's career compared to the slow death publish or parish causes. It's like, the Climate scientist and professor who found evidence that the Coral reefs were actually growing and not getting smaller. He published his results and instantly lost his job, was kicked out of the field and will never get funding ever again from that one paper. He eventually sued for wrongful termination and won the case, but this is the unfortunate state of Academia right now. Due to the fact that Egypt is completely leaning on its antiquities were it to come out they were not the constructors of these monuments it would change everything including their legal standings over it all so if you attempted to publish anything in science which goes against the narrative its over for you. Fact of the matter is Egypt destroyed their history when they build the Aswan dam because alone the river is where everyone actually lived. They do not care about their history, only that you believe it is their history and it almost surely is not. I am not saying aliens or anything like that, but they almost surely were not the creators as they were not even around at the time. Hell, we know the Labyrinth is still right there underground, and they refuse to look at it and instead flooded it when the dam was built.
Or their papers are locked away behind a paywall.
I know the secret of space travel...but im not telling anyone as it would benefit the human race....for reasons
Of their paper is behind a paywall just ask them for a copy.
'Publish against what we believe, we'll ostracise you anyway and have it pulled.'
Happens more than you think.
When simon said Angkor Wat was just fine I realized why he says he's smooth brain sometimes 😂 Like are u fucking kidding me???
its wild what Simon sees in any form of media and just assumes thats how things word, regardless how crazy it sounds XD
"He who questions training only trains hinself in asking questions."
- the Sphinx, Mystery Men.
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About that missing nose... A fella named Obelix accidentally broke it off when he wanted to climb on top of the Sphinx for a better view. It is buried between the front legs. Idefix wanted to dig it up.. Bad dog! :-)
Simon, you correcting yourself on the SG-1 trivia made me so damn happy.lol Great to see someone else showing some love to one of the greatest Sci-Fi properties of all time.
I dropped into the comments to say this, too 🥰
So cool to see any Stargate property get some love. I feel like, even amongst us nerds, Stargate gets relegated to a certain niche. @@justjukka
“That was their main-ass god” and other amazing phases by Simon
OMFG! We're a minute and a half and he's already pretending he doesn't know where Cairo is???
I want to see that four hour Egypt video!
In all fairness, a lion IS a cat, so Simon isnt wrong
@Simon Whistler too many comments to go through so I'll add your correction was right, anubus was the baddie in seasons 7 & 8 of StarGate... have been binging it can't wait for your O'reye references soon 😂👍 keep up the great work
Fun Fact: Stargate SG-1 is the longest running American Sci-Fi TV Series. It ran for 10 seasons.
Here to say this! Anubis was the ghostly one that started possesing people at some point, right?
This also took way too much scrolling....
Thanks, Simon. Your details actually make this topic easier to recall. I enjoy your videos. Your voice is fun & smooth to listen to.
Last time I was this early I ended up with a child
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Don't you mean late?
@TheRealFNDealcom wrong gender.
@@BURDYMAN777 lol oh
Really crossing my fingers for the ancient history casual reads with simon lol need more casual Simon cold read content for my week
I can’t be the only one who really wants this history of ancient Egypt video right?
I love how every time something with an err of disbelief shows up Simon vehemently denies its validity, almost like he’s scared of suspension of disbelief
Come on simom you gotta upload bright and early so we have stuff to listen to at work
Please release the video about ancient Egypt Simon!!! I'd love to see it 😅
Napolean shooting off the nose IS an "urban" legend (we technically call them contemporary legends in folkloristics). Myths are totally different and have very specific qualifications.
It wasn't Napoleon, it was much later. WW2 actually when it was used as target practice for tanks .
For some nutty reason I always liked that particular urban legend.
@@SirNecro he was already nose-less by Napoleon tho, so WW2 is way too late...
@@KasumiRINA I know that's what was said in the video but they were wrong with that fact. The English have admitted to using it as target practice in WW2 . They have admitted to it!
Wasnt this myth in the Da Vinci Code or one of his books? I swear i remember reading it there.
1:35 - Mid roll ads
3:00 - Back to the video
5:15 - Chapter 1 - Meet the great sphinx
14:05 - Chapter 2 - Who built the great sphinx ?
25:45 - Chapter 3 - How old is the sphinx
33:05 - Chapter 4 - Was the sphink always a sphinx ?
39:05 - Chapter 5 - What happened to the nose ?
41:55 - Chapter 6 - Hidden chambers filled with treasure
46:30 - Chapter 7 - Did the sphinx had a companion ?
50:40 - Conclusion
Simon: Can't we just carbon date it??
Writer: The age of the rock is not the age of the statue
Simon: Yes absolutely agree
Dude Simon, tell me you don't know what you're talking about 😂
Simon, I would totally watch an epic video presented by you on Egypt... 4 hours would be a nice easy evening watch in my recliner under a blanket
I want the feature-length video on Egypt!
Only if its updated info which is not
7:58 Simon has too much knowledge. Blud forgot that even though someone is prince or princess they may not be next in line for the throne 😂
First time I've ever clocked on a video wothing the first minute of upload, I was at 53 seconds
Congrats! I can tell by the typos how exciting that moment was. Haha.
Edited to fix a typo… 😂
Damn I'm 6 mins lol. Don't have notifications on
I feel you lol. I made it within ten minutes and I’m so excited
23 minutes late to the party ;_;
Wish you would of shown the photos of the hypothesized water erosion on the outter enclosure. It looks pretty cool and definitely makes you wonder. Just think when you're talking about controversial subjects you should show exactly what theyre referring too🤙
Who’s gonna tell Simon that a lion is in fact, a cat ?
Didn’t you hear him? He cares not.
Do more conspiracy videos or factual strange history videos! Love the editing style and more pictures helps with context and attention span
Here's to the Sun god, he sure is a fun god, RA RA RA!
Sun gods. Old school. None of these new age gods that make it all about us.
@29:16 Come on Simon, do the famous chant with me!
All hail the sudden god,
He is a fun god,
Ra!... Ra!... Ra!
5:20 .. why do we think?? The head of the Sphinx is so disproportionately small???
well, factboy, carbon dating kinda works like you say at 26:11. the problem really is that you'd at best find out when the organic thing was embedded in the limestone. not when it was cut or altered in any way. another magnificent watch overall, tho!
I just gently tapped that like button. 😉
You didn't *smash* that like button? 😧
A brain blaze on ancient aliens wildest claims would go hard asf
All of the structures on the giza plateau were cased in limestone, and most were decorated with paint.
art history student here, I’m not egyptologist, but my research on the tablet of the king Namur has led me to have a decent understanding of the key differences pre dynastic and early dynastic era Egyptian iconography. the Egyptian civilization stayed remarkably consistent in their art styles, codes, and conventions, for the several millennia it endured. Fully animalistic representations of gods/pharaoh _are_ associated with the pre dynastic period, while animal headed humans or human headed animals are far more of a dynastic thing. On the other hand, the pre-dynastic cultures do not seem to have had a tradition of large monuments, and the posture of the Sphinx, symmetrical, rigid, and squared, is undeniably artificially en ligne with the early dynastic style and what they were up to. I believe that aspect is more relevant than the fact that the Sphinx may well have started with an animalistic head, as that theory has yet to be proven, and also might not be contradictory with the early dynastic period either. The time and ressources it would have taken to undo such a monumental project are undeniably reflective of the pharaonic state of mind and approach to power. It must also be acknowledged that the Pharaohs have been as times depicted as animals, long after the days of the pre-dynastic shaman kings who turned into full fledged animals were over.
There is simply very little we do know of the pre-dynastic to proto-dynastic period, and that knowledge is just not enough to rule out the Sphinx as belonging to the early dynastic period. I think that, if the lioness theory holds any merit, it only shows that the shift in conventions and culture may not have happened as abruptly as we tend to believe.
It is far more likely in my opinion that the Sphinx was built after the reign of the first dynasty, which is still incredibly old, and absolutely impressive. There was a technologically advanced ancient civilization in the Nile river valley… they’re called the Egyptians! There’s no need to make up one!
My guess is when you do your Sideprojects and stuff, talking about planes all the time... that affects your dreams.
34:59 I came here to say something about this but then you corrected yourself. Touché.
Imagine if the Pharaoh just didn't have a nose due to the incest or something.
omgomgomg as a huge sg1 fan i am eternally gratefull that you handle our shared love with such grace!
Simon the Whistler 😗
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8:13 For what it's worth, I think Simon needs to remember that most princes don't then go on to become king/pharaoh/etc; since there is typically only ever one monarch at any given time while they can have many children, and therefore many princes all vying for that top spot once the original monarch is gone. I think Simon simply didn't clock on that it's likely that prince wasn't the one sole male among his siblings and may not have even been the first in line to the throne. 😅😅
Simon seems like a fun person to travel to ancient cultural places with 😂
If you could stand him constantly reminding everyone that the past is the worst 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would absolutely watch the 4 hour ancient Egypt video.
Simon: *get something wrong about Stargate sg1*
Me:" that's not right"
Simon: *corrects himself*
It jumped out at me, too 😂
They had not yet developed mummifying that far in the old kingdom and grave robbers have stolen virtually all pharaohs from that time. The mummies from the old kingdom that still exist are in much worse condition that the ones from the new kingdom and even middle kingdom. Most of them are just skeletons now. As interesting as the old kingdom is, the tombs of pharaohs of the 3rd-6th dynasty were quite basic compared to the 18th and 19th dynasty ones. Simple granite boxes with little to no decoration on them
A lot of mummies are missing because rich people ate them. "Mummy parties" were a fashionable thing in high society in the early 1900s.
@@kayanneyoung9788Yep that's also a huge reaaon for why a lot of mummies are missing, those insufferable victorians
@@kayanneyoung9788 these tombs were robbed in like 2000 BC, some 4 thousand years before 1900s.
@@KasumiRINA That's why I wrote "a lot of mummies are missing" instead of "all of the mummies are missing..." 🙃
Please never stop the millions of tangents! This is one of your best channels because the tangents make it way more interesting
The prince was just a prince down the line of succession. He wasn't guaranteed to be king.
Something else that might ruin it for him is the possibility of being murdered!
Simon's Sidebar! like 9 channels and this dude mains one theme..
wow im actually early! thanks for another awesome video guys, hope you’re doing well simon! :)
Give me that 4 hrs video..... I'd fall asleep to that. Your videos end to soon. Except for that 12hr casual criminalist. But I don't want nightmares 😅
Damn you, Assassin's Creed! I used to have time for other things!
Hearing Simon talk about ancient buildings makes me realize why the British stole so many artifacts. Because one person was like "Yoooo, look at this priceless artifact! You guys should come to this country to check it out" And everybody else is like, "Eh, thats really far for something kinda cool. The best I can do is a half day trip to London." And Boom, thats how the British Museum got started.
Hi Simon, if it had been possible to date, for example, the mussels in the limestone, then you would have only got a dating of the limestone .. not when the sphinx was built.
Simon, your recurring dream about being in a plane crash just means that on some level, you feel like you are flying too high and it will crash, i.e. you will fail.
That's normal, with your success, to feel that at some level.
Good news is, all you gotta do is just continue to be yourself.
We love you for that, and that's where your success continues to come from.