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Time is irrelevant compared to quality. Also @toastissmall look the quality may, but my heart says oversimplified because the channel is the dad of history channels (with animation).
@@fullmetaltheorist I love the idea of building new wonders in the style of the ancient wonders. Dude had a point when he said we don't build anything beautiful anymore. Even if they built the Colossus of Rhodes using modern techniques, I still think it'd end up being part of a euro-tour.
Fun fact about the original Colossus of Rhodes: Even after it fell, its ruins continued to be a tourist attraction. For the Romans, it was a fun thing to wrap their arms around the big toe of the Colossus to see if they can fully hug it. And the sheer amount of metal it contained made its looting a century long process. In the end, the final remains of the Colossus were raided by the Umayyades and melted to become coins.
The reason Ancient Egypt had so many monuments and public works was due to their style of economy. People were paid in food and water by the Pharaoh rather than currency when undertaking these projects. So when the economy stagnated the Pharaoh would commission some huge undertaking to ensure people didn't starve or leave.
They actually found reasons to why there are extra rooms in the pyramid, it’s not an untold secret as you say. I studied it in college and they’re simply rooms built throughout the building process in case the pharaoh died before the project was completed so he would still get a proper burial room. That’s why the air vents coming from the queen’s room are too short, the pyramid was simply smaller at that step of the construction
Man, that makes so much sense!! It bothered me to not know a reason with all the egyptology mumbo jumbo floating around the pyramids, but that just seems so logical!
seven wonders of the ancient world 2:00 The Great Pyramid of Giza 6:33 The Hanging Gardens of Babylon 8:37 The Temple of Artemis 14:34 The Statue of Zeus 17:38 The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 20:13 The Colossus of Rhodes 23:43 The Lighthouse at Alexandria
If you think about, that guy who burned down the Artemis Temple probably had a different name. And the name we got was a deliberate attempt to erase the actual name from history. After all, as the legend goes, that was his sentence (alongside death, I imagine) - to be forgotten. What better way to do it than to spread false information en masse, which would eventually drown out any actual memory?
@@joshgamingvlogs5203 To claim this man's idea lived one is to imply there was an idea to begin with. But being a menace to society is no one's personal idea. Otherwise every second delinquent could claim a title of "original thinker". Heck - aren't we all had such ideas when we were young and angry? To leave a mark by breaking something? This man was incredibly bland. Its like pick random trader from the same age and say: "see? his idea of commerce lived on!". Commerce was before and would've been after regardless of any one trader. So is the idea of breaking stuff to take a name.
@@mauser98kar it’s not often that I call someone wrong, but you are wrong. We might never know his real name we might never know his true intentions, but what we do know is that one person decided to burn down that building, His actions have lived on, and those actions are tied to the person, so again, the idea lives on
@@mauser98kar might not be good might not benefit society, but I’m just saying if his goal was to be remembered, ding ding, ding it seems to have worked
"ancient egyptians believe that pharoah's shouldn't be disturb" The english archeologist looking at hieroglyphics for the first time: "That sign can't stop me, I can't read."
Man, the timeline of us humans is all complex. Cleopatra is closer to the iPhone than the Pyramids. Lighthouse of Alexandria was built 2000 years before electricity 😵💫😵💫
“You can tell how middle-class you are by how aggrieved you are and how much you wince every time someone mentions the fact that the library of Alexandria burnt down. Ahh! Grr! Oh if only it hadn't! Agh!” Lindybeige
@@ProfoundMentalRetardation3if I remember the thread correctly, its mostly to do with taking military diaries and memoirs about tanks without any grains of salt, while debunking people who do the same but for other types of tanks
There was no reason to decorate Khufu's innermost chamber, because the pyramid itself is the decoration. "Look how powerful i was, they made this entire thing just for me."
Decorations in the inner chambers only started happening later, when they decided to build their tombs underground to deter tomb raiders, among other reasons. Think Tut, undergrounf burial, massively decorated inner chambers.
But was it REALLY a grave? Some suggest it was the Egiptian eqzivalent of a storage for all proper measurements, kept in the king's chamber temperate climate to stay unchanged "forever". And the floor-tiles around the whole structure might have been able to mesure the time of the whole year within the accuragy of about a quarter of an hour. The white marble the Great Pyramid was clad in was reflecting so brightly, that it was called "the light": the sides showed a shadow down their middle for the way this big "4-pointed star base" was constructed🤭
@@LisaBeta-42I personally believe “Khufu’s” pyramid was a tool used for spiritual initiation. An initiate would lay in the kings chamber and have it closed and the initiate would have a spiritual experience while inside
4:50 looks to me like the “queens chamber” was the original planned chamber for the pharaoh but for some reason they decided to not use it and make a new one during the construction
Same. I'd argue they originally planned for the pyramid to be smaller, where the queen's chamber would be central. They expanded it further, and made a new central room. Those airflow tunnels suggest to me how big the pyramid was when they committed to the expansion.
Fun fact: the Lighthouse of Alexandria was built in the island of Pharos. And due to that, the Spanish(and other Latin languages) word for lighthouse is "faro". Another nice example of an ancient world wonder giving a name to a type of building, like Mausolos and his "mausoleo".
What's cool about the Hanging Gardens is that there IS evidence for them, just not in Babylon! There is evidence to suggest something similar to what was described existed in Nineveh at one point!
I remeember a documentary mentioning how the origin of the myth is belived to be from a city that was near babylon and that greek scholars mistook for it, is Nineveh geographically near Babylon?
@@momtchilboshniakov290Nineveh was referred to as Old Babylon in Assyrian sources. I think this could have led to confusion from foreigners as they hear it called Babylon but it is actually the city of Nineveh
Lots of fact checking in printed texts and verified information websites combined with a passion to educate the masses in one of the easiest forms for our brains to digest
Oversimplified, Armchair Historian, Drawn of History, BlueJay, and Things I Care About do it too. Great stuff but lesser animation, Historia Civilis, Sam O'Nella, and completely unanimated (usually); The Fat Electrician and Habitual Line Crosser (a veteran and active Army creator respectively). And there's more lol. Keep learning my friend.
@@danielloewen2857 yes look at London and Paris centers, most "historical" buildings are like 100-200 years old and these cities are more than a thousand years old. They just kept rebuilding them.
amazing video quality, animation, and i love the life in your voice, so many history and science channels i enjoy are read in such monotone which is fine and i love them but its so nice to see someone feel like theyre enjoying telling the content as much as we enjoy learning it
I literally just wanted to take the time to tell you the way you present info, animation, and crafting stories is top tier dude. I love history, and I can tell you love it too from videos like this!
I normally HATE sponsership adds in videos. BUT I gotta say THIS ONE I love because it's not just being rambled of from a script there is actually put effort into it :P
I dont know anything about these videos usually because arch has such good ideas that are so creative and usually unkown but finally i have some idea about this cause i did learn about the seven ancient wonders. Cant wait to watch
5:00 the lower chambers were built first, and so the ventilation shafts did not need to travel as far to ventilate that section. The internal aspects of the pyramid were completed alongside the external construction. So once those ventilation shafts were no longer needed, they just built over them.
I loved this SO MUCH, everything about it was great, i cant state enough how much joy i had while watching this, specially our main plot where our life time was short but we didnt knew why... now i know, but i have to ask why did you killed me if i remembered two names 🥺 or why you didnt kept us as forced time traveller partners under death penalty 🥺🥺
3:10 woah now, the blocks for the pyramid were cut 500 miles away. That's a pretty big hurdle they had to deal with, as the trip takes months, even in chariots. Even if you float these blocks down the Nile. 500 miles.
And the pyramids being tombs was just an idea of the first western explorers. There never was found even one mummy inside a pyramid as far as I‘m aware. The Pharaos were buried in chambers and tombs in the valley of the kings. Also there was no literature or even hyroglyphes implying the pyramids were tombs as far as I‘m aware.
@paulreisenleiter3603 ah, well I'll be the first to tell you, you are wrong. Almost all pyramids have strong evidence that they were used as tombs. The Great Pyramids were from an earlier time period before lavishly decorating the actual burial room was a thing. They were almost definitely tombs. There is nothing else they would reastically be built for.
@@paulreisenleiter3603there were some bodies found. They believe the lack of bodies was due to grave robbers. Also, the valley of kings was after the pyramids, and they did this to prevent grave robbing. Their embalming techniques were much worse in the pyramid era, another reason they may have not found as many bodies. However, I do tend to dispute the notion that the pyramids were solely burial grounds for pharaohs. What do I know though? 😂 I just use google and TH-cam for research
Not to mention all the mathematical and astrological features of the pyramid, aligned to the highest precision on all 4 sides, alignment with the constallation, the amount of "hired workers" needed for the construction would of been staggering, and there's no supportint evidence of camp and barracks nearby to house these workers. The Egyptians left the most detailed accounts of everything they did, in writting they took detail and gave account to everything about their culture, statues, hieroglyphs, pottery, but left no details on the greatest achievements found like the great pyramid and the sphinx. These were from previous civilizations before the flood.
They do exist, just not in Babylon. But in the city of Nineveh. Try searching for "Gardens of Sennacherib", and compare that to the Greece's description of the Garden. The Greeks may mistook Nineveh with Babylon, but we're all make a mistake, right?
A translation of Babylon can mean gate of the gods. Considering there was a time when the Assyrians had dominion over the Akkadian city , it was likely that they tried to promote their capital of Nineveh over its rival by declaring it as a New Babylon
This is again a Masterpeace! This is not only the best product placement i've seen it's also one of the best Videos. This is genius and so fun to watch. Just a work of Art, I love it please keep going!
I could be wrong but i remember watching a documentary back in the day talking about those long shafts in the great pyramid. They looked at what the sky's constellations looked like back in their time, and the way those shafts are angled were to suggest the soul of the Pharoah would use those as guidelines to follow himself to the heavens, directly into a certain constellation i dont remember. They really focused on ways to help the dead make their way to the afterlife any way they could (which is why they keep organs, treasure, food, everything to help aid in the journey). There was significance with the 3 smaller pyramids as well. Like all of it together was to be aligned structually with the stars. Just a theory and i could be wrong, but interesting either way 😅
Never came across this channel before. The production value is off the charts! Even the ad read was seamlessly worked into a larger story that I felt like I was a part of rather than just shown rough drawings and stick figures (don't get me wrong, Sam O'Nella is fantastic)... but this feels like something your teacher would show you in history class! Can't imagine the amount of work that went into the script, story board, animation etc all for me to sit at my computer at 1AM watching it. That's why I love TH-cam and have never seen a channel more deserving of a like, sub and even a sub to the patreon! Love what you're doing brother 🙏
This might be my new favorite channel. The art style and story telling is just very captivating and intriguing. I don't even like history and I'm eagerly listening to this time travelling man. I even watched the whole ad without skipping. One of the most entertaining channel I've accidentally stumbled recently.
I just checked, and it's approximately 480km away from babylon, which at average human walking speed of 5km per hour is only 96 hours worth of walking away... divide that up by days with 6-8 hours of walking and about 12-16 days away, definately close enough for some people who spent months on the road to mess up, especially if there was a road intersection and they went one direction rather than the other. After that its all about a misinterpretation or a greek scholar thinking that making the gardens in babylon would sound cooler than them being in some less known city... because the greek story writers definitely did not mind doing things like that from time to time.
@@momtchilboshniakov290 Nineveh was not a "less known city", at its height it had 200K people living there, which was like New York or Tokyo of 7 century BC. But yes, it may have been a less known to Greek historians at the time they were describing Hanging Gardens.
@@_Diana_S At the same time, the assyrians had long collapsed, and the babylonians were the most recent force in the region to the greeks outside of persia/media
@@_Diana_S just for clarification, i did mean it relatively speaking, for the time when our Greek sources were written and mostly the rest was speculation (to be honest I'm not a historian, only an avid documentary watcher, and i only know of the existence of Greek and Egyptian sources for Babylon, and i only remember the Greek ones specifically mentioning the garden)
The Temple of Artemis was also the largest Greek Temple ever built, with its size being in the range of 140x69 meters to 125x69 meters. It was also lavishly adorned with sculptures all around the exterior and interior, some of which (like a sculpted drum from the top of a column) can be found at the... British Museum, of all places. Also, the ruins do not look anything like that. There is only a single column standing with remains of the foundation. However, if you want to be able to understand what it looked like and the sheer scale of that place, you can visit the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, a hundred or so kilometers south of the Temple of Artemis. It was of a very similar scale, being 120x60 meters and is much more intact. Also, we do NOT have shawarma. We have döner (which is the OG), and I WILL come to your house and hurt you if you call it shawarma again.
Was wondering how I never saw your channel before…amazing quality for how relatively recent you started I figured you had been doing this for years and years. Keep up the great work man and can’t wait to see more!!
@@nobleman9393 The dead bodies with all the slaves were there to operate the gun .... But due to radiation of the gun they must be separated from the general public so they were buried there as they died ...
oh! i really liked the art style of the animation, and well other parts of video too, of course. probably the fastest subscription to a channel i’ve ever done (in fact, even before the intro started) lol.
I have been to the temple of Artemis, its seriously comedic having a tour guide hyping you up for the temple, rounding the corner, and its a single pillar. literally just one pillar 😂
This channel came out of nowhere and from the very start, every single video is a banger! The team behind it is very talented and I cant wait to see what they do next. This channel knows its purpose and it shows. Its not one of those youtube channels that decides to tackle history for the sake of having some theme to form their content around. There is genuine love for history, humor and animation. I also love the short critique of our modern world and its architecture. Could just be a throwaway line or maybe an unfinished thought. Maybe we get a video that expands on the idea of the soulless globalization one day? And why culture matters? Like when Saladin (in "Kingdom of Heaven") is questioned "What is Jerusalem even worth?" His response is "Nothing. Everything!" And the same can be said for culture. It simultaneously means nothing and EVERYTHING!
There’s a theory stating that the hanging gardens did exist but not in Babylon. It’s thought that it was actually built 300 miles away in a city called Nineveh, which at the time was called “New Babylon” hence the confusion. The city contains extensive ruins of aqueducts that would be able to supply the necessary amount of water to create and sustain such a lush ancient wonder and there are references to a watering screw very similar to an archimedes screw
Amazing Video Bro! Since im such an ancient history fan, I just loved this vidso so much. Just a suggestion but you should also consider making a vid about the new world wonders!
Also let's not forget that not all of the beautiful white limestone covering the pyramid wasn't all lost. Many of it was repurposed into construction material that can still be seen on buildings and structures surrounding the pyramids. I used to think we didn't have any of that limestone preserved but we apparently have a bunch of it still there technically.
My biggest gripe with the "new wonders of the world" is that somehow the Cristo Redentor made the list. I get that it is iconic, but it isn't all that wondrous. It's not even one of the top 50 largest statues in the world. It's a very simple statue made of concrete. Hell, the statue of liberty is older, much larger, made of bronze and just as iconic, yet it didn't make the list (not that it should have either).
Don't think any modern statues should be in the list because of their height. In India they made this bronze statue which is tallest but it's just a statue, and they now planning to make two three more of some deities.
This was fantastic, your channel is great with good animation,with your own style,humor,and charm. You bring interesting topics not many bring up and that makes me so happy to see. I can't wait for your next video.😊
Honestly one of the best and most memorable videos I watched through the thousands of hours I have on TH-cam. It managed to peak my interests in traveling the B.C world. I just hope the algorithm recognizes this gem
22:17 For his help, Ptolemy 1 of Egypt would be give the title of Soter which meant Savior. And this would became the name of his dynasty, the Soter Dynasty.
*Ptolemaic dynasty. Or the Lagid dynasty, after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus. The epithet of Soter was basically just a nickname, many noteworthy (greek) rulers had one of these. Demetrius himself for instance earned himself the epithet of Poliorcetes, the besieger. Dysnasty names are not named after epithets as far as I'm aware; mostly because they are acquired later in life.
5:26 it had been white and shiny for a long long long time, until the Muslim conquests where one of the rulers in Egypt considered the pyramids pagan and ordered them to be demolished, they uncovered the limestone and gold tip but quickly realise it whould be impossible and gave up
As an American, I always wondered why the ancient wonders of the “world” only included wonders in the west. I’m sure China, India, Korea, Japan, etc. all had amazing wonders that could rival or surpass some of those on this list. Do eastern cultures have their own ancient wonders of the world?
Yes one example persepolis city of kings I have no idea why that magnificent structure hadn't considered one is it bc that was persian and greeks didn't mention it bc of that?
It's because the "wonders of the world" was a list created by the ancient greeks, who didn't know about China, India, Korea, or Japan. It's not a title we have retroactively given to them in modern times. At the time it was basically a guidebook for ancient greek tourists, a list of things that they could visit.
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We will back next month (we will try) with a 15 min fact about a certain german philosopher...
This video quality tops oversimplified. Keep up the good work!
Time is irrelevant compared to quality. Also @toastissmall look the quality may, but my heart says oversimplified because the channel is the dad of history channels (with animation).
hey its finnaly here
the game was rigged from the start, once and for all proving that Fallout New Vegas is a world Wonder :D
If there are two world wonders that should be on the same level as the pyramids, it would be the trans-Siberian railway and the Panama Canal.
Most extreme "This will be on the test" I've seen yet lol
That was indeed the case.
I legit started repeating the names in my head
Me who got it right but still get fucking shot
@@fitawiroyudho3988Too bad buddy.
And well buddy, the game was rigged from the start...
Fun fact: the government of Rhodos is thinking about rebuilding the Colossus but this time 5 times taller.
They have my full support.
@@fullmetaltheorist I love the idea of building new wonders in the style of the ancient wonders. Dude had a point when he said we don't build anything beautiful anymore. Even if they built the Colossus of Rhodes using modern techniques, I still think it'd end up being part of a euro-tour.
Fun fact about the original Colossus of Rhodes: Even after it fell, its ruins continued to be a tourist attraction. For the Romans, it was a fun thing to wrap their arms around the big toe of the Colossus to see if they can fully hug it. And the sheer amount of metal it contained made its looting a century long process. In the end, the final remains of the Colossus were raided by the Umayyades and melted to become coins.
@fullmetaltheorist I hope it'll have full suport from the ground there too, especially considering the previous one fell due to an earthquake
No matter how over the top it sounds, I'm all for its favour. We need more pretty things in the world.
The reason Ancient Egypt had so many monuments and public works was due to their style of economy. People were paid in food and water by the Pharaoh rather than currency when undertaking these projects. So when the economy stagnated the Pharaoh would commission some huge undertaking to ensure people didn't starve or leave.
More theory
Egypt had many slaves. Egypt enslaved Israelites
@@kingdoge8589
For a good reason.
Lmaoo, calm down bro @@Zagirus
@@Zagirusreal shit🔥🔥
They actually found reasons to why there are extra rooms in the pyramid, it’s not an untold secret as you say. I studied it in college and they’re simply rooms built throughout the building process in case the pharaoh died before the project was completed so he would still get a proper burial room. That’s why the air vents coming from the queen’s room are too short, the pyramid was simply smaller at that step of the construction
Man, that makes so much sense!! It bothered me to not know a reason with all the egyptology mumbo jumbo floating around the pyramids, but that just seems so logical!
Really.....its not a tomb🤐
@@fivecitydirttracker4776then what is it if it’s not a tomb?
@@martifletteancient power generation source - no remains have ever been found in the great pyramid
@@liversnap1289tes and ziggurats were giant data centers
seven wonders of the ancient world
2:00 The Great Pyramid of Giza
6:33 The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
8:37 The Temple of Artemis
14:34 The Statue of Zeus
17:38 The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
20:13 The Colossus of Rhodes
23:43 The Lighthouse at Alexandria
Babe wake up oversimplified uploaded
Wrong channel pal
Sadly not yet…
This is not oversimplified mate sorry.
You wish 😂
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If you think about, that guy who burned down the Artemis Temple probably had a different name. And the name we got was a deliberate attempt to erase the actual name from history.
After all, as the legend goes, that was his sentence (alongside death, I imagine) - to be forgotten. What better way to do it than to spread false information en masse, which would eventually drown out any actual memory?
The man might not have lived but his idea lives on
@@joshgamingvlogs5203 To claim this man's idea lived one is to imply there was an idea to begin with. But being a menace to society is no one's personal idea. Otherwise every second delinquent could claim a title of "original thinker". Heck - aren't we all had such ideas when we were young and angry? To leave a mark by breaking something?
This man was incredibly bland. Its like pick random trader from the same age and say: "see? his idea of commerce lived on!". Commerce was before and would've been after regardless of any one trader. So is the idea of breaking stuff to take a name.
@@mauser98kar it’s not often that I call someone wrong, but you are wrong. We might never know his real name we might never know his true intentions, but what we do know is that one person decided to burn down that building, His actions have lived on, and those actions are tied to the person, so again, the idea lives on
@@mauser98kar might not be good might not benefit society, but I’m just saying if his goal was to be remembered, ding ding, ding it seems to have worked
@@joshgamingvlogs5203 ...???
I am speechless. You didn't even read my original post you are answering.
What a wonderful video....
Literally
nice one
Ba dum tsss
"ancient egyptians believe that pharoah's shouldn't be disturb"
The english archeologist looking at hieroglyphics for the first time:
"That sign can't stop me, I can't read."
Man, the timeline of us humans is all complex.
Cleopatra is closer to the iPhone than the Pyramids.
Lighthouse of Alexandria was built 2000 years before electricity 😵💫😵💫
“You can tell how middle-class you are by how aggrieved you are and how much you wince every time someone mentions the fact that the library of Alexandria burnt down. Ahh! Grr! Oh if only it hadn't! Agh!”
Lindybeige
I heard Lindybiege wasn't very historically accurate from redditors
The virgin Library of Alexandria, versus the chad Baghdad House of Wisdom.
@@ProfoundMentalRetardation3if I remember the thread correctly, its mostly to do with taking military diaries and memoirs about tanks without any grains of salt, while debunking people who do the same but for other types of tanks
@@Rynewulf Was that from r/badhistory? Thats where i read lindybiege criticisms.
@@ProfoundMentalRetardation3 I think so.
this production is NEXT LEVEL!!!!!!!! cant wait for the arch video to come out, also i love you so much you are indeed a "wonder" haha
keep up
There was no reason to decorate Khufu's innermost chamber, because the pyramid itself is the decoration. "Look how powerful i was, they made this entire thing just for me."
Decorations in the inner chambers only started happening later, when they decided to build their tombs underground to deter tomb raiders, among other reasons. Think Tut, undergrounf burial, massively decorated inner chambers.
But was it REALLY a grave? Some suggest it was the Egiptian eqzivalent of a storage for all proper measurements, kept in the king's chamber temperate climate to stay unchanged "forever". And the floor-tiles around the whole structure might have been able to mesure the time of the whole year within the accuragy of about a quarter of an hour. The white marble the Great Pyramid was clad in was reflecting so brightly, that it was called "the light": the sides showed a shadow down their middle for the way this big "4-pointed star base" was constructed🤭
@@LisaBeta-42I personally believe “Khufu’s” pyramid was a tool used for spiritual initiation. An initiate would lay in the kings chamber and have it closed and the initiate would have a spiritual experience while inside
Nah I went in there once, and there was a pc in the room. Just proves it was built by Aliens.
Y'all wild, don't wanna admit your people ate corpses and concocted some wild ideas.
4:50 looks to me like the “queens chamber” was the original planned chamber for the pharaoh but for some reason they decided to not use it and make a new one during the construction
Same. I'd argue they originally planned for the pyramid to be smaller, where the queen's chamber would be central. They expanded it further, and made a new central room. Those airflow tunnels suggest to me how big the pyramid was when they committed to the expansion.
Fun fact: the Lighthouse of Alexandria was built in the island of Pharos. And due to that, the Spanish(and other Latin languages) word for lighthouse is "faro".
Another nice example of an ancient world wonder giving a name to a type of building, like Mausolos and his "mausoleo".
In Portuguese “farol” 👍🏼
And due to that, in Russian language car front lights are called "fara"
@@_Diana_S farol is car front light in Portuguese too!
Hence why some have incorrectly called it the Pharos of Alexandria
Even in Greek it's called "Faros" (Φάρος).
What's cool about the Hanging Gardens is that there IS evidence for them, just not in Babylon! There is evidence to suggest something similar to what was described existed in Nineveh at one point!
I remeember a documentary mentioning how the origin of the myth is belived to be from a city that was near babylon and that greek scholars mistook for it, is Nineveh geographically near Babylon?
@@momtchilboshniakov290Nineveh was referred to as Old Babylon in Assyrian sources. I think this could have led to confusion from foreigners as they hear it called Babylon but it is actually the city of Nineveh
Yeah, i have seen that history TV 18's documentary too
Also the magnolians came and destroyed everything so maybe that’s why there’s little evidence
7:39 I just want to say the narrator's pronunciation of Nebuchadnezzar is the whitest thing I've ever witnessed.
Well animated, good art, focuses on education, and generally apolitical? How is this possible?
Lots of fact checking in printed texts and verified information websites combined with a passion to educate the masses in one of the easiest forms for our brains to digest
I was just thinking this
unbiased oversimplified
Oversimplified, Armchair Historian, Drawn of History, BlueJay, and Things I Care About do it too.
Great stuff but lesser animation, Historia Civilis, Sam O'Nella, and completely unanimated (usually); The Fat Electrician and Habitual Line Crosser (a veteran and active Army creator respectively).
And there's more lol. Keep learning my friend.
check oversimplified bub
"It's almost sad..."
No, it absolutely is sad. It's a god damn tragedy! Why are we always destroying the beautiful things the people bevor us created?
It's usually to make room for something new or to reuse the parts. It truly is sad, but at least the wonders covered here were memorialized
Progress
@@danielloewen2857 yes look at London and Paris centers, most "historical" buildings are like 100-200 years old and these cities are more than a thousand years old. They just kept rebuilding them.
@@DaytonaRoadster the temple of Artemis was literally destroyed by Christians
Why do anti-Semites blame Jews for everything
@@a_paperweight
I mean.. they were responsible for Christianity as well.
amazing video quality, animation, and i love the life in your voice, so many history and science channels i enjoy are read in such monotone which is fine and i love them but its so nice to see someone feel like theyre enjoying telling the content as much as we enjoy learning it
I literally just wanted to take the time to tell you the way you present info, animation, and crafting stories is top tier dude. I love history, and I can tell you love it too from videos like this!
Love the Fallout reference at the end
New Vegas
The game was rigged tho
@@NonCoolNot canon
@@theploot8230Wdym
If you haven't played New Vegas, Benny says "Truth is, the game was rigged from the start" in the intro
I normally HATE sponsership adds in videos. BUT I gotta say THIS ONE I love because it's not just being rambled of from a script there is actually put effort into it :P
I dont know anything about these videos usually because arch has such good ideas that are so creative and usually unkown but finally i have some idea about this cause i did learn about the seven ancient wonders. Cant wait to watch
The hanging gardens were probably based on the gardens at Nineveh, which were built just a few hundred miles away around the same period.
5:00 the lower chambers were built first, and so the ventilation shafts did not need to travel as far to ventilate that section. The internal aspects of the pyramid were completed alongside the external construction. So once those ventilation shafts were no longer needed, they just built over them.
Amazing video brother and thank you for your time and effort!!!
I loved this SO MUCH, everything about it was great, i cant state enough how much joy i had while watching this, specially our main plot where our life time was short but we didnt knew why... now i know, but i have to ask why did you killed me if i remembered two names 🥺 or why you didnt kept us as forced time traveller partners under death penalty 🥺🥺
I know this is probably off-topic, but I just love everytime you upload a video, you add a character to the banner. I'd say that's really creative!
Im glad someone noticed :)
@@HeyHistoricallyOk I have to say, that's pretty cool!
@@HeyHistorically did you add a Alabama joke or did Mausolus come back from Alabama
@@HeyHistoricallyalso I remember the name Khufu
I love people like you
3:10 woah now, the blocks for the pyramid were cut 500 miles away. That's a pretty big hurdle they had to deal with, as the trip takes months, even in chariots. Even if you float these blocks down the Nile. 500 miles.
And the pyramids being tombs was just an idea of the first western explorers. There never was found even one mummy inside a pyramid as far as I‘m aware. The Pharaos were buried in chambers and tombs in the valley of the kings. Also there was no literature or even hyroglyphes implying the pyramids were tombs as far as I‘m aware.
I've heard a theory that the blocks were cast on the spot out of a kind of limestone cement
@paulreisenleiter3603 ah, well I'll be the first to tell you, you are wrong. Almost all pyramids have strong evidence that they were used as tombs. The Great Pyramids were from an earlier time period before lavishly decorating the actual burial room was a thing.
They were almost definitely tombs. There is nothing else they would reastically be built for.
@@paulreisenleiter3603there were some bodies found. They believe the lack of bodies was due to grave robbers. Also, the valley of kings was after the pyramids, and they did this to prevent grave robbing. Their embalming techniques were much worse in the pyramid era, another reason they may have not found as many bodies. However, I do tend to dispute the notion that the pyramids were solely burial grounds for pharaohs. What do I know though? 😂 I just use google and TH-cam for research
Not to mention all the mathematical and astrological features of the pyramid, aligned to the highest precision on all 4 sides, alignment with the constallation, the amount of "hired workers" needed for the construction would of been staggering, and there's no supportint evidence of camp and barracks nearby to house these workers. The Egyptians left the most detailed accounts of everything they did, in writting they took detail and gave account to everything about their culture, statues, hieroglyphs, pottery, but left no details on the greatest achievements found like the great pyramid and the sphinx. These were from previous civilizations before the flood.
Im usually dont really comment under videos, but man - this is what we call quality!! Im sure much work is in it, salute to the team.
My favourite is the hanging gardens. Too bad they may not have existed.
They do exist, just not in Babylon. But in the city of Nineveh. Try searching for "Gardens of Sennacherib", and compare that to the Greece's description of the Garden. The Greeks may mistook Nineveh with Babylon, but we're all make a mistake, right?
A translation of Babylon can mean gate of the gods. Considering there was a time when the Assyrians had dominion over the Akkadian city , it was likely that they tried to promote their capital of Nineveh over its rival by declaring it as a New Babylon
@@RocketHarry865foreigners at that time pretty much called every great city Babylon
Yea it was just a prank bro 🎉
@@RocketHarry865Assyrians all
This is again a Masterpeace! This is not only the best product placement i've seen it's also one of the best Videos. This is genius and so fun to watch. Just a work of Art, I love it please keep going!
I could be wrong but i remember watching a documentary back in the day talking about those long shafts in the great pyramid. They looked at what the sky's constellations looked like back in their time, and the way those shafts are angled were to suggest the soul of the Pharoah would use those as guidelines to follow himself to the heavens, directly into a certain constellation i dont remember. They really focused on ways to help the dead make their way to the afterlife any way they could (which is why they keep organs, treasure, food, everything to help aid in the journey). There was significance with the 3 smaller pyramids as well. Like all of it together was to be aligned structually with the stars. Just a theory and i could be wrong, but interesting either way 😅
BUT THAT JUST A THEORY A HISTORY THEORY
@@magnuson8080 ooooohhhhh heeeeelll nooooooo!
But is a cool theory too that I think can be true and would definitely support discoveries 😊
The Pyramids are not tombs. That was made up by a handful of archaeologists.
@@daviddunkelheit9952then who is the more trustworthy guy that says that they weren't tombs?
1:24 *casually breaks reality then does a evil backwards walk into the portal*
This has been one of the best cartoon explain videos I have seen. Informative and actually funny. Keep it up!
Never came across this channel before. The production value is off the charts! Even the ad read was seamlessly worked into a larger story that I felt like I was a part of rather than just shown rough drawings and stick figures (don't get me wrong, Sam O'Nella is fantastic)... but this feels like something your teacher would show you in history class! Can't imagine the amount of work that went into the script, story board, animation etc all for me to sit at my computer at 1AM watching it. That's why I love TH-cam and have never seen a channel more deserving of a like, sub and even a sub to the patreon! Love what you're doing brother 🙏
Sad you didn’t talk about the possibility of the hanging garden of Babylon actually being the gardens of Nineveh in assyria
Yeah I thought that too. Perhaps the Greeks misinterpreted their source?
It's clear lot of work was put into this one!! good job and keep it up.
That’s a wonderful opener/premise for a video 👍
This might be my new favorite channel. The art style and story telling is just very captivating and intriguing. I don't even like history and I'm eagerly listening to this time travelling man. I even watched the whole ad without skipping. One of the most entertaining channel I've accidentally stumbled recently.
the death glasses joke @ 16:55 was elite.
Just discovered this channel and Im very impressed. Definitely subscribing!
I've heard the Hanging Gardens of Babylon may have actually been the Hanging Gardens of Niniveh.
I just checked, and it's approximately 480km away from babylon, which at average human walking speed of 5km per hour is only 96 hours worth of walking away... divide that up by days with 6-8 hours of walking and about 12-16 days away, definately close enough for some people who spent months on the road to mess up, especially if there was a road intersection and they went one direction rather than the other. After that its all about a misinterpretation or a greek scholar thinking that making the gardens in babylon would sound cooler than them being in some less known city... because the greek story writers definitely did not mind doing things like that from time to time.
Interesting
@@momtchilboshniakov290 Nineveh was not a "less known city", at its height it had 200K people living there, which was like New York or Tokyo of 7 century BC. But yes, it may have been a less known to Greek historians at the time they were describing Hanging Gardens.
@@_Diana_S At the same time, the assyrians had long collapsed, and the babylonians were the most recent force in the region to the greeks outside of persia/media
@@_Diana_S just for clarification, i did mean it relatively speaking, for the time when our Greek sources were written and mostly the rest was speculation (to be honest I'm not a historian, only an avid documentary watcher, and i only know of the existence of Greek and Egyptian sources for Babylon, and i only remember the Greek ones specifically mentioning the garden)
The Temple of Artemis was also the largest Greek Temple ever built, with its size being in the range of 140x69 meters to 125x69 meters. It was also lavishly adorned with sculptures all around the exterior and interior, some of which (like a sculpted drum from the top of a column) can be found at the... British Museum, of all places.
Also, the ruins do not look anything like that. There is only a single column standing with remains of the foundation.
However, if you want to be able to understand what it looked like and the sheer scale of that place, you can visit the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, a hundred or so kilometers south of the Temple of Artemis. It was of a very similar scale, being 120x60 meters and is much more intact.
Also, we do NOT have shawarma. We have döner (which is the OG), and I WILL come to your house and hurt you if you call it shawarma again.
I call it kebab.
@@JinLin-s8g kebap is different
Aynısını yazmaya gelmiştim. Siperler boş kalmamış iyi. 😊
Yeeros >>>>
@@frfras7it's just a knockoff of döner
27:55
Look, man, I’m just really bad at remembering names. I don’t even remember your name.
he has a nice double barrel though
Can I just say this video is AMAZINGLY well done and informative. Great job man !!
Was wondering how I never saw your channel before…amazing quality for how relatively recent you started I figured you had been doing this for years and years. Keep up the great work man and can’t wait to see more!!
Such a great video. I really wish that these 7 wonders were still here. Be great to see them, I especially loved the hanging gardens.
Hear me out here the pyramids were actually super guns but were never used ...
Were listening
Why were they putting dead bodies inside?
@@nobleman9393 they use the methane of all the bodies and the slaves ..
@@nobleman9393 The dead bodies with all the slaves were there to operate the gun .... But due to radiation of the gun they must be separated from the general public so they were buried there as they died ...
@@parthasarathyvenkatadri Makes sense.
oh! i really liked the art style of the animation, and well other parts of video too, of course. probably the fastest subscription to a channel i’ve ever done (in fact, even before the intro started) lol.
I have been to the temple of Artemis, its seriously comedic having a tour guide hyping you up for the temple, rounding the corner, and its a single pillar. literally just one pillar 😂
Your sub count is criminally lower than it should be for the work y’all put in 😭
Keep up the great work!
16:49 “what’s your favourite country?”
“The Black Sea”
You mean Colchis?
I genuinely don’t know how I haven’t come across your content until now. This video was incredible and you’ve earned a subscriber
Nice video, i love learning about historical stuff. And the ending, the ending was perfect
"We've got Oversimplified at home:"
*Undersimplified*
The videos just keep getting better! Bravo!
This channel came out of nowhere and from the very start, every single video is a banger! The team behind it is very talented and I cant wait to see what they do next.
This channel knows its purpose and it shows. Its not one of those youtube channels that decides to tackle history for the sake of having some theme to form their content around. There is genuine love for history, humor and animation.
I also love the short critique of our modern world and its architecture. Could just be a throwaway line or maybe an unfinished thought. Maybe we get a video that expands on the idea of the soulless globalization one day? And why culture matters?
Like when Saladin (in "Kingdom of Heaven") is questioned "What is Jerusalem even worth?" His response is "Nothing. Everything!"
And the same can be said for culture. It simultaneously means nothing and EVERYTHING!
There’s a theory stating that the hanging gardens did exist but not in Babylon. It’s thought that it was actually built 300 miles away in a city called Nineveh, which at the time was called “New Babylon” hence the confusion. The city contains extensive ruins of aqueducts that would be able to supply the necessary amount of water to create and sustain such a lush ancient wonder and there are references to a watering screw very similar to an archimedes screw
First video I watched from you. I have to say, this was a gem, keep going like this!
Amazing Video Bro! Since im such an ancient history fan, I just loved this vidso so much. Just a suggestion but you should also consider making a vid about the new world wonders!
Awesome video, keep it up! I can tell it took several months to make, the quality is top notch
This is amazing. Your best video yet
Ik kan de moeite die in deze video is gestoken erg waarderen 👍
Also let's not forget that not all of the beautiful white limestone covering the pyramid wasn't all lost. Many of it was repurposed into construction material that can still be seen on buildings and structures surrounding the pyramids. I used to think we didn't have any of that limestone preserved but we apparently have a bunch of it still there technically.
14:00 this has to be the most creative way I’ve *EVER* seen anyone do a sponsorship 😂😂
My biggest gripe with the "new wonders of the world" is that somehow the Cristo Redentor made the list. I get that it is iconic, but it isn't all that wondrous. It's not even one of the top 50 largest statues in the world. It's a very simple statue made of concrete. Hell, the statue of liberty is older, much larger, made of bronze and just as iconic, yet it didn't make the list (not that it should have either).
Statue of liberty is copper that’s why she’s green!
Don't think any modern statues should be in the list because of their height. In India they made this bronze statue which is tallest but it's just a statue, and they now planning to make two three more of some deities.
That "horse" in the sketch of the Mausoleum at 17:43 looks a lot like it came right out of My Little Pony, cutiemark included
This was fantastic, your channel is great with good animation,with your own style,humor,and charm. You bring interesting topics not many bring up and that makes me so happy to see. I can't wait for your next video.😊
Super clean ad transition. Makes watching an Ad enjoyable instead of a chore
This is my first time stumbling upon this channel and I must say “Wow” - the animation is stunning. Absolutely amazing. 🎨
hell yeah this is perfect to watch with my poutine lunch
Honestly one of the best and most memorable videos I watched through the thousands of hours I have on TH-cam. It managed to peak my interests in traveling the B.C world. I just hope the algorithm recognizes this gem
Piqued not peaked
Wow, this art style and animation quality is really good... Does just one guy make this? It's hella impressive, and good narration writing too
9:01 Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Demeter the Greek goddess that represents fertility? I thought Artemis represented the hunt and chastity
One of my fondest memories is when the answer to Final Jeopardy was “The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus” and I knew it, and my family was like… 😳🥳👏👏
17:04 WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS FACE. HOW MUCH DO I HAVE TO LIVE?!
A bit late to the party. It was a nice way of showing the ancient wonders, and skits and ad inserts were entertaining. Keep it up the good work man.
22:17 For his help, Ptolemy 1 of Egypt would be give the title of Soter which meant Savior. And this would became the name of his dynasty, the Soter Dynasty.
*Ptolemaic dynasty. Or the Lagid dynasty, after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus. The epithet of Soter was basically just a nickname, many noteworthy (greek) rulers had one of these. Demetrius himself for instance earned himself the epithet of Poliorcetes, the besieger. Dysnasty names are not named after epithets as far as I'm aware; mostly because they are acquired later in life.
You do not have enough subscribers for how good this video is and the animation quality
The "official" explanation for the pyramid and its purpose I just cant take seriously anymore. Its so absurd that its funny at this point.
What about compunding interest? Thats the 8th wonder of the world
Love the involvement of the viewer as a character, does feel like a Dora episode but it’s fun lmao
you should be at least 40 million subscribers. wtf is this production
Gotta love the FONV reference at the end. You sir earned a subscribe.
3:50 to that point it is starting to become more of a commonly accepted fact that Khufu did not have the pyramid commissioned and predated his rule.
Absolutely top notch content‼️
8:30 then, who designed that popular picture of hanging gardens we all know of today as to how it may have looked and how did it get so popularized ?
He killed me at the end >:(
But did you get that Fallout reference
5:26 it had been white and shiny for a long long long time, until the Muslim conquests where one of the rulers in Egypt considered the pyramids pagan and ordered them to be demolished, they uncovered the limestone and gold tip but quickly realise it whould be impossible and gave up
Love the animation and storytelling ❤
Wonderful! Wouldn’t expect less from you! Keep it up!
1:31 what's the name of the soundtrack here?
No clue :(
Shostakovich - Waltz 2
And the 10:45? 😭
Forget, i found it
As an American, I always wondered why the ancient wonders of the “world” only included wonders in the west. I’m sure China, India, Korea, Japan, etc. all had amazing wonders that could rival or surpass some of those on this list. Do eastern cultures have their own ancient wonders of the world?
Yeah!
This is because the ancient wonders category is a modern invention by western dudes who didn't really care as much about the non-western world.
Yes one example persepolis city of kings I have no idea why that magnificent structure hadn't considered one is it bc that was persian and greeks didn't mention it bc of that?
It's because the "wonders of the world" was a list created by the ancient greeks, who didn't know about China, India, Korea, or Japan. It's not a title we have retroactively given to them in modern times. At the time it was basically a guidebook for ancient greek tourists, a list of things that they could visit.
5:30 “when modern archaeologists opened it, they realized someone had already stole it before they could” lol
Woooow I love your videos
I wish they could show your videos in school 😭❤️
your quality improved so drastically
16:48 who filled in the Black Sea? It was Nero wasn’t it?!
13:27 I got an ad while watching this ad. Adception
20:28 bro really said "allow me to oversimplify" and became oversimplified