there has been a suspiciously large amount of decoding the unknown eps about missing treasures, my conspiracy is that Simon has actually found them all and is trying to put us off the trail by posting these videos and convincing us they’re not real so he can have all the riches to himself. I’m onto you Simon
@@rodepet It's actually really easy with spreadsheets. Essentially one major project to get it started, with a few keywords thrown into it whenever a new video drops. That's how you know you're an adult, btw. Not just when you start seeing big problems in terms of how to make a searchable or automatically calculating spreadsheet for it, but when you start to have opinions on its formatting. Trying to manipulate an in-game market? Spreadsheet. Trying to calculate what ingredients you need to 100% the cooking profession? Spreadsheet. Trying to figure out how many hours a week are spent on meetings with only 2 or 3 sentences of useful information that could be put in an email? Spreadsheet spreadsheet spreadsheet.
FUN FACT: I added up the number of subscribers across Simon's many channels (not including podcasts versions) and if they were all individual people and we made a country, we'd be around the 75th most populated country in the world at about 13 million individuals. Simon's viewership is almost 3 times the population of Scotland. His viewership is more numerous than the population of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago combined. The number of people that have subscribed to Simon's channels is literally over a million times higher than the number of people who have walked on the moon. Simon's viewership exceeds the total number of American Civil War casualties by a factor of 20. Simon has more subscribers than people who have died from COVID worldwide. Simon has almost three times as many viewers as there are individual hairs on an entire average human body. That's successful.
That's impressive. Firstly, that he has amassed such success, secondly that you were able all the info all the way from "Top Tens" to "Casual Criminalist" and the, what?, 9? Channels in between. And finally that you had the knowledge on hand to provide multiple analogies and examples of how many people that actually is. Well done sirs.
But if everyone subscribes to every one of his channels and you divide the total subscribers by total channels, there's like, 6 of us. And 2 of them are Danny...soooo.....
Simon, ports silted up over time. There are a few in Turkey that silted up so badly they are are 3-4 km from where the shoreline is now. The same is true of many early Roman & Carthaginian ports, so having an ancient port being 500 meters from the modern shoreline would be quite likely…
Just look at London, the city is 50 miles inland from the sea. People in ancient times would pick a strategic position as well. Not right at the end of a river, but a bit further up. Like at the end of a delta or at a natural bay. I mean, I live in a city that is 60 km upstream, but the harbour in the center itself hasn't been used in centuries, first replaced by a bigger one further downstream, and in the late 19th century by one at the estuary.
Those only a few Km from the sea are the close ones. As most significant rivers were well navigable almost to the end of the 19th century ex-ports 10's of Km from current sea coats are not uncommon
So... The Turkey port land has over taken it? That is what silt does. Add coastline. You make it sound like the coast has shrunk from silt with how you wrote it. So was just curious. Either way shores move. Rivers move. A lot of ancient mouths for example are way different. That is where we should look definitely for anything. The mouth of a river is most likely where so many important things are first built. I mean just look at the Mississippi. Let alone something like the Amazon or other rivers.
I love Ilsas scripts. And as an ex archaeologist I really appreciated the emphasis on professionalism/ always seeking to improve vs looting and glory hunting. Thank you.
Why ex-archeologist? Is it because working in academia sucks? I have my Ph.D. in Biochemistry. I was going to get my doctorate in Biology. But, it was explained to me how there are no jobs in the private sector for biologists, and therefore no money. I imagine Archeology would be much the same.
@@Hellheart Should have emphasized the chemistry part of your biochemistry PhD. Lot of jobs for chemists. Best job my organic chemistry prof said was the chemist who worked for vineyards All he had to do all day was test wine for pH values. I sucked at chemistry so focused on biology and yeah, no jobs that pay. My Entomology prof said his type of job for field work paid a lot and the professionals he knew that were doing it were about to retire so spots were opening up. Except I sucked at entomology too. Bugs looked all alike to me.
@@WaitingToBeAGhost as far as I can remember, Simon was born in around 87/88 and Shia was born in the middle of 86. Maybe not a couple of years but he's still younger 👌🏿
Legend has it that it was a vast repository of all the knowledge in the world, compiled by the god king simwhister who ruled over the territory of factboi. Though no one has ever been able to locate it.
Shortly out of high school i was hanging out with an old buddy of mine and, with a straight face, he told me that Mt. Everest was in the Rockies around like Wyoming or northern Colorado. I was completely floored by that one, truly ill never forget it. Thankfully I've pumped an embarrassing amount of hours into Simon videos so i'm just waiting for any one to approach me at the mall and ask where New Zealand is just so i can turn it around and ask where the Republic of Lichtenstein is located. Like a boss! Another great video guys thank you!
I have a friend like that, she jokes about it and admits her geography is terrible now but ooooh boy she's said some funny things when I've asked her where places are or pointed to famous landmarks and asked if she knows where / what that is. She's not joking, either. She's not embarrassed because she has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of English literature from the late middle ages onwards, so she's a very intelligent person... just with a huge geography blind spot. I wish I could think of some of her funniest ones off the top of my head, but it was stuff like thinking India was an island because "its a continent, right?", things of that nature.
When I was in Iran an archeologist said that a lot of ruins were named after Solomon, because Solomon was said to be a sorceror who controlled the djinn. Since people couldn't explain how these huge ancient buildings were created in the past they said that Solomon commanded the djinn to build them. I wonder if something similar happened elsewhere: every time people discovered something amazing from the past that they couldn't explain, they attributed it to Solomon.
Ooh, can't wait to see which JFK conspiracy Simon ends up believing. Personally, I believe the really boring one where Oswald acted alone but only fired two shots, while the third was JFK's panicking Secret Service agent, and the cover-up was to protect that poor guy. Side note, my favorite side character in the whole affair is George Senator, Jack Ruby's boyfriend. Ruby had already died by the time of the Warren Commission, so the best they could do was subpoena his "roommate". The madlad actually referred to Ruby as his boyfriend several times throughout his testimony, and when the commission members are like, "Wait, the two of you were homosexuals?" Ruby's boyfriend was just like, "Nope." This happened more than once.
@@vicepopeyeschicken6229 He's already done ones on this channel about the Qanon and 9/11 bs which tend to "breed against the mainstream". Why would JFK be a bridge to far? Not to mention all the stuff he's covered on Into The Shadows. Plus, if they made the decision to not release it I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be freely mentioning it in a video that was recorded after it. He's said before the videos don't always come out in the order they're filmed.
You do realize most foreigners probably really only know things about the continent they live on as well it's most likely a stereotype that it's only America
As an American thats actually pretty damn geographical informed, I never got that stereotype until I saw all the videos of American people completely screwing up on basic questions like "Where is Spain?" and "What Continent is Mexico on?".
The teasers for the JFK episode that have been coming out in episodes for weeks now us driving me crazy. Been waiting for that one since the channel launch!
I used to live in Ethiopia. The story of Solomon is very big there. It certainly has a history old enough, the Aksumite Empire started in the period mentioned and spread through Northern Ethiopia and Yemen. Yemen is directly opposite across the Red Sea on the Arabian peninsula. Let's not forget, Ethiopia is alleged to be the home of the Arc of the Covenant, your mines are there somewhere.
He mentions it was way easier for people to figure out how to reforge blades and you have to take into account that a lot of this stuff happened hundreds of years before even the horse was used to spread knowledge, let alone where we are now with the internet. This was probably a result of cultural diffusion mixed with technology at the time. Where whole pockets of people never learned the latest news.
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas According to the Bible Solomon's Wife was Sheba Queen of Etheopia. So if it's made up it was made up by people outside etheopia
One thing everyone forgets: Nebuchadnezzar leveled the city, right down to the stons it was built of. He retasked those for other proejcts, not an unusual practice at the time. So there wouldn't be much left to dig up. In addition, Jerusalem was raided multiple times between the time of Solomon and the city's destruction. Everything was either destroyed or removed. Folks like Israel Finkelstein don't take that into account. What happened e.g. to the ark of the covenant? The Babylonians melted it down. Along with everything else.
If Nebuchadnezzar leveled the city, that means he also burned a great deal of the city. The carboned charcoaled remains are elemental. They would last forever. So unless Nebuchadnezza went around hoovering up all the ashes, they would still be there, in some level under Jerusalem and it literally could be carbon dated. But so far...nothing, nada, zip
4:10 - Chapter 1 - The story of king solomon's mines 7:20 - Chapter 2 - The treasures of king solomon 13:50 - Chapter 3 - Was king solomon real ? 21:30 - Chapter 4 - Where did solomon wealth comes from ? 29:55 - Chapter 5 - Possible locations of solomon's mines 30:25 - Chapter 5.1 - Great zimbabwe 42:50 - Chapter 5.2 - The copper mines in the timna valley 54:40 - Chapter 5.3 - Ethiopia 56:40 - Chapter 5.4 - Conclusion
@@CosRacecar No one cares about other videos Simon has made on other channels. It’s not even that related to the topic at hand. Seconding Decoding the Unknown video for Genghis Khan’s tomb!
38:08 "The locals couldnt possibly have build this" argument from colonists. Yes, a classic. And dont forget the other version of it "Ppl in the past couldnt possibly have build this, they were far too primitive.... it must be ALIENS!!".
@@madmike131369 So. Gandalf? Not demons, but the ring of fire isn't too far off and he did fight the balrog and others. He was well read in ancient texts and ciphers. And of course. The staff.
I don't know if there's enough information out there, but I remember an old Ancient Aliens episode (it's my one and only guilty pleasure; don't judge me) that discussed the whole Arc of the Covenant and Ethiopia quite a bit. It might be worth checking out. It sounds right up Simon and Ilze's alleys.
The phrase "King Solomon's Mines" always makes me think of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (ISERTA). The ISERTA crew were the Goodies + some of the Monty Python crew, before the former were The Goodies and the later were their poor relation. ;) [Hence the occasional poking between the two groups on their shows, if you knew what you were looking for). There is a line that goes through my damned head every time that phrase is mentioned as a result. ISERTA were the sort of mob that would do skit radio that went along the lines of: Scene: a group of explorers lost in a jungle. Narrator: Two days later, the jungle was behind us.... ... in front of us, and all around us. And then our food ran out. [SE: footsteps running] Tim Brooke-Taylor: Come back food! Anyway, they had one line where they were going treasure hunting. Person 1 [at the end of a list of things they're looking for]... and King Solomon's Mine. Person 2: That's all right, you can have him. Every. Single. Time.
Apparently James Bond was partially based on the exploits of Sir Christopher Lee who was something of a major SAS person during WWII. He actually used that "I'd tell you about it but I'd have to kill you" on Peter Jackson at one point; also told PJ that he actually knew what it sounded like to stab someone in the back ... As far as anyone knows, his files are still classified.
just to let you know poulton-le-fylde a port not by the sea in north west egland that originally was a port in a swamp before romans drained it but always carried on being a fort for hundreds of years while not being next to a sea or river, skipool creek acted as its actual port for the port town
In the middle of this really enjoying this comparing the myth vs the actual history. Just 1 thing I thought Champollion translated the Rosetta Stone not discovered it. It was discovered by Napoleon's troops in Egypt (hence the French involvement). The British then invaded as they were fighting the French at the time (this is how it ended up in the British Museum).
Speaking of Ian Fleming and Bond I think it was Sir Christopher Lee was part of the inspiration. Even if I am wrong Sir Christopher Lee would be a great subject for a Biographics video that man had one hell of a life.
Met a Canadian truck driver (Im also canuck) we where talking to our British boss about a new hire from Australia and the boss and I started to realize he fully mixed up in his head Austria and Australia. We cleared it up and laughed it off, soon he drew a white board map and he said it was because the Australians sound British and Britain is part of Europe so he figured you could at least drive from England to New Zealand if you drove far enough. It was a great map
I think there should be a Decoding the Unknown on the topic of "Who is this Simon Whistler Dude and What is he Actually Up To???" Always putting us off of these mysteries and conspiracies like, "Nothing to see here, move along folks!" I think Rae is onto something but I'll go a step further. Simon is actually the thread that holds all conspiracies together!! And this is why I'll never get my episode on who the man behind the beard REALLY is.
I think he's trying to reference mission impossible when he's talking about the dude falling from the elevator. I vaguely remember someone dying via evaluator spikes in that movie
I think so too! the hacker guy, though he doesn't fall on spikes, there are spikes over the elevator on the highest floor and he gets impaled on those when the elevator goes up I think?
One school of thought says that the bulk of the old testament was written (or at least recorded) in Babylon during the captivity in the 6th century BC in order to unify a people in exile. This would include a history of great leaders whose feats provided a proud backstory, and stories to lay out the rules for their cultural and religious life.
It’s funny how you’re describing all of the Indiana Jones films when there was a film made in 1985 called King Solomon’s Mines! It starred Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. Interesting facts about it are it was filmed in Zimbabwe and after the film was made the set of the town was burned down after some local villagers were trying to flush rats out of their fields and lost control of the fire. Also the scene where the soldiers were lying face down in the mud after being ’shot’, the mud was actually chocolate pudding.
I used to have a large volume of several H Rider Haggard novels in one book. King Solomons Mines was one of them. I thought it was quite good, but not as good as some of the others,
I think it’s much more likely that Solomon’s treasures got spread throughout various empires as they conquered ancient Israel, especially when the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the temple.
A thought I’ve had is what if some of these ancient story’s of gold are actually talking about copper you know someone is trying to communicate with another person from a different language and say a city the colour of the sun but they mean an orange sun not a yellow sun and the first person goes all excited and got gold fever and nothing can convince them otherwise
Especially since the two can be alloyed together (tumbaga I think) I can see this as a valid thought. Go back in history far enough and cooper becomes a much more intriguing substance.
Thank you very much! As an avid watcher of your show, and a Zimbabwean, its sureal hearing you talking about Zim. I heard those stories too, and apparently the arch of covenant is there too. I haven't found it yet though. 😅🤣The Shona people did not worship the Sunbirds, they are a symbol, much like the American eagle. They are also a totem of a bloodline. Shona people use animals as totems to track bloodlines over the ages. Each bloodline/totem had certain duties. Shona people worshiped a singular God called Mwari, who was beyond creation, but had certain attributes that entered creation, such like the Judaism pantheon. Rhodes was a coloniser. Zimbabwe was named after him (Rhodesia). Thank you for your analysis of this whole Solomon mines stuff. I will be sending this video to a lot of people.
In my search for knowledge, I found myself passed from crook to swindler, each as eager as the last to earn his pound of flesh from my unwavering desire to grasp beyond the reach of mere men. In time, I was led to a scholar of unknown seasons. His command of the forces that govern this realm was clear, so I acquiesced. I wanted to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. To a dimly glowing tablet I was directed-- I need only scribe the correct obscure commands to usher forth a images and sounds of arcane knowledge beyond mortal realms. "Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown..."
A clay tablet written by Assyrian merchants that mentions Solomon in passing was recently found in Iraq. It was at that time, just a shipping receipt, it's dated at roughly 950 BCE.
@@Strider91there is no source, because he pulled this from a Christian website that will never provide any proof. These people are no different to Hindu extremists who put out never ending fake archaeological claims to try and back up their religious ilk. Has no basis in reality or the academic world.
100 years from now: 'TH-cam Content Baron Simon Whistle owned all TH-cam channels. He owned a billion-dollar mansion where he locked up his 7,000 content creators in its basement...'
I have the audio book King Solomon's Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard, whose main character is Allan Quatermain. I bought it after I was thinking of the film Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (watched it in the theater).
See, that shows the difference in cultures and upbringing. I simply cannot imagine anyone *not* knowing who King Solomon was. Both in biblical terms, and in historical/archaeological context.
incidentally, if you have the time, reading a bit about the end of the Bronze Age and beginning of the Iron Age in the Middle East is pretty interesting.
@@JamesAnderson-dp1dt historical/archaeological context, there is not much to go that for King Solomon existing. That was covered in this video. It is more a religious story than any sort of historical story. There has been nothing showing Solomon existing in historical or archaeological context. Solomon time is not near the end of Bronze age, pretty much in the middle of it if the Bible is right. And do you think people in Asia would know much about a religious figure that is not part of their religion, and that religion is not a major religion there. Jews, Christians, and Muslims will have heard of Solomon, and people of other faiths, and non religious in a nation that has majority of one of those three.
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas i probably didn't explain sufficiently. i of course do not expect that people from non-historically-Muslim/JudeoChristian-majority regions would have heard of Solomon. Since I have usually lived in areas where there is a significant residual knowledge of basic Biblical info (even among non-religious folks), i would have assumed that the great majority of people in historically-Muslim/JudeoChristian-majority regions would kinda sorta have an idea who Solomon (supposedly) was. The fact that Simon (and presumably many, many others) do not know anything about such stuff, shows how much specific regional cultures and individual upbringings influence this sort of thing. And i find it interesting that even though i have a fairly broad knowledge of our modern world, i still find the occasional assumption that is just not at all correct. This particular wrong assumption, i do realize, comes from growing up in a small town in the Bible Belt, decades ago.
@@JamesAnderson-dp1dt Simon probably heard it in schools in UK since they have a religious studies class, but brain dumped what ever he heard because to my knowledge he was never that big on religion. Which does make sense.
Even for mythological figures, there is a historical/archaeological context: that of the time they supposedly existed in. Even as pretty much all books about post-Roman Britain at least discuss whether King Arthur had any historical basis, i've found that pretty much all books about the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Palestine at least touch on the likely historicity of the Israelite kingdom of David, Solomon, etc. So i figured a lot of people would have heard about him just from reading history. But again, reading history is my personal thing, no reason anybody else in particular would do the same. As for the LB-EI thing. The historical circumstances, as well as the timing of Assyrian mentions of later kings of Israel, would put David and Solomon (assuming they existed) pretty firmly in the Early Iron Age, not the Middle Bronze.
Whenever Simon talks about not knowing anything about someone or somewhere or something he’s done a Biographics/Geographics etc video on the editor should have the thumbnail for that video edge in from the corner or something. Although maybe it happens so frequently it would be too much work. 😂 Free advertising for the other channel though, I guess.
In all fairness, having archeological evidence for something is a lot rarer than we layman think. I heard somewhere that there are less than 500 pieces of European Bronze Age armor anywhere. Like that’s how many pieces (not sets. Individual pieces) survived from that period that were aware of. And that’s armor. On an entire continent. Not to mention that Bronze Age items were made of.. bronze, and so there are a lot more that survive than iron tools or whatever.
This is a quality episode for me because: While the 'myth' aspect is always made up, there is still loads of interesting stuff you can talk about. In my opinion, this is more interesting when it's just 'It's not ghosts, people are stupid and or liars'
@@HappyBeezerStudiosThere really isn’t. Some stories may have the most scant basis in reality at some point in the past, but even that is rare. It’s really not that hard to grasp that people make things up to aggrandize themselves, their new religion/sect, or their ideology to make it appealing to the gullible and the easily duped.
We are in sync Simon. I thought the exact same thing. How many times have we heard a fictional story from the past that made a bunch of people think it was real despite the author declaring it to be totally fiction. Then I thought in 200 years I hope people do not think Harry Potter is real. People are stupid.
Depending on the ore, you can have a slag to ore ratio of 10 to 1, sometimes less, sometimes even more. Also, brass is copper and zinc, not copper and tin (that's bronze).
Wait a moment how can Solomon be that rich during the age of the bronze age collapse and how can he have had anything to do with the hanging gardens of Babylon, which were built about 400 years after his time by the Assyrian ruler that clapped at least one of the judean kingdoms that were left after the bronze age collapse?
Never any point trying to apply logic and historical fact to a legend, basically this is a several thousand year old game of post office. Someone tells a story that might have some connection with reality, but they embellish it a bit because it makes a better story, and the next guy does the same, and next thing you know you’ve got people swearing it must be true because it’s been being passed around for millennia, when in fact you can’t trust a word-of-mouth story after about the third iteration (and maybe the first).
Love the show and keep up the good work fact boy. I want to give a suggestion for a show, the ship ESTONIA. The case is very sus and lot of suggestion to what happend to the ship. Thx and all the best.
Based on Simon's age (my estimation) and the news at the time, I can say I figured out which country he's embarrassed about. The moon. He thought it was the sun at night.
in 10,000 years they will be uncovering the scriptures of Simon, it will be concluded that he was the keeper of all knowledge whom distributed this knowledge on a crude video platform.
Simon is definitely the type of Dad that "likes his private time."🤣🤣 nothin bad about that I just skipped the whole family part and have infinite free time.
It's a possibility that the city has not been discovered yet, they are still finding lost cities often and it could have been documented and stored in the library of Alexandria.
I bet it's not been found because it can't be. Not that it's made up, but because we are already on top of it's remains. Not to mention we know Babylon conqured the Judian empire, and took everything they had, which probably meant destroying there temples, where all the records were.
Old books were often written as a diary with the narrator giving a first-hand account if their own experiences and a second hand about of every other POV.
Does anyone else remember the 1950s movie (or the 80s remake) of King Solomon's mine? Allan Quartermain was definitely the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
The best bit of King Solomon's Mines (novel) is that one of the main characters is seen by a native without trousers, so they decide he's some kind of god. So in order to keep them on side, he is compelled to walk round without his trousers for a considerable part of the remaining story.
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Simon: God please give me knowledge and wealth
God: I will give you $50 billion dollars if you can remember a video you did last year.
Simon: DAMN.
😂😂😂
God: ok, fine what is from?
Simon: FUUUUCK
And that, boys and girls, is the legend of How Simon Became an Atheist.
😂😂😂
Simon just has to point out Yemen on an unmarked map
there has been a suspiciously large amount of decoding the unknown eps about missing treasures, my conspiracy is that Simon has actually found them all and is trying to put us off the trail by posting these videos and convincing us they’re not real so he can have all the riches to himself. I’m onto you Simon
What really happened to Yamashita's gold.
He is keeping it in the basement along with his writers. Allegedly.
Well add 1 more
So Simon is a more successful Josh Gates?
Makes sense... I like what you are theorizing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter
Whenever he goes "Did I make a video of that?" one of his editors should absolutely link the video if it exists.
Yes to this! ...And also flash a message ("No Simon, you haven't") when there isn't a video on it.
Impossible, there would be no end, it would need a vid on it's own. This man actually own youtube you know! With at least 5 active channels.
@@rodepet It's actually really easy with spreadsheets. Essentially one major project to get it started, with a few keywords thrown into it whenever a new video drops.
That's how you know you're an adult, btw. Not just when you start seeing big problems in terms of how to make a searchable or automatically calculating spreadsheet for it, but when you start to have opinions on its formatting.
Trying to manipulate an in-game market? Spreadsheet. Trying to calculate what ingredients you need to 100% the cooking profession? Spreadsheet. Trying to figure out how many hours a week are spent on meetings with only 2 or 3 sentences of useful information that could be put in an email?
Spreadsheet spreadsheet spreadsheet.
I really enjoy Ilsa’s scripts, they’re basically Geographics episodes about imaginary places that people took seriously.
Same!
Too bad Simon ruins them with too much extraneous talking that adds nothing to the subject.
If someone told me that Simon had 7,000 TH-cam channels I would absolutely believe it.
20 years we'll be looking back at this video as the world bows down to Simon's greatness.
You mean he doesn't?
Don't give Simon such a big head, he has only 6990.
Bro don't lowball him, he has more channels than that 😂🤣
I'll subscribe to every one lmao. I hear him pronounce things in my sleep.
FUN FACT: I added up the number of subscribers across Simon's many channels (not including podcasts
versions) and if they were all individual people and we made a country, we'd be around the 75th most populated country in the world at about 13 million individuals. Simon's viewership is almost 3 times the population of Scotland. His viewership is more numerous than the population of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago combined. The number of people that have subscribed to Simon's channels is literally over a million times higher than the number of people who have walked on the moon. Simon's viewership exceeds the total number of American Civil War casualties by a factor of 20.
Simon has more subscribers than people who have died from COVID worldwide.
Simon has almost three times as many viewers as there are individual hairs on an entire average human body.
That's successful.
New York state has just under 20 million people.
holy shit! nice!
More than CoVID Deaths... Pfft...
That's impressive. Firstly, that he has amassed such success, secondly that you were able all the info all the way from "Top Tens" to "Casual Criminalist" and the, what?, 9? Channels in between.
And finally that you had the knowledge on hand to provide multiple analogies and examples of how many people that actually is.
Well done sirs.
But if everyone subscribes to every one of his channels and you divide the total subscribers by total channels, there's like, 6 of us. And 2 of them are Danny...soooo.....
Simon, ports silted up over time. There are a few in Turkey that silted up so badly they are are 3-4 km from where the shoreline is now. The same is true of many early Roman & Carthaginian ports, so having an ancient port being 500 meters from the modern shoreline would be quite likely…
Also, Ephesus.
Just look at London, the city is 50 miles inland from the sea. People in ancient times would pick a strategic position as well. Not right at the end of a river, but a bit further up. Like at the end of a delta or at a natural bay.
I mean, I live in a city that is 60 km upstream, but the harbour in the center itself hasn't been used in centuries, first replaced by a bigger one further downstream, and in the late 19th century by one at the estuary.
Those only a few Km from the sea are the close ones. As most significant rivers were well navigable almost to the end of the 19th century ex-ports 10's of Km from current sea coats are not uncommon
So... The Turkey port land has over taken it? That is what silt does. Add coastline.
You make it sound like the coast has shrunk from silt with how you wrote it. So was just curious.
Either way shores move. Rivers move.
A lot of ancient mouths for example are way different. That is where we should look definitely for anything. The mouth of a river is most likely where so many important things are first built.
I mean just look at the Mississippi. Let alone something like the Amazon or other rivers.
I love Ilsas scripts. And as an ex archaeologist I really appreciated the emphasis on professionalism/ always seeking to improve vs looting and glory hunting. Thank you.
An ex archaeologist?
Lmao what does that mean exactly? That’s not a field one really retires from.
Why ex-archeologist? Is it because working in academia sucks? I have my Ph.D. in Biochemistry. I was going to get my doctorate in Biology. But, it was explained to me how there are no jobs in the private sector for biologists, and therefore no money. I imagine Archeology would be much the same.
@@Hellheart Should have emphasized the chemistry part of your biochemistry PhD. Lot of jobs for chemists. Best job my organic chemistry prof said was the chemist who worked for vineyards All he had to do all day was test wine for pH values. I sucked at chemistry so focused on biology and yeah, no jobs that pay. My Entomology prof said his type of job for field work paid a lot and the professionals he knew that were doing it were about to retire so spots were opening up. Except I sucked at entomology too. Bugs looked all alike to me.
I love Simon calling Shia Labeouf that kid when Shia is a few years older than him 😅
What!? For real!? 😂
@@WaitingToBeAGhost as far as I can remember, Simon was born in around 87/88 and Shia was born in the middle of 86. Maybe not a couple of years but he's still younger 👌🏿
@@slayingroosters4355 I'm not gonna lie that is hilarious thanks for the insight and the laughs
@slayingroosters4355 wow, that makes me older than Simon as well. Didn't know he was that young.
In 2500 years there will be legends of the library of Simon
The Whistler Dungeons where his enslaved scribes toiled for mushrooms and dirty water.
Legend has it that it was a vast repository of all the knowledge in the world, compiled by the god king simwhister who ruled over the territory of factboi. Though no one has ever been able to locate it.
In 2500 years, they're gonna find crazy republican manifestos, entirely too much porn, and a bunch of heroin needles and crackpipes.
Shortly out of high school i was hanging out with an old buddy of mine and, with a straight face, he told me that Mt. Everest was in the Rockies around like Wyoming or northern Colorado. I was completely floored by that one, truly ill never forget it. Thankfully I've pumped an embarrassing amount of hours into Simon videos so i'm just waiting for any one to approach me at the mall and ask where New Zealand is just so i can turn it around and ask where the Republic of Lichtenstein is located. Like a boss!
Another great video guys thank you!
I have a friend like that, she jokes about it and admits her geography is terrible now but ooooh boy she's said some funny things when I've asked her where places are or pointed to famous landmarks and asked if she knows where / what that is. She's not joking, either. She's not embarrassed because she has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of English literature from the late middle ages onwards, so she's a very intelligent person... just with a huge geography blind spot. I wish I could think of some of her funniest ones off the top of my head, but it was stuff like thinking India was an island because "its a continent, right?", things of that nature.
@@RealElongatedMuskrat A kid in my high school thought the capital of New York was Manhattan. I went to high school in Albany, NY.
I was today years old when I found out it wasn't NYC
The Republic of Lichtenstein does not exist. Liechtenstein is a Dukedom.
When I was in Iran an archeologist said that a lot of ruins were named after Solomon, because Solomon was said to be a sorceror who controlled the djinn. Since people couldn't explain how these huge ancient buildings were created in the past they said that Solomon commanded the djinn to build them. I wonder if something similar happened elsewhere: every time people discovered something amazing from the past that they couldn't explain, they attributed it to Solomon.
There’s a bunch of Jewish mysticism based around Solomon controlling Demons.
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing! I love how people explain things.
I like to think a similar thing will happen with abandoned TH-cam channels and Simon in the future.
Now that we are more sophisticated we claim they were created by aliens. A big advance. 😜
Similar happened in post Mycenean Greece. They blamed the buildings on giants or cyclops.
Old stories with gold are the best. Most BS, true, but really entertaining!
Ooh, can't wait to see which JFK conspiracy Simon ends up believing. Personally, I believe the really boring one where Oswald acted alone but only fired two shots, while the third was JFK's panicking Secret Service agent, and the cover-up was to protect that poor guy.
Side note, my favorite side character in the whole affair is George Senator, Jack Ruby's boyfriend. Ruby had already died by the time of the Warren Commission, so the best they could do was subpoena his "roommate". The madlad actually referred to Ruby as his boyfriend several times throughout his testimony, and when the commission members are like, "Wait, the two of you were homosexuals?" Ruby's boyfriend was just like, "Nope." This happened more than once.
I'm betting he won't release it. Since it breeds to much against the main stream. Otherwise it be released already like he thinks it is.
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@@vicepopeyeschicken6229 He mentions videos before they come out all the time.
An episode on the MLK assassination would be more entertaining, for the comment section. An amazing plot twist at the end of that story.
@@vicepopeyeschicken6229 He's already done ones on this channel about the Qanon and 9/11 bs which tend to "breed against the mainstream". Why would JFK be a bridge to far? Not to mention all the stuff he's covered on Into The Shadows. Plus, if they made the decision to not release it I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be freely mentioning it in a video that was recorded after it. He's said before the videos don't always come out in the order they're filmed.
As an American, Simon makes my geographic knowledge look stellar lmao
You do realize most foreigners probably really only know things about the continent they live on as well it's most likely a stereotype that it's only America
What had that got to do with being American
@@BlueBirdsProductions it's The Stereotype that Americans don't know anything about outside of America
As an American thats actually pretty damn geographical informed, I never got that stereotype until I saw all the videos of American people completely screwing up on basic questions like "Where is Spain?" and "What Continent is Mexico on?".
@NButler1993 Wait, I thought Spain was in Mexico... Isn't that what they speak in South America?
That spike thing is from Mission Impossible. Emilio Estevez gets spikes in the eyes as the elevator hits the top floor. Brutal, amazing scene.
The teasers for the JFK episode that have been coming out in episodes for weeks now us driving me crazy. Been waiting for that one since the channel launch!
Emperor Whistler: the man behind every video ever made.
The title of one of Simons decendants 400 years from now
And ALL TH-camrs are his descendants
I used to live in Ethiopia. The story of Solomon is very big there. It certainly has a history old enough, the Aksumite Empire started in the period mentioned and spread through Northern Ethiopia and Yemen.
Yemen is directly opposite across the Red Sea on the Arabian peninsula.
Let's not forget, Ethiopia is alleged to be the home of the Arc of the Covenant, your mines are there somewhere.
He did mention this including the arc of the covenant
He mentions it was way easier for people to figure out how to reforge blades and you have to take into account that a lot of this stuff happened hundreds of years before even the horse was used to spread knowledge, let alone where we are now with the internet. This was probably a result of cultural diffusion mixed with technology at the time. Where whole pockets of people never learned the latest news.
The last royal family of eithiopia, who ruled for hundreds of years, claimed descendants from Solomon himself.
@@teogonzalez7957 And that claim is made up.
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas According to the Bible Solomon's Wife was Sheba Queen of Etheopia. So if it's made up it was made up by people outside etheopia
One thing everyone forgets: Nebuchadnezzar leveled the city, right down to the stons it was built of. He retasked those for other proejcts, not an unusual practice at the time. So there wouldn't be much left to dig up. In addition, Jerusalem was raided multiple times between the time of Solomon and the city's destruction. Everything was either destroyed or removed. Folks like Israel Finkelstein don't take that into account. What happened e.g. to the ark of the covenant? The Babylonians melted it down. Along with everything else.
Exactly. They literally erased Isreal.
If Nebuchadnezzar leveled the city, that means he also burned a great deal of the city. The carboned charcoaled remains are elemental. They would last forever. So unless Nebuchadnezza went around hoovering up all the ashes, they would still be there, in some level under Jerusalem and it literally could be carbon dated. But so far...nothing, nada, zip
Heckin awesome! Thank you for sharing all this knowledge! I absolutely love your videos!
Oh Simon, your rants and tangents keep us entertained. Thank you Ilze and team for putting this together.
Simon's reading: Excellent.
Simon's retention: Bogus.
The History Channel is DEFINITELY going to have a multiple-season show about the search for Hogwart's in the future.
Champollion did not discover the Rosetta Stone. He was one of the men who deciphered it.
4:10 - Chapter 1 - The story of king solomon's mines
7:20 - Chapter 2 - The treasures of king solomon
13:50 - Chapter 3 - Was king solomon real ?
21:30 - Chapter 4 - Where did solomon wealth comes from ?
29:55 - Chapter 5 - Possible locations of solomon's mines
30:25 - Chapter 5.1 - Great zimbabwe
42:50 - Chapter 5.2 - The copper mines in the timna valley
54:40 - Chapter 5.3 - Ethiopia
56:40 - Chapter 5.4 - Conclusion
Thank you for doing the work of the Lord.
You forgot 40:50
Not from Yemen, but it's on the southern edge of the Arabian peninsula south of Saudi Arabia and west of Oman
Simon, you should make a video about the lost tomb of Genghis Khan. It has always fascinated me, and its super interesting.
He already made a Biographics on Ghengis Khan that touches on it
@@CosRacecar chances are Simon doesnt remember that and will add it to the list of ideas for videos.
What tomb?
@@CosRacecar No one cares about other videos Simon has made on other channels. It’s not even that related to the topic at hand.
Seconding Decoding the Unknown video for Genghis Khan’s tomb!
@@enzymewsa3168 Exactly.
38:08 "The locals couldnt possibly have build this" argument from colonists. Yes, a classic. And dont forget the other version of it "Ppl in the past couldnt possibly have build this, they were far too primitive.... it must be ALIENS!!".
99% of that is just leftover colonialist racism. It’s exhausting
Simon keep the tangents coming. They're great.
I was so early my phone hasn't even notified me of the new episode. This never happens
*"I'm four parallel universes ahead of my phone."*
@@bjarkiengelsson the notification popped up two minutes later 😂 I just happened to open TH-cam right after it was uploaded
I was watching the “Royals” one on Brain Blaze and this popped. Except it’s already 22 minutes past post time!?
This was one of my favorite novels. I first read it at 12 years old. Now I want to find a copy and read it again!
9:16 Ironically he is also sometimes said to have possessed a ring that could control demons.
And a Staff and a book as well
@@madmike131369 So. Gandalf? Not demons, but the ring of fire isn't too far off and he did fight the balrog and others. He was well read in ancient texts and ciphers. And of course. The staff.
@@JenFoxworth ironically it’s sometimes said Gandalf is the son of Bathsheba!
Saruman....Solomon....hmmmm.....
@@JenFoxworthGandalf is a better written character, though lol
I don't know if there's enough information out there, but I remember an old Ancient Aliens episode (it's my one and only guilty pleasure; don't judge me) that discussed the whole Arc of the Covenant and Ethiopia quite a bit. It might be worth checking out. It sounds right up Simon and Ilze's alleys.
My dad is from Yemen! It was a part of the British empire while he was growing up. Tapping in
Simon, if you're still making videos in 20 years, the topics are going to get REALLY interesting.
The phrase "King Solomon's Mines" always makes me think of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (ISERTA). The ISERTA crew were the Goodies + some of the Monty Python crew, before the former were The Goodies and the later were their poor relation. ;) [Hence the occasional poking between the two groups on their shows, if you knew what you were looking for). There is a line that goes through my damned head every time that phrase is mentioned as a result.
ISERTA were the sort of mob that would do skit radio that went along the lines of:
Scene: a group of explorers lost in a jungle.
Narrator: Two days later, the jungle was behind us....
... in front of us, and all around us. And then our food ran out. [SE: footsteps running]
Tim Brooke-Taylor: Come back food!
Anyway, they had one line where they were going treasure hunting.
Person 1 [at the end of a list of things they're looking for]... and King Solomon's Mine.
Person 2: That's all right, you can have him.
Every. Single. Time.
Apparently James Bond was partially based on the exploits of Sir Christopher Lee who was something of a major SAS person during WWII. He actually used that "I'd tell you about it but I'd have to kill you" on Peter Jackson at one point; also told PJ that he actually knew what it sounded like to stab someone in the back ... As far as anyone knows, his files are still classified.
Addition: Relevant here is that Christopher Lee is also Ian Fleming's cousin, so it's less random to base it on him than it may seem at first blush.
@@aurhiaseelund Oh, yeah ... there was that, too. Thanks for catching my forgetting to add that in.
Was also witness to the last public execution by guillotine in France
I mean tbf I'm sure most people in ww2 would know what stabbing someone in the back sounded like
just to let you know poulton-le-fylde a port not by the sea in north west egland that originally was a port in a swamp before romans drained it but always carried on being a fort for hundreds of years while not being next to a sea or river, skipool creek acted as its actual port for the port town
So nice to see you in a less formal/serious mode for a change - why not do more videos like this one?
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In the middle of this really enjoying this comparing the myth vs the actual history. Just 1 thing I thought Champollion translated the Rosetta Stone not discovered it. It was discovered by Napoleon's troops in Egypt (hence the French involvement). The British then invaded as they were fighting the French at the time (this is how it ended up in the British Museum).
Speaking of Ian Fleming and Bond I think it was Sir Christopher Lee was part of the inspiration.
Even if I am wrong Sir Christopher Lee would be a great subject for a Biographics video that man had one hell of a life.
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Thanks Simon , Haggard wrote She I think , yeah think The Indiana Jones films were influenced by him
Met a Canadian truck driver (Im also canuck) we where talking to our British boss about a new hire from Australia and the boss and I started to realize he fully mixed up in his head Austria and Australia. We cleared it up and laughed it off, soon he drew a white board map and he said it was because the Australians sound British and Britain is part of Europe so he figured you could at least drive from England to New Zealand if you drove far enough. It was a great map
Pretty easy, Austrians dont call everyone C*nt...Easy, Right C*nt?....
I can only imagine the creativity of this map haha
I think there should be a Decoding the Unknown on the topic of "Who is this Simon Whistler Dude and What is he Actually Up To???" Always putting us off of these mysteries and conspiracies like, "Nothing to see here, move along folks!" I think Rae is onto something but I'll go a step further. Simon is actually the thread that holds all conspiracies together!! And this is why I'll never get my episode on who the man behind the beard REALLY is.
I think he's trying to reference mission impossible when he's talking about the dude falling from the elevator. I vaguely remember someone dying via evaluator spikes in that movie
I think so too! the hacker guy, though he doesn't fall on spikes, there are spikes over the elevator on the highest floor and he gets impaled on those when the elevator goes up I think?
@@used2venom yes exactly! I can still see it in my mind
One school of thought says that the bulk of the old testament was written (or at least recorded) in Babylon during the captivity in the 6th century BC in order to unify a people in exile. This would include a history of great leaders whose feats provided a proud backstory, and stories to lay out the rules for their cultural and religious life.
I wonder if any of Whistler's RE teachers ever see these videos and think, 'That lad didn't learn a perishing thing!'
It’s funny how you’re describing all of the Indiana Jones films when there was a film made in 1985 called King Solomon’s Mines! It starred Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. Interesting facts about it are it was filmed in Zimbabwe and after the film was made the set of the town was burned down after some local villagers were trying to flush rats out of their fields and lost control of the fire. Also the scene where the soldiers were lying face down in the mud after being ’shot’, the mud was actually chocolate pudding.
There was an Alan Quartermain movie *remade* in 1985 - the original was in 1950...
I am looking for Simon's lost gold mines. He definitely has it, Simon is the modern day Solomon
I used to have a large volume of several H Rider Haggard novels in one book. King Solomons Mines was one of them. I thought it was quite good, but not as good as some of the others,
King Solomon's Mines was the first of his books I read. Went on to read a few others, but still haven't read all of them.
Fascinating story, I was not aware that people were looking for it.
Great visuals too.
Only Simon can rant 2 minutes about an embarrassing thing he's definitely not going to tell.
Solomon’s Psalms (Psalms of Solomon) are part of what is termed “Judeo-Christian Pseudepigrapha”, if anyone is curious.
I think it’s much more likely that Solomon’s treasures got spread throughout various empires as they conquered ancient Israel, especially when the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the temple.
All hail King Simon and his golden knowledge
A thought I’ve had is what if some of these ancient story’s of gold are actually talking about copper you know someone is trying to communicate with another person from a different language and say a city the colour of the sun but they mean an orange sun not a yellow sun and the first person goes all excited and got gold fever and nothing can convince them otherwise
Especially since the two can be alloyed together (tumbaga I think) I can see this as a valid thought. Go back in history far enough and cooper becomes a much more intriguing substance.
The sg1 reference caught me completely by surprise lol but this was a very interesting one
Thank you very much! As an avid watcher of your show, and a Zimbabwean, its sureal hearing you talking about Zim. I heard those stories too, and apparently the arch of covenant is there too. I haven't found it yet though. 😅🤣The Shona people did not worship the Sunbirds, they are a symbol, much like the American eagle. They are also a totem of a bloodline. Shona people use animals as totems to track bloodlines over the ages. Each bloodline/totem had certain duties. Shona people worshiped a singular God called Mwari, who was beyond creation, but had certain attributes that entered creation, such like the Judaism pantheon. Rhodes was a coloniser. Zimbabwe was named after him (Rhodesia). Thank you for your analysis of this whole Solomon mines stuff. I will be sending this video to a lot of people.
I love it when Simone makes a joke or reference to Stargate.❤
In my search for knowledge, I found myself passed from crook to swindler, each as eager as the last to earn his pound of flesh from my unwavering desire to grasp beyond the reach of mere men.
In time, I was led to a scholar of unknown seasons. His command of the forces that govern this realm was clear, so I acquiesced. I wanted to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
To a dimly glowing tablet I was directed-- I need only scribe the correct obscure commands to usher forth a images and sounds of arcane knowledge beyond mortal realms.
"Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown..."
9:57 when Simon asks for Siri my phone every time interrupt and open Siri and give me the ansver lol
A clay tablet written by Assyrian merchants that mentions Solomon in passing was recently found in Iraq. It was at that time, just a shipping receipt, it's dated at roughly 950 BCE.
Proof? Cite your source
@@Strider91 a TH-cam comment isn’t a college thesis
@@AJazzz Yeah, which is why most people will believe this guy is just lying.
@@AJazzzwell we can tell you didn’t go to university with that comment 💀
@@Strider91there is no source, because he pulled this from a Christian website that will never provide any proof. These people are no different to Hindu extremists who put out never ending fake archaeological claims to try and back up their religious ilk. Has no basis in reality or the academic world.
Whoever your editor is, they are great at what they do, you all make a great team!
Actually, Simon, there have been *several* old movies about searching for King Somon's lost mines.
Congratulations on making your 1337th video Simon. Many more to come!
Confirmed, Simon doesn't know where Wales is.
100 years from now: 'TH-cam Content Baron Simon Whistle owned all TH-cam channels. He owned a billion-dollar mansion where he locked up his 7,000 content creators in its basement...'
I have the audio book King Solomon's Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard, whose main character is Allan Quatermain.
I bought it after I was thinking of the film Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (watched it in the theater).
I used to watch you regularly…No more. Your condescension knows no bounds
See, that shows the difference in cultures and upbringing. I simply cannot imagine anyone *not* knowing who King Solomon was. Both in biblical terms, and in historical/archaeological context.
incidentally, if you have the time, reading a bit about the end of the Bronze Age and beginning of the Iron Age in the Middle East is pretty interesting.
@@JamesAnderson-dp1dt historical/archaeological context, there is not much to go that for King Solomon existing. That was covered in this video. It is more a religious story than any sort of historical story. There has been nothing showing Solomon existing in historical or archaeological context. Solomon time is not near the end of Bronze age, pretty much in the middle of it if the Bible is right.
And do you think people in Asia would know much about a religious figure that is not part of their religion, and that religion is not a major religion there. Jews, Christians, and Muslims will have heard of Solomon, and people of other faiths, and non religious in a nation that has majority of one of those three.
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas i probably didn't explain sufficiently.
i of course do not expect that people from non-historically-Muslim/JudeoChristian-majority regions would have heard of Solomon.
Since I have usually lived in areas where there is a significant residual knowledge of basic Biblical info (even among non-religious folks), i would have assumed that the great majority of people in historically-Muslim/JudeoChristian-majority regions would kinda sorta have an idea who Solomon (supposedly) was.
The fact that Simon (and presumably many, many others) do not know anything about such stuff, shows how much specific regional cultures and individual upbringings influence this sort of thing. And i find it interesting that even though i have a fairly broad knowledge of our modern world, i still find the occasional assumption that is just not at all correct. This particular wrong assumption, i do realize, comes from growing up in a small town in the Bible Belt, decades ago.
@@JamesAnderson-dp1dt Simon probably heard it in schools in UK since they have a religious studies class, but brain dumped what ever he heard because to my knowledge he was never that big on religion.
Which does make sense.
Even for mythological figures, there is a historical/archaeological context: that of the time they supposedly existed in. Even as pretty much all books about post-Roman Britain at least discuss whether King Arthur had any historical basis, i've found that pretty much all books about the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Palestine at least touch on the likely historicity of the Israelite kingdom of David, Solomon, etc. So i figured a lot of people would have heard about him just from reading history. But again, reading history is my personal thing, no reason anybody else in particular would do the same.
As for the LB-EI thing. The historical circumstances, as well as the timing of Assyrian mentions of later kings of Israel, would put David and Solomon (assuming they existed) pretty firmly in the Early Iron Age, not the Middle Bronze.
Loved the SG-1 reference.
Whenever Simon talks about not knowing anything about someone or somewhere or something he’s done a Biographics/Geographics etc video on the editor should have the thumbnail for that video edge in from the corner or something.
Although maybe it happens so frequently it would be too much work. 😂 Free advertising for the other channel though, I guess.
The Chandler Yemen reference was so good. Also, I think now you need to make a video about Yemen. Sad stuff. Anyways, have a great day!
In all fairness, having archeological evidence for something is a lot rarer than we layman think. I heard somewhere that there are less than 500 pieces of European Bronze Age armor anywhere. Like that’s how many pieces (not sets. Individual pieces) survived from that period that were aware of. And that’s armor. On an entire continent. Not to mention that Bronze Age items were made of.. bronze, and so there are a lot more that survive than iron tools or whatever.
This is a looooong video for an answer of "it didn't exist, it never did" that is clear pretty early on.
This is a quality episode for me because: While the 'myth' aspect is always made up, there is still loads of interesting stuff you can talk about. In my opinion, this is more interesting when it's just 'It's not ghosts, people are stupid and or liars'
Oh, and there is absolutely a true core to most old tales. Just expanded and fancified with time.
@@HappyBeezerStudiosThere really isn’t. Some stories may have the most scant basis in reality at some point in the past, but even that is rare. It’s really not that hard to grasp that people make things up to aggrandize themselves, their new religion/sect, or their ideology to make it appealing to the gullible and the easily duped.
46:03 The O'Neill (2 L's) reference was golden xD
We are in sync Simon. I thought the exact same thing. How many times have we heard a fictional story from the past that made a bunch of people think it was real despite the author declaring it to be totally fiction. Then I thought in 200 years I hope people do not think Harry Potter is real. People are stupid.
Depending on the ore, you can have a slag to ore ratio of 10 to 1, sometimes less, sometimes even more. Also, brass is copper and zinc, not copper and tin (that's bronze).
Wait a moment how can Solomon be that rich during the age of the bronze age collapse and how can he have had anything to do with the hanging gardens of Babylon, which were built about 400 years after his time by the Assyrian ruler that clapped at least one of the judean kingdoms that were left after the bronze age collapse?
Never any point trying to apply logic and historical fact to a legend, basically this is a several thousand year old game of post office. Someone tells a story that might have some connection with reality, but they embellish it a bit because it makes a better story, and the next guy does the same, and next thing you know you’ve got people swearing it must be true because it’s been being passed around for millennia, when in fact you can’t trust a word-of-mouth story after about the third iteration (and maybe the first).
He wrote the blueprints that they used obviously :p
Love the show and keep up the good work fact boy. I want to give a suggestion for a show, the ship ESTONIA. The case is very sus and lot of suggestion to what happend to the ship. Thx and all the best.
Based on Simon's age (my estimation) and the news at the time, I can say I figured out which country he's embarrassed about. The moon. He thought it was the sun at night.
I love this haha
King Solomon's Mines is an excellent book.
Please do a piece on the sea people and how they are definitely totally undoubtedly aliens
With all the channels Simon has, I would have trouble remembering them all individually also.
Cannot help but think if Solomon REALLY wanted to be rich he should have written a tell all book and brokered a deal with Netflix...
in 10,000 years they will be uncovering the scriptures of Simon, it will be concluded that he was the keeper of all knowledge whom distributed this knowledge on a crude video platform.
Simon is definitely the type of Dad that "likes his private time."🤣🤣 nothin bad about that I just skipped the whole family part and have infinite free time.
Good job, Nadine :)
It's a possibility that the city has not been discovered yet, they are still finding lost cities often and it could have been documented and stored in the library of Alexandria.
There is no evidence that any King Solomon ever existed at all.
Libraries. Alexandria had multiple.
I bet it's not been found because it can't be. Not that it's made up, but because we are already on top of it's remains. Not to mention we know Babylon conqured the Judian empire, and took everything they had, which probably meant destroying there temples, where all the records were.
Old books were often written as a diary with the narrator giving a first-hand account if their own experiences and a second hand about of every other POV.
Please make a video on the mining of the Sierra Nevada mountains
Loving the casual stargate reference 😂
Very good video, but man, this is at least the second time Simon's mentioned doing a JFK video recently and I'm chomping at the bit to see it XD
Maaaaaybe........ King Solomon's Mines and The Lost Dutchman Mine are one and the same.........Let the games begin!
Does anyone else remember the 1950s movie (or the 80s remake) of King Solomon's mine? Allan Quartermain was definitely the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
The best bit of King Solomon's Mines (novel) is that one of the main characters is seen by a native without trousers, so they decide he's some kind of god. So in order to keep them on side, he is compelled to walk round without his trousers for a considerable part of the remaining story.
Thousands of years from now, there will be videos made about King Simon’s long lost TH-cam channels
King Solomon's Mines with Richard Chamberlain is a great fun movie