Please make a video like this every year, getting a solid "5 new archaeology discoveries" is hard to find when they're all posted like 3 years ago and have the same old recent finds, but a 2024 one is exactly what I needed
I am an archaeology buff and a space buff. This is a great time to be both. They are keeping me going while I am confined to a wheechair and bed after breaking both feet.
My brother was confined to a wheel chair for most of our childhood. I used to hide around corners and wait for him, then jump out and scream "Hey What's Up Hot Wheels!!" before body-checking him out of the chair. Watching him squirm around on the ground in joy afterward really brought us closer together as a family. I'd even help clean the dirt off his face with my very own saliva.
Plinius the Younger's letters are the best window into the period imo. So much mundane problems there, so much context. The description of the erruption was so horrifying and yet thorough like a well done news report.
I dunno about all that, lol but thank you. I've been thinking about the "Whistler's Mother" painting and putting it in his videos somewhere. I've even posted it in comments of other videos
@@justingoodman9352 Just a small framed print of it somewhere kinda hidden in the background where only a sharp eye would see it, that would be perfect.
At least he is a real person, not an AI butchering those names. I love his voice and accent, and since I am not Italian, don't mind. He does pretty well with names in most languages as far as I'm concerned.
I went into the brothel in Pompei on our tour of the city, there was a phallic symbol on the street pointing the way to the brothel...the pictures on the wall were crazy :p
@eddyguizonde401 That's like a second degree burn there. Implying she's not only a "lady of the night" but an ancient one at that. Good thing he had your mom to put ointment on those burns for him! 😂 😉
Love the updates, though I do have to note that much of the footage used for the section about the discovery of the Church of San Giminiano in Venice is actually of the town of San Gimignano in Tuscany.
8:48 the quote about Pliny the Elder "having always had a weak throat which was often inflamed" makes me wonder if he had what we'd call Asthma nowadays?
"Come on you sons of bitches, do you wanna live forever" - Uncle Steve, 4th of July 2024, moments before trying to jump the gorge with his 1983 Honda Accord and a plywood ramp
A few errors in the imagery of the Amazonian villages in Ecuador: (1) you show an image of the Nazca lines in Peru, (2) the tripod mounted scanner shown is not the type used for the aerial lidar images in the segment.
The choice of images in general is rather spurious. In the section about the church in Venice, it repeatedly shows images of San Gimignano, a city in Tuscany.
I'm picturing a Dynasty Warriors-type video game where you can play everyone from the War of Succession, and all the hundreds of warriors on the battlefield are called Joan and John
For anyone confused by the footage of a town with tall rectangular towers in it, inserted into the section about the lost Venetian church of San Giminiano. These are shots of the Tuscan hill town of San Giminiano, just north of Sienna and south of Firenza (Florence). The people putting together this footage obviously knew nothing about San Gominiano, but when they were told the narrative was about a church in Venice named for San Giminiano they blindly inserted aerial shots of a town several hundred miles away with the same name that the church in Venice had. Bit of a balls up really.
It’s lazy people running a script through an AI service of some sort and not even bothering to edit the result. There are more and more complete AI pseudo-videos on youtube now, usually with AI voiceovers. In the last few days I saw: One about horseshoe crabs and drugs developed from their blood…that did not show a single arthropod even vaguely related to that phylum - but did show several completely irrelevant “true” crabs. One about the Nebra sky disk whose AI rendering of a disk shaped object with shiny bits on it was clearly made by AI - and looked absolutely NOTHING like the Nebra disk.
The War of 2 Joans sounds like an idea for a Monty Python sketch, but no set of comedians (however talented) can match the sheer absurdity of real history.
Except they get confused when talking about the lost church of San Geminiano, the initial video footage in that segment is of the Tuscan town of San Gimignano and not of Venice.
There's a channel, called World of Antiquity and hosted/created by a legitimate historian, which will give these updates, sometimes from a month to month basis. It's an excellent channel.
Great episode! I was familiar with the lidar scans in Ecuador, but as usual I find your coverage of these kinds of events entertaining, informative, and easy to remember.
There is a 'aura' about the entertainers of the WWII generation. They saw so much death and destruction that their art managed to cover up such horrors of warfare through their performances. Not so much for themselves, but for everyone they were in contact with. Their art was a salve for everyone of that generation. I remember his, among others performances, brought a genuine sense of relief and restoration to audiences. Thank you, Mr. Bennett for your military service and for your post-war service to Humanity.
Pliny the younger wasn't just writing those letters abiut Versuvius to a friend - they were to Tacitus, one of the most prominent historians of the early Roman Empire.
To clarify: in the Church of St Gemignano section, any visuals involving greenspace, hills and medieval towers are of the Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano. Far from Venice, geographically and topologically.
Nobody is going to dig us up. We are a global civilization and it would take a simultaneous global apocalypse for our civilization to be forgotten. And that doesn't happen outside of Hollywood.
This comment thread is very optimistic. "When they dig us up" There will be a "they"? "Global disasters to cull humans doesn't happen outside of Hollywood" Tell the sun. Or the dinosaurs. WE ARE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIEEE
Important? This is all rigged up info brugh. None of that happened fo real, all of it was planted brugh. Human aliens have only been on this planet for 60 or 70 years tops.
Actually, Dr David Miano's channel World of Antiquity is what actually gets important discoveries out into the mainstream. He releases a video once a month recapping recent archaeological discoveries. Dr Miano also doesn't make schoolboy errors, like getting the lost church of San Geminiano in Venice mixed up with the Tuscan town of San Gimignano.
@@garymaidman625 These channels exist to sell our attention to advertisers. If you want to learn about important discoveries get an actual education and work in the field.... otherwise you risk a severe case of dunning krueger and we'll have one more Terrance Howard on our hands... internet experts do more harm than good. Wannabe renaissance boys are high level cringe artists. Just make sure I get fries with that and keep the 'expertise' to yourself son.
I think most of the Amazon was once cultivated and what we have now is the result of the people being wiped out by disease and weather and biology took over
Covid is spreading like wild fire right now. Get plenty of rest, even after you feel better. It takes 6-8 weeks to fully recover from Covid at a cellular level.
Mt. Vesuvius eruption was such a big catastrophe for the Romans because it was "The" vacation spot for Romans to take "Holiday" or vacation. So just like Florida, it was very well developed to give the Roman citizens a most exquisite place to enjoy a break from their everyday lives. The stones of the streets of Pompeii even had easy directions written on them and arrows to follow for one to find the most important of vacation spots, the brothels.
Ok so the thing is that comment on this first ore next But not have any idea ore anything to say about the video 8n it selves What did the video say about anything Well I don't think you know do to the fact that you comment before you can even have seen the video 😂😂 This is just stupid 😂😂 but bless your heart ❤💙💜 It must be good to be almost first 😂😂
The yuca shown is the North American Yucca. What is grown is the Ecuadorian Amazon is M. esculenta (or cassava)They're two completely different plants.
The Amazonian rainforests in Ecuador are known for their incredible biodiversity and lush greenery. It's a fantastic place to explore nature and see unique wildlife.. If someone ever get the chance, visiting the Ecuadorian Amazon would be an unforgettable experience..
Funnily enough, another phrase we still use today originated during the Breton War of Succession! That being, "Keeping up with the Joanses", of course 👍
@@j.a.weishaupt1748 I don't want to say this wrong but he has a certain standard of quality and as long as it meets that standard he's definitely quantity over quality
Love your videos, but you should have someone check your video material prior to uploading... A lot of shots from the town of san Gimignano slipped into venice there. ^^ greetings from Vienna!
How would someone not from that region know that? Simon is English. This is like people not knowing which Roughriders is the correct Canadian football team. It's a fair mistake even inside Canada.
Yeah, it's quite evident there is little fact checking and next to no editing going into these. It's getting more evident as they pump out more content and it's making me reticent to keep watching all these related channels
Hi, I don't usually live messages, but I have to say this.I live in England. Some years ago, my brother, some years ago, maybe eight messaged me with great news about great discovery of a toom. A very big one , promising to be a toomb of a very important person. It was the news for a while in Greece. Time past when I asked my brother for any further news. To my surprise, he told me that the government of Grreece stoped the excavation. The all aria was sealed and guarded. No explanation was made from the authorities. A few years later, just by luck I found out, that at the same place, rumors among the villagers in the area, talking about trucks where coming and going in the night. That was the last thing I heard from that promising discovery. I have to say the Greek government is corrupt. Your story about Alexander's tomb, reminded me this story, and thought to share it here.
Makes the memoirs of Lurcio in Up Pompeii seem rather tame by comparison. Good job this wasn't excavated when that show was written, the writers would have had a field day.
Hey Simon good video as always, i have a question, how many pairs of glasses do you own? i noticed they change sometimes throughout different videos and your channels. I understand if this is too personal of a question, but i was curious.
I visited Lebanon/Beirut years ago. Everything you see, and centuries old, is built on top of 3-4.... layers of other civilizations/tombs/churches/temples/cities. As a settlement, it is thousands of years old. Hard for a modern American to even absorb.
Hopefully excavations of the villa will reveal a basement library with all his books still preserved! His version of the German Wars would be an amazing historic source.
I have thought for years, the reason we "don't explore" the ocean's depths, is due to the immense amount of history in the water. I would go so far as to say the "Lost City of Atlantis" is a VERY old "city" that was found by someone while diving in the Ocean, or, found by someone who fell(or was tossed) overboard.
Random comment, but I want to give praise for the shot at 1:18 and the honest and accurate detail given. There's nothing wrong with showing an illustrative example as long as it's stated as such. Far, far too much online media (and traditional media for that matter) will use illustrative examples and mislead people into thinking they are actual photos of the subject in question. The result is mass confusion and misinformation. Anyway the point is, I'm pleased that you take that care to not do that.
minute 16:45, the quote is attributed to Pliny the Younger rather than Francis Palgrave...which makes me think...was Pliny the Younger a time traveller!? 😂
Is it crazy to anyone else that Pliny could see the cloud and then received a note not long after? That means messenger services / post was pretty fricken efficient, no? He was an estimated 30km away...
The cloud may have been the beginning? I'm no expert but I remember that for mt. St.Helen's people notice stuff days before and in modern times whiffs of smoke can precede actual eruption? And yes, post service must have been very efficient. Though I think she sent a pigeon mail or something because otherwise she would have left with the messenger and wouldn't wait to die in flames
I was thinking more along the lines of so his friend is asking for help via a messenger who got out, then why wasn't his friend able to get out at the same time. Probably didn't want to leave without their gold and or jewels.
Please make a video like this every year, getting a solid "5 new archaeology discoveries" is hard to find when they're all posted like 3 years ago and have the same old recent finds, but a 2024 one is exactly what I needed
Wow, Pompeii still tossing surprises at us even now in 2024.. Hats off to the dedicated archaeologists for their tireless work
Am sure we havent found everything there yet either
Here is full of roman villas
Heaps of it is yet to be excavated. About one third.
I’m just glad to be getting tossed surprises today than back then. 😂
Hats off to their tireless work? Laugh😂 you could say that to 1000 jobs before saying it to them
I am an archaeology buff and a space buff. This is a great time to be both. They are keeping me going while I am confined to a wheechair and bed after breaking both feet.
My brother was confined to a wheel chair for most of our childhood. I used to hide around corners and wait for him, then jump out and scream "Hey What's Up Hot Wheels!!" before body-checking him out of the chair. Watching him squirm around on the ground in joy afterward really brought us closer together as a family. I'd even help clean the dirt off his face with my very own saliva.
I wish you a speedy recovery!
Get well soon. Next time, try not to kick those artefacts out of the ground! That's what the little trowels and brushes are for 😂
@@shawnnewell4541 Brugh, not cool. Speedy like as a reference to Hot Wheels? Not cool brugh. I do believe an apology is in order here son.
Why were they showing Nazca lines during the segment about the civilization in the Amazon? They're half a continent away
Sounds like Pliny the elder had asthma. Brave indeed to proceed under such circumstances.
I literally just posted to say the same thing before I noticing you'd beat me to it, lol oops 😅
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that
Plinius the Younger's letters are the best window into the period imo. So much mundane problems there, so much context. The description of the erruption was so horrifying and yet thorough like a well done news report.
I STILL think Simon should hang a picture of the painting "Whistler's Mother" in the background of all of his videos.
You are a genius
I dunno about all that, lol but thank you. I've been thinking about the "Whistler's Mother" painting and putting it in his videos somewhere. I've even posted it in comments of other videos
@@justingoodman9352 Just a small framed print of it somewhere kinda hidden in the background where only a sharp eye would see it, that would be perfect.
😂
mr beans version
the anger/annoyance at the repetitive names😭 “Joanne also had a daughter. Named Joanne. So Joanne, Joanne, and John-“ LOL
The confidence in which those Italians names are butchered in Simon's voice is actually pretty funny 😅
Butchering should be done with confidence.
😂😮
A fair percentage of his subscribers subscribe just to hear him mispronouncificate all sorts of whirreds.
Prey four whirled peas!
At least he is a real person, not an AI butchering those names. I love his voice and accent, and since I am not Italian, don't mind. He does pretty well with names in most languages as far as I'm concerned.
Simon is English, butchering European words is an English national sport 😊
Simon speed reading the history of John's house was *chef's kiss*
I went into the brothel in Pompei on our tour of the city, there was a phallic symbol on the street pointing the way to the brothel...the pictures on the wall were crazy :p
i went to pompeii, when i saw the lupanarium was closed i said to a friend, "i tried to visit your mother, but the door was closed"
@eddyguizonde401 That's like a second degree burn there. Implying she's not only a "lady of the night" but an ancient one at that. Good thing he had your mom to put ointment on those burns for him! 😂 😉
hahaha this comment made my day
I remember visiting that place as a young teen on a school trip. 😳🤣
I am banned from it
The romans most certainly wouldn’t have cleared their search history, they would have posted it publicly
The Only Fans accounts would be epic.
They sorta did
oh i was posting something similar
@@rgerber Same here!
I want the outtakes of Simon doing the "Joan, Joan, and John" line, lol
Love the updates, though I do have to note that much of the footage used for the section about the discovery of the Church of San Giminiano in Venice is actually of the town of San Gimignano in Tuscany.
Best not to name two things the same thing.
Could at least call it San Giminiano Jr if it was inspired by the original.
The spelling is also wrong.
I never look at comments, but I did today just to make sure someone pointed this out.
drifting off to sleep so stuff like this is a nice salve to relax my brain :)
8:48 the quote about Pliny the Elder "having always had a weak throat which was often inflamed" makes me wonder if he had what we'd call Asthma nowadays?
"Fortune favors the brave"
"hold my beer"
same energy 🤔🤦♂️🤷♂️🤣👉
"Come on you sons of bitches, do you wanna live forever" - Uncle Steve, 4th of July 2024, moments before trying to jump the gorge with his 1983 Honda Accord and a plywood ramp
@@arthas640 I tried to warn him that he was going to need a steeper ramp to catch some air but you know how stubborn he was.
A few errors in the imagery of the Amazonian villages in Ecuador: (1) you show an image of the Nazca lines in Peru, (2) the tripod mounted scanner shown is not the type used for the aerial lidar images in the segment.
The choice of images in general is rather spurious. In the section about the church in Venice, it repeatedly shows images of San Gimignano, a city in Tuscany.
Perfectly timed
I'm picturing a Dynasty Warriors-type video game where you can play everyone from the War of Succession, and all the hundreds of warriors on the battlefield are called Joan and John
I lost 127 Joans and 241 Johns in that last battle, I had to start a new game because I couldn't train replacements fast enough. 😂
@16:45, the quotation is captioned as Pliny the Younger rather than Sir Francis Palgrave.
Shhhh! It was The Doctor in disguise. Wibbly-wobbly, Timey-wimey 😉
Did you catch the pupulation at the beginning of the video
It seems like the younger got really really old. 😂🤣
Honestly, aside from the year and context, that's a totally believable quote to come from a Roman. Roman-Gallic relations were not great
I absolutely enjoy Simon's recounting the "war of succession", but now want to hear Philomea Cunk's version as well 🙂!!!
For anyone confused by the footage of a town with tall rectangular towers in it, inserted into the section about the lost Venetian church of San Giminiano.
These are shots of the Tuscan hill town of San Giminiano, just north of Sienna and south of Firenza (Florence).
The people putting together this footage obviously knew nothing about San Gominiano, but when they were told the narrative was about a church in Venice named for San Giminiano they blindly inserted aerial shots of a town several hundred miles away with the same name that the church in Venice had.
Bit of a balls up really.
Yeah i was thinking "thats not Venice"...
This is the same editing team that decided to use AI footage of Turkmenistan instead of doing actual research.
It’s lazy people running a script through an AI service of some sort and not even bothering to edit the result. There are more and more complete AI pseudo-videos on youtube now, usually with AI voiceovers. In the last few days I saw:
One about horseshoe crabs and drugs developed from their blood…that did not show a single arthropod even vaguely related to that phylum - but did show several completely irrelevant “true” crabs.
One about the Nebra sky disk whose AI rendering of a disk shaped object with shiny bits on it was clearly made by AI - and looked absolutely NOTHING like the Nebra disk.
That was great Simon. My thanks to you and the people you work with.
The War of 2 Joans sounds like an idea for a Monty Python sketch, but no set of comedians (however talented) can match the sheer absurdity of real history.
Well said!
That is some serious history by Pliny the younger. Super cool episode Simon and team!
Except they get confused when talking about the lost church of San Geminiano, the initial video footage in that segment is of the Tuscan town of San Gimignano and not of Venice.
@@garymaidman625San Geminiano, San Gimignano... close but no cigar
@@phaedrapage4217 exactly
The war of two Joan's sounds like a book club quarrel from the 60s
We don't talk about book club!
@@slake9727😂
Epic! I was just wondering about what new archaeological discoveries have taken place recently!!
There's a channel, called World of Antiquity and hosted/created by a legitimate historian, which will give these updates, sometimes from a month to month basis. It's an excellent channel.
Fascinating summary. Sympathies to historians studying Breton medieval politics.
_Audentes iuvat Fortuna_ has been my life motto for over thirty-five years now.
Apparently, it should only be used ironically since it led to death.
Thanks for the video.
I REALLY love the Archaeological News. I have such a hard time finding accurate yet concise news on this front.
Great episode! I was familiar with the lidar scans in Ecuador, but as usual I find your coverage of these kinds of events entertaining, informative, and easy to remember.
Yeah.... my papa's family tree ties him to the Joan, Joan and John mess. We love doing genealogy but dang! We're serious stuck on these branches!
Nice mix here
And also managing all those Joans
your videos are very interesting. i really like the archaeological discoveries you share. thank you
I was in Pompeii last week and now I am watching this video.
There is a 'aura' about the entertainers of the WWII generation. They saw so much death and destruction that their art managed to cover up such horrors of warfare through their performances. Not so much for themselves, but for everyone they were in contact with. Their art was a salve for everyone of that generation. I remember his, among others performances, brought a genuine sense of relief and restoration to audiences.
Thank you, Mr. Bennett for your military service and for your post-war service to Humanity.
ive actually been looking for a video about this just for this year alone. You da man!
Yeah good content...but i can't handle the voice of this guy sorry
History is really amazing.
Awesome episode!! Thank you 🤘😝🤙
I'm amazed you could get through all the johns and Joans.
Could you actually follow all of that? Moments into it I was thinking "did they not know there were other names???" Lol
Another great video, thanks Simon ❤❤
Pliny the younger wasn't just writing those letters abiut Versuvius to a friend - they were to Tacitus, one of the most prominent historians of the early Roman Empire.
To clarify: in the Church of St Gemignano section, any visuals involving greenspace, hills and medieval towers are of the Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano. Far from Venice, geographically and topologically.
But apparently named after the same building, so still related. :)
@@MrBrock314No. They are different.
Its great to have a frient to risk all to come and help you. Pliny the elder looks like fits on that group.
I wonder what future societies will think when they dig us up...
"Ick!"
"They shoulda never gave these ****a's money!!"
Nobody is going to dig us up. We are a global civilization and it would take a simultaneous global apocalypse for our civilization to be forgotten. And that doesn't happen outside of Hollywood.
This comment thread is very optimistic.
"When they dig us up"
There will be a "they"?
"Global disasters to cull humans doesn't happen outside of Hollywood"
Tell the sun. Or the dinosaurs.
WE ARE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIEEE
@@freddiekay The deep state gonna dig everyone's body up and make 'em vote fer Kamala.
thanks for your efforts getting important discoveries out into the mainstream
Important? This is all rigged up info brugh. None of that happened fo real, all of it was planted brugh. Human aliens have only been on this planet for 60 or 70 years tops.
Actually, Dr David Miano's channel World of Antiquity is what actually gets important discoveries out into the mainstream. He releases a video once a month recapping recent archaeological discoveries. Dr Miano also doesn't make schoolboy errors, like getting the lost church of San Geminiano in Venice mixed up with the Tuscan town of San Gimignano.
@@garymaidman625 These channels exist to sell our attention to advertisers. If you want to learn about important discoveries get an actual education and work in the field.... otherwise you risk a severe case of dunning krueger and we'll have one more Terrance Howard on our hands... internet experts do more harm than good. Wannabe renaissance boys are high level cringe artists. Just make sure I get fries with that and keep the 'expertise' to yourself son.
@@garymaidman625 thanks ! I will look him up
@@garymaidman625 Howe many subscribers does he have?
thank you!
the picture at 3:08 is of a yucca plant, the people in the Amazon were growing yuca, aka cassava, not yucca. totally different plant
That's very interesting
I think most of the Amazon was once cultivated and what we have now is the result of the people being wiped out by disease and weather and biology took over
That is some very bad naming conventions. Now we know why scientific names were invented.
Yeah yeah ffs
Whose idea was it to have yuca and yucca be different plants?
So far! So you are gonna do a part 2 towards the end of the year! Yay!
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
I always like how Simon says the word "empie".
Have _really_ bad strain of Covid and you're helping me get through it, Simon!
I've got a cold aswell
@@limhan3209nice one 😂
get well soon 🍀
Same. My fever just broke.
Covid is spreading like wild fire right now. Get plenty of rest, even after you feel better. It takes 6-8 weeks to fully recover from Covid at a cellular level.
Cool stuff!
Perfect thing to watch during dinner
Exactly what I just did 😄
What did you have?
No screens at the table!
@@SamtheIrishexan 😂 normally I don’t but I got home after dinner as I was working
@@PalmtreeParty tuna pasta 😋
Mt. Vesuvius eruption was such a big catastrophe for the Romans because it was "The" vacation spot for Romans to take "Holiday" or vacation. So just like Florida, it was very well developed to give the Roman citizens a most exquisite place to enjoy a break from their everyday lives. The stones of the streets of Pompeii even had easy directions written on them and arrows to follow for one to find the most important of vacation spots, the brothels.
John the Conqueror turns up in the old Southern blues song "Hoochie Coochie Man".
"I've got a John the Conqueroo".
Love the proper depiction of proper legend.
I’ve watched Simon for over 10 years. This is the first time I’ll have a comment in the first 20
I down voted you to ruin your dream
@@gregh378like and reply to every other comment on the video and then delete your comment in an hour or two if you want to maximise efforts 🤣
Not if i can help it
Ok so the thing is that comment on this first ore next
But not have any idea ore anything to say about the video 8n it selves
What did the video say about anything
Well I don't think you know do to the fact that you comment before you can even have seen the video 😂😂
This is just stupid 😂😂 but bless your heart ❤💙💜
It must be good to be almost first 😂😂
Good job
The yuca shown is the North American Yucca. What is grown is the Ecuadorian Amazon is M. esculenta (or cassava)They're two completely different plants.
They should probably not name completely different things the same name to avoid confusion.
Very informative 👏
Grand episode man keep it up
Are you saying he belongs in a wheelchair?
The Amazonian rainforests in Ecuador are known for their incredible biodiversity and lush greenery. It's a fantastic place to explore nature and see unique wildlife.. If someone ever get the chance, visiting the Ecuadorian Amazon would be an unforgettable experience..
Funnily enough, another phrase we still use today originated during the Breton War of Succession! That being, "Keeping up with the Joanses", of course 👍
So interesting 🤔 I love this one 😍
Small note, you have 'pupulation' written at 1:10
Itll never be fixed 😂
Poo
One of many mistakes. His channels are nice to watch but they almost all have very stupid mistakes.
@@j.a.weishaupt1748 I don't want to say this wrong but he has a certain standard of quality and as long as it meets that standard he's definitely quantity over quality
What's even funnier is I read your name as pupecorky 😂
This was great NEW info for me!
New Subscriber ❤
Now that I have my channel I know how it's important to subscribe
Love your videos, but you should have someone check your video material prior to uploading... A lot of shots from the town of san Gimignano slipped into venice there. ^^ greetings from Vienna!
How would someone not from that region know that? Simon is English.
This is like people not knowing which Roughriders is the correct Canadian football team. It's a fair mistake even inside Canada.
Yeah, it's quite evident there is little fact checking and next to no editing going into these. It's getting more evident as they pump out more content and it's making me reticent to keep watching all these related channels
@@MrBrock314because that view of towers is quite famous and also there aren't such towers in Venice
Yeah, i thought I saw gobekli tepe depicted when talking about Malta a couple of times. Maybe I’m wrong…
Perfectly done ✅
Fun fact, Simon: biological archaeology and forensic anthropology are so close in method that we take a bunch of the same classes. 😂
Hi, I don't usually live messages, but I have to say this.I live in England. Some years ago, my brother, some years ago, maybe eight messaged me with great news about great discovery of a toom. A very big one , promising to be a toomb of a very important person. It was the news for a while in Greece. Time past when I asked my brother for any further news. To my surprise, he told me that the government of Grreece stoped the excavation. The all aria was sealed and guarded. No explanation was made from the authorities. A few years later, just by luck I found out, that at the same place, rumors among the villagers in the area, talking about trucks where coming and going in the night. That was the last thing I heard from that promising discovery. I have to say the Greek government is corrupt. Your story about Alexander's tomb, reminded me this story, and thought to share it here.
Thanks👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Very nice presentation, but you might want to check the attribution to the quote shown at 16:46. As stated, it is by Palgrave not Pliny the Younger.
Wow, that Pliny the Younger really got around! I had no idea he was such a time-tripper! [re. 16:36-16:48]
Makes the memoirs of Lurcio in Up Pompeii seem rather tame by comparison. Good job this wasn't excavated when that show was written, the writers would have had a field day.
All these Johns and Joans make me almost appreciate those people who name their kids Magic or Neveah.
Pliny the elder beer is bomb af btw
4:56 Yay! Simon pronounced “Pliny” properly! Woot! 🎉
Hey Simon good video as always, i have a question, how many pairs of glasses do you own? i noticed they change sometimes throughout different videos and your channels. I understand if this is too personal of a question, but i was curious.
Mound dweller setlments? rainforest so often somewhat damp yes? mounds as artificial high ground for better drainage?
I've walked around on the Piazza San Marco and it is truly weird to know that just a few feet below my feet was a church that nobody even knew about.
I visited Lebanon/Beirut years ago. Everything you see, and centuries old, is built on top of 3-4.... layers of other civilizations/tombs/churches/temples/cities. As a settlement, it is thousands of years old. Hard for a modern American to even absorb.
I’m sure it happens a lot around the world.. only we never do know about it
@@freedfree7933 Well, in North America, we're often walking on things too, we just pretend like there was no one here before us.
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Around the world includes north America.. and I have never heard anyone say we are the first humans here.
Another excellent episode Simon and team
Hopefully excavations of the villa will reveal a basement library with all his books still preserved! His version of the German Wars would be an amazing historic source.
Would be nice to find a German copy first.
Them glasses lol love it
Why are scenes of San Gimignano (a famous Tuscan hill town 200 miles away) included in a segment about Venice?
Simon's beard is looking particularly magnificent and intense today
Last thing I've ever imagined was my city being mentioned here, Bacoli😂
How did you miss the first decipherment of a Herculaneum scroll???? That is by the most astonishing archaeology news of the year!
I like this guy's sense of humor
MORE 👏🏻 ARCHAEOLOGY 👏🏻 VIDEOS 👏🏻 please?
I have thought for years, the reason we "don't explore" the ocean's depths, is due to the immense amount of history in the water.
I would go so far as to say the "Lost City of Atlantis" is a VERY old "city" that was found by someone while diving in the Ocean, or, found by someone who fell(or was tossed) overboard.
17:45 - "depending on the era of his life" haha
Simon has new glasses 🥳
Short man of Gaul wrecked a lot of stuff. Also known as Corsican runt.
Random comment, but I want to give praise for the shot at 1:18 and the honest and accurate detail given. There's nothing wrong with showing an illustrative example as long as it's stated as such. Far, far too much online media (and traditional media for that matter) will use illustrative examples and mislead people into thinking they are actual photos of the subject in question. The result is mass confusion and misinformation. Anyway the point is, I'm pleased that you take that care to not do that.
When you said sara bini i heard sarah beeny i thought she's done well since changing rooms 😂
Captain baldy. Aye aye sir
minute 16:45, the quote is attributed to Pliny the Younger rather than Francis Palgrave...which makes me think...was Pliny the Younger a time traveller!? 😂
Is it crazy to anyone else that Pliny could see the cloud and then received a note not long after? That means messenger services / post was pretty fricken efficient, no? He was an estimated 30km away...
The cloud may have been the beginning? I'm no expert but I remember that for mt. St.Helen's people notice stuff days before and in modern times whiffs of smoke can precede actual eruption? And yes, post service must have been very efficient. Though I think she sent a pigeon mail or something because otherwise she would have left with the messenger and wouldn't wait to die in flames
I was thinking more along the lines of so his friend is asking for help via a messenger who got out, then why wasn't his friend able to get out at the same time. Probably didn't want to leave without their gold and or jewels.
@@JackKIng-g5c Note: Pliny died - didn't say the others with him died.