18 Excellent Archaeological Facts 

This channel is becoming Simon's archeology channel. I am not complaining!

"Nothing says 'making babies' like a spider with knives" ...definitely pushed my laugh button.

Former archaeologist here! I can confirm it’s A LOT of lab work. But it’s fascinating lab work and surprisingly a lot of fun!

the line between channels are blurry and I love it

Its my day off, I've got my coffee and toast, now give me my FACTS, FACT BOY.

That'd be Chris over at Clickspring creating the tools and re-creating the Antikythera

I love how each of Simon's new channels start off with one goal and slowly morph into one topic. Megaprojects is the Cold War stuff. Business Blaze is giving Simon a chance to blow off steam.

"Giant spiders with knives" Someone's been tapping into my nightmares

Clickspring rebuilt the crazy greek calendar.

18 minutes 18 facts, you love to see it.

The narration between 16:40 - 17:03 made me feel like I'd been using some paraphernalia of my own.

CLICKSPRING is the channel making an antikythera mechanism! One of my favorite channels.

In all honesty, having seen the Rosetta Stone was one of coolest moments in my life. Totally history nerd here!!

0:20 - Chapter 1 - Finders not keepers 1:20 - Chapter 2 - Cheese dreams 2:20 - Chapter 3 - Under the sea 3:15 - Chapter 4 - Artifacts to the stars 4:15 - Chapter 5 - Stone temple giants 5:15 - Chapter 6 - The cave of horror 6:10 - Chapter 7 - My little unicorn 7:10 - Chapter 8 - The spider god is coming 8:00 - Chapter 9 - The OG archeologist 9:05 - Chapter 10 - What came first ? 10:05 - Chapter 11 - The past got hotter 11:10 - Chapter 12 - Let's get experimental 11:45 - Chapter 13 - Beware of greek bearing ships 12:45 - Chapter 14 - Blow up pompei 13:35 - Chapter 15 - How old is old 14:30 - Chapter 16 - Stone cold shoulder 15:40 - Chapter 17 - The modern mummy 16:35 - Chapter 18 - Just say nomad

4:01 YT channel Click Spring is recreating it with contemporary tools and techniques

The Giant-Spider-with-knives deserves it's own video. If that's the fertility goddess, I'd like to see the rest of the pantheon...Cthulhu move over! 🕷️⚔️😸

I lost count of the number of times I burst out laughing during this video! Very good info, really interesting, but my GODS the humor! I can't safely drink water while watching anything Simon posts anymore, haha!

I actually took a course to learn to read Akkadian Cuneiform in College. I only remember the symbol for beer, Simon. I was in college after all.....

Funny thing is, I'm actually trying to teach myself Sumerian cuneiform. The alphabet and numerical system are fairly simple, but I'm struggling with context and phraseology. Unfortunately Rosetta Stone doesn't offer courses on Sumerian.

I see Buisness Blaze is leaking into Side Projects a little bit, and I approve.

The effort clickspring and others he's worked with is amazing .

8:50 I like to imagine Irving Finkel eating popcorn & watching Sideprojects!

Simon's channels are just morphing into BB 2.0 and BB light, and I'm here for it!

‘Thank god 2020 is over’, it’s starting to look like 2020 was just a warm up for 2021.

I have some experience reading cuneiform, specifically pre-Sargonite ones. Sadly the books are unobtainium now, and you do really need them because it doesn't work like letters in the same way we have them now, it is more like Chinese or Japanese where a series of strokes together form a part of a phrase. As I recall later cuneiform is a bit less like that but as it often borrows from the old system you'd have to know both to read it.

As a kid, my best friend was thracian. His Grandad used to sit in the grape arbor, drinking home made wine, smoking weed and telling stories about the glory days of the thracians and scythians. Cultural basis for his recreation? He bred horses as well. His favorite "joke" was that thracians had magic swords that could turn one greek into two.

Indy put everything either in a museum or under research by top men

Loved this format. Light, entertaining as well as being informative. I, for one, would definitely like to see more vids done in this style. Where were you when I was doing history at school? As an idea for another topic, how about amusing anecdotes from the world of rock and pop music? Just a thought.

My wife is an archeologist and I can confirm there are lots of bricks.

Simon needs another channel for archeological facts, stories.

“Does he keep stuff?” *”IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!”*

ClickSpring is the channel Simon is referring to

I think it would be hilarious, and fitting, if Simon became the world's most knowledgeable man simply by hosting all these videos.

If ever there was a time when I wanted Irv to leave a comment in a video. . . That would be epic, Irv giving Simon a cuneiform lesson and reading a bit of the texts for us.

video suggestion prob for biographics - augustus pitt rivers !! probably the modern founder of archaeology, founded a rad and weird museum in oxford its one of my fave places !! probably technically stole a lot of his stuff (oops) the original butser story would be a niche but awesome one for geographics, a group of people lived there unknown to the modrrn residents as an experiment for over a year in the 70s, Lindybeige did an interview set with one of the participents :> also re: bricks , i studied archaeology for 3 years at college and because of where i am all of my training sites were roman , i never want to see tessarae again , so many tubs , so much catalogging

"It belongs in a museum!" Indiana Jones

This channel is becoming Simon's 'Other videos' channel. I am not complaining!

I think most people understand that the Trojan horse is metaphorical. I'm constantly trying to explain to people that your enemy can come in under any number of disguises. The old wolf in sheep's clothing is another Trojan horse metaphor. I think it's pretty cool that this channel rings attention to these topics.

That old mechanism thing has always blown my mind

The world’s oldest wine cellar and the excavation at Megiddo! How did these get left out?

The giant wooden horse may not be so odd: In the Illiad the Trojans are referred to as the Breakers of Horses. (Troy was also located in an area conducive for trade or tolls--and one of the more important items for export would have been horses.) One dawn The Trojans looked out on the beach to find that the Greek invaders gone, replaced by a sign of obeisiance or perhaps capitulation: a huge wooden horse. Honoring their status of the Breakers of Horses.

"In 2013 archeologists found some paraphernalia..." I was surprised I heard this twice

Happy birthday, Simon! I really enjoy the content you create and hope you will be making videos long into the future.

It's odd that unicorns are not real, but yet a spotted horse with a 12' neck is

Simon of BB coming out more and more. I love it Blaze boi.

Everyone thinks they're first, tell they refresh the page!

"It belongs in a Museum" - indiana Jones

In 2013, archeologists in Southern Russia discovered some paraphernalia belonging to the Siberian Nomads who were renowned for being pretty scary horse riding warriors around 700-200 AC.

I'm envious of Euorpe and other places because there is so much archeology right under your own homes and stuff lol. I'm American so we don't really have much of that. I'd love to dig up my garden and find Roman artifacts or bronze age pottery etc.

Bomb disposing archaeologists sounds like something found while sweeping the floor in Steven Spielberg's office.

Enjoyed the format. Fast Facts from Whistler's Beard, guaranteed to inform your day.

Antikythera was remade by Clickspring. He has a whole set of vids making it, well worth checking.

Love this video.. fascinating! Absolutely love this channel 😊💕

The channel for the Antikythera Mechanism is called Clickspring

nobody is gonna point the fact that Simon did a *“bada bum bum tsss”* outside of Business Blaze? so fun to see _“The Blaze”_ leaking slowly but surely into Simon’s other channels

OOOOH. My Thursday NEEDED an extra-long Sideprojects! Like button smashed!

I think this is the first video on this channel I've watched, and I can't seem to get over the fact that this is a different room then we normally see on the other channels😅

To be perfectly fair, if you were going to build a wooden horse construct to give as a gift (hidden soldiers or no), you would use existing infrastructure and techniques to source and shape that wood. Said wood fragments bearing evidence of having been processed by a shipyard or even having spent time in the ocean isn’t evidence AGAINST a giant wooden horse construct- its quite logical that in order to build it quickly, they would have needed to repurpose drydocked ships or stored lumber. It makes a lot more sense (and is more intriguing tbh) that a gift of a ship would be accepted over a wooden horse large enough to hide several soldiers in, and history is rife with examples of these mistranslations or idioms with lost context. But the past was also the past sometimes, both in actual events and mythos. For all we know, the legend of Troy’s founding centered on a divinely guided horse, so such a gift would have unusual significance to them. It was probably the boat though.

Interesting and great fun! Thank you, Simon!

Amazing work though like usual Simon. Keep blazing the great work fact boi.

why a spider with knifes just why, i really like to think that the people from that time were just fucking around cause WTF that is nightmare fuel right there😂

Oooo! You've introduced me to and piqued my fascination! Going to do some research on the Scythian Nomads. Thanks! Great vid!

The most common artifact I found on digs were fire cracked rock. Literal pounds of fire cracked rock for any digs of plains tribe American Indian dig sites.

Love all your archaeological posts!

The channel is Clickspring, very interesting to see the precision he achieves in toolmaking and recreating all the bits and bobs.

As a physics engineer that teaches mathematics, I loved to learn that Leibniz believed in a strange 🦄. Why not, the guy for sure had a great imagination 😆. I need a strange mathematician facts now!!!!

TopEighteenz 🤣. I have no idea how well this video will do but I enjoyed it. Hopefully you make more like it!

Excellent. Thanks for the information.

Thanks

I'm mostly listen to these on my rounds working security or when I'm at home doing my half an hour every day of cleaning up, they keep me strangely motivated

Have to say having ADD I love the jumping around in this one.

From a metal detectorist the could was backwards....I will send you stock footage of a metal deyextor being used properly. You can get it all right especially with how many AWESOME videos you put on in your channel. I hope you're making bank from it Simon, you deserve it and your videos ROCK 🤘🤘🤙

One of your better ones. Put this one in the archive

Just brilliant thank you.

“If anyone actually reads cuneiform, let me know in the comments.” Irving Finkel has entered the chat

Unicorns are definitely true I had one, funny enough it run away when my doctor change my medication, not sure if it’s linked

Clickspring is the channel making the ancient mechanism.

Excellent. Please do another

Greetings simon! You're spot on about the ayodhya issue.

Having met a fair amount of archaeologists, I can confidently state that they do keep a few things. Mainly Roman era tiny lamps, as they are found so commonly that just some extra one from a random dig holds no value.

Mr, Whistler the recreation is on the Clickspring RU-vid

Here's a note for archeologists out there: Putting hemp seeds on a hot stone, or even outright smoking hemp seeds, would have no psychoactive effects whatsoever. If they were doing that, it was not to party.

soo, i just searched Pavlopetri..on youtube..its a rabbit hole..this channel is ! love it

I love archeological facts. In answer to your opening...the question “who doesn’t love...”

Simply put, more!

There were actually 2 king Arthur's that were high kings of the Britons. Kings of Glamorgan and Gwent. 1 of the 3rd century who do it the Romans and one of the 6th century who fought the Saxons. The later the Pendragon (high commander) of the military forces of the Britons fought a large battle being the final battle that subdued the Saxons on mynydd Baden (fortress mountain) . North of Cardiff. It still has the vast ramparts of the fortress that create false horizons to mess with the psychology of the approaching invaders as well as trench systems following the route of the battle and large mass grave mounds for both sides as well as smaller mounds for the higher ranked who perished. Both of these kings existence was twisted and moulded together to create a legendary fantasy figure to discredit their actual existence. They left vast amounts of ruins behind and more evidence including land grants to churches following successful battles. More on that at Britains hidden history channel also

"The story of the wooden horse of Troy is a bunch of..... *MANURE* " 🥁 -Simon

A basket ten thousand years old... bloody amazing.

As an archeologist I hereby give you a well deserved thumb up... :)

Damn you Simon an your multiple channels! you got me again.

Like NOFX said, “...the arrowheads go straight to the Smithsonian, the rest was melted down and sold.”

yes this was fun and easy to follow

The music of the section combined with Simon's question: "Are there alternative ways archeologists to date things?" A male Archeologist walks up to a girl at the bar... "Hey baby... I'm an impatient archeologist... and I wanna date you badly..." Another archeologist is at a restaurant with an ancient urn. She asks the Urn... "So tell me about your family. Where are you from? When were you born? Are you open to children?"

Certainly some of your best work yet. I am still laughing.

I absolutely love you Simon!! Your shit is always right on point. I have no idea how you discover your content,but you is good.2 good. I'll keep watching this channel...

Clickspring is channel you were trying to remember.

The best part of the video was learning that mosque was destroyed.

They killed everyone because they partied so hard they had no other way to pay back the massive debt to their dealer.

4:05 the youtube channel you are talking about is called Clickspring. 8:27 The depiction of that person can be found on megalithic ruins dating back to 10,000-15,000 ago ALL OVER THE WORLD. That same carving can be found in Peru, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and it always has a man wearing a hat like that, holding a pine cone/corn cob, with a wristwatch/bracelet and a bucket/hand bag. Sometimes they have him wearing a FISH hat or a Lizard Hat. This goes along with how all the oldest megalithic ruins are built/engineered the same way- huge 50 ton blocks carved with multiple sides and fitted together precisely to where a human hair can not fit in between the blocks.

"Because nothing screams 'making babies' like a GIANT SPIDER with KNIVES." Made my evening. And I'm sure will also make my Pulp Cthulhu mini-campaign, if it ever happens.