Simons "... I didn't even know was a problem ..." made me think of a quote, a wise internet factboy once said: "If someone tells you have a problem and is selling you the solution, it's probably a scam"
Or you're just dumb 😅 I remember as a young teen girl I didn't push back my cuticles until my friend told me. That friend has passed away now so when I get my nails done. I always think about her.
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Genghis khan 1:55 - Mid roll ads 3:40 - Back to the video 5:40 - Chapter 2 - Alexander the great 9:15 - Chapter 3 - Caligula 12:20 - Chapter 4 - Attila the hun 15:10 - Chapter 5 - Cleopatra
Sadly, the more likely story is some construction site or developer had discovered something and then destroyed it to avoid being tied up in bureaucracy.
Somewhere, Richard III is lamenting that he could have made fact boy's list had he not relatively recently been dug up out of a parking lot and reburied.
@@claywest9528don't forget the recent revival of his reputation. There's been quite a bit of work done to clear his name of much of the slander levied against him. I'd dare say the old chap is probably tickled with how things are going, as of late.
Caligula has had some very bad press. Modern historians are starting to question the narrative around him, as there is some evidence that he wasnt quite as bad as he has been portrayed.
@@bipolarminddroppingsFrom what I’ve read, he started off quite well but his mental state deteriorated throughout his reign. I’ve read some theories that he could have been poisoned which led to his mental state deteriorating
Regarding caligula, there's a theory that he developed mania/an unspecified mental illness due to lead and/or mercury poisoning. It's described that he suffered a fever/ an illness between the peaceful start of his reign and his sudden 'insanity', and since wine was cooked in lead pots and water transported using lead pipes it's not unlikely he suffered from the toxicity. Obv everyone else would as well, but being an emperor he probably drank more wine than others which would contribute to a toxicity event.
Its actually alot worse than that. Lead was used as a sweetener in wine at the time. In the form of Sapa, a lead based crystal mixed as a syrup. Its been somewhat suggested that this lead to alot of the insanity of rome.
Caligula wouldn’t even need to have mercury poisoning or lead poisoning in order to be permanently damaged from a severe fever. If he recovered from a severe encephalitis with a high fever ( 104 Fahrenheit or above)...that would be enough to cause permanent psychological and neurological damage. Encephalitis is often caused by infectious pathogens ranging from viruses to multicellular parasites. Fevers are usually caused by systemic infections.
If Caligula was even half as despised as people are saying, what was stopping them from just scattering his ashes to the wind and thereby denying him of a final resting place?
Depending on how religious the people that dealt with his remain where because in doing so they would most likely be punished themselves in the afterlife for doing so, or if it got out they did it rival of theirs could use it to remove them from power after all that would be mortal interfering with the business of the gods. Afterall though he was disliked by many elites and those that wrote the history that doesn't tell use what normal Romans thought and again desecration might have simply been seen as so bad even if he was disliked again because of the general beliefs of the people. Same reason if true that Augustus allowed both Anthony and Cleopatra to be buried as not doing so would have been optics wise far worse, Afterall Anthony had been the right had of his own uncle Julius and Cleopatra gave birth to a son of Julius who was known as Caesarion and was the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt who Augustus also had executed.
@@drayle71they didn't have an issue with letting people rot off crosses or other execution methods. Maybe he was liked by commoners or a faction of the elite. They could have always erased him from history and records which they did occasionally to people who really fd up.
I've just watched a documentary about Sitting Bull and how his remains were stolen in the dead of the night and if it is actually his remains that are supposed to be buried under 20 tons of concrete in Mobridge North Dakota or if his body was secretly taken to Turtle Mountain Canada shortly after his murder. It is historical fact that a large party of native Americans had gone from North Dakota to Turtle Mountain at the right time and the American army wanted the Canadian army to see what they were up to although they visited the resident chief they only reported back that there was no war party present. If it was Sitting Bull who was taken there he could be anywhere within a 50 mile radius of Turtle Mountain. I for one hope his final resting place is never known and he is left in peace
I think the reason he wasn't put up here was the time scale. besides Genghis we are talking about the classical era here. I mean, we could go further back and talk about Sargon the great or far later like Crazy horse but fact boy could basically go on for 100 hours about famous people who's tomb is lost. We still miss almost half of the Egyptian Pharaoh's graves for instance. No matter what he does, a lot of interesting characters would be missed but if this get a lot of views I will expect follow ups so maybe then.
Here's an interesting topic...what would Julius Caesar's signature be worth, and what does it look like? There is mention in Pliny, that people collected his signature, but few existed. The problem also is, that the vast majority of things done by Caesar and others was by using an engraved ring, with his stamp. Just needed a little of ink.
Among those who posit Attila was stabbed by his wife is the Eddic lay Atlakviða, which tells of his dealings with the Burgundian ruling family. The king of the Burgundians, Gunnarr, was summoned to the court of Attila ("Atli") but received warning from Attila's wife, his sister Gudrun, that Attila was planning to kill him and his brother and to seize their treasure. To make a long story short, this works out well for no one involved and everyone dies. If some of this sounds familiar, it's because Gunnarr was based on the same historical figure as Gunther from the Nibelungenlied, with whose family Sigurd/Siegfried became entangled in the Nibelungenlied, on which Wagner's Ring cycle was largely based), the Nibelungs being identified with the Burgundian royal house. The historical king's name was Gundahar. As for Siegfried, he may have been based on the Merovingian king Sigebert I, but no one knows for sure. The main character of most Germanic legends can be clearly identified, but not Siegfried.
Caligula had pretty much killed everybody that might have cared enough about him to give his ashes a decent burial so most they were just thrown in a random hole somewhere
Caligula may not have done all the things attributed to him by the ancient historians (historians can be pretty biased sometimes), but there can nonetheless be no doubt that he was a pretty bad emperor. When it comes to historical bad press, where there's smoke there's usually fire.
@@IdowuEstherThat they were biased? The thing about ancient Rome is that the primary group of literate people who had the time and resources to write were of the Equites and higher classes, especially senators. As such, people like Caligula who were specifically hostile to the Senate were unlikely to get a totally fair treatment in the histories. Rome (and all ancient time periods) also present us with the problem of very few surviving texts, primary or otherwise, so we don't have a hell of a lot of options for cross-reference most of the time. When we DO have multiple sources, they often disagree on the more sensational things. Suetonius in particular was basically an ancient tabloid writer who reported absolutely every salacious rumor he heard, and he's by far our most complete source for Caligula. He was also working nearly a century later without any firsthand knowledge.
He spent too much money, thats why i would consider him a bad emperor. But the thing with the shells and neptune etc could be either slander or mistranslation, Toldinstone made a pretty good video about this. The biggest case in my opinion of Slander was that one of Domitian, he was beloved by people and army (and was the only emperor to fix the inflation of the denarius) but the senate didnt like him (and he didnt like them either) so they assasinated him and his memory (also in written texts). Same can be said about William II Rufus of England, he was a good Leader and King but was disliked by the church, the church was one of the rare institutions who wrote stuff down so they discredited him and his achievements.
@@IdowuEsther not many people could write back then so it was much easier to force a narrative about someone, not to mention its rare to get contemporary sources - almost everything we go by was written 100yrs+ after the events. By comparison, if people 2000yrs in future are looking at people from our time, there will be endless sources from all sides of the story so it'll be much easier to ascertain the truth, as opposed to all the info about X person being written by one or very few people looong after X person was dead.
Went to the British museum this year, and they have one of the other Cleopatras on display in their Egyptian section. Everyone was crowded around the big plaque that read “Cleopatra” (but that did not clarify that it was not in fact THAT Cleopatra). Just found it to be so shady of the museum
It’s also possible that the Cleopatra who died alongside her lover Mark Antony wasn’t mummified like the rest of the Pharaohs were. Augustus Caesar could just have had both Cleopatra and Mark Antony cremated and he just lied about what he did to their remains.
I remember reading that a team of Chinese & Mongolian archaeologists thought the had POSSIBLY found the tomb, that it wasn't where anyone had thought o looking (accidental discovery allegedly) and that there was literally no way they were giving away even the general area let alone the location as the Mongolian authorities DIDN'T want a hoard of treasure hunters/would-be Indiana Jones' type archaeologists descending on the area as Khan was and is still regarded as so incredibly important. They claimed that IF they excavated further then it would be in total secrecy as a result and IF there were any further discoveries they would be kept quiet simply to ensure that there was no way anyone could somehow find where they were excavating (really trusting lot I thought, probably wisely mind you). Then nothing more has come out, as they stated would be the case, so even if they have found something nobody is going to know for quite some time.
The best way to find some of these graves, may be ground penetrating radar, which has already found iron age archeology in the UK, lost cities in the Egyptian desert and Thai jungle, amongst other things. Several early English kings, had their bones scattered, when the original abbey they were buried in, was sacked and destroyed. They were gathered up and buried in boxes on beams in the medieval Winchester Cathedral, most likely mixed up.
I'll just come out and say it - Occam's Razor is the most likely explanation. Lost to Antiquity is the most reasonable conclusion of all of these cases.
It would be literally impossible to do what you're suggesting. As a Land Surveyor and Archaeological Surveyor, I can assure you we'd have already done so, if it were as simple as all that. GPR sleds are the size of a lawnmower. Do you understand just how much work goes into doing a GPR survey on a single jobsite? And you want to do a GPR survey of the entire planet?
@@SkunkApe407 I believe it can be done from space and cover a greater area far faster. If I recall, one has been done somewhere in Egypt that found a large series of yet undiscovered chambers.
@@JamesFromTexasLiDAR isn't ground penetrating so much. If at all. It does, however, look at ground heights and can see through trees as they have done in South America.
With Cleopatra it’s sad because their children had been killed and actually it’s more likely that she took her life so that she wouldn’t be taken prisoner
Some Practical Archeologists working from a Roman military report, did the math and proved that the number of horses and men that attacked the Romans would have been an impossibility giving the amount of forage there was at that time of year
@14:00 I may me misremembering but didn't Atilla live humbly when not putting on a show? If so it seems unlikely he'd have wanted something too extravagant.
For any of these people who died suddenly, especially while out on campaign, why would they have a "solid gold" coffin? Did they just travel with it everywhere or have it hastily made en route to burial?
Schliemann gets a lot of flack, but he is the progenitor of scientific archaeology. What he was doing wasn’t uncommon, and if he hadn’t done it at Troy everybody from archeologists to paleontologists would still be destroying sites on an industrial scale in hopes of finding huge treasure instead of sifting sand looking for small things.
When my wife and I moved we ended up throwing away a lot of stuff so as to not move it. It was actually kinda fun driving into the landfill and tossing things in lol
as far as i know it is just geographic and biographic he no longer is hosting with one other channel i cant remember which were another guy is temporary making videos but simon will still be the main person making videos
I don't mind that we haven't found these tombs for so long. Current civilisation has a bad habit of digging up historical figures and putting them in show cases for people to stare at, not really all that respectful really. Would be nice if when we have a next big find, that we try to preserve it as much we can and try to study as much we can in non intrusive ways possible. Rather then turn it into an exhibit at a museum.
@@julianaylor4351 I believe her tomb & artifacts were reused for Tutankhamun's tomb & I believe her mummy was found in KV21 the mummy is known as KV21B
What's big about her? Just wife of many and even her husband wasn't that big at all, made more famous by west idiots then by actually historical facts.
Idk, I kind of feel like in cases where thousands of people were killed in order to keep the tomb's location a secret...if we found it and dug it up, those people would've died for nothing. And I feel like that's sad- as fascinating as such finds would be, it's kind of like, I would also want to respect the lives of people who were callously thrown away by their leader who they (probably) revered so highly in life. We may not remember those people's names, but they were still people and they still mattered. Although on the other hand, would defiling such a tomb by finding and looting it, be like a big middle finger to that ruler, like as a sort of revenge for throwing away people just for secrecy purposes? It's a difficult question.
If Alexander the Great was buried in Alexandria of Egypt, his tomb is probably underwater now as most of the original ancient city of Alexandria _pulled an Atlantis_ (meaning it was destroyed by an earthquake tsunami and sank) about 600 years after Alexander’s death.
Yes ... but a king's tomb is usually better taken care of than a slave's burial, so the likeliness to find a high status person is much higher than a peasant
what a retarded comment, even IF the British stole some objects, which is most likely just not the case, or at least not as portrayed as in the media, SURELY they'd be smart enough to know what kind of artifacts they'd have in their possession, any material related to these people's graves would have been known by now.
I have already made arrangements for possession Simon's remains when he dies. I made a promise after a previous video to use his skull as a cereal bowl exclusively for Magic Spoon...
Yo we need to get all of Simon's channels over a million so he can have a world record for most channels with million+subscribers idk if its a legit record but i feel like he could do it lol
If Caligula actually was buried at Nemi his remains would have been looted by all the northern european "archeologists" that come down every summer to make "discoveries" and bring them back home....
