Did Ancient Egyptians Circumnavigate Africa? 

Which is really retarted, and just an academic self wanking. Whether someone has heard a word or read a word, has no bearing on their intelligence or merit.

@@MaxwellAerialPhotography “retarted”

That's an awesome quote. I'm collectivizing that.

Very true, but the Indian and the Atlantic are Fun Oceans anyhow

I actually love that quote.

Valid. I suppose he also has an argument against the sexual assault charge, but trading it for bestiality seems like a sidegrade at best.

@@richmcgee434 facts besides sexual assault is... a bit of a human construct, ask beetles ducks and cats where their philosophies lie in that subject

@@dantemonterey1507 We kept ducks when I was a kid. At one point predation by coyotes had gotten us down to four males and a single surviving female. The males were all very much on board with sexual assault, often en masse and always violent. The female clearly had a differing opinion about the issue, and eventually had to be given away before they flat out killed her. So at least in the case of our rape-happy fuckducks I can assure you that it's not just a human construct.

@@richmcgee434 yeah but all duck procreation is rape, my point being that there are many species of animal that ONLY procreate through sexual assault so in nature i would argue it would be hard to judge per say a duck for sexual assault if they all are born through sexual assault

@@dantemonterey1507 I have kept ducks for fifteen years and I can assure you that mutual procreation exists among them, but rape is indeed a frequent occurrence among them.

Ready to join the Dawnguard?

They later became papal Swiss gorilla guards. I swear, saw it on "Venture Bros." once.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lEKvDie3yvY.html

No

*Joe Rogan salivating*

@Oscar Wind "Phe-NO-menal"

Phoenicians yes :-)

Phoenicians even went up to Mississippi River had settlements Indians called them round faces

@@jonkore2024 That's not true. It's like you didn't even watch the video hahahaha.

He is a good boy.

@Atun-Shei Films Very good boy. The Goodest.

Does he speak german?

@@tomerpilo5193 Oh no.

I want to boop the snoot

Funniest shit I've read this week

If only we had those talking Nazi dogs...

Sounds like a project for Klaus....

You mean the Punics, right?

@@occam7382 No, Phoenicians is appropriate.

@@DavidEllis94, I know. But if we're talking about the Carthaginians here, I think it only makes sense that a term is used to differentiate them from the Phoenicians of the Levant.

@@occam7382 I mean, sure, so then call them Carthaginians. For my part, I can't say I've ever seen Punic used as a noun.

frankly, if any ancient Mediterranean people was gonna be able to figure out the Atlantic currents to make it down the coast it'd be the Phoenicians

Do you think scuba divers could find some ruins of their ship?

@@malluk7064 honestly, I don't know anything about marine archaeology. If this happened then that would be awesome as hell.

Well if they were lost at sea on the way there, then their only epic story would be that of endless water, starvation, and then dying in a storm or something.

Would be cool if it turned up in the Americas

Kwasimitsu there were rumors of portuguese sailors coming across a settlement of black africans in brazil around 1500 so its possible

I've introduced at least three people to this channel, so I've done my bit. They don't comment though.

Watch any video on grey Silverbacks

to be fair.. they didn't selling their skins... they put in a temple (as a offering or/and as a prof of the voyage) and probably killing them was a good choice... the gorillas were not cooperating and imagine what 3 gorillas scared on a ship can do....

@@cabellones Yes, this thing I am trying to kidnap is giving me too much trouble...murder is clearly the sensible option.

Antiquity was a pretty brutal place in general.

The brutality of us humans hasn't diminished, we've gotten more efficient in that horrible aspect. Sad really.

Why would they though? I'm sure someone tried to circumnavigate Asia too, without much luck.

😢

I love Caesar but fuck him for his role in destroying the library

Thats so sad

Womp womp womp

@@johnad101 he earned his murder for the loss of allthat knowledge

Das Boot (Egyptian Edition) Hey, now we're the Spartans! "It's a long way, to Peloponnesia!"

The Babylonian Talmud was written in the 3rd to 6th century AD (or CE). The books of Prophets and Writings were compiled in Babylonian exile in the 6th century BC (or BCE). So the "Old Testament" as many people call it was (partially) written or compiled during the Babylonian Exile, whereas the Babylonian Talmud was written during the Roman-caused diaspora.

I think it would fill up a few drawers lmao

I doubt any Jew has a full working knowledge of the Talmud, and I think the number who've read the entire thing must be a low percentage. I hear people occasionally quoting controversial passages from it, but I wonder how many Jews even know the ones in question.

Ancient ships relied on rowing crews though, right? Could that have let them overcome southward currents?

They mentioned stopping for extended periods of time. It’s likely that you could do it with rowers, particularly if speed isn’t a priority.

@@JamLeGull I think the big problem would have been when they got to the coast of Namibia, where there wouldn't be any food for them to grow or forage and the inhabitants who might have been able to help them were hunter-gatherers who would have little interest in trade and probably zero interest in helping them find food. This would have been long before Bantu-speaking people got that far south.

crumbum2 is right-Peter Forbath's book "The River Congo" explains the problem of going north and how the Portuguese overcame it. of course it led to the Atlantic slave trade. I don't believe the ancient ships were capable of going far enough into the Atlantic to catch the north bound current or breeze.-good video though. JN

john nance they wouldn’t need to. They were riverine and littoral vessels largely powered by rowers that could stay close enough to the shore to avoid that.

yay

Absolutely! Mind you, it is a huge topic, with historians still debating just what the hell happened.

a clue: Iron

@@bgerystt3801 Tin or the lack of it as well as agressive migration into the relevant Civilastions.

I also noticed this. Now I know 3 people played that game!

5,000 YEARS HAVE PASSED FROM THAT DAY TO THIS

@@AtunSheiFilms lol

Canucklehead 🤣 From a lacerated skyyy!

Quality profile pic

I immediately thought of DMC

Thanks :)

What a way to treat humans you are meeting for the very first time. If that is how societies react o meeting for the first time then maybe we should stay on earth and not explore the stars before we flay an alien's pet

@@johnad101 If you read nasa plan for meeting alien life they plan to kidnap and descet them so not to different

What happened in 600 AD?

@@BritishRepublicsn The canal silted up, it could not be maintained.

@@freedomtosayno7880 :(

No

@@freedomtosayno7880 Probably because of the Byzantines and Sassanids beating each other into a coma. Plus the after effects of the catastrophic Climate Disaster of 535-545 CE.

“I am the VVitchfinder General of the colony of Massachusetts Bay…”

@@ChaseMcCain81 VVitchfinger General! This bearded individual is using a book of dark sorcery!

@@LEGOMANIAC419 *gasps* “Devilry!”

A lot of them were, but if people travelled, they would see odd things. Giraffes, for example, unlike anything in Europe, striped horses and massive lizards.

Does he play eu4

lol Im pretty sure Australia was first settled by people that sailed from various pacific islands by way of modern day Indonesia and southwest Asia. I think there's a theory that someone from Australia and Indonesia made it all the way to Madagascar though maybe he's misremembering something like that since Madagascar is at least close to Africa lol

Is the guy a Hebrew Isrealite or some variety of hotep?

Ha ha ha! What an idiot. Good thing your sister broke up with that bf.

@@emmanuelmayoral9779 nice try. Good luck on your quest to ensure people know Africans never did anything of note.

Actually it was done by french company that was hired by then egyptian rulers, At that time the british actually opposed it. Cuz of france

British?????

R Johnson And keeper of the bow tie..

Susan Maggiora Ah yes, cannot forget the bow tie. My mountain lions approve.

Al Stewart writes historical rock music? All I know is Year of the Cat (which is awesome)

A calypso. Which was (um) interesting. Never heard his Hanno song.

Its a bit of an art figuring out what old languages sounded like. One of the biggest clues historians use is actually ancient typos. If you wrote 'The bold nite rode to battle' and a thousand years from now your sentence was seen, it would be a clue. They could combine this with the fact the word 'nite' doesn't seem to be real, as they can't find it written anywhere else and surmise that it is a mispelling. From there, they can guess the context and assume the word 'knight' must have been meant because that word would fit there. So now we know that 'knight' must not have been pronounced with a 'k' sound. These ancient mistakes can be found everywhere. Very few in the ancient world actually knew how to read and would instead dictate their words to a scribe. Without the ability to read, they must just trust that the scribe wrote it correctly. Another common source of helpful mistakes is in the form of graffiti. The Romans in particular loved to write graffiti. You combine this guesswork with comparisons to the modern languages that descended from these and you can start to get a pretty good idea of what they must have sounded like.

The Phoenicians called themselves Chanani AKA Cannanite. That endonym was attested as late as the 5th century by St Augustine among the last Punic (the Roman term for Phoenician) speakers in Africa. "When our rural peasants are asked what they are, they reply, in Punic, Chanani, which is only a corruption by one letter of the alphabet of what we would expect: What else should they reply except that they are Chananei?" Source : books.google.tn/books?id=F8ZRPTgcjrcC&pg=PA431&lpg=PA431&dq=%22When+our+rural+peasants+are+asked+what+they+are,+they+reply,+in+Punic,+Chanani,+which+is+only+a+corruption+by+one+letter+of+the+alphabet+of+what+we+would+expect:+What+else+should+they+reply+except+that+they+are+Chananei?%22&source=bl&ots=C7oyAovp78&sig=ACfU3U0a6ehJWJwFiesw4llwtiik0vG3oA&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmr5agg5D9AhXT7LsIHY4jCpsQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=%22When%20our%20rural%20peasants%20are%20asked%20what%20they%20are%2C%20they%20reply%2C%20in%20Punic%2C%20Chanani%2C%20which%20is%20only%20a%20corruption%20by%20one%20letter%20of%20the%20alphabet%20of%20what%20we%20would%20expect%3A%20What%20else%20should%20they%20reply%20except%20that%20they%20are%20Chananei%3F%22&f=false There are also inscriptions in Sicily and North Africa that suggest the term "Phoenician" was probably itself adopted by the Phoenicians as well due to contact with the Greek speaking world.

A bit salty today, are we?

Naña Bidnis what are we, Carthage ground?

Melt...

@@cuckmulligan7602 Carthago delenda est

I think I have to give up Carthaginian history for a while, I hear the word Rome and I immediately got sick to my stomach and a little bit tyrannical.

None. The journey was possible with navigational technology of the day. But Herodotus mentioning a northward arc of the sun does not conclusively prove this journey happened. It's likely the Greeks knew about the sun's position in the Southern Hemisphere long before Herodotus' time and that Herodotus was recounting a rumor about a voyage he had no direct knowledge of and that never actually took place.

No

@@liversuccess1420 How would they though? It's actually a long way down to the equator, let alone anywhere far enough south that they would notice this effect. Why would they *correctly* surmise you could sail around Africa (except for Suez), but not Europe or Asia by sea? The Africans didn't have good vessels either... in fact they never even discovered Madagascar seemingly. That was left to the Austronesians.

@@thursoberwick1948 Not really. The effect can be noticed when you pass south of the Tropic of Cancer, which is something that was entirely possible for Phoenicians and other navigation-capable civilizations of that era. The position of the sun, despite Herodotus' doubts, was easily discernible by people of that era. Herodotus and several other ancient scholars were skeptical that this circumnavigation of Africa actually took place, though. They all believed that Africa was not surrounded by water, but was in fact connected at its southernmost point to another land mass. I do agree with you that Madagascar, much further south, was reached by Austronesians following the currents of the Indian Ocean, rather than sub-Saharan Africans. That's been conclusively proven at this point.