Forgotten Mysteries You've Never Heard Of 

I would love more of all of these subjects. Indus valley, Pythagoreans, greek cults and/or Mediterranean cultures, eastern European history, all of it.

Linguist here. In terms of the Indus Valley symbols shown at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="667">11:07</a>, I would (in case anyone is interested) say that it's highly likely that the symbols all represent a single object or phonetic sound but they might be slightly altered to indicate gender, plurality, ownership or other indications related to the context of the connotation (think: Polish noun forms and determiners). I.E. the symbols could convey 'my butterfly','her butterfly', 'two butterflies', 'the dead butterflies from the past', etc. It is unlikely, in my opinion, that each symbol connotes a distinct and separate meaning/sound since ancient communication always favored function over form. What this means is that due to limited materials, the imperative of being clearly understood, and the relative time and effort necessary to compose the written language would negate stylistic/artistic choices and lead us to believe that there was a definite intention to convey meaning rather than aesthetics. That's just my two cents. I could be dead wrong.

I would love an Indus Valley civilization deep dive. My best friend is a pre-vedic Hindu by way of Guyana so now really enjoy any pre-vedic history.

I can't let this opportunity for a movie quote to pass by, "I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But for now, rest well and dream of large women."

Yes Simon, I would like to see a video (or a part of a video) on the Pythagoreans. I really appreciate you covering the Indus Valley civilization as it gets too little attention. I visited the Punjab when traveling in Pakistan in the early 1980s, so I am interested in topics from this area. As for decoding the writing of the Indus Civilization, it reminds me of the Mayan system of writing. If I remember correctly archaeologists pecked away at the problem for decades until one very young man cracked the code. Genius is where you find it, and no one can predict when it will occur. Let's keep our fingers crossed...

I agree with Simon, honestly, our ancestors were probably painting boobs on cave walls 30,000 years ago.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="125">2:05</a> - Chapter 1 - The megaliths of malta <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="460">7:40</a> - Chapter 2 - The indus valley script <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="755">12:35</a> - Chapter 3 - The rohonc codex <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="990">16:30</a> - Chapter 4 - The elusinian cult <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1200">20:00</a> - Conclusion

This was a top tier video. As for the teaser, I had heard of the unknown girl's death mask and how it was used for CPR Annie before, and I obviously knew "Annie, are you okay" but I NEVER knew they were connected before! That's particularly crazy since I know back before google, yahoo, or even Ask Jeeves, I wondered what that song was really about but never found out.

Maybe it's just cause I have been rereading the Dune series (all of them) over the Summer. But I can't help hear the description of the Temple in Malta and not think the lowermost floor is probably just cistern for freshwater during the summer months which is why the stairs don't go all the way to the lower level's floor; you probably didn't need to go any lower to collect water and they used this as an early warning that water supply was getting too low to last much longer. Likely the temple was more of a Town Center in a Religious State hence having an upper floor that is more general, an inner set of temples on the second floor, and a massive vault of a room with no obvious purpose and a strange almost hidden stairwell. It likely served as a temple and collection/distribution center run by the Clerics that doubled as government.

Thanks for doing The Lady of the Seinne, one I (and others I'm sure) suggested a while ago. The Laerdall CPR dolls have helped countless people and will continue to for generations!

Best episode in ages Simon, thoroughly entertaining and makes me want to research the separate topics more, 10/10.

How about videos on modern mysteries? Such as how does Simon make so many videos across so many channels?

I would love to see you cover the Harrapan civilisation and the Pythagoean cult would be a good one too. It is said that Helen of Troy was the face that launched a thousand ships, but that pales into insignificance alongside the lives saved by Annie who is probably also the most kissed woman in history.

As a teacher, I would love to see more on Pythagoras, especially if the Cult of Zero could be covered as well!

Can't believe they documented the structures on Malta 7000 years ago! Now that's dedication

My honeymoon cruise included Malta. It is truly one of the most beautiful places on Earth and has an amazing history.

Also vaguely related is Stayin’ Alive cause that song has a very good rhythm for CPR chest compressions

My uni class travelled to Eleysis for a project of which I was head of, focusing around the cult, the arcitecture of the various structures that evolved from 700BCE to the late Roman times when the place was shut down as a "paganistic" site and a small church was built nearby. It's still one of the loveliest memories I have as an undergrad. If you're ever in Athens, do take the few mile trip to visit Eleysis, it's a really weird place, with the ancient ruins among a heavily industrial town. When we visited, we found flowers, candles and sweets left in a nook near the supposed entry to the Underworld, suggesting there's a handful of modern times worshipers there! A few of my friends and I were planning on investigating, maybe making a short documentary on this, but then the pandemic struck. Perhaps it's worth a trip back.

The reason all of the "mystery" (ancient or modern) videos are so popular is because they make GREAT writing prompts, even for non-writers who will never and never intend to actually write; they're the stuff that connect and make "possible" all kinds of fanciful dreams and notions.

I gave my 2½yr old nephew a piece of chalk and the first thing he drew was the ol "twig and berries ". (Pretty good depiction too) Humans gonna human.

Great episode! It was fantastically written. I'd absolutely love a full video on the Indus Valley civilization and what all we do and don't know about them, as well as a deep dive on the Eleusinian Mysteries and Pythagorean cult. Please!

The mystery of the Rohonc Codex makes me want to play the long game and fake some "important literature from an unknown language", writing some lengthy text in a fictional language with few, if any, hints to how to translate it, then either bury it in a time capsule that says not to open it until 2400 or something, or pass it down to my future kids and have them pass it down to theirs, so on and so forth, all so that in some distant era, when people find it, they spend ages trying to decode and translate the "lamguage", thrown off by a lot of random gibberish and such to complicate it, only for the it to somewhere say something like "Dear historians and archeologists of the future. I just wasted your time."

They liked big butts, and they could not lie, in fact they carved rocks to prove their point.

This feels like it should be on Decoding the Unknown.

Read the book, “The Immortality Key.” They go into some evidence tied to Eleusinian Mystery. They basically theorize that they were drinking beer or wine type drinks laced with ergot to help them hallucinate and have transcendent experiences. Putting the body through fasting and exhaustion probably enhanced those effects even more.

Let's see a Deep Dive about each topic you touched on. You know we'll watch them all. 😁 But Yes definitely an episode or two about Pythagoras and crew.

Love it! So smooth, it was criminal? And... yes a vid on the Pythagoras cult.

The "rotundity" of the statues...that's a very gentlemanly way of putting it.

I'd love a deep dive on the Pythagorean cult.

Would love to see more on the Indus Valley. Especially their Bronze Age/Pre-Bronze Age ties (if they exist) to Sumaria, Acadia, and the other ancient Med cultures.

Ok I have to applaud that conclusion, I had forgotten about our young woman of the seine. But that was a journey she undertook and you presented it with such gusto it made my night

I absolutely love any deep dives into ancient civilizations/archaeological and also space theories/discoveries.❤

A vid on the Pythagorean cult would be rad, my dude.

So I'm Hmong. And the language never had a real written script. Most of it is romanised and is spelt how the words sound in "English." But just recently (possibly in the last 30 years) someone developed the actual script for the language. Most Hmong can't even read this "new script" tho but can read more of the English script, even if those Hmong can't even read English. I always found that pretty interesting.

"Ancient Tech of Ancient Civilizations" yes, I would like to see more about that... perhaps a mini-series?

FYI, the Indus Valley Script has had some breakthroughs, not the least of which is that most of the characters are probably names, the direction it was written, and more. There's a great TED Talk about it.

I've always wondered if books like the 'Voynich Manuscript' or the 'Rohonc Codex' might be companions to epic Tolkienesque tales, where the languages are those of a species or race in the story, and the codex describes their world.

As a military history enthousiast, when you mentioned Malta’s claim to fame, I half-expected you to say it was the allies’ unsinkable aircraft carrier in WWII Lol

I'd love to see you cover the Chinampas or architectural achievements of the Aztecs. They always get overlooked because of the sacrifice stuff. But their agriculture and architecture are insanely cool.

I would love to know about the Indus and the Pythagoreans. That mini mystery was AMAZING

Indus Valley deep dive is a must please. I've watched you from the very start, then when you made that video , where you were contemplating in stopping altogether , I'm so glad you just kept making videos

Literally all those deep dives you hinted at sound interesting and I'd love to see the episodes.

I would definitely love to see a video about the Pythagorean cult. Thank you!!

Amazingly good content and production! I could watch a hundred of these ancient mysteries episodes and especially the creepy, scary, or corrupt stories of legend. Fascinating! ❤

You know we are all dying for videos on your alluring mentions! Also, your micro-mystery connection. Sensational!

Simon out here solving all the world's mysteries one upload at the time!

Simon dear, please make the Indus Valley video! :) Also deep dive videos about other ancient (maybe less known) civilizations would be cool ;)

I would love to see a detailed video of Indus civilisation

Malta - been there, lived there, done that. Wish I'd been old enough to appreciate the Hypogeum properly. Seriously, it is the most fascinating and beautiful places, if you have the chance, go there.

One of the best episodes I have watched. Thank you Simon, that was a whole heap of fun. MORE!

More ancient mysteries please.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who, during first aid training while demonstrating "rousing the patient", shook the dummy and said "Annie, Annie - are you okay Annie?" 🙃

Really like the tone of this video. Far less serious than the others I've watched. You can even hear it in his voice. I wish more were this style.

I love Pythagorean everything! I'm intrigued to see what your wonderful writers & researchers would find ❤️♾️❤️

"What reason would a culture with limited resources, have to put such time and effort into building these intricate megaliths?" It's like you've never heard of the Easter Islands lol, upgrade the limited resources by a giant factor, and the effort into building intricate megaliths by an even larger factor...

Simon, you could start a do a history series covering every society beginning with the Mesopotamians, in this valley, early China, and just keep going from there. 😀

I love the link between the initial micro-mystery and the song. Very interesting stuff!

A Hungarian here - kudos for pronouncing the name of Rohonc and the people you are naming in that piece, very well.

Amazing topics as always 😄 I’d love a video about that civilization.

Please the indus river civilization stuff is so interesting!

Well, now I'm gonna have some Smooth Criminal stuck in my head the rest of the day, lol

Just a whole video on Smooth Criminal would be good.

I love most of what comes out of the Whistlerverse, but that conclusion was a right banger!

I adore this channel, it's so satisfyingly interesting and smoothly high quality and easy to watch and listen to

Nice! This was an especially fascinating episode, so thank!👏

Let us have a video on the IVC (Indus Valley Civilisation).

My moms side of the family is from Malta and we still have family over in Malta. I love learning more about Malta 🇲🇹 ❤

I love these sort of mysteries, I could just listen or read about ancient civilizations forever, its so fascinating. Its even more interesting when we just don't know and you can let your own brain go wild but, I don't think anyone would get it, if you weren't alive then, you honestly have no exact idea how everyone acted and everything worked so essentially its all a mystery. Also history is always changing with new discoveries. We're using our 20th century brains to try and imagine something so old, we just couldn't conceive of exactly what the people thought like if you never lived it. Thats what I like about history in general.❤

I just discovered this channel today and yes make a thousand of these lol

Yes please, a deep dive into the Indus Valley civilization would be much appreciated.

Annie.... that's a random fact that will be forever stuck in my brain. Thanks Simon and writer.

My boy lets go!

Wow, I knew that the Annie rescue doll was made from that girls death mask, I never knew that it inspired Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal song, lol! Also when I was younger I spent many years collect all kinds of books on any ancient civilizations from the area called Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley people were one of my favorites, but since this was also around the late 1980s and early 1990s, the books I found had very little information on any of them, but that's also why I bought a lot of books about the whole area. I learned about the Sumerians, the Indus people, along with the Egyptians, Greeks and the Romans, and many others that existed back then, by reading all these different books. But now with the internet I have gotten to learn a whole lot more, thanks to channels like this one, well a lot of the ones Simon narrates of course. And so what I'm saying is I would welcome a whole video about the Indus Valley, as well as other Mesopotamian civilizations that aren't as well talked about as say Egypt of course!

I was thinking the song you were going to refer to was "Stayin Alive" by the Bee Gees. The beat of this song is the beat you are recommended to follow when you give CPR.

Very happy to see you still making videos, your replacement on the other channels is terrible. You are great as a host, love your presentation style.❤❤

Nice one, well written and presented. Cheers.

Relly interesting video and I would like to know more about all the different topics talked about in it! It was fascinating.

Stairs that only go partway down makes me think of a swimming pool.

I was crushed when they finally cracked the Voynch Manuscript. We need mystery in our lives.

Bump Indus civilization deep dive - would be awesome

Need more on the Indus Valley Civ!! Fascinating

Yes to expanded videos on all these topics❤

A dedicated Indus Valley video would be awesome.

Yes Please! in regards to videos focusing on the Indus Valley & the Pythagoreans.

"L'Incconu de la Seine" is also better known to us today as "Resussa Annie". This lovely girl's face was used to make the resuscitation training dummy for First Aid lessons.

The Rohonc Codex mystery sounds quite similar to that of the Voynich Manuscript. Both have been puzzling experts for centuries. Would be funny if the same person made them both up. Lol

Do more indus river culture vidz. They are so awe inspiring

I definitely want to hear more about the Pythagorean cult!

I knew about the CPR doll likeness, but I never made or heard the link before to the "Annie, are you okay?" lyric.

Thank you for talking about Malta! Makes me proud to be from here

The word "elusive" very likely derives from the name of the Eleusinian mystery cult. One cult, at least two words, mystery and elusive.

Hi Simon, I think you need to take another round on the backstory of the save Annie doll. The face used is indeed from a real person, but from one that washed up in London.

Fun fact, the face of the women form Siene was and still is a base for CPR Doll (Resusci Anne). So she is saving lives to this day. Ok, I just watched the ending ;)

This was incredible

When you have ever absolved a CPR training, you have 'kissed' the face of the unknown girl of the Seine. A certain Asmund S. Laerdal used her facial print in 1960 to create the latex face of his 'Resuci Anne' which is still in use today.

pure fire, simon! we love ancient mysteries

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1020">17:00</a> I'd love for you to make a video on the cult of Pythagoras and/or a list video about some cults you find fascinating

Indus Valley civilization, yes!

Great stuff! Maybe you need yet another channel of just ancient mysteries… haha

That ending was a gosh darn rollercoaster.