If I had to pick just one to go back and see, I’m definitely picking the *Hanging Gardens Of Babylon*

@stale.baguette

3 жыл бұрын

Well that may of may not have existed. If I could go back and see anything it would be Tenochtitlan

1:45 - Chapter 1 - The lighthouse of Alexandria 3:55 - Chapter 2 - The mausoleum at halicarnassus 5:50 - Chapter 3 - The temple of artemis 7:40 - Chapter 4 - The statue of zeus at olympia 9:10 - Chapter 5 - The colossus of rhodes 10:55 - Chapter 6 - Hanging gardens of babylon 12:30 - Chapter 7 - The great pyramid 14:10 - Chapter 8 - The world wonders

@nymphrodellsalavin

2 жыл бұрын

Anyone else noticed how many of these are mysteriously Greek?

@nymphrodellsalavin

2 жыл бұрын

Not quite as bad as the "World Series" of baseball (American teams play against... American teams (and one Canadian team)

Always thought the lighthouse of Alexandria looked like a new york skyscraper from the early 1900s

@chicomarx213

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I too have noticed that...looks in many ways like the old Woolworth building for sure...

@RZAJW

3 жыл бұрын

@@chicomarx213 Yeah exactly looks pretty similar

@cjclow052

3 жыл бұрын

Ahead of its time

@buchanap

3 жыл бұрын

The aesthetic of ancient Egypt and Greece were very popular amongst architects in the early 20th century and you can find all kinds of little references to the ancient world in the buildings of 100 years ago. It was part of a decades long trend in art romanticizing all things "exotic." If you want to have your mind blown take a deep dive into the movies of the 1920s and early 1930s.

@pierren___

3 жыл бұрын

Free-masonry

I love how Top 10s are basically as old as humanity itself.

@kaltaron1284

3 жыл бұрын

They were poorer in the past though, so they had to settle for a top 7 list. It's some nice travel recommendations of course so you could also call it a bucket list.

@Soniciscool1214

3 жыл бұрын

No, maybe as old as written history but humanity is much older than that...

@kaltaron1284

3 жыл бұрын

@@Soniciscool1214 We may have no evidence of it but I'm sure people shared information about unusual and interesting sites as soon as they aquired speech or probably even earlier. I mean even bees do it.

@d.c.8828

3 жыл бұрын

"I'm Herodotus and welcome to TopTenz."

@BytebroUK

3 жыл бұрын

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” True, dude.

Sideproject: The amount of time it takes to watch all videos with Simon in them. Massive project.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria is my favorite ancient wonder. It must have been jaw-dropping at the time and I would have loved to visit it if I had lived during that time.

I'd love to see a Sideproject on the 7 "New" Wonders of the World (Great Wall of China, Petra, Colosseum, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer)

@josephteller9715

3 жыл бұрын

Or how about: Tower of the Winds The Theater of Dionysius The Lost Labyrinth of Egypt The Great Ziggurat of Ur Derinkuyu The Forgotten Underground City Sigiriya Complex (aka Lions Rock)

@onepiecepedia

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephteller9715 Oh wow! Never heard of those but jumping on Wikipedia right now! 👍🏼

@spinnymathingy3149

3 жыл бұрын

@@onepiecepedia have you seen this kzread.info/dash/bejne/X6SXraWYiJCXeMo.html Or better still kzread.info/dash/bejne/dGZ-zpaBfqfPqMY.html

@stale.baguette

3 жыл бұрын

Or tenochtitlan

@garymaidman625

Жыл бұрын

Petra, in particular the Treasury building, is part of the ancient world. The Treasury was built contemporaneously to the Flavian Amphitheatre aka the Colosseum.

This may be too small for side projects, but if not, it is interesting. It involves a project that was planned with multiple dams to control flooding on the Hudson River in New York State. As the population along the Hudson grew in the late 19th century, the annual flooding killed people and destroyed property. The state ordered that much of the Adirondack Mountain region should be surveyed, but nothing probably would have happened if it had not been for the advent of electricity as a commodity. Once there was the potential for a buck to be made from damming the Hudson River and tributaries [allegedly] was known, they got serious about building dams. They started with a big dam at Conklingville that controlled the flow of the Sacandaga River. Building this dam forced all the famers and other residents of the Sacandaga Valley out. It also surprised virtually everyone. After the gates closed in 1930, the Conklingville Dam and one other virtually ended flooding downstream at Albany, Troy, Menands, etc. That meant none of the other proposed dams were built. Eventually the Sacandaga Reservoir became the Great Sacandaga Lake. I headed a project for the local newspaper to produce a supplement that celebrated the dam's 75th anniversary. It completely changed the area. There still is occasional contention between the residents and the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District that controls the lake levels. I think this could make an interesting story for this channel. What do you think [allegedly]?

Looks like "Business Blaze" is bleeding out to all other Simon's channels XD

@deemariedubois4916

3 жыл бұрын

Masai Saito I just commented this on another comment bringing this up, saying, ‘Simon’s real personality keeps coming through. Once he opened that bottle, he just can’t get his sarcastic, extremely humorous, potty mouth genie back in that bottle. As a Blaze fanatic, I love it.’

@roberthaig2133

3 жыл бұрын

Or....cocaine. *ALLEGEDLY*

I was wondering on how to wonder on this wonderful wonder of a video. I will now wonder on, in a wide world of wonder.

13:09 I suddenly start listening to the video. Stoned a little. It is all good, I will watch it again. Heck, I don't even know what he is talking about. This could happen more than once. I left this as a note to remind me that I was once here.

To paraphrase another video - "I am become Simon, destroyer of words" heh. Still the best thing on KZread these days.

@ThursonJames

3 жыл бұрын

He didn’t read the quote incorrectly, it’s just his pronunciation. Allegedly.

AKA, Top Ten: Reasons Humanity Can't Have Nice Things.

@twisted_void

3 жыл бұрын

Bloody earthquakes :(

Hello Simon. My comment is this. After watching your channel I have concluded that if any of my college professors had your diction and interesting presentation my education would have been worth the massive amount of money I had to pour into the university. I enjoy each of your “projects.”😎

I just got the image of the Colossus of Rhodes gloriously straddling the harbor and teabagging every ship. "Welcome to Rhodes." He would whisper as he stares at every sailor intensely.

@vanyadolly

Жыл бұрын

My favourite ancient wonder for sure! Someone needs to build a replica in their harbour.

@noahscott7272

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps I would finally witness a sack Larger than my own 🧐

Ancients: This pinnacle of human power and achievement will stand for eternity. Earth's crust: Get it off.

"It would be improper for one god to build a temple for another god." Now that is how to turn down an offer from the most powerful man on earth.

Great video. It's nice having quality content in less than 20 minutes.

Herodotus, facts boy's aka Simon's ancient Greek counterpart

@kaltaron1284

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure how much of his information sources were trustworthy though and how much was simply hearsay. But then the difference is difficult even today. Maybe esp. today as so much more information is floating around and accessable.

@Pavlos_Charalambous

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 well indeed some things in ancient texts is better to be taken with a grain of salt like the total numbers of armies and how they can " drain rivers" feeding their horses but monuments usually are well preserved or at least we can assume how they where by their ruins 😉 the same thing goes about scientific discoveries although some of them are attributed to legendary or even mythical people we can roughly tell when the discovery was made.. As for the flow of information back then, just imagine how difficult would have been to duple check facts,, i mean even today in the age of digital information some times is difficult to make what is fake news and what actually worth your attention..

@cynicalminion

3 жыл бұрын

i thought it was "simon, known as peter", not "simon, known as herodotus"... ;p

1) highlight history 2) Simon Whistler (his vlog channel) 3) today i found out 4) top tenz 5) biographics 6) Geographics 7) Business blaze 8) mega projects 9) side projects 10) the casual criminalist (podcast) jesus... lmao how have you not burnt out yet

Anyone who has seen Futurama knows that the Ancient Egyptians’ influence reaches even beyond our own solar system. They taught the inhabitants of Osiris IV the secrets of pyramid building, space travel, and how to prepare their dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello!

I would love the idea of maybe a series of the different wonders of the ancient world from other lists complied. It would be interesting to know what other wonders did not make the seven wonders. Thanks for the video.

@EMILY_RACHEL_

7 ай бұрын

i wonder if he saw this comment bc he did end up making that exact video a year after you originally commented this !! 🤯

The Classical period was dogged by earthquakes, it makes one wonder why we chose to stay in the area.

@berryberrykixx

3 жыл бұрын

Probably because at the time, everything that happened in everyone's daily life wasn't out of free will. Everything, bad and good, was dictated by the Gods. So if an Earthquake destroyed something, then that meant the Gods were unhappy with what was previously there, so they would rebuild (or attempt to) bigger and better. That's just a guess by me, however, so don't take that as a fact.

@panayiotisyannopoulos2668

3 жыл бұрын

Cause in strategy if you want to last you choose to build where is difficult and not where it’s easy ;). This is not just a would be clever remark, is true and explains why some civs are long lost and this one is still living and gone global ;)

Ancient wonder: exists* Earthquakes: "I'm gonna do what's called a PRO GAMER MOVE."

I’ve been to the 8th wonder so to speak, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia. That would make a good Mega Projects episode.

@thisistherevolt

3 жыл бұрын

That's seriously cool. If you wanted to share some pictures on a place like imgur and leave a link, that'd be even cooler.

@Bubbaist

3 жыл бұрын

@@thisistherevolt Isn't it? It's a magical place. Here are my photos on Flickr. The big occasion was Timkat, or the Epiphany, which is the biggest holiday of the year. www.flickr.com/photos/10186213@N07/sets/72157600875770945/

@WKRP187

3 жыл бұрын

60 minutes did a piece on the churches in Ethiopia.... Looks AMAZING!!

@BON3SMcCOY

3 жыл бұрын

Aren't there like a couple dozen "8th wonders"?

Why is this in "sideprojects"? Each of these was very much a megaproject in their own time. To proportionally match the scale of those projects today, we'd have to like build a 2 km tall suspension bridge for bullet trains across the Pacific ocean, or like build a space elevator, or like a 10 km floating island city.

@cynicalminion

3 жыл бұрын

like dubai?

@SmartassX1

3 жыл бұрын

@@cynicalminion Nope. Dubai has artificial islands that were made by dumping sand into the sea. I was referring to how some have suggested to construct actually floating islands to create more living room and to have these float in warmer oceans.

@cynicalminion

3 жыл бұрын

@@SmartassX1 or we could just figure out a way to fuse the south pacific garbage patch...

Hello, I'd like to suggest the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec city. I'm from Montreal, Canada and I love Quebec's story. I think it would be great for the viewers to know our history a bit more. Thanks for your videos !!!

The 7 wonders are just a „sideproject“ ? Wow.... 😜

@kaltaron1284

3 жыл бұрын

Wondered about that too. Esp. as a single one of them had a megaprojects episode. But hey, the distinction on these channels is blurry and I don't really care.

@iVardensphere

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 well let's be real. It's not a fighter plane so they can't really qualify it as a "mega" project 🤣

@IntrepidFraidyCat

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the fact that they are on Side Projects and not Megaprojects can be the 8th wonder????

@I-am-stevo

3 жыл бұрын

Geographics?

@taitano12

3 жыл бұрын

The wonders themselves are megaprojects, compiling the list would belong here. Spending a decade visiting all 7 would be a big endeavor, but not on a "Megaprojects" scale.

Indeed, the "7 Wonders of Ancient Greece" is more accurate considering global enterprises, then as now ...

It would be interesting to see a Simon Whistler curated list of the 7 Wonders of Antiquity, that goes outside the Greek world

@vanyadolly

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that Xena episode where rather than a Miss World pageant, they had Miss *Known* World.

@Honorablebenaiaha

Жыл бұрын

The single story thatched roof mud huts African built should have made the list.

sometimes i think about the wonders, technology, and knowledge that humanity used to have, and have since lost, and completely forgotten about, and it depresses me. so much greatness lost to time.

I got a bit confused when BCE & CE was used. I asked my sister to “google” it & they mean Before the Common Era & Common Era, they’re used sometimes from there similar counter parts of BC & AD.

@polarodriguez3605

3 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@michaelhirschi3827

3 жыл бұрын

It is all about getting Christianity out of history. Allah forbid we stick with tradition if it could offend someone somewhere in the world.

So if you had to compile a list of Wonders of the Ancient world, what timeframe would you use and what would you put on the list. (Doesn't have to be 7, top 10 or whatever is also perfectly fine.)

Sideproject video idea: The Simon Whistler KZread Empire

@ThursonJames

3 жыл бұрын

Or Danny’s set-up in the basement.

5/7 wonders were created by Hellenes in Hellenic lands! •The statue of Zeus at Olympia •The temple of Artemis at Ephesus •The mausoleum of Halicarnassus •The colossus of Rhodes •The lighthouse of Alexandria *** Many believe that the Statue of Liberty in NYC is a woman…yeah, in reality is inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes, a statue depicting the Helios God Apollo wearing a Sun-Crown!

Simon and co. Your in my good books because if your videos on Ireland. Big thank you. Nice to see

These channels must be some of the best yt channels out there... No Like-hunting. No sponsor advertising. Clean sound. Great formats. One presenter. (And an awesome one) To the point. And a bit witty at times. Do you have any patron to support?

I tell you a little theory but if it be true you note it that I told you , pyramids was made to be roads to heaven as they believed it to be , but I don't think it helped them get to heaven and pyramids wasn't tombs , well some could have been made into tombs but they wasn't always the tomb because tombs was found near by more than pyramids being the tombs..... I so think this to be what pyramids was made for as they look like a road or stairway to heaven and was made to shine in the sunshine so mark my words that is what they was built as and they thought it would get all their people to heaven in the after life but I don't think they cared for the other people going to hell as much lol you may share this information but don't forget I told it here and it could have been said before somewhere else but not as I told it

@mattpouard5698

3 жыл бұрын

Considering they clad the pyramid in lime stone so it was a smooth outer shell, I doubt highly they saw it as a staircase. The most compelling theory I've heard is from Egypts' agricultural beginnings. When you plant a seed you mound the earth around it, like a pyramid. Leave it for a while in the sun and new life springs forth. When your king dies, do the same but with stone. Add a few thousand years of myth, mysticism and one-up-manship and before you know it you've got a wonder.

literal wonders of the world would just be a side project for Simon

Another great video Simon & team. Entertaining and informative video as always 👌

i'm surprised that some of them actually survived till the middle ages

Ive seen 2 out of the 7 current wonders of the world, The Coliseum in Rome and Chichen Itza. I was able to climb to the top of Chichen Itza and look around the rooms there. Unfortunately today, they no longer allow folks to go to the top and Im glad i was able to do it when you could.

The rebuilding of London, after the Great Fire.

I still wonder if it has been somehow confirmed that the great pyramid really is made of 2.3 million stone blocks, OR if a great volume of it is just earth/mud/pebbles/sand and the blocks only cover a couple of the outer layers (and the inside chambers of course)! I haven't found a definitive answer for this.

@owenshebbeare2999

3 жыл бұрын

The interiior structure indicates it is blocks all throughout, not a mound of rubble that has bedn encased in a layer of blocks.

Your backgrounds (green screens?) are very stylish. Please can I live in them? Also, I was wondering, do you ever sleep? Really enjoy your channels...all of them. Best lockdown entertainment by far. Thank you. Cheers from Annie, in wet, windy, definitely dismal, Cornwall.

Dear Simon; I so love it. You never disappoint. Always something to learn and think about. I’m going to get a hot cup tea and listen to your show. It’s the perfect way to start the day. Thanks 👍

Earthquakes have no respect for hard work.

Allegedly they were tombs Simon, Allegedly.

@ladykoiwolfe

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Alleged by people who cannot handle rethinking what they were taught. People like that hold back society.

@owenshebbeare2999

3 жыл бұрын

@@ladykoiwolfe That said, most people who haunt YT sites on this subject have only mere conjecture regarding your claims they never were tombs, and no real evidence backed by research. Free thinking is fine, but uncritical acceptance of free thinking is also foolish and also holds back society.

@artistjoh

3 жыл бұрын

No, they were tombs, as evidenced by artefacts such as sarcophagi found within them, the written works of ancient Egyptians describing their funerary purpose, the village and records of at least some tomb makers, including details such as how much they were paid, and an entire ancient Egyptian religion with its single-minded devotion to the preservation of corpses.

@OzMate79

3 жыл бұрын

@@artistjoh so how did a ppl who had no concept of the wheel build such a complex “tomb” considering at the proposed academic time of construction their grandads were hunter gatherers, makes more sense that they inherited the Giza plateau complex

@mahmoodali5043

3 жыл бұрын

@@OzMate79 Just because your people at the time were hunter gatherers doesn't mean it was the case all over the globe. Civilizations were built on agriculture. the Egyptian civilization existed two thousands of years before the construction of the great pyramid. and by civilization I mean cities, capitals, laws, courts, ruling systems, religious and administrative systems etc. Hut dwelers do not count as civilizations. cultures, maybe, but certainly not civilizations. so, for 2 thousand years the civilization was already established. and their grandparents were artisans who taught them the same professions since professions like masonry and military were family professions in ancient egypt passed down from generation to another. those pyramid builders who were chosen from the best masons in the country, were the sons and grand sons of the best masons of the previous generations, not "hunter gatherers" lol And btw the concept of wheels was well around at the time because this was how they irrigated water via irrigation wheels that transport water from canals to the elevated ground and those drawings are on ancient walls, interestingly enough the exact same method is still used in family owned traditional farms in the country to this day. sorry to disappoint you, but there was no atlantis or a mysterious alien race, just humans who put their minds into doing something. Just like the humans of today could go on space exploration

0:04 Me trying to impress a girl at our first date

@IntrepidFraidyCat

3 жыл бұрын

🤣❤👍🏻

@etonbachs4226

3 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie. That made me laugh.

@dudepool7530

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! The lover-call baby!

@G_Flash84625

3 жыл бұрын

:D

@marco_evertus

3 жыл бұрын

I would not try it on the first date but the first night you spend together 😉

The idea that the pyramids are tombs is absurd. Never has even one body been found in any of the Egyptian pyramids.

Suggestion for your new podcast: Isn't Death Hilarious? merch. You have a little one to take care of now and, kids are expensive. Again, kudos to your wife for being so supportive of your endeavors. And letting you keep Danny in the basement.🤫

@berryberrykixx

3 жыл бұрын

I would buy something that said that but I might wait on wearing anything like that for a while. A poster would be a definite purchase!

Simon's about to have the 7 wonders of KZread. HOW MANY CHANNELS CAN ONE MAN HAVE???

There’s at least a couple you’ve missed Angkor wat Vietnam Kailash temple India These 2 easily deserved to be on your list They far outweigh in complexity than most of what’s been shown

@forzee42

3 жыл бұрын

But these are The 7 Antient Wonders. All built before common era, Angkor wat was built in 12th century, Kailash 7th

@spinnymathingy3149

3 жыл бұрын

@@forzee42 , if think 1300 years ago is reasonably ancient, and certainly a wonder as engineers can’t work out how it was “excavated” (not constructed) and there’s no rubble from the build, definitely far more wonderus than some of the others on the list 🤷🏻‍♂️

@mattpouard5698

3 жыл бұрын

@@spinnymathingy3149 Ancient usually means from 3000 bce to around the start of the dark age (around 500 ce). No one's questioning the magnificence of Angkor Wat or the Kailash temple or saying they're not wonders, just the fact they're not ancient wonders

Archaeologists are way off with that pyramid tomb thing. Yeah the later mud brick pyramids were replicas of the massive originals and those could be tombs but not the Great Pyramid. They've carbon dated a piece of wood from the Pyramid to at least 3000 bce. That's 100s of years before the accepted construction date. It just doesn't add up

How was it possible for ancients to build such large things without heavy equipment? Another video?

@etonbachs4226

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not saying it was aliens but it was aliens. LOL.

@mattpouard5698

3 жыл бұрын

Massive whips

Love it, Megaproject on all of em!!!!!! Is the Hanging gardens of babylon the tower of babyl? It would have been the tallest building ever in the region, thus the name tower. "The ascent to the highest story is by stairs, and at their side are water engines, by means of which persons, appointed expressly for the purpose, are continually employed in raising water from the Euphrates into the garden." - Strabo

You don't actually believe they were tombs do you??.....

Just got fired from my job as a set designer. I left without making a scene.

@IAmAnEvilTaco

3 жыл бұрын

I got a job installing ceiling fans, but I kept screwing up.

I think the Higia Sophia should be on the list. The temple was built in six months in Istanbul and still stands today and is now a Islamic temple. The dome on the top is a sight to behold in itself. Because of its age and its made of roman concrete its getting stronger all the time.

The lighthouse of Alexandria also being the one that collapsed the most recent, out of those 6 that did, of the 7 wonders.

Best Simon intro, that isn't from the Blaze

@redlightning2322

3 жыл бұрын

I swear I can see more and more of Blaze leaking into Simons other channels

@deemariedubois4916

3 жыл бұрын

@@redlightning2322 Simon’s real personality keeps coming through. Once he opened that bottle, he just can’t get his sarcastic, extremely humorous, potty mouth genie back in that bottle. As a Blaze fanatic, I love it.

@redlightning2322

3 жыл бұрын

@@deemariedubois4916 hes going to do a biographics and then start yelling at Danny to shut up

For the pyramids, an invading Muslim Sultan considered them an insult to Allah and ordered the pyramids to be torn down. His army started to do it, but the people of Egypt rebelled and prevented their destruction.

@10:55 @12:05 see "Secrets of the Dead" video about Stephanie Dalley whose research strongly suggests the Hanging Gardens were in Nineveh. The ruins outside Mosul seem to be where the gardens existed.

I haven't even watched the rest of the video yet, but I know it's gonna be great cus that intro gave me serious Business Blaze vibes. Also all your stuff is pretty good so its kinda a given.

Simon you are cranking brother ...keep up the stellar work

Last time I was this early, my wife stopped talking to me.

@deemariedubois4916

3 жыл бұрын

It happens.

@johnnymacf1

3 жыл бұрын

You mean last time you came this early?

After watching the video you made on the topic, I’m pretty much on board with the pyramid being made of an ancient concrete.

The obvious suggestion to this video is to make a video about the lost city of Atlantis also described by the ancient greek writer Herodotus. And could you make a video about the lost civilizations of South America and the wunders the jungle might have consumed.

A video on Project Habakkuk Please!!!!!

For a video suggestion how about a look at the 7 Wonders of the World to see what makes them special? Then look at some Existing or New Buildings / Statues to try guessing what will make the list, if it was extended to 10 or even 15. Might be surprised Michelangelo's David could be in there with the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Or Michelangelo's David could miss out because it's been loaned out to different museums an one of the critical to make the list is that people must travel to see the Wonders?

For the Angel of Death spread its wings on the blast And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill And their chests but once heaved and forever grew still

@herodotus945

3 жыл бұрын

Pam !

as a stable genius emperor i would make a wonder which will never fall! it will be pit of glory! a glorious hole! unfortunately shortly after my death it will be converted to a trash dump...but it would take nearby residents many years to fill it. :-)

At first glance, I thought the title was The Original Stevie Wonder of Antiquity".

On Business Blaze Simon said he would "NEVER" say Nike, the American way. But at 8:18 you can hear him do just that! Oh Simon, never say never.

This dude is his own pub trivia team

Research BROGAN...The Sons of Mil.....Scotus and the founding of Celtic Ireland.

You can see a recreation of the Parthenon 🏛️ with Athena’s statue in Nashville, TN

keep in mind the Egyptians didnt build them. they are about 5000 years older than the Egyptians

I love your videos greetings from Turkey.

I did here one theory about the hanging gardens which was they weren’t built in Babylon but in a new Babylon which several empires and kingdoms that took over the great city then renamed the capital to not be 1 upped by it meaning as time went on the stories of this wonder where stretched and some as simple as dropping the word new could have easily happened

One of the original wonders of the world is the Ishtar Gate of Babylon. It was replaced by the Lighthouse of Alexandria a couple of hundred years later. I wouldn't bother to mention this, but you said "original." So, only four wonders were made by the Greeks. Also, the Ishtar gate still exists. It was excavated a century ago and reassembled in Berlin during the 30s. It is more complete than the pyramids.

This video was very good until around 12:50... Saying the Great Pyramid of Giza was a pharaoh's tomb is a total mockery of what its builders accomplished.

Reading ancient historians, the 2nd Temple of Jerusalem, Herod's Temple, was far more majestic than the Temple of Artemis. Herod's Temple should be on the list.

The Sphinx is older than the pyramid, that should be on the list and maybe stone henge

Thank you

how about a show or entry on the abandoned across Florida canal

I wish someone in the future creates a virtual reality where we get to see these ancient sites from our own homes.

It's a pity actually that those 6, out of the 7, wonders aren't still standing. That includes the temple that housed the statue of Zeus. They would have been quite a sight.

It's ironic that the Pharos, built to stop ships from sinking, has itself sunk.

The ancient Egyptians would have been really good at Jenga. All those spaces inside the pyramid and the dang thing has stood as long as anything on earth.

You forgot the most important information on these wonders .... the +1 to ship movement, +2 gold for quarries, and +15% prod for recruiting archers, etc ........ :P

BCE seems more time consuming than BC especially when used repeatedly in the same video.

@ABrit-bt6ce

3 жыл бұрын

He says it so often this you could make it a drinking game.

I am subscribed to every channel that Simon has but i'm always shocked when he brings out a new one! How does he do it? I have been listening to Simon before he grew his lush beard. 😁❤️

Check out Jean-Pierre Houdin's theory on how the great pyramid was constructed. An internal spiraling ramp might have been used to transport the blocks which would still is in place.

If you build a wonder, do it where you don’t have earthquakes.

Interested in ancient sites destroyed by developers, 1950's Bolivia and there are others.

"Build something that doesn't fall down" sounds a lot like "Build a ship that can't sink". Shout out to the Titanic. (shrug)

Worst serial killer in history? *BEST* serial killer in history!

Next Sideprojects: “Top 10 Simon Whistler KZread channels” 😄

I do believe the construction of NYC aqueduct and/or NYC subway system would both be a good topics for "Side projects" if deemed "not quite MEGA enough for Mega Projects"...have at it Simon