*edit, I realize I pronounced Sesostris wrong. I only realized it after the fact. I’m dyslexic and will be kicking myself over it for the rest of time. I tried very hard on this video and I’ll do better next time. Thanks. The next video should be my 1 million subscriber special...so stay tuned!! Special thanks to: Thumbnail art by Ida (x.com/ncdraw?s=20) Sesostris art by Duc de Vinny (x.com/DucDeVinny?s=20) Original music by Ryan Probert (www.youtube.com/@ProbeComposer)

@cactilainen4301

7 ай бұрын

Btw where’s your ”realistic aliens” video?:(

@osmosisjones4912

7 ай бұрын

What there's some undiscovered animals that look like dinosaurs. Or living dinosaur that aren't recognized

@osmosisjones4912

7 ай бұрын

That civil war time pterodactyl photo has feather's witch is a recent discovery

@osmosisjones4912

7 ай бұрын

The Arizona pterodactyl photo has feather's on it

@TREYtheExplainer

7 ай бұрын

@@cactilainen4301 it might be copyright claimed. I’m not sure. I’ll have to check.

It's interesting seeing how a large portion of ancient Egyptian history was already mythological and obscure by the time of Herodotus

@krankarvolund7771

7 ай бұрын

We're closer in time to Herodotus than Herodotus was to Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramide ˆˆ

@Kyryyn_Lyyh

7 ай бұрын

Hahaha this idiot thinks ONE carving found equates to the name of the pharaoh. You do know the timeline for the “Khufu” pyramid is based on ONE carving with that name, right? Riiiight?

@justastamasevicius414

7 ай бұрын

@@krankarvolund7771 Between us and Herodotus is about ~2500 years. Between Herodotus and Khufu is ~2100 years. So no. Herodotus isn't closer to us and Khufu.

@TheHortoman

7 ай бұрын

​@@justastamasevicius414but we are closer to trex than trex was to stegosaurus. At least

@darklands7361

7 ай бұрын

​@@TheHortomantrex was pretty cool

I ain't gonna lie, "The Phantom Pharaoh" sounds like a Scooby Doo special

@maverickplays25

7 ай бұрын

I was not expecting you to be here.

@TREYtheExplainer

7 ай бұрын

My buddy Miles helped me with the title lol

@Gogurtbump

7 ай бұрын

Also sounds like it could be a pretty sick Egypt themed Prince of Persia-like game

@elizabethb4168

7 ай бұрын

I would watch it

@volodymyrbilyk555

7 ай бұрын

​@@Gogurtbumptss, assassins creed origins. Don't tell anybody

"It was meant to be a truthful account of the life of Alexander" "They fight a giant crab" God I love medieval historians

@NovaSaber

7 ай бұрын

"Battles from actual history" "Here's this giant enemy crab".

@alanpennie

7 ай бұрын

​@@NovaSaber Giant crabs improve everything.

@diegoidepersia

7 ай бұрын

@@alanpennie boys we found the fromsoft employee

@Sintoolkicks

7 ай бұрын

but did they attack its weak point for massive damage?

@panqueque445

7 ай бұрын

@@Sintoolkicks They didn't even record what loot it dropped smh

The fact that medieval scribes wrote fanfiction about their favourite conquerors and passed it as fact is amazing

@jacobscrackers98

7 ай бұрын

Imagine having a favourite conquerer. Anti-imperialism gang represent

@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female

7 ай бұрын

@@jacobscrackers98 Modern day morals.

@Dell-ol6hb

7 ай бұрын

@@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female yea I'm sure the people who got conquered were happy with it actually

@Leo-ok3uj

7 ай бұрын

@@jacobscrackers98 Imagine not having a favorite one “Don’t judge the past by present day morals” gang

@Leo-ok3uj

7 ай бұрын

@@Dell-ol6hb It doesn’t matters at all It was them or it was you, conquer or be conquered, and honestly, the average person didn’t really cared that much, it was the nobles

"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." - Herodotus

@KaleCulain

7 ай бұрын

1st rule of politics

@merrittanimation7721

7 ай бұрын

"The Persians suck" -Also Herodotus

@GhostofJamesMadison

7 ай бұрын

"Gottem'" -Herodotus the troll

@richardcope5066

7 ай бұрын

"4 Score and 2,000 years ago I made a lot of shit up and fooled literally everyone." -Herodotus

@connor3284

7 ай бұрын

@@marcelszpak1460 kzread.infoTzILk8LlDns

29:30 This is actually a huge problem in Turkey. There are lots of Turkish "treasure hunters" pillaging undocumented or obscure medieval and ancient sites in search of gold and riches. A common myth is that somehow Armenians who once lived in Turkey (don't ask the treasure hunters why they don't anymore) hid huge hordes of treasure in their abandoned churches and homes. You can guess what happens next.

@Game_Hero

7 ай бұрын

"don't ask the treasure hunters why they don't anymore" lol

@alanpennie

7 ай бұрын

​@@Game_Hero Anyone who's read that very strange story, The Road to Endor (which Neil Gaiman has been trying to turn into film for many years) will know that hunting for treasure buried by Armenians was a popular hobby immediately after the genocide.

@LieutenantDangleBerries

7 ай бұрын

Don’t ask Turkey about the Armenian Genocide that didn’t happen.

@Game_Hero

7 ай бұрын

@@LieutenantDangleBerries Nothing happened in Ba Sing Se.

@GhostofJamesMadison

7 ай бұрын

"Nothing happened to the Armenians, and if it did they deserved it" -turkish treasure hunter probably

I think it's important to point out that Herodotus most likely was not a liar or a buffoon, as some people make him out to be. I think he was, as most people were back then, deeply superstitious- who believed in the ancient myths of demi gods and monsters. And so when someone from a faraway land tells him that there are ants the size of dogs that dig up gold, and there's no way to fact-check these claims, he probably believed it- probably because the person telling him the tale also believed it, as he was likely also deeply superstitious.

@Leo-ok3uj

7 ай бұрын

When the idea of a god holding the sky seems obvious, giant ants is honestly not that weird Are we going to call the monks who wrote about naval battles liars for saying that it was god who gave the winds in favor and not mention the climate cycle?

@trevor8726

7 ай бұрын

Id like to believe that some of the people he met just genuinely fucked with him just cause he was a tourist

@JamEngulfer

7 ай бұрын

It seems to me like many of the strange claims he made are because he’s not trying to investigate or fact check things like more modern historians, but instead is simply documenting as much as he can. It’s not that he’s necessarily taking things at face value, more that he’s writing down the stories as told to him. The stranger things like giant ants seem like he’s trying to describe how things *appear*, not what they *are*.

@Literarydilettante

7 ай бұрын

He was just a little stitious. Mostly just gullible. Oh gawd. Herodotus is the Michael Scott of historians.

@scihigh3281

7 ай бұрын

He was what the modern day vloggers are

God, it was devastating to hear invaluable artifacts were destroyed to make way for a fucking road.

@pickles3128

7 ай бұрын

People of a certain religious following do it to this day, to destroy a false idol; Afghanistan blew up those several thousand year old Buddhist statues in what, 2005? The 1980s is way too late in history to be so ignorantly disrespectful to such artifacts, but it's in Turkey. It's how the Spinx lost its nose; they strapped explosives to its face. If it didn't bring in such revenue I'm sure they'd hammer the rest of it to dust, in between bowing towards Mecca.

@skywindow6764

7 ай бұрын

...to be conveniently sold?

It was an honor to be a part of the video and do all those doodles

@TREYtheExplainer

7 ай бұрын

The honor was all mine! Thank you so much :)

@higgsbonbon

7 ай бұрын

They're hilarious. Chad Sesostris gave me a giggle.

@play_history

7 ай бұрын

Great work, truly! I've missed that sort of style and I'm glad to see it done well by an independent artist.

@ollie96310

7 ай бұрын

how is the comment 20h older than the vid

@belisarius6949

7 ай бұрын

​@@ollie96310 Trey let them see the video before we did, duh.

The professor of my Middle Eastern studies class in college said Herodotus wrote some of the first written historical records but to what he says with a grain of salt, like saying he saw giant ants the size of foxes who would dig up gold dust-- he's actually described Himalayan marmots, who sometimes get coated in gold dust as they dig through the soil.

@mohamed-fb9vt

7 ай бұрын

Giant spiders in the size of foxes in the desert 😂

@christopherdwane2844

7 ай бұрын

Not to mention the flying snakes which he stated crossed the Egyptian Desert every year- he even claimed to have seen piles of their dead bodies while on tour in the region!

@merrittanimation7721

7 ай бұрын

Also the gold guarding griffons and the one eyed Arimaspians. But Abaris traveling around the world with an arrow and never eating was apparently too much for him to consider discussing.

@matheussanthiago9685

7 ай бұрын

first hystorian? more like the first author of magical realism García Márquez be dammed

@Silentanwa661

7 ай бұрын

@@matheussanthiago9685your spaniard is a nobody, fool

“Kinda right but also mostly wrong” is a great way to summarize Herodotus.

Minor correction: Luwian was not the Hittite language. The Hittites (or at least their ruling class and priests) spoke their own language, Hittitic, written in cuneiform. Luwian, written in Anatolian hieroglyphs, was a related language spoken by many people in the Hittite Empire and their vassal kingdoms (alongside Hattic and Hurrian), but only became the lingua franca towards the end of the empire‘s life.

@waspsandwich6548

7 ай бұрын

He said "Luwian Hieroglyphics," so presumably he's using an alternate name for Anatolian Hieroglyphics

@manospondylus4896

7 ай бұрын

@@waspsandwich6548 I‘m referring to another point in the video where he refers to Luwian as the Hittite language

@waspsandwich6548

7 ай бұрын

@@manospondylus4896 Do you have a timestamp? Not that I don't believe you, I just want to hear it myself XD

@david21216

7 ай бұрын

Making me hyped for my linguistic anthropology course next semester

herodotus really do be like "it might have been fake, but the fact that i thought it was true says a lot about our society"

it pains me so much to see the ending, what a tragedy. It just makes me wonder how many more historical pieces we've lost to vandalism over the centuries. Great video Trey!

@Kuwagumo

7 ай бұрын

True. They dont even know what theyre destroying, and all we could learn from it.

@Appletank8

7 ай бұрын

sometimes it was a new ruler wanting to retcon history a little by making themselves seem better.

@ghoulchan7525

7 ай бұрын

some people are just assholes

@semi-useful5178

6 ай бұрын

Iconoclasm really needs to be recognized as the crime it is. I reckon it to be just as bad as murder or rape, probably even worse.

"As soon as he learns the hour of his death, from that moment on, he is as good as dead" I love this so much and I can't really explain why..

In my mind, Sesostris is either a garbled account the the myth of the god Osiris, who was depicted as a litteral god king who ruled over the entire earth in the distant past, or, ironically, of the Persian Emperor Xerxes, whos name was pronounced in Egyptian as Kheshayarusha. Osiris in particular was similar in many ways with Greek god Dionysus, who was also depicted as great conquerer who travelled as far a India.

Was a joy to work with you on this awesome video Trey!

@TREYtheExplainer

7 ай бұрын

Aww likewise, Ryan! Thank you so much for providing me with some amazing tracks ;)

Sesostris's empire reminds me of how in Geoffrey of Monmouth's story of King Arthur, King Arthur not only rules Britain and repels the Saxons, but also conquers all of northern Europe and Gaul and was about to take over the Roman Empire before Mordred's seizing of his throne back in Britain prevents him.

Judging from the accounts, the only way I could see this Pharoah existing would be if he was an explorer who just happened to visit these places/potentially claiming some small settlements under his domain which later got exaggerated

@You_work_tomorrow

7 ай бұрын

That makes sense to me, as his citizens how would you know he’s lying. The guy goes around literally villains his enemies pussies

A Stefan Milo video and a Trey The Explainer video drop within fifteen minutes of each other? Oh the universe smiled on us today

@winycentaur2540

7 ай бұрын

Bwhahaha I saw that too😭😭

Men or Menes, the supposed "first king" of Egypt is likely a mythical figure as well. He's credited with uniting the land of Egypt but that achievement is also claimed by the pharaoh Narmer (who's palette is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo). Men or Menes was given as a name likely because Narmer's name had been lost since it means "he who endures" and was probably a placeholder name. Also, nitpick, but the name is pronounced ses-sos-tris Congrats on your 1 million subscribers as well! I can't wait to see what you do for the special!

@SecretSquirrelFun

7 ай бұрын

Great comment, thanks for adding all of this this information. Much appreciated. Also, re your “nitpick”, I too was wondering about the pronunciation and the extra “issss” sound at the end 🤣

@imppro

7 ай бұрын

Nah he was real

@loke6664

7 ай бұрын

It is also very possible that Menes was another name for Narmer, it wasn't unusual for Pharaohs to have several names. It do seems a bit odd that they have forgotten the first Pharaoh of a unified Egypt but remembered several far less prominent members of the first dynasty. However, Menes does only appear in the New kingdom's lists which do make the placeholder name more likely... Another possibility is that Menes was the name of the Pharaoh we call "Scorpion II" which seems to have been Narmer's dad or possibly older brother. We still have a lot of gaps in our knowledge of the pre dynastic and first dynasty so we can't be sure if Menes existed, if his name was another name for a pharaoh we know about or if he did exist but we still haven't found any evidence of him. All 3 are plausible.

@naomiskilling1093

7 ай бұрын

@@loke6664 World of Antiquity has a video on this subject!

@naomiskilling1093

7 ай бұрын

@@imppro If he was real then why has there been no archaeological evidence for him or his reign but there has been evidence for other kings of the 1st dynasty none of whom are named Menes. Why also does the name only start appearing in New Kingdom king lists 1000 years after he's supposed to have reigned.

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, that's my name. That's it. It's my name."

@matheussanthiago9685

7 ай бұрын

literally all I could think of throughout the video I was half-expecting Trey to mention it the other half thought it was a low hanging fruit

@jacobscrackers98

7 ай бұрын

The fate of all conquerors and rulers who fancy themselves """great""". In the end they and all they wrought are naught, no matter how much loot home they brought, or how viciously they fought, in order to get the power they sought, which to lack they ought.

@alanpennie

7 ай бұрын

​@@matheussanthiago9685 I dunno why Shelley would have invented a not - very - Egyptian royal name when Sesostris would have fitted the poem perfectly well.

@disrespectthemwomensubjuga5471

3 ай бұрын

​@@jacobscrackers98where is that poem from?

Sometimes I randomly think about the guides that traveled with Erodotus and completely made up things probably laughing while he wrote it. You are one of the few guys on KZread who makes such consistently fantastic videos, I'm looking forward to your next things, thank you so much

My take is that Sesostris was a folk memory of Thutmose III, but because of the 18th Dynasty being under the shadow of the Amarna Period, they used instead another name, Sesostris/Senusret, instead.

Everything leads back to Alexander.. if they didn’t have his fathers bones and tomb of his family with his likeness found in the tomb you could make a strong argument Alexander was just as fictional as our Sisitrisis..

These last few years your videos have been such high quality, I feel really thankful and fortunate! Your work is valuable

Always love me some Herodotus. He’s such a silly guy.

Would love to see a video about the mythology of Scotia, the Egyptian princess who moved to Scotland and gave the country its name.

"Look upon my works ye mighty and despair"

“Babe wake up. Trey the Explainer uploaded.”

Our imaginary ruler could beat up your imaginary ruler: Egyptian Edition.

I love it that tourists back in the day were getting trolled by locals. It reminds me of the people who get Chinese or Japanese character tattoos that totally do NOT say "enlightenment" or whatever bullshit they got told that it meant. More translation mixups!

Welp, I didn't expect to get emotional but I literally cried at the end. Your videos are pure poetry!

Damn, the ending really made me sad. I was so hype to learn about Sesostris only to learn about the destruction of Tarkasnawa... 😢

@Horvath_Gabor

7 ай бұрын

Trey called them treasure hunters, but considering the region, it's more likely some people with too much "righteous fury" decided to destroy some idols to prove their dedication to their sky-daddy. So much of history and priceless archeological pieces are destroyed because of things like this, it's not even funny.

@sutematsu

7 ай бұрын

​@@Horvath_GaborI know. 😭 Knowing that gave me such weird colonialism feels when I went to the British Museum.

@luigi1606

6 ай бұрын

nah people in Smirne aren't that fundamentalist, they were most likely treasure hunters.@@Horvath_Gabor

Hadn't the Hittites largely been forgotten by the time of Herodotus? So Sesostris might have also been a way to explain the remains of the Hittite empire found in Anatolia, which to the untrained eye definitely did look Egyptian. And like once we get past Anatolia and the Hittites all the other regions except Ethiopia would have just been considered unimportant hinterlands by most people at the time so it was easy to believe that Egypt could have ruled them. I also found the exclusion of Greece very interesting, I'm betting that the Egyptian guides deliberately left that out to not offend their gullible tourists but when talking to tourists from elsewhere Greek was probably part of his conquests. Especially since that'd definitely be the way to make Sesostris seem grander than the Persian empire.

@wilcowen

6 ай бұрын

The Hittites are mentioned in the Bible so they likely weren't forgotten but just very obscure

Our boy Gigastris conquering everything he pointed at.

It's amazing the influence that myth, propaganda, and legend have on history and archeology. Kudos to those professionals for their ability to separate fact from fiction. Thanks for the work you put in to presenting this knowledge.

@nilsteegen33

6 ай бұрын

Yeah. Most of the world doesn't even know the truth of what happened in WW2, just about 80 years ago. Imagine how much the waters are muddied down over millennia of history

Herodotus is my favorite ancient. And he's a goldmine for fun videos like this.

@MS-sx6gn

6 ай бұрын

Is Sesostris real?

When the world needed him most He returned

TIL Middle Ages writers made up their own anime arc for Alexander the Great

An extremely good video. Trey out here dropping top tier content as always.

It's sad that king tarkasnawa will always be outshined by a non existent king , despite having aided us in understanding his language and it's world trough centuries

I love how you narrate your videos. Even when you talk about our loss of history it doesn't feel quite like the end of the world. The destruction (and creation) of history isn't just an ongoing process, but history in and on itself. Reminds me of when I attended an archaeology 101 class and the teacher started with the nuance that comes with this field of study.

As a history teacher I love these videos and hope you continue doing a series on Herodotus and his crazy stories, they’re great and it’s funny how much the “father of history” just misunderstood or made up entirely.

@_iyakin

7 ай бұрын

mans was the original "source: me"

i love you trey, been a fan since like, god middle school i think and now i’m graduating college soon, i love you man, got me into jojo and paleontology and speculative biology, i love whenever i see a notification of a new vid :) congrats on 1000000 you’ve earned it

Bro had me legit tearing up when Alexander and Sesostrisus were having their dialogue in Heaven

The name shown at ~9:51 and ~10:34 isn't the Egyptian spelling of Senusret, those Hieroglyphs spell out xpr-k3-r' or "Kheperkare," a different Egyptian name.

The extra syllable you inserted into Sesostris is driving me nuts

@TREYtheExplainer

7 ай бұрын

sorry

@SomasAcademy

7 ай бұрын

@@TREYtheExplainer Omg I can't believe you replied to this, don't feel bad it was still a great video lol

This was an awesome and poignant video, great work!

Please consider doing a video on the mythology, superstitions, and stereotypes of redheads!!

@matheussanthiago9685

7 ай бұрын

i.e a video about ireland

@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female

7 ай бұрын

So a video about Irish history?

@donalddude7568

7 ай бұрын

@@matheussanthiago9685 red heads started in Central Asia and then went to Ireland

This is just what I needed right now. Also,please make a video about debunking conspiracy theories. Like you did with Reptilians.

@iwannabethekid34xc

7 ай бұрын

Bro you're literally Molech lmao

@Molech996

7 ай бұрын

@@iwannabethekid34xc I am?

I really enjoyed this video but I was quite confused why you read Sesostris as Sesostrisis

@czechplay100

7 ай бұрын

yeah fucking hell doesnt he have like two degrees? xd

@anchovyacquirer

7 ай бұрын

​@@czechplay100and also dyslexia, he already made a comment about it

@lmaolol9357

7 ай бұрын

Thank god I am not the only one hearing it.

The prophecy is fulfilled! Trey returns!

Baby, wake up! New TREY the Explainer dropped!!!

This is my new favorite series, please make this a regular thing!!

IT WAS UPON MY SHOULDERS THAT THE WINNINGS OF THIS LAND WAS BORNE.

I'm like who the heck is sesostrisis?? Its Sez-oz-tris. I've heard all good stories from Egypt except this one but then I realized you were saying the name wrong or maybe not wrong but different to what I have heard. Sesostris is the story of a badass and you're prolly right, Herodotus was gullible

Love this type of videos, it’s good to see the claims of Herodotus’ be a little contested anyways as he really was a massive gossip. As an Egyptologist I love the amount of work put into them and how accurate they are, very exciting way to introduce others to archaeology and the like.

6:50 Plimpton 322. Pythagorean triples were known in Babylon roughly 1200 years before Pythagoras. I know the point of that quote/subsequent joke is to point out how suspect the claim is, but it's worth remembering that mathematical knowledge developed centuries before it was written down. It is not entirely out of the question that ancient Egyptians had some ideas about land area to do taxes.

your videos are just so wonderfully written and researched.

Imagine a future archaeologist finding recent superhero film memorabilia in a collection millennia from now and believing that Superman or Iron Man were actual living persons of our age.

If it’s true that ancient Egypt really had its own Alexander or Genghis Khan that would be really epic.

@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female

7 ай бұрын

Sometimes I wonder why they didn't.

@Murphio25

7 ай бұрын

@@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female They did, his name was Ramesses II, perhaps the breadth of his kingdom wasn't as grand or as vast as Alexandros' or Temujin's but it was grand in it's own right, especially in the context of it's own time.

@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526

7 ай бұрын

Thutmose III was the real deal.

@ashiinsane90

7 ай бұрын

@@Murphio25 I love Ramesses II but he would pale in comparison with Thutmose III, he is the first Emperor and Egypt became a true empire that was unstoppable for hundreds of years.. he won over 80+ battles conquered 50 cities defeated 250 kings and princes, 24 of these battles are well recorded Megido is one of them which is the first battle recorded in history. He conquered Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan, Cyprus, Sicily, Syria, Anatolia then western Persia..

@noelvalenzarro

7 ай бұрын

@@ashiinsane90and then sudan

I like the idea that the guide for Herodotus just eating good and sleep well after said whatever craps he told to Herodotus not realizing his bullshits would leave confusion thousands years later

im so obsessed with all the art you put in your videos -- they are so descriptive and funny!

I just want to say that this was a truly amazing video. It is sad to see how some people today totally disregard and disrespect history and historical monuments. But i guess there will always be people like this.

Losing my absolute mind because WHEN DID YOU HIT 1MIL? I am so happy for you. Can't believe I'm actually an og. Been here since 20k. You deserve it man.

When I saw the supposed carving in Aeagean region I immediately thought of Karabel Relief. Wasn't suprised to see it has nothing to do with Egyptians. As noted before, the language is Luwian and Luwian was the common language in the area. The Mira Land is thought to be a small region but the bigger kingdom in the region was Arzawa. Also Apasa is directly linked with Arzawa not Mira Kingdom since Apasa is thought to be an older name for Ephesus. I am so interested in the Bronze Age Aegean since so little is known and so little is excavated because major sites are all classical and lays upon the bronze age material.

Video hasn’t started yet but if you see this, Trey, just want you to know that your channel has always had a special place in my heart and yours is one of the few that I will watch every video regardless of wether I’m interested in the subject cause I trust that you pick cool shit to talk about. Loved your stuff for a long time and I’ve never been disappointed. Keep being yourself, that’s all you have to be.

Sometimes I can't watch a Trey video right away. You gotta give yourself the right kind of atmosphere, y'know? But I click on it and like it anyway. I know he'll have earned it by the end.

Keep up the great content! I like this pace

Those priest guiding Herodotus around 'hey who wants to start betting on how absurd of a story we can tell this dude before he calls bullshit on us itll be funny'

I love this channel been watching since the Mississippi Delta trip. Thanks for all the great informative videos.

Beautiful video Trey! Historical records and heritage are precious but so fragile. Its a shame that some people can just destroy them like that. Also that Alexander romance sounds amazing.

I love the mix of silliness and genuinely interesting history in this vid.

“A” is a badass name for a pharaoh

@rayvenkman2087

4 ай бұрын

Much better than that B fella after him.

Very happy to see the channel has 1M ... It deserves several more. Been great seeing it grow over the years and consistently entertain and fascinate

Just some absolutely stunning storytelling by Trey here. We aren’t worthy

I've been binging your content lately and I cannot explain just how much joy they bring me! Thank you for your efforts and expertise!

Your videos are fantastic and I love hearing your soothing voice while you describe obscure and fascinating element of history

Greek renderings are the best. Imaging Stavros Halkias taking a trip to Egypt, then sailing back to mainland Greece to tell stories

@AwesomeJerkface

7 ай бұрын

Maybe he gets one or two facts mixed up. But he tells you a good story.

@ErikNilsen1337

7 ай бұрын

“HeheheheheheHEHEHEHEHEHE”

hey trey, long time viewer here, I follow your twitter account and know you've been going through some tough times in relation to this video. I know you already know that there is a lot more positive than negative, but im going to chime in and add that you've been an inspiration for me and my further education of the ancient world, been following the channel for countless years and have seen nothing but positive growth. I hope you can stay strong, but if you need time off to recollect yourself, I totally understand and wish you the best.

Super interesting video, this guys kinda chad. Congrats on the million subs too. Well deserved :)

I’m always happy how much hard work you put into your video! Thank you!

I love this video, but not sure why you pronounced his name like that. Not an expert on ancient Greek or anything, so idk. But fascinating and amazing! Please make a series on Herodotus! Also congratulations on 1 million subscribers! Been here since high school, which was like three ages ago!

@Gwydda

7 ай бұрын

He mispronounced it, unfortunately. But let's give him some slack.

@MuchWhittering

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, he seems to be adding an extra syllable on the end. Just inventing letters that aren't there.

@lilla4521

6 ай бұрын

God I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed. It irritated me throughout the whole video.

After several centuries, the hieroglyphs were decoded. The message passed down to us from ancient times was this: Be sure to drink your ovaltine.

These videos grow my appreciation for Herodotus even more. The Histories is such a wonderful, weird and precious book.

this was awesome! your videos are so cool, and informative, and fun to watch! I love it when you cover history, especially antiquity😊

Oh the greatest pharoah: A

@merrittanimation7721

7 ай бұрын

And his son, B

this was such an interesting journey, this has been a rad little series so far

Okay, okay, long distance romance fanfic it is. (Great video as always!)

"Blame this guy for (geometry)." Can I thank him instead? That was the only math class I was any good at.

SesostrEYESis? It's pronunced seh-SUH-striss...

Astounding video as usual Trey! You expertly weave together history and humor with a kind of melancholic thoughtfulness that always gets to me. Keep up the good work!!

Brillant video........jusssttt brilliant👏👏

Herodotus and believing absolutely everything he heard at face value - name a more iconic duo.

Always a pleasure to see you upload, Trey

Thank you for the awesome content and great videos!!!

Thank you so much for you research, your effort, and dedication to your content. I’ve grown up with your videos the last 9 years and forever will be your fan. Thank you

>no ending karaoke i feel ...empty

@TREYtheExplainer

7 ай бұрын

I knowww :'( I'm sorry i will do one next time I meant to but I ran out of time