More Creepy Archaeological Discoveries

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Had a dream the other night, wound up in London and my tour guide was Simon. Best dream I've had in a while

Sideprojects is the junk drawer of Simon’s channels. If it doesn’t fit on a different one he just stuffs it in here.

I for one, appreciated Simon's moment of silence for the fallen gerbils. It was very appropriate and considerate.

Hadrian's wall. Two Roman soldiers, Maximus and Gaius, were patrolling the wall and stopped for a chat. "What should we do when we actually catch someone climbing the wall," asked Gaius. "we can't throw them to the lions?" Maximus peered over the stonework thoughtfully, "Well, we could throw them to the sheep?" he suggested. "That won't kill them!" Gaius laughed. Maximus frowned. "No, but they'd be badly grazed."

1:55 - Chapter 1 - Murder island 6:15 - Chapter 2 - Tlapan spiral skeletons 8:35 - Chapter 3 - Chavin de huantar 11:30 - Chapter 4 - Lothagam north pillar site 15:10 - Chapter 5 - Vindolanda hand

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"Mayans may have spent portions of each day worshiping, and they apparently saw child sacrifice as a way to appease the pickle gods who lorded over everything from the weather and human fertility, to war and crops." - CC I, for one, welcome our gherkin gods.

About Tlalpan -- That burial may have coincided in time with the Mayan Preclassical, but as far as I know there are no Mayan sites that far north. Much closer was the civilization that built Teotihuacan and its massive Pyramid of the Sun, as well as an even closer rival at Cuicuilco. None of these peoples were Maya.

You are a youtube treasure Simon the hardest working man on YouTube

I grew up near Vindolanda and it's always cool to go by and see what they're excavating, they're always game to talk to you about what they've found too. We have a lot of Roman sites up here but this one is particularly good.

I'm convinced Simon is taking over YouTube one channel at a time

Awww. My sister and I had gerbils when we were little. I can attest - gerbil teeth are sharp! Mine would bite. Still, RIP Rainbow and Polka-Dot. So glad you lived normal gerbil-aged lives and weren't sacrificed for jewelry.

I love that there’s three levels of Simon whistler channel lore. Those where he is totally serious, those where he cracks some jokes and occasionally break character, and those like brain blaze and decoding the unknown where he’s our lil manic fact boy who loves to scream

Simon, you should do a few more channels. You need some diversity. Like, don't spread yourself too thick, my man.

The Batavia story is insane, Defragged History has an amazing 4 hour series on it, I highly recommend it if you have the time

Regarding the Vindolanda hand, from what I have learned from anthropology at university and years of watching Time Team (😂), there are two problems with the analysis in this video. 1) the majority of "Romans" in Britain were not from Rome. They were Romanised British peoples. 2) because of this, these people often incorporated earlier Brittanic ritual practices. The most significant of which was the ritualistic burial of important or sacred objects or remains in ditches. To claim that the hand was randomly discarded based solely on the fact that it was found in a ditch is likely completely evidence to the contrary. It is significantly more likely that it was purposefully placed in a ditch, emphasizing its importance.

Magic spoon seems to be a fan of all of simons channels, much like myself.

The advert at the beginning of this made me chuckle, because as healthy as magic spoon cereal may be it's not actually a cereal as it doesn't contain any cereal grains

Gotta be honest, the "carbs not so good" in discussing cereal had me chuckling. My how that word (cereal short for cereal grain) has changed in people's minds.