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  1. Worst part about this article is that Graham assigned one of his goons to write it. Frankly if someone made a five hour long four part series tearing my theories apart I would at LEAST do them the service of responding to them myself. Thank you for your thorough response to this and I am humbled to have professionals in the field support me as I refine my craft, correct my errors, and continue to learn. Science is self correcting and that is its most powerful trait. I count myself lucky to be in a field where corrections are viewed as their own triumph because in the end it means you are closer to the truth. I may cover this article myself shortly, but for now I want to give a big thanks to The Dr. for being one of the first to tackle this in the YouTube space. Stay curious and don’t listen to anyone who uses admitting a mistake as a strike against you.
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  2. The sad part is , the Aryan Invasion Theory is still present in Today's High School History books with no reference to actual history or atleast what modern historians claim. The books need upgradation very fast.
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  3. You were my professor at SCF 5 years ago. I came across your channel on complete accident, due to my continued curiosity and fascination with ancient history. You were an amazing and enthralling professor, but I regret to say I wasn’t the best student. So thank you. I have really been enjoying your videos since I discovered your channel a few months ago.
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  4. I mean, it's not like even the most educated ancient Greeks, Mesopotamians, Mayans, or Aztecs had the vaguest concept of the actual geography of the whole world, so that if they said a flood covered the whole world, they'd obviously be referring to their own limited conception of it.
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  5. I've been doing self study of Vedic scriptures for a year (translated into English) it feels amazing Currently I'm on the 5th Mandala of Rigveda
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  6. Hi. Excavator of no. 12 here (Nineveh and Nimrud). The Sennacherib reliefs found at the Mashki Gate of Nineveh were never previously discovered. They were from an unopened chamber of the gate, so completely new. They were damaged in antiquity by, most likely, the Assyrians themselves (not ISIS). Loved seeing the inclusion of the Adad Nerari III palace. Best wishes and Happy New Year!
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  7. I used to be one of these people who thought that the most ancient civilizations had "high technology" because a lot of the megalithic stonework was "impossible", but thanks to your channel I'm actually educated now. The only lost technologies are patience and ingenuity!
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  8. Studying ancient indian cultures is not easy, which is why this is yet another brilliant video from this channel.
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  9. As a law student currently writing a dissertation centred on misinformation, I'm finding the single biggest problem to be a lack of empathetic engagement from academics and educators. It creates a void that the imagination can fill in the absence of a scientific mind. Often times, the goodwiled engagement that academics end up doing can be condescending and even counterproductive. By taking your time to do these videos in the way that you do, you do a great service to your field, even if it isn't the research that might interest you or your colleagues. Your doing for history what is sadly lacking in other fields. Thank you.
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  10. As a professional metrologer working for a national metrology institute it is quite easy to see through their deliberate attempt to obfuscate the subject at hand. However, I feel it gets very easy to get lost in all the technical and mathematical lingo and immediately surrender to the supposed expertise of these experte. However to demonstrate that the analysis provided here is would not pass in metrology as scientific at all I can give you one rather easy to understand example. When they talk about the technology used for the scan they say that the accuracy of the ATOS scanner was "a thousandth of an inch" (i.e. 25,4 µm if you use grown up units). In the analysis written about it however Qvist is writing about deviations of 13 or even 7 µm which is an unachievable conclusion based on the technology used! What I think is also telling is that in the video they jokingly state that "no one is following calibration rules on ancient artefacts yet". The meaning of this probably is not clear to a lot of people, but this is basically an admission that scientific metrological standards were not applied (which probably even makes the accuracy of 25,4 µm very unlikely). In addition nowhere are they mentioning anything about measurement uncertainties but only the measurement values (sometimes deveations), if you know any metrologers you would understand how much of a red flag this is.
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  11. The words "orthodox" and "mainstream" made me laugh out loud. A coworker used to always rant about "mainstream" science, always in the context of ancient history. I finally got fed up with it, and said: "You were totally OK with mainstream science when you needed your coronary bypass. The mainstream is good enough to keep your heart working, but studying the history of the planet- nope, that's gotta be aliens. Pick a lane, because Xenu didn't fix you up. That was just a normal mainstream doctor." I did get a talking to from my boss for losing my temper, but after a few weeks of our local "researcher" being a lot more agreeable, my boss did thank me for the peace and quiet.
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  12. Learned a lot in this one David. I’m more and more interested in Indian history. Great job!
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  13. god if only we knew how to decipher the indus valley language. i feel like being able to read that would paint a much clearer picture of what beliefs came from india and which came from central asia
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  14. it's a Louis Vuitton...plain and simple
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  15. Can I just say, as a boring engineer who has recently taken an interest in ancient archaeology because I enjoy the sense of mystery, you're really taking the fun out of things!
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  16. So beautiful that all over the world, people are working in teams to discover new truths about our shared human history. Archaeology is truly a lovely field
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  17. I don't believe in Astrology. I'm a Leo and Leo's are skeptical.
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  18. There is an Iranian joke I think you might find funny, an Italian and a Iranian are walking by the coliseum and Italian guy finds a piece of wire on the ground. He showed it to the Iranian guy and says “ you see this wire? This shows Romans had telephone lines 2000 years ago!” The Iranian looks at it for a minute and then replies: you won’t find any lines in ancient Iran, we used mobile phones! Lol
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  19. I'm happy that the bronzes of San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany are mentioned. Me and my colleagues studied and catalogued the coins that have been found in the bath, together with the statues, and they are preserved perfectly. They look like they have just been minted! Just for the record, most of them are bronze coins dated to the I-II century AD.
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  20. It is really interesting and beautiful to see the understanding you have of the ethno-linguistically motivated culture wars inside the Indian political scene. Tamils (like my own family) love to brag about how old Tamil is compared to the invader's language of Sanskrit ad nauseam, just like how the Sanskrit supremacists love to brag about how Sanskrit is 10000 years old. Both are equally grueling to listen to. Amazing video and an amazing set of insights as always :). Have been a follower since your early days. Lots of love
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  21. Texas sharpshooter fallacy in four easy steps: 1. Throw a dart out the window of a plane. 2. Land plane. 3. Draw target around arrow. 4. Claim astronomical odds. This is all Dr Sweatman does. It's sleight of hand. Also, as someone who knows linear algebra rather well, I can assure you that you can compare dots. It's utterly absurd to claim a comparison requires lines.
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  22. I have been a physicist for over 45 years, and the one major rule I have found for scientific research is that one has to value being correct above getting any particular result. To go a step farther, if one has a desired outcome in a research program, this creates a real moral hazard for the scientist. Science is about understanding the world, not validating your world view.
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  23. "Give a foretaste?" Geez, buy me dinner first!
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  24. Both my father and grandfather were stone masons all their lives. You can definitely cut and polish granite by hand, they did it. I think that you could create these shapes with a peg and string, a plum bob, a masons set square a wooden circle cut in half. Generations of masons have created everything from Chartres Cathedral to stone pavers using little more than this. Also the masons who cut the caves were not necessary the architects who designed them.
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  25. Thanks so much for having me on! This was so much fun, and I appreciate what you are doing so much! This video is amazing, detailed, and so info-packed! Keep it up :D
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  26. A long-time Graham Hancock fan here. What a brilliant presentation of facts, it completely changed my perspective on the GT site and its implications for contemporary archaeology. Thank you for putting this together. Would love to see you on Joe Rogan someday! Cheers
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  27. If not for channels like yours I’d still be watching “Woo” channels and believing the likes of Hancock.. So Thankyou for putting me on the right path 👍🏻
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  28. As someone who grew up in China I can not overstate how important this sword is. Every kid have learned the story of GOUJIAN for the story. No one really thought the sword existed let alone to be found. This is almost like if someone found Thor's hammer.
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  29. As a fellow archaeologist, I so appreciate this breakdown and explanation. Thanks for this!
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  30. Thank you for this video WoA. You really did a great job of overviewing the work done in the region over the last 3-4 decades. Very succinct and easy to understand! I did my PhD on ground/polished stone artefacts from the Late Epipaleolithic and early Neolithic of the Southern Levant. I actually worked on material from the site Shubayqa 1 in Eastern Jordan that you show a picture of at 08:43-09:00! Great to see our site referenced. It appears that people like Hancock and Co. have a really hard time understanding stone tool technology and prehistoric stone masonry and artistry. It is almost as if they forget that stone (in addition to wood, bone, shell, fibres etc.) was the main material(s) people had to work with. Humans and our ancestors have been shaping stone (with other stones) for more than 2 million years. People didn’t much else to do and got really good at it! Can’t blame them entirely, because unfortunately research of past stone technologies (especially within Paleolithic archaeology) has been heavily focused on flaked stone tools, like flint/chert knives, arrowheads etc. Until the 1990s very little attention was given to the study of prehistoric ground/abraded/polished stone tools. This has changed though! And we now know a lot more about how people shaped and used “ground” stone tools like mortars and querns of coarser igneous and sedimentary rock. Another reason we know less about the process of shaping these rock types is also that the process leaves a lot less traces than other methods of shaping (rock). In flaked/chipped stone technology, people flaked pieces of stone like flint/chert and this usually left lots of flint flakes behind on the ground (for us archaeologists to find) and allows specialists to reconstruct the process from the intermediate steps, i.e. the different flakes left behind. This doesn’t happen as much when shaping “coarser” stone types. Here you would also perhaps flake a basalt boulder into a more manageable size or a preform, but from there your main mode of shaping was abrasion, i.e. shaping by rubbing a stone against another (sometimes with water and sand), and pecking, i.e rapid/short percussion/impaction with another stone. These processes should and would rarely result in flakes but rather the byproduct is small/tiny stone fragments and stone dust released from the boulder you were shaping. This dust and these tiny fragments are almost impossible to find during an archaeological excavation, meaning that all the intermediate steps in the production process are lost. Only preforms or accidentally broken pieces are left behind, and again unlike flaked stone tools, mistakes are easier to correct/remove (by pecking/abrading) so fewer mistakes are also found. Anyways, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this research and letting people know that people of the past were really good at using and shaping all kinds of stone (and other materials as well!).
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  31. Thank you so much david for covering this topic..it is disheartening, that most people are ignorant to Indian history...there are still many people who believe hinduism is all about the caste system, and that all here speaks hindi...people should know that there are 28 states in india and here,states are made mainly on the basis of language..and each state is like a different country for eg. im from the south indian state called kerala..here we speak malayalam and we got our own unique cultures and traditons...you are one of the very few foreign channels that cover topics on india too...thankyou, one again.
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  32. Fun fact: Yuri Knorozov listed his cat, Asya, as a co-author on much of his work, and when his publishing house blacked out her name, he started using a photo of himself holding her as his official author picture, though they ended up cropping her out. Knorozov got the last laugh, though, as the photo of him holding Asya is now immortalized in a stone statue commemorating his work on Maya Hieroglyphs in Mérida, Yucatan.
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  33. So sad that conspiratorial YT channels can have hundreds to thousands to millions ov subs and yet channels like yours, that deal with Real ancient history, have so few! You deserve so many more. Once more people grow up and get away from false history they will find this.
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  34. People should identify more with their Activity Logs, and less with their Factory Specs.
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  35. Unfortunately at different stages of my archeological journey, I was a believer of both the extreme dates, one that makes vedic culture seem like a child born yesterday and the other that makes dinosaurs look like little babies. And let me tell you, you wouldn't have liked to argue with me at either of those stages, I was just blind to reason. I think I've matured in that sense and do try take a long, critical, third-person look at subjects like these.
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  36. The last year or so I've gone down the Brian Foerster/Uncharted X rabbit hole and it was making some sense to me but the lack of evidence lead me to wanting to hear the other side via a debate or something. This channel came up on my recommended list at the right time. They do make great videos and I still watch but their conclusions about what they are seeing I don't put much stock in anymore. Cheers.
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  37. The pyramids were machines. They were vehicles meant to deliver the deceased through the afterlife and into immortality.
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  38. I think the super advanced technology that the ancient Egyptians had that we have lost is mostly patience.
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  39. As someone who had in the past been taken in by the con artist I very much appreciate your work. All I ever wanted to do was learn new things and the con artist took advantage of that to line their pockets all the while making their audience more ignorant in the process. Being an agent of ignorance is a crime against humanity and your work is the proof not just they are wrong but that misleading people was and is their specific intent. Thank you and please keep it up.
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  40. It's attractive to be "in on the secret knowledge", and much easier to accept these fanciful things than to accept civilization arose out of a very messy trial and error- with error being the norm more often than not.
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  41. I am convinced that David goes to sleep in a full suit
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  42. Usually when someone- ESPECIALLY someone who’s expertise is not in the field they are speaking of- disagrees with an overwhelming consensus of the scientific community based on a “lack” of evidence, there isn’t actually any lack of evidence, just their OWN lack of KNOWLEDGE of the existing evidence.
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  43. “We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.” ― Carl Sagan
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  44. In a time where there's so much conspiracy on the internet about our ancient past, this kind of debunking is great to see. Like a light shining through the horseshit. Cheers mate!
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  45. What kills me about all these "ancient aliens"/"ancient civilization" people step over a hundred pieces of data to pick up five or six random bits, then weave a narrative whole cloth that ignores 99% of the actual evidence, but fits comfortably into whatever vague nonsense they're selling.
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  46. Awesome video. It's so hard to find ppl just talking neutrally about Indian history nowadays. Everyone is either propagating a narrative, or a counter-narrative. But at the same time, it probably just reflects the mindset of viewers who just look for confirmation bias. But your approach was interesting, and I have an appreciation for how to ask questions on history, so thank you!
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  47. Takes a lot of time to put this kind of content together from one Floridian to another. Hopefully get to meet you one day, maybe see you in Egypt! - Brian
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  48. I was actually under the impression that the Aryan invasion theory and the indo European migration theory were the same thing. I'm an American and I was taught the Aryan invasion theory in school. It may be old pseudoscience but it seems that its still very widely circulated, both in india and across the world, so many people are likely just genuinely confusing the 2, and religious and right wing nationalist groups in India would likely stand to benefit from that misunderstanding. It doesn't help that under British occupation, the aryan invasion theory was used to justify the better treatment and promotion of aryan Indians over Dravidians, that the northern people of India were a superior race from their inter mixing with 'European stock' thousands of years earlier. And especially in northern India, the idea of being invaded and changed, even in a historical context is still a sore subject for many indians, From the abbasid caliphate, to the Mughal Turks, to European powers with an emphasis on Britain. Many Indians have likely externalized the indo Europeans because popular world history so often writes off the achievements of the Indian people in favor of their conquerors. So for scholarship to determine correctly that the vedas, texts that are quintessentially Indian and one of the few things the whole continent shares as something brought by outsiders is seen as an attack by western scholarship on the concept of indianness itself. And looking at the socio-cultural conditions of modern India and its relationship with its history, its hard not to see their concerns, even if it may be unfounded. I'm sure that the discussion will be settled though in the future, and as we slowly defeat the aryan invasion narrative, the indo aryans can gradually come to take their place in Indian history not as conquerors but as a thread in the ancient and vibrant tapestry of Indian identity.
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  49. This video literally changed my life. I used to be heavily invested in all of these alt. history narratives pushed by the likes of UnchartedX, Ham Grandcock, Christopher Dunn, etc. etc. etc. Just being exposed to a fraction of the nuance these charlatans were INTENTIONALLY leaving out was enough to make me feel deeply embarrassed for not looking into these claims on my own.
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  50. Just a poor college student still, but I always make sure to leave a like and share on these videos. I love any academics out there who are sincerely helping to combat sensationalized and propagandized historical accounts.
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