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  1. Also of note: any ships sailing through the bosphous had to surrender any charts for inspection before passing through, meaning the ottomans always had up to date information from often competing European states that may not have shared information with each other.
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  2. I just can't fathom how so many cultures that lived on the water all had flood stories. ...oh, right.
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  3. Short answer: No Long answer: Yes and no. Civilization started in different places on their own. Civilization started in India the same way it started in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, the Andes, or the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers (plus other small regions where civilizations of smaller size appeared). To point to a single place and say that civilization started there would be a very erroneous thing to do.
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  4. Very good video, David. You’ve summed up the geological arguments really well and showed how it’s a complicated set of factors contributing to the erosion patterns. Good work!
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  5. Thank you for answering my question! Wow, I had no idea that the Varna system didn't exist during the Vedic age. Actually, my doubt occurred while reading 'Discovery of India' by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, who made the claim that the ancient caste system was based on colour. I didn't believe him (though his claims were reasonable, they probably came from Orientalist scholarship since Nehru himself studied that stuff) but couldn't find any sources to look further, so I thought of asking you this question. My doubt has been cleared, thank you for that. P.S: That was 'myself Siddhartha' not Misal Siddharth 😝
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  6. Great video! Fun fact, I worked at the excavation at Khirbet Arai in 2019 and actually was the one who found the first piece of the pottery inscription. It was actually found on the last day of the dig, 3 hours before we closed the season. We found a faience amulet in the same storage pit. It is really awesome to see the fruits of our labor being recognized. I am currently in my PhD program for Archaeology, and I can't wait for the future discoveries I can be a part of as well!!
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  7. Not one of these guys dumped a water bottle on it or tried to stick a piece of paper between the blocks. How is this science? ;)
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  8. I can't express enough how absolutely refreshing your channel is compared to the overwhelming sea of garbage online about ancient sites.
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  9. It's interesting how popular culture portrays Ancient Egypt as a super-culture, bordering on alien. The real civilization is impressive enough without the hyperbole.
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  10. As a kid I was obsessed with the x-files. This led me to the conspiracy section of the bookstore as a teen where I found a book called forbidden history. It had essays by Robert schoch, Chris Dunn - the usual suspects. I devoured it. I felt so smart and so special for reading what felt like an academic tome cover to cover. Anyway I go into school the next day and I ask the biology teacher about cataclysm theory and he straight up humiliates me in front of the whole class but doesn’t explain. It still hurts 15 years later and delayed my (admittedly continued) enlightenment by years. I really appreciate that you take the approach you do - debunking and engaging without resorting to insults.
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  11. These misguided "TikTok Historians" talk with such authority... it takes Dr Miano less than 30 seconds to destroy their arguments, reveal their lack of critical thought AND make me laugh!!! 🤣 Love it! 💙
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  12. As a musician and sound engineer, it was quite painful hearing BAM talk about basic consequences of the laws of physics as if it was some amazing technology. In their frequency charts it appeared to say "margin of error 24Hz" which is a lot if they are measuring around 200Hz, really not precise at all. A quick addendum about echo: it is technically possible to hear delay times shorter than 100ms as a discreet echo, although it gets harder as the delays get shorter. However, in rooms of those dimensions you are right that there will be a multitude of reflections causing a smooth reverb rather than discreet echo, and again, that's just an inevitable, and common, but nice-sounding effect.
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  13. Unfortunately, I was taught that the Spanish were predicted by the central and south American religions when I was in school in the 60s and 70s. It never made sense, but thank you so much for giving a concise and rational argument that it’s all just made up by colonizers. Thank you so much.
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  14. You need a much bigger voice, with all the "Alternative" archeology being presented out there. I am so glad I found your explanations and evidences of what sure looks like the reality of it, instead of more of the fringe hype of ancient alien bs out there.
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  15. Here is how this is settled. One has a channel aimed at educating the audience so that they can make up their own mind and maybe dig deeper into the matter on their own by explaining how historians work and formulate arguments, and the other has a channel aimed at the glorification of his own “brilliance”. Just go through their content and make up your mind. Hint: one of them has a video where he claims he has found an explanation for origins of life on earth… as his first video. Go figure!
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  16. Thank you for breaking this down! I’m going to watch it again with my daughters tonight. I am trying my best to foster a love for history in them and they really enjoy your videos 💜
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  17. Were the migrations peaceful or violent? Probably some of both. People are complicated and settlements and migrations happen over a long time. We, as humans, like to categorize history and politics into nice neat boxes, but people are complicated, history is complicated. Did Hinduism come from the indo-araynians or start in India? How about both? When peoples meet, their religions can mix. The Vedas were written which gave it a leg-up to persist more consistently, right? Maybe?
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  18. I would love to hear that civilization begins in india , but not at the expense of evidence against it. As always love from 🇮🇳
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  19. Is there any point in history where one could experience a 30 minute presentation about an ancient sword free of charge? I am a fan of this information era. Thank you, Dr. Miano; great video.
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  20. Just want to say that is has been you and mini minuteman that have actually moved me away from the Graham Hancock stories and helped me see the error of it. I own two of his books. He is a good writer that is true. But a good yarn is different from facts and evidence. Thank you for your continuing work in this area.
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  21. David; you’re doing the good work. Thanks for actually debating these folks. Other academics don’t bother and someone has to. And thanks and not stooping to Sweatman who seems to think getting an article through a journal’s peer review means it’s factually correct.
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  22. Anyway, all those "wonderous" artifacts of ancient times tell me is that the ancient stonemasons were pretty darn good at their job. Respect.
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  23. We should really take notice of how she speaks about "what we know". She speaks like a scientist. No claims, no agenda.... just the facts and logical inferences. Compare her style to a pseudoscience type- they leap to conclusions. They emphasize only what they think 'proves' their interpretation. One side works from what they know with qualifications and exceptions. One side starts from what they hope and sells it. Great interview DM!
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  24. The polishing arguments ruin my brain. We literally use sand to this day. If we want a finer polish, we use ever smaller sands and start mixing it with liquids.
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  25. Would love to see you do a video on racism in historical fields, touch on Egyptian race and how some African history and empires were discounted and still not studied enough today.
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  26. I fell for Hancock's snake oil a while back. But it's the good work with citable facts like this that pulled me back into reality. And honestly, good history is interesting on its own. Fantasy should be reserved for works of fiction.
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  27. The mechanism is incredible. Our predecessors were incredible.
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  28. Man the amount of research you must do is incredible. Thank you for doing this. I'm extremely interested in these topics and there's so much rubbish out there it's great to find someone clearing it up a bit.
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  29. Also, a video that provides a timeline of ancient history would be immensely useful to those of us in need of an organizational structure. Clarifying the archeological and historical periodization terminology used among professionals would also be a great help.
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  30. Thank you Dr. Miano for all your work here. It'd be super cool to have some of these people on the channel to discuss their amazing finds. Happy New Year!
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  31. Wow David. Thank you so much for the seriously in depth response to my question. I had no idea at all how deep and complex this subject is, let alone likened to Russian and Ukraine. The furthest I ever found in my own research was to Blavatsky.
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  32. Personally I think that there is always a kernel of truth in ancient stories, the truth may only slightly resemble the story but it is always there. If nothing else stories like stories like that of Dwarka give archeologists place to start and some thing to look for.
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  33. I love that you use the opposite argument the alt history believers use against them 😂 "The finish work is so well done it must have been done by masters sculptors... No factory machine could achieve such supreme craftsmanship, this could only have been done by hand." Well said!
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  34. The production quality, the content quality, quality quality. The most underrated history channel on YouTube.
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  35. This was such a great collab
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  36. I also used to be one who subscribed to this ancient high civilization idea! Turns out I was just uneducated! The more I learn and the more I research into ancient history, it all makes perfect sense! I was truly a perfect example of Dunning Kreuger. Thanks for all you do to educate us on this phenomenal history! The more I learn the more I realize their is no one hiding the truth, their is no one lying to us! This is our history as humans and its amazing to learn about!
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  37. Amazing that "lost high tech" grifters don't have the same energy for Roman infrastructure as Egypt, Mexica, Inca, Cambodia, etc. Thank you for this video Dr Miano!
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  38. Apparently the Pawnee Indians of North America were reasonably advanced star-watchers. They apparently made star-charts on hides. It'd be interesting to review ancient non-western astronomical knowledge.
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  39. Hi, I am from Bihar, I have heard about these caves only once, when my friend took a trip and showed me the video. Very happy to see that Bihar is getting popular on international front too
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  40. I think the examples shown here prove that on a material level the creation of the ancient objects was possible without any machine assistance. The precision of the ancient objects was most likely achieved due to the time taken on each item and the skill of the craftsmen, who had most probably spent their entire lives working stone with stone. Thanks for the great content. 🤙🏻
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  41. also worth mentioning imo are (extinct) isolated languages; Vedda, Burushaski, Nihali & Kusunda
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  42. I love these. I love that you can do serious content as well as funny content. Great balance, great entertainment, great education, great channel.
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  43. Well this is a pleasant surprise. I've already seen the whole series but I'm rewatching for the new materials and I am fine with rewatching the original content too! Thank you Professor.
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  44. They're not buckets or bags, they're car doors They were used for cooling, when it got hot out they rolled down the windows. Thanks for the videos.
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  45. I think the guy who runs Ancient Architects has good and genuine intentions. He corrects himself if he finds out or believes his original assessments were wrong. And he also discounts a lot of the advanced civilization people.
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  46. Honestly, what's most fascinating to me is how this video demonstrates the "evidence" selection process conducted by people who otherwise present themselves as reasonable and rational actors. The most believable figures and diagrams are snipped out of more outlandish publications, aligned with a pre-existing antipathy for the "intellectual elite," and then presented as a hidden body of evidence. UnchartedX's quoted description of his being a "middle way" position speaks to the motives underlying this practice. By positioning the mainstream and the ancient aliens crowd as two diametrically opposed and equally wrong poles of equal weight, he's presenting his ideas as the reasonable approach. The problem is, empirical data doesn't compromise. It can be revised, retested, recontextualized, reinterpreted, but there are certain things that the data cannot support. One person claiming the sky is blue and the other person claiming the sky is gray does not automatically mean that the sky is slate; it can mean that one observer is colorblind, or that the data for one observer was collected in Seattle. EDIT: Okay, just got to the end and his rationale for dismissing the mainstream evidence, and it's... The biggest reach imaginable. Definitely didn't stick the landing if he's trying to claim that the rate of carbon decay is more falsifiable than painting a bullseye around a solstice.
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  47. This is the finest educational travel documentary about Egypt that I have seen in a long time. Excellent production and writing, a captivating story, and superb music choices. The quality is comparable to that of an Anthony Bourdain television program. It's educational, ticks all the boxes, and the inclusion of Rameses revenge only adds to its authenticity. It wouldn’t be the real Egypt without it. Bravo, David!
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  48. When going after the Big Daddy of alt history, you'll need many more specific citations than he himself uses. Well stated, and well done.
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  49. This reminds me of a seminar I had with Bridget Connelly in the Rhetoric Department at Cal around 1980. She researched an Iranian epic poem sustained in oral tradition in her anthro fieldwork. It was recited at weddings by paid performers—and found that the performers who recited from a memorized script were in less demand. The masters of the epic could weave the members of the wedding party into the verse on the fly, and improvise chapters shaped to the audience. Oral tradition can be a jazz art, an amalgam of history and literature, and in that context, the approach to storytelling by Hakim makes perfect sense.
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  50. In the 60’s Eric Von Daniken’s books had a profound effect on my lifelong interest in ancient history but even then in my teens I intuitively understood it would be best to actually read primary sources. Eventually I read Plato, Herodotus, the Gilgamesh epic etc.etc.and bit by bit it became clear to me that Mr. Von Daniken really didn’t know what he was talking about 😔. But! I’m grateful to his books because it led me to a much deeper understanding of humanity’s rich history. It is truly difficult to study a subject like history dispassionately we all have hidden biases and hidden agendas, often hidden from ourselves! Being overly confident in one’s own knowledge is a good indication that you’ve good a lot more to learn.
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