Comments by "" (@premodernist_history) on "World of Antiquity" channel.

  1. It must have been amazing to participate in that Palenque roundtable. Imagine being in the room as your field completely transforms in real time.
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  2. 18:15 Maya names are so gnarly.
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  3. I only started exploring comics a year ago, and one thing that's struck me is how much of a mythological vibe a lot of it has. Gilgamesh is another Jack Kirby creation. That guy was amazing. Such fascinating world-building.
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  4. Alexandria is such a cool city. I hope you got some seafood while you were there.
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  5. 27:11 I was hoping you'd address Raiders of the Lost Ark. Very interesting to hear what parts of it had a basis in history.
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  6.  @jap7384  That's so meta. 🙂
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  7. Phenomenal video! Thank you for putting it together.
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  8.  @WorldofAntiquity  Classic Who! A man of culture!
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  9. I loved the music in this one, especially that track near the beginning. It sounded uncannily like something from '60s Who.
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  10. The thing is, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. I use the two notations interchangeably in my videos, and I get complaints both ways. When I say BCE/CE some accuse me of being woke, and when I say BC/AD others comment that I'm not a real historian.
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  11. Other parts of Africa had written long-form content waaay later (and like Dr. Miano said, that's not a knock against African cultures). And then when they do show up, in the Middle Ages, they're translations: the Bible in Ethiopia and Islamic hadith and fiqh along the Niger River and Swahili Coast. I wonder how translations would figure into a list like the one in this video. Is it still the oldest book if it's a translation of a work from somewhere else?
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  12. All the stupid comments from morons who think every little remark is a salvo in some great existential culture war is the most exhausting thing about this platform.
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