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

An excellent video discussion on ancient rulers...Rulers would like to return to the days when they can not be revoked by the people, are not accountable to anyone or thing but to themselves, is history’s greatest teachings to mankind...this is a good way of disseminating knowledge.
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Excellent documentary and incredible sights.
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I notice the rooms have entrances but no doors and the idea of tall buildings seems a good way to stay off the jungle ground gave a worry-less sleep at night. What an amazing place, I am really marveled by these structures.
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Holy Smokes...this is incredible...beautiful figure drawings of real life activities on rock that lasted this long is remarkable. Dated 2000 years before Christ as we are 2000 years after Christ is a distance. The ancient Egyptian artists were the originators of story telling with pictures. I am thinking their depictions on the walls are their way of keeping record of who does what in the division of labor in society.
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“You get what you pay for”, a truism of the modern world is true for the ancient one as well. The magnificent sarcophagi from the classical period eases death knowing ahead of time your tomb is a work of art and can never be put in the ground. Remarkable sculpturing, not likely the modern hand can replicate the hand of the ancient sculptors.
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Mmmm...plausibility and probability...intrinsic likelihood and how far is plausibility and probability from the realm of normal experience, if plausible is it probable are quite the questions? The source compared with other sources of the time and same place. Independent witnesses of the event the earlier the better. Friend and foe of the event increases the probability the event happened. Information with no axe to grind is reliable. Is it at odds or embarrassing to the source make it a worthy source of information. Guides that indicate a usual tendency, or something is endemic, as a part of the nature of the subject, inseparable from it, make it a trustworthy piece of evidence or attestation after many points of views arrive at the same conclusion...there is a common ancestor for our genus is a logical deduction of an historical event preceding the birth of Jesus by millions of years and the historical source written about the event 100 years after the life of Jesus has less authenticity as a source than the Fossil Record does about the Human Species.
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I love the critique professor. I learn more and pay good attention when dubious material is presented in a critique. Deconstructing the revisionism in (who is the guy, incidentally?)
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Money is all it takes.
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People like this degrade the academic field. Is the problem the academic field itself that individuals can acquire a PhD using bad science and revised history? Should there be some mechanism where the body of work of an individual can be assessed for its credulity and revoke the title if not credulous?
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The real danger is when Politicians make decisions based on false knowledge or when the religious take office and use government to carry out aims specific to their ideology.
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Hi Professor: Perusing through the archeological annals on line I did not find much on the Maya and their Maritime History; evidence of a boat culture exploring the Gulf of Mexico or Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, is there archeological evidence of a Maritime Mayan Culture?
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Is there any evidence anywhere in the ancient world of a working day?
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A lot of thinking is done with the wrong head in men.
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A “MUST” read for anyone interested in visiting Mexico’s fabulous ruins is the novel “AZTEC” by Gary Jennings. As a historical novel the archeological evidence of the buildings is explained in vivid scenes evoking your imagination...you’ll book a ticket, after the read. Better than Foerster’s nonsense as an introduction to Mayan history by way of Aztec histories. Aztec is a masterpiece of a page turner, you will not believe what you are reading the story line and main character’s life and travels is so amazing, ‘nuff said.
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In America, every product of labor or idea, has a double existence. Thee existences are incompatible dualities. It stands to reason that who writes history or presents it as its producer also has a double existence. It exists first as a product of some kind from which we can deduce how it was made and with what and its second existence as a commodity form two existences simultaneously. History as a commodity and history as a record of human actions enter into a conflict because the former relies on its existence through money and commodities while the other relies on the facts, integrity, objectivity, of its product the written work itself for its existence.
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Thank goodness we have artifacts of writing on stone that date back to a time when humanity did not make all its forms of work quantitative. We have a clear description of that work and when that work became extinct can be foretold. The past is all past work, past labor that is left in the artifact and embodying the constructions themselves. A present day sociologist is an archeologist examining the form of work of the past. The history of labor. We cannot deduce a civilization from anything not a product of labor like you said a lot of writing was written on paper is lost that could have told us the kind of society they were. The Spanish burned so many of the Aztec Books was the lowest blow to humanity ever struck. But we have to get the social history of work from the object(s) found. When the objects of modern civilization are found thousands of years into the future as fragments or as parts of a greater whole they will be looking for what kind of work made the artifacts of our age and they will find a generic form of labor made everything,. There wasn’t a this or that kind of work but just one kind of work was the dominant form of work, a kind of work that has no distinguishing features telling them that there were specific types of labor involved in the construction but one specific type of labor, i.e., generic labor time that was deduced from the monolithic discovery of unearthing Big Ben. From that clock fragment to the generic type of labor people performed they will have to connect the fragmented coins found and their symbolism inscribed to our ideas and what we believed. Our superstitions and religions which are still buried deep below the newly formed crust of the planet have not been dug up yet. What did the generic work of this society have to with the one eyed god on the back of a coin and from all the fragmented parts of our civilization what caused our disappearance, could it have been a major slave revolt, a disease, self-annihilation? What happened to the Olmecs is a mystery to us as we will be to them?
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No pictures?😂
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Fascinating. I hate to think that in light of all the new discoveries the modern world had been establishing its understanding of humanity on a history it never really knew. Shocking to think that everything learned was incomplete, partial, limited, and in certain cases down right wrong about ancient societies.
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Demoralizing to note that the entire western European modern world is based on a metric measurement that is based on an inaccurate measurement of the size of the earth.
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Deep commitment to be a scholar. Be so much easer with an endless stream of capital.
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The theory of archeological investigation and method of presentation is eloquently explained by the professor.
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@Mark_GL Putin is only one of 195 rulers. Biden is another, why are you only selecting one out of all the rulers of all countries. Do you not realize every country has their own ruling class whether its a political elite or an economic power and that history does not know who Putin or Biden are personally, she knows them socially as history’s actors.
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@MaryAnnNytowl Another world in China. You reveal more arrogance than you do opinion.
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From this video an explanation arises as to why Mayan Pyramids are so tall and their steps have tall risers, to see over the canopy of the jungle. A jungle canopy is non-existent in ancient Egypt and the stairs’s risers are normal for the average human being to climb. Height was not a factor in Roman or Egyptian building except in certain cases and probably to emphasize power. But for the Maya, the height of the pyramids gave them the first view of their life and surroundings from above,----what does the academic community say of the height of the Mayan buildings? On another note, I watched Foerster’s videos on the shaped heads of the ancient Inca as a practice emulating a being(s) not of this earth,---- I thought was just bizarre.
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Hancock’s theory of a lost civilization responsible for the construction of Antiquity robs modern descendants of their own pre-recorded history of the construction of their ancient cities, crafts, labor organization, culture even language. The living Maya and Inca today are dismissed, made immaterial to the subject, as having no bearing of their past civilizations because labor organization in general and skilled labor in particular plays no role in the actual physical appropriation of matter in Hancock’s view. He is not a materialist which then makes him an idealist, truth depends on thought, versus truth that depends on matter. Ultimately, he presents a world without dialectical reasoning. The most abstract form of the concrete is not a result of a relationship but a concept of the mind, i.e., a false consciousness. Man and Nature are not the active participants in a “labor-process”, in Hancock’s mental maneuverings, as the only way humans can appropriate nature’s productions in a form useful for human beings, the mental and physical powers of humanity exert themselves as tools, conduits for human activity, in this process.
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Time stop 19:00 The Sphinx et al were ‘looted ‘of its bricks to build the city of Cairo. Loot would be a poor choice of words if it were not true of other cultures. Spanish looted the Aztec Pyramids of its bricks to build Mexico City. I guess if every generation builds on the foundations of products of past labor,---passed down to them the same occurs across all cultures. A habitual relation more unique to the species not to the specific culture of the species. Reusing ready made material to tear down one ruling idea that is not compatible with another ruling idea behind which is the subjugation of one ruler by another ruler, replacing the way of life (society) that ruled the ancients with a way of life (society) that rules the victor. If this practice is found in particular, the metal stretchers that could be cleaned of toxins in the event of gas attacks and harm an injured patient carried on them when Britain was bombed in WWII, the same stretchers are used to day as railings. Reusables is a natural habit, saves labor. Not all what we are about today. Things are made not to last. The Sphinx was then molded or sculpted out from rock would then mean the rock before it was sculpted had a similar shape of the Sphinx. A rock that lent itself in the eye of someone to the creation of the head of Sitting Bull in North Dakota or the heads of the presidents in Mt. Rushmore is a rock someone saw as the body of a lion that could wear the head of an Egyptian. The tools explain how it was all done. The modern rock sculptures had the handiness of TNT the ancient sculptors had rock to shape rock. If water lay underneath the Sphinx contributing to the erosion of the body would the sink eventually sink the way San Francisco High Rises are sinking built on sandy bedrock?
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Ancient Egypt was a city and a state and had property, i.e., city-state property. City-State property in Latin is Ager Publicus. The Roman Senate distributed the Ager Publicus to an assembly of Patricians. A settlement of landowners in Ancient Egypt and Rome and a population of family units did not have the political power to distribute city-state property. In Egypt, the Pharoah would be the first administrator of city-state property and in Rome a class of Patricians are the ultimate owners of the Ager Publicus. Landownership and agriculture unified rural settlements with the city of Egypt and Rome that later in our modern times city and country are separated because agriculture no longer is produced by independent families and landownership is concentrated into fewer hands. This area of social life is primed for exploration and study to the formation of social classes. Farmers and family producers had no right to administer city-state land because they had private title to their own land and soil was a tool for their own occupations and survival. I think the view that shows of how we arrive at developed social classes today from the earliest social formations and settlements answers more questions about our species can use ourselves as tool for the soil or use the soil as a tool for ourselves is a richer understanding of human history....great video and thank you for producing it.
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