5 New Archeological Discoveries Of 2024

Uncover the secrets of history! Explore the ancient Amazonian cities, the mysterious villa of Pliny the Elder, Pompeii’s Black Room, Venice's lost church, and John IV's chateau. Dive into the past with us!

[lockpickingparamedic]

The romans most certainly wouldn’t have cleared their search history, they would have posted it publicly

[AifDaimon]

Wow, Pompeii still tossing surprises at us even now in 2024.. Hats off to the dedicated archaeologists for their tireless work

[pooryorick]

I am an archaeology buff and a space buff. This is a great time to be both. They are keeping me going while I am confined to a wheechair and bed after breaking both feet.

[justingoodman]

I STILL think Simon should hang a picture of the painting "Whistler's Mother" in the background of all of his videos.

[badmonkey]

The confidence in which those Italians names are butchered in Simon's voice is actually pretty funny 😅

[sgholt]

I went into the brothel in Pompei on our tour of the city, there was a phallic symbol on the street pointing the way to the brothel...the pictures on the wall were crazy :p

[bunbunnio]

the anger/annoyance at the repetitive names😭 “Joanne also had a daughter. Named Joanne. So Joanne, Joanne, and John-“ LOL

[RydarkVoyager]

The War of 2 Joans sounds like an idea for a Monty Python sketch, but no set of comedians (however talented) can match the sheer absurdity of real history.

[LadyMoonweb]

Sounds like Pliny the elder had asthma. Brave indeed to proceed under such circumstances.

[chrisjags]

I'm picturing a Dynasty Warriors-type video game where you can play everyone from the War of Succession, and all the hundreds of warriors on the battlefield are called Joan and John

[andrewgriffin]

Simon speed reading the history of John's house was *chef's kiss*

[graphixkillzzz]

"Fortune favors the brave"
"hold my beer"
same energy 🤔🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤣👉

[chrisreadwells]

@16:45, the quotation is captioned as Pliny the Younger rather than Sir Francis Palgrave.

[AndyJarman]

For anyone confused by the footage of a town with tall rectangular towers in it, inserted into the section about the lost Venetian church of San Giminiano.

These are shots of the Tuscan hill town of San Giminiano, just north of Sienna and south of Firenza (Florence).

The people putting together this footage obviously knew nothing about San Gominiano, but when they were told the narrative was about a church in Venice named for San Giminiano they blindly inserted aerial shots of a town several hundred miles away with the same name that the church in Venice had.

Bit of a balls up really.

[zach]

the picture at 3:08 is of a yucca plant, the people in the Amazon were growing yuca, aka cassava, not yucca. totally different plant

[IlRyanWilsonlI]

The war of two Joan's sounds like a book club quarrel from the 60s

[pioneercynthia]

_Audentes iuvat Fortuna_ has been my life motto for over thirty-five years now.

[maddiethomas]

Yeah.... my papa's family tree ties him to the Joan, Joan and John mess. We love doing genealogy but dang! We're serious stuck on these branches!

[Opus]

I wonder what future societies will think when they dig us up...

[dinsdalemontypiranha]

That was great Simon. My thanks to you and the people you work with.