The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (REUPLOAD)

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[hannahsolo]

45 minutes looks a lot better than 27! Been waiting with bated breath for this reupload haha. DTU is my favorite part of the Whistlerverse 😎

[ignitionfrn]

1:20 - Mid roll ads
3:00 - Back to the video
4:50 - Chapter 1 - Meet alexander the great
9:55 - Chapter 2 - The death of a legend
13:55 - Chapter 3 - The legend's missing tomb
21:40 - Chapter 4 - Alexandria
33:40 - Chapter 5 - The siwa oasis
40:10 - Chapter 6 - Venice
44:10 - Conclusion

[kayleighlehrman]

Important thing to remember; life expectancy estimates for the pre-modern world are heavily weighed down by the high number of infant deaths. Once a child makes it to double digits, its very likely they'll live into their 50s or 60s, with that likelihood going up even higher once they reach 'adulthood' (end of puberty, roughly late teens). Provided, of course, they didn't die from human causes.

[GameHammerCG]

Last time I was this early, the video didn’t have a second half.

[maledictionwolf]

24:05 - for non-UK English speakers, he's not talking about some historical Chinese thing. Chinese Whispers is the British name for the game of telephone, where you stand in a line and pass a message down the line by whispering in the ear of the person next to you, the game being to see how screwed up the message gets by the end.

[jnjn]

I’m disappointed that Decoding the Unknown didn’t cover the obvious truth: the corpse was nicked by alien ghosts!
Jokes aside, great work as always.

[Dr.RichardBanks]

Restart @27:00 for those of you who wanted to see the rest and catch up a slight bit.

[JeeVeeHaych]

Now we're talking, finding a tomb takes more than 27 minutes. Let's go!

[pcplayer]

We found a mummy in a tomb.
Simon "grind up them bones"
We found an old skeleton in an ancient cemetery.
Simon "Grind Up Them Bones"
My grandfather just died
Simon "GRIND UP THEM BONES"

[noahrenken]

Please let me edit the audio, Simon. I’m an audio engineer and I will do it for free. These vocals are way too harsh. The highs are way too present and your “S” and “T”s are overpowering. I am going to keep commenting and die on this hill until the audio is fixed because I care about the quality of your content and want it to be as good as possible.

[Tattbook]

Simon talks about young entrepeneurs showing people random buildings because no one knows what things look like, then a couple of minutes later, talks about Daniel reaching Egypt and founding Alexandria while showing the pyramid of Chichen Itza, México.

Power move.

[jameshollister]

Plot twist. Simon intentionally uploaded a video cut short, so that he'd get more veiws on the proper upload

[TheDarkDogmaticDragonArisen]

DTU: **uploads a video on Alexander the Great**

Me: **seeing the 27min runtime** "I'll wait for the re-up, thanks 😊"

Knew it wasnt long enough for ol' Al the Pretty Good

[dshafterh]

"Can we clone Alexander the Great? That would be fun."
-Simon Whistler.

[captainsavy]

This whole episode Simon was giving the energy of the giant from Jack and the beanstalk 🤣 GRIND THOSE BONES 😂😂😂😂

[kevinmcqueenie]

I do wish we could get away from the idea that people died young back in the day because of life expectancy being low. It’s average life expectancy, and given how high infant mortality (and mortality rates for mothers giving birth, usually on the younger side themselves), these figures are heavily skewed. Even among lower classes, anyone who lived to 20 had a reasonable chance of living into their fifties or even sixties.

So yeah, Alexander did die young.

[xtieburn]

32 is young. The problem is people look at life expectancy when in a lot of contexts you actually want life expectancy 5+ or something along those lines, which will get you what the average person at the time would have thought about age.
I.e. Somebody of his class in that period would be expected to live in to their 60s once theyve got past those first few years. Its the incredibly high infant mortality rate humanity has had throughout most of its history that drags the average so far down.

[NnH_Kairyu]

I was waiting for the extension. It's always so jarring when a video suddenly cuts off mid-sentence and I'm left sitting there processing the trauma. 😅

They found the second half of the video 🙏

[mikeysrose]

When Simon joked that he's already bought his casket and its sitting in his living room, I couldn't help but think of my thesis advisor in graduate school, who literally built his own coffin and is using it as a bookshelf in his upstairs hallway until he dies. He wrote a book about it if anyone is interested: Furnishing Eternity by David Giffels.