1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: Hello, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland's We're coming to see you 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: guys this January. It's coming up soon, isn't it, Chuck. 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: That's right. It's our annual visit now to San Francisco 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Sketch Fest, for my money, the best comedy festival around, 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: and they have us back kind of every year now, 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: which is great. Oh yeah, it's an annual tradition these days. 7 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: And we're gonna be there on Sunday, January fourteenth at 8 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: the Castro Theater. And there are tickets left, but they're 9 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: going fast. Portland's you guys are sold out, have been 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: for a while. Hats off to you guys in Seattle. 11 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 1: We're coming to see you guys January, and there's even 12 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 1: fewer tickets left than there are for San Francisco. That's right. 13 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: That's in the More Theater and you can get all 14 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: the ticket information at s y s K live dot com. 15 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: Are live touring home on the web, so so happy 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: holidays and hurry up. Welcome to Stuff you Should Know 17 00:00:52,479 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: from how Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 18 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck 19 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: Bryan there. Wait, wait, I know you thought I was 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: gonna say Jerry, but you're wrong because it's Noel today, 21 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: guest producer Noel, and that makes this stuff you should know. 22 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: That's how you doing. I'm good. Noel. Who is the 23 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: the eighth Wonder of the ancient world? Yes, and the 24 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: modern world too. He spans he spans space and time. Yes, 25 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: like the Colossus span the harbor of Rhodes or did it? Uh, 26 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: it didn't. We're gonna learn a lot, Chuck. I'm so 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: excited about this one. Oh yeah, these two? You mean 28 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: these two? That's right? Um? Yeah, I hit upon it 29 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is a two parter right here, 30 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: and I can't believe we haven't done this already. Like 31 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: everybody knows about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world, 32 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: but nobody knows about the seven Wonders of the ancient world. 33 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Nobody knows about them at all. 34 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: It's like a perfect, perfect stuff you should know episode 35 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: if you ask me times two a sequel, that's right. 36 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: So um, to get started, we we probably would. Let's 37 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: just give a brief overview of the seven Wonders. Okay, 38 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: let's do should you just want to name them? Yeah, 39 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna do them chronologically too, Okay, 40 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: is that how they're listed for me? Yeah? Okay, Well, 41 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: then first up we have the the the Great Pyramid, 42 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: the Great Pyramid of Giza, right, and then after that, 43 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: again chronologically, there's the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and apparently 44 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: there used to be it used to be the Walls 45 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: of Babylon in addition to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 46 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: but they were removed later. Uh. And then what's next, chuck, 47 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: the Temple of our artemies at here we go the 48 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Uh, either one Artemis at 49 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: Ephesus nice man um. And then there's a statue of 50 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: Zeus at Olympia, which I have to admit I had 51 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: not heard of before I had heard of that one. 52 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: I think, I think a couple of these. I felt 53 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: bad because maybe I had disregarded some of the Seven 54 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: Wonders of the ancient world because a couple of these 55 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: were news to me. Oh yeah, okay, so that one 56 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: was for me. The Mausoleum at hell Carnassis was also 57 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: new for me too. Yeah. Colossus of Rhodes old hat sure, 58 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: everybody knows that one. Come on, yeah, Like, I've got 59 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: Colossus of Rhodes underwear on right now. I know you 60 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: where you got that whole style where you wear the 61 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: sag and you show your underwear too, that's right. Uh. 62 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: And then finally the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which is I 63 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: think I had heard of that one. But when when 64 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: you put these all together, it is not. It is 65 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: no small list, no, and and so this list, like 66 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: you may wonder who put this list together, you know, uh, 67 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: maybe Jacques Cousteau, maybe um bertrand Russell, who knows. It's 68 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: actually way, way way older than that. Um This list 69 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: goes back to the time of ancient Greece. Actually, and 70 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: they're not entirely certain who wrote the first one, but 71 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: there were several people who kind of took the list 72 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: and and added to it or subtracted to it. And 73 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: there's a bunch of candidates for who who had written 74 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: the list, But the one I saw that's pretty roundly 75 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: considered probably the first one to have written a list 76 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: is Diodorus Cecilius or Diodorus of Sicily. Yeah. And the 77 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 1: reason that these lists were made was because at the 78 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: time Greece had done a pretty good job of subjugating 79 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: a lot of the areas around it, like Turkey, Persia, Babylon, 80 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 1: and these places were now safe for Greeks to go visit. 81 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: And because the Greeks were wealthy and had a lot 82 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: of leisure time, they actually became some of the world's 83 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: first tourists, international tourists. And that was basically the you know, 84 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: the list of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world was, hey, 85 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: you should go visit these things, go to these places 86 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: and see these things, and so some people would go 87 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: do I think it was probably a point of pride 88 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 1: to be able to say I've seen all seven what 89 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: they called the amata. Yeah, theiamata translates as things to 90 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: be seen, or if you want to get even more modern, 91 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: it's literally like here are your musties if you're going 92 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: on vacation. It was kind of like the first travel 93 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: website kind of, but it was just a list. Yeah, 94 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 1: it wasn't on the web yet. That would take a 95 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: couple of hundred years, at least a couple of hundred 96 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: because these guys they did live in like the third, fourth, 97 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: fifth centuries BC, right, Yeah, so over time, this list, 98 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: like I said, it was, Um, it started out I 99 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: think with um, the Great Pyramid has always been on there, 100 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: hanging gardens have always been on there, Temple of Artemis, 101 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: Statue Zeus, the Mausoleum, the classes of and then I 102 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: think the lighthouse at Alexandria may not have been on 103 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 1: and it was the wall of the walls of Babylon, 104 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: and they said, we've already got bab blond covered, you guys, 105 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: this lighthouse is to be seen. So it was eventually 106 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: compiled and that list. So the list itself is pretty 107 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: ancient too. Yeah. In Babylon, if they had one motto, 108 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: it was come for the gardens, stay for the wall, 109 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: for sure, you know. Yeah. Um. So out of all 110 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: of those, the the only ones that are still around 111 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: actually is the Great Pyramid. Yeah. I mean there are 112 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,679 Speaker 1: bits of some of these and various museums, most notably 113 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: the British Museum. Yeah. And there are some ruins on 114 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: the site still yeah, here and there, some some ruins 115 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: underwater here and there. Um. I used to have you 116 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: been to a lot of ruins? I've been to Pompeii, 117 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: you me and I went. It was kind of the 118 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Yeah. You have you been 119 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: to Pompeii? Yeah? What ruins? Have you been to? Just 120 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: your your your garden variety ruins like uh, in Rome, 121 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Oh yeah, man, the Colosseum, Yeah, 122 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: that was something to be seen. Huh yeah, I mean 123 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: it's part of me. Like when I go to see ruins, 124 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: it's um, it's really cool because I try and take 125 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: myself back to that time. But then when I stand 126 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: back and look at it and it's in its current surroundings, 127 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: sometimes you get a little sad because there's a lot 128 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: of people like chewing gum and on their phone and stuff. Yeah, 129 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: you know, yeah man, and especially well we'll talk about 130 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: the Pyramids. Uh, but you know have you have you 131 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: seen the famous pizza hut pictures? No, what are you 132 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: talking about? Well, you know that the Pyramids. Oh is 133 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: that a photo shopped? No, it's not photo shopped. The 134 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: Pyramids back right up or I guess front, right up 135 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: to Cairo. H. So you always see the of image 136 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: looking at the Pyramids from Cairo. If you see the 137 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: image looking the other way, there's like a city right 138 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: button up against it. In an ancient Egyptian in the 139 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: foreground turns of the camera with a single tear coming down. 140 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: But he was really Italian. Now there's there, there's a 141 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: literally a pizza hut kfc um, which you could do 142 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: worse facing you could be a burger kid facing the 143 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: Great Pyramids of Egypt and the Sphinx. And in one 144 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: of the windows of the pizza hut there's the Pizza 145 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: Hut logo. And if you stand inside that Pizza Hut, 146 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 1: you can take a photograph of that Pizza Hut cap 147 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: and logo kind of sitting on top of the pyramid. 148 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: And uh so, you know, there are all kinds of 149 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: photos now of Pizza Hut, and it's just it's sort 150 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: of you know, it's not it speaks of the times, 151 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:59,599 Speaker 1: you know, which is what I talked about being a 152 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: little s add there's a pizza hut. There's a freaking 153 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: Kentucky Fried Chicken yards from the Great Pyramids. Yeah, I 154 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: know how I feel about that. I guess that's well, 155 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear how you feel about it. 156 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: You don't like it, I don't know. But I mean 157 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: you can't say, like, no, what are you gonna have 158 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: a restaurant here? You can't do anything it's just it 159 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: is what it is, you know. Yeah, I mean, it's 160 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: not like you're gonna live without KFC for a second. 161 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 1: That's true. I would challenge some KFC if I was 162 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: over there, the very famous one by the Pern I 163 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 1: know what you mean. Though, Sure, you know it was 164 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: a little weird, But at the same time you're like, wow, 165 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: you know this thing was built by slaves who died working. 166 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: So maybe the KFC is actually preferable in some ways, 167 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, And maybe that's what I should feel 168 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: sad about. Just feel sad about both. Okay, so let's 169 00:09:52,679 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: go to the Great Pyramids of Giza and there's actually 170 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: if you go, um, oh, we're gonna really wear out 171 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: the way Back Machine huh yeah this and gased it up. 172 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: It's ready, um, and I got a new air fresher 173 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 1: and you like it. I'm not big on the pineapple, 174 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: but it's all right, pineapple. We can swap it out 175 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: for the second part. Okay, Okay, So, um, we're gonna 176 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: get in the Way Back Machine and if you go, 177 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: we're actually just gonna go back a couple of days 178 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: because we're going to modern times. But if we're gonna 179 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: look at the Great Pyramid at Giza. There's actually just 180 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: one of them that's on the list of the seven 181 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: Wonders of the Ancient World. It's one particular one, the 182 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: Pyramid of Kufu or Chaops is what the Greeks call them, 183 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: and his is the biggest pyramid of them all. Yeah, 184 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 1: I mean there are more than, uh more than or 185 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: exactly eighty pyramids scattered across Egypt, uh various sizes and there. 186 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: Imagine they're all pretty great to go look at. But 187 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: the big daddy of them all, like you said, is 188 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: Cufu k h u f U, and it is. It 189 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: is the one you know that you can get with 190 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: the pizza hut cap on top right. It's one. It's 191 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: the main dude there with the three pyramids with the 192 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: sphinx standing by watching over Kentucky Fried Chicken to make 193 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 1: sure nobody robs it. Well, it actually would work really 194 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: well for that pizza hut cap because it's the one 195 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: of the three. You always see the three together. The 196 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: other two are the Pyramid of menku Are and the 197 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: other one is Pyramid of Coffree, and they're smaller, but 198 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: if you'll notice those two have points. The biggest one, 199 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: the Pyramid of Kufu has a flat top, like it 200 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: just knew that that pizza hut was coming in four 201 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: thousand years right. But the so we know so little 202 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,719 Speaker 1: about this pyramid that they're they're not entirely certain if 203 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: this is true or not. But there's a pretty widespread 204 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: theory that um, that pyramid was actually unfinished. Oh really, 205 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: they couldn't bring this final stones, huh. That maybe everybody 206 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: involved died or there was a change in dynasty or something. 207 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: But they think and there's other evidence we'll talk about, 208 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: but it seems like it might have been unfinished. Didn't 209 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: Napoleon toot off the nose of the sphinx? Or is that? 210 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: Is that an old wives tale that was isis? Okay? 211 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,719 Speaker 1: Probably so took. One of the things that's so great 212 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: about this pyramids just how massive it is, right, It's 213 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: it's tall. It's very tall. It's like, um, four hundred 214 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: and eighty feet tall, which that's that's a substantial height 215 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: if you ask me. Yeah, I mean for a long 216 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: time it was one of the tallest or the tallest 217 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: building in the world, which is amazing. Yeah, until the 218 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: fourteenth century when Lincoln Cathedral in England finally topped it. 219 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:49,599 Speaker 1: So for almost for about thirty four hundred years, it 220 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: stood as the tallest structure man made, human made structure 221 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: in the world. It's hard to believe. Yeah, it's pretty cool. 222 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,439 Speaker 1: And then it's side. Each side at the base is 223 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: about seven one hundred and fifty five ft long. There's 224 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 1: just massive, massive structures. Yeah. And you know how I 225 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 1: was talking about the fact that it's uh, it just 226 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:14,559 Speaker 1: butt right up against Cairo. Um at least it's not surrounding, uh, 227 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: like the city is not just on all sides. So 228 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: if you do look at it from the city, it's 229 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: on the Giza plateau and that is still you know, 230 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: I'm not sure how far it goes back, but you know, 231 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: a nice wide aerial shots. Looks like most of that 232 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: plateau is pretty preserved at least. So so this the 233 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: whole thing. The pyramid was built um sometime during the 234 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: reign of King Kufu appropriately enough, Um and the king 235 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 1: rain from I think sixty six. So it's pretty old 236 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: pyramid and it's it's you know, and it's made of 237 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: just a ton of blocks cut blocks, right. So one 238 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: of the things like if you go on some sites, 239 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,199 Speaker 1: uh you'll find people who's just kind of poopoo the 240 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: pyramids there is just like it's just pile piles of 241 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: stone really, but it's actually pretty clever engineering, especially considering 242 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: how long ago, um it was built. It's not just 243 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: a pilot stone. There's a lot of corridors and shafts 244 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: and rooms, and the engineers had to take into account 245 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: where to place these things so that they structure didn't 246 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: collapse in on itself as it you know aged um. 247 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: So it is a pretty pretty big feet of engineering 248 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: just in addition to its size, you know. Yeah, I 249 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: mean there are more than two million pile of stones. 250 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: Who says that some people online? Yea more than two 251 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: million limestone and granite blocks, the weight of about six 252 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: and a half million tons, And these things are engineered 253 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: such that they that it's about a fifty one degree 254 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: slope on each side, and each side is faces exactly 255 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: to the four cardinal directions. So it's pretty impressive. Yeah, 256 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: that's no accident. It's not like it just happened to 257 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: land that way. It was all done very much on purpose. 258 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: These rocks fit together, the blocks really really tightly, less 259 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: than a fiftieth of an inch separating them. So that 260 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: right there is why these things are still standing, you know, right, 261 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: And so when you look at the pyramid, it's actually 262 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: so I think, I said fot, I think it's fo 263 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: at its height originally it was four ft and it 264 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: was also encased in limestone. Um, well, did it originally 265 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: have the point then? I don't think so, because I 266 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: think they would. I think there's some other stuff that 267 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: suggests that was unfinished too. Um. I don't know if 268 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: I ever had the point. I don't know if anybody 269 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: knows for certain, but it seems like it hadn't been 270 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: put on yet, like an inscription at the top that's 271 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: just not quite done. Well, that's one of the things. 272 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons why they think that it 273 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: wasn't done, because it's lacking inscriptions that other pyramids have, 274 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: like in aces, doesn't have no more like we dedicate 275 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: this to the sun god raw in the name of 276 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: King Kufu and um, right, yeah, the usual. So it's 277 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: lacking any kind of inscriptions. The king's burial chamber, the 278 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: actual sarcophagus, which is just this huge, massive stone that 279 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: they actually built the chamber around. It's not like they 280 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: built the room and then imported this thing was it's 281 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: bigger than any entrance to the room, but it's it's 282 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: kind of rough, it's got some cut marks still showing, 283 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: and it was obviously not finished. And then the other 284 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: reason why they think that it wasn't ever finished, Chuck, 285 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: was that there's no evidence that anyone ever found any treasure, 286 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: loot bodies, anything. It's like, yeah, it's like it's this dead, 287 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: empty place that has never been used. Ironically too and 288 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: tomb dead people into it was just never finished either. 289 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: So that's one theory that it was finished and never used. 290 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: Another one is that it actually was looted and it 291 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: was looted so thoroughly that um, there's just not even 292 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 1: evidence of it being looted. And then the yeah, it's 293 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: kind of impressive. And then the last one, uh, is 294 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: that um, it is finished, and that all of these 295 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: shafts and like walkways and crawl spaces that we found 296 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 1: are actually meant to distract you from the real places 297 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 1: where the tombs are that we've just not found yet. 298 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 1: Couldn't they find those? By now? Though not necessarily, they're 299 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: still finding like secret rooms and passages that are hidden 300 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: from view. They're just starting now apply the technology to 301 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: seeing through stone. Literally, just get up the X ray 302 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: camera right and just stand at pizza hut, zoom in 303 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 1: right and just see what's in that thing. You don't 304 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: even need that. You can send off for some of 305 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: those X ray specs from a comic book exactly. I 306 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: don't know why, and no one else has thought of 307 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: this yet, So I have a question. Then they said 308 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 1: it's originally covered in limestone in that case, sing, does 309 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: that mean that originally it was it was not in 310 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: a step pattern and it was just smooth on the outside. Yes, 311 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: How in the world did they get up there? Would 312 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: they just slide back down? Well, the answer that it's 313 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: obvious it was aliens that helped them. That's right, That's 314 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: that's it. That's the answer. I have no idea, Chuck, 315 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 1: that's a really good question to tell you. Maybe they 316 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 1: maybe there's a passageway inside right that they can come 317 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: at the top, You come out the top, pull the 318 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,399 Speaker 1: limestone up into place, and then slide down and start 319 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 1: the process over again. Interesting. But if you want to 320 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: see kind of probably what it looked like, just go 321 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: look at the Iron Maid in Power Slave album covered 322 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 1: it's kind of like smoothly covered. It's not stepped really. 323 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: I mean there's steps, but they're they're meant to be 324 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: like a staircase. It's not steps on the outside. Oh yeah, 325 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: that makes sense. So yeah. So in the fourteenth century 326 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: there was an earthquake and as you'll see, that becomes 327 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: a pattern here with a lot of these ancient uh 328 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: wonders that would become ruins because of earthquakes. Um. You know, 329 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,360 Speaker 1: most of these in the Middle East. It's a volatile 330 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: area tectonically speaking, so um, you know, over the course 331 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 1: of thousands of years, things are going to tumble over time, 332 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: you know, And it is what happened in this case. 333 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: It's basically earthquakes, earthquake, earthquake, earthquake, over and over again. 334 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: It's the great leveler of monuments, right. Yeah. But the 335 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: Cufoo Pyramids stood. It was stood that earthquake because it's 336 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: just more than a pile of rox. It is so 337 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 1: big and so grand and so heavy, I guess, and 338 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: probably a little luck came involved as well. Yeah, but 339 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: it was also really good engineering too, for sure. But 340 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 1: the the earthquake did get it in that it did 341 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: level Cairo and they went out to the pyramid and 342 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,439 Speaker 1: took the limestone off of it and used it to 343 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: rebuild Cairo. Yeah, and that's another common refrain of notices. 344 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: A lot of these would be toppled, and then people 345 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: would come in and say, let's use this stuff for 346 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: like actual for the city, yeah, instead of just some 347 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: monument to a ruler. Yeah. And if you are you 348 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: ever gonna go see the pyramids? I was. It was 349 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: sort of on the old bucket list until I saw 350 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: the pizza hut thing today. Oh man, that's funny. And 351 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: I read an article where someone was like, don't do it, 352 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: just don't go really, Yeah, but I mean that's just 353 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: one person's opinion. We also had people that said the 354 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 1: the northern lights aren't that impressive. Yeah, and that one 355 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: one person. Yeah, we got shouted down for that. Oh 356 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: my god. It still happens from time to time. Yeah. Um. 357 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: So if you do go the chuck the way that 358 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: you go into the pyramid, as far as you can, 359 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: it's actually and no one's figured out how to go 360 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: in the way that it was intended. It's that that 361 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: entrance is lost to history as far as I know. 362 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: The entrance that you use is actually a carved tunnel 363 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: through the pyramid from the ninth century from this guy 364 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: named Abdullah all Mama who oversaw the a looting expedition, 365 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: and he's one of the reasons why they think that 366 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: it was unused because even back in the ninth century, 367 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: this guy couldn't find anything in the sealed pyramid interesting. 368 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: And you gain access to that through the bathroom of 369 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: pizza with your X ray specs. You want to take 370 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: a break, Yeah, let's do that. Let's do it now. Hey, everybody, 371 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 1: we're back. Yes, we are no more poopo ng of 372 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: modern things next to old things. I sound like an 373 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 1: old man grabbing, grabbing along. That's all right, man uh. 374 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: And this next one is interesting hanging gardens of Babylon, 375 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: because this is one that that may not have even existed. Um, 376 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 1: these are this is the we're going chron chronologically, like 377 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: you said, so the second oldest if it was real, 378 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: built in about the sixth century. And obviously these don't 379 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: exist anymore in any shape or form. But the deal 380 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: is that these this was in like modern day Iraq, 381 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: and they were gardens that it was really about the building. Um, 382 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: it's kind of like the first big botanical garden it 383 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: wasn't just things hanging from the sky. It was plants, 384 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: uh and trees and everything planted in this grand, big 385 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 1: building that had water flowing through it. Yeah, in the desert. Yeah. 386 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: So if it was in Babylon, it would have been 387 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: about ninety miles or kilometers, you can't remember which one 388 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: outside of Baghdad modern day Baghdad, right. And if it 389 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 1: wasn't Babylon, they think that maybe King Nebuchaannezzar built the gardens. 390 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: This is according to legend, at least he built the 391 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 1: gardens for his wife Amatists, who was from the north 392 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: where it's much more fertile and green, and apparently amateurs 393 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: mr her homeland, so the king built her the hanging gardens. 394 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: And again this is in the desert, so to to. 395 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 1: And Babylon was a magnificent place in and of itself 396 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: again like their walls were once on this list of 397 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: seven Wonders to go see right. Um. But supposedly it 398 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: was just this enormous building, tiered with huge walkways, and 399 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: they they planted it with dirt and trees. And there's 400 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: a a quote that said it was thickly planted with 401 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 1: trees of every kind that by their great size or 402 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: charm could give pleasure to the beholder. That was Diodorus 403 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: who said that, and he was writing like for a 404 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: while after um, they would have been built. But the 405 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: idea that you could just walk down tree line avenues 406 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: in this building in the desert, it's pretty neat. Yeah, 407 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: I mean, I get this inset. In today's terms, it 408 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: would be like a sort of a nice office park. Yeah, 409 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: I guess now we just take them for granted. But 410 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: back then it was a big deal. You didn't have 411 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 1: these structures with all these plants in the middle of 412 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: the desert like this. Um, it was along the Euphrates 413 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: River most likely, and we're talking about I mean, it 414 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: looks any of the pictures that you've seen, it really 415 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,880 Speaker 1: looks like it was something else about seventy five ft tall, 416 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 1: like you said, tiered. Uh, this brick structure with plants 417 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 1: and waterfalls coming off of it and twenty two ft 418 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: thick walls four feet wide and all all manner of 419 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: flora all over the place and irrigated from the Euphrates River. 420 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: Right if if again, it wasn't Babylon. But there's a 421 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: couple of reasons why that whole thing is um. Why 422 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,360 Speaker 1: it's question right. So for on the one hand, there's 423 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: no evidence of it, no one said this is where 424 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: it was, um, And other people say, well, of course 425 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: you can't say that these were plants, these were gardens. 426 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: There's not gonna be any trace of it left. Maybe 427 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: you know, we found the building and we don't even 428 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: realize it. Um. The reason why they think it might 429 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 1: not have actually existed in Babylon is because, first of all, 430 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 1: King Nebuchadnezzar loved to boast about all of the stuff 431 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: he did. He left inscriptions in cuneiform basically everywhere. He's like, 432 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,479 Speaker 1: you know, uh, let out like a thirty second belch today, 433 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: King Nebuchadnezzar, he would have stuff like this inscribed. Right. 434 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: I can't think of anyone today who I could like 435 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 1: him that too, But yes, right, exactly, like he was 436 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: one of a kind. No ruler ever has bore any resemblance. 437 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: But he never mentioned the gardens of Babylon and any 438 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: cuneiform tablet that's ever been discovered. Yeah, he did not 439 00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 1: tout it in writing, which is very very usual. And 440 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: then there's another UM guy, Herod Herodotus UM. He was 441 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: a a Storian from Greece, and he wrote a basically 442 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: a monograph on Babylon a hundred years after Nebuchadnezzar, and 443 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 1: he didn't mention the hanging gardens at all. No gardens, 444 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 1: no legend of a garden, no talk of a garden, 445 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: no garden. I visited nothing about gardens. And the idea 446 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: that he would have passed over one of the great 447 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: wonders of the ancient world when he's writing about the 448 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: town that contains it, it's pretty questionable. So some people say, well, 449 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't in Babylon. Maybe it was in another 450 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: place in Assyria. Yeah, maybe, uh, the Assyrian queen built it. 451 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: Maybe the ruler of Nineveh, whose name and these names 452 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: I just love kicking through all these names, as if 453 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: Nebuchadnezzar wasn't good enough. Uh senac arib it's great, the 454 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: ruler of Nineveh may have built them. Um. I had 455 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: always thought these were real, But I tend to think 456 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: that maybe uh Nebucadnezzar didn't have anything to do with it, 457 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: because it doesn't You're right, I don't. I don't think 458 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 1: it makes any sense that it was not mentioned in 459 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: any of these accounts, right, because they just and it 460 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 1: wasn't just Nebuchadnezzar all all this stuff like keeping records. 461 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: It was all very new. It was like the hot 462 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: thing to do, you know, And so they wouldn't just say, oh, 463 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: by the way, we we failed to mention we built 464 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: this what would eventually be a wonder of the world, 465 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: but we just didn't think it was important enough to 466 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: write down. Yeah, and this this is from Nebuchadnezzar, who 467 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: used to leave like inscriptions in the blocks of buildings 468 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 1: saying built by Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of Babylon from C to C. 469 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: Even if he didn't build it, he would have been 470 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: right exactly, he would have mentioned it. Right. So if 471 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: if it was in ninevah Um, it would have been 472 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,719 Speaker 1: close to present day Mosel in northern Iraq, right. And 473 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: if it was in ninevah then we've actually already found 474 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 1: the gardens of Babylon be because they they discovered a 475 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,919 Speaker 1: structure that was clearly and something similar to what the 476 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: Gardens of Babylon have described. It was a structure that 477 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 1: m had irrigation brought to it, that used water screws 478 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: to pump water, remember from our Archimedes death ray episode, 479 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: um to pump it upward to this thing. So we 480 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 1: found a garden basically a botanical garden structure in ninevah. 481 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: So if it is there, we now know where the 482 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: hanging gardens were. Yeah, and that is the idea, is 483 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 1: that they took this water up them from the Euphrates 484 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 1: into these big holding tanks, uh, these big cisterns essentially 485 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: on top, and then it would use a very clever 486 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: system of of gravity to then feed down and irrigate 487 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: all the different areas as as it flowed downward. Right, 488 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: Really something to see. I can't imagine what it must 489 00:28:54,800 --> 00:29:00,239 Speaker 1: have been like like, especially there, can't, you know, kind 490 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: of disappointed now I have to admit why because it 491 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: doesn't sound like it was it was there or maybe 492 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: even real. Yeah, but it could have been a ninevah. 493 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: I think it was real. I think it was a ninevah. 494 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,239 Speaker 1: And yeah, because if you if you look at the 495 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: if you look at some I think it was Diodorius. 496 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: Diodorus is writing from Sicily, the guy from Sicily. He 497 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: says that they were hanging gardens, but they were built 498 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: by a Syrian king. So I'm pretty sure. That's that's it. 499 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: So they were real, Chuck, and we know where they are. Um. 500 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: And then you want to do one more for this episode. Yeah, 501 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: let's take a break and we'll come back and finish 502 00:29:38,520 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: up with the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, right for this? Okay, Chuck, 503 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: and we're back this one. This might be my faith. 504 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite one yet? Uh? My favorite 505 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: one will be in the next episode. Okay, cool. How's 506 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: that for a tease. That's a great tease. This one's 507 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: pretty good though, because this took, by all accounts, over 508 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty years to build and just one 509 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: night to go bye bye. Yeah, which is how it 510 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: goes sometimes, especially when there's someone with pyromania involved. Yeah, exactly. So, uh, 511 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: Ephesus thesis, Thesis, That's where I'm going with. How about you, 512 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: Artemis at Ephesus. I think it sounds better. I think 513 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: that might be it. So if thesis is Um. It's 514 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: actually a pretty well known city of the ancient world, 515 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: and I think it's still around in some some way, 516 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: shape or form. But it was It used to be 517 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: a fabulously wealthy ports city in Um what's today Turkey, 518 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: but it was under the control basically of Greece, and 519 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,479 Speaker 1: from what I understand, it was allowed to remain an 520 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: independent city state, but it was still like that was 521 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: at the pleasure of Greece and then later Rome. But 522 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: they managed to be an important place of um finance 523 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 1: and law too. I think that's where a lot of 524 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: the courts were was in Ephesus. But it was also 525 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: well known for all of its magic cults. Right, Yes, 526 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: that's where the magician's mansion was located back in the 527 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: ancient world. Yes, so when they call it the city 528 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: of magic, they mean that literally, right, not magic city. 529 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: It's but it had like a quarter of a million 530 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: residents at its peaker at the time when the Temple 531 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: of Artemis was in full swing, and it was originally 532 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: built this temple, this massive, huge temple um back in 533 00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: five b C. By again named King Croesus. They think 534 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: that that might be old King Cole Did you know that? 535 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: Oh really? Huh, that's what I've always heard, so King 536 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: Crosus of Lydia. And this one, if you look it 537 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: up under the images it is it looks like you're 538 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: you're kind of classic Greek temple. It's rectangular, uh, that 539 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: it measures about three fifty by one eight feet. And 540 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: the thing about this one that is is uh really 541 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: jumped out at me were the columns and there are 542 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: more than a hundred columns and their marble and it's 543 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: not just like everything had columns. So that's that's all fine, 544 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: and well, these are enough with the columns. These are 545 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 1: the ionic architectural style columns. But these were like if 546 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: you look at it, there like the two rows of 547 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 1: columns on the front. To me, like the fact that 548 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: they doubled them up and offset them is just really 549 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 1: kind of striking looking. It is. It's gorgeous. And if 550 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: you're just the size of this thing to in length 551 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: or in depth, that's like one in the one in 552 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: uh more than one football field American football field, which 553 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: is this is a pretty good sized temple. It's it's 554 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: not as massive as you might think initially, but it's 555 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 1: still pretty big. Well, I mean, you gotta you have 556 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: to think all of this in ancient standards like today, 557 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 1: you look at a building the size of football field, 558 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: it's not that big of a deal, but it's still large. 559 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: But by those standards back then, it was enormous, right, 560 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: which I'm I'm I'm happy with saying it's massive. Put 561 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: on your ancient hats, folks. Plus also, let's also, um, 562 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: just the the ornate detail that was carved into the 563 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,720 Speaker 1: structure in every single spot, it was pretty neat. And 564 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: then if you looked at the pediment of the temple 565 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 1: of the base, there was a door and two windows. 566 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: I believe the windows are on either side of the door. 567 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: That was not for you, Pion, that was for Artemis 568 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 1: to enter and leave her temple at her whim. That's right, 569 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: So Artemis herself, this is this is one of the 570 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: reasons by this is my favorite. Artemis herself was um 571 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: the Greek precursor to the Roman Diana. Okay, she was 572 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 1: the goddess of fertility of the hunt and I believed 573 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 1: the moon too right, And she was Apollo's twin sister. 574 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: She was the daughter of Zeus and Liedo, so she 575 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: was a pretty important deity. But she was kind of 576 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 1: cobbled together at the Temple of Artemis with an already 577 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:34,320 Speaker 1: much much much older deity for the area Um and 578 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 1: her name was Sybil, and Sybil was based on an 579 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: ancient like fertility goddess from nine thousand years ago so 580 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,960 Speaker 1: they took Sybil and they took Artemis, who basically represented 581 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 1: the same thing but to two different cultures, and they 582 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: put it together at this temple of Artemis at a thesis. Yeah, 583 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,839 Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about a statue. I don't think 584 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: we said that. Oh yeah, we No, we didn't. We 585 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 1: weren't talking about some kind of weird black voodoo, black magic. Right, 586 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: It's a statue built from gold, silver, ebony, and some 587 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: other stuff they had laying around, uh pull tabs from 588 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: tab cans. Sure, it was like a found object basically. 589 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: But this what's amazing about this one. You can actually 590 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 1: look up the statue even though uh, these are just 591 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: I don't know if where there ever pictures of it, 592 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: or is it's just called from I don't I don't know, man, 593 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,360 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it was just from writings or 594 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: if they do have it somewhere. Well, the cool thing 595 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 1: is is the statue has this row of bulbs hanging 596 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,399 Speaker 1: from her body, and if you look at it looks 597 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:43,080 Speaker 1: like she's wearing a a tunic made of avocados or 598 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: like water balloons. Sure, but what they are is up 599 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,359 Speaker 1: for debate. Some people say, well, they're obviously breast. She's 600 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: a fertility goddess for it does It would make even 601 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: more sense if it weren't for the fact that Sybils 602 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:03,800 Speaker 1: cult Um was known to castrate bulls as sacrifice, so 603 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: they think they were probably bull testicles, and the actually 604 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: the the Cibil cult high priests would castrate themselves so 605 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 1: they could be more like Sybil i e. Without testicles. 606 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 1: Remember our castration episode. Boy, we've talked about a lot 607 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:28,920 Speaker 1: of stuff, Chuck, we have. So you've got this amazing, wonderful, 608 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: super cool statue in already amazing temple. And it's not 609 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: just me who thought that um that it was the 610 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,840 Speaker 1: most amazing one of all. There was another guy who wrote. 611 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:48,400 Speaker 1: His name was antipurav Sidon. He says, I, and this 612 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,800 Speaker 1: is he's writing back in Um. You know, I guess 613 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: BC still because he was an ancient Greek. But he said, Um, 614 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 1: I have seen the walls of unbreachable Babylon. Remember that 615 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,439 Speaker 1: was aginally went seven wonders along which chariots may race, 616 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 1: and the statue of Zeus by the river Alphaeus, the 617 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:10,759 Speaker 1: hanging gardens, and the Colossus of the Sun, the great 618 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,840 Speaker 1: Man made mountains of the lofty pyramids and the gigantic 619 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: tomb of Mossulus. But when I saw the sacred House 620 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: of Artemus reaching the clouds, the others paled. And that 621 00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,920 Speaker 1: was antipur of side on right. So he's saying, like, 622 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,840 Speaker 1: I've seen all the wonders and to me, the Temple 623 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,719 Speaker 1: of Artemis, that Efsis is the best. And he said, 624 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 1: you got to see it. She has bull testicles hanging 625 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: around her neck. You've never seen anything like. Uh. So 626 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 1: this thing was very I mean it was. It was 627 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 1: a legit tourist destination. People would travel long distances to 628 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,480 Speaker 1: come to this place to see the statue in the temple, 629 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 1: and it was I mean, it's hard to believe, but 630 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 1: even back then they had. It boosted the local economy 631 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:58,640 Speaker 1: and was literally supported by like gift shops selling little 632 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,760 Speaker 1: statuette recreations of this thing. Yeah, and this was already 633 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 1: a wealthy area, so the tourism was so big that 634 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,800 Speaker 1: that was still significant. The the replicas, the sale of 635 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: the replicas still made that much of a splash on 636 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,120 Speaker 1: the local economy. That's how many were sold. Like you 637 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 1: go to New York City and you go to a 638 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: gift shop at the statue of Liberty and you buy 639 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,000 Speaker 1: the little replica that exact thing was going on thousands 640 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,120 Speaker 1: of years ago. Yeah, there's nothing new. I want one 641 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,959 Speaker 1: of those. That would be great if if you're looking 642 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,239 Speaker 1: for something for me for Christmas, an original replica from 643 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:42,400 Speaker 1: the BC. Okay, um of of the Temple of Artemus, 644 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: I would love that, all right. So you just want 645 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:49,920 Speaker 1: to give it's worth. That's priceless basically, Okay. Uh, so 646 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,839 Speaker 1: this story gets a little more interesting here. You mentioned 647 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:57,080 Speaker 1: a pyromaniac earlier. Uh, in July three BC, there was 648 00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,839 Speaker 1: a man name and we almost didn't know his name. 649 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,279 Speaker 1: He wrote Stratus, who was a pyromaniac who burned this 650 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,080 Speaker 1: temple down for the by all accounts, for the sole 651 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: reason of living in infamy. And uh there was a 652 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,000 Speaker 1: decree that his name shall never be recorded at all, 653 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,920 Speaker 1: so he wouldn't even earn that, but someone did. Well, 654 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 1: that was it was punishable upon death to even say 655 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: his name afterward. Yea, But yeah, a guy named um 656 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,040 Speaker 1: who was it? THEO pompous was the one who wrote 657 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:33,560 Speaker 1: it down, who recorded the act, and so um what's 658 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,800 Speaker 1: his name? Harris Stratus was was recorded in infamy just 659 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,359 Speaker 1: like he wanted he was. He was an ancient jerk, 660 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,240 Speaker 1: I think, is what you'd call it. And the temple, 661 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: this is the story gets even better because the temple 662 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,719 Speaker 1: burned h the same day that Alexander the Great was born, 663 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,120 Speaker 1: which was amazing, and the temple. They would later rebuild 664 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 1: the temple, and Alexander said, yeah, you know what, why 665 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,440 Speaker 1: don't I Why don't I pay for this thing? Um, 666 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,600 Speaker 1: all you gotta do is, like, I don't know, just 667 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,719 Speaker 1: throw my name on it somewhere, right, And they said, yeah, 668 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,960 Speaker 1: that's nice, but we'll we'll just build it on her own, right. 669 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,000 Speaker 1: But then they backed slowly out of the room, like, Okay, 670 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,839 Speaker 1: that's okay, right, you're not gonna kill us, are Yeah? 671 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,640 Speaker 1: And I couldn't find a bunch of places that said 672 00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:20,360 Speaker 1: that he wanted his name on the temple except for 673 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,840 Speaker 1: our article, So I'm not sure that's true. Did you 674 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,839 Speaker 1: see that in other places? I did not. Yeah, that's 675 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:28,960 Speaker 1: that's so the story goes. I'm not sure about that though. 676 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,279 Speaker 1: That's that's according to the house stuff works. So they 677 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:37,840 Speaker 1: they rebuilt it. They eventually did rebuild it. Uh, and 678 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,440 Speaker 1: I think it was somewhat Yeah, it was somewhat shortly after. 679 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm not sure actually how long it was after it 680 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,799 Speaker 1: was burned. Yeah, I don't, No one knows. They said 681 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 1: they don't know the date. Okay, but it was rebuilt, 682 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,800 Speaker 1: and I think it was rebuilt even bigger than before. 683 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:57,080 Speaker 1: But then in two sixty two, see the Goths rated 684 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:02,160 Speaker 1: it rated if faces Um, led by Robert Smith and 685 00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:06,000 Speaker 1: Peter Peter Murphy, and they burned that thing to the ground. 686 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,319 Speaker 1: That's right. They actually broke the thing up and used 687 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 1: the marble to build the city after what chuck an 688 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:17,560 Speaker 1: earthquake yep, a bunch of earthquake. That's right, it's the 689 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,160 Speaker 1: Great Leveler. And now and then I saw another thing 690 00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,799 Speaker 1: that said, and this wasn't in our our our article either, 691 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,320 Speaker 1: but it said that it was rebuilt again even after that. 692 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,799 Speaker 1: And then Christian mob came along and destroyed it. Oh, 693 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,279 Speaker 1: is that right? That's what I saw. I've not seen 694 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,480 Speaker 1: that one. I did see that if Thesis was an 695 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,759 Speaker 1: important city in the Bible, because I think Paul came 696 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,080 Speaker 1: and was proselytizing there and started a riot because everybody's like, 697 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,560 Speaker 1: oh man, your God sounds so great that it's gonna 698 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,399 Speaker 1: undermine our artemis in our local economy is gonna fall 699 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:57,120 Speaker 1: to pieces. My ancient religion was so interesting, it really was, 700 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,920 Speaker 1: you know, all right, have you got anything else on 701 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,160 Speaker 1: that one? No? I don't, man, I think we've reached 702 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,839 Speaker 1: the end of part one. And if you're waiting, while 703 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,080 Speaker 1: you're waiting for episode two to come out, you can 704 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,960 Speaker 1: get in touch with us. You can join me on 705 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,800 Speaker 1: Twitter at josh um Clark. Uh. There's also the s 706 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,280 Speaker 1: Y s K podcast Twitter handle. You can join Chuck 707 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,840 Speaker 1: at Facebook dot com slash Charles W. Chuke Bryant or 708 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,600 Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash stuff you Should Know. 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