Pour a tea, get cosy, and let your mind drift off on a journey through ancient history 🕯️
Each video is a long, slow journey through the forgotten edges of human history. Ancient civilisations that shouldn't exist. Knowledge that was nearly lost. Mysteries that archaeologists still can't explain.
Narrated by Arthur. Made for curious minds who like to fall asleep wondering.
Our videos are presented for entertainment and reflection — not as academic fact.
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The Great Pyramid Survived 5 Major Earthquakes. How?
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In October 1992, an earthquake struck just south of Cairo. More than five hundred people died, whole villages of mud-brick came down, and old minarets dropped rubble into the streets. A few kilometres away, a building that was already more than four thousand years old shrugged off what may have been a single stone. It had done the same in 1847, in 1754 and in 1303. So what is it about the Great Pyramid that the ground has never been able to break?
Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore one of the ancient world's most interesting mysteries.
17 Oct 2026
Why Is the Great Sphinx’s Head So Small?
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Stand in front of the Great Sphinx at night and something feels off. The head looks like it was set down on a much larger animal, a body seventy-three meters long under a face that seems almost too modest for it. Nearly everyone who has studied the statue agrees that something about its proportions is unusual. Almost no one agrees on why.
Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore one of the ancient world's strangest mysteries.
13 Oct 2026
The Great Pyramid Points to True North Almost Perfectly. How?
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The Great Pyramid's four sides face the compass points to within about a twentieth of a degree, a drift of roughly a hand's width across more than two hundred metres of stone. The builders had no compass. They had no pole star either: the sky they looked at held only an empty patch of darkness at the center of its turning. And no Egyptian text from the age of the pyramids explains how they found north.
Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore one of Egypt's strangest mysteries.
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