Michael Button

What a privilege to sit down with the legend @joerogan and talk all things ancient history, lost civilizations and more! Thanks so much Joe - it was an honour!

Ironmongers in Maidenhead, England, have their photo taken taken during break in 1900

The original Colosseum had a retractable roof. An enormous canvas awning, the velarium, could shade 50,000 spectators. No modern stadium replicated the engineering for 2,000 years. x.com/i/status/20067…

The Black Sea may have flooded catastrophically around 5600 BC Some researchers think this is the origin of global flood myths. We haven't seriously excavated the Black Sea shelf. We should.

Jeff Bezos is building a clock that will keep time for 10,000 Years Construction is happening inside a mountain in West Texas

@KonstantinKisin Congratulations 🙌

I've been quieter than normal in recent weeks. For a very good reason: konstantinkisin.com/p/why-you-have…

In 1861, Italy was unified into a single kingdom under Victor Emmanuel II.

The Olmec Colossal Heads weigh up to 50 tons They were transported miles from source, often through dense jungle No one is quite sure how

There is a sunken stone road off the coast of the Bahamas. The 'Bimini Road' consists of large, flat limestone blocks arranged in a half-mile line on the ocean floor Geologists say it's natural formation. Others aren't so sure.

@RooBait Best wishes to you all 🙏

A beautiful man passed tonight. Expected. A flawed man, but a very good one. He lived his life to the fullest. Cared for and loved his children to the end. He was never not there for them. He lived a long and fruitful innings. His world benefited from him. My father.

What if 'civilisation' isn't a ladder we climbed once, but a pattern we've repeated? Rising, collapsing, rebuilding, forgetting. The evidence is ambiguous enough that we can't rule it out.

We teach that agriculture 'began' in the Fertile Crescent. But it also began independently in China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica, and the Andes - all at roughly the same time. Why did everyone suddenly start farming at once, after 290,000 years of not doing so?

@cssherburne1 I have yes! Amazing

@MichaelButtonX Have you walked the Grounds? It’s Incredible.

Rome's Circus Maximus was said to hold up to 250,000 people! What a stunning achievement

Which ancient technology are we still failing to replicate today?

The Baghdad Battery is a 2,000-year-old clay jar containing a copper cylinder and an iron rod. When filled with an acidic liquid, it generates electricity. We don't know what it was used for.

The Antikythera Mechanism is a 2,000 year-old Greek device It accurately modelled the movements of the sun, moon, and planets. Nothing like it appears again in the historical record for over 1,400 years. We don't know who built it.

Biondi raises his probability of a 2nd Sphinx to 100% I said in my video I thought 80% was HIGH considering there's been 0 excavation But 100% probability? Unsure how you can say that with a straight face. I like Filippo, and I badly want him to be right. But this seems off

It blows my mind how well we used to build Here’s Bamburgh Castle, in England, from the 11th century

If one ancient site is misdated by 10,000 years, which would you bet on?

The Easter Island statues have bodies. For centuries, we only saw the heads - buried up to their necks in soil. The buried torsos are covered in undeciphered petroglyphs.