Arthur's Sleepy History

Arthur's Sleepy History

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. New videos every week. Subscribe and settle in 😴

  1. 4d ago

    Why Is the Great Sphinx’s Head So Small?

    ✨ Listen to Perspectives in History podcast 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/3lUIyb9F9Vwe1ZTwXwq5v1?si=dcAH3J53RreXvJ6jRWPG_g ___ 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.

    Why Is the Great Sphinx’s Head So Small?

  2. Oct 13

    The Great Pyramid Points to True North Almost Perfectly. How?

    ✨ Listen to The Insomnia Project 👉 Website: https://theinsomniaproject.comSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/15gmKxuEnfusUluGurslVT ___ 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.

    The Great Pyramid Points to True North Almost Perfectly. How?

  3. Oct 11

    How Did Egypt Raise the Great Pyramid’s Giant Granite Beams?

    ✨ Listen to Fan of History on all major platforms 👉 ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1HL5sTZqsyfmcaD6Uwrwqe ___ High inside the Great Pyramid, more than forty meters above the ground, nine granite beams span a plain stone room — each one as heavy as a loaded lorry or more. Above them sit five more chambers, roofed with still more granite. All of it was cut in a quarry nearly nine hundred kilometers away. No Old Kingdom text describes how any of it was lifted into place, and the answer is still being argued over today. Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore ancient Egypt.

    How Did Egypt Raise the Great Pyramid’s Giant Granite Beams?

  4. Oct 1

    The Massive Explosion that Destroyed the Parthenon

    ✨ Listen to Epic Greek History on all major platforms 👉 www.epicgreekhistory.com For over two thousand years, the Parthenon survived Persian invasion, Spartan defeat, Roman conquest, and the collapse of two empires — converted, again and again, into whatever the next power needed it to be, but never once losing its essential wholeness. Then, on a single night in 1687, it didn't. Something that had outlasted a dozen civilizations came apart in seconds, and the building the whole world still recognizes today is what was left standing afterward. Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore the famous hillside above Athens.

    The Massive Explosion that Destroyed the Parthenon

  5. Sep 28

    Did a Lost Civilization Pass On the Knowledge For the Piri Reis Map?

    🙏 Support us and try Premium FREE for 7 days 👉 https://arthurssleepyhistory.supercast.com Get the complete sleepy history catalog, every new story seven days early, and completely ad-free listening. What if a 500-year-old map drawn by an Ottoman admiral shows the coastline of Antarctica 300 years before any human being set eyes on the continent? Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore somewhere at the edge of the known world.

    Did a Lost Civilization Pass On the Knowledge For the Piri Reis Map?

  6. Sep 26

    Egypt’s 1,100-Ton Obelisk Is Covered in Strange Marks. Who Really Made Them?

    🙏 Support us and try Premium FREE for 7 days 👉 https://arthurssleepyhistory.supercast.com Get the complete sleepy history catalog, every new story seven days early, and completely ad-free listening. Lying in a quarry outside Aswan is a single piece of granite over forty meters long and roughly 1,100 tons — heavier than two fully loaded 747s. It was never finished. Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore one of the ancient world's obelisks.

    Egypt’s 1,100-Ton Obelisk Is Covered in Strange Marks. Who Really Made Them?

  7. Sep 25

    The 25,000-Year-Old Pyramid Hidden in Plain Sight

    🙏 Support us and try Premium FREE for 7 days 👉 https://arthurssleepyhistory.supercast.com Get the complete sleepy history catalog, every new story seven days early, and completely ad-free listening. What if the oldest constructed structure on Earth isn't in Egypt or Turkey — but on a volcanic hillside in West Java, buried under twenty thousand years of soil? Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore one of the ancient world's strangest mysteries.

    The 25,000-Year-Old Pyramid Hidden in Plain Sight

  8. Sep 23

    What Is the Real Age of the Great Sphinx of Giza?

    🙏 Support us and try Premium FREE for 7 days 👉 https://arthurssleepyhistory.supercast.com Get the complete sleepy history catalog, every new story seven days early, and completely ad-free listening. What if the most famous sculpture in the world is thousands of years older than we've been told — and the evidence has been sitting on its surface all along? Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore somewhere at the edge of recorded history.

    What Is the Real Age of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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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. New videos every week. Subscribe and settle in 😴

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    Arthur's Sleepy History
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    22
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