Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Play War Thunder now with my link, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more: playwt.link/pastvoiceswt
War Thunder is a highly detailed vehicle combat game containing over 2000 playable tanks, aircrafts and ships spanning over 100 years of development. Immerse yourself completely in dynamic battles with an unparalleled combination of realism and approachability.
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Edited and Researched by Manuel Rubio
Narrated by David Kelly
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza: instagram.com/ettore.mazza/?hl=en
Art by Alex Stoica and Bilal Erlangga
Extracts taken from:
Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian. Translation by Friedrich Hirth, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol 37 1917.
The Saga of Erik the Red translation in The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the Tenth Century, with Notices of the Early Settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere by North Ludlow Beamish 1841.
Ibn Fadlan on the Rus, translation by James E. Montgomery. Thanks to the Library of Arabic Literature for the use of this translation:
nyupress.org/9781479899890/mission-to-the-volga
Kirishitan Monogatari translation from DEUS DESTROYED The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan by George Elison
Published by COUNCIL ON EAST ASIAN STUDIES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY and distributed by HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1988
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674199620
James King on Shaka Zulu Nathaniel Isaacs, Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, with a Sketch of Natal by Nathaniel Isaacs (2 Volumes, London, 1836), I, pp. 57–63
Researched by historydavid
Stock footage from Storyblocks or Artlist, music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.
00:00 Zhang Qian on The Greeks (125 BC)
04:46 Thorvald Eiriksson In America (1003)
07:50 Ibn Fadlan on the Viking Rus´ (921)
13:50 The First Christians in Japan (1543)
19:49 James King on Shaka Zulu (1825)
Play War Thunder now with my link, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more: playwt.link/pastvoiceswt
War Thunder is a highly detailed vehicle combat game containing over 2000 playable tanks, aircrafts and ships spanning over 100 years of development. Immerse yourself completely in dynamic battles with an unparalleled combination of realism and approachability.
--------------------------------------
Edited and Researched by Manuel Rubio
Narrated by David Kelly
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza: instagram.com/ettore.mazza/?hl=en
Art by Alex Stoica and Bilal Erlangga
Extracts taken from:
Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian. Translation by Friedrich Hirth, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol 37 1917.
The Saga of Erik the Red translation in The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the Tenth Century, with Notices of the Early Settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere by North Ludlow Beamish 1841.
Ibn Fadlan on the Rus, translation by James E. Montgomery. Thanks to the Library of Arabic Literature for the use of this translation:
nyupress.org/9781479899890/mission-to-the-volga
Kirishitan Monogatari translation from DEUS DESTROYED The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan by George Elison
Published by COUNCIL ON EAST ASIAN STUDIES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY and distributed by HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1988
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674199620
James King on Shaka Zulu Nathaniel Isaacs, Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, with a Sketch of Natal by Nathaniel Isaacs (2 Volumes, London, 1836), I, pp. 57–63
Researched by historydavid
Stock footage from Storyblocks or Artlist, music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.
00:00 Zhang Qian on The Greeks (125 BC)
04:46 Thorvald Eiriksson In America (1003)
07:50 Ibn Fadlan on the Viking Rus´ (921)
13:50 The First Christians in Japan (1543)
19:49 James King on Shaka Zulu (1825)




![First-Hand Account of the Destruction of Pompeii // Pliny The Younger, Primary Source
Here we have Pliny the Youngers account of the heroic death of his famous uncle Pliny the Elder in the chaos of a volcanic eruption, the same that flattened Pompeii - as related to the legendary Roman historian Tacitus in one of his numerous letters.
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![Roman Historian Describes Ancient Scandinavia // Before The Vikings // Tacitus 97 AD
Here have Tacitus (perhaps the greatest of Romes historians) describing to us his knowledge of the lands of the Swedes, Aestii and Sitones - modern day Scandinavia (and the lands across the Baltic Sea). Ancestors of the Vikings, Tacitus gives us a description of a people with no right to bear arms, and who in the far north of the lands live in a matriarchal society.
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Voices of the Past is a channel dedicated to recreating the original accounts from the people who lived through events, or who lived far closer to them than we do today. We do this word for word, with an accompanying soundtrack of rousing music and images.
This video is part of Vikings Month - so please check out these other excellent videos:
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