Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: try.magellantv.com/voicesofthepast. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Legions of Rome and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection: magellantv.com/explore/history
--------------
Extracts taken from:
Celsus, as quote by Origen:
earlychristianwritings.com/text/celsus.html
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid
Image Credits:
Jupiter Biser Todorov, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lector Priest By Djehouty - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85789152
Qumran Scroll By Shai Halevi on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority - Enlargement of image at Wikimedia-Commonsupload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/1039-1_for_screen.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87731788
Sol By I, Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14797121
Plato By Zde - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97089963Public Feast By User:MatthiasKabel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6737712
Apollo By Livioandronico2013 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36412498
Roman mosaic By Jerzystrzelecki - Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23726316
Mosaic Virgil By Giorces - Self-photographed, CC BY 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2266859
Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: try.magellantv.com/voicesofthepast. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Legions of Rome and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection: magellantv.com/explore/history
--------------
Extracts taken from:
Celsus, as quote by Origen:
earlychristianwritings.com/text/celsus.html
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid
Image Credits:
Jupiter Biser Todorov, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lector Priest By Djehouty - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85789152
Qumran Scroll By Shai Halevi on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority - Enlargement of image at Wikimedia-Commonsupload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/1039-1_for_screen.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87731788
Sol By I, Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14797121
Plato By Zde - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97089963Public Feast By User:MatthiasKabel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6737712
Apollo By Livioandronico2013 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36412498
Roman mosaic By Jerzystrzelecki - Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23726316
Mosaic Virgil By Giorces - Self-photographed, CC BY 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2266859
![Ivar and Björn Avenge Ragnars Death // 12th Century Extracts from Saxo Grammaticus and Krákumál
Here we have two extracts - one from Krákumál, a medieval Scottish poem from the 12th century giving the final words of Ragnar Lothbrok - and an extract from the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, which relates what happened next - and the bloody punishment his sons meted out upon his killer.
If this channel is something you like, if you think saving primary sources is important, head over to the patreon and join up!
patreon.com/voicesofthepast
This video is part of Vikings Month - so please check out these other excellent videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4kqG-CL4ToD4CusNdYGrRfovDZvWS6mW
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.
— Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to subscribe for new videos every single week! & Let us know in the comments what you’d like to see covered in the future.
— Don’t forget to subscribe to my brothers channel History Time, where he makes full length historical documentaries:-
https://www.youtube.com/historytime
— Music courtesy of:-
- Epidemic Sound
— Voice actor & editor:-
David Kelly
We try to use copyright free images at all times. However if we have used any of your artwork or maps then please dont hesitate to contact me and we’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit.
Thanks to:
Hel-hama [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
© Copyright M J Richardson and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Author=Jim Champion |Permission=Dual-licensed under the GFDL and CC-By-SA-2.5, 2.0, and 1.0 |other_vers Ivar and Björn Avenge Ragnars Death // 12th Century Extracts from Saxo Grammaticus and Krákumál](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GQvvgqOG_pw/mqdefault.jpg)


![Herodotus on The Pyramids // The Histories 440 BC // Ancient Greek Primary Source
Here we have The Father of History Herodotus relating to us his understanding of the story of the pyramids at Giza, specifically those of Cheops (the Greek version of Khufu) and his son Chephron (Khafra).
How do we actually know about history? 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.
— Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to subscribe for new videos every single week! & Let us know in the comments what you’d like to see covered in the future.
— Don’t forget to subscribe to our other channel History Time, where we make full length historical documentaries:-
https://www.youtube.com/historytime.
—Join our community on social media:-
Twitter:-
https://twitter.com/HistoryTimeUK/
Facebook:-
https://www.facebook.com/HistoryTimeOfficial/
Instagram:-
https://www.instagram.com/historytime_ig/
— Music courtesy of:-
- Epidemic Sound
— Voice actor & editor:-
David Kelly
Are you a budding artist, writer, illustrator, cartographer, or music producer? Send us an email! No matter how professional you are or even if you’re just starting out, we can always use new music and images in my videos. Get in touch! I’d love to hear from you.
We try to use copyright free images at all times. However if we have used any of your artwork or maps then please dont hesitate to contact me and we’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit.
Thanks to:
Nathan Hughes Hamilton
Eric Kilby
Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]
Andrew Currie [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]
MesserWoland [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]
José-Manuel Benito Álvarez [CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)]
Richard Mortel Herodotus on The Pyramids // The Histories 440 BC // Ancient Greek Primary Source](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H7GJj8zGe-Y/mqdefault.jpg)


![Cortés Meets Montezuma // Cortés letters // 8th November 1519
In the early Sixteenth Century a force of hundreds overcame an empire of millions.
This is the story of one of the most momentous events of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire - the meeting of Spanish leader Hernán Cortés, an obscure career soldier from the Castilian badlands, and Montezuma, the ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance, a man revered as a god upon earth by his millions of subjects.
How do we actually know about history? 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.
— Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to subscribe for new videos every single week! & Let us know in the comments what you’d like to see covered in the future.
— Don’t forget to subscribe to our other channel History Time, where we make full length historical documentaries:-
https://www.youtube.com/historytime.
—Join our community on social media:-
Twitter:-
https://twitter.com/HistoryTimeUK/
Facebook:-
https://www.facebook.com/HistoryTimeOfficial/
Instagram:-
https://www.instagram.com/historytime_ig/
— Music courtesy of:-
- Epidemic Sound
— Voice actor & editor:-
David Kelly
Are you a budding artist, writer, illustrator, cartographer, or music producer? Send us an email! No matter how professional you are or even if you’re just starting out, we can always use new music and images in my videos. Get in touch! I’d love to hear from you.
We try to use copyright free images at all times. However if we have used any of your artwork or maps then please dont hesitate to contact me and we’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit.
Thanks to:
By Lago_de_Texcoco-posclásico.png: YavidaxiuValley_of_Mexico_c.1519-fr.svg: historicair 13:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)derivative work: Sémhur (talk) - Lago_de_Texcoco-posclásico.png, itself from :(fr) Niederberger Betton, Christine (1987) Paléo-paysages et archéologie pré-urbaine du Bassin de Mexico, Mexico: Centro de estudios mexicanos y centroamericanos (CEMCA), pp. 500 ISBN: 3785726.Valley_of_Mexico_c.1519-fr.svg, itself from :(en) Coe, Michael; Snow, Dean; Benson, Elizabeth (1986) Atlas of Ancient America, Category:New York: Facts On File, pp. 240 ISBN: 978-0816011995.(en) Townsend, Richard F. (1992) The Aztecs, London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 224 ISBN: 978-0500021132.(es) This picture incorporates information from La cuenca de México, special edition of Arqueología Mexicana, july-august 2007, Mexico (in particular, the Enrique Velas maps of the pages 70 and 60, based on Sanders et al. The Basin of Mexico, 1979).(es) This picture incorporates information from this version of the article Lago de Texcoco on the Spanish Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9263087
Diego Rivera [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] Cortés Meets Montezuma // Cortés letters // 8th November 1519](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H_X7eXo7GEs/mqdefault.jpg)



