PLEASE NOTE. This video is for entertainment purposes, and the stories are summarised as they are recorded. All of the narrative tales are from 2nd/3rd hand accounts, legends and folktales and may not be historically accurate.<br /><br />Scams are not new. The Ancient World may not have had Crypto rug pulls like Dink Doink, or fraudsters on the scale of Sam Bankman-Fried; but prior to 500BCE there were plenty of con artists and scammers who made their mark on ancient literature. From Hegestratos committing Insurance Fraud to Marcus Crassus' land purchase exploits, there was no shortage of people being ripped off in Ancient History.<br /><br />Join this channel to get access to perks:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXHXndcp1-UYtbuahLpCaQ/join" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXHXndcp1-UYtbuahLpCaQ/join</a><br />Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bibleunboxed" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bibleunboxed</a><br /><br />+ Help me make more videos!<br />Paypal: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Lachlan523" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Lachlan523</a><br />BTC Wallet: 1MJYqAi5VMfPH3qcJeeCCmhcnJyKwWgPwN<br /><br />+ Stay in the loop:<br />Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bibleunboxed" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/bibleunboxed</a><br />FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bibleunbox" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/bibleunbox</a><br />Twitter: <a href="https://www.twitter.com/bibleunboxed" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitter.com/bibleunboxed</a><br />Subscribe: <a href="https://youtube.com/bibleunboxed?sub_confirmation=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/bibleunboxed?sub_confirmation=1</a><br /><br />Sources:<br /><br />Hegestratos:<br />This is recorded in Demosthenes’ speech “Against Zenothemis”<br />You can find the full text in: <br />- The World of Athens (1984). <br />- Demosthenes the Orator (2009)<br />Some Historians think Demosthenes' account is embellished, and actually Hegestratos died in a bad storm. For this view see: Law and Transaction Costs in the Ancient Economy (2015)<br /><br />The Dummy Mummy:<br />This theory can be found in: Brier, B. (2001). Case of the Dummy Mummy. Archaeology, 54(5), 28-29.<br />Not all Egyptologists agree as to the degree that customers were unaware of contents of the fake mummies. <br /><br />The Darius and Gaumata episode is recorded in the following ancient sources:<br />- Behistun inscription: <a href="http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah../Persia/Behistun_txt.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah../Persia/Behistun_txt.html</a><br />- Histories of Herodotos: <a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.3.iii.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.3.iii.html</a><br />- Ktesias’ Persika (PDF): <a href="http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0022521/nichols_a.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0022521/nichols_a.pdf</a><br /><br />Please note, while it's an interesting tale, as mentioned in the video, most modern historians believe the episode to be an invention by Darius to justify his seizure of the throne. You can find this argument in:<br />- Allen, Lindsay (2005), The Persian Empire, London: The British Museum press, p. 42.<br />- Tom Holland, Persian Fire<br />- Van De Mieroop, Marc (2006), A History of the Ancient Near East (2nd ed.), Blackwell.<br /><br />Marcus Licinius Crassus' deeds are recorded in Plutarch's The Life of Crassus. Please note that many websites, and even a historical biography of Crassus record that he put out fires with a fire brigade, and even hint that he started the fires. However, Plutarch's original account (which is the only primary source available) does not mention either of these facts.<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADgzOcbVLI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADgzOcbVLI</a>