just before we get started some of you might know that i have another channel called megaprojects which is all about megaprojects if you don't subscribe to that please do subscribe well by popular demand i wanted to cover some things on that channel that weren't quite mega enough for it so i launched another channel called side projects secret soviet space weapons world war ii's greatest airplanes history's lost treasures and a whole lot more on that channel new videos three times a week so if you're thinking it's not enough videos from simon already there is a link to side projects below please do subscribe and let's get into it the word strange is barely adequate for some of the ancient leaders described here if the tales told of them are true the ancient world had no shortage of outright butchers who practiced patricide matricide fratricide and mass murders to consolidate and secure their positions at the head of their societies they used brutal though inventive methods to kill their perceived enemies and rivals and exhibited a lust for blood and inflicting pain some of them appear on this list including commodus and caligula others exhibit a downright weird behavior on their own and at the expense of others for their personal satisfaction and comfort alcohol is a common denominator for some with excessive consumption of wine and other beverages featured the pursuit of sexual satisfaction is another vanity to the point of narcissism is yet another some though were just plainly bizarre in their beliefs their activities and their behaviors and here are ten of the strangest number ten pharaoh pepe ii used honey covered slaves as walking fly traps pepe ii was a pharaoh of the sixth dynasty reigning more than two thousand years before the common era he became pharaoh at the age of six following the death of mourinho the first throughout his reign the power of the pharaoh declined the dynastic old kingdom also known as the age of the pyramid builders collapsed within decades of his death after lasting five centuries while still a child pepe sent an expedition to nubia to trade ivory and other goods when the leader of the expedition harkhof one of his governors informed the young king that they had captured a pygmy the excited young man promised substantial rewards should the prisoner arrive at his court alive the pharaoh wanted the pygmy as a plaything a letter to hark of survives inscribed on the governor's tomb using a pygmy as a toy is strange enough but not the only strange behavior attributed to pepe ii the pharaoh detested flies using slaves to wave fans of feathers to shoo them away wasn't enough in his estimation aware that flies were attracted to honey pepe covered slaves with the substance and stationed them around him when he was at court and when walking or riding through his dominions flies swarmed to the honey swath's slaves and thus away from him some claim hebby ii held the longest reign of any ruler in human history though that is debated among egyptologists his pyramid lies in ruins at saqqara NUMBER_TOKEN. caligula named a horse
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN just before we get started some of you might know that i have another channel called megaprojects which is all about megaprojects if you don't subscribe to that please do subscribe well by popular demand i wanted to cover some things on that channel that weren't quite mega enough for it so i launched another channel called side projects secret soviet space weapons world war ii's greatest airplanes history's lost treasures and a whole lot more on that channel new videos three times a week so if you're thinking it's not enough videos from simon already there is a link to side projects below please do subscribe and let's get into it END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN