Archaeologist Ed Barnhart YouTube Stats

@ed_barnhart · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Archaeologist Ed Barnhart channel overview

Archaeologist Ed Barnhart (@ed_barnhart) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2025. It has 51K subscribers and 4.9M total views across 82 videos, an average of 60K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 63K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 70K views. Over the last 12 months, Archaeologist Ed Barnhart published 53 videos (40% Shorts), and 4 of them (8%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 11 days, Archaeologist Ed Barnhart gained 800 subscribers and 168K views, about 15K views a day.

How much does Archaeologist Ed Barnhart make?

Returbe estimates Archaeologist Ed Barnhart's YouTube ad revenue at $2.1K – $7K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.9 to $9.65, typically $5.31, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5.3K.

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Upload schedule

Archaeologist Ed Barnhart publishes about 8.7 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (48% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Archaeologist Ed Barnhart's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Archaeologist Ed Barnhart's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Why Is No One Talking About This Olmec Discovery?482K views · Mar 12, 20266.9× typical views
• Pyramids of Florida379K views · Oct 10, 20265.4× typical views
• Pyramids of Louisiana26K views · Apr 14, 20265.1× typical views
• The Pyramids of Alabama261K views · Sep 5, 20263.7× typical views
• The Secret Under Every Olmec Helmet209K views · Mar 28, 20263× typical views
• Pyramids of Georgia204K views · Sep 12, 20262.9× typical views
• Pyramids in Canada162K views · Oct 17, 20262.3× typical views
• Pyramids in Canada — Full Video on Archaeologist Ed Barnhart, Premiering 16/10/26.11K views · Oct 16, 20262.3× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Archaeologist Ed Barnhart's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Hidden Pyramids in America — Full Video on Archaeologist Ed Barnhart, Premiering 11/7/26.869 views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Mississippian Deep Dive32K views · Oct 31, 20260.4× typical views
• Mississippian Deep Dive — Full Video on Archaeologist Ed Barnhart, Premiering 10/31/26.4.3K views · Oct 30, 20260.9× typical views
• Adena Pyramids in Ohio81K views · Oct 24, 20261.2× typical views
• Pyramids of Ohio — Full Video on Archaeologist Ed Barnhart, Premiering 10/24/26.3.9K views · Oct 23, 20260.8× typical views
• Pyramids in Canada162K views · Oct 17, 20262.3× typical views
• Pyramids in Canada — Full Video on Archaeologist Ed Barnhart, Premiering 16/10/26.11K views · Oct 16, 20262.3× typical views
• Pyramids of Florida379K views · Oct 10, 20265.4× typical views
• Pyramids of Florida — Full Video on Archaeologist Ed Barnhart, Premiering 10/10/26.5K views · Oct 9, 20261× typical views
• The Ancient Pyramids of Arkansas105K views · Oct 3, 20261.5× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 378 channels in this niche. 13.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202.4×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 12×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 68.6×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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Frequently asked questions

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