For hundreds of years, Ancient Egypt has been a land full of mysteries and wonders, from the Great Pyramid of Giza to the mummies. It has always been a fascinating place for anthropologists and archaeologists alike to discover new things.
And in the first 30 days of this year that included unearthing a mysterious tomb, a mummy wrapped in gold, and uncovering an entire ancient city.
In this video Joe Rogan, Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson talks about how big great advanced civilizations must have been lost, because how could then explain the pyramids and other historical monuments? And more!
After embarking on a home building project, Laura and Bridger Hill were digging up their yard. But when a layer of the ground was removed, something unexpected appeared in the dirt: a row of rib bones. That certainly wasn’t all, though. Following further investigation, the Hills realized that they had the nearly complete skeleton of some mysterious creature on their hands. Yet even at this point, the family had no clue as to the significance of their find (Ice Age Beast).
In today's video, we'll look at five ancient artifacts that scientists have no idea how they were created. Enjoy!
In this video, we made a list of Ancient Weapons From Different Countries | Cosmic Comparison. Enjoy!
People love to hear stories about ancient Egypt. Egypt is one of the few countries in the world where most of the tourists who go there do so because of its history rather than any of its present-day attractions - not that there's anything wrong with present-day Egypt! We simply never get tired of hearing about amazing finds in Egypt, and we'd love to share this collection with you.
Archaeologists say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of warfare between hunter-gatherers to be scientifically dated, at a remote site in northern Kenya.
The 10,000-year-old remains of 27 people found west of Lake Turkana show that they met violent deaths.
They were left to die there rather than being buried.
Many experts have argued that conflict only came about as humans became more settled.
These people, by contrast, were apparently nomadic hunter-gatherers.
The archaeologists, who have been working on the site at Nataruk since 2012, discovered that the victims were clubbed or stabbed to death in a single event.
The dead included male and female adults, as well as children.
The evidence, published in the journal Nature, does not reveal exactly what happened but the fact that so many people died at the same time suggests it was the result of "some sort of conflict", according to Cambridge University Professor Robert Foley.
Why this is significant - Marta Mirazon Lahr, lead researcher:
Nataruk records what is, for now, the oldest scientifically-dated case of conflict between two nomadic hunter-gatherer groups.
Nevertheless, its significance is not its age, but the fact that it involved these groups, who had few possessions to fight over.
Nataruk establishes definitively that inter-group violence can and did arise regardless of whether the populations were settled.
All it needed was moments of food abundance, causing groups to grow in size, putting pressure on the resources. Then the benefits of stealing from another group could outweigh the costs of the conflict that might ensue.
Nataruk was an important place because it was at the edge of a super lake beach which would have attracted all land animals to drink, as well as giving access to fishing grounds, while other parts of the shore of Lake Turkana (the forested Kerio Delta, for example, or the rocky whole southern edge) would not have that.
It is believed that the group was attacked by rival hunter-gatherers armed with wooden clubs and arrows or spears tipped with sharpened obsidian, a rare black volcanic rock.
Speculating on the causes of the attack, Marta Mirazon Lahr, who led the Nataruk study, said the "massacre may have resulted from an attempt to seize resources... whose value was similar to those of later food-producing agricultural societies, among whom violent attacks on settlements became part of life".
Today, the area where the bodies were found is scrubland, but the researchers say that 10,000 years ago it would have been fertile and very close to the shoreline of the lake.
Many experts have argued that conflicts only arise "once people have things worth fighting over, [such as] herds of livestock, stores of grain... things that you can both defend and attack," Professor Foley told the BBC's Newsday radio programme.
It has been assumed that hunter-gatherers were less likely to engage in such conflicts because they can move away, but the Nataruk find shows that "before we have settled life, groups were competing over resources", Professor Foley added.
Everyone knows the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, and most people are also familiar with the story of their sons Cain and Abel. But many people would have you believe that that's where it ends when it comes to Adam and Eve's kids. According to some histories, that's very much not the case.
According to lost or uncanonical biblical texts like "The Book of the Daughters of Adam," "The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan," and the Book of Jubilees, Adam and Eve begat way more than just their two problematic sons. They also had daughters named Luluwa, Aklia, and more — dozens more, making their family way weirder than you may expect. This is the untold truth of Adam and Eve's daughters.
We enjoy an interesting mystery. While it is exciting when an archaeologist unearths something and is able to explain everything about what it is and what it says about the people who lived before us, we are far more interesting when they unearth something mysterious.
Even with all of today's technology, the quantity of knowledge about our ancestors and how they lived that we still lack is amazing. If we correctly understood the function of the bizarre artifacts you're about to witness in this film, perhaps we might understand them a bit better.
We try to find archaeological artefacts with origins explained and archaeological finds which are mysterious and ancient. Mystery of ancient discoveries has always been interesting people. so stay tuned for more.
In today’s video we will be exploring an abridged version of a chapter in the book "Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants." Enjoy!
In the video below we will talk about the very special and rare phenomena of “dinosaur mummies” or “mummified dinosaurs” and what paleontologists can learn from these amazing finds. We will mainly discuss the hadrosaur genus Edmontosaurus but also other dinosaurs and fossil animals as well. Hope you enjoy and learn something new!
Today, we will explore some of the most bizarre and obscure stories and facts related to the field of archaeology. In this video, we talk about everything from mummies to Giant Aztec Snake statues to Sweet Potatoes to ancient Barbie dolls. Enjoy!
The Tibetan Empire was founded in the early medieval era, and quickly rose to become a pan-Asian Empire that engaged extensively with the Indian subcontinent, controlled valuable overland Silk Road routes, and contended with China. This is the story of the Rise of the Tibetan Empire -- from the founding of the empire to the rumblings of a golden age.
When left in the right environment, animals can become fossilized over thousands and millions of years… Almost everything we know about the prehistoric world has been learned from the discovery of fossils, and they’ve proven to be an incredible window into the past. While something can be learned from all of them, there are undoubtedly some that are more important and fascinating than the rest… so join us for today's video as we take a look at 15 incredible animal fossils.
Just when I thought I had presented all of the most incredible Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of Western Asia, I stumble across another hidden gem, a 12,000-year-old site that was only discovered in 1996, and it’s amazing architecture is worthy to be mentioned alongside the likes of Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and Jericho.
The site is truly ancient, it’s Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, and is known as WF16, which actually stands for Wadi Faynan 16 – an extraordinary site in the Southern Levant, in Southern Jordan, the most southerly early Neolithic settlement I’ve covered on the Ancient Architects channel and it’s one you’ll want to remember.
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A was a true transition phase in the human story, between the Epi-Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B farmers, a time when the worldview for many was changing, and you could argue that this time marked the true birth of civilisation.
Until the discovery of WF16, the PPNA sites of the Southern Levant were far less spectacular than those we find in the north. There was no southern equivalent to Gobekli Tepe or Mureybet, with most settlements appearing more like small hamlets or camps, as opposed to major population centres.
When WF16 was first discovered, it was thought to be just a seasonal camp, but with more excavation, that opinion would soon change. This was a large settlement with so many amazing archaeological finds, more than 30 structures and one special purpose megastructure, which makes this site so unique in the Southern Levant.
Watch this video to learn more about WF16, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and the birth of civilisation.
Archaeologists are always busy. There isn’t an off-season in archaeology - there’s always something out there to find, and there’s always somebody willing to find it! That means we have a never-ending supply of archaeological discoveries to share with you. This collection of recent wonders is just as packed with ancient delights as everything that’s gone before it, so let’s show you the goods!
In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where pyramid tombs of stupendous size are full of astonishing riches. In 221 BC, China's first Emperor united warring kingdoms into a nation that still exists today. To memorialize this achievement, he bankrupted the national treasury and oppressed thousands of workers to build one of the world’s biggest mortuary complexes.
Ramses II expanded the Egyptian Empire to stretch from Syria in the east to Nubia in the south. His successors called him the "Great Ancestor."
CAIRO — Archaeologists have found a 26-foot statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that the Antiquities Ministry has hailed as one of the most important discoveries ever.
Experts say it probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.
The was unearthed near the ruins of Ramses II's temple in the ancient city of Heliopolis, which is located in the eastern part of modern-day Cairo.
"They called me to announce the big discovery of a colossus of a king, most probably Ramses II, made out of quartzite," Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said in March 2017.
The most powerful and celebrated ruler of ancient Egypt, the pharaoh also known as Ramses the Great was the third of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
He led several military expeditions and expanded the Egyptian Empire to stretch from Syria in the east to Nubia in the south. His successors called him the "Great Ancestor."
That year, archaeologists, officials, local residents, and members of the news media looked on as a massive forklift pulled the statue's head out of the water.
The joint Egyptian-German expedition also found the upper part of a life-sized limestone statue of Pharaoh Seti II, Ramses II's grandson, that is 31 inches long.
The sun temple in Heliopolis was founded by Ramses II, lending weight to the likelihood the statue is of him, archaeologists say.
It was one of the largest temples in Egypt, almost double the size of Luxor's Karnak, but was destroyed in Greco-Roman times. Many of its obelisks were moved to Alexandria or to Europe and stones from the site were looted and used for building as Cairo developed.
“It is one of the most important excavations in Egypt,” Dr. Salima Ikram, an archaeologist and professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo who was part of the dig this week told NBC News. She described the new find as “spectacular, the things are astonishing.”
She said the ongoing work at the site is “crucially important because it is basically rescue archaeology of one of the most important religious places in ancient Egyptian history. It is the birthplace of the Sun God and indeed of Egypt and its civilization in terms of Egyptian mythology.”
Experts will now attempt to extract the remaining pieces of both statues before restoring them. If they are successful and the colossus is proven to depict Ramses II, it will be moved to the entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum, set to open in 2018.
The discovery was made in the working-class area of Matariya, among unfinished buildings and mud roads.
Archaeologists in China have confirmed that the discovery of a staggering 10 tonnes of copper coins in an ancient grave date back to around 2,000 years ago.
The incredible find in an old Western Han Dynasty tomb is now helping to shed light on the life of nobility from ancient times.
Chinese people started using coins as currency in around 1,200 BC, where instead of trading small farming implements and knives, they would melt them down into small round objects and then turn them back into knives and farm implements when needed.
The coins discovered in the tomb date back to around 206 BC - when copper coins replaced the melted down tools.
At the time they were of a very low value and often had holes in the middle so that they could be strung together to create larger denominations.
Around two million of the copper coins were found and are thought to be worth around £104,000 at face value - but a single coin will now sell for thousands of pounds.
The ancient money, which bears Chinese symbols, characters, and a square hole at its centre, were found at a dig site in the city of Nanchang, China.
Along with the tonnes of coins found were also chimes, bamboo slips, and tomb figurines, all of which accompanied deceased nobles of the past when they were buried underground.
The items discovered have promised to help fill in more gaps as historians try to complete the puzzle of ancient Chinese burial customs.
Are there long lost civilizations beneath the sea? Find out about ancient cities that have been found beneath the depths in this video.
