With this groundbreaking discovery, Saudi Arabia has just stunned American scientists beyond belief, and it's not what you would expect. So get ready to be amazed and have your mind blown by the incredible innovation coming out of this Middle Eastern country.
Today we’ll discuss why American scientists are stunned by Saudi Arabia. What did Saudi Arabia do differently?
From an archaeological point of view, Egypt is the gift that keeps on giving. The Egyptians were arguably the ancient world’s greatest civilisation, and we’ve probably not even found half of all the things they’ve left behind yet. We’ve found plenty, though, and the greatest Egyptian archaeological discoveries are some of the greatest archaeological discoveries of any kind in history. To prove it, let’s take a look at them!
In today’s video we will be exploring the stunning world of Draconology. Enjoy!
In this video, we piece together everything we know about the Spartans to create their full system of upbringing, focusing on their training, education, workouts, and social norms. This video was made in the style of a previous one, featuring the "impressive training and recruitment of the Roman Legions", so that a clear comparison can be made. In the future, we hope to cover the training of other ancient people, from the Greeks to the Macedonians and beyond, if our limited sources allow it!
Genghis Khan embarks on the most horrifying revenge campaign in history after a burgeoning Persian empire attacks his caravans and emissaries. The Mongols showcase their famed mastery of warfare and their notorious penchant for massacre. Tales of silver poured into the eyes of enemies and pyramids of civilian bones color this episode in history.
In this video we will explore some of the most mysterious and elusive objects that have been sought after throughout history. These artifacts are believed to have magical powers, and many have been lost to time. From the Ark of the Covenant to the Holy Grail, this video delves into the legend and lore surrounding these iconic objects.
This is a very basic, general and introductory overview of what little we do know of the music of Scandinavia during the Viking Age. Enjoy!
Genesis 11:1-9 tells the story of the Tower of Babel: rebellion, confusion, and scattering. But do we know where that tower stood? Join us as we travel to Babylon in Iraq to answer that question!
In the video below we will be talking about Romulus and Remus and the story of the founding of Rome. Watch the video to find out more!
The european institute for underwater archaeology found the ancient city's ruins off the coast of egypt in 2000. Amazingly, the city had been submerged in the water for more than a thousand years. Divers have since discovered a number of fascinating shipwrecks and other ancient artifacts at the site, but in march 2019, the world learned that the institute had discovered a unique wreck. In fact, the only previous evidence of the hulk's existence was a description by an ancient historian, and many people thought he was lying.
However, egypt's archaeologists have found a shipwreck that may help solve a 2500-year-old mystery. What some of the earliest civilizations of humanity were able to accomplish is pretty amazing. Naturally, the ancient greeks and egyptians did not have access to the same resources and knowledge that we do today. And yet, between them those cultures built incredible structures, develop whole new technologies to improve farming, and came up with ideas that have influenced much of philosophical and mathematical thought. When you think of ancient egypt, you probably picture the pyramids, and even today, experts are baffled by how those people from the past were capable of building on such a massive scale. There are, however, less grand but equally important innovations that came from this highly successful society, for instance, sand off and got into food back them, and this led the egyptians to conceive toothpaste and toothbrushes.
Researchers have been unable to locate the princess ehb monastery for nearly 1200 years. This is because the religious landmark was destroyed by a band of viking raiders in the ninth century. However, despite all odds, a group of experts has finally discovered the remains of this long-gone settlement. However, as the excavators continued to sift through the ruins, they come across a sinister location. A cache of mutilated bones is among the debris. What might they mean and how did they get there?
On Earth, archaeologists are the remains of a medieval monastery that was established by an Anglo-Saxon princess. The monastery was found by archaeologists in the Scottish hamlet of Coldingham. Even if you've never heard of it, this part of southern Scotland has a long history. This includes a pivotal moment in the history of Christianity in Britain. Prints played a crucial role in making sure that what happened was successful, and it involved Deb's role in spreading the religion across the island. However, we should probably clear up some potential misunderstandings first. This is due to the fact that Coldingham had two anglo-saxon abs. There's a very good reason for this, despite the fact that it sounds unlikely.
A group of archaeologists is looking into tombs that were first dug up more than a century ago, deep beneath an ancient Egyptian burial ground. However, this time around, they uncover a truly amazing and extremely uncommon insight into the mysterious process of modification. Yes, the discovery promises fresh insights into the strategy behind this enigmatic and long-forgotten right. In Egypt, archaeologists made a shocking discovery that may reveal the secrets of modification. The influence of ancient Egypt can still be seen today all over the world, from the great pyramid of Giza to the numerous artifacts that line the shelves of museums all over the world.
However much we already know about this great north African civilization, there is always more to learn. There is, after all, much about ancient Egyptian culture and traditions that for now at least, remains lost to time. The story of one of the world’s oldest and grandest cultures began way back in the 31st century BCE with the unification of the two kingdoms of upper and lower Egypt. The king responsible Narmer, also known as meanies is today regarded as having been the first pharaoh although the Egyptians themselves would come to use this term until almost 2000 years later. Nonetheless, the template created by Narmer a template now known as the early dynastic period, would endure for about 3000 years.
The area of boulder cliff lies just offshore from the isle of wight in the english channel. Now it has immense archaeological interest given the amount of stone age artifacts found submerged in the seabed over the years. However, in 2019, researchers made one of their most exciting discoveries to date. Experts discovered an amazing stone age shipyard, and now they're unraveling its sunken secrets. So the stretch around boulder cliff was once dry land. However, as sea levels rose in the wake of the ice age, the site was submerged underwater, and luckily, the mud and silt that came with the rising tide served to preserve much of the stone age settlement.
With that in mind, researchers have explored around boulder for decades, but it wasn't until 2019 that they uncovered the remains of what they believe to be an ancient shipyard. Unlike anything they have seen, the site revealed in detail what life may have been like for our stone age ancestors. Now the journey to the discovery of the historic shipyard began back in 1999, for it was then that divers stumbled upon a lobster digging a burrow in the seabed of the solent. This is the pool of water between the english mainland and the isle of wight itself. And as the crust asean made way for its new home, it disturbed some curious artifacts. Indeed, experts from the maritime archaeology trust mat discovered that among the items the lobster had moved were stone age relics. To some extent, the historic finds were no surprise for local fishermen had been finding stone tools in the area for decades. Furthermore, in 1987, an ancient forest was found submerged around the same area of boulder, as technology improved radiocarbon dating on the pollen found showed that the woodland was around 8000 years old.
In 2020 two teenagers volunteering at an archaeological dig in central Israel unearthed hundreds of 1,100-year-old gold coins, reports the Associated Press.
The 18-year-olds found the cache of 425 coins inside a clay vessel buried in the city of Yavne, according to Reuters. The currency appears to date to the ninth century, when the Abbasid Caliphate controlled much of the Near East and North Africa.
“This is one of the earliest known caches from this period (late [ninth] century A.D.) found in the country,” says Robert Kool, a coin expert with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), in a statement. “The coins are made of pure 24-carat gold.”
As Laura Geggel writes for Live Science, the buried treasure weighs 845 grams (or 1.68 pounds). Based solely on the current price of gold per gram, the coins are worth around $52,600 today—but given their historical significance and numismatic merit, the trove’s actual value is likely significantly higher.
During the ninth century, the cache’s owner could have used it to buy a luxurious home in one of the well-to-do areas of the then-Egyptian capital, Fustat.
“The person who buried this treasure 1,100 years ago must have expected to retrieve it, and even secured the vessel with a nail so that it would not move,” say IAA archaeologists Liat Nadav-Ziv and Elie Haddad in the statement. “Finding gold coins, certainly in such a considerable quantity, is extremely rare. We almost never find them in archaeological excavations, given that gold has always been extremely valuable, melted down and reused from generation to generation.”
Per BBC News, the hoard consists of full gold dinars and 270 small gold cuttings, which were sliced off of the dinars to act as smaller denominations. One such fragment was cut from a gold solidus minted in Constantinople by ninth-century Byzantine emperor Theophilos. The first of its kind ever excavated in Israel, the coin offers a rare testament to economic ties between two empires that were often at odds.
“Whether it was through war or trade,” writes Marc Santora for the New York Times, “money kept flowing.”
Exactly who filled the clay jar with riches remains unknown. But Reuters notes that at the time of the cache’s burial, the area in which it was found housed an array of workshops.
“It was amazing,” says Oz Cohen, one of the volunteers who found the hoard, in a statement quoted by Reuters. “I dug in the ground and when I excavated the soil, saw what looked like very thin leaves. When I looked again I saw these were gold coins. It was really exciting to find such a special and ancient treasure.”
Kool tells the Times that the era of the Abbasid Caliphate, which ruled the region between 750 and 1258 A.D., is one of the “least understood in Israel.” Coins offer concrete evidence of the period, from the names of local leaders to mint locations and dates of production.
Speaking with the Associated Press, Kool adds, “Hopefully the study of the hoard will tell us more about a period of which we still know very little.”
Dig into the 800 year history and architecture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and find out what gives the tower its infamous tilt.
In 1990, the Italian government enlisted top engineers to stabilize Pisa’s famous Leaning Tower. There’d been many attempts during its 800 year history, but computer models revealed the urgency of their situation. The tower would topple if it reached an angle of 5.44 degrees— and it was currently leaning at 5.5. What gives the tower its infamous tilt? Alex Gendler explores the monument's history.
Humanity has existed on the planet for about three hundred thousand years. We have survived many wars, nuclear bombings, famines and deadly pandemics. But what if we were on Earth two hundred million years ago? Most modern threats to humans didn't yet exist then. However, there was something worse than a hydrogen bomb and incurable diseases. Dinosaurs. What would we do in a world full of huge lizards? Could we have lasted even a day on the planet during the Jurassic period? Forget everything you learned about dinosaurs and this era from Steven Spielberg movies. Today we are going to face the truth from a scientific point of view.
Natalie Wood, Bruce Lee, Notorious B.I.G. The killers of these people haven’t been found to this day. But there are criminal cases full of questions and inconsistencies that remain unsolved for a few million years.
Who killed the most enormous cold-blooded prehistoric monsters called the Megalodon and the Titanoboa? The investigation hits a dead end because it's hard to comprehend who or what could defeat those monsters. Eyewitnesses are long gone, and the evidence was destroyed by time.
In this video, we’ll reopen the investigation and find out: how did a lethal dose of radiation end up at the scene? Can we trust the white sharks’ alibi? And most importantly, who killed the prehistoric mega predators?
Eating out seems to have been as popular 5,000 years ago as it is today, with archaeologists in Iraq uncovering an ancient tavern dating back to 2,700 BC.
Researchers working in the ancient city of Lagash discovered that the pub, hidden just 19 inches below the surface, was split into an open-air dining area and a room containing benches, an oven, ancient food remains and even a 5,000-year-old fridge.
They initially found themselves in the open courtyard space, an area that was difficult to excavate, being "open and exposed to the outdoors," Reed Goodman, an archaeologist from the University of Pennsylvania, told CNN.
After returning to the mysterious courtyard a few months later, in fall 2022, field director Sara Pizzimenti, from the University of Pisa, broadened the trench.
The team then discovered the industrial-sized oven, a moisture-wicking ancient "fridge," to keep food cool, and dozens of conical bowls, many containing fish remains, revealing the purpose of the courtyard to be an outdoor dining area.
"I think the first feature to show itself was this very large oven and it's actually beautiful," Goodman said. "From various burning episodes and deposits of ash it left a sort of rainbow coloration in the soils and the interior is framed by these big bricks."
Lagash, now the town of al-Hiba, was one of the oldest and largest cities in southern Mesopotamia -- occupied from the fifth millennium until the middle of the second millennium BC and encompassing an area of almost two square miles.
It has since become an important archaeological site, with excavations restarting most recently in 2019 as part of a joint project between the Penn Museum, the University of Cambridge and the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in Baghdad, using new techniques such as drone photography and genetic analysis.
Previous excavations focused on religious architecture and understanding the elites, but Holly Pittman -- director of the Lagash Archaeological Project and curator of the Penn Museum's Near East section -- concentrated on non-elite areas during these latest excavations to provide a broader understanding of ancient cities.
Uncovering a tavern supports the perspective of Pittman and her team that society was not organized into just elites and enslaved people -- the previous prevailing view -- but included an ancient middle class.
"The fact that you have a public gathering place where people can sit down and have a pint and have their fish stew, they're not laboring under the tyranny of kings," Goodman said.
"Right there, there is already something that is giving us a much more colorful history of the city."
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a hidden corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. The country's former Minister of Antiquities is calling it "the most important discovery in the 21st century." Watch the video below to find out more!
In the following video we will investigate an ancient book found in Egypt, which revealed a terrifying message. Enjoy!
