The Oldest Mummies were not Found in Egypt

It's no secret that every find of archaeologists forces historians to change our history and the origin of ancient civilizations. We have to collect bit by bit all the information about our past. Let's hope that when we still manage to fully understand how civilizations developed, how ancient communities formed, what kind of culture they had, what they ate and did in their free time.

The Most Unusual Finds of Archaeologists (Documentary)

In this large documentary, we have collected many finds from archaeologists. To make it convenient and comfortable for you to watch one movie about a lot of ancient artifacts, rather than review different videos. Ancient civilizations have been repeatedly covered in films and books, they are constantly written about in scientific journals. Unfortunately, many moments that were key in those distant times are often missed. Because of these trifles, the idea of the ancient world is completely destroyed. Ancient China, Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Sumerians - how much the people of those years hide! Sit back and enjoy a huge collection of finds from the past.

Ancient Hieroglyphic Inscription Found in Egypt

The culture of Ancient Egypt is so rich and diverse that one can talk about it forever. If they talk about the Ancient World, then the first association in the head is with the pyramids and pharaohs. In fact, Egypt is not only great buildings and mummified rulers. One of the first breweries, writing, clothing, statehood - that's what Ancient Egypt means.

9 Mystical Archaeological Finds That Will Surprise You

In this video we will explore mystical archaeological finds that will definitely surprise you. Archeology is a very interesting and informative science. Now many people go on vacation to Egypt and Turkey, but many either forget or do not want to visit the places where the Pharaohs walked in ancient times, great empires were built and civilizations were created. For those who did not have time to visit all the places where the excavations of archaeologists took place, this video is dedicated.

In China, Found a Giant Funnel with a Primeval Forest Inside

There are many legends and various conjectures about Stonehenge. But few people know that something similar to Stonehenge was recently discovered by archaeologists at the bottom of a lake in the United States.They also managed to find a first-aid kit under water, which is more than 2,100 years old, and the most interesting thing is that the discovered medicine has a similar composition to the modern one!

n this video you will see a primeval forest in China, an ancient first-aid kit, a rich Phoenician necropolis and find out what a dog looked like, which is more than 7500 years old! Watch the video until the end, other finds of archaeologists are waiting for you!

10 Most Incredible Archaeological Finds

10 most incredible finds of archaeologists and scientists await you in this video. Using the most modern technologies and capabilities, scientists from all over the world are trying to study our history. After all, each new found artifact helps to recreate the history of our past. How ancient emperors lived, what our ancestors ate, how they moved and what they dreamed about. It is often said that without history there is no future.

It would seem that in Egypt, archaeologists have already unearthed everything that is possible, studied absolutely all the artifacts and are perfectly aware of the culture of the ancient Egyptians. But just recently, they managed to find a huge necropolis, which contained more than 250 mummies and bronze statues. A few years ago, in the same Egypt, an interesting unique mummy was discovered, about which little is known.

The Bible was Challenged by This 1,500 year Old Book

In this video we will be exploring the oldest bible, a very old painting, or rather the remains of it, and other finds that are very interesting for modern historians to study. Even an insignificant find of archaeologists can completely rewrite the history of the area where it was found and the history as a whole! There are artifacts, the purpose of which causes the most fierce disputes among scientists. Let's talk about them here.

100 Most Mystical Ancient Finds You Must See

The most important documentary film about the finds of archaeologists. One video contains the most significant and unusual finds that have been discovered. Archaeologists and scientists work daily, using the most modern methods of dating and analyzing ancient artifacts. Ancient architecture, human and animal remains, cursed artifacts and much more in one big movie. More than an hour and a half of interesting and exciting finds from around the world.

A vast enigma that predates Stonehenge

Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, which challenges preconceived notions about the development of civilization, was constructed 6,000 years before Stonehenge by an ancient population.

German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt was confident the structures he discovered were exceptional, if not unique, when he initially started digging on a Turkish mountaintop 26 years ago.

Schmidt found more than 20 circular stone enclosures atop the Gobekli Tepe, or "Belly Hill," a limestone plateau near Urfa. The largest, a circle of stone with two ornately carved pillars standing 5.5m tall in the middle, measured 20 meters across. Up to 10 tons of stone were carved into creepy, stylized human figures with folded hands and fox-pelt belts. For people who hadn't yet domesticated animals or created pottery, let alone metal tools, carving and erecting them must have been a major technological difficulty. The constructions were 11,000 years old, or more, making them humanity's oldest known massive structures, created not for shelter but for some other reason.

Following ten years of research, Schmidt came to an amazing conclusion. Schmidt, who was then working for the German Archaeological Institute, told me Gobekli Tepe may assist rewrite the history of civilization by illuminating the reasons why people first started farming and establishing permanent settlements when we visited his dig house in Urfa's old town in 2007.

The circular enclosures were created by hunter-gatherers who were surviving off the land as humans had since before the last Ice Age, according to the stone tools and other evidence Schmidt and his team discovered at the site. There was no trace of domesticated grains or other plants, and the tens of thousands of animal bones discovered were from wild species.

Schmidt hypothesized that these hunter-gatherers had gathered together 11,500 years ago to use stone tools to carve the T-shaped pillars at Gobekli Tepe, quarrying limestone from the hill beneath their feet.

It would have been a huge work to carve and move the pillars, albeit possibly not as challenging as it first appears. The bedrock of the hill's natural limestone layers served as the material for the pillars. Given enough practice and patience, limestone is soft enough to be worked with the flint or even wood tools of the time. Archaeologists studying at the site believe that rather than cutting away the extra from underneath as well, ancient builders simply had to do so since the limestone formations on the hill were horizontal layers between 0.6m and 1.5m thick. Using rope, log beams, and plenty of labor, they moved the carved-out pillar a few hundred meters over the mountaintop.

Schmidt believed that the region's small, nomadic bands were driven by their religious convictions to regularly band together on the hilltop for construction projects, hold large feasts, and then disperse once more. Schmidt asserted that rather than being a village, the location was a center for rituals, possibly a complex for burial or death cults.

That was a bold assertion. Complex ritual and organized religion were long believed by archaeologists to be luxury items that societies only acquired once they started domesticating plants and animals, a period known as the Neolithic. The idea was that once they had a surplus of food, they could use their excess resources for rituals and monuments.

Schmidt informed me that Gobekli Tepe reversed that timeline. Radiocarbon readings and the presence of stone tools at the site clearly dated it to the pre-Neolithic period. There has been more than 25 years since the initial digs, and no signs of domesticated plants or animals have been found. Furthermore, according to Schmidt, nobody was residing there permanently. A "cathedral on a hill," he described it as.

If such were the case, it would demonstrate that elaborate ritual and social organization predated settlement and cultivation. Over a period of a thousand years, the requirements of bringing together nomadic bands in one location to carve and move enormous T-pillars and build the circular enclosures compelled people to proceed to the next stage, which was to domesticate plants and animals to make food supplies more predictable and dependable in order to regularly host large gatherings. It seems that ritual and religion started the Neolithic Revolution.

The following morning, before dawn, Schmidt and us drove to the mountaintop. As Schmidt led a small group of German archaeologists and workers from the small village down the road, we roamed, mystified and in awe, amid the pillars. Schmidt's head was wrapped in a white cloth to shield it from the scorching sun.

The previous year, Schmidt had just released his initial studies on Gobekli Tepe, which had stirred up the small community of Neolithic archaeology specialists. Although there were temporary corrugated steel roofs covering the excavation sections and potholed dirt roads going up to the hilltop dig site from the valley below, the location still had a drowsy, abandoned feel to it.

When they were first released in the mid-2000s, Schmidt's interpretation of the site's remarkable T-pillars and huge, spherical "special structures" enthralled colleagues and media. Breathtaking media accounts referred to the location as the "cradle of religion," and the German magazine Der Spiegel compared the lush plains nearby to the Garden of Eden.

Consequently, tourists from all over the world flocked to Gobekli Tepe to view it for themselves. Within ten years, the hilltop underwent a complete transformation. Work on the site frequently slowed to a crawl as busloads of curious tourists crowded around open excavation trenches to see what some were calling the world's first temple and made it impossible to maneuver wheelbarrows on the narrow paths until the nearby Syrian civil war disrupted tourism in the area in 2012.

The mountaintop outside of Urfa has once more changed shape during the last five years. Today, highways, parking lots, and a visitor center can hold curious tourists from all over the world. In 2017, modern, swooping fabric and steel shelters covering the main monumental buildings took the place of corrugated steel sheds. One of Turkey's biggest museums, the Anlurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museum was established in 2015 in the heart of Urfa. It includes a full-scale replica of the site's largest enclosure and its imposing T-pillars, allowing visitors to experience the site's colossal pillars and study their carvings up close.

Turkish tourist officials proclaimed 2019 the "Year of Gobekli Tepe" and used the historic monument as the centerpiece of their international marketing campaign after Gobekli Tepe was inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List in 2018. Jens Notroff, an archaeologist with the German Archaeological Institute who started working at the site as a student in the mid-2000s, recalled it as "still being a secluded area on a mountainside." "It's entirely changed."

Schmidt, who passed away in 2014, was unable to see the site's evolution from a dusky mountaintop dig to a popular tourist destination. The Neolithic transition, however, was sparked by Schmidt's finds there, and in recent years, fresh information from Gobekli Tepe and a closer examination of the findings from earlier digs have overturned Schmidt's early interpretations of the location.

Archaeologists had to go deeper than Schmidt ever had to work on the foundations required to hold up the site's sweeping cloth canopy. A team from the German Archaeological Institute worked under the guidance of Schmidt's successor, Lee Clare, and dug multiple "keyhole" trenches to the site's bedrock, which was several meters below the floors of the massive buildings. Clare remarked, "We got a rare opportunity to go explore at the lowest levels and deposits of the site.

What Clare and his colleagues discovered might yet again rewrite prehistory. The excavations turned up signs of homes and year-round habitation, indicating that Gobekli Tepe wasn't just a remote temple that people visited on rare occasions but rather a vibrant village with a focal point of enormous special structures.

The crew also discovered hundreds of grinding implements for processing grain for use in brewing beer and cooking porridge, as well as a sizable cistern and canals for collecting rainwater, both essential for sustaining a town on the parched hilltop. Gobekli Tepe remains a singular, exceptional site, but the latest revelations mesh better with what we already know from other sites, according to Clare. "It was a whole settlement with ongoing habitation. It has completely altered how we perceive the website."

Turkish archaeologists have located at least a dozen additional hilltop sites with comparable, albeit smaller, T-pillars from the same time period in the rough terrain surrounding Urfa. According to Barbara Horejs, a researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute who specializes in the Neolithic and was not involved in the most recent research work, "It's not a unique temple." "It greatly increases the story's interest and excitement." Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, the minister of culture and tourism in Turkey, went so far as to call this region the "pyramids of south-east Turkey."

Clare and others now believe that Gobekli Tepe was an attempt by hunter-gatherers to cling to their fading lifestyle as the world changed around them rather than a centuries-long building project spurring the switch to farming. Evidence from the area suggests that people were experimenting with domesticated animals and plants at other places, a development the residents of "Belly Hill" may have been opposing.

The stone carvings at the location, according to Clare, are a crucial cue. Gobekli Tepe's pillars and walls are covered in intricate carvings of foxes, leopards, serpents, and vultures, which he described as "not animals you see every day." "They're more than simply photographs; they're narratives, which are crucial for forming a shared identity and for keeping people together."

We recall a sense of immense distance when we initially stumbled upon the site more than 15 years ago. Gobekli Tepe, which was constructed 6,000 years before Stonehenge, has engravings whose precise meaning, like the previous world in which its inhabitants lived, is incomprehensible.

Of course, that contributes to the Gobekli Tepe's extraordinary magnetism. Researchers will keep working to figure out why it was created in the first place as thousands of visitors wonder at a location that most people had never heard of ten years ago. The information we now know about the location and the history of human civilization is expected to change with each new discovery.

The new work, according to Horejs, "stands on Klaus Schmidt's shoulders rather than undermining his theory." "I believe there has been a significant increase in knowledge. Science is all about changing interpretations, after all."

12 Most Incredible Archaeological Finds

Being an archaeologist can be a cold and dirty job, but if you were to ask an archaeologist, they would happily tell you that all the cold and miserable days are worth it for the incredible things they sometimes discover. There's seemingly no end to the things our ancestors left behind for us to find, and we've packaged together some of the best of them for you in this video!

2,700-year-old cemetery full of cultural relics unearthed in China

According to experts, a public cemetery from long ago in China has been found, containing graves and cultural artifacts.

A total of 328 cultural artifacts, including porcelain, pottery, bronze, and jade objects, as well as 77 graves, 45 of which date to the Western Zhou dynasty, were found, according to experts with the Baoji Municipal Institute of Archaeology.

According to the institute, the location, also known as the Dongshahe West Road cemetery, served as a public burial ground throughout the Western Zhou dynasty, which, according to Britannica, lasted from 1046 B.C. to 771 B.C. Based on the shape, style, and inscription on the tombs, archaeologists were able to calculate the antiquity of the cemetery.

According to specialists, the artifacts included painted ceramics, jade used in religious rituals, and a bronze disk for astronomy. The artifacts exhibit characteristics that are similar to other cultures that were present in China at the period, demonstrating a substantial degree of cultural diffusion.

Cultural Expansion and Migration in Ancient China

As per documented migration routes, the Zhou people were not thought to have interacted with any ancient cultures in the east, but scientists claimed the recently unearthed artifacts suggest otherwise.

The Dawenkou ceramic design may be seen on several of the pottery jars discovered at the cemetery, for instance, according to the institute. According to Britannica, the Dawenkou civilisation was a Chinese Neolithic culture that existed between 4500 and 2700 B.C.

The Dawenkou civilization and the Western Zhou site share a "cultural relationship," according to archaeologist Xue Feng, who also found a bronze xuanji, a tool used for astronomy.

The Liangzhu culture, another Neolithic kingdom that lived on China's southeast coast from about 3,300 B.C. to 2,300 B.C., was also connected to the site, according to this institution.

Another instance of how ancient Chinese civilization spread to the west is a jade cong that was found at the Western Zhou site and had Liangzhu origins. The Global Times claims that cong were employed in religious rituals.

Hu Wanglin, an associate researcher at the Baoji Institute of Archaeology, told the Global Times that the Liangzhu culture expanded northward to meet the Dawenkou culture, and the Dawenkou culture then expanded further westward. The jade cong found in the tomb at Baoji "shows the 'westward' evolution of Chinese culture."

Ancient burial grounds yielded a sword used to ward off "bad spirits" that was 1,600 years old

An ancient burial site contained a sword that was 1,600 years old, which astounded a team of experts.

In November 2022, a gigantic seven-foot-long iron sword was discovered in Nara, Japan.

The dak sword, which had a snake-like design and was thought to have been intended to ward off evil spirits, was utilized.

The group also found a shield-shaped mirror that was two feet broad and one foot tall, weighing 124 pounds, which was likewise thought to have warded off evil spirits.

The artifacts, according to archaeologists, were buried as part of military burial customs and were significant in both military and ritualistic concerns.

Naohiro Toyoshima, an archaeology professor at Nara University, stated in a statement to local media that "[these swords] are prestigious objects of high society."

During the Tomio Maruyama burial mound excavations, the antiquated artifacts were found.

The 4th century, during the Kofun era, is when the burial mound is thought to have been constructed.

The Kofun period, which followed the Yayoi period and lasted roughly from 300 to 538 CE, was a crucial era in Japanese history.

The use of burial mounts, built primarily for the elite and coming in a variety of sizes and designs, is a common way to identify the time period.

With a diameter of 357 feet, the location is the largest circular burial mound in Japan.

The 2.3-inch-wide blade is reportedly the largest iron sword in Japan and one of the oldest examples of a meandering sword.

The enormous sword is one of about 80 identical artifacts that have been found in Japan.

The mirror, however, is thought to be the first of its sort to be found.

The larger swords are thought to have more abilities to shield the dead from evil spirits.

The swords were probably not used in combat.

The discoveries are greater than anything Kosaku Okabayashi, the deputy director of Nara Prefecture's Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, could have ever anticipated.

According to him, the Kofun period's technology (300–710 CE) was more advanced than previously thought.

They represent the pinnacle of that time period's metalwork.

The last known sabertooth skull was discovered in Iowa, researchers say

Researchers believe that a well-preserved skull of a sabertooth cat, one of the last of its kind to roam the earth as glaciers retreated and temperatures rose, was discovered in southwest Iowa.

According to Matthew Hil, an associate professor of archaeology at Iowa State and specialist in animal bones, radiocarbon dating reveals that the male cat perished at the end of the Ice Age between 13,605 and 13,460 years ago before being interred in the East Nishnabotna River.

David Easterla, an emeritus biology professor at Northwest Missouri State University, and Hill examined the specimen. Quaternary Science Reviews just released their research findings.

He continued, "The skull is a tremendously major deal. "Findings of this species are dispersed widely and typically consist of a single tooth or bone. This East Nishnabotna River skull is in very pristine condition. It's beautiful."

The skull provides proof that the animal was 2 to 3 years old and well over 500 pounds when it died. This shows that the sabertooth cat may have been larger than the majority of cats found in southern California, according to the university.

Hill and Easterla believe that southwest Iowa at this time resembled central Canada today in that it was a parkland with patches of trees scattered across grassland spaces.

The dire wolf, enormous short-faced bear, long-nosed peccary, flat-headed peccary, stag-moose, muskox, giant ground sloth, and possibly some bison and mammoth would have all coexisted with the cat, according to the expert.

A shattered canine on the skull may provide a hint as to how the sabertooth cat perished, according to researchers. Hill and Easterla suggest that the animal was fatally wounded by the prey, which resulted in a serious injury.

"These kinds of fossils can teach us a lot. They contain information on the ecology of the animals and how they react to a changing climate, as well as the advent of new predators and competitors, such as people "explained Hill.

Hill stated that he intends to use chemical markers in the fossil itself to discover more about the diets of animals in Iowa.

According to him, Iowa is an excellent place to conduct research on extinct Ice Period creatures and the people who were only beginning to coexist with them.

Ancient "Chewing Gum" from 5,700 years ago reveals details about ancient people and bacteria

The whole human genome was successfully retrieved from "chewing gum" produced thousands of years ago by scientists at the University of Copenhagen. The scientists claim that it is a fresh, unexplored supply of ancient DNA.

The Danish Stone Age woman's private details were revealed by a 5,700-year-old lump of pitch tar, and "chewing gum" gives new light on the evolution of our species.

The DNA in a piece of well preserved Paleolithic chewing gum from an island famed for its mud allowed researchers to identify the skin, hair, and eye colors as well as the pathogen profile, dental health, nutrition, and other characteristics.

Her whole genome as well as the genomes of other species that lived in her mouth were collected by scientists on the spot. She was a carrier of the viral virus that many of us have today, was lactose intolerant, and appeared to prefer wild food over everyday grain goods.

The research's principal investigator, Associate Professor Hannes Schroeder of the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, said, "It is astounding to have recovered a whole ancient human genome from anything other than bone."

Furthermore, he continues, "we also recovered DNA from oral microorganisms and numerous significant human illnesses, making this a highly rich source of ancient DNA, especially for times where we do not have human remains."

Sealed in mud

The fact that this person, "Lola," was called after the island where the gum was discovered and had dark complexion suggests that northern Europeans' lighter skin evolved considerably later and was more adapted. She was able to chew birch bark gum for a variety of reasons.

Birch pitch has been used since the Paleolithic, according to historical records. The resin of different trees, which served as the principal Stone Age adhesive, becomes more malleable the more it is heated, and chewing may have been a method of keeping it malleable as it cools when heated. She might have chewed the gum because of its antibacterial capabilities to help with her toothache, or she might have done so because she likes the monotonous biting that many of us love when we chew gum these days.

The birch pitch was found during an archaeological dig in southern Denmark's Syltholm, which is east of Rdbyhavn.

“Syltholm is totally distinctive. The preservation of organic remains is really extraordinary because almost everything is sealed in mud”, according to Theis Jensen, a postdoc at the Globe Institute who worked on the topic for his Doctorate and also took part in the excavations at Syltholm.

The archaeological findings indicate that the site's inhabitants continued to heavily utilize wild resources far into the Neolithic, which is when farming and tamed animals were first introduced into southern Scandinavia. It is the largest Stone Age site in Denmark, he continues.

Lola lived in a time when farmers and hunters-gatherers coexisted in the same regions, which wasn't always thought to be likely. This argument is supported by her preference for mallard duck and hazelnuts while other Paleo-Danes consumed their crops, as well as by her intolerance to lactose, which is frequently observed in northern Europeans after domestication of animals.

The Villum Foundation and the EU's Horizon 2020 research initiative through the Marie Curie Actions funded the study.

Maya Archaeological site for sale on Facebook has stirred controversy in Yucatán and across Mexico

The sale of more than 249 hectares of land on Facebook Marketplace has generated debate in Yucatan and throughout Mexico.

Inside the Xkipche Archaeological Zone, a listed monument in the state of Yucatán's Archaeological Atlas, the property, which was marketed on social media, features the remnants of historic Maya buildings.

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) is suing the private seller of the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico's Mayan monuments in response to this sale.

The location is being sold as a "ranch," with "18 paddocks," and is "placed ten minutes from the archaeological zone of Uxmal and contains pyramids," according to a Facebook group post by the current owners of the land.

Also, they claimed that between 1990 and 1997, academic institutions had previously researched the area, as did archaeologists from Germany's Bonn University who had collaborated with INAH from 2002 to 2004.

The asking price of the property is 18 million pesos, or nearly $1 million USD.

Yucatán Magazine reports that the INAH is currently preparing to file a lawsuit to block the sale and maybe expropriate the property.

The INAH Yucatán Center's director, José Arturo Chab Cárdenas, announced that the owners of the property in question will face legal action for commercializing historical sites.

According to the advertisement, the sale would set a precedent, allowing for the private selling of archaeological sites for profit, and putting the country's cultural heritage in peril. This fury was expressed on social media and in national headlines throughout Mexico.

Reconstruction work on the Xkipche site began in the late 1990s, and it was finished by the INAH in 2004 with the aid of archaeologists from Germany's Bonn University.

Although it is not against the law to own property that contains archaeological relics in Mexico, it is not possible to sell any relics because they are all federal government property and cannot be sold. The same holds true for areas of land with rivers, lakes, or cenotes because, according to Mexican law, all waterways are considered to be public property.

There are many well-known archaeological sites in the Puuc region that are accessible to the general public, such as Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, and Labna, but there are also many others, the majority of which are on private or ejido land.

The Centurion who fought on his own against the Praetorian Guard

As the Praetorian Guard closed in, the lone centurion stood his ground, determined to protect what he believed was right. This is the story of the centurion who dared to fight against the powerful elite Roman soldiers alone. Today we will explore the incredible story of the Centurion who fought on his own against the Praetorian Guard!

World's Tallest statue size comparison | 3d Animation Full-Scale Sizes

What is the biggest statue in size? Ever wondered how tall the Statue of Liberty is? Or what about the Statue of Unity ? Well, let’s take a look at some of the biggest statues arround the world ranked by their size. In this comparison video we will show the Real Scale representation and the height of the tallest and biggest statues ever.