Did Giant Ancient Humans Once Roam The Earth?

Have you ever wondered if there was some sort of giant human species that once roamed the earth? Well, according to some scientists, this may have been the case! In this video, we'll discuss the theory that a giant human species once existed on earth, and We'll investigate the evidence and see if the theory holds any water. After watching this video, do you believe in the existence of a giant human species?

In this video, we're discussing whether or not giant ancient humans once roamed the Earth. There is a lot of speculation around this topic, but based on the evidence we have, it seems like giant ancient humans may have actually existed! So what do you think? Did giant ancient humans once roam the Earth? Let us know in the comments! One of the leading archaeologists in the world has repeatedly claimed that there was a species of human, sometimes called the 'African Neanderthal', walking the earth that was over 7-feet-tall! In this video we are going to examine what the evidence shows.

What happened In The First Minutes After The Dinosaurs Disappeared?

Today we’re going to visit a planet that humans haven’t yet set foot on. A planet that was almost destroyed by a meteor strike. You‘ll find out which of the ancient inhabitants of the Earth died immediately. You‘ll see who managed to survive. You‘ll learn what climate changes they had to face, and how the Earth was recovering from a monstrous disaster.

Archaeologists were alarmed by a sinful mummy’s head discovered in an ancient Egyptian tomb

All ancient Egyptian tombs are unique, but some pose a greater mystery than others.

In 1905, archaeologists excavating in the Egyptian necropolis of Deir el-Bersha discovered a hidden tomb that contained something unexpected. After 33 days of digging a 30-foot shaft, the archaeological team, led by archaeologists George Reisner and Hanford Lyman Story from the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition entered the 4,000-year-old Egyptian tomb, but they were unprepared for the frightening sight that awaited them. Inside the cramped limestone chamber was a beautifully painted cedar coffin, and on top of it was a mummy's severed head.

Riddle Of The Decapitated Egyptian Mummy

Where was the rest of the mummy? Why was only the head there? Who and why had beheaded the deceased? Decapitation was not an ancient Egyptian burial practice anyone was familiar with at the time. The researchers had encountered a mystery, and it would take 104 years before modern forensic experts could shed some light on this peculiar story.

As archaeologists continued to explore the secrets of the hidden tomb, they realized this was no ordinary burial site.

Tomb 10A was the largest burial assemblage of the Middle Kingdom (2040-1640 B.C.) ever discovered. Scientists found magnificent cedarwood coffins inside the chamber, personal items such as jewelry, written religious chants, and an astounding flotilla of reassembled model boats. As the investigation of tomb 10A continued, researchers were eventually able to determine this was the final resting place for a governor named Djehutynakh and his wife.

"At some point during the couple's 4,000-year-long slumber, grave robbers ransacked their burial chamber and plundered its gold and jewels. The looters tossed a headless, limbless mummified torso into a corner before attempting to set the room on fire to cover their tracks."

The archaeologists felt lucky because they could recover many magnificent ancient objects that had survived the raid and sent them to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1921.

According to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, tomb 10 A "contained four beautifully painted coffins, one of which (detail, shown above), the famous "Bersha coffin" (the outer coffin of the governor), is arguably the finest painted coffin Egypt produced and a masterpiece of panel painting. The tomb also included Djehutynakht's walking sticks, pottery, canopic jar, and miniature wooden models that were made for the burial but reflect life on Djehutynakht's estate, including some 58 model boats and nearly three dozen models of daily life such as individual shops for carpenters, weavers, brick-makers, bakers, and brewers. Of these, the best known is the exquisitely carved "Bersha procession" of a male priest leading female offering bearers."

The transportation of these ancient items was dramatic because the ship caught fire. Still fortunately, the crew had the situation under control, and the precious ancient Egyptian artifacts suffered only slight water damage.

After arriving in Boston, the Museum put the Deir el-Bersha coffin and procession on view in the galleries, but most of the other objects were not revealed to the public.

In 2009, the Museum of Boston decided to put the stored artifacts on display, but the staff encountered a rather embarring problem. "Though the torso remained in Egypt, the decapitated head became the star of the showcase. With its painted-on eyebrows, somber expression, and wavy brown hair peeking through its tattered bandages, the mummy's noggin brought viewers face-to-face with a mystery." 1

Whose Head Was It And Why Was It Missing Cheek bones?

Suddenly the Museum realized no-one knew whether the mummified head belonged to Djehutynakh or his wife. Only a DNA analysis could answer this question, but extracting DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy is easier said than done.

The Boston Museum contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.), asking for help solving this ancient mystery.

While examining the head, scientists discovered something puzzling. The mummified head was missing cheekbones and part of its jaw hinge. How could the missing facial bones be explained?

According to Dr. Rajiv Gupta, a neuroradiologist at Massachusetts General, "all the muscles that are involved in chewing and closing the mouth, the attachment sites of those muscles had been taken out."

This had been caused by the opening of the mouth ceremony, an ancient Egyptian ritual described in funerary texts such as the Pyramid Texts. "The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony allowed statues of deities and the dead to regain their senses, to see thereby into the realm of the living." 3

However, the ritual was also performed so the deceased could eat, drink and breathe in the afterlife.

By extracting the mummy's molar and studying the genetic material, F.B.I specialists could determine the mummified severed head had belonged to governor Djehutynakht.

What is still unknown and may never be solved is why Governor Djehutynakht had been decapitated and by whom. Had the ancient Egyptian governor been a hated man? Did looters deliberately cut off his head to prevent him from entering the afterlife, or was his body destroyed by workers before the tomb was sealed?

Source: https://www.ancientpages.com/2022/04/27/my...

Insane Story About Finding Real Prehistoric Meat

Joe Rogan and John Reeves discuss what it's like eating Mammoth meat, including stories about what happens when you find something like this.

John Reeves is an Alaskan gold miner who first came to public prominence on the 2012 National Geographic docu-series "Goldfathers." More recently, his ongoing search for gold uncovered the remains of thousands of Ice Age animals lying beneath the permafrost on his property. The discovery is featurted in the 2019 documentary "Boneyard Alaska".

Your Geography Teacher Lied to You

In the following video we will be explaining why they have lied to you about Mount Everest being the… tallest mountain on Earth. Watch the video below to find out more!

A Bizarre Discovery Was Made After Euphrates River Dried Up

One of the world's oldest and most significant rivers is the Euphrates. At this river, a lot of history was created. Western Asia is traversed by the Euphrates River. While traveling through Syria and Iraq, the Euphrates River originates in Turkey. Before emptying into the Persian Gulf, the river merges with the Tigris. Its length is around 1,700 miles, and the average area of the basin is 190,000 square miles. The longest river in western Asia is this one.

What Scientists Found in a Forbidden Tomb in Egypt Shocked the Whole World

There are a lot of things to say about Ancient Egypt. It was a civilization surrounded by myths and legends. They are among the most powerful empires that rose in the history of mankind, and they remain one of the most fascinating people in history. There is much more to Egypt than the pyramids in Giza.

In this video, we’ll take a look at the most amazing finds in Egypt that puzzle archeologists to this day. From a dream discovery, to a mysterious pregnant mummy, here are the 15 strangest things discovered in Egypt!

Bizarre & Mysterious Discoveries

In today’s video we will be exploring some bizarre and mysterious discoveries. Watch the video below to find out more!

Ice Age Graveyard Discovered Containing 22 Giant Sloths Preserved In Their Own Feces

The fossil remains of 22 Ice Age sloths the size of elephants have been found preserved in asphalt in Ecuador, researchers have reported.

The specimens — which include 15 adults, 5 juveniles and two newborns or fetuses — were unearthed from the Tanque Loma site on the country's Santa Elena peninsula.

Weighing in at several tons, the sloths — of species Eremotherium laurillardi — had the ability to walk on two legs and move fast, unlike their languid modern relatives.

Instead of falling into a tar pit and getting stuck, experts believe the giant animals died 20,000 years ago from drinking water contaminated by their own faeces.

They were then preserved by being coated in seeping asphalt, along with an ancient horse, a deer, an armadillo-like pampathere, and an elephant-like gomphothere.

The study of the fossilised remains has been led by University of California Los Angeles palaeontologist Emily Lindsey, who is also an assistant curator and excavation site director at the famous La Brea Tar Pits.

'For years, everyone has thought of the classic scenario at the La Brea Tar Pits, where a large herbivore would get stuck in asphalt, then a bunch of carnivores would be attracted to the trapped animal and get stuck… etc,' Dr Lindsey told Gizmodo.

'Nothing got stuck at Tanque Loma! The animals died in an aquatic setting like many other fossil sites, and the bones just fortuitously got preserved by seeping asphalt.

'It blew my mind when I first realised that,' she added.

The dig site was first excavated by a local oil film in 2003, at the edge of hill on which today stands various oil tanks and containers — hence the name, 'Tanque Loma', or 'Tank Hill'.

According the the researchers, the nature of the sediments at Tanque Loma indicates that the area was a marsh some 20,000 years ago.

However, a few shells aside, no aquatic fossils have been found at the site. Instead, the team found an abundance of tiny, broken-up plant remains.

These were all smaller than the distance between the ridges of the ancient sloths' teeth — suggesting, rather gruesomely, that these plants had come from the giant animals' faeces, which likely contaminated the drinking water and killed them.

There is a precedent for such a tragedy — in the seventies, scientists observed 140 hippos that gathered around a watering hole in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve at the beginning of the dry season.

As time passed, the waterhole shrunk while the excrement left by the mammals mounted alongside and in the water — helping to poison them.

By the end of the season, only 40 of the animals remained, with the corpses of the rest lying where they had fallen around the faeces-riddled water.

Despite the most unfortunate manner of their death, the sloths' tragedy is science's gain, as the death assemblage has shined light on the animal's social nature.

'Tanque Loma presents a rare accumulation of fossils that provides highly relevant data,' palaeontologist José Luis Román-Carrión of the Escuela Politécnica Nacional university — who was not involved in the present study — told Gizmodo.

'Now we know that Eremotherium lived in groups and that it had parental behaviour […] we also have this type of evidence from another giant ground sloth, Oreomylodon wegneri, from the [capital city of Ecuador] Quito’s valley.'

The researchers are working to try to persuade the Ecuadorian government to protect the region around Tanque Loma — which is known as the 'Arroyo Seco'.

'There is definitely more of the fossil deposit left to excavate at Tanque Loma. We really don’t know how far it extends yet,' Dr Lindsey told Gizmodo.

'There’s a lot of material that we have excavated that hasn’t been fully prepared and curated yet.'

The team have many more studies in mind at the site, she added, 'like looking at how these giant sloths grew (since we have such a range of sizes and ages), types of pathologies, and more radiocarbon dating of the deposit.'

'But one of the most intriguing aspects of the site for me are the layers of microfauna-rich sediments a meter or so above the asphaltic megafauna deposit.'

'These contain thousands of bones of small birds, lizards, snakes, and rodents that have real potential to tell a story of past environmental change in this region.'

The full findings of the study were published in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar...

Lost Civilizations: Jerash, the Wonder of Jordan (Full Documentary)

Jerash was founded during the Hellenistic period by veterans from Alexander the Great’s army. In 63 B.C., the city felt o Rome and became one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire. A large number of monuments survive. Watch the video to find out more!

12 Most Amazing Recent Archaeological Finds

What makes an ancient artefact discovery truly remarkable? Is it the monetary value? The age of the object? Its rarity? The truth is, it can encompass all of these aspects and even more, or perhaps none of them at all! Fantastic artefact finds have a story to tell, but they can't speak for themselves, so allow us to speak on their behalf in this video.

The finding of a plesiosaur skeleton dating back 100 million years "could hold the key" to prehistoric science

Researchers have welcomed the finding of a massive marine reptile's skeleton in Australia that is 100 million years old as a significant discovery that could reveal important information about prehistoric life.

This is the first time the skull, neck and body of a plesiosaur have been found in one piece in Australia.

Three amateur paleontologists discovered the remains of the 6-meter (19-foot) tall juvenile long-necked plesiosaur, commonly known as an elasmosaur, in August 2022 on a cattle station in the western Queensland outback.

Espen Knutsen, senior curator of palaeontology at the Queensland Museum, compared the find to the 1799 rediscovery of the Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian granite block that assisted researchers in deciphering hieroglyphics.

"We have never found a body and a head together and this could hold the key to future research in this field," Knutsen said in a statement that confirmed the discovery on Wednesday. He added that it could give paleontologists more insight into the origins, evolution, and ecology of the cretaceous period in the area.

"Because these plesiosaurs were two-thirds neck, the head would often be separated from the body after death, which makes it very hard to find a fossil preserving both together," he said.

The skull of the 100 million-year-old plesiosaur found in Queensland, Australia.

The "Rock Chicks"—Cassandra Prince, Cynthia Prince, and colleague fossil hunter Sally, who only goes by her first name—are a group of amateur paleontologists who made the discovery.

Around 150 million years ago, the Eromanga Sea, which had waters that were 50 meters deep, covered a major portion of rural Australia and was home to elasmosaurs, which grew to a length of 8 to 10 meters.

When an elasmosaur died, according to Knutsen, its rotting body would expand with gas and rise to the water's surface. Additionally, the head would frequently break off when predators scavenged the cadaver, making full-body discoveries uncommon.

He continued by saying that the most recent discovery, a young specimen, will clarify how the body structure of elasmosaurs altered from infancy to adulthood.

We're going to look at the chemistry of its teeth, and that can tell us a lot about its ecology in terms of habitat, whether it was traveling throughout its life or whether it was sort of sticking in the same habitat, as well as its food, he said.

Plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, two extinct sea reptiles that lived in the same time period as dinosaurs, are not considered to be dinosaurs. Plesiosaurs descended from land-dwelling predecessors who were forced to occasionally rise for air since they lacked gills. How long they could submerge is still a mystery.

Amateur fossil hunter Cassandra Prince with Espen Knutsen from the Queensland Museum.

It's the most significant prehistoric discovery to have recently been made in Australia.

In June 2021, experts determined that the Queensland fossilized skeleton found in 2007 represented the largest dinosaur ever found in Australia. The dinosaur, known as "Cooper," was the length of a basketball court and stood about two floors tall.

Two months later, researchers learned that 105 million years ago, a species of flying "dragon" flew across Australia. Researchers referred to the pterosaur as a "fearsome beast" that dined on young dinosaurs.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/07/austral...

Archaeological Excavations at Hadrian's Wall Showcase Roman History

The biggest archaeological dig on a section of Hadrian’s Wall since the 1990s has begun, with experts hoping it will reveal more secrets of daily life on the Roman frontier.

It is expected that a "big picture" of frontier life will emerge from the archaeology of fort settlements with findings showcasing that settlement beyond the Roman fort of Birdoswald, on Hadrian's Wall, was carefully planned.

The work at the World Heritage Site is being carried out by Historic England and Newcastle University with areas east, west and north of the fort under excavation.

During building in Estonia, a medieval cargo ship was surprisingly discovered

The battered remnants of a 700-year-old ship were discovered by construction workers under the streets of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

A view of the medieval ship, from the bow, in the excavation pit. (Image credit: Priit Lätti)

The ship's remains, which are made of oak and about 78 feet (24 meters) long with a beam, the ship's widest point, measuring around 29 feet (9 meters), are buried about 5 feet (1.5 meters) below earth.

According to Priit Lätti, a researcher at the Estonian Maritime Museum, "the original length of the ship was bigger, since the stempost [the vertical timber at the bow] is missing and the bow of the ship is damaged." Dendrochronological investigation, which looks at the tree rings found in the ship's wooden remnants, revealed that "the ship was probably built at the beginning of the 14th century," he said. According to him, the ship appears to be extremely similar to other ships from the same era discovered in Europe.

The ship was discovered three weeks ago close to Tallinn's Old Harbor by archaeologist Mihkel Tammet, who had been studying a building site. Lätti asserts that an archaeologist must be present during excavations in places that are subject to heritage protection. The Estonian Maritime Museum was informed of the ship's discovery and asked to assist in collecting data and documenting the find.

Lätti revealed to Live Science that the ship was filled with sand and that it was not sunk very deeply. Given that several sand layers could be seen, he concluded that the sea most likely progressively filled the boat over the years.

Since the ship's discovery, rumors have circulated that it may be a Hanseatic cog, a freight ship employed in trade by the Hanseatic League. The league, a confederation of European trade guilds, ruled the seas between the 13th and the 15th century. Lätti asserted that it is still too early in the excavation procedure to be able to pinpoint the ship's origins.

The ship's sternpost (Image credit: Priit Lätti)

“It's most likely a cargo ship”, he said. “It is difficult to determine the origin of the vessel because we do not yet know the origin of the timbers (the dendrochronological tests are preliminary, therefore I do not want to reveal exact dates or early hypotheses about the origin of the timber).”

Additionally, scientists are attempting to ascertain whether any items discovered buried with the ship can be helpful in figuring out the boat's age.To provide more precise answers, Lätti said that additional analyses had been performed in addition to the artifacts that were discovered aboard. Currently, only the ship's bow is being excavated; the cargo hold was largely empty. The excavations are now moving to the ship's aft region, which might include more discoveries.

So far, the ship has also turned up a few wooden barrels, pottery, animal bones, a few leather items, and textiles. As the aft portion of the ship is excavated, further discoveries are anticipated in the upcoming days.

The fact that the ship was found in such good shape will aid historians and archaeologists in their quest to understand shipbuilding, trading, and life aboard these vessels during the Middle Ages.

Finding something like this, according to Lätti, an expert on harbors and shipwrecks, is "an archaeological jackpot" for Tallinn as an old trading port. "Maritime trade played a significant role in the growth of Tallinn, and while we know a lot about the traders and the goods they traded, we still know very little about the ships they used."

The ship's cargo hold in the excavation pit (Image credit: Priit Lätti)

Similar ships to this one have been found before. For instance, the Bremen cog was discovered in Germany in 1962, while the Estonian Maritime Museum today houses a medieval freight ship that was discovered in Tallinn in 2015.

After it has been unearthed, there is still debate about what will happen to this ship. However, the objective is to take it out of the building site where it was discovered, put it in a secure location, and preserve it. This is what Lätti called a "huge task."

"The methods of transporting, preserving, and conserving the ship are still being discussed," he said, "because it is a very complex operation, and we are dealing with a very valuable archaeological object."

Source: https://www.livescience.com/medieval-cargo...

These BIZARRE Aztecs Events Will Leave You Horrified

The Aztec Empire is one of the most infamous empires in history. From their capital of Tenochtitlan, they ruled over much of Mexico in the 15th and early 16th centuries until their conquest by the Spanish conquistadores, led by Hernan Cortes, in 1521. Today, we explore some of the stranger aspects and events in Aztec history.