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Published — 26 July 2026 ⏭ archaeology and ancient history - Dig It With Raven
Published — 19 July 2026 ⏭ archaeology and ancient history - Dig It With Raven
Published — 17 July 2026 ⏭ archaeology and ancient history - Dig It With Raven

Did the Trojan War Happen?

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Was the Trojan War a real event, or is it truly just a story? In this video we examine the archaeological ruins of Troy to see if there is any physical evidence that corroborates the tale. Was it all a myth? Or is there any truth to it?

Check out the other video Rachel and I did about Homeric Objects here:

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A great book on the topic of searching for the Trojan War: https://amzn.to/458HfBq

Also check out this fantastic interactive to explore all the layers of Troy: https://www.archaeology.org/travel/interactivemap-troy/index.html

Picture credits:
Grave Circle A - Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Schliemann's Trench - A. Erdem Şentürk, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Schliemann portrait - University of Heidelberg
Hitttite Empire - By Middle_East_topographic_map-blank.svg: Sémhur (talk)derivative work: Zunkir (talk) - Middle_East_topographic_map-blank.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0,
Hittite Tablet - British Museum



#archaeology #theodyssey #trojanwar #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #greekmythology #theiliad #classicalciv #history #troy #achilles #archaeologicaldiscoveries #heinrichschliemann
Published — 15 July 2026 ⏭ archaeology and ancient history - Dig It With Raven
Published — 12 July 2026 ⏭ archaeology and ancient history - Dig It With Raven
Published — 10 July 2026 ⏭ archaeology and ancient history - Dig It With Raven
Published — 5 July 2026 ⏭ archaeology and ancient history - Dig It With Raven

Nobody Expected to Find this Tomb Beneath the Pyramids

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Hidden beneath the Giza Plateau, just next to the Great Pyramid of Giza, was the golden tomb of Queen Hetepheres. Lying in wait for over 4,000 years, the is the tomb of Khufu's mother and one of the most staggering discoveries of an ancient Egyptian Tomb in history. It was also excavated and documented so precisely that you can completely reconstruct it as it was when it was first found.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Setting the Scene
01:06 - An Accidental Discovery
02:45 - Documenting and Identifying
04:31 - Opening the Sarcophagus
06:03 - Anatomy of a Tomb
06:29 - What was Inside
07:35 - ad break
09:12 - More Contents
11:21 - The Silver Bangles
14:01 - Unanswered Questions
19:41 - Outro

Resources:
https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/73120379-3c43-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b
https://the-past.com/feature/the-origins-of-silver-and-the-bracelets-of-queen-hetepheres-i/?nsl_bypass_cache=0ff5965e157a6c9168fc61c9c9e6043e
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26537117
M. Lehner, The Pyramid Tomb of Hetep-Heres and the Satellite Pyramid of Khufu (1985)
G. A. Reisner and W. S. Smith, A History of the Giza Necropolis Volume II: The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops (1955)
https://the-past.com/feature/dows-dunham-and-the-tomb-of-queen-hetepheres/
https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/73120379-3c43-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b
Categorizing archaeological finds: the funerary material of Queen Hetepheres I at Giza HANS-HUBERTUS MUNCH

Link to study about the silver bracelet: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X23001530

#archaeology #ancientegypt #ancienthistory #ancientrelics #pyramidsofegypt #archaeologist #egyptology #egypt #egyptianhistory #archaeologicaldiscoveries
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