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The Giant's Graves of Bronze Age Sardinia are monumental communal tombs built by the lesser-known Nuragic Civilisation. And while they may look like they were built by giants.... they were anything but! Sardinian archaeology is super underrated so I hope you enjoy this tour of some amazing ancient structures.
0:00 Uncovering the Nuragic Civilization
1:48 Decoding the Giants' Tombs
2:46 Sponsor
4:56 Anatomy of a Megalithic Grave
7:52 Ceremonial Centers and Cosmological Gates
11:21 Caves, Tombs, and Social Control
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I am so excited for us to be trekking to Ciudad Perdida, Colombia's Lost City! Nestled in the lush Sierra Nevada mountains of Santa Marta, get ready for a 4 day trek through jungle, over rivers, and in lush forests, ending at an ancient city that is 650 years older than Machu Picchu!
This is a very physical trip, and we will be sleeping in some rustic but beautiful places, so be prepared to carry your own gear, see some amazing sites, and hang out with other archaeology and ancient history lovers while charting an adventure of a lifetime!
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It's not just the Rosetta Stone that helped decipher mysterious ancient languages. The Behistun Inscription in Iran played a vital role in cracking the code for the many languages written in Cuneiform, the earliest writing system in the world!
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:18 The Behistun Inscription
05:15 Sponsor
06:50 Discovery of Cuneiform
10:56 Decipherment of Old Persian
17:06 Cracking the Code
18:24 Languages of Cuneiform
19:27 Deciphering Akkadian and Sumerian
21:59 Outro
A great book on how Cuneiform was deciphered: https://link.amazon/B0cHaSxsY
An amazing book on the writing system itself by none other than Irving Finkel: https://link.amazon/B0aMcE41Q
Learn cuneiform for yourself: https://link.amazon/B06xajbnV
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The lost tombs of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, Attila the Hun, and Caligula. The final resting places of these famous rulers from ancient history are still at large. Archaeologists are hunting for these lost tombs and more. Will we ever find them? Are there any clues that can lead us to these archaeological mysteries?
Watch Next: 3 Ancient Tombs Archaeologists Can't Find https://youtu.be/jmsesHZk6vI
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:29 Sponsor
01:47 The Tomb of Cleopatra
13:03 Attila the Hun
18:50 Caliglua
22:33 Outro
Kathleen Martínez has been searching for Cleopatra's lost tomb for many years. Most archaeologists agree that her tomb is likely in Alexandria (probably underwater), but she believes it to be in Taposiris Magna. Do you think she's on to something?
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
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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
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