‘Incredibly Unusual’ Discovery Excites Archaeologists in Egypt | BBC Timestamp

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The ancient Egyptians have fascinated us for centuries. The Pyramids of the Pharaohs and the Sphinx are fabulous monuments to their past glory. But according to one scientist, Dr Sarah Parcak, the astonishing antiquities already discovered are just a tiny percentage of what was left behind.

Searching for clues in the hunt for Egypt's lost capital, Dr Parcak and a team from Cairo University discover long-lost treasures while coring beneath the earth that have lain forgotten and undisturbed for centuries.

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You can discover more archaeological secrets from Ancient Egypt in this clip about the missing tombs of Egypt's first kings:

BBCTimestamp

No archeologist, but when I bought my house I dug a small flower garden in my back yard. Found two large brass bells about 1 foot down. Had them assessed by an antique dealer. They were 100+ year old horse bells. My little treasures. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

Momcat_maggiefelinefan

Archaeology is such an act of love towards the human race. Like a love letter to the entire population of this sacred planet. And one of the great things about it is that it is all so factual.💙

An enjoyable brief vignette of archeological survey work in the field. But the use of the verb “shocks” in the video title smacks of clickbait, and almost inclined me to skip the video. It would have been much better to have said that the discovery, say, “delights”, or “excites”, the archeologists.

ColumbiaB

I see a lot of hate online for the British Museum in London, with people complaining how all the artifacts were ‘stolen’.
Maybe some of them were, but even today British archeologists are still digging in the dirt to uncover treasures in countries that 100 years ago were not interested in historical objects unless they were precious metals or gems that could be sold.

tombassman

As a geologist with over 40 years of drilling experience and huge amount of alluvial sampling, this is so unscientific and sub standard methodology. Wish I was in charge doing it right. What about pollen, micro flora and fauna, clay types, etc?

tomsaunders

Does the drilling destroy artifacts? I mean like if they happen to bore into an artifact, such as an intact piece of pottery, they'll bust it up and just bring up shards. Right?

kenbob

The fact that these fragments are unpolished and unset, does it mean they're digging up a jewelers?

relfyem

Crude but effective methodology. Those are just point sources and if you find something that really rings a bell you can go back and launch an expedition style dig. Geologists take grab samples all the time just to get an idea.

michaels

Based on the thumbnail, I thought this was about Evander Holyfield’s ear after the Tyson bout.

Floyd-ol

These videos are the Top Shelf of YouTube

thedandyyoutubers

I find many arrow heads and spear points above an Indian burial mound in Mississippi but no pottery. Across a small river, there is a long ceremonial mound and points and pottery everywhere. 🤔

JamesJones-cxpk

Those are beautiful stones, great find!

The 'green Sahara' existed up until 3500 BCE, and human cultures or possibly civilizations lived all across northern Africa. Going all the way back over 12, 000 years people have lived there, surviving the tumultuous Solar Maximums that bring intense geomagnetic storms, earthquakes, and crazy weather; surviving floods and volcanic winters, droughts and famines; surviving possible geomagnetic excursions that bring magnetic field instability and solar irradiance into the lower troposphere...

They may have changed many many times up to and including ancient Khemete/Egypt. The Dynastic Period saw the fall of many technologies in working stone that we cannot explain today. Granite, andesite, and basalt were the materials of an ancient world we are completely ignorant of: Modern civilizations did not liberate, move, and cut the majority of the megaliths in Egypt nor abroad (In Peru, Brazil, Guatemala, Easter Island, Japan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkiye, or Palestine.

We have literally catalogued megalithic construction back to 12, 000+ years at Gobekli Tepe, only a few hundred miles from the Tower of Jericho in Palestine, which dates to 6, 000 BCE.

These people were once connected, possibly more than once. The evidence for this lies most notably in Egypt, Peru, East Asia, and in Turkiye: Megalithic polygonal masonry that uses no mortars, all contact sides are contoured to each other, and they are basalt, andesite, or granite.

The Osirieon in Egypt is fashioned the same way as Zernaki Tepe, at Lake Van in Turkiye: Descending layers of granite at Osirieon, the same at Zernaki Tepe but in basalt. This is because each location had those types of stone in abundance, even though they were sourced from hundreds of miles away in many cases: They needed the hardest/strongest stone available to build their temples.

The megalith builders also built in south America: The Peruvians have, for centuries, contested that their ancestors did NOT build Machu Picchu, nor Sacsayhuaman, nor Ollantaytambo, or Tiwanaku; they found them, rebuilt them, and inhabited them, benefitting from construction that FAR predated them and FAR outmatched their technical skill with stone. To date, over 25, 000 miles of roads have been uncovered in south America, connecting Guatemala to southern Chile, and east into Brazil and the Amazon.

Also: The Amazon has been studied extensively for decades and some horticulturists believe that it was seeded from specific places with specific edible plants that now dominate the continent, and that south America was similar to northern Africa 12, 000+ years ago. I.e.: People were growing food en masse across the continent and disappeared, leaving their plantations to grow wild for thousands of years.

Our story in this world has a very rich and deep history, and we have been here before. We just didn't build planes/trains/automobiles.

TheRotnflesh