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And you could be correct. However remember that we find only a fraction of the ships that sank. So it is statistically more likely that a single wreck represents more traffic in an area than thought rather than being a lone unfortunate vessel swept away. That could happen, and we could then find it, and it would be hard to know. It's just a longshot. We don't conclude definitively either way, but can apply occams razor to suggest that vessels might have travelled further from the coast than previously believed
@@celem1000Of course. If you see one cockroach, there are probably 100 more. However, 1 exception to the rule only proves the rule, statistically. And we have plenty of shipwrecks that are *not* there. Find 2 shipwrecks there and I'll show you 2 failed captains.
I had an awesome year hearing/watching from a professional archeologist (YOU). I am aware of most of your content or posts, but I especially enjoy the nuance and professional scepticism. Keep on keeping it real and fact based!! Late Happy New Year 🎉
Your content is why I still love RUclips. Fantastic summary videos full of meaningful content delivered by a real human. Thank you for all the work you put into these videos!
This is wonderful. The enthusiasm with which you present these discoveries is inspiring. If I had a chance to do it all over again, I would become an archaeologist!
hey, i realise this will get lost in a sea of comments but I appreciate the work you put into these videos and the experience you bring into them. have a good 2025.
Dr. Miano, I wonder if you've had the chance to read William Dalrymple recent book 'The Golden Road'. I bring it up since you've mentioned the Silk Road several times in this video. Dalrymple makes the argument that trade on the overland Silk Road pales in comparison to the maritime routes, first between the Mediterranian and India, and later between India and the Far East. He says that the importance of the Silk Road has been overblown by historians. Dalrymple is obviously a well credentialed historian himself, and my biases are at play here too (I'm Indian), so I want to believe what he's saying. But it would be great to get your opinoin on his claims as well. The Silk Road is fairly entrenched in historical narratives so it seems pretty radical to claim that it wasn't as significant as we think. If you haven't already read it, the book is narrated by him on Audible, and it's an easy listen.
Saudi Arabia in particular, its annual archaeological discoveries are diverse, because it is currently undertaking great efforts in archaeological excavations, perhaps the largest in the world, after neglect for many decades. Months ago, the Kingdom of Kinda was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Months ago, an archaeological settlement about 4,000 years old was discovered in the city of Khaybar
I appreciate your enthusiasm for the different types of discoveries and brief summaries on how each discovery illuminates a unique aspect of our shared human history (urban organization, dynastic inheritance, trade, etc). Great video. I think the urban discovery in Ecuador/ eastern Amazon is the most exciting. I believe the cultural loss from European disease in the americas is underestimated and I hope these findings enrich our understanding of pre-Columbia Amazon lifeways.
was just thinking, where would archaeolgy be if we as humans never had the need to create artistic representations of their daily life or art in general...cave paintings/tomb art/statues/figures and such??
Thank you for sharing this information with us and keeping the search for knowledge at the forefront of your channel. In these times of the attempted rolling back of science and history, and general cultural shifts to an alternate reality where fantasy is replacing facts, it's great to have someone level headed helping to steer the ship of enlightenment.
Great video, very interesting a couple I've never heard of before. It's a shame we aren't exploring prehistoric shorelines in the same detail, we have the tech to do so now. I'm sure there's a wealth of knowledge in settlements that the sea reclaimed.
It's fascinating how archaeologists press forward with their investigations and discoveries despite the political and military turmoil around the world. May the pursuit of knowledge continue in the face of rising anti-intellectualism and science denial in the USA. The next four years are going to be a trial by fire.
Archaeologists are human beings. They do not separate themselves from political and military turmoil. Archaeologists treat some discoveries like conflict diamonds. They will not buy things like amber that contain dinosaurs if that sale will support an oppressive regime.
@@frankvandorp9732 Trumpy is not really into science unless it can make him money. Archaeologists receive funding from somewhere and that funding can be cut off.
Hi Professor Miano, I have a question for you. Is there a basis in the literature for the term ‘proto-Kartvelian script’? I also read that term in the press release and I think it’s what your wording is based on in this video. But I’ve been hard-pressed to find any other use of this term in English, and hence I’m not sure what it refers to. In historical linguistics, my field, Proto-Kartvelian of course is the reconstructed ancestor of the kartvelian languages. But the oldest readable writing in Georgia is Asomtavruli, and its origins are disputed. Wouldn’t calling any other potential undeciphered script proto-Kartvelian (such as the Grakliani Hill find, for example) be misleading since we have no idea if this writing is in a language related to Kartvelian? Or am I thinking too much like a linguist? I.e. does (proto-) Kartvelian refer just to the location of the find? Either way, would love to know your understanding of what ‘proto-Kartvelian Script’ means. Please let me know if I am missing something. This has been bothering me since I first read about the find. Thanks!
Ah, interesting. Yes, I got it from the press release. I expect they interviewed someone involved, and that is what they were told. But it is good to know this is a debatable topic.
The Proto-Kartvelian language, or Common Kartvelian (Georgian: წინარექართველური ენა, romanized: ts'inarekartveluri ena, Georgian: პროტოქართველური ენა, romanized: p'rot'okartveluri ena), is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Kartvelian languages, which was spoken by the ancestors of the modern Kartvelian peoples. The existence of such a language is widely accepted by specialists in linguistics, who have reconstructed a broad outline of the language by comparing the existing Kartvelian languages against each other.[1] Several linguists, namely Gerhard Deeters and Georgy Klimov have also reconstructed a lower-level proto-language called Proto-Karto-Zan or Proto-Georgian-Zan, which is the ancestor of Karto-Zan languages (includes Georgian and Zan)
@@gringott12-y7m Thank you. I am a historical linguist who does not dispute the existence of Proto-Kartvelian. If you re-read my comment you will see that what I am asking about is not the use of the term proto-kartvelian language, but the term proto-kartvelian *script.* the latter is the term that gives me pause. it's not clear to me what is meant by proto-karvelian script. 1) If this is a term that is actually in use by scholars it cannot refer to any readable script older than asomtavruli 2) if it refers to a known but unreadable script they should specify which one more clearly. To a linguist, for whom kartvelian refers not to a place but a language family, this wording is at best confusing. For example, if archeologists discovered a new, really old script in Armenia that nobody could decipher, and called it proto-Armenian, it would be at best a confusing name, because in closely related academic contexts like linguistics, the term Armenian generally implies something about the identity of the speakers beyond their location. namely, their linguistic identity.
A great year for archaeology! Personally, a couple days ago got to see the earliest extant zero used in a number (recording a date) at the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh as well as many of the recently repatriated artifacts from other collections both public and private that were illegally taken during the Khmer Rouge era and the chaos thereafter.
8:30 Interesting. I wonder if going far from land was just considered wildly dangerous, so most would usually stick close to land, but some would take the risk to cut time off their travel and thus increase profits with their navigation skills. 13:00 I love that we can date it exactly due to their calendar and record-keeping! 23:00 Wow, I hadn't realized that city was so big! 27:07 Another amazing LIDAR find! What an incredible ancient metropolis!
@@WorldofAntiquity At 03:22 you say the site dates to the "6th Century BCE". Is this not several centuries before the Greeks or Romans were in Egypt? I very much like your presentations, but I think this is a slip up.
Good afternoon. I am happy to watch and listen to your research. You're an enthusiastic person. Therefore, I would like to encourage you to cover a historical event that is little covered, but had (has) It has enormous significance and resonates with the present. The confrontation of the West (R1b-M269-L51-P312) with the East (R1a-Z645-Z280-L365) in Europe 3200±40 years ago. This event is the battle of the Tollensee River, which runs about 120 km north of Berlin, where up to 5,000 people fought simultaneously. We can say the "Trojan" battle of Europe.
I really wish goverment across the world keep continuing to support archeology, its sad that some area like latin america and the middle east is a heaven for looting. The funding for protecting these site from looter is abysmal. Props to the archeologist that discover this amazing finds that help us understand each nation past history and heritage.
Thanks for another great video! Small note: you might be overusing "rewrite the history of x", and, in most cases it seems you don't mean a major rewrite, but more of an update... (while 'rewrite' usually implies a major change, altho, by the end of this video, I was no longer sure what it implies 😅)
I'm really shocked by how many of these amazing discoveries I'd not previously heard about. Seems like some very dubious stories got way more coverage elsewhere. The media is generally very bad at covering niche topics like archaeology, whether that's the mainstream press or social media. It's great that there are channels like this that genuinely try to inform their audience.
As we see folks Archeology actually is constantly studying and learning - despite claims otherwise. Also always remember that Archeology represents = many countries studying who then collaborate to create what is really a global effort. Archeological teams are operating worldwide under the aegis of many different organizations and nations. p.s. - as an aside if I might. The bronze coins of Egyptian origin serve to show whereby while the Egyptian civilization existed for millennia as far as Pharaonic Egypt = they did not actually mint "coined money" as others did until the Greek/Ptolemaic era. Just a historical tidbit from one who used to collect ancient coins and who has a Ptolemaic era coin. Enjoy your day folks.
I tried to edit a comment, but the whole thing got erased. Here's what it was: An interesting thing about "written language" is that it need not resemble modern ideas about language. One interesting ancient method that continued into the 20th Century was keeping score by | || ||| |||| X [one through 4 being lines and four crossed or X being 5]. Numerical tallies may be fairly easy to identify. The evolution of Chinese characters from earlier forms are often recognizable, but the original forms are thought to have been derived from cracks in turtle shells used for divination. Sometimes something in a known language can't be translated because it is actually coded or disguised in a different language. The tablet under discussion could have been a tally, could have been in a secret [magical] format, or could have actually combined different languages, certainly some of the marks resemble numbers used in China and adjacent countries. After leaving the above comment, something occurred to me about the prejudice against civilization existing in what we know as barely habitable tropical areas. When the high latitudes were colder, the tropical areas, where humanity originated, would have been warmer and more, rather than less, welcoming for human civilization to develop. There are, nowadays, numerous people in colder northern climates who love to take vacations in warmer, more tropical, climates. Thanks, Prof. Miano, for another extremely interesting and thought-provoking video!
i think you should do a 10 Greatest Archaeological Discoveries of 2025, where you spekulate on what they could find as a sort of overview of current digsites and planned, and next year with a revisit check in on how wrong you were. like a fun game
Thank you so much for this fascinating video! Archaeologists should focus on discovering, studying, and interpreting artifacts rather than endlessly wasting time on debates and exposés online. The better we understand our past, the better we can navigate the present!
So some of the earliest class dictatorships (states) reveal evidence of class struggle and the rejection of class hierarchy. This also points to a long standing anarchist tendencies in the Kurdish region, if not Kurds themselves. Tends to confirm historical materialism and the necessity of class struggle. Just like the bourgeois in France during the long nineteenth century the ruling class had to take power. The project of class struggle is dialectic, so as the ruling class established their central authority the workers overthrew that central authority. This points to asymmetrical development around the world, where priests and kings lost in Kurdistan they won farther south. So we remember Mesopotamia as a center of technical development, that would eventually over take the Kurdish region. Very interesting.
In reference to the tombs...those guys wanted to live forever and at least live on 2-3000 years later and more in some cases. Eternity in the dirt. Thanks. I think I'll get myself a tomb with a TV, computer terminal, iphone, some crypto on a ledger or trezor, maybe a classic car along with a cheapTesla with a dead battery, some spacex pharaphenelia, some zztop and hard rock cd's. I bet someone would have a big time digging that up a couple of thousand years from now.
Likely Greek - or Ptolemaic to be precise as far as the bottom coin. After Alexander conquered Egypt and then he died and Ptolemy took control to make himself a Pharaoh - ushering in the Ptolemaic period = is when Egypt began to mint coins* as others did. So the head of the Pharaoh with a bird on the reverse side is common Ptolemaic coinage. Enjoy your day. * - I used to collect ancient coins and have a Ptolemaic era coin in my collection.
17:00 Yeah her work is interesting -- she was working one of those sights and said part of it was destroyed by unknown external phenomenon - like a lightning storm or some such thing. Spooky. Anyways the region had regional warfare - tribal, plus invasions so when Uruk fell after the Gutian tribal nations took over - yeah, things are going to get abandoned and buried out of respect + then you flee with your kids to safer regions.
Hmm... Sumerian seals were used ALL OVER SYRIA by 2000 BCE for some 2000 years, so a big WTF as to a someone forming a COMPLETE alphabet based on seal designs. Love to peer review that guess...
15:08 If we can just decipher a few of these symbols (such as #’s 58 & 59), we would have a much better idea of what many of the similar examples found around the world would mean! 😂
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Still you should be respectful and use bc not bce
Please stop doing it.
@@WhiteOwlOnFire_XXX Respectful of what? Old prejudices?
I get the bce/ce conversation but for me why not just say 5500 years ago...why I have to recalculate...just seems tedious for no reason 😂
BC and AD.
Happy new year everyone. May this year treat us gently! To new discoveries 🎉
Dr. Miano @8:36 "we thought ships didn't go out that far to sea at that time" My uninformed sarcastic observation "well, maybe this is why?"
And you could be correct. However remember that we find only a fraction of the ships that sank. So it is statistically more likely that a single wreck represents more traffic in an area than thought rather than being a lone unfortunate vessel swept away.
That could happen, and we could then find it, and it would be hard to know. It's just a longshot. We don't conclude definitively either way, but can apply occams razor to suggest that vessels might have travelled further from the coast than previously believed
That's what I came to say. It was blown off course.
@@celem1000Of course. If you see one cockroach, there are probably 100 more. However, 1 exception to the rule only proves the rule, statistically. And we have plenty of shipwrecks that are *not* there. Find 2 shipwrecks there and I'll show you 2 failed captains.
Hmm you should ask Dr. "Pounding Stone" Miano how much "perfectly preserved wood" they found at this shipwreck.
@@celem1000Bosses always be cutting corners to increase profits despite the increased risks. 😅
Happy new year!! This is my third year watching the channel, and I always look forward to your yearly discoveries recaps, they are my favourite!
I had an awesome year hearing/watching from a professional archeologist (YOU). I am aware of most of your content or posts, but I especially enjoy the nuance and professional scepticism. Keep on keeping it real and fact based!! Late Happy New Year 🎉
Technically I am a historian, but thank you!!
Your content is why I still love RUclips. Fantastic summary videos full of meaningful content delivered by a real human. Thank you for all the work you put into these videos!
... Still no Stargate. ;-)
That has been announced to the public... 😊
We need to look outside of Giza.
@@Mrspjb-bw1ks Best get our cold weather gear out. haha
@@YourMissingEyeBrow why do you think the earthquakes are happening 🤪
Indeed......love tealc
Thanks for the content, I enjoy your channel
No need for fantastical notions.
Archeology is simply fantastic.
It's so cool that they can give an exact date for when the Mayan stele was built.
This is wonderful. The enthusiasm with which you present these discoveries is inspiring. If I had a chance to do it all over again, I would become an archaeologist!
hey, i realise this will get lost in a sea of comments but I appreciate the work you put into these videos and the experience you bring into them. have a good 2025.
I always look forward to your end of year video. Thanks for your commitment to accurate archeology news.
Hii!! Thanks for sharing all the discoveries!! I'm from Panamá 🇵🇦 and love to hear about some local findings here! 👏 🎉
Dr. Miano, I wonder if you've had the chance to read William Dalrymple recent book 'The Golden Road'. I bring it up since you've mentioned the Silk Road several times in this video. Dalrymple makes the argument that trade on the overland Silk Road pales in comparison to the maritime routes, first between the Mediterranian and India, and later between India and the Far East. He says that the importance of the Silk Road has been overblown by historians.
Dalrymple is obviously a well credentialed historian himself, and my biases are at play here too (I'm Indian), so I want to believe what he's saying. But it would be great to get your opinoin on his claims as well. The Silk Road is fairly entrenched in historical narratives so it seems pretty radical to claim that it wasn't as significant as we think. If you haven't already read it, the book is narrated by him on Audible, and it's an easy listen.
Your channel is criminally underrated. Thanks for all you do to keep us in the know.
Happy New Year!
Honestly was looking forward to this years edition for a while. Thank you for your work
Awesome! It can be hard to find and parse this stuff to find what's biggest, so having it put together in one place is great!
Thank you, Dr. David!
I would add the amazing recent discoveries at Göbekli Tepe. Happy New Year !
Wait what were the new discoveries?
@@rosariomarques1 what recent discoveries?
Saudi Arabia in particular, its annual archaeological discoveries are diverse, because it is currently undertaking great efforts in archaeological excavations, perhaps the largest in the world, after neglect for many decades.
Months ago, the Kingdom of Kinda was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site
Months ago, an archaeological settlement about 4,000 years old was discovered in the city of Khaybar
Thanks! Always a treat to watch your videos.
Very well covered important archeological discoveries of the world. Thanks.
I was waiting for this.
I appreciate your enthusiasm for the different types of discoveries and brief summaries on how each discovery illuminates a unique aspect of our shared human history (urban organization, dynastic inheritance, trade, etc). Great video. I think the urban discovery in Ecuador/ eastern Amazon is the most exciting. I believe the cultural loss from European disease in the americas is underestimated and I hope these findings enrich our understanding of pre-Columbia Amazon lifeways.
Happy new year and thank you very much for all your published content!
What a nice Thursday morning surprise!
Happy New Year!🎉
It's Tuesday... 🥴
Love how you present archaeology. You always breathe life into the topics you discuss
Great summary.
You never disappoint
Nice segue from celestial navigation in the Mediterranean to ancient cities in the Pacific. Happy New Year.
Great video, thanks!
I always love this series. I look forward to it every year. :)
15:15 the spiral shape is seen in cave art. Wonder if it's related somehow
Love love love this ...more please.
Great stuff, Doc. Thanks.
That was a fun video!
I really enjoyed this episode. Thanks WoA.
was just thinking, where would archaeolgy be if we as humans never had the need to create artistic representations of their daily life or art in general...cave paintings/tomb art/statues/figures and such??
Thank you for sharing this information with us and keeping the search for knowledge at the forefront of your channel. In these times of the attempted rolling back of science and history, and general cultural shifts to an alternate reality where fantasy is replacing facts, it's great to have someone level headed helping to steer the ship of enlightenment.
Excellent picks all around! Will be interesting to see what secrets the Amazon cities hold.
Great video, very interesting a couple I've never heard of before. It's a shame we aren't exploring prehistoric shorelines in the same detail, we have the tech to do so now. I'm sure there's a wealth of knowledge in settlements that the sea reclaimed.
A quick second of map of the locations with the data would be nice.
Undeciphered scripts!
Thanks, Professor, for including those and for another great video!
It's fascinating how archaeologists press forward with their investigations and discoveries despite the political and military turmoil around the world. May the pursuit of knowledge continue in the face of rising anti-intellectualism and science denial in the USA. The next four years are going to be a trial by fire.
Of course it does. We're hardwired to learn. Don't let those maga cultists make you lose faith in all of us who are normal human beings
Archaeologists are human beings. They do not separate themselves from political and military turmoil. Archaeologists treat some discoveries like conflict diamonds. They will not buy things like amber that contain dinosaurs if that sale will support an oppressive regime.
LOL. Because mean orange Drumpf is going to outlaw archaeology or something.😂
@@frankvandorp9732 nah, just reject and defund it whilst he funnels money into his pet projects, and his wife, Musk's pocket.
@@frankvandorp9732 Trumpy is not really into science unless it can make him money. Archaeologists receive funding from somewhere and that funding can be cut off.
Hi Professor Miano, I have a question for you. Is there a basis in the literature for the term ‘proto-Kartvelian script’? I also read that term in the press release and I think it’s what your wording is based on in this video. But I’ve been hard-pressed to find any other use of this term in English, and hence I’m not sure what it refers to. In historical linguistics, my field, Proto-Kartvelian of course is the reconstructed ancestor of the kartvelian languages. But the oldest readable writing in Georgia is Asomtavruli, and its origins are disputed. Wouldn’t calling any other potential undeciphered script proto-Kartvelian (such as the Grakliani Hill find, for example) be misleading since we have no idea if this writing is in a language related to Kartvelian? Or am I thinking too much like a linguist? I.e. does (proto-) Kartvelian refer just to the location of the find? Either way, would love to
know your understanding of what ‘proto-Kartvelian Script’ means. Please let me know if I am missing something. This has been bothering me since I first read about the find. Thanks!
Ah, interesting. Yes, I got it from the press release. I expect they interviewed someone involved, and that is what they were told. But it is good to know this is a debatable topic.
The Proto-Kartvelian language, or Common Kartvelian (Georgian: წინარექართველური ენა, romanized: ts'inarekartveluri ena, Georgian: პროტოქართველური ენა, romanized: p'rot'okartveluri ena), is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Kartvelian languages, which was spoken by the ancestors of the modern Kartvelian peoples. The existence of such a language is widely accepted by specialists in linguistics, who have reconstructed a broad outline of the language by comparing the existing Kartvelian languages against each other.[1] Several linguists, namely Gerhard Deeters and Georgy Klimov have also reconstructed a lower-level proto-language called Proto-Karto-Zan or Proto-Georgian-Zan, which is the ancestor of Karto-Zan languages (includes Georgian and Zan)
@@gringott12-y7m Thank you. I am a historical linguist who does not dispute the existence of Proto-Kartvelian. If you re-read my comment you will see that what I am asking about is not the use of the term proto-kartvelian language, but the term proto-kartvelian *script.* the latter is the term that gives me pause.
it's not clear to me what is meant by proto-karvelian script.
1) If this is a term that is actually in use by scholars it cannot refer to any readable script older than asomtavruli
2) if it refers to a known but unreadable script they should specify which one more clearly.
To a linguist, for whom kartvelian refers not to a place but a language family, this wording is at best confusing.
For example, if archeologists discovered a new, really old script in Armenia that nobody could decipher, and called it proto-Armenian, it would be at best a confusing name, because in closely related academic contexts like linguistics, the term Armenian generally implies something about the identity of the speakers beyond their location. namely, their linguistic identity.
A great year for archaeology! Personally, a couple days ago got to see the earliest extant zero used in a number (recording a date) at the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh as well as many of the recently repatriated artifacts from other collections both public and private that were illegally taken during the Khmer Rouge era and the chaos thereafter.
I am content with this content.
8:30 Interesting. I wonder if going far from land was just considered wildly dangerous, so most would usually stick close to land, but some would take the risk to cut time off their travel and thus increase profits with their navigation skills.
13:00 I love that we can date it exactly due to their calendar and record-keeping!
23:00 Wow, I hadn't realized that city was so big!
27:07 Another amazing LIDAR find! What an incredible ancient metropolis!
Just found this channel and subbed almost instantly, I really hope you don’t bring up aliens.
I won't pull the rug out from under you. Thank you for the sub!
What is the relevance to Egypt of the coins shown at 04:14?
They were found there. Egypt was ruled by the Ptolemies and Romans for a while.
I was wondering the same thing????
@@WorldofAntiquity But not during the period of the site under discussion, surely?
@@markaxworthy2508 Yes, at that very time.
@@WorldofAntiquity At 03:22 you say the site dates to the "6th Century BCE". Is this not several centuries before the Greeks or Romans were in Egypt? I very much like your presentations, but I think this is a slip up.
Advanced civilization is possible in the tropics with stubbornness and ingenuity, but elephants really, really help.
Good afternoon. I am happy to watch and listen to your research. You're an enthusiastic person. Therefore, I would like to encourage you to cover a historical event that is little covered, but had (has) It has enormous significance and resonates with the present. The confrontation of the West (R1b-M269-L51-P312) with the East (R1a-Z645-Z280-L365) in Europe 3200±40 years ago. This event is the battle of the Tollensee River, which runs about 120 km north of Berlin, where up to 5,000 people fought simultaneously. We can say the "Trojan" battle of Europe.
Heavens to Murgatroyd- kinda seems like *AT LEAST* a ten-way tie for No.1!!! (but your rankings just make me want to know more!)
Makes you wonder just how much gold they had back then and what happened to it all . enjoyed this very much cheers .
I really wish goverment across the world keep continuing to support archeology, its sad that some area like latin america and the middle east is a heaven for looting. The funding for protecting these site from looter is abysmal.
Props to the archeologist that discover this amazing finds that help us understand each nation past history and heritage.
Thanks for another great video! Small note: you might be overusing "rewrite the history of x", and, in most cases it seems you don't mean a major rewrite, but more of an update... (while 'rewrite' usually implies a major change, altho, by the end of this video, I was no longer sure what it implies 😅)
Guy actually did Tuber face in the thumbnail.
I'm really shocked by how many of these amazing discoveries I'd not previously heard about. Seems like some very dubious stories got way more coverage elsewhere. The media is generally very bad at covering niche topics like archaeology, whether that's the mainstream press or social media. It's great that there are channels like this that genuinely try to inform their audience.
As we see folks Archeology actually is constantly studying and learning - despite claims otherwise. Also always remember that Archeology represents = many countries studying who then collaborate to create what is really a global effort. Archeological teams are operating worldwide under the aegis of many different organizations and nations.
p.s. - as an aside if I might. The bronze coins of Egyptian origin serve to show whereby while the Egyptian civilization existed for millennia as far as Pharaonic Egypt = they did not actually mint "coined money" as others did until the Greek/Ptolemaic era. Just a historical tidbit from one who used to collect ancient coins and who has a Ptolemaic era coin. Enjoy your day folks.
Was that a purpose-built terra cotta/pottery, underfloor, drain pipe-section in the report pic (Fig. 6) from Chalcolithic Age Shakhi Kora?
Yes, I would assume so.
@WorldofAntiquity
Amazing!
Is this technologically regarded as adaptive/bespoke "indoor" plumbing?
It has been a good year for archeology.
Thanks flint dibble!
I tried to edit a comment, but the whole thing got erased. Here's what it was:
An interesting thing about "written language" is that it need not resemble modern ideas about language. One interesting ancient method that continued into the 20th Century was keeping score by | || ||| |||| X [one through 4 being lines and four crossed or X being 5]. Numerical tallies may be fairly easy to identify. The evolution of Chinese characters from earlier forms are often recognizable, but the original forms are thought to have been derived from cracks in turtle shells used for divination. Sometimes something in a known language can't be translated because it is actually coded or disguised in a different language. The tablet under discussion could have been a tally, could have been in a secret [magical] format, or could have actually combined different languages, certainly some of the marks resemble numbers used in China and adjacent countries.
After leaving the above comment, something occurred to me about the prejudice against civilization existing in what we know as barely habitable tropical areas. When the high latitudes were colder, the tropical areas, where humanity originated, would have been warmer and more, rather than less, welcoming for human civilization to develop. There are, nowadays, numerous people in colder northern climates who love to take vacations in warmer, more tropical, climates.
Thanks, Prof. Miano, for another extremely interesting and thought-provoking video!
so, in regards to number 4, how would one find free online lidar info?
How are those lidar discovered cities being datad?
I didn't know Ed Helms' brother had a youtube channel...sign me up!
i think you should do a 10 Greatest Archaeological Discoveries of 2025, where you spekulate on what they could find as a sort of overview of current digsites and planned, and next year with a revisit check in on how wrong you were. like a fun game
Thank you so much for this fascinating video! Archaeologists should focus on discovering, studying, and interpreting artifacts rather than endlessly wasting time on debates and exposés online. The better we understand our past, the better we can navigate the present!
Amen!
Super! ❤
12:46. Cassandra: “Really?? Zat all u got?”
So some of the earliest class dictatorships (states) reveal evidence of class struggle and the rejection of class hierarchy. This also points to a long standing anarchist tendencies in the Kurdish region, if not Kurds themselves. Tends to confirm historical materialism and the necessity of class struggle. Just like the bourgeois in France during the long nineteenth century the ruling class had to take power. The project of class struggle is dialectic, so as the ruling class established their central authority the workers overthrew that central authority. This points to asymmetrical development around the world, where priests and kings lost in Kurdistan they won farther south. So we remember Mesopotamia as a center of technical development, that would eventually over take the Kurdish region. Very interesting.
Great content as always!
Don't feed the trolls.
In reference to the tombs...those guys wanted to live forever and at least live on 2-3000 years later and more in some cases. Eternity in the dirt. Thanks. I think I'll get myself a tomb with a TV, computer terminal, iphone, some crypto on a ledger or trezor, maybe a classic car along with a cheapTesla with a dead battery, some spacex pharaphenelia, some zztop and hard rock cd's. I bet someone would have a big time digging that up a couple of thousand years from now.
Astonishing what will be found more an more to predate human history. thanks
Having been to Georgia (the state) I can confirm that they do have undecipherable and here to unknown writings.
I would like to know more about the jinn? dynasty religious customs
you guys notice how most “ancient” discoveries are almost always buried or covered with earth
#mudflood
Its weird to think the ancient egyptians had dual-professional couples. Do we have a sense if this is common in egypt's "professional" class?
Is one of the coins Roman Top left hand one . In the part of the astronomical discovery in Egypt. Looks to be Caracalla.
Likely Greek - or Ptolemaic to be precise as far as the bottom coin. After Alexander conquered Egypt and then he died and Ptolemy took control to make himself a Pharaoh - ushering in the Ptolemaic period = is when Egypt began to mint coins* as others did.
So the head of the Pharaoh with a bird on the reverse side is common Ptolemaic coinage. Enjoy your day.
* - I used to collect ancient coins and have a Ptolemaic era coin in my collection.
17:00 Yeah her work is interesting -- she was working one of those sights and said part of it was destroyed by unknown external phenomenon - like a lightning storm or some such thing. Spooky. Anyways the region had regional warfare - tribal, plus invasions so when Uruk fell after the Gutian tribal nations took over - yeah, things are going to get abandoned and buried out of respect + then you flee with your kids to safer regions.
They had step pyramids in Uzbekistan, who knew
23:00 thats not new
20 things that they WANT you to know!
Maize. YOU call it corn.
Oh good, more Eastern Jin Tombs
I'd worry about Chinese researchers in Uzbekistan looking for "reasons" to claim it as part of a Greater China.
Vexbolts will be a future archaeological discovery because we're leaving him in 2024
21:20 - wait… a new discovery is going to rewrite history?!?! I thought you said that was pseudo archeological thinking??
21:29 in other words more proof of Atlantis 😅😅😅
Georgia tablet pretty wild
Hmm... Sumerian seals were used ALL OVER SYRIA by 2000 BCE for some 2000 years, so a big WTF as to a someone forming a COMPLETE alphabet based on seal designs. Love to peer review that guess...
Another banger from the guy that ruined balbek for me
15:08
If we can just decipher a few of these symbols (such as #’s 58 & 59), we would have a much better idea of what many of the similar examples found around the world would mean! 😂
8:30 in other words Atlantis 😅😅
@12:16 Fresco of the saddest cat ever
8th Century BC!? Damn, that's old!
This stuff is all ancient history 😊.
Interesting new old stuff