Tutankhamun: The Greatest Archaeological Discovery of All Time
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- On November 4th 1922 a breathless archaeologist, who had spent his life working in Egypt, wrote a hurried diary entry: “First steps of Tomb Found”. This was the very moment that Howard Carter found the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun.
In this very special film, shot in Egypt and England, Dan Snow commemorates the centenary of the most famous archaeological discovery of them all - walking in the footsteps of Howard Carter as he retraces the story of the discovery, from the beginnings of Carter’s career as a
young artist recording reliefs in Hatshepsut’s magnificent temple, to the house he built especially close to the Valley of the Kings thanks to the support of Lord Carnarvon.
The History Hit team has gained access to key places associated with this historic story: Highclere Castle, home of Lord Carnarvon; Tutankhamun’s Tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and his famous golden treasures in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, which we explore with conservator Eid Murtah.
And Dan discovers that there is another side to this story, revealed in Oxford - Howard Carter’s extensive records are stored here. Dan gets up close to key objects in the Bodleian Weston Library’s exhibition ‘Tutankhamun - Excavating the Archives’, including the famous journal entry that, as Carter first gazed into the dark of the tomb, he told Carnarvon “It is wonderful”.
In Oxford’s Griffith Archive, Dan explores the records in detail with curator Daniella Rosenow. The original glass plate negatives reveal how the tomb looked as Carter opened it, with now familiar objects covered in flowers and linens, carefully placed there as the nineteen year old pharaoh was buried in 1323 BC. It presents a very different image of the objects that we now picture cleaned up and conserved - here they are in a much more immediate moment just as Carter uncovered them. And in a beautiful additional project, Ellie Murphy, a florist from Oxford, painstakingly makes an exact recreation of the floral wreath that adorned Tutankhamun’s outer coffin. It helps remind us of the humanity at the heart of this story: the incredible dedication of the archaeological team and the death of a young pharaoh that still inspires us today.
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I have actually been to Valley of the Kings. I would recommend everyone to visit Egypt one day. I will never forget it. Walking across the old temples and pyramids. Going inside the pyramids. It was the highlight of my life probably.
Egypt can be incredible but unfortunately these days thanks to its current government it's not wholly safe
My mummy has been there too, she loved it ✨️
@@larsstougaard7097 Haha!!!
That is good to know. I have been thinking of visiting sometime, hoping it will be safe enough. According to google, it's the Northern Sinai Peninsula that isn't safe for anyone.
This is the best channel on YT! Educational, entertaining and everything between!
Bravo!
Visiting highclere castle without mentioning downton Abbey, well done!
@@debozebever shocking! 😉🤣
Not that I don't love Mr. Snow, but that lady that walks around the desert with an umbrella/parasol is really a hoot, would love to have seen her in this as well. Delightful and fascinating work!
I know who you mean. Red hair, lots of black clothes. She is a professor. Brilliant.
Dr. JoAnn Fletcher 😊
They’ve just found another big tomb, the body is covered in chocolate and chopped almonds.
It’s believed to be the body of pharaoh rocher
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Bruh . 😂
That's fantastic. I will use that at the next Best Dad of the Year awards.
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Blows my mind to think that those floral wreaths have laid there since before the Trojan War, and pre-date pretty much all of recorded European History.
The Trojan War is fictional. It's in Homer's Iliad. It may have been inspired by an actual event, but it's hard to confirm either way.
@@Cailus3542 hard to confirm doesnt make it fiction if there is some truth in it one thing is certain fiction the millions of years stories.
This is such an amazing piece of information. I love ancient Egypt!
This channel is eternally delightful. Top tier quality documentaries on a variety of historical subjects. Love it ❤
We saw the Tutankhamun treasures at the Art Gallery of Ontario on the last day of 1979. It was just breathtaking!
The photographer was God touched. His work was ethereal, and factual. He deserves a photography museum. I wish I remembered his name.
Barton!
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I was able to visit the tomb last year. Your film brought back wonderful memories. One thing not mentioned is that the boy king's mummy is located down in the tomb next to the burial chamber.
All his possessions that are meant to accompany him into the afterlife are not with his body. This totally disregards Tut's religious beliefs and wishes. Archaeology is just another word for grave robbing. All the items that are in museums around the world should be returned to Egypt for reburial and resealed in the original tombs.
He lived so long ago that Alexander conquered the known world a thousand years later.
Cleopatra is closer to us than the pyramids. Ancient Egypt is so vast and so long. Centuries of civilisation.
Astonishing and marvelous
Im more bothered about the genius who discovered taming fire... or language.
I think a film about the discovery of the tomb and Howard carter in the style of Oppenheimer would go down a storm
Sounds good, easy better then all the fucking trash. It's all trash now. The streaming services have watered it down so bad. Cruise saw this coming, tried to kick start it back with top gun 2.didnt wotk
I've seen & heard this story many times but this video was one of the best! Thanks Dan & the History Hit team. John, UK.
This is so cool! I've never seen Carters old house near the digs!
On my first day in Egypt, I went to the museum to see all the amazing treasures, especially king Tut's stuff. When I arrived, a guy took my passport and wouldn't give it back without a bribe-had to yell at him. Then the ticket person wouldn't give me my change-had to raise my voice at her. I hadn't even gotten in the door yet! Once inside, people were sitting all over the stellas to get selfies with them, guards wanted a bribe to take a picture of King Tut's mask. They then closed up that section and all took selfies with it. It was a disaster.
Wow
Common egypt moment
Yep, stuff like that ruined a friend's visit. She was visiting one of the pyramids and a guy with a whistle approached her she thought it was a police officer as they were blowing whistles and pointing. She moved where he said and then he took her towards the pyramid she was confused and then he aggressively demanded money for the ‘tour’ she had no idea he was taking her on a tour and wanted to find out why he made her follow him. In the end she ran away from him and some people came to her aid. He was yelling at the top of his lungs ‘Theif!’ absolutely crazy!
They blow whistles pretending to be authority figures trying to dupe you out of money.
@@xsamrx4718 That is so sad. I've always wanted to visit Egypt but not now.
Great film, thank you!
You cant really put the value in terms of money in these kind of treasure its priceless... Its not just gold its history and knowledge
The Garland Pharaoh! Such a great choice of content and imagery and passionate scholars/florists. It's about people, Egyptian workers given their names back, artists, a very young man, and lapis lazuli-colored flowers, not gold. Really beautifully done.
I found those flower garlands genuinely moving as well as surprising. Little details like that bring stories like these alive for me as well as Dan!. Beautiful documentary about beautiful works of art and passionate scholarship combined, it doesn't get any better.
This was amazing! So many new things shown and learned! I enjoyed this immensely! Thank you!
Love this I always enjoy all things Egyptian the history and how it comes alive and coincides with the bible
It's Dan Snow!! ❤❤❤ HistoryHitTV!!! 🇬🇧
The antiquity of Egypt is astonishing. But think about the Sumerians, that came millenia before Eqypt. And were there great civilizations that came before that, which have yet to be discovered? Ancient Egypt and the feats it accomplished are beyond our understanding today. We still struggle to comprehend the source of its technological and architectural accomplishments
There's of course a lot of blue glass in the head dress etc, maybe this is why they used cornflowers in the wreaths.
Nice one Dan and team! 🌟👍
Got to see this in the 70's La CA as a kid, "I Will Never Forget" the color of the Gold!
Great and fresh insights into this famous burial. Humanity emerges from the precious metals.
thanks for uploading a full film, it was fascinating, I've never seen anything like this documentary before, where a floral wreath was recreated from the sketches and photos, that was amazing to see. thanks again
My memories of King Tut are always overlaid with the explosion of Tut-mania in the 70s. Even though I know the real history of the discovery of the tomb, my brain still wants to tell me that all of this was first revealed in the 1970s. I remember the National Geographic cover from 1977 and that iconic imagery suddenly being everywhere. Steve Martin's King Tut song. Was there King Tut-mania before the American tour, or did that kickstart the modern love affair with Tut?
Elizabeth Taylor costumes and make-up in Cleopatra (1963) started a fashion.
Lots of Tut mania in the 1920’s following the opening of the tomb. Influenced fashion and architecture.
I think the tour and the marketing for it set it off. My parents took us to see that exhibition in DC when I was preteen, and I have never forgotten the beauty of it. I’m pretty sure that tour had the actual mask, which will never happen again. I bought the full color souvenir book that came out at that time and read it over and over. I collected old books on heiroglyphs and so on. I was absolutely convinced that I wanted to be an Archaeologist, and chose my college based on that. It took me awhile to realize that I wasnt suited for it. Dans final little speech made me cry.
Hands down, the best ancient Egypt documentary.
This is such a beautiful discovery for history
fantastic docco
I wish l could smash the "Like" button dozen times! Excellent program! As always.
The gal you were talking to in his tomb did a 3D scan of the tomb and found out it was painted while the plaster was wet.
Incredibly interesting! I loved the B&W photos showing everything as it was discovered and where it was placed 3000 years ago.
Have all the pharaohs been found?
What’s the 2nd most famous archaeological discovery? I would love to watch that.
They seem to have been in a real rush to bury him.
Yes. Tut's successor was his great general, Horemheb. At the time of Tut's death Horemheb was away at the border, repelling invaders. So one of Tut's administrators, Tye, decided to snatch the throne before Horemheb could return. He did that by positioning himself as Tut's chief mourner. He made sure that HE was the one performing the very important " Opening Of The Mouth" ceremony. He was made pharaoh.
So YES, the funeral was rushed. Eventually Horemheb was able to get the thrown. He was a very practical pharaoh.
I’m now 63 and I remember being taken to London by my school in 1972 to see the Tutankhamen exhibition. At the time I didn’t have a clue who I was supposed to be seeing 🤣
A Smashing journey!! Thankyou...
What a fantastically produced piece of content! Well done team!
Fantastic documentary
Tremendous 🧡🧐🌸
Thank you, Dan!
I have to agree that someone like Tutankamen's Wife would have fashioned & placed the little Blue Garland on him after death. It was fascinating to me that someone at a Flower shop in England, (using those detailed drawings), could make such an exacting replica. The image of the King with all those Flower Tributes brought up the image of our Hawaiian High School & College Graduates, they too are layered in many " "Leis" and in addition to that wear on their Head a special Lei called; "Haku." This Head lei is fashioned( woven or braided together the flowers reminiscent of the King"s Crown flower Lei.
All I can think about is how many artifacts these guys heisted
Ancient Egyptians always buried their dead on the West Bank of the Nile because that’s where the sun sets. They lived on the east bank of the Nile.
Common misconception. There are many cemeteries on the east side, e.g. Beni Hassan, Edfu, Mo'alla. And many towns are on the west e.g. Memphis, Abydos, Dendera. The land of the Dead is definitely past the western horizon but they weren't strict about putting things on a particular side of the river
Probably certain periods of Egyptians had different traditions on burials i the West Bank or the east bank. I have also heard about burials typically taking place in the dessert areas rather than the watered green areas, it make sense that a culture would make that symbolic attachment
Certainly the workers lived on the west bank to be close to work. They have whole worker-villages at the base of many pyramids.
Have you heard of the ten plagues!!!!
@@faithnaidoo7647 Would be pretty hard to find a person watching a video on ancient Egypt who *hasn't* heard of them
Downton Abbey! Coooool!
Love this channel!
Great doc!
Wonderful
I need to learn how to stand with my legs wide apart like Dan Snow. 19:53
Do a video on ambatukam😊
“The Egyptians believed the greatest thing you could do was die”
as a Christian I agree completely.
Wow!
I must admit, I have always wondered what the best type of flower would be to send someone the message "F.O."? I have a few people in mind that I would like to send some too, close friends and all that. I'm surprised that no one, not one person, has asked a relatively obvious question. Where did King Tit... Tut... Get his gold from? I've got to be honest, but I often wonder, why do people bother robbing banks, when museums often have much less security, and quite a bit of gold in them? Doesn't make sense to me.
What do you think happened to all the other gold that was taken from the other tombs like where is it now??
Tuts tomb is the only one found intact, the others were looted long ago and the skeletons were destroyed. Tut's tomb was saved because it was buried under tonnes of debris so it escaped the eyes of the greedy.
Tuts tomb is the only one found intact, the others were looted long ago and the skeletons were destroyed. Tut's tomb was saved because it was buried under tonnes of debris so it escaped the eyes of the greedy.
Dan Snow meets the sun.
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If I had just one wish....it would be to go back in time to see the Egyptian's. I mean there is still things they prob knew that we don't.
Tootan Kamuuun “He fell off a chariot”
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The greatest thing ever created by man, thus far (death mask)
Such a pity that the back of the mask is never shown as it’s covered in the most beautiful hieroglyphs
Wish we could find Alexander's tomb someday. That would be the biggest archeological find of all time possibly
I guess, sometimes, you can take it with you
Thanks all !
I thought it was Moe,Larry,and Currly, That found King rotun tootun
So did Carnarvon get any financial recompense for all his investments
It's not his "final resting place" anymore now, is it? 🤔
yeah pretty fucked up to remove him from his spot
Tutankhamun is in his tomb now.
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I don't understand why they removed the beard.
It can't be because "we can see the face more clearly".
Egyptians desecrated everything they could of ancient egypt including the sphinx by putting that dude khafres face on it when they found it
Tutan-hawk-tuah!
Ha gayyyyy
Why didn't Carter ever receive a knighthood?
Just dig them up huh?
And not 1 comment about Steve Martin 😅
Investing all that money, believe me they stole treasures that we don’t know of
Disturbing the dead from time period is fuckin stupid
TUTANKHAMUN
(pronounced tootONK ah MOON)
It’s always more about Howard carter then Tutankhamen 😒
No buses or Tran’s past here 😂😂
"This note is over 100 years old!“
Bro them tombs is thousands of years old, ya hear? how you gonna tell me hus notebook is more interesting?
Is this about the theft or the god he stole all of our artifacts
The biggest disrespect in history desiccating dead bodies parading them around the world. Trifling.
Is it the greatest of all time? Or is it just best known of modern times.
Think of all the rest of the tombs that were raided before modern archeological techniques became the norm. We break them open and desecrate these ancient burials, yet justify it in the name of science and historical record. It’s the same process.
Science and historical record is better than just raiding and destroying them
The places are good. But the people are scammers
Rosetta stone
Such a waste of resources for one dude.
0p
you can see the middle east was so amazing and great before a certain religon moved in .. maybe arabs go back to these roots you had such an amazing culture .. now its repression ,, sorry but its the truth
Well Tutankhamen did actually become immortal - probably not what he or thee priests expected
1st
This is so disrespectful
Why are we venerating grave robbers? Everything will be found from the past eventually. Why worry & fuss over who finds the stuff?
This video sucks.
Disappointing and boring.
Anyone else find it insultingly British that Danny boy is just covering the history of the British grave robbers instead of good ol‘ king tut?
What robbery happened with Tut? The tomb's contents are owned by Egypt and displayed in Giza and Tut's body resides in the tomb.
Nope. Just you
Amazing story. But I wonder why all of the artefacts aren't in Egypt? Everything is is recorded, and yet it sems like there is no longer an aweful imperialism and class between so called classes. How come the imperialists that used and abused theire power still have a certain power in Egypt? This speaks volume of the arrogance of the emperic England. It is in the best explanation really yet an aweful clutching at straws clinging to the british empire trying to be relevant still in places they has no right to be. The british empire stole arts and crafts and still have no plans to return it to the rightful owners. I feel ashamed of our neighbours in England. There has been a lot of discoveries, but in aweful imperialistic manner. You should return everything you have found around the world and be embarrased and pay a lot of money to the countries you have stolen from. The arrogance is beyond words. It is absolute nothing to be proud of leaving contries robbed of their valubales.
We preserve history better.
Some countries can't respect their own history so we have to do it for them.
You should thanks us because we saved a lot of historical artifacts
You could argue that without Carter's and Carnarvon's efforts,time, and money the tomb might never have been found at all.
Its on display and preserved with the utmost respect for all to enjoy. Bitching about imperfections doesnt make you wiser
The contents of Tut's tomb are owned by Egypt and displayed in Giza
the contents of the tomb are IN EGYPT. It's literally shown in the documentary.
A Black man
This dudes a total clown show.
Why
wow this guy talks a lot
The remains of pharaohs existed thousands of years ago. Why can't they discover the remains of Abraham Moses Josephs and the Apostles.
This is disgusting!