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  • Опубликовано: 18 апр 2017
  • While escaping the Egyptians 2,500 years ago, the Persian King Cambyses led his army into the desert and disappeared forever. Despite efforts in the 1930s to discover what happened to him, no clues were found until 1996 when a geologist stumbled on evidence by accident. The Egyptian authorities have suppressed news of these findings until now. The Lost Army Of King Cambyses returns to the site to uncover the truth.
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  • @jcfra420
    @jcfra420 Год назад +17

    I can't even imagine the history and ancient cities that are just buried under the sands waiting to be discovered. Most of the really old stuff has not even been excavated due to the violence and danger of the region. Hopefully, someday.

  • @AuntyLaniLee
    @AuntyLaniLee 4 года назад +17

    I love the little figurines that they use to depict the army. Well done! Somebody was REALLY creative.

  • @dennisclark554
    @dennisclark554 4 года назад +49

    If Cambyses' army was wiped out, how did Herodotus obtained the detailed information he had about them. There must have been a survivor to tell the story.

    • @AngryHistorian87
      @AngryHistorian87 2 года назад +10

      Herodotus is also prone to exaggerate. So it is also possible that he exaggerated some information.

    • @The-Rose-and-the-Cross
      @The-Rose-and-the-Cross 2 года назад +6

      It's the Antiquity version of a found footage movie, basically.

    • @ColbertandStewartpwn
      @ColbertandStewartpwn 2 года назад +9

      You could have information that a large army is heading your way, and then it never arrives. You don’t know that the desert ate it, but it does become a prime suspect.

    • @gabrielsong6124
      @gabrielsong6124 2 года назад +3

      The Oracles of Siwa knew about the Persian army approaching and when no Persians attacked them they would probabaly assume that.

    • @Menuki
      @Menuki 10 месяцев назад +4

      They do note the huge logistical load the Persian army had. That means there would have been records of supplies, the men had families, weapon makers. 50k men don’t just disappear unnoticed

  • @madgeordie4469
    @madgeordie4469 6 лет назад +66

    The Egyptian minister for antiquities is correct. Deserts swallow armies. This has happened numerous times in history all over the world. Without a detailed examination by experts, those findings could be from any period between the Bronze Age to almost the present day. Because of it's fertility and strategic position, Egypt has been fought over by almost every culture in history so the list of possibilities here is quite long.

    • @mkruuseh
      @mkruuseh 5 лет назад

      not wanting to damage the antique finds.

    • @alexhayden2303
      @alexhayden2303 5 лет назад +9

      The conquest by Arabs is Egypt's great tragedy!

    • @Rivenburg-xd5yf
      @Rivenburg-xd5yf 4 года назад +1

      The sahara has swollowed more then armies. its swollowed entire cultures, cities rivalling romen archtechture whos names are lost to time and prehistoric settelments and the lakes next to them, frozen in time like pompii by the sands.

    • @WhiteWolf65
      @WhiteWolf65 2 года назад +1

      @Stanisław Śmierćyk Exactly... Egypt ~says~ their expedition never got to the location... then again, Zawi Hawass hides oh-so-much... (and yes, I know that was not Hawass they talked to) Did they make any attempt to try to find the artifacts? NOPE.

  • @donaldgrant9067
    @donaldgrant9067 3 года назад +88

    Egyptian to the Persian army: "Ah you head that way and you can't miss it."

    • @cassiecraft8856
      @cassiecraft8856 3 года назад +11

      Yea,we're going to to go destroy Suma,and your Oracle. Now which way do we go? Ok,so just keep going til we reach the middle of the desert? Thanks native people!

    • @donuchello
      @donuchello 3 года назад

      @@cassiecraft8856 te crtdge
      D’r

    • @raymondmoore2707
      @raymondmoore2707 3 года назад

      🤣

    • @raymondmoore2707
      @raymondmoore2707 3 года назад +1

      That’s funny man

    • @mikelovelace6675
      @mikelovelace6675 2 года назад

      Sszszszs,,ssssssszszssss,s,ssssss,

  • @BattlestarDamocles
    @BattlestarDamocles 4 года назад +103

    Its like watching Mulder and Scully. He wants to believe, she's pissing on his parade at every turn.

    • @bushiseshin
      @bushiseshin 4 года назад +4

      Lmao

    • @valmarsiglia
      @valmarsiglia 3 года назад +8

      She's being the grownup in the room as he indulges his wishful thinking. No grownup has any business approaching any serious topic like that.

    • @nadolfc8008
      @nadolfc8008 3 года назад +2

      @@valmarsiglia well said!!! The American was doing my head in. Was a funny comment though 😁

    • @thejamig808
      @thejamig808 3 года назад +1

      @@valmarsiglia it seems you have a ruleset of how to be an adult.
      this is why they are a good pair.

    • @ikealamp53
      @ikealamp53 3 года назад +5

      This was a real waste of time. Driving all that way to lightly brush the sand and make tons of assumptions? Just take a damn shovel and dig!

  • @Traderjoe
    @Traderjoe 4 года назад +6

    Perhaps after a few days in the desert, the army realized that pressing on was madness and returning to the king without a conquest was also a death sentence, and so they all agreed to just go home and forget about it and send a few messengers back to relay that the army was lost to the sands.

  • @RobinHood-yk8og
    @RobinHood-yk8og 3 года назад +6

    "It depends on the weather conditions and the environment..." - Now I'm not a meteorologist, geographer or geologist, but even I know that the Sahara Desert has been *_the Sahara Desert_* - i.e. very hot, very dry & very, very sandy - for literally, and *_at least_* , many thousands of years.

  • @badpossum440
    @badpossum440 3 года назад +71

    The woman says about the camel skeleton, "it depends on the weather" when did the weather change last time in the desert. This is full of "i think" "i imagine" "i believe" just a lot of dialogue to cover the fact that they found nothing. At the beginning he says that he is told exactly where to look then looks all over the desert.

    • @hoffdoesstuff
      @hoffdoesstuff 3 года назад +11

      Spot on Karl why not go straight to the Geo’s location where he found the arrows? Because she’s a know it all archaeologist that doesn’t think anyone else knows better.

    • @HassanZargari
      @HassanZargari 3 года назад +21

      Hate to say this but this documentary was a waste of our time.

    • @ikealamp53
      @ikealamp53 3 года назад +10

      Let's drive all this way and lightly brush the sand and make tons of assumptions. Why not use a shovel and try a bit? It's just loose sand, you bunch of subsidised frauds.

    • @MakoyUnggoy
      @MakoyUnggoy 3 года назад +9

      Complete time wasters

    • @joen7526
      @joen7526 3 года назад +5

      She also mentioned that the first bones that they found couldn’t have been someone hiding there for shelter because of potential run off. Just because there was a potential that the bones came from runoff doesn’t mean that it couldn’t have been someone hiding there for shelter, and how much runoff could there have been there lol

  • @athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389
    @athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389 3 года назад +16

    I'm Coptic native Alexandrian Egyptian but some of us look somehow like today's Iranians .
    Salam to Persian cousins

  • @sdsfgsty
    @sdsfgsty 3 года назад +4

    Back in Afghanistan, my first grade classmate's name was Kambiz. I think it's the same as Cambyses in this documentary.

  • @rowangovender1895
    @rowangovender1895 3 года назад +24

    I can't imagine been one of those Persian soldier's on the march. They were highly experienced not just in combat but desert survival, and so were their officers. But despite having the experience, the army did got lost. Water started running low, desertion of troops began. Hopelessly trying to escape their fate and still dying of dehydration. Then mutiny with break out amongst the troops. Officers and regulars killing each other for whatever water and food that was left. Finally the desert itself closed in with many sandstorms, ripping the flesh off those men violently. Covering up their remains and any evidence of their existences. It with of been a horrible site to witness honestly. Watching disciplined soldiers break down into their basic need for self survival.

  • @williameaton9058
    @williameaton9058 6 лет назад +11

    I know the numbers have been brought into question, but there is another factor: discipline. An army lives off the land and must keep moving (Sherman's March 1864). Foraging induces many to desert (Napoleon's retreat in 1812). They would've left a wide swath of corpses, meaning you stand a small chance of finding any real trace of the army. The other factor is time itself. We often dont find people that get lost in the desert for a mere week. They decompose down to skeletons in a matter of weeks. This being a 2,500+yr old cold case...I wouldnt even bother.

  • @captainfx6197
    @captainfx6197 4 года назад +3

    You know what I think is really crazy, having all that armor, then walking miles in the desert. You have to think, no cold water. And we're not even talking about food. It just blows my mind. That people was so much experience at war. Would even consider attempting that trek through the desert. Imagine showing up to do battle, completely exhausted. Depending on those who you conquer, to replenish. It blows my mind.

    • @mistergeopolitics4456
      @mistergeopolitics4456 4 года назад +1

      The Persians conquered most of the known world and were highly intelligent and resourceful, however as we can see with the recent outbreak of the Coronovirus, in life there's always that X factor that can catch you by surprise. There's a good chance that the Persian army were actually very well supplied and almost made it to their destination when an unusually violent sandstorm, that could have lasted for days, destroyed their entire expedition. There might have been a few stragglers or various groups of survivors but without leadership or supplies or directions, they were more or less doomed in the middle of the inhospitable desert.

  • @rogerlacaille3148
    @rogerlacaille3148 3 года назад +1

    Don't complain about all the ads,ENJOY them....best part of the mockumentary..

  • @TheForkhandles
    @TheForkhandles 4 года назад +5

    In the next episode they will research Herodotus' account of King Midas and his golden touch and try to find golden objects which Midas might have touched.

  • @phoneone1371
    @phoneone1371 5 лет назад +29

    A lot of negative comments i thought it was ok ,some cool historical footage and some nice scenery i found it intresting although why they didn't bring metal detectors is beyond me and also could they get the human bones carbon dated ?

  • @aristideau5072
    @aristideau5072 4 года назад +6

    2 Questions
    1 - Why didn't Baracat record the exact GPS coordinates of the skulls?
    2 - Why didn't the archeologists bring a metal detector with them?

  • @sylviahacker6695
    @sylviahacker6695 6 лет назад +73

    Why do they assume they marched during the day? The Persians knew about desert travel.

    • @SilverMe2004
      @SilverMe2004 6 лет назад +8

      So it more likely that they got buried while they slept rather than ate?

    • @LionKing-ew9rm
      @LionKing-ew9rm 5 лет назад +4

      Sylvia Hacker
      No they were not! There is a difference between Sand dunes and simple empty places, most of Persia( or Iran) is mountainous, not sand duny!

    • @polyglotdev
      @polyglotdev 5 лет назад +34

      @@LionKing-ew9rm You do know Persian Empire was way bigger than Iran right? They have conquered desert many nations before marching to Egypt. Do you think they simply came out from Teheran and march like a dumbass accross the desert? They already comquered Babylon, Arabian peninsular. Go ahead and try and have a look at the desert of Khorasan, Mesopotamia and Syria. Persan empire and present-day Iran are not within the same confined borders. They have been ruling the deserts of Sahara, Gobi, Negev, Arabia and many others for hundreds of years. This was not Ayatollah's Iran. Persia was the ruling empire of the world spanning from Mongolian border to Europe.

    • @superniokas
      @superniokas 4 года назад +15

      Cannot fast travel with enemies nearby

    • @TheCrazierz
      @TheCrazierz 4 года назад

      @@polyglotdev but it wasnt that army specifically that did all that. Many of them could have easily never been in a such a sandy desert

  • @keving690
    @keving690 4 года назад +2

    Questions: 1. Why didn't they take one of the bones for carbon dating? 2. How did Herodotus know about what happened when no one survived? 3. All that driving and trouble getting there and no one thought to bring a metal detector to look for armor, weapons, etc.?

  • @karolinapek4461
    @karolinapek4461 4 года назад +4

    Fascinating introduction. Enjoyed the end about comparing the arrowheads in the picture with the actual artefacts at the British Museum made me think that was a pocket of troops dispersed by the sand storm. Someone commented about why they did not metal detect the area but remember they said they were in a military zone. Metal Detectors would not have been allowed.

    • @karolinapek4461
      @karolinapek4461 4 года назад +1

      Found the American archeologist knowledgeable, calm and collected.

  • @higgins382
    @higgins382 5 лет назад +15

    They didn't take a metal detector? Massive oversight there.
    Also, how can you say "There were no survivors to their death by sudden sandstorm" if there are no survivors?

    • @dominicpdarcy4368
      @dominicpdarcy4368 5 лет назад +2

      Who was the survivor whose detailed account sparked Herodotus to write about it?

  • @anxeltorrente4041
    @anxeltorrente4041 5 лет назад +3

    I wonder if it wouldn't have been easier to use a vehicle similar to a snowmobile (maybe called a sandmobile) for traveling in the desert? Snow is of course packed harder especially when it's cold, but it could be easier to use one of those than a car when traveling in the desert. I hope there will be a follow up of this program. Maybe Tony Robinson and his Time Team could come and scan the area to see what dark areas they find under the sand?

  • @rorynesta7766
    @rorynesta7766 4 года назад +2

    I wonder if anyone ever asked the Bedouins about sites of many bones.These guys have been in this desert for so long,stories would have been passed down through the generations.

  • @blmetal65
    @blmetal65 7 лет назад +5

    Amazing that a vast empty space of mainly desert were fought over & bled to be conquered & controlled.Perhaps the best way to move around is on wide tracked vehicles instead of wheeled ones.

  • @JQ10KA
    @JQ10KA 6 лет назад +75

    Why did they not do a metal detect sweep of the area?

    • @bradmiller2329
      @bradmiller2329 5 лет назад +9

      Depends on the the kind of sand, and the local magnetic field. Certain kinds of sand interact with the local magnetic field, and absolutely scramble compasses, metal detectors, electronics, etc.

    • @alaskanight940
      @alaskanight940 4 года назад

      This seems as though it was meant to find nothing, at various resorts in the area. Looks like one afternoon onsite with two people.

    • @JUBABU4
      @JUBABU4 4 года назад +3

      Where are the so called sky satellites radar cameras that, are always shown to us on television

    • @JUBABU4
      @JUBABU4 4 года назад +2

      The same reason they do not show us the militarized version with the proper equipment, that already removed the artifacts or covered it up.

    • @chucklynch6523
      @chucklynch6523 3 года назад

      How about an aerial reconnaissance?

  • @Cba409
    @Cba409 4 года назад

    Great documentary, ty

  • @noahfecks7598
    @noahfecks7598 3 года назад +6

    "Is there a sandstorm coming?"
    "Nope."
    Cuts to a sandstorm.

  • @christrinder1255
    @christrinder1255 4 года назад +6

    Maybe Gail can’t tell the age of the camel bones, but I would never dare to question a Bedouin bearing in mind his incomparable knowledge from birth of the desert. I think this is definitely an arrogant thing to have done.
    I wonder what her credentials were for this particular venture, she seemed incredibly sceptic from the outset

    • @devorahjeane1017
      @devorahjeane1017 4 года назад +2

      Agreed. She bothered me with her skepticism from the very beginning.

    • @Gorboduc
      @Gorboduc 3 года назад +2

      They needed a chick for the documentary, if only to make up for Dr. Mophead's total lack of charisma.

    • @TheRealVolk
      @TheRealVolk 8 месяцев назад

      Feminist

  • @wa1ufo
    @wa1ufo 5 лет назад +8

    The arrowheads make the site quite intriguing. Thank you for a very interesting video.

    • @jonnamechange6854
      @jonnamechange6854 4 года назад

      They could have been planted there by yet another archaeologist trying to secure funds/sell a book etc.
      Archaeologists are much like television magicians. (Ooh! How did that get there?)

  • @SPTO
    @SPTO 3 месяца назад

    One of the cool things about these older docs is that you can look up the people involved and find out some things. The lady in this one (Gaille Mackinnon) was part of a group that discovered an unknown soldier of Waterloo in 2022.
    Anywho, this must've been done before GPS was readily available because it seems THEY'RE wandering the desert as much as any army would've back in antiquity. I do like how the Tom guy is all quixotic while Mackinnon keeps dumping cold water on him LOL

  • @datplace4walkthroughs956
    @datplace4walkthroughs956 4 года назад +101

    For those of you thinking of watching this for an exciting reveal of "the army", they don't find it. Enjoy people mumbling about their doubts. For 48 minutes...

    • @lray1948
      @lray1948 3 года назад +3

      Thanks, I'm out of here

    • @tolotonga69
      @tolotonga69 3 года назад +1

      Not just for this but for how this earth came to be it's all just guess an mumbling hhhh

    • @1joshjosh1
      @1joshjosh1 3 года назад

      But that lady has a sexy voice and nice boobs

  • @velmajeanholmes5539
    @velmajeanholmes5539 5 лет назад +13

    I was hoping for more than vague conjecture.

  • @mattkaustickomments
    @mattkaustickomments 7 лет назад +678

    Its amazing how much ancient cigarettes resemble today's cigs.

  • @adrianopucdihon2265
    @adrianopucdihon2265 3 года назад +1

    Learning history is interesting .it gives you an idea of how early people lived their lives.

  • @cassiecraft8856
    @cassiecraft8856 3 года назад +2

    The amazing thing in the video is that she admitted that they were in fact human bones. I expected her to say "I don't think they are bones...they look more like white rocks,or possibly pottery shards. Maybe a year or two old." I did like the overall video though.

  • @markskyscraper8092
    @markskyscraper8092 4 года назад +3

    Had a feeling one skull would take an hour for this documentary to find.

  • @chrisparnham
    @chrisparnham 5 лет назад +5

    That cigarette uncovered from the sandstorm surely casts some doubt as to the veracity of the age of the weapons? It's a Rothman's king size I think...

    • @aaronconsultant
      @aaronconsultant 4 года назад +2

      And everyone knows the Persians smoked Camels, unfiltered.

  • @richardpruett7500
    @richardpruett7500 4 года назад +5

    Why so much emphasis on the thirst of Cambyses' army when Herodotus never mentioned it?

  • @jameswells554
    @jameswells554 5 лет назад +52

    Every time the Cairo Museum misplaces items and attempts to brush off questions you can be assured they are trying to hide the truth. It's practically Standard Operating Procedure for them.

    • @masada2828
      @masada2828 5 лет назад +7

      James Wells - agree. Makes you wonder why they want to hide history.

    • @BilalMarcus
      @BilalMarcus 5 лет назад +8

      i can confirm that, as an American living in Egypt. they are the most corrupt and incompetent people ever to appear on earth

    • @BilalMarcus
      @BilalMarcus 4 года назад +1

      @Mahmoud Ismail
      thats a very stupid question. its not YOUR history. you dont own anything being an arab. and if you are from northern Egypt you arent even a real Arab, you are of mostly Turkish, syrian, and eastern European descent.

    • @elizabethjansen2684
      @elizabethjansen2684 4 года назад +6

      @emma jones no that's the globalists not American's

    • @elizabethjansen2684
      @elizabethjansen2684 4 года назад +1

      @Barbara Mulvaney actually I didn't vote for him, I just see reality. I'd be very happy to eliminate the majority of government.

  • @dexterbernard2701
    @dexterbernard2701 4 года назад +13

    This is my first time hearing of the Cambyses. Even though the archeologists are boring, I would like to find another documentary about this subject.

    • @pinchevulpes
      @pinchevulpes 3 года назад

      History lover and I heard about him this month too. What a psycho who nearly lost an empire.

    • @douglasmariano01
      @douglasmariano01 3 года назад +1

      The text below the video is totally wrong. Cambyses didn't go into the desert escaping the Egyptians. Cambyses sent 50.000 men to attack some place close to the Siwa oasis. These men disappeared. You can find a better documentary in RUclips 'Ancient lost army found?'. Good search.

    • @zizanie
      @zizanie Год назад

      Fantastic dream chase.

  • @richardtor3028
    @richardtor3028 7 лет назад +222

    This could have been done in 5 minutes

    • @gazinggoat5869
      @gazinggoat5869 6 лет назад

      They were

    • @pergamonrecordings
      @pergamonrecordings 5 лет назад +4

      Richard Tor yep the suspense cliffhanger that leaves you hangingn till the end..its what I by now call the Discovery syndrom;-)

    • @neiloh
      @neiloh 5 лет назад +5

      yea, just say, there's nothing there

    • @jungleking3124
      @jungleking3124 5 лет назад +4

      No 3 minuets

    • @wailalaun7256
      @wailalaun7256 5 лет назад +1

      waste of timed

  • @cookiessprite
    @cookiessprite 7 лет назад +2

    Thankyou!

  • @IR240474
    @IR240474 5 лет назад +1

    Needs a part 2..

  • @vonbiron
    @vonbiron 6 лет назад +37

    Colossal waste of time................ Tom and Gale (? & ?) on a totally ridiculous goose chase in the Saharan sands.

  • @templarknight5557
    @templarknight5557 5 лет назад +13

    Any Archaeological expedition with a leader who is wearing a 200yr old wig just loses any credibility in my eyes.

  • @matthewsheeran
    @matthewsheeran 5 месяцев назад +1

    He didn't take a GPS location with his phone? You don't need a network, just a GPS App preinstalled for 10m resolution!

  • @morriganmhor5078
    @morriganmhor5078 4 года назад +1

    What the author / explorers didn´t take into account is, that Achaemenid did in fact have their portions of deserts so they could be accustomed how to deal with them. Even the Macedonians of Alexander were able to overcome them, though they didn´t have any in their home. So, I think their problem was really violent tempest.

  • @bobbyrutledge7998
    @bobbyrutledge7998 4 года назад +5

    I like how they have one token skeptic on the expedition who refuses to believe anything that anybody says about any topic, ever. She argues with a Bedouin about camel bones.

    • @melissasirois1508
      @melissasirois1508 4 года назад +2

      I find her quite annoying... Arguing with bebouin over age of camel bones...seriously...that man probably lived there his entire life and his experience seems valid to me. She argues it depends on weather? They are in the desert ..not much weather change.

    • @stephenfreeman7808
      @stephenfreeman7808 4 года назад +1

      Yes, I replied 2 someone's previous comment about her

  • @DrWoodyII
    @DrWoodyII 6 лет назад +343

    Waste of time. This entire documentary could be reduced to 10 minutes or less. Such as "Archeologist search for Persian King Cambyses' lost army and find a pot in the desert." End of story.

    • @mhikosale7233
      @mhikosale7233 5 лет назад +16

      lmao thank you for the summary

    • @opheliabawles9646
      @opheliabawles9646 5 лет назад +14

      Archaeology documentaries are always just people digging for more funding. When they actually find something they suddenly get all seriously academic about it and only release information through respected journals anyway.

    • @emteedee1891
      @emteedee1891 5 лет назад +2

      thanks man xx

    • @antwan37
      @antwan37 5 лет назад +11

      I actually enjoyed the larger version.

    • @oguzalb
      @oguzalb 4 года назад +3

      thanks man, really appreciated XD

  • @ezzovonachalm7534
    @ezzovonachalm7534 3 года назад +1

    A photographic, ultrasound, magnetic surch for anomalies of the desert from a sattelite could localise the quantity of metals left by an army of 10.000 soldiers. I do not understand under which commandement an archaeological mission of such importance can be confied to a sceptical last rang archaelogist .

  • @mrnarason
    @mrnarason 3 года назад +7

    So many people triggered by a documentary. If it, the army, were, found, you wouldn't be watching a documentary searching for it....

    • @MCarr-ol8sj
      @MCarr-ol8sj 3 года назад

      Sooo true!!!!

    • @Brian1Graves
      @Brian1Graves 3 года назад +2

      @@MCarr-ol8sj There is something pretty fishy about this one. All that travel and they have almost no gear with which to investigate nor do they with what little they have. Furthermore, they don't pick up bone samples for further investigation. Finally, the Arab museum has long been associated with fraud.

  • @deadpool4141
    @deadpool4141 7 лет назад +11

    you found their bones...but where our their swords, knife and arrow head and shields? you should find thousand of that also

  • @MissWitchiepoo
    @MissWitchiepoo 7 лет назад +140

    They finally find something and then it's over. I feel I've wasted my time they really know nothing more then when they started out I think.

    • @sylviakoziarski4912
      @sylviakoziarski4912 6 лет назад +5

      Thanks for the warning!

    • @Moshenka
      @Moshenka 6 лет назад +6

      Yeah, welcome to archaeology. 99% of the time.

    • @l.jboylan6704
      @l.jboylan6704 6 лет назад +3

      yeah but you dont make documentaries and release it if nothing happens

    • @00BillyTorontoBill
      @00BillyTorontoBill 6 лет назад +5

      seems you do.... Geraldo Rivera started it with the al capones vault.

    • @l.jboylan6704
      @l.jboylan6704 6 лет назад +1

      erm, no, they opened al Capone's vault.. they didnt get half hay through then say, nah we cant get in better luck next time

  • @bedouin1057
    @bedouin1057 3 года назад

    makes me homesick

  • @ikealamp53
    @ikealamp53 3 года назад +2

    Dig for a long lost army in the desert; brings brush.

  • @JM-ik9kw
    @JM-ik9kw 7 лет назад +312

    Spoiler alert: they found a pot.

    • @caesarmatty
      @caesarmatty 6 лет назад +16

      Thank you for saving me 48 minutes and 35 seconds (i watched few seconds before scrolling down)

    • @WWG1WWGA
      @WWG1WWGA 6 лет назад +2

      JM Salamanca 😂😂😂😆

    • @opheliabawles9646
      @opheliabawles9646 5 лет назад +14

      Thanks. It really sounds like a stupid idea for a documentary anyway because when l was in Egypt I found pot everwhere and l didn't even have to ask. They probably didn't even have to leave the hotel to get some, let alone gallivant all over the desert looking for it like complete idiots 😂

    • @Oscuros
      @Oscuros 5 лет назад

      @@opheliabawles9646 galavant, because I read instead of just repeating words I hear around; it usually helps with writing them down again afterwards.

    • @opheliabawles9646
      @opheliabawles9646 5 лет назад +5

      @@Oscuros Yeah well l at least attempt to write amusing comments. Thank god people like you don't.
      www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/gallivant

  • @stephenfreeman7808
    @stephenfreeman7808 4 года назад +3

    If I were the Egyptian archeological expedition and I needed to go check out a lost army that has been found, then I'm going to take a helicopter to check it out. Apparently they just said "dangit, we can't drive any further because of the sand dunes, oh well, we tried"

    • @13minutestomidnight
      @13minutestomidnight 3 года назад

      Yeah, I think the secular Egyptian government might be a little too broke for that. Should have borrowed a tank from the military.

  • @crashbomb2786
    @crashbomb2786 4 года назад

    I love the mans passion!

  • @rocksnriffs
    @rocksnriffs 2 года назад

    How foolish of this supposed archaeologist to question the expertise of the exceedingly accomplished geologist Dr. Tom Bown

  • @hillbillyrik
    @hillbillyrik 4 года назад +3

    "as they were taken their midday meal"... so, there were witnesses or maybe survivors to this event happening in the desert!

  • @terryrussel523
    @terryrussel523 6 лет назад +8

    OK. So they THINK it's possible the lost army has been found ! Great. Leave Us Hanging. Does anyone else feel cheated or that their leg is being pulled when they go out on the word of a trustworthy geologist, but have to CALL HIM WHEN THEY GET THERE to ask for details about the location of human skulls ??? Lazy as I can be at times I would have done a lot more homework than that . . .

    • @jonbyron38
      @jonbyron38 5 лет назад

      Rich boy hobby. Keeps em busy I suppose😏

  • @Cowfrog
    @Cowfrog 7 лет назад +2

    I remember watching this on tv in 2003 - could do with updating haha

  • @daveharbour5418
    @daveharbour5418 5 лет назад +2

    I would have thought that a metal detector would have been on the top of the list of things to bring along to look for metal relics?

  • @dannym2918
    @dannym2918 4 года назад +6

    4:50 repeatedly tap this timestamp

  • @hellavadeal
    @hellavadeal 6 лет назад +12

    Myth or not it gives a lesson. No matter how powerful you are , nature can lay you low.

    • @scarletmaye
      @scarletmaye 2 года назад

      Mother Nature is known for humbling people lol

  • @0ldFrittenfett
    @0ldFrittenfett 4 года назад +1

    They do a Scully/Mulder routine. But a pretty good one. "This could be a poor soul from the persian army who crawled under here to die" - "These bones could be anyones. Just because there are bones here doesn't mean it's the persian army."

  • @perfectwunn
    @perfectwunn 3 года назад +1

    Just driving around the desert not finding anything.. I rate this film a 1 out of 5.. 5 being the best rate.

  • @pickeljarsforhillary102
    @pickeljarsforhillary102 6 лет назад +17

    I will save the next view some time *THEY FIND NOTHING*

  • @CapComMDb
    @CapComMDb 7 лет назад +13

    tl;dw Reality TV. They don't find anything except a few human bones and they can't have access to the original artifacts, so inconclusive.

  • @anitafriesen5016
    @anitafriesen5016 4 года назад +2

    you would think being seasoned desert travellors they would of picked a full moon, bright evenings so they could travel on the peaks and cross in a cooler heat.

  • @lo-fihi-ki5699
    @lo-fihi-ki5699 2 года назад

    does anyone know the movie excerpt at 2:20 of Babylon being sacked? greatly appreciated looks like a nice vintage film to watch

  • @bundymccain2642
    @bundymccain2642 6 лет назад +9

    The arrowheads are without a doubt bronze age persian. The dagger is very likely persian. It seems like they were told NOT to do anything once they got there. Very strange how it all ended. Egyptian weaponry was very different from anyone else's at this time.
    Would be interesting to see a real expedition visit this place.

    • @LionKing-ew9rm
      @LionKing-ew9rm 5 лет назад +1

      Todd Mccain
      They were in the Iron age!!!!!!!

  • @rubenjames7345
    @rubenjames7345 5 лет назад +7

    Nothing to see here. About 50 minutes of extended click-bait.

  • @wvirago
    @wvirago 4 года назад

    This is completely funny yet amazing. Well, science will always continue to baffle me with its doubts and never ending questionings.

  • @canadianperspective3731
    @canadianperspective3731 3 года назад

    A brief scan of the comments tells me this is not worth watching. 48 minutes of my life not wasted, thank you.

  • @BABYFACEBEASTIE
    @BABYFACEBEASTIE 4 года назад +39

    Shout out everyone in the comment section who advised me not to watch this documentary and saved me 48 minutes of my life by telling me they only find a pot.

    • @waynewayne9693
      @waynewayne9693 4 года назад +1

      And pieces of a leg bones and multiple skull fragments.

  • @agiannetto
    @agiannetto 7 лет назад +10

    I don't "like" videos with ads.

  • @deborah2063
    @deborah2063 2 года назад

    Your videos are fasanting but difficult to hear even with my volume turned up all the way.

  • @davidwoods7408
    @davidwoods7408 3 года назад +1

    I got to 3/4 of the movie and decided this was going to be another "Monster Quest" style program. They don't find anything.

  • @walterkelly
    @walterkelly 7 лет назад +11

    "I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all." - The English Patient
    “We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves." - Michael Ondaatje
    Thank you for this, for the army of souls who melt into the sands, for we souls who will join them there, in the vast emptiness, the desert within.
    I am sub scribed.

  • @OrionLady777
    @OrionLady777 7 лет назад +45

    RIP Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great! The best humane leaders that the world has ever seen! Salute to the Persian Empire and Cyrus the Great who created the first charter of human rights!

    • @t.j.payeur739
      @t.j.payeur739 6 лет назад +12

      Cyrus is one of my favorite historical figures..a truly great leader and an excellent judge of human character...

    • @saeedvazirian
      @saeedvazirian 6 лет назад

      Greeks first^. I don't see you criticizing them...

    • @Duncan23
      @Duncan23 6 лет назад

      You are aware they used to skin people alive don't you? that is hardly humane lol

    • @georgiospanagiotopoulos9930
      @georgiospanagiotopoulos9930 5 лет назад +4

      Sepehr Voshmgir, Greeks were invaded twice and Athens was burnt to the ground. It was only natural that, when they united under Philip the 2nd and later Alexander the Great, got on the offensive and took the battle to the Persians. Unfortunately, the Persians lost, in contrast with their 2 unsuccessful campaigns against the Greeks.

    • @john-cx7nt
      @john-cx7nt 5 лет назад +1

      OrionLady777: It is said that history is written by the victors. What the Greeks did to the greatest city in the world (Persepolis) at the time was beyond shameful. Alexander was an egomaniac that just wanted to conquer the world. He wasn't as ruthless as Genghis, but not too far behind.

  • @AnubizRah
    @AnubizRah 4 года назад

    Does anyone know the name the of the film that plays from 2:07?

  • @NECHOII
    @NECHOII 4 года назад +1

    So how did Greek historian Herodotus know that the killer sandstorm struck the Persian army as they were having their midday meal ? If this happened at all, it would mean that some of the doomed Persian army survived to tell the tale. We know for a fact that King Cambyses never perished in a sandstorm, but died on his way back to Persia. Why is there no Persian or Egyptian record of this ?

  • @willjames1124
    @willjames1124 5 лет назад +18

    "Somebody was here with a pot.." At least he had something to pee in..lol

  • @alexshield7532
    @alexshield7532 7 лет назад +19

    you forgot the part where he swears loyalty to anubis in exchane for his help in conquering. from this Moment onward he was known as...*the scorpionking*

    • @lykandra1
      @lykandra1 7 лет назад +1

      Are you sure ,you know really the whole Story of the Empire of Acardia - and last Emperer Sargon of Arcadia ? By the way the Arcadians have known King David ...of Israel in the end -time of their existence and Abraham in the beginning of their cultural history , the Hethitis and other old cultures ! And the Lady is nice in her work ... and more than 12.000 years historical research are not done in 5 Minutes ...

    • @lenormand4967
      @lenormand4967 6 лет назад

      Dr.h.c.Claudia Maria Anna Kramer DAVID/HADAD WAS AN ENEMY IEUDOMITE AGAINST THE ISRAELITES. HIS MATERNAL GRANDFATHER WAS KING OF AMMON. HIS PATERNAL GRANDFATHER WAS OBED-EDOM.

  • @jirivesely9529
    @jirivesely9529 4 года назад +1

    Almost all TV documents just sucks like this. 48 minutes of nothing leads to big discovery of nothing.

  • @davidshelow5334
    @davidshelow5334 3 года назад

    Olaf Kaper has a hypothesis that refutes the assumptions of this expedition. His findings are in a TEDx talk.

  • @omgicblit
    @omgicblit 5 лет назад +19

    what arrogance that woman has telling a local who was probaly taught the ways of the desert before he could even walk

  • @markwheeler202
    @markwheeler202 7 лет назад +11

    Carbon dating? Bueler?

  • @lackadaisicale492
    @lackadaisicale492 5 лет назад +1

    The idea that Cambyses had an army that was lost in the desert at all is in itself a highly disputed idea, but the docu presents the idea as if it was some kind of fact, when most likely there never was any Persian army lost in the desert.

  • @CENTURION-xs6ky
    @CENTURION-xs6ky 6 лет назад

    I wished I'd read the comments first!
    What a wasted opportunity these people had, they set out on a mammoth journey to find this site and once there did almost nothing a tourist wouldn't do. Thanks for the upload it was interesting, but I was really disappointed with the actual documentary itself and any lack of effort on their part to investigate the sites.

    • @CENTURION-xs6ky
      @CENTURION-xs6ky 4 года назад

      Wow, 2 years ago.. I knew I'd seen this. Still think the same.

  • @sheilamacpherson4948
    @sheilamacpherson4948 6 лет назад +5

    48 minutes and 41 seconds of my life I can never get back.

  • @VASI_LIKI
    @VASI_LIKI 6 лет назад +25

    Im a simple person but If no one survived how does Herodotus have so many details of the alkeged story? ... im not disbeluueving it happened just my first question woukkd be how did Herodotuys have so much detail ....

    • @runkahadal1554
      @runkahadal1554 6 лет назад +3

      VASILIKI good point

    • @666darkwisdom
      @666darkwisdom 6 лет назад +17

      actually I thought exactly the same thing, how did they know, but then I figured that clearly Egyptians knew the army has left Thebes, they knew their mission and then they knew that army never made it to the oasis and there was a sand storm around that time, considering local religious propaganda, all those priests used the story for their advantage and the story kinda stayed and was passed around, that's how Herodotus got it

    • @drveritystrange-fish4685
      @drveritystrange-fish4685 6 лет назад +2

      666darkwisdom
      Thank goodness someone has their head on the right way!

    • @paul6925
      @paul6925 6 лет назад +1

      Beat me to that comment!

    • @claudiosaltara8847
      @claudiosaltara8847 6 лет назад +2

      666darkwisdom , very good deduction and a plausible one.

  • @sergioc.7910
    @sergioc.7910 6 лет назад

    Awesome sunset @23:50.

  • @anna-lisagirling7424
    @anna-lisagirling7424 6 лет назад

    Yeah, I'd like to see the FULL documentary on this. Why was it even edited and distributed? A sort of compressed 15-20 min. lecture + slides would do the trick..Tawn. I expected so much better from this series.

  • @sam21462
    @sam21462 6 лет назад +6

    Metal detectors? Why did they seem to not have them?

    • @unnaturalselection8330
      @unnaturalselection8330 6 лет назад +1

      The same reason they drive in sand with fully inflated tires; they're quacks.

    • @Rivenburg-xd5yf
      @Rivenburg-xd5yf 4 года назад

      @@unnaturalselection8330 going into the great sand sea in vehicals not setup for it can be suicidal. stupid. I like tubes and 12 lbs on 14 inch wide paddles.

  • @PooDotStinkPants
    @PooDotStinkPants 5 лет назад +5

    *Thanks for the tutorial on how to stretch out a " **-documentary-** " video for **48:41** minutes.*

  • @PUBHEAD1
    @PUBHEAD1 2 года назад

    What movie is that at 2:08? Looks epic

  • @azlanameer4912
    @azlanameer4912 3 года назад

    Mr Tom and the Lady i salute your great effort. Its my general perception that the western races are praiseworthy that you ppl discovered preserved and loved the archeology. Its u the westerns who taught the world and gave true recognition to the nations of the world. In our part of the world We had and still has great archeoligical sites but we have no sense of our own to give value. For example in my own district there numerous monds where ancient times artifacts are washed up during rainy season but nobody pays attention. I have long list of such sites but of no use. What indifferent attitude i saw in the officer of Egyptian officers face is heart wrenching. our officials get salaries ambazel funds and live comfortable lifes...nothing to do with archeology. I can not explain the pathetic plight of archeological site here in my country.
    Again thousands of salutes to u and the team. Sorry for Mr Ali Barakat who gone un heard by the government. Love and respects from Pakistan😍😍😍