Egypt's 'most exciting' archaeological discovery in decades - BBC REEL
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- The discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds in recent Egyptology.
Uncovered in 2020, this ancient Egyptian settlement, known as Aten, has left experts amazed at the preservation of buildings and artefacts. Egyptologists hope further investigation will answer important questions about life during the reign of one of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, Amenhotep III.
Video by Howard Timberlake
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Am I the only one who absolutely LOVES Professor Salima? She makes me happy every time I see her on TV talking about ancient Egypt. There is something about her personality that is loving, engaging, humble and energetic.
It's called passion. Some people have passion for garden snails, others for dragon flies, others for molecular genetics, others for algorithms, others for virology, others for grasses, etc., etc. Hers is Egyptology.
Me too! She’s very passionate about her work and it shows
Yes, I think you are the only one who absolutely loves her for just watching her on TV. But why do care to know if you're the only one?! If there are many does it make a difference to you?
I like when too. Not a fan of Zahi tho.
I completely agree 💯😊.
Those serpentine walls are still use today in England. We plant fruit trees in the recesses and the sun warms the bricks during the day and at night the bricks release the heat, reducing the chance of frost damage to the fruit trees. History says that the idea came from Egypt.
Or is the knowledge from a lost creator civilization from Peru?
They're also sturdier than straight-line walls, almost as much as a double-thickness wall but requiring fewer bricks.
I have been a bricklayer for 40 years and I never knew that. Thanks for the information.
When I looked at the curves I thought is was to do with shade, which may have been the case in Egypt.
Dave is also correct, the curves make it much stronger in the same was as corrugated steel sheet is stronger that flat sheet steel.
@@harveysmith100 Perhaps it depends on the orientation as to what their objective was. In England the walls for fruit trees are aligned east-west to maximise the wall's absorption of solar radiation during the day on the southern side. These walls can increase the temperature at night by up to 10 degrees Celsius. As you mention, in Egypt I would imagine an east-west configuration with trees planted on the southern side would provide shade for the trees and get the sun to warm the bricks and thereby keep the fruit warm in the much colder night.
That’s fascinating! I was disappointed they didn’t address the walls so thank you!
Honestly, I love Dr. Salima, I've seen her in many documentaries and she always explains everything to perfection
and she's not so up herself, unlike Hawas
Salima is like the Howard Carter of our century
Yess agreed.
Only legends know that she is wild on bed
She’s closer to the field than anyone, I really admire her dedication! Long live the Queen!
This woman is the best Egyptologist ever!!! :))
Let her present all the Egyptian shows!
@war sinai Naaah, he's just a showman! Doesn't give us the integrity of a scientist but she definitely does. Her voice is soothing; Zawass just irritates my ears!
@war sinai He's just well known. That's like saying Justin Bieber is as good as Mozart.
Ever heard of Joann Fletcher and Sarah Parcak?
She's good, but I like the other woman who is digging the site near this and her 10year dig that is quite possibly Cleopatra's tomb.
@@WilliamGarrow yeah but Mozart technically copied Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges sohe's not that great
I must say that when I visited the Egyptian museum in Cairo a few years back, it was the “everyday” items that were most impressive. The workmanship would rival many modern day items.
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There is no worksmanship in the modern world. Only mass produced cheap crap by exploited workers who have few minutes to spend on each item
@@jopuk9518 and you think Egyptians or any other ancient civilization didn't exploited workers? lol
That being said, no one is stopping you from buying handcrafted items. You can still do that if it annoys you this much. But it will be more expensive
I once saw a very exquisite egyptian comb as a child when I visited the British Museum in London. That image is vividly preserved in my mind still.
It's only looks like that, cheap ones simply wasn't shown or didn't survive.
That whole country is like one massive open museum. You throw a rock in Egypt and you hit an ancient ruin ❤❤
And the rock itself was itself part of a ruin
@@edgarhons hahahahaha yeah
Nooo! Don't throw that rock! You might hit an ancient ruin!!!
@@wthomas7955 You should look up Siwa.
@@wthomas7955 No argument there, but that makes it all the more fascinating just how much there is over there, I mean other civilizations like Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia might have existed in easier circumstances but none of them have even close the amount of items that Ancient Egypt had. I find it so fascinating tbh
Egypts lost gold??? Have they tried looking in the British museum. Everything "Lost" usually shows up there.
Actually British museum did steal pyramids outer laier. Fortunately they were stopped in time and what is left is for everybody to admire.
@@Paul22192 what about india😏
Yes, they did grow opium in India and sold it to China. The money was spent for developing India.
@@Paul22192 wtf... 💯 Wrong brooooo🤥🤥🤥🤥 British destroy india and it's culture... see British museum full of hindu gods statue and kohinoor diamond give us back 🤬
@@Paul22192 india is rich and great civilization before mugal and British rule ... Only gift given by british is poverty and english 🙂
What a great understanding of Architecture, chemistry, preservation, Art and Science they had.One of the most popular civilizations of all times.
Amazing that one piece of pottery still had blue and white paint on it. It is said that everything they made/built was brightly painted when it was new.
What an absolutely incredible find. How I’d love to work on a dig like this!
You would not, believe me
Omg me too! I live here in Egypt, wonder if there are any opportunities? How amazing would that be?!
I think it's mostly free labor from college students on the digs.
@@robinlillian9471 Ahh okay yeah that would make sense.
@@robinlillian9471 it's mostly locals lol
Egypt is amazing country to visit. So much history
I'm happy to hear about discoveries like this. And I can imagine young Egyptologists around the world are amazed to hear it too, because that means that there are more hidden & undiscovered cities, ruins, temples and places where to make new discoveries.
It is mindblowing to make a find like this, to be able to see in detail how people lived long before us.
Wholesome ! 😊
Europeans: those are kinda cute, might take and put it in our museum 😋
Thats mean and arrogant, dont make a war out of everything, be proud and show some manners .
Prof. Salima, your enthusiasm is contagious!
Beautiful I hope one day we can visualize what this city looked like and how it all fits in the time-line. Wow
I met this lady. Many years ago. When she worked in the finds of Egypt in Luxor. Opposite the posh hotel. In a small building where she explained to me how Egyptians did dentistry. I will never forget how nice the people were. With my husband and I. Xxx thank you xxx
How do you talk to him is she from egypt can you tell us the whole incident
Yes I think she was. If not she’s a double. I went on holiday to see Egypt . My dad always wanted to go. So my husband and I went after my dad died.. My dad was interested. We saw tuts treasures in London. When I was about 11. I was so interested in how she knew so much. I was totally drinking in her every word. She was wonderful. I realised that day. I wanted to be clever like her. She must of been about 24 or 25 then. Or maybe 30 . I’m rubbish at ages. But being an Artist studies of faces lead me to believe she’s the same person. Hope so. Anyway. Xxx
Yes it was in Egypt I met her. I would love to know if it was myself.
Every time something discovered in Egypt. Its an amazing thing🖖
I love that we are still making archeological discoveries, that we haven't just given up and said "well, there's nothing more"
Everything is a lie.
Imagine the other temple and cites waiting to be found? Love Egypt 🇪🇬 from Canada 🇨🇦
If I could build a time machine ancient egypt I would definitely travel back to
Watch a movie or read a book The next best thing to a time machine.
I was there right before they announced this discovery! Akhenaten was my favorite pharaoh. That period in time is so interesting! Praise the Aten! 🙌☀️
(Above) I theorized that the abandonment of this city was when Akhenaten dragged everyone out to the desert for his new capital and that when Tutankhamun moved the city back this site held a bad superstition (among other I musings stated)
Egypt...the gold mine of archeology!
OMG I am so fascinated by ancient Egypt, can you imagine a find like this!!
Priceless ancient teasures
i’m taking an art history class and i learned so much about ancient egypt this week
Great explanation thanks
I must say I'm crazy about the ancient Egypt and if I see prof. Salima and sir Zahi I already know it will be huge 😍
Wow! It’s so fascinating that wonderful history is still being found to this day, and there’s still a vast of secrets buried under the sand out there!
Can we believe anything the BBC says?
Hope to see more of this
Its astonishing after 3000+ years they're still finding artifacts, can wait for the mother of all finds.
Beautiful find! 🤗🤗🤗
I was not expecting to see a fish. Wow
The walls in a squiggly formation is very interesting and looks very well preserved
Stunning pieces ! Look at those shapes and how thin they are 😍 Oh Beautiful Egypt ❤ You fascinate me .
Simply amazing.
Amazing..
yesss, good stuff. congrats
Very interesting love history like this
Thanks for a real documentary
Awesome to see
Good work. Any news from Labyrinth underground level excavations?
Stary
Love bbc reels!
The size of those jugs , wonderful! I can imagine the walls being white plastered originally, wish I could be there to visit the site.
Those are very very precious indeed. I say cherish them for life and at all costs.
Very Cool
This is soooo interesting
Just seeing so many intact pottery vessels was amazing. The vast majority of the time, you don't see that.
I have a speculative take on why the town was found in this condition.
The town's name was Aten.
Akhenaten, a monotheistic Pharaoh, son of Amenhotep III, father of Tutankhamen,
had been fiercely opposed by the powerful Egyptian polytheistic priests
for ordering that all subjects should only worship Aten, ( Egypt's god of the sun.).
He was recently out of power and/or dead in that approximate time frame. (about1353,BCE)
Almost every reference to him was destroyed, monuments defaced,
references chiseled from everywhere his likeness or name appeared.
In recent years, fragments were finally found as construction rubble and rock fill for other, newer royal structures .
If I'm not mistaken,
this town NAMED for the sun god might have been ordered abandoned or even cursed to make the inhabitants flee.
Possibly by those triumphant priests ro bring heretics back into line
(also the power and riches previously diverted from their coffers, back into their hands).
I remember coming across something that mentioned Akhenaten's dad had already started more of a focus towards aten, that Akhenaten went further, but wasn't the (only) originator. Possibly linked to the discovery of this city?
That opening shot looks like an Egyptian "Antiques Roadshow"...
And if the pots etc are that damaged and that old, should they really be carried around quite so casually...??? Seems questionable to me...
I like how she emphasized funding bodies at the end
Fantastic..why did they take this off the history channel..it was so kool to watch these discoveries
What's the name of the song in the beginning of the video
I find it really hard to understand how a city gets abandoned like that withouth being looted . That's amazing . Surely it's took centuries to be covered by dirt
they're in a desert. Definitely not centuries
@@dmy_tro well maybe not that long but for sure but long enough for people to ransack the city. I'd love to know what prompted a mass exodus. Even in modern times when they have evacuation during storms and forest fires, wars , etc.. they always have stragglers and looters. I presume it would be the same in ancient times. We are all people after all
@Small wheel I'd say it was Aliens. Definitely Aliens.
Amunhotep III was succeeded by Amunhotep IV, who styled himself Akhenaten. Akhenaten imposed his monotheistic worship of the Aten on Egypt during his reign. This village may have had workers on his tomb or another monument of his, when Akhenaten died. The succeeding Pharaohs did the damnatio memoriae on his works, and there being no tomb or temple to Aten anymore, they didn't need that artisan's village.
@@amandastout1948 interesting . But that assuming everyone participated in that lifestyle . Comparable to modern times where in n.america the idea is that its a Christian nation but that's far from the truth there are many religions and beliefs all in one place
One distinct possibility for its abandonment could be when Akhanertan(sic) dragged everyone out to the desert to build his new capital, and when Tutankhamen brought them back to the region the settlement was either covered in sand, impractical to repair, in poor condition, or held a superstition about the family's "sacrilege" of monotheism.
Watching these types of digs makes me wish I were an archeologist. I would say I would love to be one in my next life but that would be disappointing. All we would find is mounds of plastic, discarded cell phones and pieces of IKEA furniture
We are very curious about who build the layers of the whole Giza Plateau, stones weighting tens of thousands of tonnes.
I take everything that the BBC covers with a pinch of salt.
Them standing in line with the pots you would swear you were watching the Antiques Road Show.
does anyone know the background music?
Amazing they survived in one piece!
The truth can’t be hidden forever. Imagine what’s still unseen and will be a lot harder to hide now.
Not everything was a tomb or a temple. And most of the amazing work is pre dynamic Egypt thousands of years older.
Do we know why the walls were built in the wave pattern? It looked like on the outside of the wall in the concave spaces there were circular curbs built. Is there any evidence about what these were used for? Very pleasing to the eye, and I don’t recall seeing such a design in ancient city wall ruin photos before.
I second that. I’m sure there was a reason for it other than aesthetics.
it is stornger structurally
Maybe it was very windy
It actually looks like an ideal pattern of strength in my opinion
Could be structural reasons but I think it probably had to do with the wind as well.
Este excelente acervo Egiptológico...mais se irá descobrir?!! O esplendor e magnitude das suas construções da época em ruínas, bem como tributos dos tesouros! De onde vieram estas peças de arte, verdadeiras provas de valor?! Valeu esta prospecção ...a recompensa de toda uma herança para a humanidade!! Podemos nós discernir perfeitamente o que a humanidade deve ao pensamento e obra Egípcia?!!
It wasn’t always a desert,so hopefully lots more to come
Who else geeked out when they heard Dr. Ikrams voice narrating? I squealed SALIMAAAAA! An absolute rock star of Egyptology.
Love to see them dig up the area in the Sahara where liDAR detected (2 yrs ago) a large castle like structure under 40 meters of sand from a completely unknown civilization.
Way cool
As a child I used to think egypt was a land where mummies wake up a terrorize people.
Wow original Egyptian culture was really beautiful.
Can it be considered that with all the pottery and effects being discovered that the inhabitants did not abandon the suburb as a slow process but were forced to leave quickly, not by force of arms, but decree from Aye?
You'd have thought the people of the day would have taken all those lovely painted pots and other goods before the city was abandoned. They look far too good to just leave around, especially after all the work it takes to make them.
Makes you wonder if there might have been a sickness in the area and people feared to take the goods, believing they might catch something from them.
Or perhaps it was deliberately buried when the pharaoh died and, just like he is is buried with goods to take him into the afterlife, the idea was this part of the city would follow him into the afterlife as well.
@3:51 look at the stone carving!! Looks like yoda!?!
I cant imagine our cities today will be underground too after a million of years from now..
Like the flintstones
Nice music.
I cant believe that criminal Hawass is still involved in anything to do with with these digs
@war sinai Not true. The west steals artifacts and won't give them back. They acknowledge what they have done. No need to blame anyone other than themselves. Mainly the French and English But Hawass on the other hand should be behind bars, not overseeing anything to do with Egypt's rich history.
@war sinai Again not true. I've been to Egypt more than once and have friends who work in the field. It is a known fact about Hawass amongst many Egyptians. I have been told stories about this man that have not been told on the media. But you can believe what you want about him.
@war sinai Pretty sure? On who's information? I have spoken with Egyptologists in the field and heard many stories from those who worked directly with this criminal. But like I said, you can believe what you want. I don't care either way
@war sinai Again what you write is Not True. But here's some questions for you. Are you Egyptian? Have you ever been to Egypt? Have you studied Egyptology or archaeology? Have you spoken with any one who works in these fields or do you just have your opinions from what you read on the internet?
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I'm really curious bout the fish at 3:37
What if they drop those pots there holding lmao I'd drop dead laughing 😂
what's the giant fish about. Was it preserved?
Congratulations
I love the armenian duduk playing in the background!
#Egypt #visitEgypt #myEgypt #bucketlist
What are those walls made of? Mud brick?
The populace went “up” in Rapture or Ascension. Return to Aten or Heaven to the One True Diety. Earth School was adjourned! The harmonics from even just seeing the site. I got the goosebumps. 😭🤩
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
Thanks so much for the video and info but why is Hawas not in jail....
I wonder if it was an artesan’s area dealing with the trade and work in that making them temporary homes for the workers.
Never updated us about the black tomb room
The bible says he'd destroy Egypt. So who did he send to be the last three Pharaohs ? A mere 70 years of ruling and, Egypt still hasn't recovered.
From the year of the ruler mentioned, could it be from where the israelites left around 1300BC?
Its too far south for the Israelis to live there, but maybe the Egyptians abandoned it after the catastrophes
@@karlokulas5677 how would it to be too far south? have you read the bible? It says they went down to egypt and further south from genesis.
@@fromabove422 They were in the land of Goshen, which is north
@@karlokulas5677 what verse
@@fromabove422 genesis 46:34
What is the story of the fish?
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when is the mummy part 5 coming releasing?
Egyptian Aliens wer impeccable
Why was the city abandoned? Was it struck by some plague?
I wish Assassin's Creed makes another on ancient Egypt, wish I could play origins for the first time again
Anyone else notice that carving of Yoda? Seriously, what is that?
Probably a scarab beetle.
Be cool had they had TH-cam, the internet and cameras back them
Shout out to Sarah Parcek🙌🏼