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00:00 - Intro
01:26 - Oldest Man-Made Fire
04:42 - Oldest Blue Pigment
08:43 - First Murder Victim in Vietnam
10:59 - Karahan Tepe Carved Face Pillar
13:54 - Earliest Arrow Poison
16:03 - Neolithic Bronze Hoard
20:31 - First Sequencing of Old Kingdom DNA - Egypt
24:07 - New Sumerian Myth Discovered
26:36 - Lost City Found in Peru
29:43 - Tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh Found
32:38 - Outro
Resources:
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-human-face-was-carved-into-this-stone-pillar-in-turkey-11000-years-ago-180987489
bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20250910-perus-new-city-unearthed-from-the-desert
aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/7/15/peru-welcomes-visitors-to-3800-year-old-penico-archaeological-site
croatiaweek.com/extraordinary-2000-year-old-roman-shipwreck-discovered-in-croatia
archaeologymag.com/2025/10/well-preserved-roman-shipwreck-in-croatia/\
phys.org/news/2025-11-city-ravines-bronze-age-metropolis.html
cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/of-captive-storm-gods-and-cunning-foxes-new-insights-into-early-sumerian-mythology-with-an-edition-of-ni-12501/391CFC6A9361C23A0E7AF159F565A911
researchgate.net/publication/327175362_Pigment_decoration_of_palaeolithic_anthropomorphous_figurines_from_Siberia
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-stunning-frescoes-of-a-mysterious-dionysian-cult-discovered-in-ancient-pompeii-180986133
pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/pompeii-discovery-of-a-room-with-frescoes-depicting-the-initiation-into-the-mysteries-and-the-dionysiac-procession
archaeologymag.com/2025/02/rare-dionysian-fresco-unearthed-in-pompeii
cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/C8817D4F033F8195955F936532553FB8/S0003598X25101841a.pdf/the-earliest-evidence-of-blue-pigment-use-in-europe.pdf
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-archaeologists-set-out-in-search-animal-fat-instead-they-found-oldest-blue-pigment-ever-discovered-in-europe-180987438
nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09855-6
bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e
arkeonews.net/worlds-oldest-arrow-poison-discovered-in-south-africa-dating-back-7000-years
Vote for your top archaeological discovery of 2025 here: https://forms.gle/8i9vsVqEbf91qd44A
Voting closes Jan 18th!
Watch part two over at @Inside_Archaeology to see the rest of the top 20 youtu.be/8NyNAP-mJBc?si=r9V6wIErAvPyLEKy
👉🏼 Get early access and help support the channel here: patreon.com/digitwithraven
00:00 - Intro
01:26 - Oldest Man-Made Fire
04:42 - Oldest Blue Pigment
08:43 - First Murder Victim in Vietnam
10:59 - Karahan Tepe Carved Face Pillar
13:54 - Earliest Arrow Poison
16:03 - Neolithic Bronze Hoard
20:31 - First Sequencing of Old Kingdom DNA - Egypt
24:07 - New Sumerian Myth Discovered
26:36 - Lost City Found in Peru
29:43 - Tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh Found
32:38 - Outro
Resources:
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-human-face-was-carved-into-this-stone-pillar-in-turkey-11000-years-ago-180987489
bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20250910-perus-new-city-unearthed-from-the-desert
aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/7/15/peru-welcomes-visitors-to-3800-year-old-penico-archaeological-site
croatiaweek.com/extraordinary-2000-year-old-roman-shipwreck-discovered-in-croatia
archaeologymag.com/2025/10/well-preserved-roman-shipwreck-in-croatia/\
phys.org/news/2025-11-city-ravines-bronze-age-metropolis.html
cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/of-captive-storm-gods-and-cunning-foxes-new-insights-into-early-sumerian-mythology-with-an-edition-of-ni-12501/391CFC6A9361C23A0E7AF159F565A911
researchgate.net/publication/327175362_Pigment_decoration_of_palaeolithic_anthropomorphous_figurines_from_Siberia
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-stunning-frescoes-of-a-mysterious-dionysian-cult-discovered-in-ancient-pompeii-180986133
pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/pompeii-discovery-of-a-room-with-frescoes-depicting-the-initiation-into-the-mysteries-and-the-dionysiac-procession
archaeologymag.com/2025/02/rare-dionysian-fresco-unearthed-in-pompeii
cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/C8817D4F033F8195955F936532553FB8/S0003598X25101841a.pdf/the-earliest-evidence-of-blue-pigment-use-in-europe.pdf
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-archaeologists-set-out-in-search-animal-fat-instead-they-found-oldest-blue-pigment-ever-discovered-in-europe-180987438
nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09855-6
bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e
arkeonews.net/worlds-oldest-arrow-poison-discovered-in-south-africa-dating-back-7000-years
