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He says it is badly eroded but has the facial features of a Sphinx statue and an Egyptian nemes headdress was also clearly visible. He also pointed out reclining forelegs and paws. But we only ever saw it from one angle.
For this to truly be a Sphinx statue it would have to be three-dimensional, else it’s just natural erosion.
Well, I came across drone footage and it showed it from every other angle, the front, the back, both sides and from above, and well, it pretty much proves this was never any Sphinx.
It’s not and never was a man-made rock-cut Sphinx statue, it’s just natural. This alternative hypothesis is now firmly on the scrap-head.
Watch a full-length video on the Ancient Architects YouTube Channel here: youtu.be/NeJklo5ic-0
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A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the New Kingdom Research Foundation made the discovery whilst working on the west bank of the Nile River, in the same region where we find the Valley of the Queens.
The tomb is located in Valley C, one of the western valleys, just behind the so-called Neferure’s cliff-tomb.
Regarding the discovery, Mostafa Waziri, Head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said: “Current examination on the ceramics and fragmentary inscriptional evidence recovered so far indicates it is the tomb of several members of the royal family of the Thutmosid period of the 18th Dynasty.”
The tomb though is in poor condition and parts of it, including a lot of the inscriptions and paintings have been destroyed by ancient flood waters from the Nile, which filled the chambers with sand and limestone sediment. Learn more and see the pictures by watching this short news update.
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facebook.com/tourismandantiq/posts/pfbid0u6pTeu9dcy5zhrAynDFhX9JJVY6z6FK2z26ponmVidJN2annCZUSiFXfo3jV9R3ml
apnews.com/article/science-cairo-3671085163fabcf7bdd50e7f9c61e529
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/9/484227/Antiquities/Royal-tomb-from-Thutmosid-period-discovered-on-Lux.aspx
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11639559/Ancient-Egyptian-tomb-final-resting-place-QUEEN-princess-18th-Dynasty.html
nbcnews.com/science/science-news/4-000-year-old-royal-tomb-unearthed-egypt-n126696
ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/royal-tomb-0017795
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As well as being a stunning natural wonder, the entire rock was turned into a fortress and palace and the ruins are clear to see today. King Kashyapa chose this site as his palace around 480 AD, creating the amazing lion gateway.
Unique paintings were also added to most of the western side of the rock, an area 140 metres long and 40 metres high. After the king’s death, the site became a Buddhist monastery until the 14th century, after which it was abandoned.
Learn more in a longer video here: youtu.be/jwvL46kbvPo
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In news this week, Scientists have reconstructed the face of arguably the greatest Ancient Egyptian ruler of all, Pharoah Ramesses II of the 19th dynasty.
Although the pharaoh died aged 90 – which is quite the age for someone living 3,200+ years ago – using his mummified remains experts have reconstructed his face both in his prime – aged 45 – as well as in his old age.
The images show the pharaoh as the man, no headdress, jewellery or make-up and I've tried to mock up how he would have looked in full royal regalia.
Watch this video to learn more about what the scientists have done, and also more about Pharaoh Ramesses the Great.
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archaeology.org/news
livescience.com/ramesses-ii-facial-reconstruction
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11569191/Ramesses-II-Scientists-reconstruct-handsome-face-ancient-Egypts-powerful-pharaoh.html
mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pharaohs-handsome-face-seen-first-28837659
Official Face Lab Video: youtu.be/pk2tcKBNNG8
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It’s known as Takht-E Rostam, a Buddhist Stupa monastery complex, located 2 km south of town of Haibak in northern Afghanistan. It’s entirely cut from the bedrock, a stupa surmounted by a harmika with several rough-cut caves around the base. A hoard of coins was found inside one of the caves.\
The purpose and importance of the monastery was lost in the Muslim conquests of Afghanistan. History fell into myth and legend but the site was incorporated into Persian mythology in the story of Rostam and Sohrab.
Learn more in a longer video on the Ancient Architects YouTube channel. Click here: youtu.be/uVGXLbelbZw
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It was discovered by gold miners back in 1890 inside the peat bog of Shigir, on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, approximately 62 miles away from Yekaterinburg in Russia.
When it was first radiocarbon dated in the 1990s, its age was 9,500 years but later German analysis pushed back this date by a further 2,000 years.
The artefact is clearly very ancient and although we can analyse and describe it, nobody knows with any certainly what it meant to the ancient people and what it symbolises. It stood either on or next to an ancient lake. It was clearly an item of importance due to the amount of work and craftsmanship that went into it and it clearly meant something to a local population. Watch the video to learn more.
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The presentation provided updates on well-known sites Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, as well as Sayburç, Harbetsuvan Tepesi, Sefer Tepe and Cakmaktepe but there was also another ancient site that was discussed, one that is not one of the 12 Taş Tepeler sites, and one you may never have heard of.
It’s called Gürcü Tepe, a late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site on the southeastern outskirts of Şanlıurfa, Turkey and it consists of a number of shallow tells, or mounds, on a plain along the Sirrin Stream that flows from Sanliurfa.
It was first excavated in the 1990s by the late, great Klaus Schmidt and although excavations came to an abrupt end and most of the site is now built over, excavations recommenced in 2021 and then continued in 2022. Watch this video to find out more about this exciting ancient site.
All images and footage are taken from the arkeolojihaber YouTube channel, Google Earth and Google Images and the below sources for educational purposes only. Please subscribe to Ancient Architects, Like the video and please leave a comment below.
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https://www.academia.edu/2105764/Beile_Bohn_M_Ch_Gerber_M_Morsch_und_K_Schmidt_Fr%C3%BChneolithische_Forschungen_in_Obermesopotamien_G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe_und_G%C3%BCrc%C3%BCtepe_Ist_Mit_48_1998
youtu.be/ueAUcFBCdjo
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I have also colourised and enhanced the old grainy, black and white pictures the best I can. Make sure you see part 1 for more!
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I have also colourised and enhanced the old grainy, black and white pictures the best I can. Make sure you see part 2 for more!
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Our ancient ancestors were not simple people. They could build intricate houses from the bones of mammoths, they created and perfected the art of stone tool making, they accurately shaped animals from stone, they had a culture, burial rites and belief systems and yes, from Europe to Siberia and beyond, they were able to survive the harsh conditions of the Ice Age.
Their paintings though are truly incredible and this stone canvas in the Lascaux Cave is arguably one of humanity’s greatest artistic achievements.
Having a personal interest in Ice Age cultures meant I was fascinated to read the news this week, that a furniture conservator, an amateur called Ben Bacon may have solved a truly ancient mystery – the meaning behind seemingly random, markings – lines, dots and shapes – that were painted next to or onto animals by Ice Age artists.
Mr Bacon suspected that these markings had a specific meaning, an idea shared by many archaeologists, but amazingly, it’s an amateur that may have solved it. They're charting the mating seasons of various animals according to an ancient lunar calendar! Watch the video to learn more!
Check out the Old European Culture blog at oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/serbiaireland
Watch my previous video on Ice Age writing at youtu.be/vkvLC1VrnvI
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cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64162799
theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/05/amateur-archaeologist-uncovers-ice-age-writing-system
livescience.com/ice-age-cave-art-proto-writing-claim
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It was only discovered in 2003, located around 50 km east of Gobekli Tepe and 18 km away from Karahan Tepe. The site is a small, broad and shallow limestone mound with the ancient settlement built directly onto the bedrock and covering an area of 1,000 square metres.
It's a settlement that was built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, between 10 and 11,000 years ago and it's proving to be a very important site in ancient Turkey. Watch this video to get the latest archaeological update on Sefer Tepe and see all the new discoveries unearthed.
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In terms of treasure, King Tut’s golden artefacts get all the attention, and obviously for good reason, but there is another royal Egyptian treasure trove that often escapes the limelight.
These are the Treasures of Tanis, discovered in the city of Tanis, in the Nile Delta region, northeast of Cairo.
They were found in the late 1930s and early 1940s, in a complex of royal tombs, one of which was perfectly intact.
The hoard includes four solid gold death masks, two beautiful and incredible solid silver coffins lined with gold and spectacular examples of Ancient Egyptian jewellery made from the most precious metals and stones.
They date to the 21st to 22nd dynasty, between 1000 and 850 BC and my favourite is the solid silver Falcon-Headed Coffin of Sheshonq II.
Watch this video to learn more: youtu.be/qjVA5Rw3PlI
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Today, the Dream Stela, which forms the back of the temple still remains, but there were also two stele next to it, erected by Rameses the Great in the 19th dynasty, and now missing. These were taken to the Louvre Museum.
There was also a statue of a lion, once facing the Dream Stele and the Sphinx. Two further lion statues were also in the temple, as well as a red granite altar, where a fire was likely lit. Broken parts of the missing beard of the Sphinx were also found on the ground below the head, as was the missing snake from the Sphinx headdress.
Learn more on the Ancient Architects YouTube channel. See part of the Sphinx beard in my video from the British Museum: youtu.be/5bo785AVhZA
See a full video on lost relics from the Great Sphinx at youtu.be/Rfd9pFEbZA0
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But there is one site that so many have never even heard of, one that is even older than those mentioned, and one that is even more important. It displays some truly magnificent examples of ancient stone architecture and artefacts, a Proto-Neolithic settlement with continuous occupation for 2,000 years, with origins before the Younger Dryas and then continuous occupation during and after - charting the evolution of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in one specific location.
This site is Tell Qaramel, located in Northern Syria, around 25km north of Aleppo, 175km to the southwest of Göbekli Tepe. It’s on the western bank of the River Qoueiq, very much in the Fertile Crescent, a site with truly ancient origins, yet experts have still only excavated a tiny portion of this ancient site.
After learning about this site over Christmas, I’m astonished it hasn’t been mentioned by popular authors because anybody with an interest in sites like Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and Jericho - anybody trying to interpret the origins of civilisation - must at the very least mention Tell Qaramel. Watch this video to learn more about this incredible and little-known site.
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https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/viewFile/3532/3047
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_1999_XI/33.pdf
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2000_XII/71.pdf
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2001_XIII/105.pdf
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2002_XIV/141.pdf
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2003_XV/186.pdf
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2004_XVI/251.pdf
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2005_XVII/302.pdf
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2006_XVIII/557.pdf
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2007_XIX/565-585_Tell_Qaramel.pdf
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/pam/PAM_2008_XX/PAM_20_Mazurowski_321_341.pdf
ajol.info/index.php/ijma/article/view/60348/0
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Now some new pictures have been released. The discovery is all thanks to researchers from Yamagata University in Japan, who used aerial photos, drones and AI technology to identify the patterns. They include birds, camelids, orcas, cats and snakes, as well as simple lines and geometric patterns. There were also many human figures.
They’re around 2,000 years old, some of which even pre-date the Nazca culture, and belong to the Paracas. Why were they created? Nobody really knows but they are absolutely incredible.
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A new paper has just been published by the Cambridge University Press. Download it for free at cambridge.org/core/journals/ancient-mesoamerica/article/lidar-analyses-in-the-contiguous-miradorcalakmul-karst-basin-guatemala-an-introduction-to-new-perspectives-on-regional-early-maya-socioeconomic-and-political-organization/31075DFA8ADBAA5E7C7320CA6DB93E5E
What we can see is a concentration of Preclassic maya sites, dating to between 1000 BC and 150 AD. Around 1,000 Maya settlements have been discovered, which the experts have condensed into 417 ancient cities, towns and villages. Lidar is a game changing technology for archaeology and year after year we continue to find amazing new discoveries.
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Whether you’re a trained archaeologist, an independent researcher or just somebody with a passing interest in history, Google Earth really is an incredible research tool. We can view any part of the world in superb detail and the satellite pictures that make up this interactive globe are updated year after year – sometimes twice a year – and as well as seeing the planet as it appears today, we can also scroll back through the archive, and compare different parts of the planet through time.
The great thing about Google Earth is that its accessible to everyone – we can all get involved – and there is a growing community of researchers on Twitter. I have a friend who runs a Twitter account called ‘Globespotter’ and it’s because of his account I’m making this video.
Watch this video to learn more about spotting ancient, historic and natural anomalies on Google Earth, and how to become a 'Globe Spotter' yourself.
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After this YouTube Short, check out my new, full video on this enigmatic, ancient tower at youtu.be/4z0ztsWCZ8s
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Before excavations began, you would be forgiven for thinking it was just a natural hill at first glance, but the hill itself is made up of many layers of collapsed architecture, mainly mudbrick, and over the years, excavations have uncovered the long and complex history of this very ancient city.
In the 1860s, Charles Warren identified the site as Ancient Jericho, but it wouldn’t be until the work of British archaeologist, Kathleen Kenyon decades later, when we would learn just how old this site really was.
To understand the phases of occupation, Kenyon and her colleagues recorded the stratigraphic sequences through the mound. Years and years were spend digging and meticulously recording, and by the 1950s this was one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites.
In the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Jericho was certainly a settlement, but one discovery surprised everyone. During her excavations in the 1950s, Kenyon discovered an ancient stone structure from these very remote times, and it was unlike anything else seen before. This discovery was the Tower of Jericho.
Watch this video to learn more about this 11,000-year-old stone structure, as old as, or even older than some parts of Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.
Read the paper by Barkai and Liran at http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/barkai327
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The mound contained the remains of five round stone towers, each having walls more than 2 metres thick, and bases with diameters between 6 and 8 metres. Radiocarbon dating showed that the earliest phase of work on the towers took place more than 12,000 years ago, which the most recent calibrated estimate being 12,650 years ago.
That means that these intricate stone structures are even older than the earliest phase of work at Gobekli Tepe. Tell Qaramel is one of the earliest permanent settlements in the Fertile Crescent.
Due to war in recent years, excavations have stopped and still only 2% of Tell Qaramel has been uncovered. You can learn more in a forthcoming video on the Ancient Architects YouTube channel. Please subscribe.
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At the northernmost summit there is incredible relic of the ancient past, something that is so rarely spoken about, an object most people don’t even know exists, yet for anybody with an interest in ancient history, ancient technology and ancient architecture, this needs to be on your radar. It really needs to be spoken about and studied.
Inside the ancient quarry is an enormous unfinished statue, a huge block of limestone measuring 22 metres or 72 foot long and 8 metres or 26 feet in width. To put that into perspective, the Stone of the Pregnant Woman at Baalbek is 20.5 metres long, 4 metres wide and 4.3 metres high. This stone in Egypt is longer, wider and taller. It is larger than all of the monolithic blocks at Baalbek, including the larger ones close to the Stone of the Pregnant Lady.
That's not all; the unfinished statue is one of a pair, because we find another unfinished colossus 1.5km south of the Akoris city ruins, in what is known as the South Quarry.
These enormous monoliths are thought to weigh between 2,000 and 3,000 tons, far larger than Baalbek, meaning they are incredible important relics that can help us understand ancient architecture, stone-working and stone-lifting techniques. Watch the video to learn more!
Watch the full video at youtu.be/GoXprltnRK4
Coordinates:
Monolith 1: 28 degrees 04'32.97" N / 30 degrees 48'36.17" E
Monolith 2: 28 degrees 10'32.21" N / 30 degrees 46'35.91" E
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Situated around 20 km to the SW of the modern city of Sanliurfa, in the SE Anatolia region of Turkey, is the truly incredible site of Sayburç, at least 11,000-years-old, and archaeologists are uncovering some truly astonishing finds.
This is one of the 12 designated Taş Tepeler sites of Turkey, a Neolithic mound, onto which the modern village of Sayburç was constructed in the 1940s.
Excavations into the mound began in 2021 and experts have already identified two separate Pre-Pottery Neolithic occupation phases. The earliest phase comprises communal structures built directly onto the bedrock and is located in the northern part of the modern village – and on the south eastern edge of a small Roman settlement. The second and later phase contains residential and communal structures and is found 70 metres further to the south.
In this video, I’ll first be discussing the incredible relief carving discovered in the oldest part of the site, and which I first mentioned last year, and then we’ll take a look at the excavations 70 metres to the south, where some more fascinating finds have been discovered.
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New paper: cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/sayburc-reliefs-a-narrative-scene-from-the-neolithic/3A35B54B3265C7224CB225FE70EBDD02
Arkeolojihaber Presentation: youtu.be/ueAUcFBCdjo
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The discovery is all thanks to researchers from Yamagata University in Japan, who used aerial photos, drones and AI technology to identify the patterns. They include birds, camelids, orcas, cats and snakes, as well as simple lines and geometric patterns. There were also many human figures.
They’re around 2,000 years old, some of which even pre-date the Nazca culture, and belong to the Paracas. Why were they created? Nobody really knows but they are absolutely incredible.
#ancientarchitects #historyshorts #nazcalines
But in truth, the oldest source map is from the 2nd Century AD, and what looks like Antarctica is really just South America. Watch this YouTube Short to learn more.
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The scene, discovered at Sayburç, a Neolithic mound site roughly 35 miles east of the Euphrates River and 20 miles north of the Syrian border. It is one of the 12 Taş Tepeler sites of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Turkey, a sister site of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.
Watch this video to learn more.
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As new evidence continues to come to light, the bigger picture is gradually emerging and previous ideas are becoming outdated quickly. We are seeing relationships between the various sites, we are beginning to understand how the region was evolving and its now very apparent that to understand the origins and importance of both Göbekli Tepe or Karahan Tepe, we can’t study these sites in isolation.
There are dozens of sites of interest dating to this remote period of time, scattered throughout the Fertile Crescent, and they’re all part of the story.
And that leads us nicely into the subject of this video, the Tas Tepeler Site of Çakmaktepe - a direct pre-cursor to Göbekli Tepe, and it’s also located close by, with origins 3-400 years older and showing similar yet slightly more primitive building techniques, just as you would expect with a precursor settlement.
According to news reports earlier in the year, Cakmaktepe contains the oldest architectural structures ever found in Turkey.
Archaeologist Dr Fatma Sahin presented the latest findings in the recent Tas Tepeler presentation on the Arkeolojihaber YouTube channel. The information was presented in Turkish, and I’ve transcribed the video and attempted to translate it the best I can, so I can give you a very up-to-date overview of this exciting and very important Pre-Pottery Neolithic site, a site you may have never heard of before.
For the full video in Turkish, see: youtu.be/ueAUcFBCdjo
I hope you enjoy learning about this incredible, unique site and if you have any questions, be sure to leave them in the comments below.
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urfahaber63.com/cakmaktepe-de-kazi-calismalari-devam-ediyor/34104
yenicizgihaber.com/haber/cakmaktepenin-gizemiyle-dunya-eyyubiyeyi-konusacak-haberi-161720.html
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In this YouTube short I've published all the pictures again in under one minute, as we travel from the Queen's Chamber all the way up to the doorway with copper handles. Enjoy!
Music: Adrian Von Ziegler
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See the full original video at youtu.be/KGRBikmjN_M
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The unusual tombs and sarcophagus were discovered in the 1950s and although no mummy of the king was found, many priceless gold objects and stone vessels, rings and more were discovered.
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Was this site once an ancient pyramid? Was it finished or unfinished? Or could it in fact be the remains of an early solar temple? Watch this video to learn more.
With special thanks to Keith Hamilton. Check out all this work on Academia at: https://independent.academia.edu/KeithHamilton
With special thanks to the Planete Raw YouTube channel. Please subscribe at: youtube.com/channel/UCSEPLnkG2lDl1BxBtEB1XwA
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But today, this large, ancient complex has been left to ruin and now sits inside a military complex, built all over, and the archaeology is unloved, overgrown and unpreserved.
Years ago this was a site with unique architectural features with incredible stonework, but today it’s all but forgotten.
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The most recent archaeoastronomy hypothesis comes from Dr Martin Sweatman who details his theory in papers, on his YouTube channel and in his book, Prehistory Decoded, but in 2013, Giulio Magli of the Polytechnic University of Milan also looked to the sky for answers.
Like Sweatman, Magli simulated what the sky would have looked like from Turkey when Göbekli Tepe was built and he made a curious observation and it concerns the star Sirius, also known as the Dog Star.
Sirius is the brightest object in the sky, excluding the sun, moon, Venus and Jupiter. Magli told New Scientist how Sirius was so prominent to the Ancient Egyptians, that the rising and setting of the Dog Star was the basis for their calendar.
Interestingly, at the latitude of Göbekli Tepe, Sirius would have been below the horizon until around 9,300 BC, when it would have suddenly popped into a view – a bright star not seen in this part of the world for millennia.
Did least the ancient Pre-Pottery Neolithic People of Ancient Anatolia to built the amazing circular enclosures of Göbekli Tepe, to mark the birth and movement of this star? Watch the video to learn more!
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Sources
newscientist.com/article/mg21929303-400-worlds-oldest-temple-built-to-worship-the-dog-star/amp
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00004-015-0277-1
https://www.academia.edu/5349935/G%C3%96BEKLI_TEPE_AND_THE_RISING_OF_SIRIUS
arxiv.org/pdf/1307.8397.pdf
twitter.com/joerogan/status/368421997702705152
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But was it a finished pyramid as many experts claim, was it unfinished or was it even a pyramid at all? All we see today are 10 courses of masonry, a steep deep trench and a pit.
It was dug into the bedrock but much of the core masonry limesone blocks and fine Tura lining are now missing. Experts believe a burial chamber was built inside the pit but physical evidence is lacking.
This site is not open to the public and its purpose remains open to speculation. A pyramid? Maybe. But maybe it could have been an ancient solar temple.
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This is one of the 12 Tas Tepeler sites but it is far smaller than Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe but according to archaeologists, it could be the key to really understanding the Neolithic in the region.
Harbetsuvan Tepesi is located around 55km southeast of the modern city of Sanliurfa. It was only discovered in 2014 and excavations took place between 2017 and 2019. This year, in the summer of 2022, further excavations took place.
In this video, I am showcasing Kazuya Shimogama from the Chiba Institute of Technology, who has been working at Harbetsuvan Tepesi this year and is a leading authority on the site. He presents the latest information from this truly ancient site.
He took part in the recent Tas Tepeler presentation on the Arkeolojihaber YouTube channel, and once again I have permission to include his part in full, so you can hear the full archaeological update on what is proving to be another fascinating site in the SE Anatolian region of Turkey.
Please do subscribe to Arkeolojihaber YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/arkeolojihaber because they are doing great work to bring the latest information to a mass audience.
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The Huntley Film Archive have allowed me to publish the footage but only with their watermarks still in place. Watch the full video at youtu.be/uuQxDWAW1mY
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Taş Tepeler means ‘Stone Hills’ and it consists of a number of Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites, including Gobekli Tepe, Sefer Tepe, Harbetsuvan Tepesi, and the incredible Karahan Tepe.
Karahan Tepe is dated to between 11,400 and 10,200 years ago and in this video I’ll be showing you the latest update on the site – all the new finds and all the news from the latest excavations as I have attempted ti transcribe and translate the words of site lead archaeologist, Professor Necmi Karul.
Karul recently took part in a 4-and-a-half-hour presentation on the Arkeolojihaber YouTube channel, where a number of archaeologists discussed the latest findings and most recent work at 7 of the 12 Tas Tepeler sites. What I'm presenting in this video comes directly from this presentation.
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This spectacular granite-lined room only contains a worn, broken and empty sarcophagus, but there is an anomaly on the northern wall.
There is a block of stone with worn edges that is not load bearing. The stone above it also looks damaged and cracked. You could slide it out without compromising the structural integrity of the room.
Architect Jean-Pierre Houdin believes there is a hidden passageway behind, an idea he claims is backed up with geophysical surveys.
So is there more to find inside the Great Pyramid of Egypt? Only time will tell. Please subscribe to the Ancient Architects channel to learn more.
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Only a small percentage of the site has been excavated so far and already the discoveries are incredible. There’s an enormous oval enclosure, part dug into the bedrock, part built with stone. Connected to it is a strange pillared enclosure, dug straight from the bedrock and unlike anything seen before. It has a carved human head on the rim.
This site is around 7,000 years older than Stonehenge. Dozens of enclosures are still buried beneath the surface and every new discovery is totally unique. Watch a number of fascinating full-length videos on the Ancient Architects Youtube channel and please do subscribe!
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Translated to English, Taş Tepeler means ‘Stone Hills’ and it consists of a number of Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites, including Karahan Tepe, Sefer Tepe, Harbetsuvan Tepesi, and of course the famous UNESCO World Heritage site of Göbekli Tepe.
In this video I’ll be showing you the latest update on the site – all the new finds and all the news from the latest excavations – presented by Dr Lee Clare of the German Archaeological Institute.
Dr Clare recently took part in a 4-and-a-half-hour presentation on the Arkeolojihaber YouTube channel, where a number of archaeologists discussed the latest findings and most recent work at 7 of the 12 Tas Tepeler sites. What I'm presenting in this video comes directly from this presentation, which I have been given permission to publish.
Arkeolojihaber was founded in 2009 by a team of dedicated archaeologists who wished to convey the latest archaeological news from Turkey in a socially responsible way. Follow their social media and subscribe to their YouTube channel by following the links below:
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Petra was capital of the Nabatean kingdom; a city dating back to at least the 2nd century BC before falling to the Romans... and it's truly spectacular.
Get up close and even into the Treasury, where you’re free to view this wonder at your leisure. See it from views you can’t even see in person. Enter Siq canyon and peer through the narrow sandstone valley, the entrance to Petra. View Palace Tomb that looks out into the barren landscape. See the incredible amphitheatre and the Facades Street… and so much more.
We can’t all travel but technology allows us to study the beauty and ingenuity of our ancestors.
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Simply visit giza.mused.org/en/tours to take the tour of the Great Pyramid.
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Most vintage black and white footage of the Sphinx comes from after 1930s, and you can tell this because the headdress has been restored, but finding footage of the Sphinx pre-1930s is incredibly rare. In fact such footage is generally stored on archives, owned by private companies and it never gets to see the light of day.
The footage I’ve discovered this week was in black and white, was incredibly grainy and full of noise, very little contrast in the shades of grey and of course it is low resolution. Some of it was also flipped horizontally. I’m no expert in video restoration but I sharpened the video as best I could, added a little more contrast and also attempted to colourise the footage, to bring it to life nearly 100 years after it was filmed.
I found the video on the Huntley Film Archive, a private company that discovers vintage video footage, digitises it and preserves it, before making it available for commercial use. The cost for me, as a YouTuber, was way out of my price range, but the good people of Huntley Film Archive have allowed me to publish the footage with their watermarks still in place.
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Adrian von Ziegler - Even in Death: youtu.be/PVAWqGj33T8
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