This 5,000-Year-Old Tomb Is Spectacularly Preserved
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Despite the fact that it’s over 5,000 years old, Maeshowe, Orkney's answer to Stonehenge, is in amazing shape. But why did Neolithic Britons go to such great lengths to build it?
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I’m loving the community comments here. A lot of interesting takes on what it could be for. But no doubt it’s amazing that the structure is still standing. Our ancestors were smarter than they get credit for
"...bits of dead people." I love British people!
The ammount of time, energy, and resources dedicated by a group of hunter gatherers is astounding.
Always watch these thinking I bet if who ever is was around at that time is looking down shaking there head like wrong. Wrong. No that's not what we built it for 🤦♂️. 😂
Hmm it was made for the nfl locker room. because I only see things through my one culture view
Grain supply
😂😂
Amazing that these structures are still around today.
I cannot believe that this tomb was built more than 5000 years ago. Even the Pentateuch was not written yet at that time.
MrEjidorie Different peoples matured / advanced at different rates.
@@bobrussell3602 Progress at different rates divides people into the ruler and the ruled.
This is mind boggling.
Am stunned
I am watching continuously.. from india 💡
"It's held together by gravity." Brilliant.
I'm very proud to have Orcadian ancestry :)
What was too big to get in that hallway 5000 years ago?
Elephant
Chubby people
0:20 gotta love the sneaky little viking that made runes in there... Shame i cant see the whole inscription... "...-IhahÞina" is all i can see :c
wow, totally missed that
Excellent catch Mathias . Congrats and respect .
Då har väl någon av mina förfäder varit framme.😁
Good eye
When Farrer dug into Maes Howe, he found that the chamber had already been broken into, as he did, from the top; from Orkneyinga Saga and from the runic inscriptions on the walls of the chamber, it is clear that it was entered on more than one occasion by Norsemen in the 12th century, to whom the mound was known as Orkhaugr. During the struggle between the rival earls Erlend and Harald for control of the earldom, Harald and some of his men sought shelter in Maes Howe from a snowstorm, but it was such a terrible experience that two of them went mad, ' which slowed them down badly' says the saga, though they still reached their destination by nightfall. The following winter of 1153-4, crusaders gathered together ready for a trip to the Holy Land broke into the chamber and incised some of the runic inscriptions, and there were probably other occasions as well when runes were cut there. This is one of the largest extant collection of runic inscriptions carved in stone. There are about thirty inscriptions, including both ordinary runes and cryptographic twig runes, and there are also some beautifully executed carvings of a walrus, a serpent knot and a dragon or lion on the north-east buttress, all in typically vigorous Scandinavian style.
It's a house. The residents buried their dead inside to keep them close. Many older societies did this. That's my story and I'm sticking to it
Absolutely agree....😊
Humans typically create burial sites away from the living. Burial mounds were especially common during the Neolithic era.
The guy being interviewed is adorbs
The speculation that the small chamber way entrance was to help
the person entering to have an "experiential transformation" is somewhat
hogwashery. I wouldn't read anything into that entrance way other than
the size of the people and building material constraints on the island
dictated the dimensions entirely.
Well, it might be that "experiental transformation" does not sound so hogwashery when you actually EXPERIENCE it in the tunnel!!! It is not that far fetched idea when you take into account that these people used lots of work to construct the whole thing for unknown reasons (for us!). It is most likely that this structure had some sort of religious purpose. At least it fitted into the values of the time as extremely important thing to put your energy into. There have been much more complicated things to built to enchance religious experiences than one smallish long tunnel in the history of the humankind. If you look into usage of the caves, often people went to have their ceremonies in deep "very hard to access places" in underground cave systems. This reflects that. Just more "modern" experience of traveling deep into the realm of earth.
you combine that small tunnel will any sort of ritual that involves hallucinogens and that is how it could feel
@@SatumainenOlento What I experience when finding myself in a
tight place like a small narrow underground tunnel is intense panic
and fear.
@Creepy Hair Sniffer I never claimed there was any direct evidence of that but if you look all over the world people use hallucinogens to enhance and facilitate spiritual experiences
Very interesting, but one has to pause when you realize how much of our "history" is opined into existence by experts.
"experts" ftfy
@@em1osmurf Works for me. :)
What i don't understand is why are their no markings anywhere on the site.
@Creepy Hair Sniffer ... if they could move and cut passage ways into the stone, they could easily make markings.
Amazing!
Maybe they think these were tombs because peoples in later years *repurposed* them as tombs.
They may have had an entirely different purpose by the original builders.
100%.
@@neuroscram: The corpses may be 5000 years old,but the structures might be centuries or thousands of years older.
Maybe
@@HercadosP : Yessir.I think it's just as much a possibility as their theory.
Wow no need to ask questions guys we got it all figured out look at my PhD and rocks
Tomb of Nazarick
I am 7th these are so addicting
CheetosFN So These Are
like Drugs for you?. :p
I understand, as I love archeology and it's part in history. I jump every time I see that Smithsonian has posted!!
wow amazing finds
guess no one has heard of newgrange huh, a lot bigger and white walls surrounding the tomb and a vent at just the right angle that on the winter solstice, light enters the chamber and lights up the entire room. and that's only the first chamber, we are sadly unable to enter any other rooms due to the worry of collapsing the whole place
I’ve certainly never heard of it but it doesn’t sound as if it as well made as this site.
@@tatata1543 I can say with confidence that newgrange is better built then this site, if u look up some pictures of newgrange im sure u will see what im talking about
People can enter Maes Howe without a risk if it collapsing, that makes it better built.
@@tatata1543 Hahhhaaa...so you *did not look at the photos of newgrange* ...your loss! Seriously!
SatumainenOlento I did look, I can see why no one has heard of it, it looks like a dreary visitor centre.
Could be .. maybe.. could be.. maybe.. could be.. maybe.. try: a nuclear shelter, lol
Would love to know how they arrived at that date, 3000 BCE. Dated remains?
Remains, age of the stone, and surrounding history
History like this is so interesting...imagine earth as it is now with all the technology one day gets wiped out and everything starts again from scratch and people find our buildings inground after thousand of years
By going through the layers of dirt to get to the original floor/paths. Maes Howe was built over an earlier building too, there is an older path and drain underneath the path built at the time it was erected. Probably not that much older though.
Unfortunately , the public is not allowed .
Quantum Mechanic shame, when I visited last you could go in.
I have been in several times.
Looks like a igloo small entry way to keep cold out and the ground could of been frozen from ice making impossible to bury the dead for parts of the season so they put them in a side chamber
Nice looking
0:20 "olav was here"
I think next they should break open the English kings and queens tombs and burials and shelve their bones.
THIS SHELTER IS USED BY ANIMALS
Ir it could be a low narrow passage because it's more defendable. Why romanticize it as symbolic?
"Its like a pyramid" well isn't it older than Giza?
It almost looks like an eroded pyramid. Interesting. ✌🤓
The small crawl way represents the birthing canal. Ancient religions were about balance.
anyone notice the Runic graffiti at 0:21? :D
Clearly the work of a Magi or Wizard, by their very thoughts they shaped and placed the stones which no doubt served a purpose far more intriguing than we could accept as the work of such ancient people. Resonance and vibration are likely to have been part of the design, with some spiritual, consciousness altering or enhancing intent. As with most ancient sites, there is no evidence of combustibles having been used to light or heat them, but the wise ones needed only their own inner light to be able to see perfectly.
Matthew 6:22
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light.
Hey do what caused the air India plane to skit in the runway
It is a cathedral for the dead to use.
Its nice creation of the ancient world but entrance is looking suffocating.
So where are the bones in that graveyard
This is Tuma. . TUMULARUS PELLAZGË
What if it was a bunker?
Old comment but there is bodies found inside it with artifacts so it had something to do with death so it was obviously about the dead
And in the corner they found a FACE MASK.... still functional, too!
I bet jdools could walk through that with room to spare.
or, like in other countries, the invader is required to present his neck to the sword and axe to enter. more of an impenetrable bunker?
They'd only have to throw fire inside then and smoke them out.
Not sure who this "host" guy is but he seems like some random bloke the archeologist grabbed over from the local pub. Generally good-mannered but overall rather indifferent.
It's 2020, we all know that human being were not buried in pyramids. You would think that the Smith would dub over such comments.
Even though in the steppe pyramid there is a littlerl mummy
And inside most of the pyramids we find buriel tools
Besides you can't Bury someone in a pyramid mate it's not underground
At the end of the day nobody knows ...maybe just a type of Neolithic jacks ! 🚽
Beware , Somewhere inside that tomb is lara croft
Guess I’m 8th.
Bulldozers and cranes keep the British Stonehenges as ancient as they need to be! 😂😂
I might be first
I aint last
But most importantly
*no one asked*
Stolen comment shame on you!
It's not as old as that, my view
Based literally nothing
.
Jesus rose from dead
Wasn't a "Tomb", till those that stumbled upon it years after it was built, started to worship it...and those they perceived built it, decided to bury their dead in it!
And the whole "Spiritual Transformation" is just a bunch of mumbo jumbo speculation, as to the reason it is built the way it is...as a cover by the Scientist/Archeologist so they don't have to tell people they don't have a clue, but want to make sure any competing reason doesn't push them aside!
Pp
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