The Frozen Sarcophagus of a Scythian Warrior Discovered in Mongol Steppes | SLICE | FULL DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- In the icy steppes of the Mongolian Altai, an archaeological expedition explores the 2,300-year-old tomb of an Eastern Scythian warrior. Their practice of deep burial of the dead, combined with extreme climatic conditions, could uncover the last frozen tombs on the planet and shed light on this little-known branch of Scythian civilization. But time is running out. Global warming is threatening the remains of these European pioneers who conquered the Asian side of the Altai.
The tombs are full of surprises. Attracted by the unusual hustle and bustle, Kazakh nomads set up their summer camp near the excavations. These people are among the last to be cut off from the modern world. Archaeology collaborates with ethnology to reveal disturbing similarities between these two peoples separated by 2,000 years.
Documentary: Le Sarcophage Glacé de Mongolie
Directed by : Cédric Robion
Production: AGAT Films & Cie
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Hello everybody! Many of you have pointed out several mistakes made by the archaeological team during their excavation. Let's open up the debate! What do you think they should be reproached for, and what alternatives should they have considered instead?
@SLICEDocumentary I would like to comment, but not as a criticism, but rather as a question. I will preface this question with I have no educated knowledge or experience of archeology. I have watched many documentaries on such things, some much better than others. So my experience is very limited. So my question is, why do I feel as if the finds from these digs were not handled with as much care as I normally observe? Why were all the bones being shoved in a bag that appeared much too small? When the gold covered wood was discovered and the gold was peeling off, it was being held up in windy conditions. Couldn't the gold have just blown away? It also seemed as if they didn't have any boxes to collect the finds. They kept on saying time was of the essence and that they had to wait 4 days for the refrigerated truck, then they were holding things up, leaving wood and bones exposed. Then, finally, when they were finished with the site, all the men started shoveling earth back into the hole. Much of the wood of the tomb was just left laying about and covered willy nilly (to my eyes) with the much and dust. I couldn't help feeling this was a dig to find items worth lots of money and to heck with the rest. Please tell me I am wrong. The second dig - Professor, "I think we should just go on, never mind the snow!" The lid is removed, "Wait wait, we must not let any moisture in! Cover it with a sheet!" Again, I just don't see the care and preparation.
This interesting documentary unfortunately fails to give some important information, to wit, the year of the excavation and the official designation of the site. Also, the "transcript" is full of errors, e.g., the lead archaeologist's name is garbled, and numbers and meters are messed up.
@@Britgirl58 you did observe correctly, it was more grave robbing than anything else, and what happened afterwards simply confirms that it was for wealth and fame not for knowledge or science.
They originated from there so not a big deal
The ancient (ethnic/genetic) Scots of Ireland and Scotland claimed descent from the Scythi. Their Goddess Skytti, or Skatta/Skatha, or scotta (The letters 'a' and 'o' are generally interchangeable in their tongues) was said to be their ancestor, who came from the Scythians. and apparently the name of the isle of skye originates with this legend. where woimen apparently trained warriors in her fashion.
So, why wasn't this mentioned instead of the Amazons with regard to the warrior woman?
Warrior women were common within some Celtic, Scots, and Pictish women.
She apparently bore some relation to, or descent from Egypt's Pharoes.
It is so wonderful that the music was moderated to be turned down or OFF during lecture. Most youtubers think we need entertainment whilst trying to understand meaningful dialogue.
Thankyou thankyou
This is a UA-cam channel not a UA-cam Content creator. There is a difference, this channel posts documentaries. It does not create its own content.
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@@jo-vf8jx
You are more accurate, or it's something like that. 🔹There's a glitch that causes the background music to have a higher volume on countless UA-cam Uploads.
It is overwhelmingly assumed the Producer made a Production or an edit mistake.
I'm surprised UA-cam has yet to address and/or resolve the problem.
Many of these documentaries with English overlay, experience the same with the original narrative being so loud it interferes with the English Overlay.
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@jo-vf8jx To be precise, Slice is a UA-cam channel run by a company that produces and distributes creative documentaries. So we're both creator and operator ;)
For a documentary like this you absolutely need background music to set the mood and transport you that world
Very interesting indeed .
I wish there was a centralized database of all ancient DNA found an archaeological sites.. just imagine the information that could be gained from that, as it relates to current population dispersions.
That is a sad sight indeed - clustered around the television like that. If only they knew what it will cost them.
E̶x̶c̶e̶l̶l̶e̶n̶t̶ d̶o̶c̶u̶m̶e̶n̶t̶a̶r̶y̶. But one question that keeps coming back to me. If you are heading to a location to excavate a frozen tomb in the middle of summer. One of the last frozen tombs left on the planet , and you know that once opened and defrosting sets in you will quickly lose organic contents. Why would you not take the refrigerated vehicle with you? Waiting that 3 - 4 days once you have already dug down to depth and exposed the tomb strikes me as very poor judgement at best and idiocy at worst. Fortunately in this case it doesn't seem to have made a huge difference. But it could have been a disaster. *Edit* having had time to review it further I think the terms incompetent and amateurish spring to mind. This really was a half cocked effort that smacks more of grave robbing than proper archeology. Hence i've crossed out my original first comment.
Bumbling is the word that comes to mind. Blaming false 'climate change' has become a catch-all for all globalists, pushing their control narrative with themselves remaining at the top of the pyramid. Mankind was in danger of a new ice age when I was young. Anyway, one would consider much better planning for such an archeology endeaver. Still an extremely interesting report - maybe a lesson would be learned for the future.
Funding?
My question too!
@@Rusty-GB people STILL SEARCH FOR TOMB OF GHENGIS Khan...
2 words. Minimize expenditure.
What beautiful, beautiful country. I’ve always found the Scythians fascinating and their art just exquisite. Sadly, it’s often the only the wealthy we know about in ancient burials. Incredible find and so many wooden artifacts!
The end is spoiled by the grrl-boss mythology: better relegated to to the latest pestilential version of Star Wars.
Anyone who can say with a straight face that women fought with men as equals using blade weapons has obviously never had a fist fight as an adult in their entire life. Laughable!
Thank you!
Respect for returning them to Museum IN MONGOLIA.
They should return them to the ground... STUDY then return to rest where they were.
Very glad they were not taken out of country. I would also likevto see the bodies returned to the earth. Museuums in the USA are full of bodies of indigenous people…many taken under dubious, unethical and cruel circumstances.
Who in the world think anyone will see the museum in Mongolia
Almost nobody
Why? they weren't Mongolian, you focus on the far east of the Scythians range why? His grave has been disturbed and looted and his remains are viewed as property, yet you say respect, again why? virtue signaling for your peers? Your peers are not his or mine or any warrior's peer. Until he is returned to where he was interred there is no respect or honor to be had by anyone.
- This is NOT how an archaeology team should approach an ancient grave, no gloves, untrained construction workers etc.
- The French fellow is biased, perhaps to satisfy his Mongolian team. Scythians were an Iranic People. They spoke Iranic Languages, not Iranian and many other languages. There is NO language as Iranian.
- If you don’t know the difference between Iranic, Iranian, and Persian, don’t bother to comment!
- Turkic People joined the party long after the Iranic People. Twisting facts, fabricating histories and trying to steal other nations’ histories will NEVER compensate their arriving late to the scene. Never!
Do you not think a lot of this was re-enacted? Time Team talked about re-enactments as cameras were not usually on the finds.
Whose history?
True
Turks didn't expand until about 550 ad
True. Scythians were a group of Iranian peoples and they are even mentioned in the stone carvings of King Darius of the achaemenid dynasty and the holy book Avesta. Even in modern day Iran we have a province called Sistan. Which means the land of the scythians! So scythians were indeed Iranian and indo_european. PanTurks are trying to make a fake history for political reasons and gains.
@@roshanakarya1081 it is Mongol. No Iran or Anatolian Turks have nothing to do with it.
Sedentary people don’t quite grasp what life on the steppes was like. They think of it as one huge grassland where groups of nomads wandered around and some even attacked towns and cities once in awhile.
The real life for these nomadic peoples was very fluid. As one researcher who had lived and studied in Central Asia for over 30 years had said: if one tribe of nomads submitted to and joined a larger tribe, within FORTY YEARS they would have so integrated into the larger tribe that they no longer had their own culture nor language but had completely melded with the larger tribe. So, honestly, it’s useless to say they were Iranian or Turkic or Mongolian or whatever- in fact, this fluidity of movement and of integration is proven from this very dig where the woman and the child were “European “ but the man was “Asian “. In a harsh and sparsely habited area, survival was important not ethnicity. Central Asia has been the greatest melting pot for centuries.
That's rare
Usually
It is Indo European y dna
With asian mtdna
I can see hundreds of burials that prove that
Men travelled on horse back
Harder for women
How did these "European " women get to Asia?
These were other Asians associated with Paleo-Siberian Altaic and Ancient Eurasian ancestry. Which broke off from the trunk in the Upper Paleolithic. Modern Central Asians are related to Far East Asians aka Mongols, Nanai or Ulchi ppl. And Scytho-Sarmat samples are always associated only with Tatar origin. Therefore they stand out easily. In general, it is now 60-80% a West Eurasian Europo ancestry.
@@joebloe4374 Women of the steppes are and have been excellent riders and were also capable of fighting and hunting on horseback if necessary. Among the descendants of the Scythians who still live in the area, women have their own horses and other livestock, as these are part of their dowry and in local marriage customs remain theirs.
@@allisonshaw9341 yes I know
I'm kyrgyz
But most kyrgyz women today prefer iPhone 15 to archery and Mercedes benz to horse😆💯👍
@@joebloe4374 Did you watch the video? The second tomb is all about how egalitarian scythian culture was, and how women also partook on fighting, leading and most certainly horseback riding.
Genetic archeology Is making amazing contributions to our understanding, but some of the obsessing over Y chromosomes and mitocondrial DNA as sole evidence for cultural practices and ethnic belonging is becoming damaging for the broader and multidisciplinary interpretation
I find it hilarious that even super remote nomadic tribes are also like “I hate all these Chinese imported dog shit products” 😂 does Temu or Amazon deliver to a Mongolian plateau?
Amazon does 😂
About 20 years ago I started working on my family genealogy. After tracing back 7 generations on my dads side I hit a wall. I would get frustrated and put it down and forget about it. 3 years ago I finally found someone else that had been searching theirs and that we were distant relatives and they were able to fill in what I never expected. My line goes back to this area south to the border area of northern Iran. Its been a while since I've looked at it but maybe someone here will know what im trying to describe. There was an important pass where I think the name was Alani or something.
I'm going to have to dig that back out and continue the project or just read. At some point going back of course you lose the father to son connection and turns to tribe, location and movement. That pass was the end of the line for myself and the person that helped me. I would've never guessed i had origins near iran/Persia and asia. Then again we are all connected somewhere down the line
So what? We all came from somewhere, where is actually pointless,we are here now nothing else matters.
A whole group of people around 500 BC were called Alens. They were in central Europe
B+ blood type?
@@jujujudiowhere does the B+ blood type is mostly found?
@@iriecedricjamaican4075 Asia and Africa. But any ethnic group can have it. I’m Caucasian and B positive.
The Kazakh lady saying "it wouldve sucked if the tomb was empty lol" had me rolling
Now that these tomb raiders emptied it, it does suck.
@@MadMomma-kj9ks We learn about different ancient cultures by emptying tombs. Or how else will we learn about these cultures if they leave no written records? Being placed in museums ensures that knowledge is spread to others who can't join these expeditions. They are far safer in a museum than being left to tomb raiders and sold off to faraway places that are secret and private.
@@MadMomma-kj9ks
It will all rot & that's best in your mindset?
@@MadMomma-kj9ks boohoo
@allypally, even funnier had she said " it would be whack if the tomb was empty" 😊😅😂
I would like to comment, but not as a criticism, but rather as a question. I will preface this question with I have no educated knowledge or experience of archeology. I have watched many documentaries on such things, some much better than others. So my experience is very limited. So my question is, why do I feel as if the finds from these digs were not handled with as much care as I normally observe? Why were all the bones being shoved in a bag that appeared much too small? When the gold covered wood was discovered and the gold was peeling off, it was being held up in windy conditions. Couldn't the gold have just blown away? It also seemed as if they didn't have any boxes to collect the finds. They kept on saying time was of the essence and that they had to wait 4 days for the refrigerated truck, then they were holding things up, leaving wood and bones exposed. Then, finally, when they were finished with the site, all the men started shoveling earth back into the hole. Much of the wood of the tomb was just left laying about and covered willy nilly (to my eyes) with the much and dust. I couldn't help feeling this was a dig to find items worth lots of money and to heck with the rest. Please tell me I am wrong. The second dig - Professor, "I think we should just go on, never mind the snow!" The lid is removed, "Wait wait, we must not let any moisture in! Cover it with a sheet!" Again, I just don't see the care and preparation.
i think that you are being just a bit over critical of this effort. i think that working within the time constraints imposed upon them and the remoteness of the area these guys did a decent job of saving some of the history of the Scythian people before it was all gone. As far as waiting for the refrigerated truck goes- i think that you are ignoring the fact that these research expeditions usually run on a shoe-string budget and obviously did not have the funds to have this truck on stand-bye- though i wish that they had they had elaborated a little bit on their funding sources and their planning. Personally- i wish that they had taken
Absolutely right. I am sure they took photos of every layer of what they excavated, but from my participation in digs here in Germany I know that at least they used to make sketches with every relevant detail on it. Maybe that has changed.
Btw, I was a bit surprised to find Kazakhs in Mongolia. Of course, national borders don't reflect ethnic barriers. On the Karakorum Hightway leading from Kashgar in China, I was hosted by Tajiks.
@jimmatthews5993 I understand about underfunding and not having the ice truck on stand by, but then again, they chose the time of year, and they made the plans. It just all appeared a bit unprepared or underplanned. As professionals in their field, they should know where to spend the money they had, and in my sparce knowledge, I felt their choices were poor ones.
Very amateur excavation. Handling artefacts with bare hands. Picking up bones and just plonking g them in sacks. Incredible
You're a "journalist" who's made a career out of publishing CCP propaganda for Western audiences. What would your grand Winnie the Pooh expect? Destroy everything.
All archeology is an act of destruction. That's why excruciating exact documentation of every day's work is so very important. Also, this seemed to be an act of rescue. All rules suspended in order to rescue delicate organic finds.
@@SandraNelson063 so they were waiting on an ice truck for 4 days but couldn't get a pair of gloves??
Excelent doc, as usual! Very good soundscore and narration!
Thank you for posting this video.
Good example of 19th century archeological excavation. These guys are not professional.
Made me cringe.
East sycthians joined Xiongnu tribes after their golden ages. Y DNA haplogroup R1aZ93 joined step nomadic tribes confederation. Sovwe can said , east sycthians influenced Turkic tribes. Most of kyrgiz men have R1aZ93 subclade z2125 Y DNA haplogroup. Also conquer magyars Árpád dynasty had R1aZ93 subclade Z2125.
I think the kyrgyz received r1a z93 from sintashta people
That right . 👌
Wrong. Arpad dynasty is Z2123 ( not z2125).
The ancient (ethnic/genetic) Scots of Ireland and Scotland claimed descent from the Scythi. Their Goddess Skytti, or Skatta/Skatha, or scotta (The letters 'a' and 'o' are generally interchangeable in their tongues) was said to be their ancestor, who came from the Scythians. and apparently the name of the isle of skye originates with this legend. where woimen apparently trained warriors in her fashion.
So, why wasn't this mentioned instead of the Amazons with regard to the warrior woman?
Warrior women were common within some Celtic, Scots, and Pictish women.
She apparently bore some relation to, or descent from Egypt's Pharoes.
These type of people will still be riding their horses and living their simple life even if the rest of the world destroys itself.
Yes. We will!
Not necessarily. There is way over the technical ability to make sure all flesh ceases to exist.
Mark 13:20 KJV - And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Luke 3:6 KJV - And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
@@kathleennorton2228 yawn.
So sad to see the remains rained on.
Ridiculous there is no tent.
No tents used in Mongolia unless it is winter
No wonder the French are not exactly renowned as warriors. The English or German would have been prepared with gloves and tarps.
A marquee at least. Even Time Team carried a few.😊
@willowgreinke7964 we have SO many tents in hollywood. We would donate but our leadership forces it's taxpaying citizens to live in these things. I know I'm jumping topics, but what is "skibbiddy toilet" supposed to mean? And what do I do with all my free AOL minutes CD rom disks now that building 7 is gone?
@margomoore4527 a gloved and tarped warrior is the only thing that will stop climate change
Were Scythians conquerors? Were they empire builders? I don't think so. Traders, yes. Robbers, yes. Warriors, yes. But they didn't have a king per se.
Scythians were whites. Not Mongolians / East Asians.
This "Archeology" looks very close to looting in lab coats.
just wandering when someone will be able to dig up my grave and put it on ytube.
Yes, but like they said at the beginning, these are being destroyed by climate changes. They're racing and out of time to find these things.
Agreed
@@danecrude😅
Absolutely Awesome documentary. Thanks so much, Slice. ❤❤❤
Herodotus was right again!
Every. Single. Time.
About what?
@@t.durustein2185 everything
@t.durustein2185 arians are scythian royalty. not hebrews
@@gullybull5568 Do you know what arian actually means in Greek?
Incredible! Kazakhs still have very similar ornaments on their traditional attires! We thought they are solely Kazakh, but now I see they are much more ancient
And these ornaments are the same in Europe. It is called “fleur-de-lis” ( lily flower). It is symbolic in ancient European culture and probably has connection to ancient pre-Christian religion.
@@proudbacteria1373 similarly to scyth-saka people, kazakhs ornaments are zoomorphic. At the same time each typical ornament has its name, examples include "ram horns", "fox/fenec head", "wolf's ears", "swallow wings" and so on. For instance one of the found wooden plaques has a shape of Kazakh ornament called "ram horns" and another one "geese neck"
@@diyartokmurzin7154 Skythian people had Proto-Vedic religion which had connection to European religions and religion of Indian people. If you noticed Mongols still have Celtic knot ornament which they consider as their own ornament. Mongols forgot that they borrowed symbols from European religions.
@@diyartokmurzin7154 Original fleur-de-lis ornament had nothing to do with animals. It is closely related to Indian and European Trident which in India is manifested by Trinity - Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu. Vishnu is equivalent to Birth, Brama is equivalent to Life and Shiva is Death.
Wonderful that artifacts to be returned back where people know their history and heritage. For all to learn.
Proper considerate and hugely respectful. As it ought to be, as long as the people possess adequate means by which to store, maintain, cherish and exhibit them in theie public domain.
I love Documentaries like this. Very interesting, Thank you 👍😁
If my memory serves, Mithradates of Pontus (and thorn in Rome's side) had a Scythian woman warrior/lover/partner who fought side by side with him in battle.
Given that these people kept bodies for later burial it might be the case that children that died were kept for later burial with honoured adults?
Herodotus said sacrificed
@@lglubbock7593 quite a number of ancient authors 'spiced up' the lives of the 'barbarians' they were writing about, tabloid journalism is nothing new
It's not impossible, but sadly, child sacrifice was practiced by various cultures in the ancient past. This is supported both by the historical records and by archeological evidence, including human remains and mummies. So, child sacrifice among the Scythians - especially with Herodotus's description - seems to be a likely explanation unless other evidence is unearthed to prove that this is incorrect.
@LaughtersMelody whilst child sacrifice seems to have occurred with South American peoples, such activity remains an instinctively unnatural act & would require some pressing psychological reason whereas child mortality is in current times unnaturally low, children were often seen as a precious resource in the survival of a people.
@@pcka12 Herodotus was known for exageration and, frankly, down right lying. Clickbait of his age
Thank you for this video
Beautiful people
I was going to watch this but the Climate Bullshit made me turn it off
Amazing the ignorance of some!
@@Scotthanson-kl4dq I know thats why I turned it off
Yes! They smoked weed (hashish)! A bag of cannabis was also found in a frozen tomb in Siberia.
It grows wild there
Pick and smoke
В России нашли золотой прибор для курения с остатками вещества.
The information gained from these tombs is invaluable but they were not dug with best archaeological practice. If these were really the last two untouched ice tombs then they really messed up.
Intact tombs of the kind with hollow chambers or mummified remains will degrade in the presence of oxygen in a very short time. They needed proper climate controlled isolation tents and full PPE to avoid genetic contamination. They just lifted artifacts with bare hands instead of block-lifting. Nowadays we do photogrammetry every few centimeters but this seems to be at least decade old footage so that's excusable, but having great big spoil heaps unsorted and unsifted is not. That arm was quite possibly not detached before the excavation as seen by the adipocere and dried tissues. That clip of picking the beads off of the hat remnants irks me because now we won't know how they were sewn on. The way the stones of the cairns were thrown about is a huge no-no because they all have to be documented exactly. The tools used throughout were not exactly delicate; you don't use pickaxes and shovels and trowels in a grave. This is the time for brushes, spatulas, toothpicks, and pipettes. I could go on but it will just make me angry.
I'm glad the graves were documented but my goodness was it botched.
It is my belief that off-shoots of the Scythians went beyond the Altai Mountains as far south as the Korean Peninsula. I have come to this hypothesis by research into the Art, Religions, and nomadic remnants of Scythian culture analog s that can be found in Korean Archaeology and Shamanistic religions.
While I appreciate the finding and examining of the Dead - it is Still tomb robing a desecration- I wish they would return the Body to the tomb..,
Preserve them before they are destroyed by political dumbness and human aggression & greed. 🙏🏻
Child sacrifice is sad.
Yah but its 2000 years old so who cares lol
...don't you love the gods??
Adults who sacrificed their children were far from saving knowledge of God. Little did they know that it was only their sacrificed children that would make it into heaven. Children who die before their age of accountability go to heaven, by shear grace.
@@kathleennorton2228 Best comment on any UA-cam channel I've read all week.
So incredible the cavalier way in which this archeological dig was conducted!
Very suspicious motives at least!
Shame!
It's NOT "Sitian" culture but Skythian!
There were more than one groups wit different names.
So many Turks on damage control, yes sorry to break it to you all Europeans invented steppe nomading and you copied us, and we invaded you first so get over it already
East sycthians were Turkic with Q1b Y DNA haplogroup and central asian R1aZ93.
Agree
I have no bias
But turks came much later
Gokturk 550 ad
Then 650 later Mongols
Afanasievo culture in altai is 5000 years old
@@Ersen_abiniz The similar DNA with some groups to turks is due to the genetic mixing that took place after, it is not an indicator of their origin.
I think u didnt watch the whole documentary, the DNA test said the bodies were of asian man and europeon woman.
Other than saving these treasures from other thieves you shouldn't be disturbing them at all
Right. So the theives are guaranteed a great haul, and will be digging there in droves. As if that will help anyone or anything. The land and the artifacts all belong to Mongolia, to do with them as they please. Get used to it.
Acting as wise…..,,,,
They’re saving them to keep them from being degraded even more by the ice that’s melting. They have to preserve them for the Mongolian people and were taken to their museum after repairing and cleaning.
Spoken like someone who's afflicted with religious beliefs.
The ppl they are SAVING from destruction and looting are almost 3,000 yrs old. They are not in any meaningful way related to the modern Mongolians.
We all have a right to know the history of humanity.
So many professional archeologists in this thread! Never before have I seen so many.
The professionals are those who taught us to see what is wrong with an excavation like this.
Why are they the last 2 burials? All of them couldn't have melted? This hysterical doomsday stuff irritates me.
Women were different, suggest you look at Boudicca etc not only could they be important but were primary in the tribe
11 years old and misleading
The way they lived and the lands they occupied seems like we Bulgarians were their descendants. The Old Great Bulgaria as we know it comes from the regions of Volga River and before that we have forgotten our history.
I love Mongolian history and culture and I have a lot of respect for them. One of my favourite periods in Mongolian history is the Kublai Khan era when he started to grapple with modernity in the west but respected all faiths - a ruler way ahead of his time. I also love that Marco Polo served in his court for 24 years helping the great Khan understand European culture and trading with Europe. It’s a great read and fascinates me.
The Scythians were not Asian or Mongols. They were proto-Europeans.
@@obxarms7685 See my reply below to @bruanlokissin8615. You'll find Scythian ancestry among the peoples of the Altai and eastern Mongolians. Very rarely will anyone from modern European nations have it outside of the western flanks of the Altai Mountains.
Really, it shouldn't matter - their blood lives on in the people of the land and some parts of their culture still exist if precariously. As for where the finds of the excavations belong, the area is in Mongolia, not any country in Europe, so there is where they should be.
why?
@@obxarms7685 yes that’s right.
They say Kazakh culture, but you are talking about Mongolians!
Shocking how French scientists still can’t imagine a world where there is no distinction between different ethnicities, and they can’t understand that there was no concept of Europeans and Asians 2000 years ago, these people were different tribes living next to each others, friends sometimes and enemies at other times, true racism mentality hard to change
Not the most careful Archeology excavation and extractions
What kind of archeologist are those people? They touch the scythian objekts with bare fingers. Did not they hear yet that you have to wear gloves touching archeological finds?
They are trainees conscripted for monogolia political employment numbers
You don't have to. In fact, the majority of times, archeologists don't wear gloves while excavating. Typically gloves are only worn when extremely rare or valuable objects are discovered.
@@dai-nippon_digger No, that's not true. I am an archeologist and I know what I am talking about.
@@dai-nippon_digger Oils and debris from your fingers may taint the objects, and there might be something poisonous like arsenic been used to treat the stuff. Think what kind of stuff oil from your hands could do to some specimens especially when they let them be unfrozen like this for a while, they could ruin them or make some marks on them which could make difference in what kind of observations are made about them.
At ~29 mins: _“…the Scythian were mounted archers. Their battle strategy was based on the use of highly mobile forces that could pursue the enemy for hours. The populations that inhabited the steppe, _*_and the people that live there today, employ the same combat tactics and rely on mounted archery.”_*
There’s a lot of mounted archery combat going on today is there?
_“Look out for the mounted archers…”_
_“Not _*_another_*_ group of mounted archers…”_
_“Someone really needs to do something about all those mounted archers…”_
Pretty sure that’s not a today thing.
Mounted archers hunt animals or do battle the same way. What he is referring to are the mounted animal hunters of today. They are really good at hunting and can shoot a rabbit or a marmot while on a galloping horse. This way of life is rapidly disappearing.
@@MegaCavatina marmots are hunted and eaten, but they are an endangered species.
@@KimDammers ALL marmot species? That’s a lot.
İskitlerin türk germen karışımı bir halk olduğunu düşünüyorum. Gene kazakistanda bir iskit prensesinin mezarı açılmıştı. Dnası yerel küçük bir kazak kızıyla çok yakındı. Sarışın ve çekik gözlü kızdı. Herkese amazonları atlıyor. Bugün anadoluda gezdiğim efes biri tarihi yerlerde hikayelerini dinliyoruz. İskit prensesleri amazon kadınları olduğunu unutmayın lütfen
What a load of bollocks... Last frozen tombs? what a liar.
Mongolia is a beautiful place
Excellent documentary very informative and interesting!! Thank you 😊
What can a large pizza do the an Archaeologist can’t? Feed a family of 4.
Why are they impoverished? Given that only the ‘rich’ and powerful were buried like this, I doubt they were impoverished but of a different strata in society
the global warning comment was stupid...
It's not kazak technical craft. It's Mongolian craft that kazaks have inherited.
I agree
turned it off at global warming
‘Global warming is making these ice tombs disappear’ They were created before the permafrost when it was warm too, even warmer then it is now.
Thats kinda weak, if you ask me
@@DagosArts lucky nobody asked you
I'm a Pars(Persian) and one of my friends is a 6 6 red-headed Scythian originally from Ossetia(Ossetians are one of the Iraninc people and the Aryan cousins of the Persians).
If you visit the Perspolis(Parseh) in Shiraz and Bisotun in Kermanshah(both are very historical cities in Iran) you'll see the petroglyph of Scythians with pointy helmets. Interestingly, while on the Perspolis walls, they're seen hand in hand with their Persian cousins, on the Bisotun wall their leader is captured and captivated amongst others because they rebelled against King Dariush The Great(a lesson for some of the Kurds and Azaris who are making the same mistake thinking this time somehow it would be different).
Anyways, as a Pars, I love my Scythian cousins especially those who live in Ossetia, I think about you every once in a while and I hope one day I get the chance to visit and I highly encourage you to come and visit Iran; after all, we're all Iranic people.
Wait just a minute, Iaroslav......."anthropologically speaking, they weren’t Caucasian, but they weren’t what we would define
as white. They spoke Iranian and many other languages. We do not know how they identified themselves......" MAYBE you might take a look at how they artistically represented themselves. Those faces on that gold vessel are clearly NOT asian, nor african... those fellows tying on their leggings look as about Caucasian/white as you can get......Speaking different languages doesn't mean they weren't Caucasian.
47:45 Injecting modern politics is a mistake by the editor. All too common. It's the weakest form of political misinformation; appealing to the uninformed and the apathetic. These people would be outraged, likely, at the state of so-called correctness. I hope it wasn't the reason for the video. Otherwise FASCINATING!
Ever stop to think these folks were Pheonicians?....Not Greeks or Persians. That those folks are just related to this culture due to the migrations and interracial marriages over the years?
Norse, Greek and Egypt talks about Neith/Nott/Nyx. Did you know that Pheonician in Greek essentially means 'dusty gray Neithian' if you sound it out. It implies these folks were multicultural peoples living between the other races. They got persecuted for it....when the Africans and Sumerians overpopulated and pushed all the white people North and the multicultural folks out to Asia Minor and Scythia.
Lol they moved there cuz Kazakhs were killing Mongolian people, so Mongolian government gave them land to settle and now everyone acts like they have been there thousands of years. Wrong, so many different tribes were there, most of them has similar culture, half nomadic herders. All of them comes under Hunnu Empire later Mongol Empire but Kazakhs weren't even country, only became country during 16th century and before they were living way down into modern Chinese, Inner Mongolian territory. Lmao.
Scythians weren't Turks nor Asian Mongols, any similarity has to do with the same environment of plains and horse riding breeding transportation. Might as well imply they are same as Native Am. plain horse riders, who are more related culture DNA with the Asian Mongols relation to artic Asians who migrated into N.Am.
Herodotus never wrote about so called"Eastern Scythians", and you know it! The ruzzian money does not stink, right?
Mongolian "scythians" are totally different folk, different culture and customs. Moscovia always takes the history of others like own, now Mongolian.
It's interesting that he said Alexander The Great lost to the Scythians.
I was always taught that except for skirmishes, the lone battle was at the Battle of Jaxartes, which Macedonia won.
What is the dna of those people finaly? All those modern archeologists dont know what dna test is?
Clue no 1 in opening narration. "What treasures" will be found in their graves. These people should leave the grave alone. Dont we already know enough about the Scythians? Will another body really tell us anything? Or is it just an excuse for looting?
Im not even going to watch.
Totally fascinating!
THE SCYTHIANS are not khazars or all asian.
the ukrainians are the scythians.
not arab or zionist from arabia. ❤
U K R A I N A ❤
I watched this ,and already knew what was coming before they said it...
Of course the second grave was a woman, she held more status than husband and child.
As his skull proves 😄👍
They only say global warming fifty times 🙄
And it's all your fault!
@@t.j.payeur5331
It's the Mongols fault aided by the French 🙄
Shut up about your global warming FFS. It's the middle of summer in UK & I'm still wearing a jumper.
Lost me with the "global warming" BS.
Yes, all very interesting, but who were they?
Go to the Moscow history museum, the modern Russians are the Scythians! The have all the history there. Not this hypothetical idea
So interesting. But they should o know to never touch the petroglyphs with a finger as the oil from fingers can cause the petroglyphs to deteriorate.
There is nothing to see here, the Hungarians are Scythians, Huns and Avars, the Sons and Daughters of Nimrod, the Grandchildren of Hunor and Magor... the high culture of these peoples is already manifested in the extraordinary language of the Magyars, this is where everything comes from, the linguistic expression, as well as the ancient runic writing of the Hungarians the basis of their high culture. ❤🤍💚
I was told the Scythians are today's Russians. The Kremlin display gives this as their history.
The Russians also claim the original Star Trek TV series character Pavel Chekov proved that Russia is the best space country. Russians also claim to be killing Nazis in Ukraine.
Earliest recorded use of marijuana is a Scythian fire pit. About 2 .5 metres across full plants and boughs of drug grade cannabis were heaped on coals, a large tent could accommodate a group of warriors, who would sit inside the tent and breathe in the fumes.
Great documentary, but incredibly unprofessional archaeology.
A tomb but let’s get the rocks that were placed there and toss and smash them… what kind of archeology team is this… still an interesting show.
Would have liked to know the ages of the three people at death. I’m sure they’ve got good estimates from the teeth.
I don’t understand why they feel the need to do it to excavate a People’s tomb for science that just seems wrong
Let the dead rest in peace if only if only
I have been slowly working on getting my right arm tattooed with Scythian art.
SCYTHIANS = ARRATTA
U K R A I N I A N S
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What gives you the right to dig up peoples' graves?
the griffin/horse bridle art work looks very Pictish
Wonderfull video. Congratulations on a excellent outcome.
if just rome were a bit father away from the steppes, then theyd have had to only deal with all the germans they brought upon themselves...
They were just like you people, how so, very simple They worshipped the Creation and not the Creator, like you people mostly Ethiest
CLEARLY kazahks are NOT scythian
they dont have gold artifacts like the ones in UKRAINE.
LINKED how, because they ride horses, copy the mustache and hair and wheres the top-not 😂
of course not
they're turco-mongols
Kazakh people in Mongolia are our Qandas, bloodbrothers. By the way in medieval middle-mongolian, the kipchak-turkic "qandas" transformed into "anda" meaning "brother". And the Kipchak-turkic word for brother "Baurym", transformed to "baurchi" meaning "the most trusted/closest"
Nomadic peoples, along with so-called stone-age peoples such as the Saan and Amazonian natives, are the last free humans. They live by their own labor, pay no taxes, and live according to their cultural standards. I was saddened by the leather worker who said that only 2 families still worked leather and made traditional bridles and leather goods. No such vital skills should be lost.
Oh and got to give respect to any people who defeated Alexander the Great's forces.