Top 20 Greatest Archeological Discoveries Ever
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- Опубліковано 3 вер 2022
- We learnt much about our ancestors from these shocking discoveries. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most amazing and important archaeological discoveries throughout human history. Our countdown includes Göbekli Tepe, Ötzi, Sutton Hoo, Pompeii, The Rosetta Stone, and more! Have you visited any of these locations? Let us know in the comments!
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7:08 that show was called “mummies alive”
Popup is tat
Pompey and the Roseta stone at the Bristol Museum.q
During my Crete vacation 3 years ago, I went to Knossos and it was very interesting. The archeologic musem nearby, in Heraklion, was boring as hell, though.
Enjoyed The narrating of this video. She did a nice job. It’s funny though how what we view as “facts”, becomes laughable shortly after. For instance JWT has proven the “facts” of how the Big Bang worked, wrong.
It will be the same…with the “theory” of evolution. There’s as much blind faith in this theory as those who say “once saved always saved”….
“The blind leading the blind, both will fall into the pit.”
1: 'hey, do you know why there are pyramids in Egypt?'
2: 'no .. why are there pyramids in Egypt?'
1:'because they're too heavy to carry to England'
2:
Truth.
No shame in English history being powerful enough to do such things.
@@OneTwoMark to stole?
@@OneTwoMarkbig big shame that the brits don't return the Parthenon frieses among countless other things.
@@attilaosztopanyi9468 Every society did that, same with slavery and so.
Göbekli Tepe should be way higher than 20th. First ever known temple, first signs of religion, first known human settlement, first known monolith... 20th on the list? Cmon guys.
The order is irrelevant. The point is these are all equally important finds. The fact is you could produce multiple top 20 important archeological finds without repeating a single one that are all equally important and just as interesting.
@@michaelfox2433... The order is irrelevant to you, not to me. Luckily, this post is about my opinion. Not yours.
@@DevlinMMA You must be the life of the party Scooter.
@@michaelfox2433 ah, but this isn't a party. This is you throwing your opinion around.
@@DevlinMMA No actually this is me pointing out your irrational and childish behavior there keyboard warrior.
Some of these are very random…that said Göbekli Tepe definitely deserves to be in top 3 of discoveries
I'd say Gobekli Tepe is one of, if not the most, important discoveries ever made. The site literally turned what we understood as "ancient history" on it's head.
I agree.
Not only the fact it was built so early - but that they actually purposefully buried it so that it could exist today in the manner of a giant time capsule.
absolutely
@@nigelhickman2274 well who knows why it was purposely buried. We can only speculate as to why.
I think Gobekli Tepe is by far the most significant of the 20. While I have a deep appreciation for all archaeology, Gobekli Tepe challenges what we think we know about ancient humans. This site predates many ancient civilizations by 6-7000 years. The monoliths weighed tens of tons. It really doesn’t add up that hunter gatherers constructed this marvelous site. This challenges our knowledge and excites me!
Exactly.
The rosette stone is the most significant thi
Joe Rogan, is that you 😂?….I honestly agree though
Other than the obvious fact that we know a bit and a lot more is left to understand from all of the 20 . I believe Lucy and other "records of information" deserve to be higher up because of the amount of information that can be or has been decoded from it and it's contribution to the gaps of our understanding that has or is expected to fill. Gobekli tepe is greatly important, arguably the most in terms of history due to its unique nature, the Rosetta stone beats it in terms of contribution to humanity as it has a good chance of helping us unlock a massive treasure trove of information that is staring at our face with no means to unlock it.
@@ahmedelamin710 😂😂
Cave art is a very important part of History. It was humanity's first way of documenting events in history. If it wasn't for cave art then Jon Snow may have never convinced Daenerys to help them fight the Night King and we wouldn't even be here.
😂😂lol
People never talk about Herculaneum, the town up the coast from Pompeii. They found the most amazingly preserved artifacts and humans. They found statues that I’ve always believed were white were actually colorfully painted. Beautifully painted furniture. They were able to analyze the sewers to determine local diets for both upper class and lower class people. Truly more astonishing than Pompeii, imo. If you’ve not heard of it, I’d highly recommend YouTubing a documentary!
Edited for nitpicking. The point is it’s a cool discovery that a lot of people don’t know about. Like jfc touch some grass.
What is white painted?
I edited for clarity.
@@lk8300 just bare marble?
Yeah they do. I just watched a documentary all about Herculaneum. It was very interesting and seemed like it had much more interesting, beautiful things compared to Pompeii I thought anyway.
I thought Herculaneum was in Crete not Italy
Went to Gobekli Tepe the other year, the sheer mystical feeling there had me in awe, almost 10,000 BC, insane what humans were capable of even then it’s incomprehensible
I've been to Gobekli Tepe. And I admire the dedication it must've taken to find ten-second clips from 'Ancient Aliens' that have actual information in them.
It's amazing that so many of these were (re)discovered in my lifetime. I remember each of the ones in my life were discovered/announced. I remember being fascinated by Dr. Leakey and Olduvai Gorge as an 11-year old in 1979. I had the great fortune to go on a month-long dig in 1987 in Southern California... much newer history but just as fascinating.
No. 1 is truly an amazing and fortunate find. To have the same text written in 3 different languages on a rock. Wow.
It's by far not the only one. There's for example the Behistun inscription in Old persian, Elamitic and Babylonian language. This was the final point to finally understand the cuniform scripted languages. The Letoon trilingie is written in old greek, lykian and aramean language. The Myazedi insciption is even a Quattrolingue in Pali, Pyu, Mon, and Birmanian. It was the key to understand Pyu.
@@marcuscyron7382i would have just used google translate personally but i just might be built different
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Sites like these fascinate me so much...I want to visit these places of awesome history some day
Thank-you for this video, WatchMojo. I have never heard of some if discoveries before like Mojenjo Daru.
20: Gobekli Tepe (in Turkey); 19: Oldest Footpronts in North America (New Mexico, Usa); 18: Richard III Grave; 17: Madaba Map (in Jrodan); 16: Serapeum of Alexandria; 15: Knossos (in Cret); 14: Utzi; 13: Mohenjo-Daro (in Pakistan); 12: The Anikithera Mechanism (in Grecian waters); 11: City of Troy (in idk); 10: Tutenkamun's Tomb (in Vally of the Kings, Egypt); 9: Sutten Hoo (in England); 8: Aldivi Gourge (in North-West Corner of Tanzania); 7: Cave of Altamira (in Spain); 6: Terracotta Army (in China); 5: Dead Sea Scrolls (in idk); 4: City of Pompei (in Italy) 3: Library of Ashurbaipal (in idk); 2: Lucy (in Ethiopia, Africa); 1: Rosetta Stone (in idk).
You genuinely don't know where some of these places are when you put (idk) for some of these places? Or are you living somewhere where it's taboo to say the names of some of these places?
@@4G3NTOR4NG3 idk where they are because the person doing the video didnt say where they where found.
@@Dartkitten Oh I didn't get to those parts as I assumed if someone would make a video like this that they would know where they are located. So you were making a critique of the video. Gotcha lol apologies, I should've waited until the video got to those discoveries to understand your comment.
Google them
Library of ashurbanipal - Iraq
Rosette stone- egypt
Dead sea scroll- Palestine
City of troy -Turkey
This was awesome. Thank you for making content on history!
The biggest one for me was Richard III's discovery, because not only is it a part of my own history and a legend, but I watched it as it was taking place on the news.
Oh me too. I've always been fascinated with Richard III and how his death ended The War of The Roses. The detective work it took to find him us just so remarkable. Biggest for me too
To find his grave underneath a disabled parking spot in a parking lot of all places,I kept thinking how many people walked on his grave and parked their cars on the grave of a king. I am so glad though they gave him a proper royal funeral with honours .It is awesome though that the Richard ||| society bought the parking lot and adjoining buildings and turned it into a Richard ||| museum. I so want to go back to the UK some day just for the history.
@@emmyg And the fact that they painted a giant "R" on the parking spot. Apparently, it meant "Reserved", but it's still a highly unusual thing to paint on such a spot. Normally they paint the full word or a symbol rather than just a letter. It's the first time I've seen a parking spot marked in such a way.
@@white-dragon4424 same here it is surprising I loved the documentary about the find though
Funny. It was by far the most unimportant find of all what is mentioned.
I’m a huge history/genealogy/archaeology fan . I would have loved to dig with Mick Aston (RIP) or Phil Harding both from time team. Archaeology is brilliant m, just seeing and then holding history in your hands
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Well Time Team is kinda iffy when it comes to archaeology (coming from someone who has study archaeolgy for four and a half year). Its very much Tv
I'm a bit surprised none of the central and South American sites made it.
Yes. Strange.
Have to agree.
Agreed to much focus on the Middle East and Europe archaeology finds
Great list! Hope to visit/see one of these discoveries in person.
Fun fact: Troy's emplacement was common knoweldege at least up to the fifteenth century. It is mentioned in 1406 account of the trip of the Castilian ambassador Gonzalo Ruy Clavijo, who was sent in 1403 to establish an alliance between the king Enrique the Third of Castile with the emperor Timur. The ambassadors met Timur but the embassy finished with their host demise in 1405, so they simply returned to Spain.
The chronicle describes in detail the trip from Southern Spain to Samarkand, all along the Mediterranean Sea up to the Black Sea and then by land from what is todaty Northern Turkey to Uzbekistan. The detailed description includes places like Gaeta, Rhodes, Constantinople, Trebisond, Tehran or Samarkand. Troy is explicitily cited when the expedition enters the Dardanelles strait (mentioned as the 'Romanian Mouths') and it said that is 'in the land of Turkey' (at the time the North Western bank of the strait was still Greek, except Gallipoli while the South Eastern bank was already Turkish). It is also described a 'Four Ways Cape' (which I could not have located but it may be modern Kumkale where 'there was a city and ancient castle where the Greeks established their base against Troy').
It is possible that the emplacement was forgotten to Western Europeans with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, while the Turks may have simply ignored it as Homer's writings were not part of their cultural heritage,
Uh, What 😐… I just read this and I didn’t understand one word. Can you dumb it down please?
@@JuanCChavez in other words, at the beginning of 15th century it was common knowledge where Troy ruins were.
However this knowledge was lost until German archaelogist Schliemann rediscovered them in the late 19th Century.
I touched the Rosetta Stone in a museum in the UK, London I think, before they put it behind glass. My grandfather too me on a trip with my cousin, and when the security guard wasn’t looking, told both of us to touch it. He was a lover of history, and knew us touching such a massive piece of history would be special. Although I can understand how many might think that was selfish, I’ll never forget it.
Gobekli Tepe being as old as 9500 BC that changes everything we learned in bible and history classes.
There is nothing historically crucial tu learn in the Bible.
Who learn something on the bible?
@@rubentus1980 the bible is the ramblings of someone who was so damn bored he made fairytales
I remember in school (around 2nd or 3rd grade) we were taught that the bible was accurate to history 😂 and then ofc around 2008 or so our school had to re-teach us about history. Some of us were kinda confused, but i didn't really believe any of it.
For my 15th birthday I wanted to go see the emperor of the sun exhibit in Seattle Washington. They had 4 of the Terra Cotta soldiers there. I was amazed with all the artifacts on display
Oh man I’ve seen the Madaba Map. It’s beautiful and detailed and it’s hard to believe that’s it’s thousands of years old. The mosaic tiles found throughout the Middle East are some of the most beautiful art work in the world that should be recognized more often by the world.
I would be cool if you also do one of this with all the archeological findings un the Americas, not just Asia and Europe. South America also have mummies, one of the oldest cities in the world.
Göbeklitepe should have a higher place in this list. Not only because it’s importance in terms of history, but also for the story behind discovery that is not mentioned in this video.
Not as important as others.
@@paradox3734 bro it is litteraly oldest city in the world we known how its not important as others ?
Good to know british museum have something that they actually owns 👍
Yeah it's not like Britain doesn't have it's own rich history of its own, what with Celts, Picts, Scots, Woads, Romans, Anglo Saxons, Vikings, Normans, all the various wars like the War of the Roses and the Hundred Years Wars, the Industrial Revolution. That's a lot of history, such a shame that the British Museum doesn't showcase any of it and only showcases stuff appropriated from other countries.
The British Museum doesn't actually "own" anything. It acts as a storehouse and display facility for many of the world's past civilizations. The collections are freely available to all interested scholars for research purposes and for the world's population to peruse in a safe and secure location where nutcases with serious mental issues can't destroy them because some little green man from space told them to do so. Long may it continue so! The Brits also have a vast array of other museums (most free to enter!) on many other subjects.
How can a museum own things, that people much earlier has made? No, museums collect, explore, preserve and display things - but they don't own this. Things belong to mankind. Modern museums also know this and act accordingly.
Finding king Philip of Macedon‘s tomb in Egypt is pretty much just as good as finding Alexander’s tomb but sadly we still have yet to find it
Grave of Philipp II. was found in Vergina, Greece, not in Egypt. Same with Philipp III.
With all due respect it’s not on the same level as Alexander the Great. Only Genghis Khan or Jesus on on that level of historical importance
@@rooting4starks239 Mohammed? Siddhartha Gautama? Iulius Caesar? Columbus? Sargon II? Ramses II? Qin Shi Huang? Hitler? Stalin? Sorry, this view is very much outdated. It's not anymore common sense, that "important men made history".
@@marcuscyron7382 yeah ofcourse they’ll all be Big discoveries and some more than others but Alexander the Great and Ghengis Khan changed actual state of the world to a point where they’re impact is bigger than anyone else’s. Obviously finding the bodies of Jesus, Hitler, Stalin, Mohammed and so one will be massive discoveries but no two people effected the whole planet as much as them two i mentioned, according to most historians anyway. Also must be said there’s a difference between cultural, historical and religious importance of archeology.
Only Mohammed of those mentioned had an impact as Alexander's.its not only the conquests of Alexander but the Hellenization of a huge area of the ancient world that changed everything that followed.
It's awesome just seeing these places and objects, but imagine being among the people who discovered them and understood their significance. I can't even imagine the feeling.
So far, the only of these finds that I've been able to visit is Pompeii. My tour was rather short, but i found it fascinating. I was in awe of the ancient city. However, I'd still love to see ANY of these locations in person. I love history and have a deep interest in archeology.
Wow, starting out with Göbekle Tepe at the bottom of the list? Dis gon be good!
I like to imagine what amazing discoveries will happen over the next few hundred years as we get better at finding 'lost' sites.
I love David Gemmell's interpretation of the Trojan Horse as been a heavy cavalry regiment,makes sense to me.
A huge horse with an army inside seems far fetched but maybe a smaller one with just a few men inside, possibly only one. They only needed to open the gate.
@@dannysulyma6273 .It reminds me quite a bit of the bible story of the city of Jericho. Besides, I know that the bible is not a history book. but who knows there might be a connection.
@SlimSavage talking donkey too?
@SlimSavage talking donkey too?
Globeke Tepi is the best as it re writes history humans have been in civilisations since well before 10,000 years ago
Imagine all of the things out there that we’ll never know existed
because of light speed and the universe expanding there's things in space that humans will never discover since it will be impossible to see
That just makes the Journey for Knowledge all the more exciting!
Imagine all the knowledge lost that we did know.
When in Chicago, be sure to visit
The Field Museum and
The Art Institute.
You might find some information
about many of these artifacts.
I've been to Troy. I'll always remember all the beautiful red poppies growing everywhere. There was a larger wooden horse there. Put there for a nod to the history, but not the one spoke of in the story.
and just think, there's groups of people running around destroying this stuff..
Yep. Anyone would think that they ARE aware that their nutty beliefs are pure BS and are scared that someone might stumble on the actual evidence to prove that. 🤔 😉
How about Caesar the great? He burned the library of Alexandria?
The Blombos cave in South Africa contains the first known drawings by humans, some of which are literally more than twice the age of those in Spain.
South Africa is the cradle of Humanity, is expected to have such finds. The interesting thing about Altamira and Lacroix is how far we travelled and how early in history.
Impressive and important list!
To many add breaks in your post
I JUST LOVE THESE TYPE OF VIDEOS !!!!
I overstand that is very hard to date stones and rocks, and there are alot of ancient sites that's spreads all over our planet, especially Gobekli Tepe, which your presentation states, BUT, the Sphinx of ancient KEMET (Egypt) was dated before the Age of Leo, and the evidences of great water weathering damage to the body of the Sphinx, surmised that the carving of the Sphinx could be greatly under-dated.
ALMOST ALL OF THE ANCIENT SITES AROUND OUR PLANET WAS PRIMARY USED AS A PLACE OF WORSHIP !!!!
Things that makes you go hmmmm.........! 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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I got to go to a King Tut exhibit around 2005. A friend bought me tickets for Christmas. Only a partial scope of the artifacts but impressive. I also got to see the Egyptian exhibit at the Louvre, the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum and visited the Petrie Museum in London. There was a Bog Mummy at the British Museum but I don't think a famous one.
me too; in nyc
@Florida Ladybug I saw Rameses II (as a mummy) and actually touched him when I was 4.
I seen king tut tomb when I went to the Luxor in Vegas it was fascinating to know they brought him all the way from Egypt to Las Vegas.
History is so freakin FASCINATING!!! 🤗
Archeology is a cool form of science
Simply awesome
I was lucky enough to see the Dead Sea Scrolls, it was quite awe inspiring to see the depth of history within Israel
Hey WatchMojo! I really love your content and I’ve been a fan for god knows how long. Kindly note that Madaba isn’t Jordan’s capital. Amman is..
It's quite interesting that Göbekli Tepe is the first ever temple, meaning religion was created long before we created farming. We probably had religion long before that, but Göbekli Tepe is the first ever temple and settlements, and Göbekli Tepe is 11,500 to 11,000 years old, which means the first ever religious temple and settlement pre-dates farming by 500 to 1,500 years.
A Norweigan dude i argued with clearly didn't know about Göbekli Tepe, which really says a lot
Steely Dan wrote a song about
The Caves Of Altimira.
It's on their album , THE ROYAL SCAM.
Before I clicked I thought "the Rosetta stone better be the first or else!"
Thankfully I wasn't disappointed
The wonders of archeology are at least as important as the wonders of space, and much less expensive.
I know I take information presented to me seriously, when it is emphasized by clips from "Ancient Aliens".
Yeah,...not a particularly compelling selling point, I agree.
Wow hearing Leonard Nimoys voice come in at the end. Chills.
Cheer~~~the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
You should do a top 10 cenobites from the Hellraiser franchise
Pretty cool list
Think Hammurabi’s Code should’ve made it here too, over who is a different and more difficult question.
AWESOME !
A great discovery worth mentioning is the Book of Kells. Found in a bog in Ireland is one of the earliest illustrated texts of the gospels of the bible in latin.
7, Cave of Altamira always tickles me when archeologists say they've not discovered the meaning of early cave paintings. I always think maybe they were bored!
Lucy in the Sky with diamonds was something else 😆
I was a little girl when the Tut exhibit first came through Chicago The museum of science and industry.... They had the gold mask that King Tut was wearing, that was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my lifetime it was so impressive that right now even at my age of 55 years old I can still close my eyes and see it and I must have been seven or eight years old, that is something you never ever forget if you have the blessings to be able to see it. If you ever get a chance to go see it or it comes to you and you can see it do it you will not regret it 😊
Great video
Gobekli tepi should be #1
As soon as I clicked on the video, I just knew the Rosetta Stone would be #1
I love Gobekli Tepe but it's the oldest until the NEXT oldest is found.
As always. On the other hand, there's probably not that much more possible in earlier times. If - we would need to completelty rewrite prehistory.
They already found it. A temple very near to Gobekli Tepe. Even bigger and more puzzling and even older.
Cool this is great awesome
Machu Pichu, anyone???
perhaps ought to check the following two discoveries in Malta:
the Megalithic Temples, 1,000 years older than the Pyramids, now UNESCO world Heritage sites, including the Saflieni Hypogeum an underground cemetery dating back 5,000 years
The Cippus, discovered in 18th century Tas-Silg complex, used to decipher the Phoenician alphabet
5000 years from now: “Some say these computers they made, so small that it could fit on the palm of their hands, were not made by them, but by… ALIENS.”
More like 400 years from now and after the religious far right take over and the second dark ages starts
watchmojo always making bangers
Yes!! This makes me very happy!! I’m a history major in college and I just watched Indians Jones and the Last Crusade
LOL. You just jogged a memory of walking down the Siq to Petra behind a group of Jordanian schoolgirls. While us old Westerners are prattling "Gee Whizz Mom" and waving cameras around, 1 bright-eyed little miss in the group spun around, waved her hands and called out "Action!" - to gales of laughter from us and stifled giggles from her mates! 1999 - happier times!
One of your better videos. 👍
“best I can do is 20 but let me call a buddy of mine first”
Are we going to see more archeological discoveries like these in the future? Which one of these do you think is the best?
lol
Gobeki tepi definitely
We will always see new discoveries. But mostly they can't be panned. What I expect is, tha Africa will come more and more in the focus.
The inclusion of "ancient aliens" clips really brings it down a notch.
Good work, WatchMoJo. This is one of your better videos. See what you can do when you don't focus on producing videos on the King of Canada, Jim Carrey.
Gobekli Tepe should be No.1. No contest.
Some say it could’ve been something out of this world
Every mystery
Super interesting, I can't feature why more people don't donate more time to investigating these issues
There is a similar glacier discovery in the Himalayas where there is a mass grave within a glacier
the actual reason why Antikythera Mechanism is museum. Is to keep people from from putting and playing DOOM on it
Just a friendly correction in the video about the Dead Sea scrolls. Yes they were found by a Sheppard, but since some were so large he believed they were ammunition stashes that germans during ww2 had put there in Hope's of throwing a coue over the imperialist british and Americans, and would join germans side. So what the Sheppard did was throw a rock to break one of the jars he realised they were scrolls on parchment.
Great job on this video!
Gobekli tepe should be at #1
Gobekli tepi looks like different groups finished work the monoliths one group and the surrounding small stones from later less advanced people trying to duplicate the work or use the structures already present
Not a mention of Atapuerca. The oldest settlement in West Europe with remains of five human especies dated back one million years.
That old 🗝️🗝️🗝️
Bruh I just took my Architectural history midterm today and did a whole page on Minoan culture and I’m also hearing vocab terms I forgot in the test 😫
Apparently Pompeii was on about 2 stories deep buried, there were cavities people could get into and statues still poking out that got looted for about a hundred years and then people forgot about it
Can we just say how cool that the guy who found Knossos, a Minoan city, ruled by King Minos, home to the legend of the Minotaur - is named Minos.
I have been at Altamira and Sutton Hoo.
Superb/!!!!
I just don’t understand how they know when this stuff was made. Like I feel like they guessing
One thing I've always been curious about. If they don't have any confirmed DNA to compare it to. How do they know their genetic analysis is correct? Bone structure compared to a painting? What about doppelgangers lol. Just curious
Nobody ever talks about the Bogman that was found in Ireland he served an important glimpse into ancient Ireland
🤣🤣 you had me at 9500 BCE 🤣🤣 I’m out! ✌️
Bye 👋
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