If this was originally a Chinese documentary, wouldn't the lady be speaking Chinese the whole time instead of English? I think this was always an English doc.
@@janetrapoza3877 but the lady can speak Chinese, if it was for a Chinese audience why was she speaking English the whole time? And were there Chinese subtitles for her English in the orginal? If so that's super impressive because they would have went to go find the original unedited masters for this, just so they wouldn't have to cover the Chinese subs. Or dubbed maybe?
@@Zackaria_sMax No....The original documentary was entirely in Chinese and filmed many years ago... I believe it was the Chinese government who sponsored it .
I do believe anything on u tube should be given the option of English translation. I find the Chinese gov. Is very much aware and so are Chinese videographers who make money from their creations and would benefit from reworking Chinese videos into English.
Check out “God in Ancient China” by Dr. C K Thong, and also another sermon with the same name by Pastor Kong Hee. Before the advent of Buddhism to China from India, for the first half of 5000 years of Chinese history, the Chinese worshiped the same God as the one recorded in the Bible.
Sinologists and theologians who are well versed in Sinology and Christian theology like Matteo Ricci, Dr. Thomas Leung, Dr. C K Thong, pastor Yuan Zhiming who wrote “Lao Tzu and the Bible”, agree that the ancient Chinese founders and sages like the Yellow Emperor, Confucius and Lao Tzu, worshiped Shang Di, called Tian in the Zhou Dynasty, and Dao (the Way, or the Word Logos) by Confucius and Lao Tzu. I am Chinese American and I too can affirm after listening to these sermons by these scholars that my ancient Chinese ancestors were indeed God-fearing people.
@@ezdez3687 Watch those lectures by Sinologists and theologians first and then you tell me. I am Chinese American, and I am fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin and can read simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Watch those lectures first and then you can tell me that the God of ancient Chinese isn’t the same God as the one in the Bible.
This excites me, to hear the Cantonese have much more to celebrate their own distinct culture as far as being just Asian from the perspective of outsiders. I think they are so interesting and a treasure trove of history about the inside of Chinese culture.
Didn't the Jade Woman found preserved in Hunan very similar? She also had musical instruments, a jade and silk burial suit. She is believed to be 2000 years old
I like how she's just discovering that not all Chinese southerners were barbarians living in mud huts with sharpen stick spears. The Yue were master seafarers and blacksmiths. The sword of Goujian, a King of the Yue Kingdom from 496 BC is still as sharp as it was thousands of year before.
@@CuongNguyen-zn6jy China actually influenced Vietnam and other East Asian countries. They first passed on their writing systems. The video talks about how the artifacts of the cooking are of the same Southern Chinese (Cantonese) making dim sum... which is not Vietnamese. The writing itself is in Chinese as well. Vietnam at that time did not have their own writing, Vietnam used the Chinese writing for hundreds of years before creating their own. Therfore it could not be Vietnamese at all. China at that time was mainly still up north as stated in the video and in history. Later on in time was when more moved south and eventually spread the writing and culture to others (including Vietnam).
@@CuongNguyen-zn6jy Did Vietnam exist more than 2,000 years ago? The founder of the Nanyue Kingdom, Zhao Tuo, was first of all a Han Chinese from the north. Zhao Tuo led 500,000 northern soldiers to Guangdong, China, and established the Nanyue Kingdom in Guangxi and northern Vietnam. There were only primitive tribes in these areas, and it was Han soldiers and craftsmen who built and made these things. If you can read the original books written by your ancestors in Chinese characters, you will understand your history, not the false "history" modified by the Vietnamese government. The Vietnamese are the descendants of the combination of Han soldiers and indigenous people in northern China. Don’t say it again China has invaded you for thousands of years, and you are the descendants of the invaders. I suggest you to read the original history books written by your ancestors in Chinese. Not the "history books" revised by your government today.
Incredible documentary, far superior to most!!!! Dr Agnes Hsu is an exceptional narrator. I can only wish she would do a weekly program. I would subscribe in an instant. Brilliant work indeed!!
It always makes me feel funny to think of something just waiting, quietly out of sight, for that long. Who knows what else is sitting, waiting out in the world?!
just imagine the tombs in japan that they wont open, because they are sacred. i just hope that some day they will open even few of the biggest ones to reveal their ancient leaders
Amazing documentary that I enjoyed watching.Seeing the gold seal at the end of the video was cherry on top.I can't wait for the grandfather's tomb to be discovered.I just love ancient China and everything about it.Iam very fascinated with ancient Chinese history.Would love to go to China one day and see all these amazing discoveries & artifacts with my very own eyes.Please don't stop making documentaries regarding ancient China.
I never understand why "modern" researchers or investigators assume they have to be the more advanced society. I love when their arrogance is brought down to size by such a find as this. Amazing history & wonderful documentary!
Why this hostility toward modern archaeology? Ancient civilizations may turn out to be far more sophisticated than previously thought, but when they're compared to modern civilizations, there's no competition as to which are more advanced: we are. This isn't hubris speaking - this is fact. And let's be clear - the kind of technology and fine craftsmanship that would have been accessible to royalty and the upper-class would hardly have been accessible to the common peasant.
@@miaomiaochanwell said. This is just anti intellectualism if you ask me. If it wasn’t for archaeology, we wouldn’t have such a good understanding of these past cultures to begin with. Maybe that’s what the op would prefer? 🙄 *besides it’s not the archaeologists who are saying that they weren’t advanced. They’re just explaining what the general attitude has been regarding these cultures throughout history. It’s frustrating that has to be spelled out for some people
Timeline is absolutely the most amazing channel for anything history. The amount of top quality content they provide is astounding amd very mush appreciated.
This is fantastic! My hometown is Lintong, Shaanxi (Terracotta warriors) but I grew up in Canada and unfortunately... never got to fully grasp the historical significance.. so this is wonderful!
I burst into happy tears when I saw them. I had been wanting to see them for my whole childhood, and I was absolutely humbled and amazed. Truly one of the most incredible moments of my life.
I wish you could so could see the pain of people living in that unstable unsafe environment.... Appreciate the relative safty and stability you have now... we ha r time snd energy to talk about what people want to be referred to by.... do you even understand what it takes for us to be here
Of the Three Kingdoms it was the Southern Kingdom that produced an abundance of navigators, seamen, and explorers who ventured outside of China. Today, their descendants still can be found living in the midst of Chinatowns of the New and Old World.
This astonishing find is particularly fascinating to me from the mercantile perspective, because it illuminates the earlier origins of Asian maritime trade routes, long before the East India Companies, back to Tamerlane, the Mughal Rulers of India, the Qin Dynasty, and the beginnings of the rising Han Dynasty. I truly believe that Carthaginian navigators of Punic origin were some of the earliest explorers to reach the Spice Islands and Southeast Asia. The renowned Portuguese pilots, you ask? That country’s main seaport was founded by Carthage!
Good ports are good ports, no matter who runs and populates them, and populations do change. The fact that Carthage founded a town in Portugal does not mean the fifteenth-century navigators who used it had Phoenician ancestry. Don’t get me wrong. I love the history of trade and intercultural exchange. The famous terracotta warriors are evidence of the influence of the West, like those columns found farther south. That Western influence seems more likely to be Greek than Carthaginian, given how far Greek/Hellenistic culture reached, thanks to Alexander. His foray into Afghanistan left incredible work many would mistake for art from Renaissance Italy, not Bamiyan. Hellenistic depictions of human figures shaped human sculpture throughout Asia, from the Gandharan period in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India and beyond. That said, I am sure ancient Carthaginians and their post-Punic descendants got far afield. Greek and Roman ships moored on the Southwest coast of India. Some Greek and Roman traders reached modern Bangladesh. Later there were plenty of medieval Jewish traders going between Egypt and Spain. Parts of the “Old World” were far more connected than we sometimes think.
Omg , I went to this museum and saw the jade suit several years ago. The jade suit was something I wanted to see since I saw a postcard when I was under 10years old.
Funny. This morning I was watching episode 2 of classic Wild America with Marty Stouffer which was about butterflies. The monarch butterfly before it becomes a butterfly is encased in an emerald tomb with gold inlay. So beautiful.
Really? Marty Stouffer? Cool. I haven't seen his show in close to 40 yrs. Am 45 now. Used to watch that show all the time! Definitely a blast from the past......am gonna hafta check it out! 🥰
Really? Marty Stouffer? Cool. I haven't seen his show in close to 40 yrs. Am 45 now. Used to watch that show all the time! Definitely a blast from the past......am gonna hafta check it out! 🥰
Often times the builders of tombs were killed so they could not tell of the layout or defenses of the tomb, and those who killed them were also killed to make it more likely no one knew......
That's a lot of high-status stuff for a "barbarian" culture. They were very familiar with and associated with the more advanced society on a regular basis. Looks like two-way trade and these guys did very good business.
Ancient Vietnamese scholars always included Nan Yue (Nam Việt) as an official state of today Vietnam. Only since the Nguyen Dynasty the name was swapped to Yue Nan (Việt Nam) by request of Qing's dynasty. Although the ruler was Han-Chinese, the culture, technology and majority of the population was unarguably Yue.
Pakal had a mask and jewelry made of jade, he had a sphere and a cube in his hands, made of jade also. It seems Jade had some kind of special value or quality to the ancient civilizations rulers.
Thank you Dr. Agnes Hsu for a great presentation. This emperor and his people were very artistic, spiritual and they loved life. They left us a treasure! I hope to go see this palace someday. Oh that would be a dream come true.
The lead archeologist said something VERY IMPORTANT, HE SAID " IT TOOK A YEAR OF EXCAVATING AND DIGGING TO GET TO THIS POINT" TO WHERE THE CHAMBER WAS. and not a year of archeologically digging he meant construction style with huge excavators and machines. It's important because we are so sweet on our history only going back 5,7,8 thousand years old but the truth is if we want to find these ancient or historic civilizations we have to dig WAY WAY DEEPER INTO THE GROUND. Not just so when we hit something 5k years old, keep going down deeper
Nanyue in Chinese means the edge of South , the name "Vietnam" in Chinese means beyond South . Nanyue in chinese writing is 南越 Vietnam in Chinese writing is 越南 , Vietnam in character writing is the writing character name Nanyue in reverse . you can see reason behind the meaning . Some storyteller said the Manchu Emperor gave the "Vietnam" name to kingdom of Vietnam In 1955 a large ancient tomb of some minor noble was discover in Hong Kong from dated around 25 AD to 225 AD , a few centuries younger than the tomb from Nanyue King's Tomb in Guangzhou , it proved that even deep south like Hong Kong were already civilized nearly 2000 yr ago .
Ancient Vietnamese scholars always included Nan Yue (Nam Việt) as an official state of today Vietnam. Only since the Nguyen Dynasty the name was swapped to Yue Nan (Việt Nam) by request of Qing's dynasty. Although the ruler was Han-Chinese, the culture, technology and majority of the population was unarguably Yue.
I don’t think the red thread is intended for any kind of self proclamation. If the original has gold thread and is intended as a vehicle for afterlife travel, I see the red thread as a sign of compromise on that journey. Was the gold thread version also rubbed with cinnabar? Then there’s the two or more types of jade and the location on the suit where it’s located. I think this symbolism means something even if it is signs of earlier grave disturbances. Are there any others that have the red threads?
This is logical! The northern kingdom lasted longer and it is as true today as it was then that the victor (or those who survived, lived on) writes the history and tells the narrative they prefer. The very same thing is happening today. With physical books vanishing, statues and other physical objects being removed, the next generation think that it never happened. It’s already visible on the topic of what went down during WW II.
I saw the jade suit in Denver Colorado several years ago. The Museum of natural history had a China exhibit. They had technology a thousand years or more before the west. That suit took years to make. It had gold wires holding it together. It was beautiful and creepy at the same time.
Incredible! Thank you Dr Agnes Hsu for this insightful effort to expand our knowledge❤. I always love the discovery of “pauper to prince” stories that got suppressed by those who re-wrote history for the conqueror. I’d be interested in the lead levels of the bones found. Bronze use rarely escapes lead poisoning which can change the human in devastating ways. In many cultures it is described as “the devil’s metal”.
spoiler In 1983, a jade suit was found in the tomb of Zhao Mo, the second king of Southern Yue, in Guangzhou. The red silk thread used to bind the 2,291 jade plates. Old news
The documentary explains jade suit has been also found in earlier periods in different regions of China. This one in particular wasnt granted by an emperor. It was made locally.
This makes me think of one of Barry Hughart's novels about Master Li and Number Ten Ox. He was in love with China, knew a great deal about it's history, but wasn't allowed to ever visit, due to the top secret information in his head...so, instead, he wrote three absolutely wonderful tales based on ancient Chinese mythology. Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was, Eight Skilled Gentlemen, and The Story of the Stone. It's a shame he didn't make enough money from his work to make it worth his effort to continue, so we're left with only three. But the subject of a woman buried wearing a jade suit like that is in one of them.
Check out the word “Hundred Yue” in Mandarin or “Bac Viet” in Vietnamese. Yue or Viet 越 means areas south of the Yangtze River of China. Zhejiang province and Jiangsu province area used to be called Wuyue 吴越. Fujian province used to be called Minyue 闽越。Guangdong and Guangxi provinces area used to be called Nanyue 南越。The Qin Dynasty general Zhao Tuo 赵佗, Trieu Da in Vietnamese, founded the Nanyue Kingdom or Southern Yue Kingdom. The Nanyue King Mausoleum Museum 南越王墓博物馆 was the tomb of his descendant. The Trieu Dynasty 赵朝 of Vietnam was founded by this Qin Dynasty general.
So this Mausoleum is for the grandson of Zhao Tuo 趙佗, Zhao Mo 趙眜，who succeeded his grandfather as the second ruler of the Southern Yue or Nanyue Kingdom 南越國。. Nan 南 （Nam in Vietnamese) = southern; Yue 越 (Viet in Vietnamese) = south of Yangtze River. 廣州 Guangzhou, my birth place, was the capital of this Nanyue Kingdom.
As a historian with History degree in Chinese history, I am learning new things continually and cannot get enough! Greetings from San Francisco!
Thank you for reworking the original Chinese documentary into English. Fascinating!
If this was originally a Chinese documentary, wouldn't the lady be speaking Chinese the whole time instead of English? I think this was always an English doc.
@@Zackaria_sMax the original was made years ago by a Chinese company and did not offer English subtitles.
@@janetrapoza3877 but the lady can speak Chinese, if it was for a Chinese audience why was she speaking English the whole time? And were there Chinese subtitles for her English in the orginal? If so that's super impressive because they would have went to go find the original unedited masters for this, just so they wouldn't have to cover the Chinese subs. Or dubbed maybe?
@@Zackaria_sMax No....The original documentary was entirely in Chinese and filmed many years ago... I believe it was the Chinese government who sponsored it .
I do believe anything on u tube should be given the option of English translation. I find the Chinese gov. Is very much aware and so are Chinese videographers who make money from their creations and would benefit from reworking Chinese videos into English.
I'm really enjoying these documentaries on China. Thank you Timeline and Agnes Hsu-Tang
Chinese culture and history never ceases to amaze me! Greetings from Israel.
I agree from neighboring Lebanon 😁
Check out “God in Ancient China” by Dr. C K Thong, and also another sermon with the same name by Pastor Kong Hee. Before the advent of Buddhism to China from India, for the first half of 5000 years of Chinese history, the Chinese worshiped the same God as the one recorded in the Bible.
Sinologists and theologians who are well versed in Sinology and Christian theology like Matteo Ricci, Dr. Thomas Leung, Dr. C K Thong, pastor Yuan Zhiming who wrote “Lao Tzu and the Bible”, agree that the ancient Chinese founders and sages like the Yellow Emperor, Confucius and Lao Tzu, worshiped Shang Di, called Tian in the Zhou Dynasty, and Dao (the Way, or the Word Logos) by Confucius and Lao Tzu. I am Chinese American and I too can affirm after listening to these sermons by these scholars that my ancient Chinese ancestors were indeed God-fearing people.
china Taoism believes in the Three Qing Dynasty, and folk believe in the Jade Emperor and ancestors, none of which has anything to do with Western God
@@ezdez3687 Watch those lectures by Sinologists and theologians first and then you tell me. I am Chinese American, and I am fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin and can read simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Watch those lectures first and then you can tell me that the God of ancient Chinese isn’t the same God as the one in the Bible.
This young lady is such a pleasant presenter, I Thank her for sharing her talent and knowledge in such an interesting way. Much Respect. Peace.
This has at least 10 years she was young lady at the time and definitely isn't now but she indeed nice
I had the privilege of visiting this tomb/museum when I taught English in China.
This excites me, to hear the Cantonese have much more to celebrate their own distinct culture as far as being just Asian from the perspective of outsiders. I think they are so interesting and a treasure trove of history about the inside of Chinese culture.
A superb documentary. Thankyou Agnes for giving us insight into another piece of China's incredible past. 👍
Awesome glimpse into history. It's important to save these treasures off of the internet that can't be deleted..
Yeah put it on paper instead
Didn't the Jade Woman found preserved in Hunan very similar? She also had musical instruments, a jade and silk burial suit. She is believed to be 2000 years old
Oh really
How’s your day going Mary?😊
@@schwozraymond7524Today has been great so far, Raymond. How do you do?
This woman makes me want to learn Chinese history...
Love countries where so much ancient art is still there for us to see!
How blessed we are in the US to have so many people from southern China bringing such a ancient food culture to share.
I like how she's just discovering that not all Chinese southerners were barbarians living in mud huts with sharpen stick spears. The Yue were master seafarers and blacksmiths. The sword of Goujian, a King of the Yue Kingdom from 496 BC is still as sharp as it was thousands of year before.
She's just discovering whatever propaganda the ChiComs are telling her to discover.
This is Vietnamese cultural history not chinese. They only influenced eachother over the ages si chinese cant clain its their history rlly.
@@CuongNguyen-zn6jy China actually influenced Vietnam and other East Asian countries. They first passed on their writing systems. The video talks about how the artifacts of the cooking are of the same Southern Chinese (Cantonese) making dim sum... which is not Vietnamese.
The writing itself is in Chinese as well. Vietnam at that time did not have their own writing, Vietnam used the Chinese writing for hundreds of years before creating their own. Therfore it could not be Vietnamese at all. China at that time was mainly still up north as stated in the video and in history. Later on in time was when more moved south and eventually spread the writing and culture to others (including Vietnam).
@@CuongNguyen-zn6jy Did Vietnam exist more than 2,000 years ago? The founder of the Nanyue Kingdom, Zhao Tuo, was first of all a Han Chinese from the north.
Zhao Tuo led 500,000 northern soldiers to Guangdong, China, and established the Nanyue Kingdom in Guangxi and northern Vietnam. There were only primitive tribes in these areas, and it was Han soldiers and craftsmen who built and made these things.
If you can read the original books written by your ancestors in Chinese characters, you will understand your history, not the false "history" modified by the Vietnamese government. The Vietnamese are the descendants of the combination of Han soldiers and indigenous people in northern China. Don’t say it again China has invaded you for thousands of years, and you are the descendants of the invaders.
I suggest you to read the original history books written by your ancestors in Chinese. Not the "history books" revised by your government today.
These were my thoughts exactly
This is all so fascinating. I love learning about how some ancient cultures are way more advanced than we thought
Incredible documentary, far superior to most!!!! Dr Agnes Hsu is an exceptional narrator. I can only wish she would do a weekly program. I would subscribe in an instant. Brilliant work indeed!!
It always makes me feel funny to think of something just waiting, quietly out of sight, for that long. Who knows what else is sitting, waiting out in the world?!
YES!! 😁
That is so intriguing to people they made a whole field of science dedicated to finding stuff buried!
Unfortunately so much is buried. I’d like to know what’s under the sediment flowing from the eye of the sahara
just imagine the tombs in japan that they wont open, because they are sacred. i just hope that some day they will open even few of the biggest ones to reveal their ancient leaders
I wish they would leave peoples’ graves alone.
I saw this and other artifacts at the Asian Museum in San Francisco several years ago. The suit is an amazing work.
Amazing documentary that I enjoyed watching.Seeing the gold seal at the end of the video was cherry on top.I can't wait for the grandfather's tomb to be discovered.I just love ancient China and everything about it.Iam very fascinated with ancient Chinese history.Would love to go to China one day and see all these amazing discoveries & artifacts with my very own eyes.Please don't stop making documentaries regarding ancient China.
welcome to china
In tge current political environment this is as close as most if us will get
Fascinating! Love Chinese history and culture.
Must respect the chinese people for finding and providing the world with this amazing historical finding ❤
这不算大的考古发现，比它重大的多不胜数！！南越国这个只是中国历史长河的一个分支！！
@@huiyuchina8594 👌
The jade suit was beautiful ! Wow. That took some time and serious skill to make!
I am saving this to my library. Thank you so very much.
I never understand why "modern" researchers or investigators assume they have to be the more advanced society. I love when their arrogance is brought down to size by such a find as this. Amazing history & wonderful documentary!
Why this hostility toward modern archaeology? Ancient civilizations may turn out to be far more sophisticated than previously thought, but when they're compared to modern civilizations, there's no competition as to which are more advanced: we are.
This isn't hubris speaking - this is fact.
And let's be clear - the kind of technology and fine craftsmanship that would have been accessible to royalty and the upper-class would hardly have been accessible to the common peasant.
@@miaomiaochanwell said. This is just anti intellectualism if you ask me. If it wasn’t for archaeology, we wouldn’t have such a good understanding of these past cultures to begin with. Maybe that’s what the op would prefer? 🙄
*besides it’s not the archaeologists who are saying that they weren’t advanced. They’re just explaining what the general attitude has been regarding these cultures throughout history. It’s frustrating that has to be spelled out for some people
This series is so fascinating. The artifacts, & the additions to the historical narrative, are just stunning.
YES!!! 🙌💁♀
@@LoriPARK1111-u1b 🐲⛩️🧨 !!!
Timeline is absolutely the most amazing channel for anything history. The amount of top quality content they provide is astounding amd very mush appreciated.
But.....but.....what about the ancient aliens 😥
This is fantastic! My hometown is Lintong, Shaanxi (Terracotta warriors) but I grew up in Canada and unfortunately... never got to fully grasp the historical significance.. so this is wonderful!
I burst into happy tears when I saw them. I had been wanting to see them for my whole childhood, and I was absolutely humbled and amazed. Truly one of the most incredible moments of my life.
I wish I had a time machine and travel back in time to see these wonderful civilizations.
Wouldn’t see the president of the US buried in a suit like that.
A comedy on history or her story, It all amounts to Ego.
I wish you could so could see the pain of people living in that unstable unsafe environment.... Appreciate the relative safty and stability you have now... we ha r time snd energy to talk about what people want to be referred to by.... do you even understand what it takes for us to be here
I've see this in person! Jade suit is awesome so is everything else!
Wow, how lucky!! 😵😊😊😊😊
Of the Three Kingdoms it was the Southern Kingdom that produced an abundance of navigators, seamen, and explorers who ventured outside of China. Today, their descendants still can be found living in the midst of Chinatowns of the New and Old World.
The Sun family ruled the waves of Wu.
Beautiful and fascinating! Wow. Amazing things! What an incredible culture and civilization. 🧡 🙏
I went and saw the Jade Emperor on display in Singapore, during my primary school years. It was amazing and fascinating!
This astonishing find is particularly fascinating to me from the mercantile perspective, because it illuminates the earlier origins of Asian maritime trade routes, long before the East India Companies, back to Tamerlane, the Mughal Rulers of India, the Qin Dynasty, and the beginnings of the rising Han Dynasty. I truly believe that Carthaginian navigators of Punic origin were some of the earliest explorers to reach the Spice Islands and Southeast Asia.
The renowned Portuguese pilots, you ask? That country’s main seaport was founded by Carthage!
I would agree they in fact i believe made it to America and many other places...
You seem to be very acknowledged about Asian ancient history. Do you have your own channel? Please enlight us.
It's a little know fact that Magellan discovered Walmart.
@@deepdude4719 their belief doesn't have compelling historical evidence.
Good ports are good ports, no matter who runs and populates them, and populations do change. The fact that Carthage founded a town in Portugal does not mean the fifteenth-century navigators who used it had Phoenician ancestry.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the history of trade and intercultural exchange. The famous terracotta warriors are evidence of the influence of the West, like those columns found farther south.
That Western influence seems more likely to be Greek than Carthaginian, given how far Greek/Hellenistic culture reached, thanks to Alexander. His foray into Afghanistan left incredible work many would mistake for art from Renaissance Italy, not Bamiyan. Hellenistic depictions of human figures shaped human sculpture throughout Asia, from the Gandharan period in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India and beyond.
That said, I am sure ancient Carthaginians and their post-Punic descendants got far afield. Greek and Roman ships moored on the Southwest coast of India. Some Greek and Roman traders reached modern Bangladesh.
Later there were plenty of medieval Jewish traders going between Egypt and Spain.
Parts of the “Old World” were far more connected than we sometimes think.
The house style of this "barbaric kingdom" is weirdly modern but also reminiscent of Mayan culture. Amazing
Omg , I went to this museum and saw the jade suit several years ago. The jade suit was something I wanted to see since I saw a postcard when I was under 10years old.
This is amazing, I have never heard of this before or a jade suite made and held together with silk. This is an amazing find.
Truly spectacular!!! Silk is VERY strong!💁♀😃😎
I love ancient Chinese history. So very different from other cultures. Plus, i love Chinese food.
This was fascinating!!
The seal! Waow , everything is magnificent
Powerful Documentary. Thank you.
You’re right it is really powerful
How’s your day going today my friend?
Funny. This morning I was watching episode 2 of classic Wild America with Marty Stouffer which was about butterflies. The monarch butterfly before it becomes a butterfly is encased in an emerald tomb with gold inlay. So beautiful.
Really? Marty Stouffer? Cool. I haven't seen his show in close to 40 yrs. Am 45 now. Used to watch that show all the time! Definitely a blast from the past......am gonna hafta check it out! 🥰
Really? Marty Stouffer? Cool. I haven't seen his show in close to 40 yrs. Am 45 now. Used to watch that show all the time! Definitely a blast from the past......am gonna hafta check it out! 🥰
@@rachelkristine4669 I grew up on that show. I'm glad it's on YT so I can watch with my kids.
@@rachelkristine4669 I'm 41.
That is funny! And totally relevant! I mean what are the chances?!?
Often times the builders of tombs were killed so they could not tell of the layout or defenses of the tomb, and those who killed them were also killed to make it more likely no one knew......
Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked
Very true point !!!
Moral of the story: Do not build tombs for a living, coz you ain't living.
Seems like a move the joker would pull like the start of the dark knight movie
Thank you Agnes,,, Facinating history. I am sending you best wishes for a Happy 2023 New Year from
the Isle of Capri!
👍😍👍
This is amazing. My dream is to study ancient settlements and history. But that dream is slowly being washed away as years go.
Really enjoyed this film. Very interesting and the art/artifacts are beautiful.
GREAT VIDEO, THANK U
You're welcome.
That's a lot of high-status stuff for a "barbarian" culture. They were very familiar with and associated with the more advanced society on a regular basis. Looks like two-way trade and these guys did very good business.
Excellent documentary.
Ancient Vietnamese scholars always included Nan Yue (Nam Việt) as an official state of today Vietnam. Only since the Nguyen Dynasty the name was swapped to Yue Nan (Việt Nam) by request of Qing's dynasty. Although the ruler was Han-Chinese, the culture, technology and majority of the population was unarguably Yue.
Thanks for this!
Southern Chinese call Northern Chinese barbarians also.
This is amazing find , I’m excited to see it thanks for sharing .
Very good documentary and great artifacts
Pakal had a mask and jewelry made of jade, he had a sphere and a cube in his hands, made of jade also. It seems Jade had some kind of special value or quality to the ancient civilizations rulers.
Thank you Dr. Agnes Hsu for a great presentation. This emperor and his people were very artistic, spiritual and they loved life. They left us a treasure! I hope to go see this palace someday. Oh that would be a dream come true.
This was fascinating. Thank you.
Very interesting! It lead me to open up tabs on the Han dynasty, on the ancient RyuKyu Kingdom, jade burial suits, and the Xiongnu people!
The lead archeologist said something VERY IMPORTANT, HE SAID " IT TOOK A YEAR OF EXCAVATING AND DIGGING TO GET TO THIS POINT" TO WHERE THE CHAMBER WAS. and not a year of archeologically digging he meant construction style with huge excavators and machines. It's important because we are so sweet on our history only going back 5,7,8 thousand years old but the truth is if we want to find these ancient or historic civilizations we have to dig WAY WAY DEEPER INTO THE GROUND. Not just so when we hit something 5k years old, keep going down deeper
남월 왕국에 대한 다큐를 볼 줄은 생각도 못했습니다
유익한 하루 입니다
This presenter is a very pleasant, lovely lady
Great programme
Amazing, unexpected technology. Thank you for sharing this !
Nanyue in Chinese means the edge of South , the name "Vietnam" in Chinese means beyond South .
Nanyue in chinese writing is 南越 Vietnam in Chinese writing is 越南 , Vietnam in character writing is the writing character name Nanyue in reverse .
you can see reason behind the meaning .
Some storyteller said the Manchu Emperor gave the "Vietnam" name to kingdom of Vietnam
In 1955 a large ancient tomb of some minor noble was discover in Hong Kong from dated around 25 AD to 225 AD , a few centuries younger than the tomb from Nanyue King's Tomb in Guangzhou , it proved that even deep south like Hong Kong were already civilized nearly 2000 yr ago .
Ancient Vietnamese scholars always included Nan Yue (Nam Việt) as an official state of today Vietnam. Only since the Nguyen Dynasty the name was swapped to Yue Nan (Việt Nam) by request of Qing's dynasty. Although the ruler was Han-Chinese, the culture, technology and majority of the population was unarguably Yue.
I don’t think the red thread is intended for any kind of self proclamation. If the original has gold thread and is intended as a vehicle for afterlife travel, I see the red thread as a sign of compromise on that journey. Was the gold thread version also rubbed with cinnabar? Then there’s the two or more types of jade and the location on the suit where it’s located. I think this symbolism means something even if it is signs of earlier grave disturbances. Are there any others that have the red threads?
This is logical! The northern kingdom lasted longer and it is as true today as it was then that the victor (or those who survived, lived on) writes the history and tells the narrative they prefer.
The very same thing is happening today. With physical books vanishing, statues and other physical objects being removed, the next generation think that it never happened.
It’s already visible on the topic of what went down during WW II.
So true
“What went down in WWII”
Oh, pray tell. 🙄
@@edoboleyn I am referring to that they are starting to remove all info on the atrocious events that took place there.
@@edoboleyn look up operation high jump and operation paper clip, and admiral birds scientific trip to Antarctica (disastrous)
@@liliyakamala2348 Who is "they"
I saw the jade suit in Denver Colorado several years ago. The Museum of natural history had a China exhibit. They had technology a thousand years or more before the west. That suit took years to make. It had gold wires holding it together. It was beautiful and creepy at the same time.
"Beautiful and creepy at the same time". Like Tilda Swindon?
Incredible! Thank you Dr Agnes Hsu for this insightful effort to expand our knowledge❤. I always love the discovery of “pauper to prince” stories that got suppressed by those who re-wrote history for the conqueror. I’d be interested in the lead levels of the bones found. Bronze use rarely escapes lead poisoning which can change the human in devastating ways. In many cultures it is described as “the devil’s metal”.
A super documentary.
spoiler In 1983, a jade suit was found in the tomb of Zhao Mo, the second king of Southern Yue, in Guangzhou. The red silk thread used to bind the 2,291 jade plates. Old news
1983? I remember the jade burial suit in a book in the 70s. Strange stories and amazing facts if I remember right.
That's just the Mandalorion effect.
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有什么奇怪啊？七十年代是金缕玉衣，汉代的，这个是南越国的丝缕玉衣！！
The documentary explains jade suit has been also found in earlier periods in different regions of China. This one in particular wasnt granted by an emperor. It was made locally.
The suit discovered in the 70s belongs to a prince of the Han Dynasty (Prince Liu Che, I believe). Han Dynasty ruled what is northern China today.
Does anyone know how to find this on the History Hit app? Doesn't come up on search... 🤔
Very interesting..I recall another jade suit-this one had the jade pieces bound with gold wires. Where was it found?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_burial_suit
Henan Museum, Hebei Museum
"We have a full room filled with musical instruments. What does thay tell us about this guy?"
-Uh. He liked music?🤷🏽♂️😂
We may never know. 🤔
Long time subscriber first time commentor, I really like you to do something on the Chinese man Sun Tzu
Whoah!!! Thanks!
China has some of the most amazing history, Its addictive
This is truly an amazing site. So glad we visited here in 2011. We will visit again on our next trip.
10:24, feigned absorption of new information
Fantastic video
Agnes Hsu-Tang Awesome Doc, And she is beautiful! Love her smile.
Incredible artifacts
Thankyou Agnes, very interesting 👍
In history those who thought others were barbaric and label them thus were often far more barbaric in action and words.
So cool, I love this kind of stuff
Quite fascinating....
Very interesting!
Those swords man... holy smokes imagine what they mustve looked like, completely insane
Amazing find. Wow.
Agnes, please do a documentary on Chi You.
China is a civilisation spanning millennia so it's no wonder its treasures are outstanding.
I REALLY HATE PEOPLE BOTHERING THE DEAD ESPECIALLY KINGS OF ANCIENT DAYS .
THEY ARE TOMBS NOT THEME PARKS.
Killing your favorite musician and concubines to accompany you in death, is pretty barbaric.
anybody know whar year this documentary is from
🇲🇽 Amazingly Awesome 🇲🇽
Fascinating
Her hair is gorgeous.
I think he is ancestors of today Vietnamese. 👍👍
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i know you cannot put a value on it . but could you imagine how much that gold seal is worth ?.
This makes me think of one of Barry Hughart's novels about Master Li and Number Ten Ox. He was in love with China, knew a great deal about it's history, but wasn't allowed to ever visit, due to the top secret information in his head...so, instead, he wrote three absolutely wonderful tales based on ancient Chinese mythology. Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was, Eight Skilled Gentlemen, and The Story of the Stone. It's a shame he didn't make enough money from his work to make it worth his effort to continue, so we're left with only three. But the subject of a woman buried wearing a jade suit like that is in one of them.
Check out the word “Hundred Yue” in Mandarin or “Bac Viet” in Vietnamese. Yue or Viet 越 means areas south of the Yangtze River of China. Zhejiang province and Jiangsu province area used to be called Wuyue 吴越. Fujian province used to be called Minyue 闽越。Guangdong and Guangxi provinces area used to be called Nanyue 南越。The Qin Dynasty general Zhao Tuo 赵佗, Trieu Da in Vietnamese, founded the Nanyue Kingdom or Southern Yue Kingdom. The Nanyue King Mausoleum Museum 南越王墓博物馆 was the tomb of his descendant. The Trieu Dynasty 赵朝 of Vietnam was founded by this Qin Dynasty general.
So this Mausoleum is for the grandson of Zhao Tuo 趙佗, Zhao Mo 趙眜，who succeeded his grandfather as the second ruler of the Southern Yue or Nanyue Kingdom 南越國。. Nan 南 （Nam in Vietnamese) = southern; Yue 越 (Viet in Vietnamese) = south of Yangtze River. 廣州 Guangzhou, my birth place, was the capital of this Nanyue Kingdom.
china is intimidating bit so extremely interesting. really cool documentation
They must have gone to centro América, because, there is many groups That look like and have some similarities in culture