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  • @TimelineChannel
    @TimelineChannel  3 роки тому +278

    We would like to thank the viewers who brought to our attention the inaccuracy of our previous thumbnail; depicting the Philippine Hanging Coffins as opposed to the Chinese. We apologise for the error and have since rectified the thumbnail.

    • @LeahBouley
      @LeahBouley 3 роки тому +24

      To be honest I didn’t expect you guys to do anything about this..kudos to you guys, but you need to make sure that kinda stuff doesn’t happen. historical missinformation and historical whitewashing is a serious issue

    • @yrrejpastolero5104
      @yrrejpastolero5104 3 роки тому +2

      Luh. Your making a false information. WE will report this to our government.

    • @bemyguess1636
      @bemyguess1636 3 роки тому +5

      Go to Philippines. There’s also hanging coffins in Sagada Mountain Province.

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому +5

      Thank you for fixing this. 🙏 Kudos

    • @jhonabatil6875
      @jhonabatil6875 3 роки тому +16

      Thank you for correcting this. Our history and our own gravesites are also very important to us. Not to mention, of course, the current political issues between China and the Philippines. Thank you.

  • @teerex893
    @teerex893 3 роки тому +493

    I feel like the Bo people probably did have climbing equipment.
    It’s best not to underestimate ancestors just because we don’t yet understand how they accomplished difficult tasks.

    • @shaymorcormick8743
      @shaymorcormick8743 3 роки тому +21

      I mean climbing equipment really is that advanced. It is all pretty basic still just with much lighter and stronger materials. But a rope is a rope.

    • @the-witness8811
      @the-witness8811 3 роки тому +21

      I'd have to agree. In some ways, the ancient peoples were more advanced than us now. We are constantly questioning how they accomplished seemingly impossible tasks.

    • @melyndaphalen6502
      @melyndaphalen6502 3 роки тому +16

      couldnt they have also created like, steps up to where they were putting the caskets? i mean, how else were they able to get the wooden pillars into the cliffs facing to hold the coffins?? They would have just did the same as the pillars and just made steps and then just removed the wooden steps and erased what they did

    • @Ruudiii
      @Ruudiii 3 роки тому +14

      They didnt climb up, the decended from the top.

    • @anthonytindle5758
      @anthonytindle5758 3 роки тому

      So true we have to stop guessing estimating about things we are unsure.

  • @cyan1616
    @cyan1616 3 роки тому +436

    When they finally found the damaged coffin and the bones, 37:45, you could hear the sounds of children playing below them on the riverbank. It was then that I saw a link of sorts to the Han burials who bury their dead on the sides of hills so they could overlook the living. It would be a wonderful way for your bones to spend eternity, on a riverbank listening to children playing.

    • @OldDunollieman
      @OldDunollieman 3 роки тому +32

      You aint going to hear nothing lol.

    • @cindyheadon9005
      @cindyheadon9005 3 роки тому +6

      @@OldDunollieman 😂

    • @mustertherohirrim7315
      @mustertherohirrim7315 3 роки тому +2

      Yes indeed.

    • @lorimiller4301
      @lorimiller4301 3 роки тому +12

      Your Soul wants to see what your Family is doing but your Soul is free to travel, it doesn't stay with a dead body it no longer cares about.

    • @catman4471
      @catman4471 3 роки тому +9

      And a wonderful place for children to play...with a dead body over their heads.

  • @ninawernick6501
    @ninawernick6501 3 роки тому +460

    Ancient culture: "yes, this will keep our dead safe from disturbance". Modern archaeologists.... "hold my beer."

    • @jeannieloosthuizen2750
      @jeannieloosthuizen2750 3 роки тому +43

      I just dont like the fact that they remove them from their final resting place. Seeing the skull in the plastic bag being put in the case being taken away is sad

    • @brettnelson7518
      @brettnelson7518 3 роки тому +11

      @@jeannieloosthuizen2750 imagine in a thousand years future humans find the graveyard where presidents are buried and put them all in a museum with the presidents bodies and possessions they were buried with on display.

    • @bmartin001
      @bmartin001 3 роки тому +8

      @@brettnelson7518 I think Futurama did that one already! 😆

    • @wilco8729
      @wilco8729 3 роки тому

      @@jeannieloosthuizen2750 are you dutch?

    • @bry117
      @bry117 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah but they are documenting it

  • @Fanofyout
    @Fanofyout 3 роки тому +52

    I am descended from one of the minority groups of China. My people still live in Yunnan and Sichuan. I've heard stories of them doing this as well because the majority Han at the time, who we were warring with, forbade my ancestors to bury their dead in the "ground." This also prevented them from being dug up.

  • @bobbibuttons8730
    @bobbibuttons8730 3 роки тому +33

    I was privileged to see the hanging coffins and find out about the history of the Bo people 12 years ago when on holiday in China and we were cruising up the 3 gorges. We also drove through amazing scenery which was like being in another century. China is such an amazing country with so much incredible history throughout the millennium.

    • @BallHeadFreak
      @BallHeadFreak 2 роки тому

      Yeah great history.. until now. Now it's just slave labour and extreme exploitation of nature.

  • @zb8923
    @zb8923 3 роки тому +216

    I think the photo on the thumbnail was that of the hanging coffins in Sagada Philippines and not the one in China

  • @cocongd
    @cocongd 3 роки тому +83

    Legends were told that the higher you place your dead people, the nearer and easier for them to reach the heavens.

    • @the-witness8811
      @the-witness8811 3 роки тому +1

      Why not just find a nice mountain ridge to build a temple then? besides the whole theft issue, they should be able to protect a sturdy temple.

    • @joshw9037
      @joshw9037 3 роки тому +2

      Wow! You must have watched the same documentary as the rest of us!

  • @DigitalNomadOnFIRE
    @DigitalNomadOnFIRE 3 роки тому +119

    "...is it because, as legend tells us, because they could fly?"
    "no, next question"....

    • @joshjablonicky171
      @joshjablonicky171 3 роки тому +2

      Think that they were dropping acid.

    • @eatemandsmile7517
      @eatemandsmile7517 3 роки тому

      @@joshjablonicky171 00

    • @ninad205
      @ninad205 3 роки тому +3

      I can speculate that they technology that others may not understand. They were near cliffs and mountains so having a pully system or hang gliding is plausible..... They for sure can not fly like superman. I suspect they may have been able to "fly" but not fly-fly.. you know?

    • @brendasears8668
      @brendasears8668 3 роки тому

      @@ninad205 Yes I can see that

    • @artivedi3887
      @artivedi3887 3 роки тому

      @@ninad205 meaning?

  • @Badger69-96
    @Badger69-96 3 роки тому +225

    So one man falls to his death trying to drag a coffin up a cliff so now there’s 2 coffins that need to go up this could take a while !!

  • @conrioakfield414
    @conrioakfield414 3 роки тому +91

    Bamboo is used to make scaffolding for building modern skyscrapers in China. Not unreasonable to think they could build the same scaffolding in the past.

    • @robertnegron9706
      @robertnegron9706 3 роки тому +2

      Yes I remember seeing that when I visited China. Amazing.

    • @chadsimmons6347
      @chadsimmons6347 3 роки тому

      without solid footing, what they did up there is impossible

    • @donbrashsux
      @donbrashsux 3 роки тому

      Exactly

    • @robynw6307
      @robynw6307 3 роки тому

      My thoughts exactly.

    • @christianbuczko1481
      @christianbuczko1481 3 роки тому +1

      @@chadsimmons6347 they said in some areas there are holes which held walkways, the rest eroded away... that explains how they did it.

  • @prometheus4268
    @prometheus4268 3 роки тому +41

    This is one of the more interesting documentaries on ancient history that I've seen

    • @roryross3878
      @roryross3878 3 роки тому

      Great screename! Serious question does it count as ancient history if they unfortunately were wiped out in 1600AD? If the tradition has continuity to a truly ancient period does it therefore count?

  • @plussum3255
    @plussum3255 3 роки тому +135

    Now this is interesting. A strange place to rest. Maybe its because the cliffs are like the cross section of the earth. Still underground , but also closer to the heavens

  • @Chalexmack
    @Chalexmack 3 роки тому +54

    So far I’m getting that the Bo were air benders….

    • @Immopimmo
      @Immopimmo 3 роки тому +7

      Massacred by the fire kingdom...

    • @denialeiva8690
      @denialeiva8690 3 роки тому

      Lmao my same exact thought😂

    • @denialeiva8690
      @denialeiva8690 3 роки тому +3

      @@Immopimmo I know rt... It all makes sense now

  • @hrmnpsrffn
    @hrmnpsrffn 3 роки тому +9

    I am also amaze at how durable that piece of wood is to withstand all that elements for such a very long time!

    • @joakimblomqvist7229
      @joakimblomqvist7229 2 роки тому +1

      Yes, that is remarkable indeed... they look fresher than 1700 cty catacomb coffins of Portugal... in rain and wind and snow... 1000 years... hmm... it's like those 1000 year old still edible eggs...

  • @richomanzano8318
    @richomanzano8318 3 роки тому +321

    The photo from your thumbnail is the Hanging Coffins of the Phillipines

    • @mmsizzlak
      @mmsizzlak 3 роки тому +24

      Lol when i saw what was written on the sides of the coffins i was thinking, "man... Those coffins look off..." Lol

    • @ebybeehoney
      @ebybeehoney 3 роки тому +9

      Timeline never seems to get the little details...

    • @malayangtanglaw8681
      @malayangtanglaw8681 3 роки тому +25

      It seems like Philippines is part of China as they say...

    • @allanananayo2244
      @allanananayo2244 3 роки тому +24

      its from the Philippines the photos you used in your time line research first......before you used it.....

    • @reycorbellondarius6320
      @reycorbellondarius6320 3 роки тому +4

      I notice that too

  • @johannakadar4314
    @johannakadar4314 3 роки тому +38

    Aweee im an archeologyst, and i'v been excavating in China for a while, thru a scholarchip. Altough i never seen these coffins, but Chinese history and archeology never fails to amaze me. That He family i think deffinietly has a connection of Bo tribe. Their fetures seems different from Han features, and after we see reconstructed skull, i realy think Bo's are their ancestors.

    • @priscillac9686
      @priscillac9686 3 роки тому +1

      Can you send me links, sounds interesting

    • @ShyDog827
      @ShyDog827 3 роки тому

      I found this documentary so interesting. Yet another discovery of our “primitive” ancestors. One question came to mind that was not touched on in documentary : Did the Bo bury everyone on the side of a high cliff? Or was this reserved only for important individuals ? Their number must have been substantial if the Ming felt the need to wipe them out.

    • @wastedwarrior10
      @wastedwarrior10 3 роки тому +1

      It’s Beau Not Bo 🙄 lol

  • @verawilde6972
    @verawilde6972 3 роки тому +116

    They have wood, ropes, man power, and are advanced enough to make silk but lowering a coffin from the top is not a thing? They could have built a small walk way up for those who would be waiting below to receive the coffin once it was lowered?

    • @dominiquewinther857
      @dominiquewinther857 3 роки тому +25

      my thoughts exactly. they didn’t need to carry the coffins op the side. 🤦🏼‍♂️
      they clearly did it by standing on the top of the cliff and lowered them down the sides 🙄

    • @audreyandlinCompany
      @audreyandlinCompany 3 роки тому +15

      @@dominiquewinther857 yes, that was my first thought. Drop down from above and install a scaffold to support the coffin.

    • @jamieblack1452
      @jamieblack1452 3 роки тому +6

      That’s my thought. Lowering a heavy load via road is much easier than carrying it up a cliff.

    • @thearmchairjournalist566
      @thearmchairjournalist566 3 роки тому +8

      Bamboo scaffolding is very strong and we’ve all seen how tall the Chinese can make it 😱

    • @sergeantskrtskrt9594
      @sergeantskrtskrt9594 3 роки тому +7

      Here's the issue with that, it depends on where they can actually get to the edge from. I doubt these historians are illogical enough to make such a large oversight without reason after all.

  • @glensaclao
    @glensaclao 3 роки тому +195

    The picture you used in your thumbnail is the Hanging Coffins from Sagada Philippines! Its also part of the tradition here in the Philippines especially in some parts of Cordillera Region. I thought this content would feature traditions in Sagada

    • @SkindoctorMd
      @SkindoctorMd 3 роки тому +12

      Yes wrong thumbnail picture ... thats sagada for sure

    • @paulmanson253
      @paulmanson253 3 роки тому +4

      There are several such posts. Would you be good enough to tell me what you know of this tradition in the Philippines ? How it came to be ? I think it a rather wonderful thing. And when the construct collapses,straight down into the river.
      Talk about honouring the dead. The effort is far from trivial.
      There is an Inca tradition of grass rope bridging so the footpaths between gorges are connected. Every year the suspension bridges are replaced,so the villages have an institutional memory of how to do this.
      Very different reason,but a common community skill of that village.
      This is not a trivial exercise. For this to go on for generations,there must have been a powerful desire. Not just a family,but a clan or an entire village would be needed.

    • @r13_noenunzcw
      @r13_noenunzcw 3 роки тому +6

      @@paulmanson253 hanging cemetery is still practiced by local tribes in the philippines mountain province...it's their culture and belief...

    • @view1989
      @view1989 3 роки тому +1

      yeah... tsk2

    • @giovannimarcos2179
      @giovannimarcos2179 3 роки тому +1

      Ha ha! Wen piman. Hyphenated names in latin letters.

  • @mariaeuv7694
    @mariaeuv7694 3 роки тому +88

    This may be out of subject but I wonder how was the water level on that river bank thousands years ago.

    • @LuckyLu602
      @LuckyLu602 3 роки тому +18

      This was my thought as well. I thought I could see signs of water erosion, but maybe I’m mistaken. I’m no expert, but common sense tells me that these coffins were placed there when the water level was higher. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @mariaeuv7694
      @mariaeuv7694 3 роки тому +21

      @@LuckyLu602 exactly and no one mentioned it. Landscape shifts might play a role too.

    • @bubblegumnipples1639
      @bubblegumnipples1639 3 роки тому +25

      I dont know about the water level. But it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume there was an easier path up the side that has since crumbled away.

    • @Kotak8
      @Kotak8 3 роки тому +4

      To prevent coffins to be swept away by the roaring floodwater, or put the demises of wealthy people closer to the Heaven.

    • @Orangié-san
      @Orangié-san 3 роки тому +2

      I don't know why people are so nosey and isn't it scary when you think about it? You know people can't fly, even if they can it isn't normal. I'd say "yog dab xwb" and I'd stay hella far away as I can.

  • @wilfredjurassicyes
    @wilfredjurassicyes 3 роки тому +6

    This is my favorite ancient type of docu. This whole idea everything about it. The struggle to make it threw this.

  • @meanjeanmcqueen6171
    @meanjeanmcqueen6171 3 роки тому +47

    It's a shame that even after all these years, those who might be the descendants of the Bo are still bullied about it! If anything, it makes them unique and important!

  • @lukasloh2509
    @lukasloh2509 3 роки тому +50

    The thumbnail is definitely from the hanging coffins of Sagada in the northern region of the Philippines.

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому

      @Lukas Loh after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

  • @acealbinlayan1861
    @acealbinlayan1861 3 роки тому +104

    Lol the hanging coffins on the thumbnail are actually the ones located in Sagada, Philippines. (Unless the hanging coffins in China are completely identical)

    • @aanyagrg789
      @aanyagrg789 3 роки тому +3

      If this is Bow coffin then that in Philippines must be arrow coffin. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @ferdiebuenafe2222
      @ferdiebuenafe2222 3 роки тому +6

      Let's report to correct the thumbnail

    • @JhaeJ
      @JhaeJ 3 роки тому +2

      Agree

    • @Kuasarakyat2
      @Kuasarakyat2 3 роки тому +6

      The Bo people migrated to PH

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому +4

      @@ferdiebuenafe2222 after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

  • @janerogers8201
    @janerogers8201 3 роки тому +5

    This is so amazing! My family and I actually took a trip to China in May 2000 and saw those hanging coffins and we were never told of its history so this is fascinating!

  • @MrDXRamirez
    @MrDXRamirez 3 роки тому +3

    Humanity’s pre-modern history never ceases to be amazing.

  • @johnniewalker7628
    @johnniewalker7628 3 роки тому +44

    We also witnessed hanging coffins on cliffs during our Yangtze River cruise. Pretty neat...

    • @wmeemw994
      @wmeemw994 3 роки тому +3

      We were 1oo-2oo’ below during Mar’o5 cruise, maybe 1/4 or 1/2 of the backwater would become once the Three Gorges Dam would be filled.

    • @michaelhoward487
      @michaelhoward487 3 роки тому +2

      Yes, I was on a Yangtze River cruise in 04 and saw similar hanging coffins on the walls of one of the tributaries. Fascinatingly beautiful!

  • @minidachshundfurrypaws
    @minidachshundfurrypaws 3 роки тому +54

    Could it be since they have flash floods, that maybe the ground was higher up when they buried their dead?

    • @forevermarked5826
      @forevermarked5826 3 роки тому +11

      Bamboo scaffolding. Or a walkway to the top and they lowered.

    • @cfrygirl
      @cfrygirl 3 роки тому +1

      @@forevermarked5826 that’s what I was thinking too scaffolds

    • @darrenminimo1127
      @darrenminimo1127 3 роки тому +1

      No they were climbing the cliffs
      They beleive that the souls of the dead could reach the sky or the stars

    • @kokiPOC
      @kokiPOC 3 роки тому

      That's right the water was high as the same level of the coffin was hang up there...

  • @heathergustafson4237
    @heathergustafson4237 3 роки тому +5

    A lot of rope a lot of men working from the top and the bottom. One cave one bottom of coffin, one body, then the top. Truly amazing , beyond all words

  • @khendzievhie6694
    @khendzievhie6694 3 роки тому +22

    The thumbnail photo isn't the one in China, but in Sagada, Mountain Province in The Philippines...

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому

      after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

  • @trishmorrow4180
    @trishmorrow4180 3 роки тому +10

    This story has left us " hanging "

  • @danielblue4460
    @danielblue4460 3 роки тому +25

    Thumbnail picture is of Sagada, Mt Provice, the Philippines.
    A genetic study of Philippine genome released last month was Kankanays' (Sagada et al towns), and Ibalois' (Benguet) ancestors came from Taiwan, and those from Taiwan came from southeast China.
    Those from southeast China are not Han, but another group of people according to the study.

    • @robertjosephkleist2004
      @robertjosephkleist2004 3 роки тому

      I was just gonna say ... Sagada

    • @Algezon
      @Algezon 3 роки тому +3

      Great info 👍

    • @kahldiss2689
      @kahldiss2689 3 роки тому +2

      DNA analysis simply proves ethnic similarity but not place of origin.
      DNA analysis that is substantiated by archaeology will debunk your theory.
      Aborigal Taiwanese (including early Okinawans) originated from the Philippines and not the other way around.

    • @danielblue4460
      @danielblue4460 3 роки тому

      @Shunga Kha
      Who are the Kankanays and Applai people then?

    • @danielblue4460
      @danielblue4460 3 роки тому

      @@kahldiss2689
      Reverse immigration happened after 1000 years also but from Indonesia to Taiwan.
      That probably explained the language similarity.

  • @korstmahler
    @korstmahler 3 роки тому +42

    I think this is a geology problem too, the river valley cliffs in particular. I'm not a geologist, so I'd love to know if one ever tried to reconstruct the ground level in those valleys before erosion lowered the water level. Could the cliffs have been shorter for them as a result? More stable? What are the cliffs composed of in particular?

    • @phebes
      @phebes 3 роки тому

      That's exactly what I thought too. I'm surprised this was not considered, or if it was, strange that it wasn't brought up

    • @SizzleCorndog
      @SizzleCorndog 3 роки тому +5

      Quote from my geologist friend “nothing significant has happened in the last 20,000 years” obviously that’s a tongue and cheek response but I think what he’s trying to say is the amount of erosion isn’t as significant as you might think given the relatively short geologic timeframe

    • @YuehAndFriends
      @YuehAndFriends 3 роки тому

      I thinking the same thing what if there a part of the land missing and it been wash away? or what if those coffin were buried in that hill which is now half a hill?

    • @harvestedmoons3307
      @harvestedmoons3307 3 роки тому +1

      I wonder if there isn't a cave connecting from the top or bottom to that seam, that's karst so caves abound

  • @BlackwaterBronn
    @BlackwaterBronn 3 роки тому +43

    Or maybe.... just maybe, they rappel down from the top. |It would make better sense to lower something heavy then to pull it up.

    • @nortoro1
      @nortoro1 3 роки тому +10

      But that would make too much sense

    • @letitiakearney2423
      @letitiakearney2423 3 роки тому +8

      That was my thought too. Makes more sense to lower that to do an impossible climb.

    • @mixeddrinks8100
      @mixeddrinks8100 3 роки тому +4

      But how did they bring it to the TOP to lower it down? If there was a road up it looking down it would make sense.

    • @nortoro1
      @nortoro1 3 роки тому +4

      @@mixeddrinks8100 they are hanging in a narrow river canyon. Pull up the location on Google maps. They literally have all of China surrounding the location. It would be easy to simply walk over and lower the coffins.

    • @OldDunollieman
      @OldDunollieman 3 роки тому

      Thank you for your insight o gifted one, now tell us how they got the coffins to the top of the cliffs before lowering them down.

  • @sever4781
    @sever4781 3 роки тому +8

    To admin there is many people already mad about your wrong thumbnail, pls change it. We already suffer from china bullying our country in real life, i support my neighbour to change the thumbnail 😁, love 🇵🇭 from 🇲🇨

    • @carolynedwards2689
      @carolynedwards2689 3 роки тому

      You are Right, they don't care this is how lies get out to the People. All across the Earth.

  • @darveshzamindar
    @darveshzamindar 3 роки тому +23

    In Nepal Himalayan region some people used to preserve the remains of their ancestors in the same way . Some remains still exist . It is an astonishing sight.

    • @Gurrrrka_Badooooor
      @Gurrrrka_Badooooor 3 роки тому

      Where exactly in Nepal? Please specify.

    • @darveshzamindar
      @darveshzamindar 3 роки тому

      @@Gurrrrka_Badooooor I once saw a documentary , will try to recall and update you 🙏

    • @tobetoo7632
      @tobetoo7632 Рік тому

      Same here in indonesia , south sulawesi by the torajanesse and still do that today.

  • @audreygibson4780
    @audreygibson4780 3 роки тому +16

    I would love to know what's in the coffins but I would almost feel wrong disturbing them. At the same time if they're left alone the wood will rot and they'll just fall away.

    • @nickm7911
      @nickm7911 3 роки тому +3

      Yes, 'eventually' they will rot. But those coffins have been hanging there for 800-500 years (as scholars generally place their date within A.D. 1127-1500)... so that eventuality might be in the next couple of centuries. I think opening the coffins would definitely solve a lot of mysteries. For example, collecting DNA from the skeletons will throw light on the fate of the Bo people (i.e. where their descendants are today).

  • @blobloblob
    @blobloblob 3 роки тому +39

    kudos to the narrator! she nailed the chinese names and even pronounced them with the right tones. it wasn't something i expected lol

  • @bkokohut1980
    @bkokohut1980 3 роки тому +6

    That was really cute where they placed that new coffin. That was like running 50ft then telling a marathon runner you have done it too.

  • @houndofuladh587
    @houndofuladh587 3 роки тому +2

    This was absolutely brilliant 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @catwilk8213
    @catwilk8213 3 роки тому +15

    I love how nowadays they have a safety inspector when years ago they climbed that Cliff freehand with a coffin on her back it's all so incredible how the coffins have remained where they wear securely placed for so long through all the weather and wind and they haven't moved

  • @kiiu550
    @kiiu550 3 роки тому +4

    how did the hanging material such as the wood partitions which hold the coffin last until now for decades? that's magical. is it because the high elevation with the lower temperature declines the weathering to the materials? or maybe the past people used certain special wood and set it with a special method? what a magical mystery!

  • @sierrajade63
    @sierrajade63 3 роки тому +11

    Haven't some of the coffins rotted away along with the wooden supporting rods holding the coffins? Usually what goes up eventually comes down.

    • @cimermilsat2989
      @cimermilsat2989 3 роки тому +1

      ROSE : Yeah what goes up it must comes down... Hsjsjsk

  • @COPKALA
    @COPKALA 3 роки тому +2

    Incredible that in this case the researcher were handling the bones without using even gloves not to contaminate them...

  • @KikoRustia
    @KikoRustia 3 роки тому +12

    Thumbnail you used shows the Hanging Coffins of Sagada in the Philippines

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому

      after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

  • @corvettebob96
    @corvettebob96 3 роки тому +4

    34:37 I was listening to the story intently. Then, he said the Bo commander flew away with two soldiers under his arms. I will not say it didn't happen. But, I have to see something like that to believe it.

  • @pahouavang9371
    @pahouavang9371 3 роки тому +4

    Many years ago, these peoples are very good in kungfu skills where they can get up there very easily. Their kungfu skills are real and super, no tricks like today.

  • @jdromero6902
    @jdromero6902 3 роки тому +15

    This one on your thumbnail is from Sagada in the Philippines.

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому +1

      after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

  • @Wickedreptiles
    @Wickedreptiles 3 роки тому +3

    Absolutely love this channel! Can’t get enough, it amazes me how far science has come where we can get a pretty good idea of what a 1000 year old person looked liked and that just amazes me,all from half a skull! Genetics is such an interesting topic

  • @Scarletdollie
    @Scarletdollie 3 роки тому +2

    That last sentence of the video was an amazing closing 👏I felt awestruck

  • @elinm5899
    @elinm5899 3 роки тому +7

    in sagada philippines, there r also coffins hanging from the cliff

  • @fraudieYT
    @fraudieYT 3 роки тому +2

    What timber and wooden scaffold is still supporting that weight? those wooden supports must be hundreds of years old yet they look strong. did I see bamboo supports ?

  • @alexandrasoh6665
    @alexandrasoh6665 3 роки тому +5

    When you are the last of your tribe to die and no one is left to hang your coffin :(

  • @joannenardoni17
    @joannenardoni17 3 роки тому +2

    The river and bamboo and cliffs are so beautiful

  • @gerrynowaynoche
    @gerrynowaynoche 3 роки тому +14

    How many people perished while trying to bury their dead? I wonder 💭

  • @cimermilsat2989
    @cimermilsat2989 3 роки тому +2

    I really don't get it why people like to teasing another tribe, that's sad. When they said they live by denying their ancestors, I mean not very open about it towards another people because they'll get mocked that's a heartbroken. Kinda living in a shadow :((
    Anyone know why would they doing that? I mean it's 21st century now, are they still getting killed?
    I'm sincerely apologize if my words a little sensitive

  • @IKEMENOsakaman
    @IKEMENOsakaman 3 роки тому +8

    I'd like to travel there once the pandemic is over

    • @franknash7878
      @franknash7878 3 роки тому +8

      It will never be over just reinvented. You will see!

    • @phillipcollins1103
      @phillipcollins1103 3 роки тому +1

      And straight on to North Korea to complete the trip

    • @steveodonoghue2772
      @steveodonoghue2772 3 роки тому +3

      Over? Lol. Wake up! There never was a pandemic. Only the new world order.

    • @KS-kw1gb
      @KS-kw1gb 3 роки тому +2

      Just like that the n1h1 flu is gone replaced with a fake flu

    • @celtasnake
      @celtasnake 3 роки тому +2

      @@steveodonoghue2772 Yeah. And the earth is flat.

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo 2 роки тому

    Excellent documentary 👏👏🍿

  • @elizabethfuhr5527
    @elizabethfuhr5527 3 роки тому +7

    My theory is that the Bo people lowered the coffins from the top of the mountain instead climbing up.

  • @yagyabasnet4712
    @yagyabasnet4712 3 роки тому +2

    Beautiful documentary.

  • @countryjohn8450
    @countryjohn8450 3 роки тому +5

    I love how they spent 5 minutes talking about how no one has visited there. Then they walked a made trail to their destination 😂😂

  • @rachelannquindara3863
    @rachelannquindara3863 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks @timeline for correcting your thumbnails. Not only "China" have the hanging coffins. We also have, even before the European conquistadors came it is already a practice here especially in here in mountainous part of the Philippines. Remember timeline your contents are history and we the watchers learn something from you.👍☺

  • @tracishea5053
    @tracishea5053 3 роки тому +3

    This is absolutely fascinating. It's interesting how the ancient tribes of China are so like the ancient tribes here in the US. They, too, had "sky burials" (though not like these) and siege warfare resulting in near genocides. It just goes to show how much people have in common, no matter where.
    It was kinda crazy how they drove into the middle of nowhere on a path westerners would not recognize as a road, then hiked two hours along the Chinese equivalent of a cattle trail, and just when you think they're in the nowhere part of nowhere, there's suddenly a very impressive bridge! (19:20)

    • @paulmanson253
      @paulmanson253 3 роки тому +1

      There is a history of sky burials in much of Persian history as well. Before Islam. Exposure on a raised area,or a special construct mound.

  • @peggyfraley8059
    @peggyfraley8059 3 роки тому

    Good show. Thanks 👍❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @rakelb1126
    @rakelb1126 3 роки тому +15

    I clicked because of the thumbnail 😅

  • @WhitneyDahlin
    @WhitneyDahlin 3 роки тому +1

    Doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to get to nowadays tho? Helicopters fly in much lower, more precise and more dangerous conditions every single day rescuing people from mountain tops. Just take a helicopter have people repel down to the coffins. Maybe even lower a platform and load coffins onto the platform and then lower them onto the top of the mountain to be examined before replacing them. I just think there are way easier and much quicker ways to get to the coffins then crossing a heavy current river and then climbing straight up.

  • @thedirty530
    @thedirty530 3 роки тому +8

    China is so beautiful to me... So much history there!

    • @jettmcleod4469
      @jettmcleod4469 3 роки тому +1

      the history yes, but the politics...

    • @bigbrotherdsad6535
      @bigbrotherdsad6535 3 роки тому

      @@jettmcleod4469 i see no politics in the comment, why did you bring it up ?

    • @jettmcleod4469
      @jettmcleod4469 3 роки тому

      @@bigbrotherdsad6535 idk, just adding my opinion

    • @dunzhen
      @dunzhen Рік тому

      @jettmcleod4469 Dude you talk about other countries' governments disparagingly when you're LITERALLY FROM A WESTERN COUNTRY. Have some self awareness. Do you know most Chinese support their government? You don't know better than they do.

  • @faithannchumacog8263
    @faithannchumacog8263 3 роки тому +7

    this video's thumbnail caught me because it was familiar... and i realized the picture of the hanging coffins is actually the hanging coffins in our place Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines. Please use the correct images for your thumbnails!!

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому +3

      after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

    • @faithannchumacog8263
      @faithannchumacog8263 3 роки тому +2

      @@IFoundYourLunch nice nice.. thank you and God Bless

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому +2

      ​@@faithannchumacog8263 God Bless and hopefully things will be okay soon in our motherland :)

  • @robertjackiii1751
    @robertjackiii1751 3 роки тому +3

    Fascinating documentary... would love to learn more about these ancient people... China has thousands of years of culture and people we could learn a lot from...

    • @diulan7lay840
      @diulan7lay840 3 роки тому +1

      Would be a lot more beautiful if the Communist Party didn’t take control, a lot of historical things & ancient art was destroyed

  • @MarjEngcoyMusic
    @MarjEngcoyMusic 3 роки тому +7

    The photo used for your thumbnail is of the hanging coffins in Sagada, Philippines...

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому

      after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

  • @AlessandroTrinidad94
    @AlessandroTrinidad94 3 роки тому +15

    I think there is an error with the coffin photo in the thumbnail.. that photo is taken in the Philippines - Benguet

    • @marccruz2285
      @marccruz2285 3 роки тому +3

      Sagada, Mountain Province, to be exact.

    • @Litaonyo
      @Litaonyo 3 роки тому +1

      Yup was going to say the same.

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому

      after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

  • @terintiaflavius3349
    @terintiaflavius3349 3 роки тому

    Ancient people's were really something special. From Africa to China to Europe and the Americas. What a fascinating species we are

  • @joew.3400
    @joew.3400 3 роки тому +4

    There is a secret passage that's still hidden to this day you have to know where the button is

  • @bubuny4r4m4
    @bubuny4r4m4 3 роки тому +1

    13:30..amazing how they pull the coffin up back then..simple but very2 challenging of course...how precious they treated their passed ancestors

  • @lilitheden748
    @lilitheden748 3 роки тому +3

    China is such a beautiful land. There is still so much that is unknown or not found. In the West we are now busying ourselves with the Chinese economy and politics and we forget that behind all this the huge country has so much more to offer. It’s culture and it’s (friendly) people are greatly underestimated. This documentary is super interesting. Indeed burying your loved ones high on cliffs isn’t that usual.

  • @phongtran8499
    @phongtran8499 3 роки тому +3

    3:44 . as a vietnamese I dont agree with this map with the 9-dash line. this map is useless and that dash line is illegal. great video by the way, but as long as people use that map with that kind of line, i would keep reminding people that it is not right and the map with the dash line should not be used.

  • @sharonkaczorowski8690
    @sharonkaczorowski8690 3 роки тому +2

    Excellent and fascinating. Also scary! That climbing was so difficult.

  • @emrysariana4397
    @emrysariana4397 3 роки тому +5

    remember that in previous time, there are kungfu master that can fly 😅

  • @MoonshineGraffiti
    @MoonshineGraffiti 3 роки тому +2

    I believe there may be a far more simple reason for this. We grieve for our dead because of their absence in our lives. If I had the option to place my deceased loved ones in a high, safe, visible location overlooking the area I lived, where I could look up at any time throughout the day and see the very casket in which my beloved family member slept, I would endure any means necessary to accomplish this.

  • @Litaonyo
    @Litaonyo 3 роки тому +13

    It’s a bit insulting that you used a picture of the Hanging Coffins of Sagada which is in the Philippines, and use it for the thumbnail of a documentary about China while there is a hot territorial dispute going on between the two countries.

    • @OldDunollieman
      @OldDunollieman 3 роки тому

      No dispute, the South China Sea is obviously Chinese territory.

    • @jhunneoyiesariapanliliogar2033
      @jhunneoyiesariapanliliogar2033 3 роки тому +3

      @@OldDunollieman oh yes really...everything belongs to China, right? Specially if it's something they can use and abuse!

    • @pwnedbythefilter321
      @pwnedbythefilter321 3 роки тому +1

      @@OldDunollieman just like your mom...

    • @JJ-sz6yx
      @JJ-sz6yx 3 роки тому

      @@OldDunollieman Covid is Chinese, not West Philippine Sea.

    • @sichuanpeppercorn5197
      @sichuanpeppercorn5197 3 роки тому

      @@OldDunollieman oi it is the Philippines' by territory/location wise! The UN has already ruled it out

  • @DelimaSimamora123
    @DelimaSimamora123 3 роки тому +1

    Seem better than buried in the soil which is full of darkness,cold and lots worms

  • @ohsillybeans
    @ohsillybeans 3 роки тому +5

    I wonder if there was any other cliffs around it or trees that the people might of used. I'm sure the landscape looked completely different x amount of years ago.

  • @debrafuggle5727
    @debrafuggle5727 3 роки тому

    Loved it. Thank you

  • @ydaya1156
    @ydaya1156 3 роки тому +4

    I'm now curious if this has connections with the old tradition of Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines; Hanging coffins?

  • @guidaferreira371
    @guidaferreira371 3 роки тому

    Great documentary...👍👍👍

  • @dominiquewinther857
    @dominiquewinther857 3 роки тому +8

    this is just soooo ridiculous.. they obviously didn’t carry the coffins up the sides 🤦🏼‍♂️
    they lowered the coffins down the walls from the top of the cliff. 🙄
    why are people insisting on being so stupid and ignorant, choosing to make life more difficult and complicated for them self and refusing to acknowledging what’s right in front of them.

    • @tripzville7569
      @tripzville7569 3 роки тому +1

      Yes that makes sense.

    • @dominiquewinther857
      @dominiquewinther857 3 роки тому +1

      @@tripzville7569 a lot of this so called “Documentary’s” are straight up BS, and spreading misinformation to people.

    • @robynw6307
      @robynw6307 3 роки тому +1

      I wondered about that myself.

    • @darrenminimo1127
      @darrenminimo1127 3 роки тому +1

      Yup that's how they did it in the ancient hanging coffins in here In Philippines

  • @naipai9021
    @naipai9021 3 роки тому +1

    This is my ancestry buried.. My parents have an written down on a shaman's enchanting. This was the last passed down words about where our ancestors came from before my mom passed away.

  • @armeldincayabyab9707
    @armeldincayabyab9707 3 роки тому +24

    The photo you use in the front of your video is the photo from the philippines 😄

    • @ArielCaique
      @ArielCaique 3 роки тому +7

      Yeah, when I saw it I find it so weird cause I didn't remember that being in China...

    • @mjdin4705
      @mjdin4705 3 роки тому +6

      Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed it.

    • @gergerdelacruz3918
      @gergerdelacruz3918 3 роки тому +2

      👍👍👍

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому +1

      after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

    • @leetoms9354
      @leetoms9354 3 роки тому

      Some photos that you use is our hanging coffin in sagada philippines

  • @SophiaLegro
    @SophiaLegro 3 роки тому +1

    I have a feeling that those people didn’t want to tell the real truth .At 31:51 there are wooden made figures which looked like the custom in Toraja in Sulawesi. People there called these figures Tautau. They are the passed-away family/ancestor who stand there to look over the rest of the family..This folk believe the dead family is still with them.

  • @jigero560
    @jigero560 3 роки тому +6

    THANK YOU for Featuring the Hanging Coffin in the Philippines as your Thumbnail!

  • @coryantonishyn6691
    @coryantonishyn6691 3 роки тому

    Wow! Ok that was worth a watch thanx.

  • @leahquispe4569
    @leahquispe4569 3 роки тому +19

    The terrain may have been different in those times!!!

  • @sohaileym.hadjiabdulracman6381
    @sohaileym.hadjiabdulracman6381 3 роки тому +3

    This is exactly similar to burial tradition of some natives in the Philippines in the North.

  • @XantherBlaze
    @XantherBlaze 3 роки тому +1

    I think I understand. These people were under attack, and since they believed so adamantly that if the body's ended up becoming missing or dismembered or desecrated that they wouldn't come back in the afterlife. Well they were under attack by the enemy, the only safe place that they had to build Graves on was on the cliffs that's the only place they could bury. That's the only place they can work they were quiet workers. It was the only safe place they could work.

  • @ZonnRamiscal
    @ZonnRamiscal 3 роки тому +9

    That's not in China, it's from Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines. (Hanging Coffin Photo Thumbnail) 😉

    • @franka6790
      @franka6790 3 роки тому

      Philpppnes is in China

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому +1

      @@franka6790 NO Philippines is NOT a part of China. They just like taking our lands and waters :P

    • @IFoundYourLunch
      @IFoundYourLunch 3 роки тому +1

      after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)

  • @rentechpad
    @rentechpad 3 роки тому +1

    I think my first question would not be how they did it but whether when they did it was the geography different, less daunting and dangerous, as the some if what is now sheer cliff become so in 1000 years if powerful flash floods removing what may have been geology that was a bit easier to scale, and were putting them up above where a flash flood could disinter them some of the reason they are where they are?
    Besides the geology which may have changed in a 1000 years, so could have easier ways of buying the dead high above the river and risk of floods as I find it a bit difficult that one would accidently risk having to bury many simply to bury one. Is it possible that when they identified a shelf or eroded area the would hold coffin above any known waterline is it possible that ramps were built from dirt and mud as we have seen dating back before even Egyptians were building building of many heights and employing temporary ramps to reach the heights they needed to move things too. I believe the use of ramps was also a pretty ancient building technique and its said that is how materials for some parts of the great wall were moves into place. Certainly ramps could have been washed away during floods or only partially damaged but a ramp makes a good bit of sense and could easily be constructed. If in fact they did use more advanced system such as ropes and pulleys on would assume that at least one site would show evidence for where ropes systems or simple pulleys were attached to the rock face.
    My other concern is when we base what would have been a long gone civilization or culture based on what is found on a body. While we know that burials often take place along with items perfumed to be needed in the next life we can often make the mistake of then assume that they were clothed in or given for a journey symbolizes their everyday life. We often made mistakes of what everyday clothing was like from what they were buried in only later learning that special burial garments were prepared for the dead to wear, often of finer cloth and special design to speak for them in the next world possibly the better they were giving them better status or higher class. Same with the items buried with them that often are suspected of being tools for the work they did but were actually placed there to give the dead something useful to trade and so forth.
    Also, when you have a people that have disappeared due to genocide often nothing is left behind except why those that wiped them out did not like them or thought they were doing something that could only be resolved by removing them. There maybe a lot more to uncover about these people from what was written about them by those who wish to do away with them

  • @karcann09
    @karcann09 3 роки тому +3

    why are you using Sagada, Mt. Province, Philippines photos in your thumbnail?

  • @minikumar2469
    @minikumar2469 3 роки тому +2

    When I first saw this video the first thing that came to my mind is that years ago this was land during an era that the burials happened as today. Then the river over the years kept cutting through the land and silting away soil and after years these coffins showed up. Isn't this possible.

    • @antigomusiq4480
      @antigomusiq4480 3 роки тому +1

      Clever thinking , but It takes millions of years for a river to cut a gorge though

    • @minikumar2469
      @minikumar2469 3 роки тому +1

      If you take a look at that gorge and the distance between the coffins to the top of the cliff looks like it may have taken that many years and it may have taken this much time to get observed due to accessibility issues. Possible right?

  • @MrLangam
    @MrLangam 3 роки тому +2

    In the Philippines, we have hanging coffins in Sagada too.

  • @kikufutaba524
    @kikufutaba524 3 роки тому +2

    中国人はそのような不思議な歴史を持っています この素晴らしい歴史を私たちと共有していただきありがとうございます

    • @belladudwa1904
      @belladudwa1904 3 роки тому

      同意しました、謎は美しいです