These Finds Changed History for All Times

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3:05There is even evidence of Neanderthal art. They were definitely not primitive. The string section and similar finds are changing the way we perceive our ancestors. The world of archaeology is constantly changing. Take the pyramids in Egypt, for example. Turns out, they weren't really built by an army of people who the Pharaoh made work until they passed out. Herodotus, the famous Greek historian, was the man who started the confusion. He claimed, in 500 BCE, that 100,000 men took part in the construction of the great pyramid in Giza. He made no mention of who they were and why they were building the pyramids. That's how the myth started. Huge stone slabs pulled by humans, driven by a foreman with a whip, but Egyptologists would beg to differ. Those are the scientists who study ancient Egypt's culture. Fairly recently, they uncovered a worker's village that told a different tale. Yes, there was evidence of hard work on the workers' bones,

4:07but the construction industry is demanding even today. It took almost six years for 12,000 workers to complete the world's tallest building, Birch Khalifa. Back in Egypt, three times more workers finished the great pyramid in around two decades. An impressive feat of ancient engineering, wouldn't you agree? Superior's looked well after the Egyptians who build the pyramids. Their diet was rich in protein. They had medical care and they got paid properly. In fact, the college football is back. So Hilton called to me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality. Need a room to match your lucky number? We got you. Want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey? Oh, that smells lucky. Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition. Even a marching bandwicker call it 555 and 55 seconds. Hit it! When you need a team that will do whatever it takes on game day, it matters where you stay. Hilton, for this day.

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6:10For over a millennium, no one had used this type of font. And it's not like there was an English ancient Egyptian dictionary you could open and find meanings of words. But all this changed in 1822. A couple of decades before, the French found a broken slab of black granite. The stone contained one text in three scripts, ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and demotic. The last one was also the Egyptian language, but in a simplified script. Scientists dated it back to 196 BCE. The content is a religious proclamation. A French philologist and orientalist, Jean-François Champoyon, was the first one to crack the code. You see, people haven't forgotten ancient Greek letters. The Frenchmen successfully matched the Greek letters with the ones in the Egyptian script. And voila, we were finally able to read hieroglyphs.

7:12The name of the piece of granite that made it all possible was the Rosetta Stone. The importance of its discovery went beyond archaeology. The word Rosetta Stone even entered the English dictionary. It represents a discovery that helps people understand an enigma that has been puzzling them for a long time. There are similar games. A symbol is attached to a particular message. Then you have to decode the message by replacing the symbol with a corresponding letter. In a nutshell, this is what scientists did with the Rosetta Stone more than two centuries ago. Do you know what is the oldest deciphered language in Europe? It has an unattractive name, linear B. The script belongs to the Mycenaean Greek language. It predates the ancient Greek alphabet by several centuries. You can easily guess which script it is descended from, linear A. The people from Crete used linear B more than 1,000 years ago. During the late Bronze Age,

8:13the Greek civilization that used the script vanished. There was no one who could read linear B. And more importantly, no one knew it existed in the first place. This was about to change during the first years of the 20th century. A British arch... College football is back. So Hilton called me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality. Need a room to match your lucky number? We got you. Want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey? Oho, that smells lucky. Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition. Even a marching bandwink up call it 555 and 55 seconds. Hit it! When you need a team that will do whatever it takes on game day, it matters where you stay. Hilton, for this day. Chaeologists by the name of Sir Arthur Evans, excavated a vast palace complex at Nossos, Crete, Greece. This was the center of the Minoan culture that created the enigmatic script. The palace boasted some 1300 rooms.

9:13They had colorful paintings of dolphins, griffins, and bulls. All of these captivated the archaeologist's imagination. But their biggest find was at first overlooked. Thousands of slabs of baked clay. The fire that brought down the palace helped preserve the tablets. It was impossible to read the slabs, though. They were written in an unknown language. The scientific community had to wait for another half a century before Michael Ventress cracked the code. He was an English architect and cryptographer. Ventress studied Greek and Latin. While attending the famous archaeologist's lecture, the young man decided to solve the puzzle of linear B once and for all. He managed to do so in 1952. One of Ventress's most amazing discoveries was that the script was an archaic form of Greek. But cryptology still hasn't solved the code of linear A. This writing system will remain a mystery until a motivated young person like Michael Ventress comes along.

10:15They wouldn't have to be a professional archaeologist. Basil Brown certainly wasn't. Yet in 1939 he discovered the richest early medieval tomb in Europe. This happened in Sutton Who in the southeast of England. This wasn't an ordinary tomb made out of stone. It was a full-size ship, three times as long as a London double-decker bus. And that's not all. Apart from its main purpose, the ship was full of riches. Deluxe hanging bowls, feasting vessels, gold and dress accessories, and luxurious textiles were just some of the treasures found. Archaeologists were also amazed by the silverware from distant Byzantium. You probably know this city as Istanbul Turkey. Even in our age, it's several days drive from Sutton Who. Just imagine how much time and money it cost to import a silver plate in the 7th century. That's when the ship went down, according to archaeologists. The English couldn't have done it. At that time, there was no England.

11:15The people living in the British Isles at the time were the Anglo-Saxons. Perhaps the ship from the grassy mountains in Suffolk belonged to one of their kings? We will never know. The local acidic soil did away with any possible evidence. Or no one laid there in the first place. It could have been a Senataf, which is a monument constructed to honor an important person. The archaeologist still don't have a definite answer. But what they have found at Sutton Who shed light on the dark ages. Before the discovery of the ship, they knew little about what had been going on in Britain after the Romans left. Now, the image of the early Anglo-Saxon society was much clearer. Perhaps the English soil will be the site of the next great breakthrough in archaeology. When ever fall comes back around, it always feels like a fresh start. This year, I've been layering in some styles from the new Luleleman fall drop, because the weather is shifting and I find I have to be ready for the entire day and not just one part of it.

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