10.
New Egyptian Mummy The discovery of a new Egyptian mummy could
just be rewriting history.
In 2019, archeologists discovered the mummified body of a nobleman from ancient Egypt to be
much older than previously thought.
The nobleman is called Khuwy, and they have dated his remains back to the days of the
Old Kingdom, about 1000 years earlier than researchers had reported.
had previously thought.
This makes Khuwy one of the oldest mummies ever uncovered.
It changes history for one primary reason.
It shows evidence that the Egyptians were using advanced embalming techniques over 1000
years before previously assumed.
This nobleman was mummified 4000 years ago.
And it was done with shocking sophistication.
The process, the materials that were used, the quality of the resin, and the linen dressing,
it was all ahead of their time.
According to Professor Salima Ikram, the head of Egyptology at the American University in
Cairo, historians must revise every single book about mummification and the history of
Egypt’s Old Kingdom.
All the dates need to be changed!
Until now, researchers thought mummification during the days of the Old Kingdom was a simple
process.
Basic dehydration and frequently unsuccessful removal of the brain.
Not to mention more detail given to the appearance of the mummy than the actual science behind
the process.
But that's not true.
It must have been that poorer people closer to the bottom of the social ladder had poor
mummifications, while the richest in society had the knowledge to do things the right way.
9.
Vikings in the New World A shocking recent discovery has changed everything
we understand about Vikings in the new world.
Researchers in Canada have finally found a second Viking settlement in North America.
It's close to the first one at L’Anse aux Meadows, just a few miles away at a place
called Point Rosee.
It's a small peninsula that stretches off the southern tip of Newfoundland and into
the Gulf of the St. Lawrence.
Researchers here discovered a stone hearth that Vikings had once used for working iron.
Those same Vikings built their first settlement on the northern tip of Newfoundland.
But just what exactly was happening here 1000 years ago?
It's all become quite confusing with this newest discovery.
We know the first settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows was temporary.
It was more of a way station that was abandoned by the Vikings after a couple of years.
But this newest place at Point Rosee shows evidence of a longer habitation.
Plus, it's on the other side of the island.
It would have taken a significant amount of time and effort to journey from the first
site to the second site.
Sadly, there's not much remaining in the way of archaeological evidence.
But if they prove the discovery legitimate and this was another Viking site, there could
be even more such sites spread across the North Atlantic.
8.
The Origin of Man The analysis of a fossil belonging to a species
of hominin known as El Graeco has flipped everything we know about the evolution of
mankind on its head.
The analysis of the fossils, which belonged to a type of early human which arose in the
Mediterranean part of Europe, suggests humans didn't emerge in Africa.
They may have started in Europe, then moved into Africa.
If true, every history book in the world will need to be rewritten.
Because until now, just about every scientist and historian in the world have agreed that
human life started in Africa.
The predominant theory has always been that a small group of hominids evolved in Africa,
then dispersed through the rest of the world to become Denisovans and Neanderthals, and
eventually humans.
But looking at the tooth and lower jawbone of the El Graeco fossils, archeologists have
thrown the Africa theory out the window.
Archeologists found these fossils in Bulgaria.
These bones belonged to the oldest pre-human, ape-like creature ever identified.
And if it was living in Europe, that means it was there over 4 million years earlier
than any similar, human-like creature discovered in Africa.
7.
Friendship Ornaments Friendship is not a modern invention.
6000 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities in the northeast of Europe weren't just a
bunch of primitive cave people.
They were humans with emotions and friends.
A recently discovered Stone Age artifact has proven beyond any doubt just how important
friendship was to this group of people.
Scientists believed for a long time they were nothing but bird-brained troglodytes.
Throughout Finland and near the Lake Onega region in Russia, archaeologists have been
digging up broken pendants.
These people made broken pendants, or ornaments, from slate rings.
Researchers simply thought they were lost and buried for thousands of years.
But a recent study by scientists at the University of Helsinki has proved something different.
People broke these ornaments on purpose and smashed them into fragments to be used as
Stone Age friendship necklaces.
I’m talking about matching necklaces that, when put together, form a heart-shaped pendant.
The BFF style of necklace.
Picture this in your head, except 6000 years ago.
These Stone Age people broke the larger ornaments on purpose, then fashioned each half into
a necklace to be worn by a pair of long-distance friends.
Researchers know this because they found two matching fragments at two different locations,
meaning a different person wore each piece.
They found the same thing multiple times, proving it wasn’t a fluke.
It seems nomadic ancient people, even though they lived a vagabond lifestyle, still kept
reminders of their friends in faraway places.
Did you use a friendship necklace or bracelet?
Let me know in the comments below!!
6.
The Lost City of Atlantis The confirmed discovery of the lost city of
Atlantis would flip the world upside down.
People have been searching for Atlantis for so long that finding it today would be like
finding Godzilla sleeping in the ocean somewhere.
How close is Plato's story to real history?
It seems researchers are getting closer to the Atlantis mystery.
After years of research, and with the help of satellite technology, researcher Christos
A. Djonis has revealed the most likely prehistoric setting for Atlantis, an actual place currently
400 feet (122m) underwater.
It's called the Cyclades Plateau, and in the year 9600 BC, it was a super island off the
coast of mainland Greece.
What's fascinating about the plateau is that it corresponds to the time when Plato described
Atlantis.
To Plato, Atlantis went extinct roughly 11,000 years ago, a very long time ago.
That was just around the end of the last Ice Age.
The Greek islands that we know about today, like Mykonos and Santorini were mountainous
parts of the Cyclades Plateau.
But after monumental flooding around 8000 BC, the islands we see now are the only parts
of the larger plateau still sticking out of the water.
The point of this whole thing is that Atlantis was right there off the coast of Athens.
All the small islands in the Aegean Sea were once part of a solid landmass that was likely
called Atlantis.
And when it flooded, it became broken up into tiny islands.
If the water level ever drops 400 feet (122m), the island of Atlantis will once more be visible
as a whole.
If this theory of Atlantis is true, how do you think Plato could have known about a flood
that happened 8000 years before he lived?
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of the video!
5.
Romans in Canada A shipwreck in Nova Scotia, Canada, has revealed
some unique evidence that suggests the Romans were the first people to discover North America.
This would rewrite history in a lot of ways.
Not only would it rewrite the original rewrite of the Vikings discovering North America,
but it would show the Romans were more sea savvy than anyone had realized.
The biggest piece of evidence for this comes from a Roman sword, a piece of ancient treasure
fished out of the ocean while a man and his son were hunting scallops off the coast.
But they never told anyone about the discovery.
Because in Nova Scotia, the government owns all the shipwrecks, and any treasure discovered
belonging to one.
So, they kept this sword secret for decades.
It wasn't until after the man died that he passed the sword down to his daughter, and
then it was her husband who finally alerted some archaeological authorities.
According to researcher J. Hutton Pulitzer, the Roman sword is authentic.
A test showed it is made of the same ore as Roman swords.
But no one has ever found the shipwreck it came out of.
There are a lot of shipwrecks scattered around the coast here, and almost nobody is investigating
them.
But that doesn't change the fact that a man and his son found a sword from ancient Rome
in the waters of Canada.
Either a Roman brought it to Canadian shores, or by someone who had taken the sword from
a Roman!
What do you think?
Let me know in the comments below!
4.
The Mungo Man The Mungo Man was discovered by geologist
Jim Bowler in New South Wales, in 1974.
The Mungo Man’s bones proved to be the oldest remains of any indigenous Australian in the
country.
Archeologists dated them at 40,000 years old, and they immediately changed the history of
Australia.
These bones are still the oldest Homo sapiens remains ever found on the continent of Australia.
This was a shocking revelation in the 1970s because it proved definitively that the Indigenous
peoples, the native Australian groups, were the first to live on the land.
To give you an idea of how important this timescale is, the indigenous people of Australia
were present on the island for about four times longer than Native Americans in North
America.
The dating of the Mungo Man’s skeleton proved that when Native Americans were first migrating
to North America, people had already been living in Australia for 30,000 years.
This discovery changed the modern, European ideas of what Australia is, reforming the
nation’s known history.
3.
Very Short Farmers A shocking new discovery says that when human
beings stopped hunting and gathering and started farming, it had extremely negative health
side effects.
A recent study combined genetics and skeletal remains to prove that 12,000 years ago in
Europe, the earliest farmers were extremely short.
Researchers from Penn State wanted to see what happened when humans stopped moving around,
gave up hunting, and became sedentary farmers.
They thought a good way to do this was to look at the height of ancient people around
the time period.
So, about 40 international researchers got together and looked at the heights of people
who lived before and after the Neolithic era, until the Iron Ages.
The result of this in-depth study was a graph of heights from 38,000 to 2,400 years ago.
We can now see the height of Europeans from the days of mammoth hunters to the time of
farmers.
And what we see is that the first farmers were approximately 1.5 inches shorter on average
than previous humans.
But as time continued, people once more got taller.
They got taller in the Copper Age, a little more in the Bronze Age, and back up to pre-agricultural
human height after the Iron Age.
Something happened when we started farming that made us short.
The issue right now is that scientists don't know what that thing was.
2.
The Oldest Fossil Scientists have discovered what they say could
be the oldest fossil on the planet.
This ancient fossil is 3.75 billion years old, and it could rewrite everything we know
about life on this planet.
They made the discovery in Quebec, Canada.
Associate professor in astrobiology at the University College London, Dominic Papineau,
found the fossil while on an expedition to the far north in 2008.
But it wasn't until 2017 that he published his findings.
He discovered tiny fibers of bacteria left behind in ordinary rocks.
That means the bacteria were alive and thriving at the time the fossil was made.
This means they existed much earlier.
The study says the bacteria could have been around 4.2 billion years ago, even though
scientists agree that would be impossible.
Nobody believed life could have existed on the primordial Earth, not at the very beginning
of our planet’s formation.
Scientists thought it took around a billion years for life to finally kick off in any
meaningful way.
But this bacteria proves otherwise.
Now it looks like there were diverse microbial ecosystems at the very beginning of the planet’s
formation, or at least soon after.
What this means for the rest of the universe is shocking.
If there was life on primordial Earth, a place as inhospitable as Mars, there could be microbial
life on every other planet in the solar system.
Or at least, there could have been billions of years ago.
1.
The Roundels Archeologists recently discovered structures
even older than the Egyptian pyramids in central Europe, and nobody is sure who put them there.
These structures are called roundels, and they are found in Czech.
The structures are circular ditches, primitive Neolithic fortifications around what was probably
once a modest settlement.
They were built around 4800 BC.
But then they were abandoned about 200 years later in 4600 BC.
The huge mystery is that scientists can't exactly figure out why.
What they know is that researchers have found other similar fortifications across Europe.
This exact style, the central settlement surrounded by ditches and fortified walls, was used for
about 300 years before completely vanishing.
Experts believe roundels were a kind of blip in history, an idea that worked well for a
while but then was abandoned because society changed.
We don't know what that change was, but it was big enough that it changed history.
Newer, more complex settlements were made, and human beings started advancing.
What's weird is that it happened so quickly.
It almost seems like some unknown event caused this dramatic switch from primitive living
to megalithic city building.
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