00:00How did our species live in ancient times?
00:06That's the question archaeologists are attempting to answer as they dig up relics and make momentous
00:10discoveries.
00:11Still, some finds are bigger than others, like the tomb of Tutankhamun, aka King Tut.
00:16That's largely because it was untouched for 3,000 years and contained an insane amount
00:21of treasure, including his famous 22-pound solid gold mask.
00:24However, one of the most important archaeological discoveries also related to Egypt was the
00:29Rosetta Stone.
00:30It was uncovered by Napoleon's army in 1799, and it had the same message written in 3 languages,
00:35one of which was Egyptian hieroglyphics, finally allowing experts to decode the language for
00:40the first time.
00:41Lucy, the skeleton of a prehistoric human ancestor, is a more biologically important
00:45discovery.
00:46She walked the earth some 3 million years ago and revealed that before our brains grew
00:49larger, our ancestors had already learned to walk upright.
00:52A list of great archaeological finds wouldn't be complete without the 1974 discovery of
00:58Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang's terracotta army.
01:01He was buried over 2,000 years ago, and with him his army of inanimate warriors.
01:06They were all discovered rather recently by a farmer in 1974 near the city of Xi'an.
01:10However, there is still much more to be exhumed, as the burial site stretches some 22 square
01:16miles.
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