00:00how did our species live in ancient times that's the question archaeologists are attempting to
00:08answer as they dig up relics and make momentous discoveries still some finds are bigger than
00:13others like the tomb of tutankhamen aka king cut that's largely because it was untouched for 3 000
00:18years and contained an insane amount of treasure including his famous 22 pound solid gold mask
00:24however one of the most important archaeological discoveries also related to egypt was the rosetta
00:29stone it was uncovered by napoleon's army in 1799 and it had the same message written in three
00:34languages one of which was egyptian hieroglyphics finally allowing experts to decode the language
00:39for the first time lucy the skeleton of a prehistoric human ancestor is a more biologically important
00:45discovery she walked the earth some three million years ago and revealed that before our brains grew
00:49larger our ancestors had already learned to walk upright a list of great archaeological finds wouldn't
00:54be complete without the 1974 discovery of chinese emperor chin chi wang's terracotta army he was
01:01buried over 2 000 years ago and with him his army of inanimate warriors they were all discovered rather
01:07recently by a farmer in 1974 near the city of xian however there is still much more to be exhumed as
01:12the burial site stretches some 22 square miles
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