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00:00Estoy en el camino de hermosa a hermosa, de hermosas, de precios de los pastos.
00:07No puedo creer que me lleve aquí.
00:10Conozco de experiencias.
00:13¿Por qué me adoro Dolphins mucho? Y ellos jugan con nosotros.
00:17En los lugares de vista inmediatamente.
00:21No, no.
00:23Nunca he visto algo así antes.
00:25Ok, listo.
00:27Let's go.
00:29I'm on a global voyage of discovery to explore our shared heritage and how our past shapes all of our lives.
00:37This time I'm in Oman, a distinctive land on the edge of the Indian Ocean.
00:43I'm on the trail of the story of how nature makes human culture.
00:49With nearly 2,000 miles of coastline spanning mountains, oases and deserts,
00:55this diverse landscape has a unique variety of stories.
00:59Oh, sorry.
01:01I keep on getting a nick from this one.
01:04Is that OK to hold?
01:05Yeah.
01:06Look at that.
01:08I just adore camels.
01:11I'm completely head over heels in love with them.
01:14I'm seeking out gleaming treasures, brand new archaeology and ancient mysteries.
01:20He was ripping this super powerful sword.
01:25Welcome to the wonderful treasure of Oman.
01:30Oman's position on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula made it a strategic stopping point for ships crossing the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia.
01:57It's many natural harbours, providing shelter to international traders and travellers for millennia.
02:06This is such an exciting sea to be on, particularly with a swell like this.
02:12But luckily I'm heading to a safe harbour that's protected on the inland by these mountains and by reefs out at the shore.
02:20I'm on the approach to the Omani capital, Muscat, first written about by European voyagers in the second century CE.
02:29This place was described by an ancient geographer called Ptolemy and you can see what he's talking about here on this medieval version of his original maps.
02:39That place is what's now Muscat.
02:41It's called a crypto port, which means a hidden port.
02:45And it is, isn't it? It's just concealed by all these rocks. So cool.
02:50Waves of visitors left their mark on Muscat, including the British who began trading with Oman in 1646.
03:00That's great. I've heard about these. So can you see those sort of monumental bits of graffiti up on the rock there?
03:09Those are left by British sailors. So you've got HMS Falmouth, HMS Fox right up at the top and HMS Perseus I think down here.
03:21And it just tells you, doesn't it, what a cosmopolitan place this was. And count how proud people were that they'd actually arrived after journeys across those incredible stormy seas.
03:33It's very generous of the Omanis that they allow this graffiti still to be here.
03:38Known as the Sultan's visitor's book, the rocks preserve the names of hundreds of ships that once docked here in front of the Sultan of Oman's Al Alam Palace.
03:49The trail of my first treasure starts here in Muscat. It's not a place, but a person.
04:06Who lived an incredible life 2,000 years ago. And the clues are kept here in the National Museum.
04:17There's some truly remarkable evidence in here. So this is him. This is the remains of his skull.
04:30Dubbed the Desert Lord of Sinau, his grave was discovered by chance in 2014, on the edge of the Sharqia Sands.
04:41A vast expanse of desert covering 4,800 square miles. His life shaped by these exquisitely imposing surroundings.
04:54The bones reveal a man in his forties. His grave, packed with mysterious clues to an extraordinary life of adventure.
05:07Precious objects carefully placed alongside him. Signs of great prestige.
05:18What you're looking at are two daggers that were laid on the man's thighs. And in his hands he was ripping this super potent, high status, powerful looking sword that's actually made of iron.
05:34It's decorated with a strip of silver here. And then on the pommel, on the handle, there's ebony and probably ivory that could have come all the way from India.
05:46It's also this beautiful bronze bowl that was left as a kind of ritual offering in the grave.
05:52And he wasn't buried alone.
05:54Next to the man, there were two camels that were buried and they hadn't died naturally.
06:00They'd actually been slaughtered in the graves with their throats slit.
06:09But the evidence doesn't stop there. So just have a look at his skull. And here's his jaw.
06:15And you can see that he's missing his teeth. The actual bone has been worn right away.
06:22And he does just have three teeth left on the other side. And that would have been because he'd have held the reins of the camel in his mouth so that his hands were free to fight.
06:37There are some remarkable clues here.
06:41We've just got to take a moment and think that this is a real human who clearly had an adventurous, exciting, exhilarating life.
06:50So we've got to respect his memory and try to get to the bottom of his story and learn about his world.
07:00I'm venturing to where the Desert Lord was found to delve into the evidence and its mysteries,
07:07the significance of the powerful sword and daggers, the sacrifice of his camels and the condition of his skeleton.
07:15I want to uncover more about how this man lived and how he died.
07:28To really understand the Desert Lord, we need to understand his environment.
07:34This is the epic landscape that he'd have operated in.
07:40Deserts like this are often described as seas of sand.
07:46And of course, the creature who is your closest ally in a place like this is the animal sometimes called the ship of the desert, the camel.
07:56And camels still play a huge part in the landscape and life around here.
08:07So, I'm heading to the market town of Sinau, close to where the Desert Lord was found.
08:13Every Thursday, it hosts camel sales for the local Bedou, who still prize these remarkable animals.
08:23It's actually one of the oldest camel suits in the region and it goes right back possibly to antiquity.
08:30It could have been around at the time of the Desert Lord and these guys have been here since dawn, negotiating and selling.
08:37It's serious business. Oman has a Directorate General of Camel Affairs, who organizes camel races and beauty contests.
08:52A good racing camel has been known to fetch 800,000 Omani rials.
08:57That's over one and a half million pounds.
09:03I just adore camels. I'm completely head over heels in love with them.
09:08And people here say that Omani camels are the most beautiful of all in the Arabian Peninsula.
09:14And I'm kind of coming round to think that.
09:17So, when they're sold, you have to look out for the curve of their neck and the exquisite beauty of their eyes,
09:26with those multiple eyelashes that stop the sand going in.
09:30And their lower lips have to be floppy.
09:33And that's also considered a sign of great beauty.
09:36And I'm seeing all of those things around here.
09:39You're actually beautiful.
09:42You're completely beautiful.
09:45Camels remain an essential part of life.
09:49Supplying transport, milk and camel hair for survival in the desert landscape.
09:54Are there good camels here today? Good camels?
09:59Good, good, good.
10:01Very good?
10:03Very good.
10:05They're beautiful. They're Jamila.
10:07Did you buy any camels today?
10:09No, no.
10:10No camels?
10:11No.
10:12Did you buy anything?
10:14Goats?
10:15The reverence for camels and the status they bring sheds light on their burial alongside the Desert Lord over 2,000 years ago.
10:25Coming here has really put this evidence into perspective because, of course, for us, imagining a camel being sacrificed for their owner feels horrific.
10:38But that happens because the Desert Lord adored his camel so much and wanted them to carry on travelling with him in the afterlife.
10:48And the name camel actually comes from the phrase al-Jamal, which means something to be admired.
10:55So there's this huge affection for them here and you really feel that these are animals who are partners with humans in this landscape.
11:06Evidence of how much the Desert Lord must have relied on his camels is found deep within his skeleton.
11:12Vertebrae from his back and neck have fused together, a sign of a lifetime in the saddle, riding and fighting.
11:23And you can see why these creatures were also used in war.
11:29I'm just watching. Mind your backs. Mind your backs.
11:32They can run 40 miles an hour and if they're walking they can cover 40 miles a day.
11:43And they don't need water, they don't have to actually drink water for up to six or seven months.
11:48This fella here, by the way, the white one, this big boy, is a male camel, a bull camel.
11:55Just imagine coming up against him in a combat. You would not mess with him, would you?
12:02The Desert Lord must have been a ferocious figure.
12:05Seated on his camel, brandishing a sword or dagger in each hand,
12:10possibly protecting a whole community or a trade route.
12:15Today, swords and daggers, along with camels, are living parts of Omani tradition.
12:21The khanja, a short, curved dagger in a highly decorated sheath, has become a national symbol,
12:27emblazoned on Oman's flag, along with two crossed swords.
12:35This one is 2,000 years old. 2,000 years.
12:41At one of the local blacksmiths, my photos of the ancient sword spark excitement.
12:46The pictures of the Desert Lord's burial are causing a lot of interest here, in this knife shop in Seenal.
12:54Oh, here we go.
12:57Yeah. Yeah.
12:59It is!
13:01Look!
13:03Same decoration with metal, and the original one had ivory.
13:08Oh, that's great, thank you!
13:11The sword that the Desert Lord was holding is this particular kind, which is called a coppice,
13:17and you actually get it all the way from Greece through to India.
13:21And it was often copied and made locally, or traded, which would have made it even more of a status symbol.
13:27But don't you just adore the fact that I've just popped into this market, and these guys are loving the fact that what they're making still uses the same techniques as they were using 2,000 years ago.
13:40How'd I give his knife back?
13:43Hello?
13:45I'm just going to give you your knife back.
13:46The elite, coppice-style sword is a sign of high standing, indicating he'd earned the respect of his peers.
14:00Debate still rages over the Desert Lord's exact lifestyle, because this was a really vital channel of trade between the oceans and the interior of the Arabian Peninsula.
14:13It could be that he was a mercenary who was hired to protect somebody's economic interests, or to try to prevent turf wars between other tribes.
14:26So, a desert warrior in the true sense of the word.
14:33Over 2,000 years on, aspects of the Desert Lord's nomadic life are preserved by Oman's modern Bedou.
14:40Matriarch Umm Said and her sons, Salim and Ali, invite me over for some fresh coffee in the landscape he called home.
14:52How long has your family been here? For how many years?
14:55For how many years?
14:56This is a long time.
14:57Yeah.
14:58Been from my grandfather.
15:00I've been looking at warriors who travelled through the Desert thousands of years ago.
15:06And it feels like it makes you very strong in spirit.
15:09Very hard life in the desert.
15:11Yeah.
15:12Sometimes we stay alone in the desert.
15:15Yeah.
15:17Only with my camels, with my coats.
15:22I love your mum.
15:23You're giving me lovely, beautiful, philosophical conversations.
15:26Your mum's like...
15:29Let's get the practicalities sorted out.
15:31Now it's ready.
15:32Coffee's ready.
15:33Thank you.
15:34Oh.
15:35Get out of the smoke.
15:36Quite right.
15:37Thank you.
15:38Thank you.
15:39No, no.
15:40Thank you.
15:41Is this incense?
15:42Laban, Laban.
15:43Laban.
15:44Oh, that's so beautiful.
15:45Laban, Omani.
15:47Wow.
15:48Omani frankincense.
15:49Laban.
15:50And I...
15:51Oh, I love that smell so much.
15:52I'll tell you why they...
15:53Show him a dab.
15:54Yeah.
15:55Oh, yeah.
15:56Under my scarf.
15:57I will.
15:58Why they call it Laban like this?
15:59Laban.
16:00Oh, that is so good.
16:05It's called Laban here because when the incense comes out of the tree trunk, it looks like milk.
16:11And Laban is also a word for white or milky, like Laban is a kind of cheese that you have here.
16:17Use this for medicine.
16:19Put in the water and a drink.
16:22Yeah.
16:23It's good, healthy.
16:24Very good.
16:25There's a sensory overload.
16:28I've got sweet, fresh dates in my mouth.
16:31The smell of coffee, Omani coffee, and incense perfuming the air.
16:38I'm sort of in heaven.
16:40You do that when you say, then you've had enough.
16:43Thank you.
16:44Thank you.
16:45Thank you.
16:46Thank you.
16:47Thank you.
16:48Thank you.
16:49Thank you so much.
16:50Tracing the footsteps of the Desert Lord has given me a unique insight into the
16:57landscape that shaped his life.
17:00But how did he die?
17:03The clue to his death may well lie under his three remaining teeth.
17:08There's a hole that indicates a huge abscess has eaten into his jaw.
17:14A bacterial infection that, in a time before antibiotics, could have been fatal.
17:19There's just one last thing to say about our Desert Lord.
17:24We think he probably died because of that abscess on his tooth.
17:27And it's really tragic because we actually now know that incense has antibacterial properties.
17:34So maybe if he'd used it like a kind of compact or kind of chewing gum, he might have been alive for more years.
17:47It is extraordinary coming here and thinking of him living in this place.
17:53This was his world.
17:54And you get the sense that he would have lived a rich and probably a pretty exciting life.
18:03And this desert was his home.
18:06Thanks so much.
18:19Hi, old boys.
18:21Hi, hi, hi…
18:23My next treasure, a biodiverse wonderland, reveals the fascinating lives of some of the
18:30very first travellers to reach this part of the Omani coastline back in prehistoric times.
18:36I'm heading out across the Indian Ocean to this remote island and it's supposed to be
18:42very beautiful but it also plays this incredibly important, mysterious part in the story of
18:49the journey of humankind across this gorgeous planet of ours, so I am super excited to get there.
19:00Masira, 12 miles from the mainland, with white sand beaches and a turquoise sea, is the archetypal
19:08desert island.
19:14As the light fades, Captain's Isle powers us across the channel.
19:19Arriving at Masira's port in the dark, we're immediately scooped up by unexpected new friends.
19:36Hello.
19:37Hello.
19:38Hello.
19:39Hello.
19:40I'm part of the all-women fishing party.
19:43I'm hoping to meet these guys tomorrow and I've bumped into them.
19:45We go fishing tomorrow?
19:46Yeah.
19:47Yeah.
19:48Fish.
19:49Fish.
19:50Fantastic.
19:51What an awesome experience.
19:52Good.
19:53Good.
19:54Good.
19:55Good.
19:56Good.
19:57Good.
19:58Good.
19:59Good.
20:00Great.
20:01Good.
20:02Good.
20:17Good.
20:18en la mañana,
20:19traciendo la isla de Mesira
20:21fascinante histórica.
20:24Trabajando aquí desde el Neolítico,
20:27y algunos de los primeros
20:29históricos mencionan esto.
20:33Este lugar actualizó
20:35en muchos antiguos
20:36incluyendo el Periplus
20:40de la Erythraean Sea,
20:42que era básicamente
20:43un guión a maravillosas
20:45alrededor del Red Sea
20:46y el océano.
20:48Y en ese lugar,
20:49se llamaba Serapis
20:52y es el nombre de la Reco-Egypta
20:56y luego de la romanía
20:58que era todo el mundo
21:00y el ciclo de la vida
21:02y la abundancia.
21:03Así que se siente completamente
21:05correcto para esta isla.
21:10Están ricos
21:12cuáles profuse sea life
21:14incluyendo cuatro especies
21:16de las tierras,
21:17que nesta en Masira
21:18s santi beaches.
21:19A feature that attracted eager traders
21:24The Romans were obsessed with turtle shell
21:31So they used it really highly polished to decorate things like beds and tables
21:37And little paskets for their jewellery
21:39Julius Caesar, for instance, was said to have had a whole warehouse
21:44Full of turtle and tortoiseshell
21:47And recently they discovered two Roman amphora
21:52So two Roman vases here
21:53So we know that the Romans were coming here to trade and exchange goods
21:59Today the turtles are protected
22:04While the waters around Messera sustain a huge variety of wildlife
22:11Including endangered Arabian humpback whales
22:15Its shallows and islets are feeding grounds for flamingos
22:20Once also a highly prized Roman delicacy
22:25With so much on offer
22:30I can't wait to get back out on the water
22:32For a closer look at the maritime riches that have shaped this island's history
22:37And as soon as we're out at sea
22:48We get some company
22:49Dolphins
22:51They're too bright though, there's too bright underneath us here
22:58Three, three, three, five, three, five, five, underneath us
23:04Hey guys, beautiful, hello
23:08Hello
23:08Oh, since I ignored Dolphins so much and they're playing with us
23:14They're bright underneath us
23:16There, look
23:17They're just having a lovely job, they're coming towards us
23:20Like us
23:21Hey, look
23:22Hey
23:24That was pretty awesome
23:32There was a Portuguese writer
23:35He was ecstatic about the oceans here
23:37And he said that the fish were so thick in it
23:40That if a cat dipped in her tail, she'd pull it out
23:43And it'd be just like covered in fish
23:45And you'd get that sense of my lovely dolphin friends
23:48Hey
23:49There's over a thousand species of fish out in these waters
23:59Still providing a livelihood for the islanders
24:03Hi, good, how are you? Nice to see you
24:09What's the name?
24:10Watrou
24:11Watrou
24:12A lot of fish
24:13It's the incredible bounty of this sea
24:16That attracted the earliest settlers to Masira
24:19And the island's natural resources became a magnet for trade
24:25Fantastic to see all these traditional boats on the coastline here
24:31Because right back in the Bronze Age, so around 4,000 years ago
24:35This part of the world was really famous for what were called black boats
24:40And they had that name because they were coated in bitumen
24:43That makes things waterproof
24:45And they traded all kinds of stuff from Masira Island
24:49Including copper, which of course is an essential part of bronze
24:53So copper and tin makes bronze
24:55So it was like the kind of fuel of the Bronze Age
24:58And these little boats were so important to culture and civilisation
25:02That they end up in the great works of literature of the day
25:06So the very oldest work that we have surviving from humanity
25:11Is called the Epic of Gilgamesh
25:13And in that, these little boats are describing as helping people to escape
25:18From the Great Flood, no less
25:21Archaeologists have recently been excavating evidence of Masira's earliest maritime pioneers
25:31Which can be found scattered across the island
25:34If you know where to look
25:37So this must definitely be it
25:41Okay, so this might look like a giant sand dune
25:47But actually it is a huge prehistoric rubbish dump
25:52So where shells that were used and the shellfish were eaten were left here
25:58Dating back 8,000 years
26:03So although we might think of rubbish as just something where you throw away things
26:07For archaeologists and historians
26:09This is pure gold
26:12I mean, it's just everywhere
26:14This is solid shell I'm standing on
26:16Radiocarbon dating proves these middens go back to the 6th millennium BCE
26:23Making them some of the earliest evidence of human habitation
26:27On this side of the Indian Ocean
26:30In that midden, they didn't just find shells
26:35They also found jewellery like this
26:37It's 8,000 years old
26:39So it wasn't just that they were using it kind of locally
26:43To kind of eat shellfish lunches
26:45They were mass producing this jewellery
26:48This place was a buzzing commercial centre
26:52Right the way back in the Stone Age
26:54Bronze Age shell objects found on the mainland
27:01Offer further proof of those stylish ancient Omani's ingenuity
27:06Turning everyday cast-offs into timeless adornments
27:10This shell has got ancient frankincense
27:15Still in it
27:17And this one, I know it looks a little bit mucky
27:19But what that actually is, is make-up
27:22It's coal, you know, the kind of black eyeliner
27:26That people still use
27:27And it was made either with the kinds of, the oil of a fish
27:31Or with burnt frankincense wood
27:34So you've got to think of the people here
27:36With this beautiful smell of frankincense in the air
27:40Wearing this gorgeous jewellery
27:42Both men and women
27:43And having these ferocious coal-rimmed eyes
27:47With the tide out
27:54My new friends from last night
27:56Are foraging the shallows and rock pools
27:58Searching for more gifts of the sea
28:01These are some of these amazing women I met last night
28:16These Bedouin women
28:18Bedouin normally means a desert dweller
28:20And people think of it as being associated with sands
28:23But these are the Bedouin of the sea
28:25Salaam, hello
28:26Hi, how are you?
28:29Sorry to bother you
28:31So these women, there are only about 400 or so left
28:35And they've been fishing for generations and generations
28:39I love your, this
28:41Omani
28:42Omani, beautiful
28:44This is coal
28:46All from Masira
28:50Beautiful, against the sun, shams
28:53Fantastic, they have this natural sun cream
28:56Which is made of sandalwood
28:58To prevent you getting sunburn
28:59From the shams
29:01From the shams, very hot, the sun
29:04It's very hot here
29:06It looks beautiful
29:07It looks beautiful
29:08I need some
29:09Do you want me to carry this for you?
29:10Do you want me to help?
29:11I'll help
29:12Hi, how are you?
29:14Hi, how are you?
29:15It's a good day
29:16Do you get many?
29:17Oh yeah, yeah
29:19Lots of shells
29:20Full
29:21Full?
29:22Completely
29:25Which is this one?
29:26They're a clam
29:27What's this?
29:28I don't know my shellfish
29:30I don't know my shellfish
29:31Yeah
29:32And so you can eat this and then
29:35Oh, oh, slow line
29:36A little bit of a nip there
29:37From the catch
29:38A little bit of a nip there
29:40From the catch
29:41Yeah, for the coal
29:42For the make the beautiful makeup
29:43Yeah
29:44That's awesome
29:45So thousands and thousands of years ago
29:46They did the same thing here
29:48So that's been carrying on
29:49That's incredible
29:50Who taught you to fish like this?
29:51Oh, sorry
29:52I keep on getting a nip from this one
29:54Yes
29:55Are your daughters learning to fish as well?
29:56Will it carry on?
29:57Yes
29:58The whole family
29:59The whole family
30:00But it's good
30:01It makes for very strong women
30:03The whole family
30:04But it's good
30:05It makes for very strong women
30:06The whole family
30:07The whole family
30:08The whole family
30:09But it's good
30:10It makes for very strong women
30:11The beautiful makeup
30:12The beautiful makeup
30:13That's awesome
30:14So thousands and thousands of years ago
30:15They did the same thing here
30:16So that's been carrying on
30:17That's incredible
30:18Who taught you
30:19To fish like this?
30:20Oh, sorry
30:21I keep on getting a nip from this one
30:22It's good
30:23It makes for very strong women
30:24Because this is really important work
30:26Yes
30:27I've never before in my life
30:29Met a Bedouin fisherman woman
30:31So it's my honour to meet you
30:33From Neolithic jewellery makers
30:38To traditions preserved for generations
30:41There is so much to love about being on this magical island
30:47But I think of all the things I've discovered
30:50Probably my favourite is the fact that both in the present here
30:55And in the really distant past
30:57The people of Mesira have loved to wear Omani coal
31:01This eyeliner which they hold in these lovely shells
31:05Which are gifts from the sea
31:08So it's the most brilliant example of nature nourishing culture
31:14I'm back on the mainland for my next treasure
31:37Oman's wadis
31:39Across the centuries
31:41Travellers have written about these stunning lifelines of human culture
31:44I'm on the trail of their unique story
31:48The wadis are these miraculous arteries of nature
31:54That connect the mountains to the sea
31:57Wadi means river valley in Arabic
32:02Oman's home to hundreds of these channels
32:06That provide life to the desert interior
32:09I'm exploring one of Oman's most significant and stunning
32:14Wadi Tiwi
32:16Which hides clues to a hidden history
32:20Wadi Tiwi winds from the Hajar mountains across to Oman's northern coast
32:27Extending for over 20 miles
32:36Unlike most wadis
32:38Tiwi flows with fresh water all year
32:41So life has flourished here for centuries
32:53The medieval explorer Ibn Battuta
32:56Who originally came from Morocco
32:58Who travelled all over Africa and Asia
33:02Came to Wadi Tiwi around 1330
33:05And he said it was one of the loveliest places of striking beauty
33:11Flowing streams and an abundance of orchards
33:16He wasn't wrong
33:26Watered by a communal irrigation system
33:29Perfected a thousand years ago
33:31The gorge is still thick with bananas, mangoes and dates
33:35By the way, you can survive on just 15 dates a day
33:40And with dried fish coming up the wadi from the sea
33:44These were channels that sustained life and trade
33:48Connecting ancient coastal settlements with inland villages
33:52The wadi also leads me to new archaeology
33:58That promises to uncover a historical enigma
34:02The truth behind a mysterious people
34:05The ancient Greeks called the ichthyophagi
34:08The fish eaters
34:10I've arranged to meet somebody who I've never met before
34:13By the side of the road
34:15Which is obviously not something we should normally do
34:17But it's because he's excavating this very exciting site
34:20This must be them
34:21Romolo Loreto is the archaeologist leading the investigation
34:26Is this the site?
34:29Yeah, yes, yes
34:30The site, the later age site of Tiwi is up there
34:34Amazing
34:35Just the very top of the hill
34:36Yes
34:37And we can get up there, can we?
34:38Yes, yes
34:39There is a path
34:40Good
34:41I'll follow you
34:43Romolo and his team are surveying a 2,000-year-old settlement
34:47Once home to these so-called fish eaters
34:51Well, life was not easy, but they were in shape
34:55Yeah
34:56That's for sure
34:57They were definitely more in shape than we are
35:00It's definitely a good workout, isn't it?
35:04These ancient people are depicted in Greek and Roman sources
35:09As shore-dwelling savages, without tools, technology or even fire
35:14You can see on that side of the cliff the houses
35:19Aha!
35:20They're right here!
35:21They're right here!
35:22I didn't realise we were so close
35:2550 houses for around 300 people
35:29So you have these oval-shaped small houses
35:32Yeah
35:33One close to the other
35:34You can see all there where the team is
35:38Is that the houses are cut inside the slope
35:43The ancient historian Diodorus Siculus
35:46Dismissed the ichthyophagi as barbarians who go about entirely naked
35:55It is very exciting being here
35:57Because you're discovering something that tells a different story
36:01Yes, we can tell a different story
36:03You see the architecture of these houses
36:06We are inside one of them
36:08Yeah
36:09And that's already something
36:10Because according to the sources
36:12They just lived in caves
36:14They are not such barbarians as they are depicted in the sources
36:19They have their own dignity
36:21They have their own economy
36:23A complex society
36:25Yeah
36:26And this is a testimony of this kind of ling
36:28I mean, the trade to get shells
36:31Beautiful
36:32Beautiful shells like this
36:33Yeah
36:34Mother pearl used to make earrings
36:37It's amazing that you've got this
36:39Sure
36:40That it shows that they had a sense of themselves
36:42Yeah
36:43They're wearing beautiful earrings
36:44Yes
36:45They had a style, you know
36:46Yeah
36:47They were stylish after all
36:48Yeah, well exactly
36:49I mean that
36:50Because these are beautiful
36:51I'd have earrings made out of that
36:52So you imagine them here
36:54And they cared about how they looked
36:56And how they appeared
36:57Yeah, sure
36:58We know that they wear something
37:00And they should have been very smart
37:03Because to survive in this landscape
37:05It's not an easy task
37:06Yeah
37:07So this is also really fascinating here
37:09Because these naughty guys from the West
37:12They say, oh, they didn't even know how to cook
37:14They said that they can't even use fire
37:17They just eat sushi
37:19Yes, yeah
37:20But not
37:21And you can see from outside of the base
37:23It's totally burnt
37:24Yeah
37:25So this is, of course, a cooking pot
37:27Yeah
37:28Well, you see, it's so brilliant
37:29That's how you, like an archaeology
37:31Can give people back their voices
37:32So they're going like
37:33If they were able to speak
37:34Of course we can cook
37:36Look at this
37:37Yeah, look at this
37:38We loved our meals
37:39There's such a kind of like
37:40Amazing wealth of stuff here
37:41So
37:42That one
37:43It's called the pilgrim flask
37:45Is it okay, sir?
37:46Hold
37:47Yeah, take it from the inside
37:48Yeah
37:49From here
37:50Do you want to take that?
37:51Please
37:52Look at that
37:54Look
37:55And this is for travelers
37:57Yes
37:58Use it on a camel horseback
38:01It's a sophisticated life
38:03You know, they're traveling
38:04And they're meeting new people
38:05And exchanging ideas
38:07And understanding the world around them
38:09Yes
38:10Just this alone proves that those fish eaters
38:13Had a bigger sense beyond these horizons
38:16Of the sea and the mountains
38:18It's beautiful
38:19And thank you for letting me hold this
38:21No worries
38:22Thank you
38:24Fresh evidence of how the fish eaters
38:26Shaped a culture from their landscape
38:28Just keeps coming
38:31There are just two things I had to show you
38:34Before I left
38:35This shell
38:36And this is really, really special
38:38It's a species that only comes from Masira Island
38:43So that's around 150 miles away
38:45So this proves to us that these guys were traveling and trading
38:49But more than that, it's one of the murex family
38:53And murex are basically shellfish that naturally produce a really rich purple dye
39:00So just maybe the guys here are using this to dye their clothes and their scarves and their head decorations
39:09This gorgeous royal purple
39:12And the excitement doesn't stop there
39:14Because when we were here up on the site another archaeologist found this
39:20Which is a lovely little, it's a pendant
39:25So just imagine the woman or man or child even who wore this in this beautiful place
39:35Having a real sense of themselves and touching this 2,000 years or so after it was dropped
39:41Just short circuits you straight back to ancient history
39:46It's brilliant to see the life made possible by these wadis
39:53And to puncture ancient propaganda
39:57The people here actually lived complex lives
40:01Harnessing the natural world around them
40:04And it's Oman's brand new archaeology that's proving this
40:16I'm heading back to the capital Muscat to find how these treasures created by human interaction with nature
40:28Travel through time
40:33A city made abundant by gifts of the earth and their trade across continents
40:40Still sold in the city's souks
40:43From fish
40:46To fruits
40:49Can I have a date?
40:50Yeah, thank you
40:52And valuable frankincense
40:54The sweat of the gods
40:56Salaam
40:58Can I look round?
40:59Is that OK?
41:00Does it smell nice?
41:03Oh, it's very fruity isn't it that one?
41:07Fantastic, thank you
41:10In the markets here
41:11You can actually buy gold, frankincense and myrrh
41:16Muscat is a fretwork of cultures
41:26From east and west
41:28South and north
41:31Present and past
41:33Bearing witness to foreign powers and its own maritime empire
41:37Which stretched as far as Iran and Pakistan
41:39And covered much of the east African coast
41:43A magnet for treasures born of global trade
41:47Evidence from its heyday of maritime dominance abounds
41:55Yes, is it OK to open?
41:59Yes
42:00OK, great
42:01When Oman had a second imperial capital in Zanzibar
42:05It's amazing to get a chance to be up this close to something so precious
42:09Chakran, chakran, chakran
42:19Chakran, wow
42:20So this represents a whole lifetime of this princess from Zanzibar
42:29So as soon as she was born she had a silver comb put under her back to keep it straight
42:34And then after seven days she was given a gift from the royal treasury
42:42And then she'd be given a bit of silver every year after that
42:47I love the fact you get coins put in as part of the necklace
42:53So each one of these bits tells a story
42:56That story isn't just told in the jewellery of princesses
43:08Because there was so much wealth and so much trade from all over here
43:12Fashion started here of actually using coins from different places in jewellery
43:18So if you look at this for instance you've got Indian rupees
43:22Anna Maria Theresa Tala
43:26A coin originally minted in Austria
43:30So the Omanis are physically wearing their wealth
43:40It's more evidence of how Omanis have always looked out to the world beyond their shores
43:52Before I leave I want to ask old friend and booker prize-winning author Yoka Al-Hadi about what I've seen
44:08We meet for a cup of tea at the city's Royal Opera House
44:11I really wanted to talk to you because it's felt to me traveling around the country
44:18That this is a place where you really see nature creating culture
44:24Yes, definitely
44:26Sometimes I imagine Oman as a big shell
44:30A big shell and it's open to the sea from everywhere
44:36So all the waves came into it and brought people, goods, ideas, cultures
44:45And eventually became part of Omanis culture and Omanis music
44:50And this shell also has a gem, a pearl inside
44:56And I think of it as a pearl because for the first glance
45:01Beauty is not obvious to everybody
45:04But if you go deeper, if you have a careful eye
45:09Then you can see its beauty like a pearl inside a shell
45:14That's such a beautiful way to put it
45:15And it's so true that it's almost like the, as you say, sort of the spirit of the place
45:20Is a hidden treasure
45:22So it's a city but it's a city in nature
45:35From the secret ports of its capital
45:38The beaches of Masira Island
45:41The stunning shifting sands of the deserts
45:44And lush ribbons of life in the wadis
45:48Omanis a place where nature makes history
45:52It's just extraordinary coming here
45:58When you think of the wealth that's being brought here
46:02From journeys like this across the sea and by land
46:05To create this real cornucopia of cultures here
46:08And think about it
46:115,000 years ago on tiny, tiny boats
46:15Sailors could have braved to this Indian Ocean
46:18These are adventures and quests
46:21And stories of human ignorance and ingenuity
46:25That shapes civilization here
46:27And right across the world
46:29To a place the wealth
46:30To a place where your папируi can learn from one who needs to remain
46:32And have an opportunity to watch the world
46:34To you, saoida, state ağedITE
46:35And we know that there is no place to live
46:37Time for moon agreed with hopefully
46:39Life Haha, we know that there is no place to live
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