00:00Scientists opened the black sarcophagus of Alexandria and found out what was inside.
00:04They examined the skulls of Pompeii residents and determined the exact circumstances of their deaths.
00:10Archaeologists learned what medieval prostheses were like,
00:13what kind of milk was used to make the world's oldest cheese,
00:17and why a Viking ship was located on land.
00:20Scientists discovered an ancient pouch with drugs that were over a thousand years old.
00:24And even that's not all.
00:25Watch the video until the end and you'll be shocked by the things that were found.
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00:33Letters, two letters, were found in the buttocks of a 240-year-old statue of Jesus in Santa Agueta, Spain.
00:42They were written by Joaquin Minguez in 1777.
00:46In them, the priest explained that the statue had been crafted by Manuel Ball.
00:49He recounted an excellent harvest of wheat, oats, rye, and barley, as well as fine reserves of wine.
00:56Minguez noted that there was a typhus epidemic in the village,
00:58but the people didn't lose heart.
01:00They often played cards and ballgames.
01:02By the way, the documents found in the buttocks were copies of the originals.
01:05The originals were sent to the Archbishop of Burgos.
01:08The Mystery of the Black Sarcophagus
01:11A large black sarcophagus discovered in early July in Alexandria, Egypt,
01:15sparked an unprecedented frenzy in the media.
01:18The most popular theory was that the tomb could belong to Alexander the Great.
01:22However, none of the hypotheses were confirmed.
01:24A couple of weeks after the discovery, archaeologists opened the 30-ton stone coffin.
01:31The sarcophagus turned out to be half-filled with sewage that had seeped in through a small crack.
01:36Additionally, inside were the remains of two men and one woman,
01:40as well as several small gold plates, which, as it turned out later, proved to be military insignia.
01:47In one of the male skulls, scientists discovered a small hole.
01:51According to investigators, it could have been the result of brain surgery.
01:56According to experts, the sarcophagus was sealed during the Ptolemaic dynasty
02:00between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.
02:03The remains found inside were sent to the Alexandria National Museum for further study.
02:08However, the archaeologists themselves noted
02:11that it is unlikely they will ever reliably determine who they actually belonged to.
02:16Skeleton
02:16In the 1990s, a Buddha statue was found containing the actual skeleton of a monk inside.
02:24He mummified himself around the 10th century, and his remains were later turned into a statue.
02:31The process of self-mummification is widespread among Buddhists.
02:35Monks often purposefully tried to turn themselves into mummies, slowly dying in the process.
02:39The procedure began three years before death.
02:42The monks followed a special diet, and then they were buried alive when they were on the verge of death.
02:47Finding a mummy inside a statue is a unique phenomenon, as it is the only one of its kind.
02:52Evidently, after the monk's death, the mummified remains were displayed in a temple,
02:56where he remained for 200 years.
02:59But the body was slowly deteriorating, which is why the monks placed it inside a statue.
03:03It is impossible to extract the skeleton for examination, as it might crumble.
03:07An x-ray showed that the skeleton is in perfect condition.
03:11Cheese
03:11With a surprise
03:13In the tomb of the mayor of Memphis, from the time of Ramses II,
03:17Egyptian archaeologists discovered clay pots with a white solid mass,
03:21which turned out to be the world's oldest cheese.
03:24This fermented dairy product is 3,200 years old.
03:28Further analysis showed that the cheese was made from three types of milk—goats, sheeps, and buffaloes.
03:35In addition, in the cheese sample, chemists found traces of the bacterium Brucella melatensis,
03:41the causative agent of brucellosis.
03:43This disease can be transmitted from animals to humans through unpasteurized dairy products.
03:48Remarkably, Egyptian chronicles of that time actually mention outbreaks of this disease,
03:53which is usually accompanied by acute fever and various symptoms of food poisoning.
03:59Now, scientists have been able to determine that these ancient epidemics were definitely caused by Brucella melatensis.
04:05Ancient money
04:06Australian art historians accidentally discovered an ancient banknote inside the head of a 645-year-old Chinese Buddha statue
04:15while preparing it for an auction.
04:16The banknote, measuring the size of a standard letter, was issued in 1371,
04:22during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming dynasty.
04:27It bears a plea urging citizens to report counterfeiters who faced beheading.
04:32This rare specimen is one of the earliest banknotes in history.
04:35Few were issued in China at the time, and in Europe, only coins were used back then.
04:40European countries only began switching to banknotes 300 years later.
04:45A medieval terminator
04:47During excavations in the province of Lombardi, Italy,
04:50archaeologists found the skeleton of a man aged 40 to 50 who lived at the end of the 6th century.
04:56His right arm had been amputated to the mid-forearm, and a knife replaced the missing portion of his arm.
05:02The weapon was attached to the limb with leather straps and a bronze buckle.
05:07According to researchers, the medieval Italian lived with the prosthesis for quite a long time and used it often.
05:12Part of the man's arm might have been amputated due to a wound sustained in battle or as punishment following
05:19a trial.
05:20Scientists find it difficult to pinpoint the exact reason.
05:23Furthermore, it remains unclear why the medieval Italian chose that particular prosthesis.
05:28If we assume the man was a warrior, he likely intended to replace the hand in which he held his
05:33sword with the knife.
05:34According to scientists, the only fact beyond doubt is that medieval surgeons knew how to amputate limbs in a way
05:41that allowed their patients to survive without anesthesia and antibiotics.
05:45Human teeth
05:46In 2014, during the restoration of the wooden statue of Christ of Patience, located in Mexico, real human teeth were
05:56found.
05:57How did they get there? It's hard to say.
05:59Especially since this was an unheard of phenomenon for that country.
06:02The statue's mouth was closed, making the teeth almost invisible, and they were found when an x-ray of the
06:07statue was taken.
06:08According to investigators, the teeth were taken from a living or dead believer who wanted to donate them to the
06:15church.
06:15This was a common phenomenon.
06:17Mexican Christians often donated body parts to churches in the 17th and 18th centuries.
06:23Coffin birth
06:24In the Italian city of Imola, archaeologists discovered the skeletons of a woman and a child in a 7th century
06:30stone coffin.
06:30At the time of death, the woman was 25 to 35 years old.
06:34The fetus was at 38 weeks of development.
06:38Its head and body were located between the woman's thighs, while the legs were in the mother's pelvic region, as
06:43occurs during childbirth.
06:45According to scientists, this is an extremely rare example of coffin birth.
06:48Driven by the pressure of gases forming in the abdominal cavity, two to five days after death, the fetus was
06:54expelled through the birth canal from the corpse's uterus.
06:56Experts noted that the child was already dead by the time of burial.
07:00However, this is not the only shocking fact established by scientists during their examination of the find.
07:06Archaeologists found traces of trepanation on the woman's skull.
07:09Experts didn't rule out that a failed attempt at surgery could have been the cause of death.
07:13During pregnancy, the woman's intracranial pressure might have increased, and she decided to turn to surgeons.
07:20Golden statue in Bangkok, you can see a statue of Buddha standing, 2 meters and 70 centimeters tall, which was
07:27presumably created in India between the 13th and 14th centuries.
07:31Previously, it was covered in plaster and wasn't considered particularly valuable.
07:34It was brought to Bangkok in 1801 and installed in the Wat Praya Krai Temple.
07:38At Wat Chotanaram, in 1955, they wanted to move the statue to another temple.
07:45During the relocation, it fell.
07:47The plaster cracked, revealing pure 18-carat gold.
07:51That was when it turned out that a golden statue made of nine parts was hidden inside, along with a
07:57key to disassemble it.
07:58Most likely, the statue was covered in plaster to conceal its true value during the Burmese invasion in the 17th
08:04century.
08:04A roadside ship in northeastern Norway, archaeologists discovered a 20-meter-long burial ship.
08:12The discovery was located near a busy highway on farmland at a depth of about half a meter.
08:18The discovery was made during a survey of the area using ground-penetrating radar.
08:22According to scientists, the wooden ship, built in 1936 in 1800, is in remarkably good condition.
08:30Researchers noted that medieval Norwegians either left ships in Viking burials as offerings, or placed the body of the deceased
08:37inside them.
08:38Such a longship testified to the power and social status of the person buried within it.
08:43Archaeologists haven't ruled out that there might be human remains on the ship, but the start date for the excavations
08:49hasn't been announced yet.
08:50The oldest drug find, in Bolivia, in the Cueva del Chileno cave, archaeologists discovered a bag containing traces of multiple
08:58psychotropic plants, and a significant collection of smoking paraphernalia.
09:02The pouch was sewn from the pelts of three red foxes.
09:07Inside was another leather bag.
09:09Inside were two wooden discs for grinding psychotropic plants into snuff, two bone spatulas, a woven headband, and a pipe
09:17for smoking hallucinogenic plants.
09:19In this case, scientists conducted radiocarbon dating on the material the pouch was made of.
09:23It revealed that the find was about 1,000 years old.
09:27Scientists assumed that the owner of this pouch was a shaman.
09:31In ancient times, it was spiritual leaders who knew how to use plants to reach an altered state of perception
09:37to communicate with the spirit world.
09:40Devil's Corkscrew
09:41This story began in the mid-19th century.
09:45Farm owners in Sioux County, Nebraska, discovered strange stone formations in the ground.
09:50Given their unusual shape and size, they simply called them Devil's Corkscrews.
09:56These formations looked like long, twisted spirals, not very thick, but plunging deep underground.
10:01The material looked a lot like stone.
10:03In short, it was something strange and incomprehensible, which the superstitious locals tried to avoid.
10:08In 1904, researchers identified the mammalian remains at the bottom of one of the corkscrews as an ancestor of the
10:15modern beaver.
10:16These animals lived in America about 22 million years ago.
10:21The walls of the tubes consisted of a whitish substance, which were plant roots turned into a glassy mass, due
10:27to the high silica content in the groundwater.
10:29Beavers have changed a lot over time.
10:32Modern beavers are about 1 meter, 30 centimeters long on average.
10:36They have a powerful, paddle-like tail, and they are aquatic creatures.
10:40As for their ancient ancestors of the genus Paleocaster, they were only about 30 centimeters in size.
10:47They didn't have such a powerful tail, but they had powerful forelimbs and jaws, and very strong, wear-resistant teeth.
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