Incredibly these trumpets survived over 3,000 years – more incredibly; some madmen decided to play them to hear what they sound like. “Tutankhamun’s trumpets are a pair of trumpets found in the burial chamber of the Eighteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The trumpets, one of sterling silver and one of bronze […]
Experts drill into the impact crater of an asteroid that created a worldwide cataclysm. Airing December 27, 2017 at 9 pm on PBS NOVA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA on Twitter: @novapbs NOVA on Instagram: @novapbs
This 1,600-year-old poem has never been replicated in English, because it would be virtually impossible. “The Star Gauge (Chinese: 璇璣圖; pinyin: xuán jī tú), or translated as “the armillary sphere chart”, is the posthumous title given to a 4th-century Chinese poem written by the Sixteen Kingdoms poet Su Hui for […]
Follow our ancient ancestors’ footsteps out of Africa and into every corner of our planet. Airing October 5, 2016 at 9 pm on PBS NOVA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA Twitter: https://twitter.com/novapbs
‘Tales From the Bottle’ goes back to the days of the Holy Roman Empire to take a look at some of the Catholic Church’s shenanigans. “The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, held […]
Evidence discovered in the world’s highest tombs reveals ancient rituals and beliefs. Airing January 4, 2017 at 9 pm on PBS NOVA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA Twitter: https://twitter.com/novapbs NOVA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/novapbs/
How long can a war last? Tales From the Bottle explores with one of the longest wars in history, beginning centuries before the birth of Jesus, and lasting til modern times. “The Third Punic War (Latin: Tertium Bellum Punicum) (149–146 BC) was the third and last of the Punic Wars […]
some things i read for this video (on top of watching an ungodly amount of episodes): The History of Christmas: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/12/how-christmas-has-evolved-over-centuries Jesus’s Disputed Birth Story Among Historians: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/12/biblical-stories-of-jesus-birth-reveal-intriguing-clues-about-his-times David Childress IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2347489/bio More About Giorgio’s Background: https://www.uscupstate.edu/globalassets/academics/college-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/languages-literature-and-composition/english-literary-file/elf-volume-4-2012-few.pdf Giorgio’s Cast Page: https://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens/cast/giorgio-a-tsoukalos Florida Rocks (Coral Castle): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle ━SOCIALS━ twitch ➭ https://www.twitch.tv/gabistreams […]
An ancient classic revived in the modern age to be more dangerous than ever. “Motorcycle chariot racing is a motor sport that combines motorcycle racing and chariot racing. The sport was extant in the 1920s and 1930s, having been inspired by the 1925 film Ben-Hur. It went largely (although not […]
Greece is full of wonderful new things and wonderful old things. But when WE become old things, will our ruins also be tourist attractions? **Sources and extra info below!!** me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce on instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants Humorous/interesting videos about how future archeologists might interpret us: VIDEO: “Beatles 3000”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI VIDEO: […]
