Check Out The World’s Greatest Discoveries in Archaeology

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How did our species live in ancient times? That’s the question archeologists are attempting to answer as they dig up relics and make momentous discoveries. Still, some finds are bigger than others.

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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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