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- While escaping the Egyptians 2,500 years ago, the Persian King Cambyses led his army into the desert and disappeared forever. Despite efforts in the 1930s to discover what happened to him, no clues were found until 1996 when a geologist stumbled on evidence by accident. The Egyptian authorities have suppressed news of these findings until now. The Lost Army Of King Cambyses returns to the site to uncover the truth.
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I can't even imagine the history and ancient cities that are just buried under the sands waiting to be discovered. Most of the really old stuff has not even been excavated due to the violence and danger of the region. Hopefully, someday.
If Cambyses' army was wiped out, how did Herodotus obtained the detailed information he had about them. There must have been a survivor to tell the story.
Herodotus is also prone to exaggerate. So it is also possible that he exaggerated some information.
It's the Antiquity version of a found footage movie, basically.
You could have information that a large army is heading your way, and then it never arrives. You don’t know that the desert ate it, but it does become a prime suspect.
The Oracles of Siwa knew about the Persian army approaching and when no Persians attacked them they would probabaly assume that.
They do note the huge logistical load the Persian army had. That means there would have been records of supplies, the men had families, weapon makers. 50k men don’t just disappear unnoticed
Its like watching Mulder and Scully. He wants to believe, she's pissing on his parade at every turn.
Lmao
She's being the grownup in the room as he indulges his wishful thinking. No grownup has any business approaching any serious topic like that.
@@valmarsiglia well said!!! The American was doing my head in. Was a funny comment though 😁
@@valmarsiglia it seems you have a ruleset of how to be an adult.
this is why they are a good pair.
This was a real waste of time. Driving all that way to lightly brush the sand and make tons of assumptions? Just take a damn shovel and dig!
Egyptian to the Persian army: "Ah you head that way and you can't miss it."
Yea,we're going to to go destroy Suma,and your Oracle. Now which way do we go? Ok,so just keep going til we reach the middle of the desert? Thanks native people!
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The Egyptian minister for antiquities is correct. Deserts swallow armies. This has happened numerous times in history all over the world. Without a detailed examination by experts, those findings could be from any period between the Bronze Age to almost the present day. Because of it's fertility and strategic position, Egypt has been fought over by almost every culture in history so the list of possibilities here is quite long.
not wanting to damage the antique finds.
The conquest by Arabs is Egypt's great tragedy!
The sahara has swollowed more then armies. its swollowed entire cultures, cities rivalling romen archtechture whos names are lost to time and prehistoric settelments and the lakes next to them, frozen in time like pompii by the sands.
@Stanisław Śmierćyk Exactly... Egypt ~says~ their expedition never got to the location... then again, Zawi Hawass hides oh-so-much... (and yes, I know that was not Hawass they talked to) Did they make any attempt to try to find the artifacts? NOPE.
The woman says about the camel skeleton, "it depends on the weather" when did the weather change last time in the desert. This is full of "i think" "i imagine" "i believe" just a lot of dialogue to cover the fact that they found nothing. At the beginning he says that he is told exactly where to look then looks all over the desert.
Spot on Karl why not go straight to the Geo’s location where he found the arrows? Because she’s a know it all archaeologist that doesn’t think anyone else knows better.
Hate to say this but this documentary was a waste of our time.
Let's drive all this way and lightly brush the sand and make tons of assumptions. Why not use a shovel and try a bit? It's just loose sand, you bunch of subsidised frauds.
Complete time wasters
She also mentioned that the first bones that they found couldn’t have been someone hiding there for shelter because of potential run off. Just because there was a potential that the bones came from runoff doesn’t mean that it couldn’t have been someone hiding there for shelter, and how much runoff could there have been there lol
I'm Coptic native Alexandrian Egyptian but some of us look somehow like today's Iranians .
Salam to Persian cousins
@Jamil Ebdeen hamra , i mean tiiz aicha
@Jamil Ebdeen aicha × Safwan 2artaso hamoda 💩
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I love the little figurines that they use to depict the army. Well done! Somebody was REALLY creative.
Perhaps after a few days in the desert, the army realized that pressing on was madness and returning to the king without a conquest was also a death sentence, and so they all agreed to just go home and forget about it and send a few messengers back to relay that the army was lost to the sands.
Why do they assume they marched during the day? The Persians knew about desert travel.
So it more likely that they got buried while they slept rather than ate?
Sylvia Hacker
No they were not! There is a difference between Sand dunes and simple empty places, most of Persia( or Iran) is mountainous, not sand duny!
@@LionKing-ew9rm You do know Persian Empire was way bigger than Iran right? They have conquered desert many nations before marching to Egypt. Do you think they simply came out from Teheran and march like a dumbass accross the desert? They already comquered Babylon, Arabian peninsular. Go ahead and try and have a look at the desert of Khorasan, Mesopotamia and Syria. Persan empire and present-day Iran are not within the same confined borders. They have been ruling the deserts of Sahara, Gobi, Negev, Arabia and many others for hundreds of years. This was not Ayatollah's Iran. Persia was the ruling empire of the world spanning from Mongolian border to Europe.
Cannot fast travel with enemies nearby
@@polyglotdev but it wasnt that army specifically that did all that. Many of them could have easily never been in a such a sandy desert
Back in Afghanistan, my first grade classmate's name was Kambiz. I think it's the same as Cambyses in this documentary.
Yes it is
I can't imagine been one of those Persian soldier's on the march. They were highly experienced not just in combat but desert survival, and so were their officers. But despite having the experience, the army did got lost. Water started running low, desertion of troops began. Hopelessly trying to escape their fate and still dying of dehydration. Then mutiny with break out amongst the troops. Officers and regulars killing each other for whatever water and food that was left. Finally the desert itself closed in with many sandstorms, ripping the flesh off those men violently. Covering up their remains and any evidence of their existences. It with of been a horrible site to witness honestly. Watching disciplined soldiers break down into their basic need for self survival.
I wonder if anyone ever asked the Bedouins about sites of many bones.These guys have been in this desert for so long,stories would have been passed down through the generations.
I know the numbers have been brought into question, but there is another factor: discipline. An army lives off the land and must keep moving (Sherman's March 1864). Foraging induces many to desert (Napoleon's retreat in 1812). They would've left a wide swath of corpses, meaning you stand a small chance of finding any real trace of the army. The other factor is time itself. We often dont find people that get lost in the desert for a mere week. They decompose down to skeletons in a matter of weeks. This being a 2,500+yr old cold case...I wouldnt even bother.
Its amazing how much ancient cigarettes resemble today's cigs.
the point of the cigarette was to show the length of the arrow head.
Did you Really think he wasn't joking?
Lmao
like it.made ne laugh
nice whoosh
"It depends on the weather conditions and the environment..." - Now I'm not a meteorologist, geographer or geologist, but even I know that the Sahara Desert has been *_the Sahara Desert_* - i.e. very hot, very dry & very, very sandy - for literally, and *_at least_* , many thousands of years.
However, at one time it was green and lush.
@@user-rm2rq8fq1l how are you imagining your comment has any contextual relevance?
A lot of negative comments i thought it was ok ,some cool historical footage and some nice scenery i found it intresting although why they didn't bring metal detectors is beyond me and also could they get the human bones carbon dated ?
In the next episode they will research Herodotus' account of King Midas and his golden touch and try to find golden objects which Midas might have touched.
Why did they not do a metal detect sweep of the area?
Depends on the the kind of sand, and the local magnetic field. Certain kinds of sand interact with the local magnetic field, and absolutely scramble compasses, metal detectors, electronics, etc.
This seems as though it was meant to find nothing, at various resorts in the area. Looks like one afternoon onsite with two people.
Where are the so called sky satellites radar cameras that, are always shown to us on television
The same reason they do not show us the militarized version with the proper equipment, that already removed the artifacts or covered it up.
How about an aerial reconnaissance?
This could have been done in 5 minutes
They were
Richard Tor yep the suspense cliffhanger that leaves you hangingn till the end..its what I by now call the Discovery syndrom;-)
yea, just say, there's nothing there
No 3 minuets
waste of timed
You know what I think is really crazy, having all that armor, then walking miles in the desert. You have to think, no cold water. And we're not even talking about food. It just blows my mind. That people was so much experience at war. Would even consider attempting that trek through the desert. Imagine showing up to do battle, completely exhausted. Depending on those who you conquer, to replenish. It blows my mind.
The Persians conquered most of the known world and were highly intelligent and resourceful, however as we can see with the recent outbreak of the Coronovirus, in life there's always that X factor that can catch you by surprise. There's a good chance that the Persian army were actually very well supplied and almost made it to their destination when an unusually violent sandstorm, that could have lasted for days, destroyed their entire expedition. There might have been a few stragglers or various groups of survivors but without leadership or supplies or directions, they were more or less doomed in the middle of the inhospitable desert.
Every time the Cairo Museum misplaces items and attempts to brush off questions you can be assured they are trying to hide the truth. It's practically Standard Operating Procedure for them.
James Wells - agree. Makes you wonder why they want to hide history.
i can confirm that, as an American living in Egypt. they are the most corrupt and incompetent people ever to appear on earth
@Mahmoud Ismail
thats a very stupid question. its not YOUR history. you dont own anything being an arab. and if you are from northern Egypt you arent even a real Arab, you are of mostly Turkish, syrian, and eastern European descent.
@emma jones no that's the globalists not American's
@Barbara Mulvaney actually I didn't vote for him, I just see reality. I'd be very happy to eliminate the majority of government.
They didn't take a metal detector? Massive oversight there.
Also, how can you say "There were no survivors to their death by sudden sandstorm" if there are no survivors?
Who was the survivor whose detailed account sparked Herodotus to write about it?
For those of you thinking of watching this for an exciting reveal of "the army", they don't find it. Enjoy people mumbling about their doubts. For 48 minutes...
Thanks, I'm out of here
Not just for this but for how this earth came to be it's all just guess an mumbling hhhh
But that lady has a sexy voice and nice boobs
They finally find something and then it's over. I feel I've wasted my time they really know nothing more then when they started out I think.
Thanks for the warning!
Yeah, welcome to archaeology. 99% of the time.
yeah but you dont make documentaries and release it if nothing happens
seems you do.... Geraldo Rivera started it with the al capones vault.
erm, no, they opened al Capone's vault.. they didnt get half hay through then say, nah we cant get in better luck next time
"Is there a sandstorm coming?"
"Nope."
Cuts to a sandstorm.
lol
Nature.
Don't complain about all the ads,ENJOY them....best part of the mockumentary..
2 Questions
1 - Why didn't Baracat record the exact GPS coordinates of the skulls?
2 - Why didn't the archeologists bring a metal detector with them?
Too expensive
Maybe Gail can’t tell the age of the camel bones, but I would never dare to question a Bedouin bearing in mind his incomparable knowledge from birth of the desert. I think this is definitely an arrogant thing to have done.
I wonder what her credentials were for this particular venture, she seemed incredibly sceptic from the outset
Agreed. She bothered me with her skepticism from the very beginning.
They needed a chick for the documentary, if only to make up for Dr. Mophead's total lack of charisma.
Feminist
Waste of time. This entire documentary could be reduced to 10 minutes or less. Such as "Archeologist search for Persian King Cambyses' lost army and find a pot in the desert." End of story.
lmao thank you for the summary
Archaeology documentaries are always just people digging for more funding. When they actually find something they suddenly get all seriously academic about it and only release information through respected journals anyway.
thanks man xx
I actually enjoyed the larger version.
thanks man, really appreciated XD
Questions: 1. Why didn't they take one of the bones for carbon dating? 2. How did Herodotus know about what happened when no one survived? 3. All that driving and trouble getting there and no one thought to bring a metal detector to look for armor, weapons, etc.?
Spoiler alert: they found a pot.
Thank you for saving me 48 minutes and 35 seconds (i watched few seconds before scrolling down)
JM Salamanca 😂😂😂😆
Thanks. It really sounds like a stupid idea for a documentary anyway because when l was in Egypt I found pot everwhere and l didn't even have to ask. They probably didn't even have to leave the hotel to get some, let alone gallivant all over the desert looking for it like complete idiots 😂
@@opheliabawles9646 galavant, because I read instead of just repeating words I hear around; it usually helps with writing them down again afterwards.
@@Oscuros Yeah well l at least attempt to write amusing comments. Thank god people like you don't.
www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/gallivant
Any Archaeological expedition with a leader who is wearing a 200yr old wig just loses any credibility in my eyes.
"I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all." - The English Patient
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves." - Michael Ondaatje
Thank you for this, for the army of souls who melt into the sands, for we souls who will join them there, in the vast emptiness, the desert within.
I am sub scribed.
Colossal waste of time................ Tom and Gale (? & ?) on a totally ridiculous goose chase in the Saharan sands.
Had a feeling one skull would take an hour for this documentary to find.
I was hoping for more than vague conjecture.
So many people triggered by a documentary. If it, the army, were, found, you wouldn't be watching a documentary searching for it....
Sooo true!!!!
@@MCarr-ol8sj There is something pretty fishy about this one. All that travel and they have almost no gear with which to investigate nor do they with what little they have. Furthermore, they don't pick up bone samples for further investigation. Finally, the Arab museum has long been associated with fraud.
This is my first time hearing of the Cambyses. Even though the archeologists are boring, I would like to find another documentary about this subject.
History lover and I heard about him this month too. What a psycho who nearly lost an empire.
The text below the video is totally wrong. Cambyses didn't go into the desert escaping the Egyptians. Cambyses sent 50.000 men to attack some place close to the Siwa oasis. These men disappeared. You can find a better documentary in CZcams 'Ancient lost army found?'. Good search.
Fantastic dream chase.
The amazing thing in the video is that she admitted that they were in fact human bones. I expected her to say "I don't think they are bones...they look more like white rocks,or possibly pottery shards. Maybe a year or two old." I did like the overall video though.
I like how they have one token skeptic on the expedition who refuses to believe anything that anybody says about any topic, ever. She argues with a Bedouin about camel bones.
I find her quite annoying... Arguing with bebouin over age of camel bones...seriously...that man probably lived there his entire life and his experience seems valid to me. She argues it depends on weather? They are in the desert ..not much weather change.
Yes, I replied 2 someone's previous comment about her
Fascinating introduction. Enjoyed the end about comparing the arrowheads in the picture with the actual artefacts at the British Museum made me think that was a pocket of troops dispersed by the sand storm. Someone commented about why they did not metal detect the area but remember they said they were in a military zone. Metal Detectors would not have been allowed.
Found the American archeologist knowledgeable, calm and collected.
Amazing that a vast empty space of mainly desert were fought over & bled to be conquered & controlled.Perhaps the best way to move around is on wide tracked vehicles instead of wheeled ones.
That cigarette uncovered from the sandstorm surely casts some doubt as to the veracity of the age of the weapons? It's a Rothman's king size I think...
And everyone knows the Persians smoked Camels, unfiltered.
Why so much emphasis on the thirst of Cambyses' army when Herodotus never mentioned it?
you found their bones...but where our their swords, knife and arrow head and shields? you should find thousand of that also
unless stripped by Beddoe for the iron.
Dig for a long lost army in the desert; brings brush.
If I were the Egyptian archeological expedition and I needed to go check out a lost army that has been found, then I'm going to take a helicopter to check it out. Apparently they just said "dangit, we can't drive any further because of the sand dunes, oh well, we tried"
Yeah, I think the secular Egyptian government might be a little too broke for that. Should have borrowed a tank from the military.
I wonder if it wouldn't have been easier to use a vehicle similar to a snowmobile (maybe called a sandmobile) for traveling in the desert? Snow is of course packed harder especially when it's cold, but it could be easier to use one of those than a car when traveling in the desert. I hope there will be a follow up of this program. Maybe Tony Robinson and his Time Team could come and scan the area to see what dark areas they find under the sand?
"Somebody was here with a pot.." At least he had something to pee in..lol
Lol
Myth or not it gives a lesson. No matter how powerful you are , nature can lay you low.
Mother Nature is known for humbling people lol
One of the cool things about these older docs is that you can look up the people involved and find out some things. The lady in this one (Gaille Mackinnon) was part of a group that discovered an unknown soldier of Waterloo in 2022.
Anywho, this must've been done before GPS was readily available because it seems THEY'RE wandering the desert as much as any army would've back in antiquity. I do like how the Tom guy is all quixotic while Mackinnon keeps dumping cold water on him LOL
Shout out everyone in the comment section who advised me not to watch this documentary and saved me 48 minutes of my life by telling me they only find a pot.
And pieces of a leg bones and multiple skull fragments.
OK. So they THINK it's possible the lost army has been found ! Great. Leave Us Hanging. Does anyone else feel cheated or that their leg is being pulled when they go out on the word of a trustworthy geologist, but have to CALL HIM WHEN THEY GET THERE to ask for details about the location of human skulls ??? Lazy as I can be at times I would have done a lot more homework than that . . .
Rich boy hobby. Keeps em busy I suppose😏
How foolish of this supposed archaeologist to question the expertise of the exceedingly accomplished geologist Dr. Tom Bown
A photographic, ultrasound, magnetic surch for anomalies of the desert from a sattelite could localise the quantity of metals left by an army of 10.000 soldiers. I do not understand under which commandement an archaeological mission of such importance can be confied to a sceptical last rang archaelogist .
The arrowheads make the site quite intriguing. Thank you for a very interesting video.
They could have been planted there by yet another archaeologist trying to secure funds/sell a book etc.
Archaeologists are much like television magicians. (Ooh! How did that get there?)
I will save the next view some time *THEY FIND NOTHING*
Learning history is interesting .it gives you an idea of how early people lived their lives.
They do a Scully/Mulder routine. But a pretty good one. "This could be a poor soul from the persian army who crawled under here to die" - "These bones could be anyones. Just because there are bones here doesn't mean it's the persian army."
tl;dw Reality TV. They don't find anything except a few human bones and they can't have access to the original artifacts, so inconclusive.
4:50 repeatedly tap this timestamp
A brief scan of the comments tells me this is not worth watching. 48 minutes of my life not wasted, thank you.
I got to 3/4 of the movie and decided this was going to be another "Monster Quest" style program. They don't find anything.
Nothing to see here. About 50 minutes of extended click-bait.
The arrowheads are without a doubt bronze age persian. The dagger is very likely persian. It seems like they were told NOT to do anything once they got there. Very strange how it all ended. Egyptian weaponry was very different from anyone else's at this time.
Would be interesting to see a real expedition visit this place.
Todd Mccain
They were in the Iron age!!!!!!!
This is amazing content. I wish we had more of these on history made today - deserts and the deep of the ocean are surely hiding some exciting secrets! Also one question, wouldnt lidar be able unearth a lot of the things hidden by the sand?
What the author / explorers didn´t take into account is, that Achaemenid did in fact have their portions of deserts so they could be accustomed how to deal with them. Even the Macedonians of Alexander were able to overcome them, though they didn´t have any in their home. So, I think their problem was really violent tempest.
"as they were taken their midday meal"... so, there were witnesses or maybe survivors to this event happening in the desert!
what arrogance that woman has telling a local who was probaly taught the ways of the desert before he could even walk
He didn't take a GPS location with his phone? You don't need a network, just a GPS App preinstalled for 10m resolution!
Almost all TV documents just sucks like this. 48 minutes of nothing leads to big discovery of nothing.
48 minutes and 41 seconds of my life I can never get back.
I don't "like" videos with ads.
The idea that Cambyses had an army that was lost in the desert at all is in itself a highly disputed idea, but the docu presents the idea as if it was some kind of fact, when most likely there never was any Persian army lost in the desert.
So how did Greek historian Herodotus know that the killer sandstorm struck the Persian army as they were having their midday meal ? If this happened at all, it would mean that some of the doomed Persian army survived to tell the tale. We know for a fact that King Cambyses never perished in a sandstorm, but died on his way back to Persia. Why is there no Persian or Egyptian record of this ?
for documentaries of this kind, i only watch the first 2 mins then scan the last 5 mins for the conclusion. i hate this kind of presentation...
I do that a lot....
Wow
great comment!! that's exactly what I did thanks to your great comment haha :)
MaddDog Crackbaby you are welcome😊
RIP Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great! The best humane leaders that the world has ever seen! Salute to the Persian Empire and Cyrus the Great who created the first charter of human rights!
Cyrus is one of my favorite historical figures..a truly great leader and an excellent judge of human character...
Greeks first^. I don't see you criticizing them...
You are aware they used to skin people alive don't you? that is hardly humane lol
Sepehr Voshmgir, Greeks were invaded twice and Athens was burnt to the ground. It was only natural that, when they united under Philip the 2nd and later Alexander the Great, got on the offensive and took the battle to the Persians. Unfortunately, the Persians lost, in contrast with their 2 unsuccessful campaigns against the Greeks.
OrionLady777: It is said that history is written by the victors. What the Greeks did to the greatest city in the world (Persepolis) at the time was beyond shameful. Alexander was an egomaniac that just wanted to conquer the world. He wasn't as ruthless as Genghis, but not too far behind.
The flying cats in the thumbnail brought me here.
So I looked into it, and the Persians brought cats to take advantage of Egyptian superstitions.
you would think being seasoned desert travellors they would of picked a full moon, bright evenings so they could travel on the peaks and cross in a cooler heat.
"he can't just say it's 200 years old because it's older than him. it depends on the weather."
that dude has lived there in that desert his entire life. I seriously doubt the weather changes all that much from one small area to the next out there. I mean you did hire him because he's an expert at living in that specific area. I'd bet money he was within 50 years.
"depends on the weather, depends on the environment"...right after 3 different experts (two of which have travelled extensively in the desert) were talking about the high level of preservation and mummification of corpses, where "nothing changes" in the desert. Did the director or editor do that deliberately to show her up? I really get the feeling someone's saying "here are interviews with weathered veterans who really know what they're talking about, and now let's cut to the group flailing around in the desert, ignoring the guides who live in the bloody place."
Here it is! My spidey sense was tingling when I heard her say that? She literally doubted everything and at the least couldn't form her own opinion at any other point of the doc.
@@6offdutyninjasN1 - exactly! I came to the comments right after she said that bc I thought she was a bit pretentious and rude. The guide has probably played in those areas as a kid way before she was even born 🙄🤣
But if he doesn't do any analyses, i mean if he never did on anything found, and he just says a number like it and says the same number on things that look alike, it is certainly not appropriate dating. The guy is a bedouin, not a scientist.
@@sisu4134 So what? That doesn't mean he knows how to date lol. She was right. You cannot just say something is 200 yo because it is older than you and looks like other stuff you deemed 200 yo without testing and proofs.
Im a simple person but If no one survived how does Herodotus have so many details of the alkeged story? ... im not disbeluueving it happened just my first question woukkd be how did Herodotuys have so much detail ....
VASILIKI good point
actually I thought exactly the same thing, how did they know, but then I figured that clearly Egyptians knew the army has left Thebes, they knew their mission and then they knew that army never made it to the oasis and there was a sand storm around that time, considering local religious propaganda, all those priests used the story for their advantage and the story kinda stayed and was passed around, that's how Herodotus got it
666darkwisdom
Thank goodness someone has their head on the right way!
Beat me to that comment!
666darkwisdom , very good deduction and a plausible one.
I would have thought that a metal detector would have been on the top of the list of things to bring along to look for metal relics?
Just driving around the desert not finding anything.. I rate this film a 1 out of 5.. 5 being the best rate.
you forgot the part where he swears loyalty to anubis in exchane for his help in conquering. from this Moment onward he was known as...*the scorpionking*
Are you sure ,you know really the whole Story of the Empire of Acardia - and last Emperer Sargon of Arcadia ? By the way the Arcadians have known King David ...of Israel in the end -time of their existence and Abraham in the beginning of their cultural history , the Hethitis and other old cultures ! And the Lady is nice in her work ... and more than 12.000 years historical research are not done in 5 Minutes ...
Dr.h.c.Claudia Maria Anna Kramer DAVID/HADAD WAS AN ENEMY IEUDOMITE AGAINST THE ISRAELITES. HIS MATERNAL GRANDFATHER WAS KING OF AMMON. HIS PATERNAL GRANDFATHER WAS OBED-EDOM.
Carbon dating? Bueler?
This documentary is full of annoyances. No payoff, too many ads and that obnoxious woman.
I remember watching this on tv in 2003 - could do with updating haha
Army still dead.
I am a white educated woman seeing camel remains for the first time and your experience with prior finds means nothing to me, nor should it, for you are the help....now shut up about bringing a Garrett Pro metal detector to search the vast sands in our limited time and get me my spoon and drawing pad.
Her rude arrogance was incredible for a so-called professional who didn't have the brains to cover that high forehead from the sun.
Bravo! She erked me..so much!
Metal detectors? Why did they seem to not have them?
The same reason they drive in sand with fully inflated tires; they're quacks.
@@unnaturalselection8330 going into the great sand sea in vehicals not setup for it can be suicidal. stupid. I like tubes and 12 lbs on 14 inch wide paddles.
Well presented content! Keep it up.
Someone would need a army of people to search for a lost army in the great sand sea.
HEY HAVE YOU GUYS EVER HEARD OF CARBON DATING ?? lol
Sharia law probably forbids it
Spent all the money on Gail's TV outfits.
RUCookoo Jackson
I've heard of carbon paper, does that count for anything.?...
*Thanks for the tutorial on how to stretch out a " **-documentary-** " video for **48:41** minutes.*
“This is about 200 years old.”
“How can you tell it’s 200 years old.”
“Because I have experience.”
“You can’t tell it’s 200 years old because it’s older than you!”
Lady, you do realize that people are able to tell you how old a piece of a rockface of a cliff is from by simply looking at it right? And those are also older then the person looking at them!
That's why they ride camels in the desert. Their wheels don't get stuck in the sand!
"Is it possible that one of the great mysteries of the ancient world is about to be solved "
No
Persians were against slavery ! and Greek writers are biased against Persians because they were enemies during those times.
Farbod Achamenian ......lol
Uh-huh anybody smell anything over here?
Bah, I teach Herodotus in school, and he was often very complimentary to the Persians, and agreed with their accounts of some things over his own Greek countrymen. He was also from Halicarnassus, and though Greek, was Asiatic Greek from Asia Minor. He comes off as rather fair-handed in his accounts overall, often criticizing Greek accounts of historic events as nonsensical as compared to Egyptian or Persian accounts.
Because the Persians invaded Greece; that’s why Alexander was determined to destroy them.
Gail: no way to determine how long the camel bones have been here
also Gail: these human bones have been here a while
I'm surprised she even said that they are actually bones at all. I wouldn't have been surprised if she said"I'm not sure they could just be white stones,or pottery perhaps"?
Those ancient soldiers had discovered how to make filter cigarettes. Quite advanced.