Egypt's 'most exciting' archaeological discovery in decades - BBC REEL 

Am I the only one who absolutely LOVES Professor Salima? She makes me happy every time I see her on TV talking about ancient Egypt. There is something about her personality that is loving, engaging, humble and energetic.

Those serpentine walls are still use today in England. We plant fruit trees in the recesses and the sun warms the bricks during the day and at night the bricks release the heat, reducing the chance of frost damage to the fruit trees. History says that the idea came from Egypt.

Honestly, I love Dr. Salima, I've seen her in many documentaries and she always explains everything to perfection

That whole country is like one massive open museum. You throw a rock in Egypt and you hit an ancient ruin ❤❤

I must say that when I visited the Egyptian museum in Cairo a few years back, it was the “everyday” items that were most impressive. The workmanship would rival many modern day items.

This woman is the best Egyptologist ever!!! :)) Let her present all the Egyptian shows!

What an absolutely incredible find. How I’d love to work on a dig like this!

Egypts lost gold??? Have they tried looking in the British museum. Everything "Lost" usually shows up there.

What a great understanding of Architecture, chemistry, preservation, Art and Science they had.One of the most popular civilizations of all times.

Amazing that one piece of pottery still had blue and white paint on it. It is said that everything they made/built was brightly painted when it was new.

I'm happy to hear about discoveries like this. And I can imagine young Egyptologists around the world are amazed to hear it too, because that means that there are more hidden & undiscovered cities, ruins, temples and places where to make new discoveries. It is mindblowing to make a find like this, to be able to see in detail how people lived long before us. Wholesome ! 😊

Egypt is amazing country to visit. So much history

Beautiful I hope one day we can visualize what this city looked like and how it all fits in the time-line. Wow

Europeans: those are kinda cute, might take and put it in our museum 😋

Every time something discovered in Egypt. Its an amazing thing🖖

I met this lady. Many years ago. When she worked in the finds of Egypt in Luxor. Opposite the posh hotel. In a small building where she explained to me how Egyptians did dentistry. I will never forget how nice the people were. With my husband and I. Xxx thank you xxx

If I could build a time machine ancient egypt I would definitely travel back to

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I love that we are still making archeological discoveries, that we haven't just given up and said "well, there's nothing more"

I was there right before they announced this discovery! Akhenaten was my favorite pharaoh. That period in time is so interesting! Praise the Aten! 🙌☀️

Egypt...the gold mine of archeology!

Prof. Salima, your enthusiasm is contagious!

Imagine the other temple and cites waiting to be found? Love Egypt 🇪🇬 from Canada 🇨🇦

Priceless ancient teasures

i’m taking an art history class and i learned so much about ancient egypt this week

Wow! It’s so fascinating that wonderful history is still being found to this day, and there’s still a vast of secrets buried under the sand out there!

I must say I'm crazy about the ancient Egypt and if I see prof. Salima and sir Zahi I already know it will be huge 😍

OMG I am so fascinated by ancient Egypt, can you imagine a find like this!!

I was not expecting to see a fish. Wow

Its astonishing after 3000+ years they're still finding artifacts, can wait for the mother of all finds.

Beautiful find! 🤗🤗🤗

Great explanation thanks

Simply amazing.

Just seeing so many intact pottery vessels was amazing. The vast majority of the time, you don't see that. I have a speculative take on why the town was found in this condition. The town's name was Aten. Akhenaten, a monotheistic Pharaoh, son of Amenhotep III, father of Tutankhamen, had been fiercely opposed by the powerful Egyptian polytheistic priests for ordering that all subjects should only worship Aten, ( Egypt's god of the sun.). He was recently out of power and/or dead in that approximate time frame. (about1353,BCE) Almost every reference to him was destroyed, monuments defaced, references chiseled from everywhere his likeness or name appeared. In recent years, fragments were finally found as construction rubble and rock fill for other, newer royal structures . If I'm not mistaken, this town NAMED for the sun god might have been ordered abandoned or even cursed to make the inhabitants flee. Possibly by those triumphant priests ro bring heretics back into line (also the power and riches previously diverted from their coffers, back into their hands).

Hope to see more of this

Stunning pieces ! Look at those shapes and how thin they are 😍 Oh Beautiful Egypt ❤ You fascinate me .

Amazing..

The walls in a squiggly formation is very interesting and looks very well preserved

yesss, good stuff. congrats

Love bbc reels!

Thanks for a real documentary

Awesome to see

Very interesting love history like this

Those are very very precious indeed. I say cherish them for life and at all costs.

Very Cool

I find it really hard to understand how a city gets abandoned like that withouth being looted . That's amazing . Surely it's took centuries to be covered by dirt

That opening shot looks like an Egyptian "Antiques Roadshow"... And if the pots etc are that damaged and that old, should they really be carried around quite so casually...??? Seems questionable to me...

This is soooo interesting

Good work. Any news from Labyrinth underground level excavations? Stary

The size of those jugs , wonderful! I can imagine the walls being white plastered originally, wish I could be there to visit the site.

Do we know why the walls were built in the wave pattern? It looked like on the outside of the wall in the concave spaces there were circular curbs built. Is there any evidence about what these were used for? Very pleasing to the eye, and I don’t recall seeing such a design in ancient city wall ruin photos before.

I like how she emphasized funding bodies at the end

One distinct possibility for its abandonment could be when Akhanertan(sic) dragged everyone out to the desert to build his new capital, and when Tutankhamen brought them back to the region the settlement was either covered in sand, impractical to repair, in poor condition, or held a superstition about the family's "sacrilege" of monotheism.

Fantastic..why did they take this off the history channel..it was so kool to watch these discoveries

We are very curious about who build the layers of the whole Giza Plateau, stones weighting tens of thousands of tonnes.

Watching these types of digs makes me wish I were an archeologist. I would say I would love to be one in my next life but that would be disappointing. All we would find is mounds of plastic, discarded cell phones and pieces of IKEA furniture

Este excelente acervo Egiptológico...mais se irá descobrir?!! O esplendor e magnitude das suas construções da época em ruínas, bem como tributos dos tesouros! De onde vieram estas peças de arte, verdadeiras provas de valor?! Valeu esta prospecção ...a recompensa de toda uma herança para a humanidade!! Podemos nós discernir perfeitamente o que a humanidade deve ao pensamento e obra Egípcia?!!

Not everything was a tomb or a temple. And most of the amazing work is pre dynamic Egypt thousands of years older.

Amazing they survived in one piece!

It wasn’t always a desert,so hopefully lots more to come

I take everything that the BBC covers with a pinch of salt.

Congratulations

The truth can’t be hidden forever. Imagine what’s still unseen and will be a lot harder to hide now.

Who else geeked out when they heard Dr. Ikrams voice narrating? I squealed SALIMAAAAA! An absolute rock star of Egyptology.

What's the name of the song in the beginning of the video

As a child I used to think egypt was a land where mummies wake up a terrorize people.

Wow original Egyptian culture was really beautiful.

Way cool

Love to see them dig up the area in the Sahara where liDAR detected (2 yrs ago) a large castle like structure under 40 meters of sand from a completely unknown civilization.

Like the flintstones

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Nice music.

Them standing in line with the pots you would swear you were watching the Antiques Road Show.

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

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Can it be considered that with all the pottery and effects being discovered that the inhabitants did not abandon the suburb as a slow process but were forced to leave quickly, not by force of arms, but decree from Aye?

You'd have thought the people of the day would have taken all those lovely painted pots and other goods before the city was abandoned. They look far too good to just leave around, especially after all the work it takes to make them. Makes you wonder if there might have been a sickness in the area and people feared to take the goods, believing they might catch something from them. Or perhaps it was deliberately buried when the pharaoh died and, just like he is is buried with goods to take him into the afterlife, the idea was this part of the city would follow him into the afterlife as well.

I'm really curious bout the fish at 3:37

@3:51 look at the stone carving!! Looks like yoda!?!

I cant imagine our cities today will be underground too after a million of years from now..

does anyone know the background music?

From the year of the ruler mentioned, could it be from where the israelites left around 1300BC?

I cant believe that criminal Hawass is still involved in anything to do with with these digs

Egyptian Aliens wer impeccable

The populace went “up” in Rapture or Ascension. Return to Aten or Heaven to the One True Diety. Earth School was adjourned! The harmonics from even just seeing the site. I got the goosebumps. 😭🤩

Maybe drought drove people away? Very exciting news!

What are those walls made of? Mud brick?

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Shout out to Sarah Parcek🙌🏼

African history is amazing and soo rich ❤

I love the armenian duduk playing in the background!

What if they drop those pots there holding lmao I'd drop dead laughing 😂

Anyone else notice that carving of Yoda? Seriously, what is that?

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I wish Assassin's Creed makes another on ancient Egypt, wish I could play origins for the first time again

what's the giant fish about. Was it preserved?

What is the story of the fish?

Never updated us about the black tomb room

The bible says he'd destroy Egypt. So who did he send to be the last three Pharaohs ? A mere 70 years of ruling and, Egypt still hasn't recovered.

Thanks so much for the video and info but why is Hawas not in jail....