Great talk! But, what is often overlooked in the rise of the Thebean Dynasties is Thebes' proximity to the Qena Bend. You can't support a "war" machine without food. This geographic anomaly yielded the harvests to feed armies.Thebes is also near the Wadi Hammamat, a trade route linking the the Red Sea to the Nile River near Qena. Geography is everything when building states.

Where are the amethyst formations, see. S American Brazilian ? Where did they get water etc etc There a lot of questions that need to be answered. What gazelles, or trees !? 😂

So did you look for amrthyst ? Or are you saying they mined it all….

The audio is poor

Thanks for ASL

The physical verification of these graves has not occurred, leaving the claim of “bodies found” unsubstantiated. This highlights the unreliability of Indigenous ways of knowing, without hard scientific evidence.

Every little piece of information in this presentation did gave me lots of Goosebumps all over my body !! ❤

A wonderful and educational lecture - Thank you for making it available or future studies and work.

Corporate overview of archyology at it's finest.

What's with the pronoun

Can't wait for the next talk by this professor.

Very interesting talk! Thank you for posting it.

Wow! Comments allowed. Nice. Good move.

I enjoyed this presentation. I wish I could save it and show it to my friends. Just kidding.

Great start to the mourning! Thanks Jen 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🏄‍♀️🏄‍♂️

Excellent lecture. Keep in mind that the Sea People, despite not having iron, still had the advantage of being very quick and mobile against the "land people" who had invested most of their warfare into chariots

Any other people from the RUG here?

Interesting. How was it discovered originally!?

what is wrong with you? in your ongoing comment you always make funny noises with your mouth.....its disturbing - the story ist great. train to comment fluently

Because when God Changed language @ Babel THEY FLED BUT RETAINED THERE BUILDING KNOWLEDGE THOSE SQUARE PYRAMIDS ALL OVER SA & MEXICO. NO ALIENS YOU GUYS

Bla bla bla. No Aliens no government cover up. My idea is IT BURNED DOWN WHO WAS LEFT FLED BECAUSE IT PROBABLY BECAME CURSED WHEN PEOPLE BURNED UP THERE! THE METALS FOUND CAME FROM TRADE UP FROM SA OR FROM ACROSS THE SEAS FROM ANCIENT JEWS FLEEING MIDDLE EAST TO SA & MEXICO

How did something so amazing get no comments... Thank you to all of ye that were invovled for this insight into what went on and how it went. I love this place (how could anyone not). Amethyst brought me here but I stayed for evrything else Achill had to share ❤️

fantastic! thanks for your amazing work! it looks really mysterious !

Really nice webinar, thanks

Fascinating interview! I've seen Thomas Paradise in many TV documentaries, but this interview is so much more personal, detailed. Thank you!

Thank you for posting this!

As someone who is 34 and transitioning from a Software Developer career to (hopefully) a PhD in some branch of Anthropology, I appreciate all of this information. It’s so confusing to change fields as an adult. I currently live in PA, and o will definitely be attending the event next year.

"ANU" hmmmmmm

Hey, any archeologist seen the Sage Wall in Montana?

Very Good Thank you ❤

Great presentation. Loved how she puts the clues together ... thank you.

This was an amazing presentation last night! Thank you so much!!

Why is the cannibalism ignored and soft pedaled? Turner’s writings in Man Corn are very compelling. Together with Lekson’s work, Navajo and Hopi oral histories. It seems like Chaco was a mesoamerican slaver built palace for a few elites with some awfully horrible stuff happening all around the Four Corners region. The Park Service website states “Aztec” ruins is a misnomer but I think it fits like a glove. They found a dead baby on a board there and cannibalism. I guess this doesn’t fit the shiny happy Puebloan utopian narratives needed to get research grants. When politics are allowed to interfere with science it robs us all of the truth. Why did Chaco have a child’s skeletal remains carefully wrapped around an upper level support post-(Turner)? What is pot polish on bones? What is anvil abrasion? Why are bone piles in trash heaps crushed with burn marks on the ends? There are a lot of burned out kivas with the remains of men women and children, babies and fetus’. If you want any credibility get real about what was found out there. It’s a disservice to the victims to ignore what happened out there. The sites should be dug like crime scenes, there’s enough sites i’d call it a genocide. The native peoples of this area have a right to know How the mesoamericans came and enslaved them and scalped and killed and ate their ancestors and literally shat on their burned corpses. The proof is there if you look. Is this inconvenient?

Another version of an excellent talk; but unfortunately Prof. Cline's computer mic isn't very good and sound drops a lot.

I saw Dr. Murray in another video so glad to follow him...

Great talk! Thank you.

I just started research on tattooing in ancient times and found out about the mummies in Deir el Medina. I thought it would be perfect for a MA thesis then I found this lol This work is amazing Dr. Austin! 10 years is a long time.

i am thinking of doing a phd research project on this battle so it was nice to find an academic presentation on it. thanks

I abhor feminism being propagandised in Egyptian history....

A shame that Jeff focussed on the USA, rather than providing a global perspective.

Just started my undergrad this year, I have wanted to pursue this degree for a very long time but programs are very hard to find. This is such an amazing presentation! I will be joining AIA asap! Thank you so much for all of this incredible information.

I noted that when Adam Smith defined value, he completely ignored objects having a sentimental value. Must be a guy thing?

Internships are an excellent idea. Mentorship is a great idea too. How about apprenticeships to provide both too?

Thanks so much for this information - as a recent traveler to Algeria (three times in the past 4 year) I have submitted to the committee. Thanks again for publicizing the information!

What kind of gobblygoop research is this? It says not one word about the real antiquity of rock cut architecture of Petra. It was definitely not built by nabateans or the romans, not at all. Some niches were sure carved inside the already existing rock cut halls, but the halls were not cut out by romans or anyone we know of. Maninstream scholars try to bury everything under the "erosion" factor to prove it was built just 2000 years ago. Excuse me, but you eat too much sh*t if you believe that to be true.

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Theo Huxtable hasn't aged a day!

This was absolutely fascinating, brilliant conjecture and research.

I can’t imagine there would be much edible meat on a dugong?

Interesting topic, but the constant "right?" is too anoying to continue watching. Sorry. 🙂🇨🇦