The Discovery That Defies What We Know About Ancient China | Mysteries Of China | Absolute History

Join archaeologist Dr. Agnes Shu as she ventures into the heart of southern China to uncover the mysteries surrounding the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King. Dating back over 2,000 years, this burial site challenges historical perceptions and reveals a sophisticated civilization. With groundbreaking discoveries including a silk and Jade burial suit and a trove of artifacts, Dr. Shu explores this forgotten kingdom of the Han Dynasty, shedding light on its culture, technology, and enigmatic ruler. Prepare to be transported back in time as we unravel the secrets buried beneath the earth's surface.
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[@edgarsnake2857]

Outstanding documentary. Some of The most exciting archaeological discoveries are coming from China right now.

[@charlesg5085]

The country burned most of its historically important artifacts. Bunch of clowns over there.

[@charlesg5085]

Interestingly, youtube is deleting my comments. China has burned most of their historically relevant artifacts. They had to go to Japan to recover what they could. Also this woman does a pretty bad job.

[@戦え浜岡]

@@charlesg5085 I think she did a fantastic job. Would've liked a bit more information coming from the historians however. Amazing documentary overall.

[@manuellubian5709]

​@@charlesg5085Why would China BURN it's historic artifacts?

[@ilselauwers6009]

A civilization can be very sophisticated in technology etc and be barbarous in how it treats his civilians ! Hence the human sacrifices ! I don’t understand why this is laughed away in the video .

[@mrchildrenen]

This is about ppl from thousands of years ago, they don't have to be held in the same modern moral standards😅

[@ilselauwers6009]

@@mrchildrenen yes of course I agree on that. And my comment is not : they were highly sophisticated ‘but’ ….. It is : they were highly sophisticated ‘ and’ ….. No judgement here just a need to be accurate about who and what they were. Downplaying the human sacrifice culture part of their sophisticated culture is deliberate

[@shawnnewell4541]

I saw a similar jade suit at the Son of Heaven exhibit in Seattle in the 80s it was for a female though.

[@visceratrocar]

It's interesting how the Han Dynasty was so wealthy and powerful that outside kingdoms would emmulate them all the way to the grave.

[@Name.is2]

More of the Qin than the Han.

[@visceratrocar]

@@Name.is2 The guy in the doc lived during the Han Era

[@tungnguyen66]

The evidence shows otherwise in the documentary video

[@tinavino1575]

People were poor. Emperors were rich.

[@johnjimmies8256]

Now the han emulate everyone else

[@csipawpaw7921]

The real question is, were the wives and servants truly sacrificed, or did they have faith in an afterlife and simply choose to join him in that afterlife out of their great love and respect for him. So that they might be with him forever? Few people today have true faith in the afterlife. So their fear of death taints their view of what may have occurred.

[@GizzyDillespee]

Also, the idea of being someone else's property is foreign to most people today. When they say "15 servants were killed, to accompany their master in the afterlife", these weren't like employees are today... as far as rights, they were more equivalent to cattle, or pets, than to paid assistants. IOW, if they had any opinions about their masters, those wouldn't have been taken into consideration. The servants would have been born and raised to be servants, and that's the only world they would've known.

[@ohsweetmystery]

More and more, people seem to be incapable of thinking of anything beyond their own personal experience.

[@carlodefalco7930]

.. “ great love and respect for him .. “ 😄😄😄 no . Regardless of faith in afterlife I say , they would be happy to go on living , unless .. life was so hard , mistreated that dying only escape..

[@Guitar6ty]

Similar suit on ruler in South America. Emperor Capal Excellent presentation

[@grtlyblesd]

I’ve been to that museum! It was well worth the visit. Really a neat place. Also, I’m wondering where the jade suit with gold threads was located? I feel like we saw a jade suit in Nanjing, but I don’t remember it being tied with gold, so I’m guessing it wasn’t the same one.

[@jxmai7687]

There is a photo showing what it looks like when it was discovered, nothing holding those jade pieces together.

[@DonaldHarrington-uw9ct]

The 100+ Chinese pyramid ram pumps are older than Egypt but somehow the Australian pyramids are older than the 100+ Chinese pyramids since mars was nuked 3.5 million years ago only a few cultures since then have elevated to the same technology cork screws the lunar Egyptian obelisks were built the same time the 1.8 million year old nuclear reactor in Africa was built sometime after mars had two nuclear airburst bombs above the poles at the north at mars Mt Kailash was built sometime between 3.5-5 and 1.8 million years ago by the same survivers of that first multi planetary ancient human civilization even the natives and other remote cultures talk about the UFOs taking people of the villages into space the same way Jesus and Mohammad accended

[@pichan8841]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn2tY5WKp6qSf6s: Why not play authentic traditional Chinese music instead? This western style stock music is truly disgusting given the context! Absolute History?🤮

[@DonaldHarrington-uw9ct]

What the mesopotamians say about the asteroid belt 5 to 3.5 million years ago when mars was nuked they still had the knowledge of our solar system the asteroid belt was created from a planet that destroyed itself by hyper eruption the crust is only 50-100 miles thinbin most places doesn't take much

[@tacla]

I love this host. Her enthusiasm is radiant and I feel her excitement about the tomb and its history!

[@kardondo]

Americanized fake enthusiasm. “Only kings could have had funerary chambers, with jewels and fine stones, I’d like to hear the archeologist and historian rather than her….

[@carlodefalco7930]

@@kardondoshe got Chinese background .. of course she has real excitement

[@anastacioiii4047]

You can tell the professor is doing his best because of the woman.

[@kellenfurter]

I had no idea that 20 of these have been found! Thanks for the knowledge

[@HappyPandaBear73]

Absolutely Fascinating! Thank you for in depth of ancient China’s history.👍🙏🐲🐉🐼🌏🇨🇳🙂❗️

[@DonaldHarrington-uw9ct]

There's still over 200 mud brick stupa pyramids from Asia on the pre inca coastline from apocalypse island and ancient bridge islands across the south Pacific that reumerge during ice ages and lower ocean levels they built those mud brick geopolymer pyramids without aggrogated water glass geopolymer 120.000 years ago before the continent was reinhabbited after the last global nuclear war between India Siberia the Sahara white sands mexico central south america and Australia massive past nuclear volley's we are just not getting the technology to rediscover the scentpaths to cross global past silk roads

[@DonaldHarrington-uw9ct]

The asian great wall in San Francisco and the Texas asian great wall were created before the last global nuclear volley before south america was reinhabbited the culture before the radiation everywhere probably 200.000 years ago from Asia same as the 200.000 year old native and asian buriel grounds found 70ft below California by that culture sometime between 250.000 and 200.000 years ago when the California great wall and Texas great wall were built

[@Obiter3]

So very interesting. I love when history has to change.

[@buttercxpdraws8101]

History doesn’t change. We just learn more about it and so our perception changes.

[@DonaldHarrington-uw9ct]

The Phoenicians Egyptians tibetans and Australians were the ones who created past global spanning silk roads there's still megalithic buildingings since before the last ice age more than 35.000 years ago

[@DonaldHarrington-uw9ct]

Same mathematics incorporated in native megalithic structures are the same as Ireland and Ireland constantly got along with Egypt in the past before Columbus the natives got tought by the ancient Irish to create geopolymer megaliths our buildings have the same incorporated math different than other continents only the natives mirror our buildings built or shown by the Irish to the natives

[@DonaldHarrington-uw9ct]

The mysterious unknown people that built a lot of the giant fortresses in Peru pre inca used the same building styles of megalithic geopolymer transported by pipeline bamboo or hessian sacks on rope pulley systems by the same culture that built nan madol and megalithic japan

[@haolin4901]

Archaeologist or story teller? She’s definitely an unknown archaeologist in China. You can really tell she doesn’t know anything and re-tell stories.

[@ezpic2]

So odd how some will think they are so superior to others. Here the North superior to the South…! Well, guess what…?? NOT…!

[@Jkl62200]

Well, the Nan Yue king was sent down from the Han court in the plains.

[@DonaldHarrington-uw9ct]

If it's no a airburst it removes 3 meters of surface ground depending on how many detonations

[@JohnDelong-qm9iv]

The ark can be seen in ark I texture fashion, and cystoms

[@jxmai7687]

他们发现那一年我才13岁，刚好不久前还我们几个同学在那位置挖粘土作模型，黄土格外细滑😂

[@DonaldHarrington-uw9ct]

The panther mound in Florida is older than 120.000 years ago

[@عبداللهالعتيبي-و4ص6ل]

As usual for any modern, attractive documentary, they will have the honour of being added to my bookmark.

[@johnwilson5637]

What were the fates of wives/concubines when their lords died? Would they have lived as poor, common, folk? If so, would they not have preferred to continue their current existence and take some poison, or such, in order to stay with their 'master'?

[@markferreira7682]

Very impressive I also believe the Mongolian empire also didn’t take the south also known as the tartarins

[@lemmingscanfly5]

Archaeologist is cute.

[@colinfew6570]

I so wish these videos were dubbed and subtitled.

[@manuellubian5709]

U can turn on subtitles by tapping the symbol that looks like a little gear shift wheel. That is where you can turn on subtitles.

[@lioninguccisuit]

Me too my 18:01

[@christiansmith-of7dt]

When they say it can't be done that way then you know where the challenge is

[@christiansmith-of7dt]

All statistics are flawed just as the most accurate results are

[@mapcannon]

Title. The first Cantonese Kingdom

[@wkave]

Iji trying to ward off influence of outer gods

[@MrCedarapffel]

Don’t touch the glass.

[@lioninguccisuit]

18:01 WHAT DID HE SAID TO HER??

[@Hstry380]

I would love to watch this program but I have tried 3 times and given up early on as I can not read the text and watch the program at the same time. 😊

[@GizzyDillespee]

It only takes 2 times - once for reading the titles, and once for looking at the pics

[@RADICALFLOAT95]

​@@GizzyDillespeel actually agree with you.

[@carlodefalco7930]

Pause it when subtitles on screen , read , continue 🤔🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@RADICALFLOAT95]

@@Kris-ib8sn l actually agree with you and finally some one who l found in the comment section that actually has a functioning brain for once and this world actually genuinely needs more people actually like you in this world and you actually couldn't have said that actually any better than me lol.

[@michaeljames5936]

That the people, whose histories you read, say that their neighbours are 'Barbarian' (literally someone who doesn't Greek, no really literally, it means 'Baa, baa-arian', who spoke 'forrin', "sounds like a sheep to me." ) surprises you? What are you- a Philistine??

[@johnlukeparlow3877]

Excited to check this out! Also first comment!! 🎉

[@johndownie9385]

why do the yanks constantly repeat themselves when making programs , is it because they want to make programs longer or wat

[@JohnDelong-qm9iv]

See Genesis for context

[@The_infinite_wanderer]

Sorry... most people prefer actual history.

[@MrFlyingMack]

Not enough AD's.

[@guyanaspice6730]

She is Obsessed with Human Sacrifice. Endlessly Focusing on it. There are many artifacts Not related to sacrifice. Not even included in the videos she narrates. SMH She jumps to assumptions of a Sun God in another vid. Why? Later in that vid, another academic Rightly points out per May have worshipped animals or nature ...

[@georgesears2916]

I think few people would deny that the subject of human sacrifice is a matter of some fascination when it presents itself. I wouldn't necessarily think it were a morbid obsession, when modern humans are confronted with such acts of horror they are compelled to question why anyone would do such a thing. You're right that it's not the only thing we should concentrate on, especially to the detriment of interest in other areas of antiquity, but it's only human to want to know more about such things.

[@galactikbutterfly]

Red china

[@scottgust9709]

it rivals the NASA space program!!

[@robblack5248]

Retention of human sacrifice and scattering of red ochre on tomb contents are just two indicators of "primitive barbarian" (very ancient) practises that could have been the target of those critical Han judgements.

[@vasilileung2204]

This chic is so Sino-centric

[@tlsvd5842]

Nanyue = Namviet = Vietnam

[@jxmai7687]

No, Vietnam is mean southern side of Namviet.

[@Jkl62200]

Nan Yue isn't Vietnam

[@geoms6263]

was ancient China comunist?

[@junaidk222]

It is very uncomfortable for me to reffer some of the ancient people as barbarians, you are supposed to be neutral and non judjemental. The definitions of barbarians varies anyone can be barbarian in someones definition. Even persons or civilizations with out a distinctive past or less eloborate custome cant be rediculed. By your definition king burrying concobines alive is civilized and if area does not have ancient tomb is barbaric.

[@jimjam6598]

Ignorant comment

[@Finn77448]

Barbarians was the name that was given to the people of the area by the ancient Chinese people

[@Finn77448]

It is not just the name that the people of the modern Era have given them

[@Jkl62200]

Actually, the term Barbarian in ancient Greece simply meant those who don't speak Greek, which so happened to be non-Greeks! Only with time did it become associated with the derogatory meaning we know of today.

[@みゆき-s6g6x]

Barbarian meant foreign denotatively for most of history until modern and contemporary times.

[@weallgl0wforever]

It was so rude of the host to place her hands all over the glass museum displays like a child.

[@JRMontgomery-ce6fj]

Windex is a sponsor

[@nicksweeney5176]

*Hostess

[@CLCasual]

"China" is not how you spell West Taiwan

[@maf6856]

I don’t watch anything with subtitles

[@grtlyblesd]

Your loss.

[@dextardextar]

more historical fiction from china

[@kimhohlmayer7018]

Explain, please. I get that many groups try to rewrite history but to what advantage in this case?

[@RADICALFLOAT95]

I actually genuinely agree with you. ​@@kimhohlmayer7018

[@charlesg5085]

The narration should have been done by a white male. This woman is just pretty bad.

[@raeperonneau4941]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Hsu-Tang