Baltic Pipe reveals thousands of artifacts in Denmark

[@BlaBla-pf8mf]

Archeologists don't get the love and appreciation they deserve. They turned history from a literary genre into a science.

[@jasontanner9755]

I am impressed that they went out beforehand and invested the money and energy into checking the path beforehand. Here in the US they would have done an environmental impact study to see what animals and plants would be effected and then done it anyway.

[@danscalone8110]

Such history should be preserved to remember and honor the ancestors.

[@Skjalden]

It will be :)

[@colinp2238]

Thank you this is really interesting and I hope that updates will be presented later. As we often see Viking Age digs it helps us understand the timelines when earlier discoveries are made as I am sure that some people believe that the Vikings appeared overnight and do not realise that their technology and society evolved over many years. As an aside, those wind fan generators that you show, about 20 years ago I was a storeman at a factory that made hydraulic adaptors for those machines and we provided millions of components to Scandinavia for them, each year. I learned that repairing the generators was done from helicopters.

[@Sheepdog1314]

love it. Many years ago I was invited for a dig in Germany, to save fossils from destruction by the town digging a hole for a dump site, which was a catch basin from brooks and rivers of millions of years ago. They actually found a complete skeleton of an Archaeopteryx (Urvogel) - more fossils would have been found, but they ran out of time. So much gets destroyed by new civilizations.

[@joshindepena679]

This was excellent and more proof that viking and also pre viking era, that our ancestors were not the barbarians some people make them out to be, thank you for this and keep up the great work

[@kylej741]

I agree. Both sides of my family came from Denmark and I know I don’t feel like a barbarian. Skilled in trades but ready to defend my home should anyone wish to push us.

[@kylej741]

Det er godt information. Helping bring the past alive.

[@derektaitt8253]

Thank you for a thought provoking video. Presumably the Baltic Pipeline is a commercial venture aimed at inflating the profits of large corporations; but the archaeology is a definite bonus. Would a lot of the knowledge now being acquired have been uncovered without it? Finds like this really does provoke thoughts of how much history and knowledge lies buried and will it ever be uncovered.

[@anndebaldo7381]

How much time is given to the archeologists to explore the site before the pipeline is put down and the ground is covered? Very interesting! thanks.

[@Raventooth]

An underground tube is probably the only way to get into Europe at this time

[@guyh.4553]

Cool! Archeologists don't get the love they deserve. Work like this proves just how smart they are. Except for Zahir Zawas (sp?), all he is is a self absorbed, self-centered, self-righteous, egotistical ass Egyptologist. These people are GOOD!

[@Shaden0040]

Were the Ice Giants of Pre Viking age actually the glaciers advancing and retreating during the last ice age?

[@starrcitizenalpha7847]

Hi. I've wondered the EXACT same thing. Was the creation story a spoken word retelling of once witnessed events? The story of the death of Ymir (or at least what Odin etc. did to his body) sounds suspiciously like a description of the effects of retreating glaciation.

[@TonyJack74]

@@starrcitizenalpha7847 that story of Ymir sounds nothing like a glacier retreating

[@TonyJack74]

@@starrcitizenalpha7847 you can't make land with glaciers and glaciers don't have children with themselves

[@starrcitizenalpha7847]

​@@TonyJack74 Hi, Warren. Many geographical features (rocks, mountains, clouds etc.) can have anthropomorphic features, that is to say they can resemble aspects of the human form. For example, I live in Southern Tasmania and we have a mountain range called "Sleeping Beauty", so named because its superficially resembles the profile of a woman lying on her back, and was of importance to the local Aboriginal population. With respect to glaciers having "children", glacial fronts don't always retreat at the same rate, thus a single front can, over time, appear to become many, particularly if there are underlying mountains, valleys etc. So, yeah, "children" are a thing... The bodily parts of Ymir are all easily explained by the anatomy of glacial retreat: Flesh=uncovered earth, Blood=glacial meltwaters, Bones=uncovered mountains, Teeth=moraine, Hair=vegetation regrowth and Brain=increased atmospheric water forming mists and clouds due to a warming atmosphere. As far as we know, our Ice Age ancestors were not literate and thus relied on spoken word tradition to pass on history to their young, so the idea that these belief systems are based on ancient eyewitness accounts of the retreat of the last great ice shields in Northern Europe/Asia isn't such a stretch. Indeed, the Australian Aboriginals inhabiting the top end of the Northern Territory still have accounts of the first person to set foot on the Australian mainland many thousands of years ago, apparently it was a young woman with her baby. I do not mean to be disrespectful, however, if you can't conceive how, to a paleolithic ice age population, retreating ice shields revealing mountains and valleys could be interpreted as "creating" Earth, then that probably says something more about your cognitive abilities and imagination than it does about the ideas of myself and others. I suggest that if you feel inclined to make such "authoritative" statements, at least make some effort explain how you have come to such a conclusion.

[@TonyJack74]

@@starrcitizenalpha7847 first off if your going to try tell me I'm being authoritative then turn around just to do what you accused me off then at least be fucking familiar with Old Norse religion.Then on top of that these people weren't Paleolithic wtf...try bronze age and iron age both are absolutely not prehistoric at all