First Look Inside An Undiscovered Tomb | Opening Egypt's Tombs | Channel 5

Tony Robinson meets archaeologist Dr Martin Bommas to see some of the biggest tombs in Egypt. A selection of these tombs was found by Harold Carter, long before he found Tutankhamun. Watch Opening Egypt's Tombs, we follow Tony to the city of the dead to find the remains of a mummy and inside the tomb recently discovered by Dr Martin Bommas.
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[@channel5]

How many people do you think it took to build these tombs?

[@Culture_Journey]

It must have been thousands... or some people say aliens 👽 😂

[@DJBEANZzROADTO1K]

69

[@nicolamaynard3461]

45 🤔🤔

[@tyjohnson7327]

as many as the people that have reuploaded this garbage

[@NorthernGrumps]

@@Culture_Journey not a hope people actually built all that. or not people we know of. "Pharaoh Khufu began the first Giza pyramid project, circa 2550 B.C. His Great Pyramid is the largest in Giza and towers some 481 feet (147 meters) above the plateau. Its estimated 2.3 million stone blocks each weigh an average of 2.5 to 15 tons." . technology we dont know built them bad lads.

[@danidejaneiro8378]

_"TWO beads?!? I'm coming down"_

[@user-bf6yi5sf3l]

I am Egyptian and very proud of the Pharaonic civilization and adore it

[@indian-tech-support]

Ancient Egyptians and modern day are different

[@Kermatrix]

@@indian-tech-support Still their descendants and the people they’re genetically closest to 👍

[@indian-tech-support]

@@Kermatrix not related at all

[@Kermatrix]

@@indian-tech-support completely untrue. Ancient Egyptians, much like their modern descendants, were majorly a mix of Anatolian Farmer and Natufian, with varying bits of Iberomaurusian as well as Iranian, Caucasus and Nilotic Hunter-Gatherer. Steppe might have been found in some, but it was far from common. The only difference is that now they’ve picked up a bit of West African ancestry and perhaps a tiny influence of Arabian. This much is a well established fact. The closest modern populations to them are all in North Africa and the Middle East. Not in Europe, not in Sub-Saharan Africa, not in India, not in China, not in muh Hyperborea.

[@lyndachabane1931]

Egyptology is absolutely fascinating to me. I do hope we get to see the continuance of this, and hopefully find an intact sarcophagus.

[@calebfurnas7985]

I love watching videos about Egypt and would love to see an Egyptian

[@joruss443]

Now they have

[@larryfoster8820]

Grave robbing is not okay

[@Gwaithmir]

For a second or two, I thought the digger at 6:00 was going to get crushed.

[@coolazul-ic9km]

It seems all of Egypt is just one big cemetery.

[@BigPaul00001]

Earth IS one big cemetery when you think about it.

[@sripranava6791]

Thats what makes Egypt special . if it weren't for these finds then no one would have known what egypt is...

[@coolazul-ic9km]

@@sripranava6791 Definitely interesting stuff. Makes one wonder what was.

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

Many places are like that. Did you know in Paris there are over 5 million skeletons buried in the catacombs just beneath the city?

[@sripranava6791]

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath nope

[@lynderherberts2828]

Tony is well into his 70's. It's always great to see him.

[@brandonjohnston7746]

I love any and all docu series that has tony Robinson as the presenter, I love hearing Tony talk, he's so genuine. Time team is favorite show. Hopefully there will be more episodes to follow this one,

[@Auggies1956]

I always thought that some kind of vacuum device would make clearing the much faster and easier.

[@bazz8938]

Auggies1956 i’ve got an old Dyson they can borrow ... but i want it back!

[@SuperDave-vj9en]

My wife!

[@willie417]

had the same thought

[@curiousfiend1169]

There must be some major reason why they aren't, maybe cost effectiveness. That seems a genius idea, and it is, but kinda seems too obvious really. 🤔Giant vacuum generators with multiple, perhaps 6" to 12"+/- diameter ribbed ducting pipes to be individually manned.

[@chrisdaniels3929]

No. Because you won't find artefacts in the sand, but could destroy important evidence. The men digging are not simple labourers!

[@jasonx409able]

Its funny how these archaeologists can give you a exact date and year of these places, like they jump in a time machine and travel back in time 😂😂😂

[@Stellarspace95]

They just try. Sometimes they're completely off and sometimes they're dead on

[@ahmedkhan-pg2fj]

its called as carbon dating

[@anilm.a7861]

They are giving it by studying it,in camera they can't say everything which they had did,for that u have to study archeology 😂

[@unknownxyz7425]

sometimes it written on wall and manuscripts found inside.They research the language and find the year.

[@marcusmartin5758]

They just making up numbers to look smart

[@aprilwoods7735]

... I watch time team and timeline everyday sometimes 8 episodes when I get a break from farming and life and I have studied and collected Egyptian for the past 25 years here in nova scotia....far away but my soul and heart are very close. when I just clicked on this show; I had just put my head down for 2 seconds and when I heard Tony Robinson's voice ;);) ohh my gosh I was so happy!!!! he is just the greatest thing since sliced bread!! I don't know how you guys got him in Egypt?!….. but he has to stay and these shows need to be longer!!!!… bring in Phil,… bring all of time team!.. thank you so much!!!!!

[@cliffcampbell8827]

Ancient Egypt was a huge, sprawling metropolis. It's still difficult for me to wrap my head around just how big it was.

[@stevenwheat3621]

6:00 I almost poo'd myself just then... Not sure if the vid had anything to do with it.. I like how the bones, pottery, & beads were just sitting ontop of the dirt.. Naw, not staged..

[@billy1858]

the labourers still doing all the hard work,the top knobs still taking all the credit! some things never change lol.

[@cuckerdoddle183]

Let’s dig the dirt supporting a giant rock out from underneath it and be surprised when the enviable happens🤔

[@curiousfiend1169]

b-b-but there's nothing enviable about the obvious implications. Lol, ✌😆, Misspelling, indeed I am aware.

[@hazelhuff2202]

A little bit of wee came out😋

[@theoneandonly1355]

Inevitable?

[@slickric1027]

Right I was thinking the same thing I was waiting for it to fall before it fell

[@ramonangeldelaguilaruiz4029]

A chimpancee will make it better. Engineers, Arquitects, Phisicists will make a better job than a Archeologist.

[@StalwartShinobi]

That actually made me jump when the giant block shifted 😂

[@MrFriendlyCsgoContent]

that was crazy

[@Larrymarx]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make and post this awesome video **Ancient Egypt** ...

[@seatp4270]

Met tony robinson in paris once, decent bloke.

[@entertherealmofchaos]

Meanwhile back in the UK, "we have found an old post hole".

[@yarnycat_crochet]

And back in America we find arrow heads if we are lucky 😆

[@drdropshot9655]

Don’t say that , in uk you have the most beautiful castles and magnificent landscapes im interested in uk history beginning from the kings and queens of England and the legendary William Wallace in Scotland

[@Hockernant]

Tony Robinson is a national treasure

[@brandonjohnston7746]

He truly is,

[@virgo714]

yeah.. Tony, ur back to ancient history 🙌🙌

[@iBoiYoTV]

The Egyptians were so ahead of their time, I can't begin to think what could've been if they were here today with the technology we have.

[@RoseyBlaire]

The technology we have is old!

[@Weekend658]

They forgot to mention that beautiful carving of a fish when he entered the tomb about a minute before the video ended.

[@WSFM_Rex]

“It’s almost as old as the pyramids of Giza” 🤦‍♂️ this is the guy that should be on top of this kinda stuff

[@wishgodgirl1903]

Really interesting. I like Tony’s adventures.

[@chrisdaniels3929]

Fascinating and wonderful. Thank you.

[@pommydiva1]

what a find, not only that torso of that body, but the beads and bones

[@chancespivey1781]

The mummy was treated so nicely when it was found

[@Greenpoloboy3]

Always enjoy stuff with Tony Robinson in it. Time Time fan here :)

[@brandonjohnston7746]

Same here, time team is by far favorite show, I've watched every single episode, some multiple times, I play time team at night when I'm sleeping, Tony Phil carenza Helen and the rest of the team are the best

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@@brandonjohnston7746 Are awesome. I hum the themesong sometimes when it comes into my mind :) Whats ur fav ep?

[@samiyakine3550]

THIS IS FASCINATING!!

[@alexslater1105]

Tony~ “Great thanks for watching”…casually walks off with Egyptian beads

[@massimosquecco8956]

Great Report: short for my taste but very informative! Fantastic video, really!

[@waleedali9291]

who else jumped when that rock started moving?

[@RealChillbillies]

I agree that the beads are very personal to the tomb's owner, but the pelvis might be a little more personal.

[@annebell7274]

Brilliant documentary. Tony Robinson, 👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@MrJonsonville5]

4000 year old artifacts aren't just scattered over the landscape in Egypt. This show seems incredible. Like I actually have a hard time believing it's real, it feels so set up.

[@zx208]

So where are they scattered over? The landscape in North Korea? They have to be located somewhere

[@loganbradford2343]

History, especially ancient Egyptian history is truly fascinating when you learn a little more about it.

[@inactive5895]

This host is great, but i think its a bit cheeky that he just walks in the tomb that the other guys have been slaving away at and takes credit for the find. Obviously it makes for horrible TV if he finds nothing but it sets a bad precedent.

[@mcfrosty8739]

I didn't think of that but you're right. It would've felt more real if he had said the excavators had found the possessions. However the entrance could've just been blocked with stones possibly? And Tony genuinely was one of the first to enter there as part of the agreement to film there and give exposure to the dig and findings?

[@naradaian9196]

He is a well trained excavation worker which anyone who has watched 20 years of the superb time team will know

[@mistag3860]

its fake, for the 'time team' TV gravy train. Martin has been there for 30 years, you really think he just sat at the top, and waited for Sir Tony to turn up, with a camera, lights etc, and 'discover' two baubles? so fake. The person or people that dug it out, were the first down there, obviously, and they must have thrown the necklace bits on top of the sand. Shocking that they think we are that fkn dumb.

[@ibrahimidris8499]

Hasn't that always being the case? Question to you: In the Western World, who is more famous Tutankhamon or Howard Carter? What is the name of Supervisor who was managing the labor force for digging Tutankhamon tomb and grave? Buddy, it is all the same old story. He who has the gold, gets the fame.

[@ibrahimidris8499]

@@mistag3860 Sensationalism. They must gave thrown some pelvis bones, and parts of a torso on a heap of sand.

[@airplanemxde3057]

Imagine being an archeologist and saying undoubtedly, that the pyramids are only 4000 years old without any evidence of this being the case

[@TheLochs]

Reading Graham Hancock are you?

[@paulhorn2665]

Well the old egyptian priests told Herodot the age of the pyramides. They have known it, they where the experts and Herodot told us the age and when you calculate the time of Herodot and what his priest friends told him, so you get 4000-4500 years of age. That easy.

[@willie417]

Well they do try to stick with the bible dates, nothing can be older thousands 6,000 you know, or the lose all funding and they got to eat

[@willie417]

@@paulhorn2665 they don't even know who built those in or near egypt or the other ones around the world

[@chrisdaniels3929]

@setsebbati Why do you foster a stereotype that Christianity is anti science? This is very wrong.

[@benstern310]

great stuff

[@rangeloner3513]

9:07 hahahaha. His reactions are funny

[@bolanlebamidele683]

This is DANGEROUS!

[@lindagomez3114]

Love Tony Robinson on Timeline((needs to be more than 3 day) but love this also

[@adrianmartin6974]

Linda Gomez Time Team not Timeline

[@Chris.Davies]

2:50 - NOT burned. This is a CLASSIC example of the effect of leaving linen soaked in oil: temperatures rise until ignition can take place - but because there is noty enough free oxygen inside the wrappings, all that can happen is that the linen begins to carbonise, just like when charcoal is made. This is the reason Tutankhamun's face is black: he was heated and effectively smoked by his own wrappings.

[@gjuetaretethesareve]

Hello from Albania.. very beautiful work

[@mainerockflour3462]

Digging in southern Egypt for 30 years? Did he ever find his keys?

[@jetskiedmonds2680]

Could we please stop messing with these mummies. 2020 is already crazy enough lol

[@Mikeey1]

These clips are all old anyway. Came from a programme they did a year or two back. No idea why they're posting them as if it's new

[@vickidianacoghlan8946]

Ok I'll tell them to only mess with the daddies.

[@elisilanti]

@@vickidianacoghlan8946 loolll😂😂

[@johnstewart8849]

I disagree: I am very pleased that they achieved at least one goal....we now say their names again, giving them eternal life. I should hope someone will be saying my name 3,000 years from now, not on a “Cops” re-run.

[@0gleedleleedle723]

@@johnstewart8849 I feel that...hopefully in 3,000 years they'll stop saying my name in "to catch a predator" reruns.

[@hobochild39]

wind blew just enough sand away....

[@carolsalter9002]

wow, what an amazing find.

[@e-mail881]

what an amazing GRAVE ROBBERY.

[@MrGiova11]

the thing with carbon dating is that erosion can easily throw off any actual proper estimates. At the end of the day, you dont know if it was merely a thousand years old or more or less. Its whats happening with the Sphinx, what really helps however usually falls unto historical documents and stories that help us with actual numbers as far as how many seasons or years or centuries, etc, its been according to the documents. But erosion in reality throws aging off drastically.

[@Relax0kay]

I want to follow this project does anyone know where you can follow the progress?

[@christinefox9075]

My dream to be an archeologist but never achieved. Totally amazing

[@assassinwolf1577]

I'm not usually a person who watches these but i just came back to this cause I found my old notes on Egypt my 5th grade class did at the end of the year.

[@gunduzubairzubairahmed3127]

❤🌹Thanks

[@dhirajmanandhar6185]

6:02. The sound design though. Lol

[@dureiii9101]

Guys, time to enchant our diamond pickaxe and shovel with efficiency V so this gets done in 20 minutes.

[@klinsmannunes5666]

6:00 the guy almost lost his life shiver down my spine.

[@brendatenorio5721]

It's the effort, the process, the search

[@claudethibaudeau2714]

This stuff is so interesting 🤔

[@ianspaintpot]

11:45 not realy placed there for tv

[@libertyone5853]

The linens on the torso of the mummy had a tag... Bed Bath & Beyond store.

[@karenwright9123]

LOL!!!

[@mohammadhabbas9434]

@11:21 what an amazing findings

[@12supermatty]

Beautiful 😂

[@candacecassidy9673]

It took a great deal to build those tombs but when the desert storms came in that's when they will all covered up.

[@sarojinichaudhury179]

Archaeologists have so much to discover in Egypt itself , that they do not need to be astronomers.

[@imcavdb5465]

Archeologists are just modern graverobbers

[@Sean-uf9xy]

I want to know how much those diggers are making for working a 6 day week compared to the archeologists?

[@silen2770]

We all know the answer

[@sulaiman2375]

Ikr the 'archaeologists' probably sit in a nice cold tent playing cards while the diggers work their butts off.

[@ToBeOrNotToBeThatIsTheQuestion]

Some of them are volunteers and at least some are are getting paid. They may not have a job if it wasn't for these digs happening. There is also a huge amount of pride in local Egyptians to get involved in helping identify their ancient history and ancestors.

[@arealassassin]

@@ToBeOrNotToBeThatIsTheQuestion They're NOT their ancestors.

[@thestarshavefallen]

ToBeOrNotToBe what utter nonsense.

[@nicolamaynard3461]

Cool

[@_Svartdod_]

I would love to find tombs and explore going inside

[@bellidrael7457]

How do you get a look inside an undiscovered tomb without it being discovered? If it's discovered so that you can get a first look inside it, isn't it now a discovered tomb?

[@marleykun]

7:16 everyone wore the same clothes a few days later ! 😏

[@user-bf6yi5sf3l]

Does any of you know how to know the voids underground without devices by communicating with satellites, for example, if you have the coordinates of the place

[@anonimouse4678]

Bones bead pots look planted

[@rage_fusion]

This whole things fake I can smell it 😆 channel 5 is desperate

[@clown1663]

@@rage_fusion of nvm the beads and pots are fake but the structure isnt

[@veramae4098]

My, my, my. You're just angry that the puppy you kick won't come when you call anymore.

[@mikemanners1069]

I love Tony Robinson.....from Black Adder to Ancient Egypt....dont think I could do that...

[@adrianmartin6974]

Baldrick needs more exercise ducking under that tomb entrance ruined him

[@RenzoColameoIrlanda]

I want see more !!! :-)

[@channakanilendra8964]

R they crazy?! There sending an oold man in to a 4000 year old tomb that is crumbling like pie crusts?! :/

[@MrAmodeous]

Baldrick! Love Blackadder!

[@cartersdad615]

Did anyone else notice the ARTWORK half hidden behind the sand in cave towards end? There is a head nexk and shoulder of a pharaoh maybe? And to the right of that i see a bow and arrows(3) possibly with a man drawing bow back?

[@KiithNaabal]

are they also "collecting" those random mumies that are just being unearthed accidentially? Is there a mummy inventory somewhere?

[@badbadbrian3820]

Here at mummy's r us we got a huge inventory and it gotta go! We got dusty mummy's,we got scary mummy's,we got creepy mummy's....we got your mummy😂

[@momzilla9491]

Ever cool!

[@Scranner]

I love this guy’s accent

[@blakjack3053]

"perhaps the dogs pulled it out" Jackals sir, jackals pulled it out 😉

[@badmanno.1650]

1st Egyptian dynasty to the last=3100 years. Last dynasty to date=2000 years. 1100 years more... Crazy

[@2ndviolin]

I did not realise how dangerous digging can be. That worker nearly got his arm caught when the rock shifted!

[@PhilJonesIII]

It was a seriously dumb place to be digging. You never dig under a retaining wall from the exposed side without relieving the pressure from the buried side. Given their experience in this kind of work, I wonder if it was not staged.

[@Trixabella30]

The Person Buried In The Tomb: TONY IS STEALING MY BLUE BEADS AHHHHHHHHHHH

[@rosymaranjian3797]

Unbelievable!

[@pothapothys8140]

It is still customary for Tamils ​​in Tamil civilization to take the umbilical cord in the form of a cylinder in gold and wear it around the baby's waist after the birth of their child, as in the case of Egypt

[@TheElitesRdividingUs]

Dude is 3ft into the tunnel and yells "I cant really go much further because there is too much sand" other guy: "you have to be safe or a mountain of sand will fall on you" suddenly he finds some bones right in front of him that were not there before 🤣😂

[@12supermatty]

My thoughts too 😂

[@1lowtrade]

Going in there with no helmet or water is a bit daunting.. I wouldnt dare..

[@TektAudio]

I would

[@Skorrigan]

So he has found 2 beads exactly on the surface of that pile of sand. How convenient.

[@lindalee7322]

Yes, I thought that was conveniently amazing, too. He also claimed the beads were made of the same substance that Egyptian Blue is made from. That was a blatant lie. This whole situation that they are presenting on film is terribly contrived.

[@iamthetinkerman]

I came here to express the same thing!

[@bunzeebear2973]

if they are on the surface, someone has "laced the site" with fake stuff.

[@iamthetinkerman]

@@bunzeebear2973 who's a clever boy!

[@TheDirtymikenation]

"We found a wall and well decide if we will destroy this 2000 year old wall because we don't know where else to go and continue going up the hill"

[@ezekeilgross9377]

The coolest thing would be if the found the legend Midas tomb

[@veramae4098]

Ummm, as you said. Legend.

[@naybobdenod]

oh look a mummy, oh look some beads. Come on, quite obviously put together for main-stream viewing.

[@cooperdooper6014]

I agree, totally set up

[@SimplyApollo]

Yeah like wtf was a pelvis doing right above the sand xD

[@ryanreyesforever679]

hoping to see it personally

[@sharonkeith601]

How did people 4500 years ago drill such fine holes into those two blue necklace beads? A tiny drill?

[@Gwaithmir]

By using a spinning copper dowel and fine sand as the cutting agent.

[@blundergaming7060]

😂 the other response. There from Tony’s grandmother jewellery box.

[@ajaydesecond2660]

I was so frightened when the rocks started moving.i even moved my legs almost dropping my phone.i pity the poor man with white scarf

[@JJ33438]

Soooooooooooooooooo exciting 4.500 years old . Wowwwee.

[@Armyjg83]

Wow that man was FAST if he hadn’t reacted and moved so fast his arm would of been gone

[@thelastcarriage6270]

Sorry but who asks if they can touch a mummy first who would want to and second it's a bit rude don't ya think I mean sure it's "cool" but it's also a dead body

[@whattheflyingfuck...]

yeah right, let us stop researching anything that was once living for some cultural freakout emotion someone gets from seeing their first body on tape 🙄 **rolleyes**

[@orangutanenthusiast5631]

because the guy he was talking too would know if it would damage it

[@jazmiller8947]

Thought the same, its a dead body 💀 lol why would you want to poke it 🤔 😅 😂

[@rayyanshazib937]

12:30, this is where the boi's use to hang out and color code their beads!

[@eddy2fast260]

Even more incredible would be to find a giant thought to be a rock ledge. Being upto 500 feet tall can make them harder to see.