Archeologists make significant discovery in the cellars of Mount Vernon

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@jgcelliott1 9 ай бұрын

Something hilarious about the hardhats and safety vests as they scratch around with paintbrushes and dental picks. .

@davidshane9139 9 ай бұрын

Being a bottle collector it blew my mind that they opened them and cleaned them. It made my heart sink. I would have preferred the content stay in the bottle and the patina be left alone. It's like how a coin collector would feel after someone cleaned an old coin. SAD

@stopbeingsoweirdstill 9 ай бұрын

Thank god you were not the one who found them then.

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

If you had ever dug bottles up you'd know the closures generally rot upon contact with air, so the contents would have been lost anyway

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

Archaeologists aren't concerned with collecting treasures, we are interested in data. Already got plenty of treasures

@flaminggorilla909 8 ай бұрын

It's not about preserving every last scrap it's about getting information. So much value in the information.

@MarSchlosser 9 ай бұрын

Rum cherries! Small, wild cherries that turn black when dead ripe are sweet, and still used to flavor rum and homemade sour mash. My mother said when she was small, her mother would put them in jugs of the product Mom's uncles cooked off for the speakeasy in Olie Valley, PA. Now in Arizona, I have a Mexican native, capulin, which is a rum cherry. Think long strings of blooms each spring. Then strings of cherries covered with bird netting to keep the feathered creeps from stealing all of them.

@pegs1659 8 ай бұрын

Birds gotta eat too! They are not creeps.

@yahya2925 7 ай бұрын

"Understand their stories and their lives through these items". Through a bottle of cherries? 😂😂

@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 7 ай бұрын

Yeah it is part of Political correctness, because it all comes down to... Ahem, he isn't the father of our country he was a mean old White Man who made black slaves pick cherries. The more we can learn about this the more we can learn about Critical Race theory. Sad.. yep... learn about the sin through the cherries.. And believe me this is just the beginning. Pretty soon the cherries will come back to life and you will hear the lashes as George chastised dozens of poor helpless slaves.. believe me it is coming. Might even change the name from Mt. Vernon to Mt. DeAngelo.

@terryt.1643 9 ай бұрын

I bet it’s Cherry Bounce! Washington’s favorite drink. I make it from Martha’s recipe almost every year. 🥰💕❤️👍👍

@WillowEverlight 8 ай бұрын

I can't believe they emptied those bottles.

@bryanparkhurst17 9 ай бұрын

Pair that juice with some of the mastodon that was unearthed and some of that cheese from Switzerland back in the 90s and you guys got a meal.

@jjm2948 8 ай бұрын

These jokers cleaned them!!! What??

@kevadonis 9 ай бұрын

Why the hell would you empty them?

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

to analyze the contents and figure out what the bottles were used for

@Laura-Kitty 9 ай бұрын

I agree... why the hell empty them. They would have made a much more valuable display in a museum with the contents.

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

@@Laura-Kitty not valuable at all in a museum, we have lots of old bottles to display in museums

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

@@Laura-Kitty when was the last time you visited a museum?

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

@@Laura-Kitty also....when we dig up bottles that have been sealed, the closure generally decays upon contact with the air, so the contents would have quickly spoiled. Better to extract and analyze the contents rather than let it rot

@redneckhippiefreak 9 ай бұрын

I have a Pie Safe from the 1790's.. It still has a Blueberry preserve that spilled on the top. From time to time I will clean the dust off the top and To this day, when I get it wet, the smell of Blueberries waft from it for weeks.

@treyporter7611 8 ай бұрын

Heartbreaking they opened both bottles. These people are experts so there must be a reason why

@colddeadhands5167 8 ай бұрын

These "scientists " make bigger reaches than "meteorologists"

@wardarcade7452 9 ай бұрын

I wonder how these late 18th century cultivated cherries compare in terms of nutrition,etc. to contemporary mass produced GMO cherries?

@ZaneGeeting 8 ай бұрын

@Appophust the vast majority of those are most definitely consumed by humans. That's a very odd assertion to make.

@ZaneGeeting 8 ай бұрын

@Appophust you should correct your assertion of 14 GMO's to the more accurate number of 32 that you listed, as well. 👍

@scottgust9709 9 ай бұрын

how is it these people are so baffled by historical evidence only as few hundred years old...meanwhile we know libraries worth of info about 4k year old egyptians

@TC-py3oo 8 ай бұрын

Where is it written that just solves buried these bottles

@JustAParodyOfTheEntBiz 8 ай бұрын

Those from the cherry tree Washington swore he didn't chop down as a kid?

@roysnider3456 9 ай бұрын

I wonder if they would be treated with such reverence and awe if they were proven to be made and buried by Martha.

@votpavel 9 ай бұрын

should have put the liquid in glass jars, plastic jars might ruin the contents

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

just old fruit

@Patriot1777 9 ай бұрын

They need to find and dig the privys😊

@bryanparkhurst17 9 ай бұрын

They already have

@keithfred3321 8 ай бұрын

They showed Maine but it wasn’t in Maine? What did I miss?

@peggythompson8120 8 ай бұрын

Why do all these people today try to insinuate that only black people did any work in those days. Everyone worked. I am truly sick of all these so called historians trying to place modern day values and practices on those who lived long ago. The past is the past. I do not think trying to rewrite it makes history better.

@CRuf-qw4yv 8 ай бұрын

It never ceases to amaze me how enthralled people are about allegedly being the first to touch an artifact after a couple of hundred yrs. For all we know, some maintrenance workers could have found them in the 1960's and set them on the floor which eventually was covered with more rubbish, leaves, and dust. Heck anyone can go out and pick up a rock and be the first to ever touch that piece of geology....ever. I think we all like archaology and associate it (many time) with irresponsible treaure hunting. And while that field is interesting, it is difficult to make it a well-paying career without a minimum doctorate.

@CaptchaNeon 8 ай бұрын

So what? Does it really matter as long as they’re excited? Why can’t we just be happy that people are happy? Seriously. If people strongly believe something and it gives them motivation, why wouldn’t we support that?

@abelincoln3261 9 ай бұрын

Not enslaved worker, Salves ! Please call them by their actual description. Slaves... BTW slaves can be any color any religion no religion... slaves means the human property of another.

@virginia5 9 ай бұрын

Originally the Slavic peoples.

@pegs1659 8 ай бұрын

My great x ? grandfather came over to Virginia from England in 1628 as an indentured servant. So in other words he was a slave.

@CaptchaNeon 8 ай бұрын

@@pegs1659 No. indentured servants and slaves are not the same thing as indentured slaves actually entered into contracts, that paid off their trip here and covered their housing, food and clothing.

@chrisbrowne4669 9 ай бұрын

Slaves came from cultures that did not make glass, grow fruit, preserve it. The things they learned changed those cultures for the better.

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

Oh right, nobody in Africa knew how to farm. Keep telling yourself that, Jethro

@yodasmomisondrugs7959 9 ай бұрын

@@frankmacleod2565 They still don't.

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

@@yodasmomisondrugs7959 um, yes they do. I personally know farmers in Africa. Guessing you've never been there

@musicynic 8 ай бұрын

Championing cultural change as improvement is an old, and still disgusting, way of defending slavery. Slaves did not consent to becoming slaves. Anything after the moment they lost their freedom is immaterial.

@chrisbrowne4669 8 ай бұрын

@@musicynic Go live in the dirt and live off the jungle, see how you like it. Closed minds do not evolve.

@RealCptHammonds 9 ай бұрын

Everything today has to be discussed with regards to blacks. #BlackLivesAreNotSpecial

@michaelfisher7170 9 ай бұрын

They're being studied in regards to who used them. That's how research works..hard to believe isn't it?

@caledoniawarrior 9 ай бұрын

Nothing points to them being used by blacks at any point.

@garylefevers 9 ай бұрын

@RealCptHa, were you born a trollish @sshole or is it something that you work at?

@Obex-v2l 9 ай бұрын

Tell us that you're a trump voter without telling us you're a trump voter

@CommercialVehicle 9 ай бұрын

Slavery was a part of life at Mt.Vernon, it’s reality.

@MYKOZAM 7 ай бұрын

Nice intro graphics 😉

@CommercialVehicle 9 ай бұрын

Arm chair archaeologist please chime in 👍

@ernestsmith3581 9 ай бұрын

They did in the video. There is no proof the last people to touch those bottles were slaves - pure speculation.

@CommercialVehicle 8 ай бұрын

@@ernestsmith3581 I’m glad you’re so focused on the slavery bit of it all..

@MrBrutal33 6 ай бұрын

How is this a "significant discovery" exactly? There is no evidence that Washington had anything to do with the bottles

@ledacedar6253 7 ай бұрын

Much more invaluable yet I’m betting theirs nothing to enlighten or uplift the generations of Afrfcans now Afri-American over the centuries

@cynthiarowley719 8 ай бұрын

Lesson on how they saved food for later,,,can you dig up some cherries for Christmas pie?

@sirloin869 6 ай бұрын

"'Pretty spectacular' discovery in George Washington's cellar"; rac/pist

@shawnakadlec7271 8 ай бұрын

They found Cherry Bounce!

@FolkatKaatClove 9 ай бұрын

So they opened them. Wow. I don't care what their degrees or skills are, that was a stupid move. Would they remove patina from an artifact to make it look new? They've ruined two rare pieces of history for the sake of "scientific" investigation.

@kmoecub 9 ай бұрын

Without learning about the contents we miss out on understanding the entire history of the artifact. Patina is nothing more than a fancy name for dirt.

@FolkatKaatClove 9 ай бұрын

@@kmoecub Patina is the natural state of age. They knew the contents just by holding them to the light. Science regularly destroys in the name of knowledge. As found, they had intrinsic historic beauty and meaning. Now they're just a couple of old empty bottles with fancy labels. And the contents look like lab samples in dollar store Tupperware knock-off containers. But wait. My mistake. That's not what they look like. That's what they are. Lab samples. Humans never learn.

@frankmacleod2565 9 ай бұрын

the bottles aren't ruined. The seal would have decayed upon contact with air, so exposing the bottles at all would have resulted in the destruction of the contents. Now we know what the bottles contained and were used for.

@davidshane9139 9 ай бұрын

I agree