The Buried War Torn World Of The Ancient Holy Land | Archeology | Odyssey

The Holy Land, modern-day Israel, has been at the centre of conflicts for millennia. Join a crack team of archaeologists as they uncover some of these war-torn sites from the time of Jesus and beyond, including Jericho and the ancient fortress of Masada.
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[@DN-kf4gg]

This is an oldie but goodie. Thanks for reposting for the hundredth time. I still watch every time. 😂

[@bonnieagliata4780]

It's new to someone 🌷❇️🌷❇️🌷❇️🌷

[@ok-pj4eu]

WHEN DID THIS VIDEO REALLY COME OUT?

[@morgansidhe3543]

@@ok-pj4eu 1970's, at the earliest.

[@eyetrollin710]

​@@morgansidhe3543not even close it was done in the mid-90s you can tell from the image quality and from the clothes they're wearing

[@ShirleyGronin-iu8sw]

Middle East has never been quiet for any great period of time.

[@xotl2780]

It wasn't so bad before all those humans showed up.

[@justo5991]

I didn't know Gimli was a historian

[@user-lp2mf2cl1z]

How about a friend

[@besticudcumupwith202]

​...😂 aye, he could do that.

[@rb3872]

If only people could live there in peace now.

[@travisgrant5608]

Always hate, violence, war and division. That's what religion causes!

[@user-te4of2fq5d]

​​@@travisgrant5608Travis, the two biggest wars in history were not about religion; humanity is not a nice species. With or without religion, there will always be people who take what isn't theirs by force, kill, and wage war. From time immemorial there has never been peace.

[@Ubique2927]

While there is religion there will be no peace anywhere.

[@DS.proudkiwi]

The Jews try but they keep getting attacked by Islamic extremists

[@scottyfox6376]

Maybe one day, God willing.

[@MysticChronicles712]

This video is a mesmerizing journey into the buried, war-torn world of the ancient Holy Land. Excellent job!

[@2xwrt281]

Ironic but somewhat obvious how the birthplace of christianity, judaism and by relative proximity, islam...the religions that preach peace the most, is the area that constantly causes for milenia so much pain, turmoil and suffering

[@travisgrant5608]

True! Proof that religion is poison!

[@DS.proudkiwi]

Islam hates Jews because they threw Mohammed out of the temples for being a wack job talking about marriage to second cousins and killing any non believers

[@eyetrollin710]

Right it's almost like whatever God there worshiping is one of blood and not peace😮

[@flintandball6093]

Narration by Gimli

[@patrickdempsey9706]

Txs was missed the intro first time. Gimli indeed 😂

[@scottyfox6376]

Dayumm them Dwarves have mines everywhere. Do you think the archaeologists will ever find Balin's Tomb ? Drums in the deep...they are comming.

[@MsChristyCox]

Wow . This is vintage, TV

[@WaterShowsProd]

I forgot about this programme. I used to enjoy watching it. It's interesting to see again now, especially these episodes, considering the current situation. I dare think these ideas would be more controversial now than at the time this show was produced.

[@epic6434]

You're right but if we close our eye's forever? They'll implement a new series to stroke themselves off on the lost.

[@eyetrollin710]

I miss the 90s when there was No Nonsense about aliens and just real archeology I miss when The Learning Channel and the History Channel actually had programs like this all the time

[@morgansidhe3543]

Do we have a recent update?

[@cherylandrews8405]

The Source. Ok. Thank you.

[@pcka12]

Was Mossada as dry 2000 years ago, because it doesn't seem a very inviting place these days!

[@bnelkin]

Anyone who enjoyed this needs to go read 'The Source' by James A. Mischener right damn now

[@pedenmk]

I will look into it. Thanks.

[@Flowshow88]

If you need biblical historical evidence for you to coexist peacefully with your neighbors then you have a long way to go in life smh

[@hourbee5535]

Israel ❤

[@craigmiller4528]

"And the walls came tumbling down" It's metaphorical ? The two peoples became friendly. No walls between them.

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

Baldaraccas was a fearful tribesman. He had a deformed skull from a war hammer strike at age 10. In anger he killed every last goose. Down to the last gosling. No more "quack quack" he kept saying over and over...

[@Air-bear]

Gadfly here 🙈🙉🙊. Why did pharaoh chase after Moses and company ? Israel leaves Egypt : yeah I’m going…and I’m taking this with me ! Hey, that’s not yours 🤨 Yeah… what are you going to do about it 😑

[@barbararice6650]

Didn't he play the trumpet 👈😊

[@GrumpyGenXGramps]

They’ve always fought over barren desert wasteland.

[@patrickdempsey9706]

Was greener then apparently

[@Christopherurich33]

Perhaps Joshua didn't build due too a reminder that Egyptians were builders they were soldiers of freedom

[@bukka6697]

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace" I wish religion had never been conceived. It is at the root of almost every problem in this world.

[@travisgrant5608]

Absolutely agree!!!!!!!!! 👍

[@IrishTexan09]

What a naive comment. Do you think everyone lived in peace until 500 b.c.? The root of every problem is the very nature of human beings.

[@user-te4of2fq5d]

Cain killed Abel. Humanity has never been nice.

[@bukka6697]

​@@user-te4of2fq5d But he didn't. Cain wasn't real, nor was Abel. Biblical scholars agree stories like that are metaphors. Someone dumbed down man's loss of inculpability as he evolved a sophisticated enough intelligence to feel regret and shame for bad actions, and wrote it down. Other people then declared God must have inspired that story and a bunch of other ones. The people that pushed the whole God-inspired story thing ended up as the most powerful and wealthy people in the world. They added a bunch more rules that their Jesus never said, but that suited their unending quest for more wealth and power. And voila, a divisive religion that persecutes people who are different and punishes those that don't obey.

[@lyamainu]

People kill peoples. They just make up reasons to justify it - religion, politics, racism, tribalism - it doesn’t matter. Saying religion is responsible for wars is as inaccurate as saying religion is responsible for charity. Humans are going to human.

[@Cityb0y85]

This is from the 90s

[@xanthippusofcarthage8655]

Yeah, so what’s your point?

[@susieshobe8524]

Israelites came from oppression in Egypt. They were Israel because God gave Jacob that name.to give his decedents. Gods plan started with Abraham, them Isaac and the name came when Gods dealing with Jacob . Gods plan for Israel is still in motion.

[@jamescoopertumulak6582]

This is outdated now.

[@fernandoalmeida4772]

The biblical narrative fits in . Both the Israelites and the cannanites shared a language and part of a culture. The arrival of a great number of Israelites destabilised the political power and eventually some cannanite tribes were absorbed into the israelites

[@samuelschick8813]

Did the talking snake or donkey tell you that?

[@fernandoalmeida4772]

​@samuelschick8813 It requires information behind the point that a man is a woman and vice versa and that an arab palestinian state existed in the region ...try a bit of study for a change😂

[@samuelschick8813]

@@fernandoalmeida4772 Christians, Muslims and Jews have been fighting for centuries over who's version of God has a bigger dick. As for the Bible. Well maybe Christians should prove the Bible true with objective/empirical evidence.

[@samuelschick8813]

@fernandoalmeida4772 , You mentioned the Bible and that is what I replied to. But I'm glad you brought up a man cannot become a woman and the Bible. It shows Christians beliefs are just as unfounded and ridicules as the ideology you refer to.

[@fernandoalmeida4772]

@samuelschick8813 So I was right! I brought the Bible not as a religious issue but as a compliment of the archaeological narrative. But as I suspected, you are just a troll without serious cultural or scientific references who confuses man with woman....

[@richard8417]

Those people make a living off false history.

[@sidjoosin6549]

Hebrews are Canaanites and they were the only tribe which was spared and their capital was in Jerusalim and Joshua conquered them not and centuries later David conquered them and their language is Canaanite one and they not understood Aramaic and Hebrew Torah is a targum means translation and their place was known as Judea and there was no Israilites except David's line and Levites to serve as priests and noone from 12 Disciples was Jew and from 4 Gospel writers neither and this is the basics which you would know if you ever read Bible once to the end

[@morgansidhe3543]

And, I might mention, Joshua had the help of an earthquake to make the walls tumble down. And I have read the Bible all the way through.

[@dimitriwolfs9370]

It keyzed to exist😂

[@jwspeakermre5968]

Long Live Israel 🇮🇱🇺🇲

[@KingDiamondHands]

I don't believe in Evolution.

[@charlesxix]

🤣🤣.That's OK, it's up to you.

[@eyetrollin710]

Thankfully it doesn't require you to believe in it for it to be real,, however I'm willing to go out on a limb and assume that things you believe in don't exist without your belief,, do you attribute all of your successes and failures to an entity that is supposed to be responsible for everything and with that kind of workload I doubt it gives two shakes about everything everyone attributes to it

[@xrysapriovolou6672]

This land always belongs to Palaistin..... my mind is in Gaza.....

[@rpalmer274]

Na

[@jacobshepard654]

lol Gaza is addressed DIRECTLY when it comes to the judgement of nations

[@jacobshepard654]

Israel and Gaza are addressed separately THROUGHOUT GENERATIONS OF RECORDS

[@samuelschick8813]

@xrysariovolou, " This land always belongs to Palaistin..... my mind is in Gaza" Then book a flight and go boots on the ground.

[@jwspeakermre5968]

Then maybe you should go to Palestine and help your Islamic terrorist buddies

[@reezdog]

It is still called Palestine.

[@kyleanuar9090]

Since the time of Moses till end of the world it's still Philistines

[@jacobshepard654]

Because Moses disobeyed God and was NOT allowed into the promised land. Had he obeyed things would be different

[@jacobshepard654]

Deuteronomy 1:37, 3:26, 4:21

[@kennethknoppik5408]

Yes it is and it will be free soon

[@jacobshepard654]

@@kennethknoppik5408 “The ancient Romans pinned the name on the Land of Israel. In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea’s second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina-that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so resentfully, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews (in Hebrew, Y’hudim and in Latin Judaei) and the province (the Hebrew name of which was Y’hudah). “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast.” - Hudson Institute

[@rpalmer274]

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@DS.proudkiwi]

Yeah go Israel

[@petergianakopoulos4926]

Garbage

[@iantierney6905]

You know why it's called holy?because of suicide bombers and bombs leaving craters