Tutankhamun: The Greatest Archaeological Discovery of All Time

[@LalaDepala_00]

I have actually been to Valley of the Kings. I would recommend everyone to visit Egypt one day. I will never forget it. Walking across the old temples and pyramids. Going inside the pyramids. It was the highlight of my life probably.

[@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII]

Egypt can be incredible but unfortunately these days thanks to its current government it's not wholly safe

[@larsstougaard7097]

My mummy has been there too, she loved it ✨️

[@mommybear2]

@@larsstougaard7097 Haha!!!

[@mommybear2]

That is good to know. I have been thinking of visiting sometime, hoping it will be safe enough. According to google, it's the Northern Sinai Peninsula that isn't safe for anyone.

[@urofseron]

Yikes. I hope that’s not the highlight 😂

[@acbower4468]

This is the best channel on YT! Educational, entertaining and everything between! Bravo!

[@Gen-X-Memories]

Can you imagine the excitement of looking through that small initial opening with candlelight!? It had to be an incredible thing to experience!

[@jjs95100]

I would have loving to have experienced that very moment. I pray that they find an undisturbed royal tomb in my lifetime

[@alanluscombe8a553]

I look at the photos of it and can only imagine being the first to see those things in thousands of years. Definitely a unique once in a lifetime and never at all for most experience. Would be incredible

[@derekmartin5039]

Honestly chilling

[@FreshlySnipes]

That truly sounds awful, especially after watching the Mummy 😂

[@alexquintana1031]

Absolutely amazing the lifetime of work Ancient Egyptians put in...all for the mythology of an afterlife.

[@WorldGoneKrazy]

With the help of 👽

[@jenwatson2623]

Thank you for showing that at the beginning, everything always is shown like its all 100s of miles apart from each other.

[@jarlborg1531]

Blows my mind to think that those floral wreaths have laid there since before the Trojan War, and pre-date pretty much all of recorded European History.

[@Cailus3542]

The Trojan War is fictional. It's in Homer's Iliad. It may have been inspired by an actual event, but it's hard to confirm either way.

[@nicky158]

@@Cailus3542 hard to confirm doesnt make it fiction if there is some truth in it one thing is certain fiction the millions of years stories.

[@Spaceamace21]

​@@Cailus3542 The city was found and confirmed destroyed by an invader

[@debozebever]

Visiting highclere castle without mentioning downton Abbey, well done!

[@tonyharpur8383]

@@debozebever shocking! 😉🤣

[@Dincorta]

And I would never have known had I not seen this comment 😶

[@BMW7series251]

I've seen & heard this story many times but this video was one of the best! Thanks Dan & the History Hit team. John, UK.

[@Se7nom]

This is such an amazing piece of information. I love ancient Egypt!

[@Thecrazyvaclav]

They’ve just found another big tomb, the body is covered in chocolate and chopped almonds. It’s believed to be the body of pharaoh rocher

[@tonyharpur8383]

😂

[@judycater2832]

@@tonyharpur8383😂

[@STEEL6W]

Bruh . 😂

[@NiklasEngberg]

That's fantastic. I will use that at the next Best Dad of the Year awards.

[@meeseification]

😂😂😂

[@davefellhoelter1343]

Got to see this in the 70's La CA as a kid, "I Will Never Forget" the color of the Gold!

[@jordanbooth4470]

This channel is eternally delightful. Top tier quality documentaries on a variety of historical subjects. Love it ❤

[@DRUMAdam91]

I think a film about the discovery of the tomb and Howard carter in the style of Oppenheimer would go down a storm

[@whateveritwasitis]

Sounds good, easy better then all the fucking trash. It's all trash now. The streaming services have watered it down so bad. Cruise saw this coming, tried to kick start it back with top gun 2.didnt wotk

[@Graceygoodies]

This was amazing! So many new things shown and learned! I enjoyed this immensely! Thank you!

[@theeutecticpoint]

Not that I don't love Mr. Snow, but that lady that walks around the desert with an umbrella/parasol is really a hoot, would love to have seen her in this as well. Delightful and fascinating work!

[@SandraNelson063]

I know who you mean. Red hair, lots of black clothes. She is a professor. Brilliant.

[@ShimmeringIceCrystal626]

Dr. JoAnn Fletcher 😊

[@PFOZ-nf7xp]

She annoys the begevers out of me lol Each to their own 😂

[@JoshHarris-ng8on]

This is so cool! I've never seen Carters old house near the digs!

[@ISawABear]

I've seen a bunch of the pictures of the tomb and its discovery but i've never seen the pictures of the sarcophagus covered in florals. that's really cool, thanks!

[@paulinewilson613]

What a fabulous experience to be able to see this, thank you it was truly wonderful

[@onawhim9079]

Great film, thank you!

[@dan6151]

Hands down, the best ancient Egypt documentary.

[@NathanHeadActor]

thanks for uploading a full film, it was fascinating, I've never seen anything like this documentary before, where a floral wreath was recreated from the sketches and photos, that was amazing to see. thanks again

[@shonquis]

The Garland Pharaoh! Such a great choice of content and imagery and passionate scholars/florists. It's about people, Egyptian workers given their names back, artists, a very young man, and lapis lazuli-colored flowers, not gold. Really beautifully done.

[@OdeInWessex]

I found those flower garlands genuinely moving as well as surprising. Little details like that bring stories like these alive for me as well as Dan!. Beautiful documentary about beautiful works of art and passionate scholarship combined, it doesn't get any better.

[@lux2852]

Thank you for this marvellous documentation!

[@marsspacex6065]

He lived so long ago that Alexander conquered the known world a thousand years later.

[@KD400_]

Cleopatra is closer to us than the pyramids. Ancient Egypt is so vast and so long. Centuries of civilisation.

[@davidoakes75]

Astonishing and marvelous

[@martinsmith6049]

Im more bothered about the genius who discovered taming fire... or language.

[@Patricia-zq5ug]

We saw the Tutankhamun treasures at the Art Gallery of Ontario on the last day of 1979. It was just breathtaking!

[@debozebever]

What a fantastically produced piece of content! Well done team!

[@SandraNelson063]

The photographer was God touched. His work was ethereal, and factual. He deserves a photography museum. I wish I remembered his name. Barton!

[@fiddler-789]

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[@Kwisatz_HaderachXIII]

Wow they had Tutankhamen and we have hawk tuah 😔

[@SandyKelly-y1p]

1896 not long im obsessed Tut friend great to see your vid about it.!!!!

[@chasemcm]

When I was 5 years old in 2008-2009 I got to see his exhibit while it was at the Houston museum of natural science

[@PharaohMan007]

On my first day in Egypt, I went to the museum to see all the amazing treasures, especially king Tut's stuff. When I arrived, a guy took my passport and wouldn't give it back without a bribe-had to yell at him. Then the ticket person wouldn't give me my change-had to raise my voice at her. I hadn't even gotten in the door yet! Once inside, people were sitting all over the stellas to get selfies with them, guards wanted a bribe to take a picture of King Tut's mask. They then closed up that section and all took selfies with it. It was a disaster.

[@lynnedelacy2841]

Wow

[@lukegalvan3093]

Common egypt moment

[@xsamrx4718]

Yep, stuff like that ruined a friend's visit. She was visiting one of the pyramids and a guy with a whistle approached her she thought it was a police officer as they were blowing whistles and pointing. She moved where he said and then he took her towards the pyramid she was confused and then he aggressively demanded money for the ‘tour’ she had no idea he was taking her on a tour and wanted to find out why he made her follow him. In the end she ran away from him and some people came to her aid. He was yelling at the top of his lungs ‘Theif!’ absolutely crazy! They blow whistles pretending to be authority figures trying to dupe you out of money.

[@Sheworkshardforthemoney]

​@@xsamrx4718 That is so sad. I've always wanted to visit Egypt but not now.

[@Achilles22]

Put me off

[@NinaHansen2008]

Thank you, Dan!

[@eringemini7091]

I have to agree that someone like Tutankamen's Wife would have fashioned & placed the little Blue Garland on him after death. It was fascinating to me that someone at a Flower shop in England, (using those detailed drawings), could make such an exacting replica. The image of the King with all those Flower Tributes brought up the image of our Hawaiian High School & College Graduates, they too are layered in many " "Leis" and in addition to that wear on their Head a special Lei called; "Haku." This Head lei is fashioned( woven or braided together the flowers reminiscent of the King"s Crown flower Lei.

[@JoshHarris-ng8on]

It's Dan Snow!! ❤❤❤ HistoryHitTV!!! 🇬🇧

[@iamnotkurtcobain]

Love this channel!

[@curtisevanschicago]

No joke: this video had better cinematography than Indiana Jones. Full credit to the camera crew. 🎬 Mothaím na carraigeacha faoi mo chosa.

[@ruperterskin2117]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@marsspacex6065]

Ancient Egyptians always buried their dead on the West Bank of the Nile because that’s where the sun sets. They lived on the east bank of the Nile.

[@AT1972ASDF]

Common misconception. There are many cemeteries on the east side, e.g. Beni Hassan, Edfu, Mo'alla. And many towns are on the west e.g. Memphis, Abydos, Dendera. The land of the Dead is definitely past the western horizon but they weren't strict about putting things on a particular side of the river

[@aaronstafford7462]

Probably certain periods of Egyptians had different traditions on burials i the West Bank or the east bank. I have also heard about burials typically taking place in the dessert areas rather than the watered green areas, it make sense that a culture would make that symbolic attachment

[@Sheworkshardforthemoney]

Certainly the workers lived on the west bank to be close to work. They have whole worker-villages at the base of many pyramids.

[@faithnaidoo7647]

Have you heard of the ten plagues!!!!

[@AT1972ASDF]

@@faithnaidoo7647 Would be pretty hard to find a person watching a video on ancient Egypt who *hasn't* heard of them

[@ctldel290]

I was able to visit the tomb last year. Your film brought back wonderful memories. One thing not mentioned is that the boy king's mummy is located down in the tomb next to the burial chamber.

[@ronmckay504]

All his possessions that are meant to accompany him into the afterlife are not with his body. This totally disregards Tut's religious beliefs and wishes. Archaeology is just another word for grave robbing. All the items that are in museums around the world should be returned to Egypt for reburial and resealed in the original tombs.

[@W4rM4chine82]

How much ? €$

[@katherinecollins4685]

Fantastic documentary

[@johnnyretro1975]

Can I ask did carter get a reward for finding this great find amazing documentary Dan well done

[@michaelsinghpurewal]

fantastic docco

[@rrr92462]

Incredibly interesting! I loved the B&W photos showing everything as it was discovered and where it was placed 3000 years ago. Have all the pharaohs been found? What’s the 2nd most famous archaeological discovery? I would love to watch that.

[@davidoakes75]

The antiquity of Egypt is astonishing. But think about the Sumerians, that came millenia before Eqypt. And were there great civilizations that came before that, which have yet to be discovered? Ancient Egypt and the feats it accomplished are beyond our understanding today. We still struggle to comprehend the source of its technological and architectural accomplishments

[@jespersails]

BRILLIANT ❤❤❤ PRODUCTION

[@terencegamble4548]

Great and fresh insights into this famous burial. Humanity emerges from the precious metals.

[@nicholahenry539]

Love this I always enjoy all things Egyptian the history and how it comes alive and coincides with the bible

[@bumblebeebob]

I wish l could smash the "Like" button dozen times! Excellent program! As always.

[@AlainSylvestre]

incroyabble comme ça pris tout ce tempws pour qu'on voit tout.

[@carollewand510]

This is such a beautiful discovery for history

[@dominicconnor3437]

The gal you were talking to in his tomb did a 3D scan of the tomb and found out it was painted while the plaster was wet.

[@Hankthespank]

I recommend everyone to travel to Egypt and the Valley of the Kings atleast once in their lives. Its the most outerwordly place Ive ever visited. It is perfectly safe to travel to Egypt if you just stay away from the north eastern border.

[@Rotten_Fox]

All I can think about is how many artifacts these guys heisted

[@LornaBall]

Tremendous 🧡🧐🌸

[@Johanzu]

Great doc!

[@simonfisher836]

There are several miracles to this story. Not least he fact that some of the kings were lost for so long to the ages. If people had known he was there the treasures would surely have been looted. To be found by an archeologist and be preserved for future generations was extremely lucky. Is he the most famous person to have ever lived?

[@1961-v9k]

I’m now 63 and I remember being taken to London by my school in 1972 to see the Tutankhamen exhibition. At the time I didn’t have a clue who I was supposed to be seeing 🤣

[@VictorDiGiovanni]

My memories of King Tut are always overlaid with the explosion of Tut-mania in the 70s. Even though I know the real history of the discovery of the tomb, my brain still wants to tell me that all of this was first revealed in the 1970s. I remember the National Geographic cover from 1977 and that iconic imagery suddenly being everywhere. Steve Martin's King Tut song. Was there King Tut-mania before the American tour, or did that kickstart the modern love affair with Tut?

[@redcaoimh3127]

Elizabeth Taylor costumes and make-up in Cleopatra (1963) started a fashion.

[@judycater2832]

Lots of Tut mania in the 1920’s following the opening of the tomb. Influenced fashion and architecture.

[@sarah_n_dippity]

I think the tour and the marketing for it set it off. My parents took us to see that exhibition in DC when I was preteen, and I have never forgotten the beauty of it. I’m pretty sure that tour had the actual mask, which will never happen again. I bought the full color souvenir book that came out at that time and read it over and over. I collected old books on heiroglyphs and so on. I was absolutely convinced that I wanted to be an Archaeologist, and chose my college based on that. It took me awhile to realize that I wasnt suited for it. Dans final little speech made me cry.

[@annfahy2589]

Wonderful

[@pheart2381]

They seem to have been in a real rush to bury him.

[@SandraNelson063]

Yes. Tut's successor was his great general, Horemheb. At the time of Tut's death Horemheb was away at the border, repelling invaders. So one of Tut's administrators, Tye, decided to snatch the throne before Horemheb could return. He did that by positioning himself as Tut's chief mourner. He made sure that HE was the one performing the very important " Opening Of The Mouth" ceremony. He was made pharaoh. So YES, the funeral was rushed. Eventually Horemheb was able to get the thrown. He was a very practical pharaoh.

[@perryedwards4746]

A Smashing journey!! Thankyou...

[@PeterPerez.]

Do a video on ambatukam😊

[@69spook]

Too many adverts .... 😕

[@newkindofviking6701]

Being Danish. I will always go for British documentaries, in form of information, in all the English talking natives. Way better than the dra of the us of A. Wildlife, not. But information. Over any Scandinavian documentary. And this will be S-tier.

[@williamrobinson7435]

There's of course a lot of blue glass in the head dress etc, maybe this is why they used cornflowers in the wreaths. Nice one Dan and team! 🌟👍

[@Tr3ehouse]

“The Egyptians believed the greatest thing you could do was die”

[@lepton31415]

as a Christian I agree completely.

[@BaronHerezus]

Can we imagine what treasures were buried with famous kings such as Ramses if Tut had what he did?!

[@TuomioK]

Downton Abbey! Coooool!

[@ruatamualchin3660]

You cant really put the value in terms of money in these kind of treasure its priceless... Its not just gold its history and knowledge

[@jenwatson2623]

I was proud to be able to see him in San Francisco many years ago. It was beautiful, but sad for me it was like being able to see a family member or a lover again ....an I would not related .... That was before they new much like now. He had not even been in the CT yet or Xrayed .

[@CraigMansfield]

24:07 this is a stereo image. Slowly cross your eyes until you get a 3rd image in the middle and it becomes 3D I'm not joking

[@omegamcbride]

A black man, King Tut

[@busy2973]

As amazing as this is I would love to smell that air when they first broke through!

[@edwelty]

Wow!

[@clipzATG]

"NO PICTURES SIR" 🤣🤣

[@jasclarke9443]

What do you think happened to all the other gold that was taken from the other tombs like where is it now??

[@shilpagujiri4532]

Tuts tomb is the only one found intact, the others were looted long ago and the skeletons were destroyed. Tut's tomb was saved because it was buried under tonnes of debris so it escaped the eyes of the greedy.

[@shilpagujiri4532]

Tuts tomb is the only one found intact, the others were looted long ago and the skeletons were destroyed. Tut's tomb was saved because it was buried under tonnes of debris so it escaped the eyes of the greedy.

[@pommiebears]

So, we agree that the pyramids weren’t burial sites? 👊🏼

[@murrayscott9546]

I guess, sometimes, you can take it with you Thanks all !

[@ericanton7]

Damn this is like a “Mandela effect” thing for me- I could’ve sworn they discovered his tomb in the 80s/90s not the 20s!

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

The treasures went on a world tour around that time. It was a huge event for every museum where they were displayed. I remember the TV ads in Toronto for the ROM.

[@cadderley100]

I must admit, I have always wondered what the best type of flower would be to send someone the message "F.O."? I have a few people in mind that I would like to send some too, close friends and all that. I'm surprised that no one, not one person, has asked a relatively obvious question. Where did King Tit... Tut... Get his gold from? I've got to be honest, but I often wonder, why do people bother robbing banks, when museums often have much less security, and quite a bit of gold in them? Doesn't make sense to me.

[@MrNiss]

Tootan Kamuuun “He fell off a chariot”

[@Thucydides65]

Such a pity that the back of the mask is never shown as it’s covered in the most beautiful hieroglyphs

[@lynnedelacy2841]

So did Carnarvon get any financial recompense for all his investments

[@RTD553]

I need to learn how to stand with my legs wide apart like Dan Snow. 19:53

[@RigodeWolff]

Dan Snow meets the sun.

[@mikeisaacs2314]

Did England give any of the artifacts back

[@Johnny2Feathers]

Egyptians desecrated everything they could of ancient egypt including the sphinx by putting that dude khafres face on it when they found it

[@jimmythundarrsdrumcoverser492]

King tut was white. His real name was Steve Martin.....

[@greendeva3]

Now I hear him singing in my memories,thanks

[@eoysny7781]

😂

[@buddhadhammamonk]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@davidcezarlopescezarlopes1293]

Lindo.

[@nickoakley69]

The greatest thing ever created by man, thus far (death mask)

[@AngelGonzalez-pd4cn]

14 days from today, October 2, it will be 102 years since that discovery, that guy was resting in peace for 3000 years, somehow someone had to fuck with his grave and now he is in peace no more since 102 years ago.

[@markawestern]

31:36 the feet of the outer coffin appear to be intact and in good condition.

[@HakimiDiazZiyech]

Investing all that money, believe me they stole treasures that we don’t know of

[@tonystamp2708]

Basically grave robbers if you ask me.

[@teresawm6127]

The bones were sold and ground up and consumed because they thought it gave longevity long ago. Many tombs have been looted, things sold on the black market. This is being done now to protect treasures and mummies.

[@koskey06]

If I had just one wish....it would be to go back in time to see the Egyptian's. I mean there is still things they prob knew that we don't.

[@Styphon]

It's not his "final resting place" anymore now, is it? 🤔

[@atillacodesstuff1223]

yeah pretty fucked up to remove him from his spot

[@raytrevor1]

Tutankhamun is in his tomb now.

[@atillacodesstuff1223]

@@raytrevor1 oh

[@nohbuddy1]

Wish we could find Alexander's tomb someday. That would be the biggest archeological find of all time possibly

[@cameronthomas4767]

It’s always more about Howard carter then Tutankhamen 😒

[@LeisuresuitAndy]

37:00 I don't understand why they removed the beard. It can't be because "we can see the face more clearly".