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on the bottom of our planet lies The
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Frigid land of Antarctica
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coldest and most inhospitable continent
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in the world
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stretching over 5 million square miles
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Antarctica is covered in ice sheets that
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breach more than a mile deep
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the average daily temperature is
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negative 49 degrees Fahrenheit and wind
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speeds can reach over 100 miles per hour
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today the only inhabitants of this
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Barren landscape are scientists who work
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in research stations scattered across
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the continent
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mainstream geologists have long believed
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that ancient humans never settled on
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Antarctica because of its hostile
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climate but incredibly
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in 2016 satellite images revealed a
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curious formation emerging from the ice
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that some researchers believe could be
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a man-made pyramid
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recently there have been a number of
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reports of pyramids huge Great Pyramids
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in Antarctica they jut out of the ice
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and snow and they look perfect just like
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those in Egypt
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but they dwarf those in Egypt like the
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Great Pyramid one has a perfectly square
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base that is two kilometers Square in
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each Direction
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is it possible therefore that our
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ancestors did actually reach the
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Antarctic continent and perhaps even
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settle there
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a man-made pyramid beneath the Antarctic
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Ice
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if such an incredible notion is true
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then it naturally begs some questions
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how was such a massive structure built
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on Antarctica when was it done and by
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whom
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Antarctica we have been told from the
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geologists has been under ice for many
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millions of years
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however there is evidence that it could
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have been free advice
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certainly in certain areas
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until perhaps 4000 BC
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there are a large number of stories from
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Polynesia of so-called culture Heroes
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who reached the Antarctic continent
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a French academic by the name of Argo
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put together all of these different
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stories in the book titled out of
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Antarctica
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the Polynesian people's stories describe
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This Strange Land where these white
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rocks that come out of the water with
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your icebergs and other creatures such
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as seals and Penguins
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and seem to describe an area that we now
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know as Antarctica
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the Polynesian people's believed this
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was the place of the ancestors and they
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said this is where we came from
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originally why did they believe this if
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this was untrue
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is it really possible that the coldest
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place on Earth
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was once warm enough to be inhabited by
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humans
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well in 2017 German geologists collected
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core samples from deep within the frozen
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Antarctic seafloor in order to analyze
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what the continent's climate might have
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been like thousands of years ago
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what they discovered was astonishing
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in the case of that expedition in early
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2017 we used a very special seafloor
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drill rig that hasn't been used before
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in Antarctica so when we used this
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special drill rig and the sediments came
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up we saw immediately more than 60
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different taxa of plants
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similar to something that you would find
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in a rainforest in a temperature regime
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that was similar to what we today know
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from Northern Italy
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and finding that on the Antarctic
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continent
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that was the most exciting thing because
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the climatic conditions doesn't today
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allow any vegetation to survive under
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those conditions
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So based on that location and the
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environment we found I think that the
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Antarctic continent and the secrets
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that still need to be recovered will
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tell us a lot about planet Earth
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Cairo Egypt
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a plateau just a few miles west of the
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Nile River is the Giza necropolis
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perhaps the most famous collection of
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ruins in the entire world
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believed to be constructed during
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ancient Egypt's fourth Dynasty around
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2550 BC these Limestone monuments
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attract thousands of tourists every day
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who come to Marvel at the immense
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pyramids
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forbidding tombs
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and a mysterious Stone Sentinel known as
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the Sphinx
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I think you can argue that the Sphinx is
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the most recognizable statue anywhere in
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the world
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its scale is immense
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it's one single piece of stone
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it is cut from the natural rock of the
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Giza plateau
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the Sphinx stands 240 feet long
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66 feet tall and 62 feet wide
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for thousands of years this massive
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statue has been an object of both
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Fascination and wonder
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but even after centuries of study
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the Sphinx holds many secrets that
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archaeologists are still trying to
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unravel
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the Sphinx that we know today there's
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things from the Great Pyramids of Giza
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is the most famous of all sphinxism but
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there are sphinxes all over ancient
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Egypt there are smaller sphinxes there's
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an Avenue full of sphinxes between the
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temples
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[Music]
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but the Great Sphinx at Giza is
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something very different
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it's a single sculpture it sits in a
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very particular place it doesn't seem to
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have performed the same function at all
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what was it for this is what we really
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want to know
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no one has understood exactly what it
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means
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because for literally thousands of years
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the Sphinx was buried up to its neck and
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sand so it's only a head sticking out of
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the sand for much of its history
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there is a very famous painting of
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Emperor Napoleon standing in front of
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the Sphinx buried still at this point up
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to its shoulders
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you might think what does Napoleon got
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to do with Egypt and sphinx well in fact
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Napoleon LED an invasion of Egypt in
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1798 which had a big impact back in
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Europe in raising awareness and
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interests in ancient Egypt sites it
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wasn't until the 1920s that a team of
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archaeologists led by engineer emir
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barrez
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succeeded in unearthing the Sphinx from
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the Desert Sands they were able to
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expose it and to sow to reveal for the
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first time in centuries
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that this was not just a head of a
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disembodied head but a full Sphinx
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sculpture
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and this is a watershed moment for us
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understanding the Sphinx
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archaeologists and the gypologists like
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myself believe that their Sphinx was
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sculpted around 2500 BC by King
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Catherine as a part of his funerary
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complex
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but a lot of Scholars disagree about
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these things and there's a lot of
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mysteries surrounding when was the
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Sphinx actually sculpted
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one of the most important documents we
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have to do with the dieting of the
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Sphinx is the inventory stealer
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this is a commemorative stone that
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actually records details of how the
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Pharaoh Khufu repaired the Sphinx after
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it was struck by lightning
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the significance of this is that kufu
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came before Cafe the pharaoh who is
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conventionally said to have constructed
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the swings
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the inventory Stella has an inscription
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that goes back to about 4 600 years ago
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and that inscription says that the
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Sphinx is a much older structure that
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the Egyptians adopted and repaired and
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venerated
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based on the inscriptions on the
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inventory Stila there are some
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archaeologists who believe that the
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Sphinx is so ancient that it could
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predate any records in human history
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that are known to exist
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and some researchers are convinced that
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physical evidence of the Sphinx's true
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age
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can be found on the structure itself
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first time I visited the Sphinx was in
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the summer of 1990 my early studies of
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the Sphinx looked at the erosional
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features on the body of the Sphinx and
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comparing that to other erosional
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features right on the Giza plateau and
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what I found was the body of the Sphinx
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and the walls of the Sphinx enclosure
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are weathered differently than
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everything else on the Giza plateau
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the rest of the plateau shows classic
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wind erosion
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but what is on the Sphinx is water
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weathering it's rainfall precipitation
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and this makes no sense when the Sphinx
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is sitting on the edge of the Sahara
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Desert that has been a bone dry desert
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for literally thousands of years
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so what I concluded is that the body of
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the Sphinx and therefore the original
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Statue had to go back to pre-saharan
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times when there was a much more
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temperate climate much more moisture
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much more rainfall and it has to go back
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not just a little bit into that period
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but quite far back given that we have
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incredible amount of weathering and
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erosion on the Sphinx
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I now think that it goes back to the end
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of the last ice age Circa 10 000 BC I am
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convinced that it is a ruin from
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pre-dynastic agent
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Cincinnati Ohio
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just outside the city are the normal
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Suburban Street in an ordinary
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neighborhood
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is the home of Greg and Dana Newkirk
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from the outside their home is not much
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different from any other house on the
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Block
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but inside it contains something quite
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extraordinary because there is a room in
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the basement that is filled with a
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collection of strange objects sent by
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people from all over the world that are
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believed to be
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cursed
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Greg and I lead normal lives and we we
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go about our life the same way that
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everyone else does
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we just happen to be caretakers for very
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strange objects
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the way that we got started collecting
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cursed objects was complete accident
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it wasn't something that we had set out
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to do
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never would have imagined myself doing
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this
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we were just interested in in general
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weirdness
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my wife and I investigate all manner of
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high strangeness and we were both very
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interested in the idea of cursed objects
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we slowly gained a reputation as being
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particularly good people for this
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and so anytime anyone had a problem with
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an artifact they would come to us and
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say I don't know what to do with this
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this thing is affecting my life will you
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just take it off my hands it'd be easier
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to just give it to you and let you deal
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with it so we built up this collection
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of very bizarre things
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visitors to the newkirk's home are given
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an ample warning that the basement is
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filled with objects that are cursed
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we have a lot of haunted robes but
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curiously every day the new Kirks
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receive requests from people who are
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eager to view their cursed collection
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you would think with cursed objects you
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want to avoid them but there is a draw
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to them
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when an object is said to be cursed
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another word you could use is special
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it's special if this chair is cursed
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it's different from every other chair in
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the world
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and that makes it unique that makes it
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interesting and that draws our attention
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every single time and the fact that that
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specialness is that it hurts people
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that appeals to a certain Macabre streak
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that we all have as human beings
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people think of cursed objects as being
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kind of fun and spooky but working with
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them it feels a lot less about that and
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a lot more about that kind of heavy
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responsibility to keep some of these
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objects with us under lock and key and
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maybe out of the wrong hands
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and maybe in a place that's safer not
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only for for everyone else but for them
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Kirk's collection includes several
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objects that are considered to have the
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power to inflict harm
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on anyone who comes near them
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this is the cursed deer skull we drove
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down to Nashville to pick up from a
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woman who saw this in an antique store
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and took it back to her office and
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almost immediately her employees started
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getting sick one of her employees was
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hit by a car and then the wall that this
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was hanging on actually fell down and
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took half of the building with it
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there are certain objects specifically
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in our Museum that without people
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knowing why they feel this the way that
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they feel
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they will definitely have heart
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palpitations anxiety
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we've had people almost faint we've had
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people throw up we've had people dry
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heat
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people have very visceral physical
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reactions to being around some of the
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objects
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among the accursed objects in the new
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Kirk's collection
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is a deadly ring that it's claimed to
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kill anyone who wears it
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a Bible used during a failed exorcism
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and a doll that is believed to spread
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illness wherever it goes
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but of all the cursed objects and
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eucharists have come across there is one
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that is so harrowing they refuse to keep
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it in their collection it is an
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unsettling wooden Effigy known as the
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Chrome
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the Chrome really is the definition of
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kind of a cursed object it is a carved
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statue of a woman
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someone at some point in time took this
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object and attached The Noose and the
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nails
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it was given to us by some hikers who
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found it in the Catskills off the beaten
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path and a cave
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they took it home and initially started
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to experience really frightening things
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their animals were behaving strangely
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they were finding wet footprints on the
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ground and they didn't know what to do
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someone who we had worked with
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previously put them in contact with us
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and after you know having some
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communication with them they they sent
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the Crone to us
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people who would get near the crone
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they would be just overwhelmed with
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anxiety
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this guy
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came all the way from Canada to come and
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see the crone
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he begged us
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to take it out of the box
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almost immediately
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his eyes roll up in the back of his head
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and he starts to bleed from his mouth
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and he has a violent seizure and he has
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to be taken out by the paramedics
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and that's when Dan and I looked at each
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other and we said we have to do
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something about this
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it got to a point where the Crone was
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just too dangerous for even us to take
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care of
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bring her back to the Catskills which is
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where she's from
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to remove the Crohn's curse the new
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coach plan was to return to the area
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where it was originally found by two
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hikers many years before
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at which point they would remove the
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nails embedded in the Chrome in a
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cleansing ritual
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we wanted to bring her back
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and every time a nail was pulled out the
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intention was that we were pulling that
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curse out of the object
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he hiked into the woods for miles
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I set up a circle
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the idea of setting up a circle was
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basically just to create an energetic
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space for containing this ritual
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the whole time we were doing this we
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were hearing footsteps
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strange sounds that weren't animals
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around our Circle
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we couldn't see anything
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we were absolutely terrified but we
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started performing the ritual I pulled
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the nails out
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soon as that happens
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we feel this almost electric pop in the
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air
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[Music]
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when we were done every coyote on the
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mountain just started howling and the
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ritual was finished and what we were
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looking at was just a block of wood
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and we just kind of knew that we had
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done what we went there to do
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in the lower Jordan River Valley
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distinct
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rises from the landscape but this is no
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ordinary Ridge
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because buried under layers of dirt and
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rock are the ruins of an ancient city
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that dates back almost 4 000 years
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modern archaeologists have named the
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site
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foreign
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from satellite imagery it's long and
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it's narrow it's about a mile from end
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to end we believe that as many as 50 000
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people occupied the city according to
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experts
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is shrouded in mystery we don't know
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what it was named in ancient times or
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who lived there but in recent years some
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archaeologists have theorized that tal
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elham is actually the ruins of the
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biblical city of Sodom
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in Genesis you have these cities Sodom
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and Gomorrah and there's wickedness
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there's inequity in the city but then
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God decides no this city is doing a
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horrible kinds of things so I'm
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literally going to rain fire
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sulfur down I'm gonna Destroy This City
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God said enough is enough fire and
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burning Stone came forth out of the
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heavens from Yahweh and consumed the
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city
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in fact the Bible says that every person
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crop plant tree twig anything that was
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living was destroyed
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the Sodom and Gomorrah story is
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fascinating and it's meant to be a
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metaphor an understanding of oh when
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human beings don't do what they should
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do here's what God does to destroy us
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it's God's power being manifested it's
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an act of God
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the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
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has long been associated with the wrath
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of God until recently many scholars
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thought that the story was only a myth
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so why do some experts not believe that
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could be the remains of the city of
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Sodom
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there is more geographical data in the
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biblical text for the location of Sodom
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than there is for any other biblical
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site
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the Bible was very very clear that it
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was north and east of the Dead Sea and
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it was very clear that it was east of
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Jerusalem and tell him on matches
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geographics of the text
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it matches the time frame of the text
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it matches all the possible descriptions
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of the text describes it
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the idea that Tyler Lamar matches the
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location of Sodom in the Bible is
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intriguing
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and researchers also claim that there is
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physical evidence on site
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that confirms the biblical description
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sodom's destruction
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the actual destruction event is recorded
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in just two verses in Genesis chapter 19
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verses 24 and 25.
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where it talks about the fact that rock
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and fire came down from the heavens and
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destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah one theory
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is that an incoming meteor or meteor
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fragment
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exploded over the North End of the Dead
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Sea
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and destroyed tala hamam
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there are numerous proxies that give
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strong indication that an air burst or
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impact event have occurred
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first is the evidence of thermal damage
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that's represented through melted
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building materials and partially melted
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Pottery fragments
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the second is the appearance and
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occurrence of micro spherols very very
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tiny spherical shaped melted pieces of
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mineral grains and Sands and the third
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is a high concentration of rare Earth
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elements Rare Earth elements are very
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common in asteroids not so common on the
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Earth
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what's interesting is that the middle
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layer of tall hamam has a really high
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salt concentration
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it's so salty that a lot of times we
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excavate Pottery that's just coated with
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thick salt crystals that's pretty
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unusual why is that layer so salty
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well it's the same salt as found in the
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Dead Sea
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probably because this airburst event
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will pushed a massive amount of dirt
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water and salt over the landscape
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a meteor explosion in the sky
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if tal and her mom really was Sodom
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could such an explosion be the reason
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why the city is now buried in dirt that
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has a high concentration of salt
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some experts believe the answer is yes
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and they point to the biblical story for
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further evidence of the connection
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between the destruction of Sodom and
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salt
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the story of Sodom essentially picks up
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in Genesis 19 where you have these two
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angels that look like men who travel
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down to visit lot who's living down in
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Sodom and lot shows them tremendous
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hospitality
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supposed to be kind to immigrants you're
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supposed to be kind to foreigners as lot
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has done
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God has decided to destroy the city
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because of its wickedness
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so the Angels grab lot and his family
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and as they're leaving Sodom the Angels
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give them the command don't even look
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back and then you have this fascinating
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detail where it says that Lot's wife
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turned and looked back and she turned
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into a pillar of salt
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what could be the significance of Lot's
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wife turning into a pillar of salt
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does this detail from the story support
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the theory that a meteor explosion in
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the sky buried Sodom and dirt and salt
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perhaps
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but is a meteor explosion a natural
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event or is it an act of God
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there's been a lot of question about
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fire in Brimstone
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coming down from the heavens right this
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is one of these Unexplained Mysteries
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and there have been a lot of theories
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and this probably has something to do
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with wanting evidence that proves faith
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a lot of people believe in these stories
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and Archeology can confirm them
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I think from a point of view of science
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as we look at the biblical text and we
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look at the statement of this was fire
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and burning Stone from God out of the
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heavens if such an event actually
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occurred would it have left some
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evidences around well of course yes
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that's all confirmed by the science
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and how science can't tell me one way or
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the other whether it's an act of God but
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the event is confirmed
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Pompeii Italy 79 A.D
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at approximately 1 pm on a peaceful late
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summer day
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this ancient Roman city in the shadow of
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Mount Vesuvius is shaken by a massive
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volcanic eruption
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within minutes superheated gas and lava
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engulfed the city and its surroundings
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in an inch to thousands of people are
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buried alive as a city that was once
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their home
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suddenly becomes their tomb
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nearly 2 000 years after the eruption
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Pompeii is a city that remains Frozen in
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Time
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this eruption was what we call a
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pyroclastic eruption where clouds of of
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Ash and debris hundreds of degrees hot
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came flowing down the mountain
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flash flying everything in its path
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and miraculously the heat of this Cloud
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was enough to carbonize and Preserve
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rather than destroy all kinds of
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information
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we have well-preserved architecture wood
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and organic materials foodstuffs
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human remains
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animal remains that have been preserved
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for two thousand years beneath this
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volcanic debris
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today the excavated ruins of Pompeii
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offer archaeologists and tourists a
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breathtaking look at the doomed ancient
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city
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perhaps the most intriguing Discovery
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found beneath the ash from Mount
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vesuvius's eruption
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was an ancient Roman structure located
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not far from Pompeii known as The Villa
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De papyrus
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the villa de papiri was a Roman luxury
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Villa that was full of sculpture and
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marble and bronze The Villa was
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discovered by chance in 1750 by
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welldiggers who tunneling about 75 feet
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through volcanic debris first hit a
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colored marble floor with an amazing
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pattern made up of bright red and yellow
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marbles
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and we think this was once a vacation
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home of a Roman senator of the highest
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rank of an old Noble family named Lucius
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calpurnia's Pizzo
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the volcanic ash that buried Villa De
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papyri did not only preserve the
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physical structure
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it also entombed a library that
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contained more than 1800 Papyrus
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squirrels
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these scrolls are an extraordinary
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record of the thoughts and writings of
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people who lived nearly 2 000 years ago
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those texts were discovered when the
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city was excavated and some of the
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artifacts were first found
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they people who discovered them didn't
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know what they were they thought that
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maybe they were pieces of branches or
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logs because they were rolled up and
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carbonized until someone finally
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realized these are texts I'm papyrus
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the villa de papiri Library very
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significant because it's the only
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surviving library from Antiquity with
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its contents there were Scrolls found
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that date to the third second and first
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century BC in the First Century A.D
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about 300 of them or so have been
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unscrolled and they contain mostly
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philosophic texts
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some poetry some literary criticism a
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little bit of history but many of the
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scrolls are so tightly bound together
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and carbonized that there's been a
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moratorium on attempts to open them
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fear of damaging the Scrolls left many
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of them virtually untouched for over a
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hundred years
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but new technology has presented a
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potential opportunity to read these
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mysterious ancient texts
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scientists in the computer science
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department at the University of Kentucky
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have developed a new method known as
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virtual unwrapping
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which uses a sophisticated x-ray machine
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to scan the Scrolls without damaging
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them
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the virtual unwrapping that we innovated
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basically allows 360 degree set of views
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to be collected from an object that
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rotates in front of an x-ray beam
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is a real scroll
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that's 2000 years old and
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in cross-section
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see there's there's damage there are
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00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:15,059
parts that are missing sections that are
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broken now we're using our software for
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the Second Step which is to trace these
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wraps all the way through so that we can
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build a 3D model that lets us flatten
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that out and then read the text that's
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on it
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once we're done we've achieved
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this image that's on the left which is
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the final completely unwrapped version
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this is a quote from Democritus
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who was an early Greek philosopher and
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is very well known for having postulated
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with others that materials are made of
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atoms
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it's remarkable that 2 000 years ago
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Greek philosophers were postulating what
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we now know is true from science
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thus far the team has been able to
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digitally scan two complete Scrolls and
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a number of fragments
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they hope that in the future technology
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will advance and allow them to reveal
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even more
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What secrets might be contained in those
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two thousand year old Scrolls one
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exciting possibility that has been
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suggested is that the original letters
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written by Jesus's Apostle Paul could
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have been kept within the library of
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villa de papyrus
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The Villa of the papyri wasn't tomb
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about 40 to 50 years after the death of
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Jesus
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at this time the original Apostles are
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now out doing their mission work in
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various parts of the Mediterranean
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so it's entirely likely that Villa of
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the papyri could have a collection of
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copies of Paul's letters
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if the letters from the Apostle Paul
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circulated and found its way into the
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collection such a discovery would
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represent the earliest Christian
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material that we have almost dating back
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to the time of Christ and the disciples
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being able to use these techniques to
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understand history in a way that's
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almost forensic is going to bring
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surprising things forward and we're
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going to be revealing more secrets than
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we'd ever imagined before
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