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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:04,080 is this glass scarab from 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,660 Tutankhamun's burial chamber not from this 3 00:00:06,660 --> 00:00:08,899 world 4 00:00:09,260 --> 00:00:11,940 what exactly is it from and where does it come from 5 00:00:11,940 --> 00:00:14,839 a real mystery 6 00:00:14,839 --> 00:00:18,420 is this 4000 year old clay tablet the 7 00:00:18,420 --> 00:00:21,720 building instructions for Noah's Ark sells 8 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,000 a property build a ship load it 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,619 with animals 10 00:00:25,619 --> 00:00:28,019 and how can it It may be that this red 11 00:00:28,019 --> 00:00:30,180 piece of moon rock contains traces of life. 12 00:00:30,180 --> 00:00:31,220 13 00:00:31,220 --> 00:00:33,780 On closer inspection it becomes even stranger. 14 00:00:33,780 --> 00:00:36,020 15 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,400 Fascinating mysterious objects 16 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,079 [music] 17 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:46,320 long hidden in museums, laboratories and 18 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,280 archives. 19 00:00:49,559 --> 00:00:51,480 Now we can use the latest 20 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:55,579 technology to reveal their secrets. 21 00:00:56,100 --> 00:00:59,480 We can recreate them 22 00:00:59,699 --> 00:01:01,800 23 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,420 24 00:01:05,420 --> 00:01:11,420 and bizarre reveal 25 00:01:13,260 --> 00:01:16,030 these are the strangest things in the world 26 00:01:16,030 --> 00:01:20,019 [Music] 27 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,580 [Music] 28 00:01:28,580 --> 00:01:31,680 in the great museum in Giza one of the 29 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,479 most important treasures of ancient 30 00:01:33,479 --> 00:01:35,479 Egypt is exhibited 31 00:01:35,479 --> 00:01:40,460 the pectoral of Tutankhamun 32 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,140 the piece of jewelry lay on the chest of the 33 00:01:43,140 --> 00:01:45,960 young king's mummy it was supposed to be on his 34 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:48,000 body protect the journey into the underworld 35 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,050 36 00:01:49,050 --> 00:01:53,220 [music] 37 00:01:55,140 --> 00:01:57,420 with the latest technology we are 38 00:01:57,420 --> 00:02:01,280 now revealing his ancient riddle 39 00:02:03,050 --> 00:02:05,000 [music] 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,119 the almost 15 cm long 3000 year old 41 00:02:09,119 --> 00:02:11,700 piece of jewelry was made of silver and gold 42 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:14,950 and is artfully crafted 43 00:02:14,950 --> 00:02:18,800 [music] 44 00:02:20,180 --> 00:02:24,379 you can see it in the many hieroglyphs 45 00:02:24,379 --> 00:02:27,319 at its center a striking and 46 00:02:27,319 --> 00:02:30,620 enigmatic stone 47 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,300 represents the sun god 48 00:02:38,819 --> 00:02:41,040 the body of the scarab is made of 49 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,800 a single piece of glass 50 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,620 it is yellowish green and extraordinarily 51 00:02:46,620 --> 00:02:50,900 clear a piece of perfect glass 52 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:53,300 it is super perfect there is 53 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:55,980 no other 54 00:02:55,980 --> 00:02:58,980 artifact so ancient in the world that is so flawless 55 00:02:58,980 --> 00:02:59,200 is 56 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,379 [music] 57 00:03:01,379 --> 00:03:03,420 the latest research now answers 58 00:03:03,420 --> 00:03:05,879 long-standing questions about the pectoral 59 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:08,060 Tutankhamun 60 00:03:08,060 --> 00:03:11,879 where does the glass of the gabio come from how did 61 00:03:11,879 --> 00:03:14,099 it come about what makes it so 62 00:03:14,099 --> 00:03:17,099 unique 63 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,460 [music] 64 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:28,440 65 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,480 66 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:31,790 hidden in this sand and rock are the remains of a millennia-old advanced culture 67 00:03:31,790 --> 00:03:36,300 [music]. 68 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:38,580 100 years ago, the English 69 00:03:38,580 --> 00:03:40,860 archaeologist Howard Carter came across a 70 00:03:40,860 --> 00:03:43,580 sensational 71 00:03:49,620 --> 00:03:51,780 map and found the tomb of the Pharaoh 72 00:03:51,780 --> 00:03:54,599 Tutankhamun, a king of the 18th 73 00:03:54,599 --> 00:03:57,599 dynasty who was only about 20 years old. 74 00:03:57,599 --> 00:04:01,500 He died over 3,000 years ago. His tomb 75 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:05,720 contains an incomparable treasure. There 76 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,580 were around 5,000 items in the tomb 77 00:04:08,580 --> 00:04:10,860 a fantastic moment for 78 00:04:10,860 --> 00:04:13,560 historical science 79 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,579 statues gold jewels chariots 80 00:04:16,579 --> 00:04:19,798 animal figures and the famous sarcophagus 81 00:04:19,798 --> 00:04:23,840 with the death mask of the pharaoh 82 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:26,400 it is one of the most significant 83 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,139 discoveries in the history of 84 00:04:28,139 --> 00:04:31,139 archeology between the artifacts 85 00:04:31,139 --> 00:04:33,660 tomcat finds a highly unusual 86 00:04:33,660 --> 00:04:34,910 object 87 00:04:34,910 --> 00:04:38,039 [music] 88 00:04:43,259 --> 00:04:45,780 in its midst the scarab from a 89 00:04:45,780 --> 00:04:48,600 Glass that is unlike any other from this time 90 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,080 91 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,300 had a great symbolic meaning 92 00:04:54,300 --> 00:04:56,940 for the ancient Egyptians, among 93 00:04:56,940 --> 00:04:59,820 other things, it stood for transformation and it was associated with 94 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:01,380 the movement of the sun across the sky, 95 00:05:01,380 --> 00:05:03,180 which repeats itself daily, which is why it 96 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:06,000 97 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,280 also represented renewal and rebirth 98 00:05:11,180 --> 00:05:14,340 Of all things, glass 99 00:05:14,340 --> 00:05:16,919 was chosen as the material for an object with 100 00:05:16,919 --> 00:05:20,660 such symbolic power 101 00:05:22,460 --> 00:05:25,139 a huge area even outside of 102 00:05:25,139 --> 00:05:28,080 Egypt they had access to valuable 103 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:29,699 gemstones gold and other 104 00:05:29,699 --> 00:05:31,940 mineral resources so why 105 00:05:31,940 --> 00:05:34,680 is a piece of glass the 106 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,960 center of the pectoral and not gold 107 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,479 silver lapis lazuli a turquoise or 108 00:05:39,479 --> 00:05:41,840 the like 109 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,220 is not particularly difficult or 110 00:05:44,220 --> 00:05:46,800 complex 111 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,560 Klaus is 112 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,080 pretty simple, you just need sand 113 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,380 and heat, you melt the sand and can 114 00:05:55,380 --> 00:05:57,240 then mix it with other materials, 115 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,240 for example metal oxides like the glass, 116 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,840 117 00:06:03,780 --> 00:06:06,300 but in ancient Egypt, glass is rare 118 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:08,280 and the Egyptians are fascinated by the material, including 119 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:11,400 the blue stripes 120 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,039 Tutankhamun's dead mask is made 121 00:06:14,039 --> 00:06:16,580 of glass, 122 00:06:17,060 --> 00:06:20,160 almost magical. The Egyptian 123 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,660 character for glass means 124 00:06:21,660 --> 00:06:24,199 flowing stone. 125 00:06:24,199 --> 00:06:26,539 They knew 126 00:06:26,539 --> 00:06:28,199 the process but hadn't 127 00:06:28,199 --> 00:06:30,960 perfected it yet. Glass was still something 128 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,960 mysterious. 129 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:40,520 Glass was never flawless. 130 00:06:41,780 --> 00:06:44,160 The ancient Egyptians don't look like 131 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,380 today's ones clear and 132 00:06:46,380 --> 00:06:49,620 transparent it is rather cloudy and full of 133 00:06:49,620 --> 00:06:51,960 inclusions and air bubbles because their 134 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:53,880 ovens were not hot enough to completely melt the sand 135 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,380 136 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,419 [music] 137 00:06:59,419 --> 00:07:03,840 not it is perfect which means it 138 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:06,060 could not have been made by the ancient Egyptians or 139 00:07:06,060 --> 00:07:08,699 any other civilization of the 140 00:07:08,699 --> 00:07:12,380 time its 141 00:07:14,780 --> 00:07:18,139 real mystery - 142 00:07:19,039 --> 00:07:21,180 there is not only artificial glass 143 00:07:21,180 --> 00:07:23,340 but also natural glass, for example 144 00:07:23,340 --> 00:07:26,340 obsidian 145 00:07:26,699 --> 00:07:28,740 Obsidian is created by one of the 146 00:07:28,740 --> 00:07:32,130 most powerful natural forces on earth 147 00:07:32,130 --> 00:07:35,259 [music] 148 00:07:36,380 --> 00:07:38,460 Obsidian is formed when 149 00:07:38,460 --> 00:07:40,199 lithium-rich magma 150 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:42,120 cools quickly after a volcanic eruption and 151 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,620 therefore does not form a crystal structure, 152 00:07:43,620 --> 00:07:48,660 the result is obsidian 153 00:07:52,860 --> 00:07:57,900 [music] 154 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,360 e 155 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,599 consists of oxygen but also 156 00:08:09,599 --> 00:08:11,840 contains many foreign substances such as 157 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,639 iron oxide which also forms smaller crystals. 158 00:08:14,639 --> 00:08:16,220 159 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:19,400 This dark coloring of the 160 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,920 piece of jewelry looks completely different 161 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,960 [music] 162 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,350 it can't be obsidian 163 00:08:29,350 --> 00:08:35,399 [music] 164 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:38,339 165 00:08:38,339 --> 00:08:40,979 glass can form not only during volcanic eruptions but 166 00:08:40,979 --> 00:08:45,560 also when lightning strikes When sand hits 167 00:08:46,940 --> 00:08:49,380 the high temperatures at the 168 00:08:49,380 --> 00:08:51,720 impact point, the sand melts and 169 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,500 so-called fulgurettes are created. 170 00:08:59,580 --> 00:09:04,820 Lightning is the origin of the scarab. It is 171 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:07,820 prepared to 172 00:09:08,779 --> 00:09:13,040 173 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:16,680 create something larger around the lightning strike, which has 174 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:20,300 nothing to do with this piece of jewelry. 175 00:09:20,779 --> 00:09:23,640 The glass of the scarab was again 176 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,800 created by lightning nor through a 177 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,019 volcanic eruption. 178 00:09:28,019 --> 00:09:29,940 People can't have made it either. 179 00:09:29,940 --> 00:09:32,180 180 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,700 Where did it come from? Then for years, 181 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:37,140 archaeologists have not been able to answer this question. The 182 00:09:37,140 --> 00:09:38,300 183 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:41,040 first clues appear during an 184 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,500 expedition to the largest desert in the world 185 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:45,860 on the Sahara 186 00:09:45,860 --> 00:09:47,839 [music], 187 00:09:47,839 --> 00:09:50,279 a group of adventurers searched for in 188 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:52,200 the Egyptian Libyan Border to the 189 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,440 legendary city very Syrian 190 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,480 one of them was the British 191 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,480 surveyor Patrick Layton as he 192 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,580 drove his car through the desert 193 00:10:02,580 --> 00:10:05,580 he heard a crunching sound to his amazement 194 00:10:05,580 --> 00:10:07,920 the desert floor is littered with pieces of 195 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,080 a transparent greenish yellow 196 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:11,480 glass 197 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,800 he takes some with him to England and 198 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,500 take it to the Natural History Museum there 199 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:19,519 no one knows what it is 200 00:10:19,750 --> 00:10:23,880 [music] 201 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,700 only 50 years later a team of 202 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:29,040 Italian scientists investigates Clayton's 203 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,399 discovery - 204 00:10:40,940 --> 00:10:43,740 the fingerprints have geochemical properties - this 205 00:10:43,740 --> 00:10:47,720 206 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,820 proves the scarab was made from the 207 00:10:50,820 --> 00:10:53,780 glass from the Berlin desert 208 00:10:53,780 --> 00:10:56,160 [music] 209 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,459 but that will be one new question on why 210 00:10:59,459 --> 00:11:02,279 is such flawless glass lying around in the middle of 211 00:11:02,279 --> 00:11:04,000 the Sahara 212 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,320 [music] 213 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,600 a clue may be found in 214 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,820 a remote desert valley in New 215 00:11:11,820 --> 00:11:15,839 Mexico USA called hornada del muerto the 216 00:11:15,839 --> 00:11:19,079 path of the dead her similar glass forms 217 00:11:19,079 --> 00:11:21,240 a circle in the sand it has a 218 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,519 diameter of 30 meters and is 219 00:11:23,519 --> 00:11:25,800 perfectly round as if it were of human 220 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,800 origin and it is. 221 00:11:35,959 --> 00:11:40,620 On July 16, 1945, the Trinity test took 222 00:11:40,620 --> 00:11:42,959 place. The first successful detonation 223 00:11:42,959 --> 00:11:45,320 of an atomic bomb. 224 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,940 The first tangible result of the 225 00:11:47,940 --> 00:11:49,620 Manhattan Project. They had to 226 00:11:49,620 --> 00:11:52,200 check whether it worked. 227 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,720 The bomb was detonated a kind of platform 228 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,020 in the desert ignited 229 00:11:57,020 --> 00:12:00,180 [music] 230 00:12:00,180 --> 00:12:03,720 a fireball spreads out it is 231 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:05,519 three times as hot as the surface of the 232 00:12:05,519 --> 00:12:09,180 sun a mushroom-shaped cloud rises almost 233 00:12:09,180 --> 00:12:11,470 12 km into the atmosphere 234 00:12:11,470 --> 00:12:23,890 [music] 235 00:12:24,079 --> 00:12:26,360 explosion had an explosive power of 236 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:30,260 20,000 tons of TNT 237 00:12:31,079 --> 00:12:33,360 the test leads to an unexpected 238 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,200 by-product 239 00:12:37,620 --> 00:12:40,140 when scientists later examined the site 240 00:12:40,140 --> 00:12:42,360 of the explosion they found 241 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,579 small pieces of glass they called it 242 00:12:44,579 --> 00:12:47,170 trinity 243 00:12:47,170 --> 00:12:49,459 [music] 244 00:12:49,459 --> 00:12:53,100 in a startling way but they can't 245 00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:56,660 possibly have the same origin 246 00:12:56,660 --> 00:12:59,279 so the grass couldn't have been created 247 00:12:59,279 --> 00:13:02,770 in ancient Egypt there were no atomic bombs 248 00:13:02,770 --> 00:13:05,459 [music ] 249 00:13:05,459 --> 00:13:08,040 no force of nature on earth has the same 250 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,220 power as an atomic explosion 251 00:13:11,220 --> 00:13:14,160 so where did the energy that 252 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,820 led to the creation of the scarab glass come from 253 00:13:17,820 --> 00:13:20,700 is there a reference to it in the tomb of Tutankhamun 254 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:23,660 255 00:13:23,660 --> 00:13:26,399 there is another object from the tomb that 256 00:13:26,399 --> 00:13:30,680 was questions 257 00:13:38,180 --> 00:13:40,840 but 258 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,740 [music] 259 00:13:42,740 --> 00:13:45,240 Ancient Egypt still dates back to the 260 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,760 Bronze Age. 261 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,800 The first evidence of the use 262 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,200 of iron in ancient Egypt only appeared 263 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,139 800 years after Tutankhamun's death. The 264 00:13:55,139 --> 00:13:56,579 ancient Egyptians 265 00:13:56,579 --> 00:13:58,940 cannot possibly have made this dagger. 266 00:13:58,940 --> 00:14:02,040 Like the glass of the scarab, the 267 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,160 iron also clearly puzzles 268 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:06,720 my test test Scientists 269 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,220 actually did chemical analysis of the blade 270 00:14:08,220 --> 00:14:10,200 they found a fairly high 271 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,980 proportion of nickel in it 272 00:14:12,980 --> 00:14:15,779 the blade is made up of eleven percent 273 00:14:15,779 --> 00:14:19,200 nickel no naturally occurring iron 274 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,380 has such a high nickel content 275 00:14:22,380 --> 00:14:26,000 with one exception 276 00:14:27,740 --> 00:14:32,600 the core of a meteorite 277 00:14:33,740 --> 00:14:36,779 on earth one most of them are too 278 00:14:36,779 --> 00:14:38,880 small to make itself noticeable but 279 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,440 some are much larger 280 00:14:42,839 --> 00:14:46,399 February 15, 2013 281 00:14:46,399 --> 00:14:50,519 Russia a meteor the size of a 282 00:14:50,519 --> 00:14:52,800 six-story building penetrates the 283 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,519 earth's atmosphere at a 284 00:14:55,519 --> 00:14:59,040 speed of almost 65,000 km per 285 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,199 hour, 286 00:15:01,199 --> 00:15:04,680 287 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,180 it exploded 25 km above the earth's surface and 288 00:15:06,180 --> 00:15:08,579 released only 20 times as much energy 289 00:15:08,579 --> 00:15:11,959 free like the Trinity bomb 290 00:15:12,180 --> 00:15:14,519 had hit the earth, it could have 291 00:15:14,519 --> 00:15:17,620 turned sand into glass 292 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:20,699 [music] 293 00:15:20,699 --> 00:15:23,240 the glass of the scarab comes from a 294 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:27,320 meteorite impact in the Sahara. In 295 00:15:28,339 --> 00:15:31,320 2019, some geologists took a 296 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,300 closer look at the structure of the desert glass and, among 297 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:35,040 other things, found a 298 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,699 foreign substance called circumm 299 00:15:37,699 --> 00:15:40,019 in the mineral they notice an 300 00:15:40,019 --> 00:15:43,339 unusual arrangement of atoms, 301 00:15:43,339 --> 00:15:46,500 this is only found in zircon, which is 302 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:48,720 303 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,959 formed when a certain crystal decays, which is very rare 304 00:15:50,959 --> 00:15:53,000 reddit 305 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,680 [music] 306 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,240 only occurs when the atoms are extremely compressed together at high 307 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,300 temperature and under high pressure 308 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:01,579 309 00:16:01,579 --> 00:16:03,600 On Earth, such 310 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,639 conditions only arise during a specific 311 00:16:05,639 --> 00:16:09,500 event. The glass 312 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:10,830 was probably formed 313 00:16:10,830 --> 00:16:13,869 [music] 314 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,160 29 million years ago in the 315 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,240 great sand sea 316 00:16:20,770 --> 00:16:23,929 [music], 317 00:16:31,399 --> 00:16:37,459 there is still a question: where is the cat? 318 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,100 A meteorite with so much energy must have 319 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:48,779 a crater with 30 kilometers 320 00:16:48,779 --> 00:16:52,100 diameters, 321 00:16:55,820 --> 00:16:58,139 which is extremely difficult in a desert. 322 00:16:58,139 --> 00:17:01,880 323 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,579 Your desert is constantly changing when 324 00:17:05,579 --> 00:17:07,439 you climb up a thin one and 325 00:17:07,439 --> 00:17:09,240 come back after two days. The wind has 326 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,319 long since blown away your footprints, 327 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:16,939 so the crater has also disappeared, 328 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,199 but we haven't 329 00:17:22,199 --> 00:17:24,500 found 330 00:17:26,179 --> 00:17:29,280 the old ones yet Egyptians probably didn't benefit from 331 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,500 the extraterrestrial origin of the 332 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:34,919 scarab glass, but they knew it was 333 00:17:34,919 --> 00:17:38,360 something very special. 334 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:40,679 The ancient Egyptians certainly didn't 335 00:17:40,679 --> 00:17:43,620 know how this glass was created, but 336 00:17:43,620 --> 00:17:45,559 they recognized that it was very rarely 337 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:48,860 flawless and beautiful, 338 00:17:48,860 --> 00:17:53,539 it is truly worthy of a king, 339 00:17:54,140 --> 00:17:56,940 this perfect one A 340 00:17:56,940 --> 00:17:59,100 piece of glass formed by a meteorite is actually out 341 00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:03,080 of this world. 342 00:18:11,340 --> 00:18:14,220 More than 400,000 343 00:18:14,220 --> 00:18:17,539 of these ancient clay tablets have been found in the Middle East. 344 00:18:17,539 --> 00:18:19,799 They come from one of the oldest 345 00:18:19,799 --> 00:18:22,620 known civilizations. 346 00:18:22,620 --> 00:18:24,840 One of the tablets in particular contains 347 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,670 amazing things 348 00:18:26,670 --> 00:18:29,769 [music] 349 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:34,500 the 4000 year old tablet is 350 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:38,520 just 12 x 6 cm tall it contains a 351 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,780 text in cuneiform 352 00:18:42,860 --> 00:18:45,539 it is the oldest writing on earth 353 00:18:45,539 --> 00:18:50,120 next to the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians 354 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,140 the writing is very small very 355 00:18:55,140 --> 00:18:57,380 compressed in 356 00:18:57,380 --> 00:19:00,960 2009 the text will be translated its content 357 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,039 is a sensation 358 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:07,200 s the tablet contains instructions for 359 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,200 building one Boat of a large one about half the 360 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,440 length of a football field. The 361 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,720 meaning and purpose of the boat are also in the 362 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,900 text. It is a command from God to 363 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:21,539 a man and exactly instructions on 364 00:19:21,539 --> 00:19:23,880 how he should save his family and his four. 365 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,240 366 00:19:27,799 --> 00:19:29,460 Sounds like a well-known 367 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:31,700 Bible story 368 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:34,860 but the tower tablet is a thousand years 369 00:19:34,860 --> 00:19:37,980 older than the Old Testament how can 370 00:19:37,980 --> 00:19:40,280 that be 371 00:19:41,940 --> 00:19:44,100 the parallels between the Sumerian 372 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:46,140 text in cuneiform and the story 373 00:19:46,140 --> 00:19:50,419 of Noah's Ark are striking 374 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,120 it is an instruction from the god Enki to 375 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,360 a man named attraases 376 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:59,520 who should sell his possessions build a boat 377 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,380 and take it with him loaded with animals 378 00:20:01,380 --> 00:20:04,440 [music] 379 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,840 the instructions for building the boat are 380 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,100 amazingly detailed 381 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:12,900 the clay tablet contains instructions for building 382 00:20:12,900 --> 00:20:15,539 a boat made of wicker a 383 00:20:15,539 --> 00:20:19,559 so-called coracle 384 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:21,120 tied together with ropes and sealed with bitumen 385 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:23,660 386 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,900 today Iraq is known for its 387 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:31,260 petroleum is a byproduct of oil it 388 00:20:31,260 --> 00:20:32,940 is made Also used to produce modern 389 00:20:32,940 --> 00:20:35,700 asphalt in Misopotamia, 390 00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:37,799 they used it to seal and waterproof their boat hulls. 391 00:20:37,799 --> 00:20:40,080 With such 392 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,880 boats, Mesopotamia even 393 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,460 crossed several times. 394 00:20:44,460 --> 00:20:46,860 The construction principle of this messenger has 395 00:20:46,860 --> 00:20:48,740 not changed for thousands of years. 396 00:20:48,740 --> 00:20:52,640 They are still used today 397 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:53,940 [music] 398 00:20:53,940 --> 00:20:56,400 but on the clay tablet it's not about 399 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,960 a usual schilfotos 400 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,760 the board describes is almost as big 401 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,100 as a football field 402 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:07,620 in one line it says build the floor 403 00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:11,520 as big as a field a field is an 404 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,700 old unit of measurement that corresponds to around 3600 405 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:17,460 square meters, so 406 00:21:17,460 --> 00:21:19,500 the ship would have a diameter of 67 407 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:23,039 meters In a football stadium it would 408 00:21:23,039 --> 00:21:24,960 409 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,500 cover more than half of the field. 410 00:21:28,140 --> 00:21:30,900 Not only is the size reminiscent of 411 00:21:30,900 --> 00:21:34,080 the story of Noah's Ark. 412 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,299 On the board it says that the animals 413 00:21:36,299 --> 00:21:38,400 414 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,380 should be brought onto the boat in pairs. This is 415 00:21:42,980 --> 00:21:45,659 the story of a man 416 00:21:45,659 --> 00:21:47,700 with his family a God 417 00:21:47,700 --> 00:21:49,559 is saved from a flood is a 418 00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:51,720 parallel that sounds exactly like the 419 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,340 story of the flood in 420 00:21:53,340 --> 00:21:55,640 Genesis 421 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:58,919 it is unlikely that there were two 422 00:21:58,919 --> 00:22:01,679 great floods 423 00:22:01,679 --> 00:22:03,600 the story of Noah for the 424 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,940 Bible may have been adopted from a much older 425 00:22:05,940 --> 00:22:08,530 culture 426 00:22:08,530 --> 00:22:13,990 [music]. 427 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:17,700 Written in Arcadian the language is 428 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,520 not so botanius Today in this 429 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,340 area lie Iraq, southern Turkey, 430 00:22:23,340 --> 00:22:27,559 western Iran and eastern Syria 431 00:22:30,260 --> 00:22:33,419 ran along the Euphrates and is considered by 432 00:22:33,419 --> 00:22:36,740 many to be the paths of 433 00:22:39,919 --> 00:22:42,320 civilizations, including canals and 434 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,520 irrigation systems, the first concepts 435 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,140 of law and government 436 00:22:49,919 --> 00:22:52,440 The most important achievements 437 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,340 were the development of writing. 438 00:22:55,340 --> 00:22:58,020 With the invention of writing, the 439 00:22:58,020 --> 00:23:00,360 rise of cities began. Many goods 440 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:03,000 and food were needed to 441 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,400 feed the inhabitants and so that the 442 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,480 cities could develop. 443 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,320 The 444 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,760 movement of goods could be documented with cuneiform 445 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,900 if I could give you one 446 00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:18,059 There is a certain amount of grain for storage, it is good to be 447 00:23:18,059 --> 00:23:20,900 able to prove that 448 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:24,179 this means 449 00:23:24,179 --> 00:23:26,220 the writing was invented by accountants 450 00:23:26,220 --> 00:23:27,260 451 00:23:27,260 --> 00:23:29,880 in the third millennium BC 452 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,620 the writing became more complex and 453 00:23:31,620 --> 00:23:34,559 abstract like the one on the Ark tablet, 454 00:23:34,559 --> 00:23:36,539 stories could now 455 00:23:36,539 --> 00:23:39,179 be written down with it, for example about 456 00:23:39,179 --> 00:23:41,280 a huge Ship with animals in 457 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,220 pairs almost 1000 years before the 458 00:23:44,220 --> 00:23:46,919 first Hebrew texts about Noah's Ark, 459 00:23:46,919 --> 00:23:48,179 460 00:23:48,179 --> 00:23:50,700 this ancient Babylonian story was 461 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:53,460 the origin of the story 462 00:23:53,460 --> 00:23:56,720 from Genesis. 463 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,720 Attacked Jerusalem twice, enslaved 464 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,460 its inhabitants and took them 465 00:24:11,460 --> 00:24:13,940 to Babylon. 466 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,860 The book of Daniel describes the life of the 467 00:24:16,860 --> 00:24:19,340 Judea in Babylon 468 00:24:19,340 --> 00:24:21,840 they heard the Babylonian stories 469 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,100 which in turn went back to the old 470 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:24,840 Misopotamian stories 471 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,179 like the ones about the flood 472 00:24:27,179 --> 00:24:30,620 they adopted these stories into their own legends 473 00:24:30,620 --> 00:24:33,000 is the story of Noah just a 474 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,840 legend or did that really happen 475 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,159 [music] 476 00:24:40,159 --> 00:24:42,480 interestingly there are several texts 477 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,980 In cuneiform writing that describes a flood 478 00:24:45,980 --> 00:24:49,200 there is nothing on the archetic tablet about the flood 479 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,200 itself, 480 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,820 but there are three other tablets that talk 481 00:24:53,820 --> 00:24:57,600 about such floods. The Erido 482 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,240 Genesis is an almost 4000 year old 483 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,000 Sumerian story, it is about 484 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,980 a king and about a god of 485 00:25:04,980 --> 00:25:06,720 destruction A 486 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,480 flood is predicted for humanity, it 487 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,059 storms and rains for seven days and nights 488 00:25:12,059 --> 00:25:15,080 without a break. 489 00:25:17,820 --> 00:25:20,400 According to theories, all of these 490 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:21,960 stories could go back to an actual 491 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,419 flood in the Black Sea. In 492 00:25:33,740 --> 00:25:36,659 1997, some marine geologists 493 00:25:36,659 --> 00:25:39,000 hypothesized that there was 494 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,039 a flash flood there over 7,000 years ago 495 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:43,980 According to the theory, the cause of 496 00:25:43,980 --> 00:25:48,140 the flood could have been tied to the end of the last ice age. 497 00:25:48,140 --> 00:25:50,580 The sea level at that time was 498 00:25:50,580 --> 00:25:52,159 extremely 499 00:25:52,159 --> 00:25:56,059 low, 500 00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,400 so much so that the Mediterranean finally 501 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,140 502 00:26:01,140 --> 00:26:04,190 flooded the land bridge to the Black Sea and the Bosporus was created 503 00:26:04,190 --> 00:26:07,740 [music] 504 00:26:07,740 --> 00:26:10,559 a huge tidal wave poured into the 505 00:26:10,559 --> 00:26:13,159 Black Sea According to 506 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,840 calculations, the floods had 507 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,940 200 times the amount of water per minute of 508 00:26:17,940 --> 00:26:20,580 Niagara Falls, a lot of water would have 509 00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:23,600 flowed into the Black Sea in a very short time, 510 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,760 up to 100,000 square kilometers of land 511 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,500 could have been flooded, 512 00:26:31,020 --> 00:26:33,240 but the theory is still 513 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,600 controversially discussed among scientists today - 514 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,460 there is another possible one 515 00:26:38,460 --> 00:26:40,200 Explanation of the history of the great 516 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,799 flood and it matches the location where the Ark 517 00:26:43,799 --> 00:26:46,039 tablet was found. 518 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,480 There are many flood areas. The 519 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,100 sows are flooded when the rivers 520 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:55,200 overflow their banks. In 521 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,179 extreme weather conditions there is a lot of rain or 522 00:26:57,179 --> 00:26:59,520 heavy melting of snow. So large 523 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,539 areas can be flooded 524 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,700 525 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:11,960 from like a sea 526 00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:16,380 Scientists come across 527 00:27:16,380 --> 00:27:18,480 sediments from a flood 528 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,900 5000 years ago at a depth of over 3 meters shortly before the Ark 529 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:24,860 tablet was written on the 530 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,840 flood plain the city was in 531 00:27:30,140 --> 00:27:32,159 532 00:27:32,159 --> 00:27:36,140 front of Europarkan stories about these Noah-like figures so 533 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:40,380 there could actually have been a flood 534 00:27:40,380 --> 00:27:42,720 535 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,299 but we probably never will Find out whether 536 00:27:45,299 --> 00:27:47,279 the huge ship whose construction the 537 00:27:47,279 --> 00:27:50,039 clay tablet describes ever really existed 538 00:27:50,039 --> 00:27:52,320 539 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,710 or perhaps 540 00:27:54,710 --> 00:27:56,460 [Music] 541 00:27:56,460 --> 00:27:58,320 the answer could be on another 542 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,179 ancient clay tablet. There are 543 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,520 more than 130,000 of these clay tablets in the British Museum alone. 544 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,120 We have 545 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:13,380 only deciphered a fraction of them 546 00:28:13,380 --> 00:28:14,530 547 00:28:14,530 --> 00:28:16,039 [Music ] 548 00:28:16,039 --> 00:28:20,059 most of them haven't been translated yet 549 00:28:20,059 --> 00:28:23,760 there are so many texts there will never 550 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,000 be enough experts to translate all the ancient 551 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,659 cuneiform artifacts 552 00:28:30,620 --> 00:28:33,360 but there may be a solution to 553 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:38,480 this problem artificial intelligence 554 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,400 you scan images of the cuneiform 555 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,620 and the computer deciphers their 556 00:28:43,620 --> 00:28:45,779 meaning it can 557 00:28:45,779 --> 00:28:48,120 Recognize and translate symbols directly and supplement damaged 558 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,740 or missing symbols from the 559 00:28:49,740 --> 00:28:52,320 context. Many tablets are 560 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,360 not completely preserved. 561 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:55,980 Artificial intelligence can 562 00:28:55,980 --> 00:28:58,679 reconstruct missing parts. This means we can translate a 563 00:28:58,679 --> 00:29:00,840 lot of cuneiform texts in a short time. 564 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,720 565 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,159 Who knows what else we might be able 566 00:29:05,159 --> 00:29:07,400 to find out about in the future 567 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,539 The whole story 568 00:29:09,539 --> 00:29:11,640 of the ark is written on one of the thousands of clay 569 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,880 tablets in our museums and archives 570 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:19,279 that have not yet been translated. 571 00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:25,679 The value of this inconspicuous stone in 572 00:29:25,679 --> 00:29:28,260 a European museum was 573 00:29:28,260 --> 00:29:31,200 estimated at half a million dollars. They 574 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,570 said it came from the moon but is that true 575 00:29:35,570 --> 00:29:39,690 [music] 576 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,200 It weighs just over 80 grams and measures 577 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,799 about 5 x 2.5 cm, 578 00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:53,779 quite large for a piece of moon rock. 579 00:29:54,740 --> 00:29:56,880 It is huge and looks somehow 580 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,960 strange. It is indeed strange. 581 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:02,580 Close inspection shows that this is 582 00:30:02,580 --> 00:30:05,159 not true. The mysterious object is 583 00:30:05,159 --> 00:30:08,960 puzzling scientists So what 584 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,419 gets weirder under the microscope are 585 00:30:12,419 --> 00:30:14,340 structures that are reminiscent of cells 586 00:30:14,340 --> 00:30:16,679 and that no other 587 00:30:16,679 --> 00:30:19,980 moon rock has. The red color of 588 00:30:19,980 --> 00:30:24,000 the stone is also unique and 589 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,039 it is not exhibited in a natural history museum 590 00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:28,799 but in an art museum 591 00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:30,190 in the Netherlands 592 00:30:30,190 --> 00:30:35,700 [Music] 593 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:37,500 as a scientist in Finally, 594 00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:39,779 examine it more closely and 595 00:30:39,779 --> 00:30:42,539 question its authenticity. 596 00:30:42,539 --> 00:30:45,000 When you are presented with an alleged moonstone, 597 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,100 it is always very 598 00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:48,779 likely that there is something wrong with it. 599 00:30:48,779 --> 00:30:51,260 600 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,419 New research questions how 601 00:30:54,419 --> 00:30:56,399 we should even define moonstone, 602 00:30:56,399 --> 00:31:00,120 but how did this stone 603 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,279 604 00:31:02,279 --> 00:31:04,679 come from the Earth's satellite to a Dutch museum 605 00:31:04,679 --> 00:31:07,080 At least we know how moon rocks 606 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,299 normally got to us on Earth 607 00:31:09,299 --> 00:31:09,970 608 00:31:09,970 --> 00:31:12,919 [music] 609 00:31:12,919 --> 00:31:17,220 with the Apollo missions, 610 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,059 however, the astronauts didn't come to 611 00:31:21,059 --> 00:31:23,220 612 00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:25,440 the moon primarily to collect rocks, the Americans 613 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,299 really wanted to be on the moon before the Soviets, 614 00:31:27,299 --> 00:31:30,179 that was the space the race into 615 00:31:30,179 --> 00:31:32,159 space they wanted to be the first to land there 616 00:31:32,159 --> 00:31:34,440 and plant their flag. It's 617 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,480 not really like that, but it felt like 618 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:48,960 the USA won the race on July 20, 1969. 619 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,380 620 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,860 NASA wants to convey to the Americans 621 00:31:55,860 --> 00:31:58,200 that their $25 billion in 622 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,720 tax money will get more out of it than just 623 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,360 a victory against the Soviets that the 624 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,340 matter also has a scientific value 625 00:32:05,340 --> 00:32:06,620 626 00:32:06,620 --> 00:32:10,200 only 21 hours on the moon at that 627 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,520 time they planted the 628 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,039 American flag for example but just as 629 00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:16,200 important they also collected some 630 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,919 rock samples 631 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,679 [music] 632 00:32:21,679 --> 00:32:24,360 from which samples answers 633 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,500 important questions about the moon 634 00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:30,000 The biggest ones were 635 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,760 and how did they come about, which 636 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,580 leaves us with another question: 637 00:32:34,580 --> 00:32:37,260 if moon rocks are of such great 638 00:32:37,260 --> 00:32:39,480 scientific value, what is 639 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,799 this stone doing in a 640 00:32:40,799 --> 00:32:43,040 Dutch museum 641 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,500 [music] 642 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:48,059 After their return, the Apollo 643 00:32:48,059 --> 00:32:49,980 astronauts are world stars with a 644 00:32:49,980 --> 00:32:52,140 large-scale PR campaign 645 00:32:52,140 --> 00:32:54,539 US President Richard Nixon wants to show everyone 646 00:32:54,539 --> 00:32:56,580 his country's technical superiority 647 00:32:56,580 --> 00:32:57,410 648 00:32:57,410 --> 00:33:01,100 [Music] came up 649 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,779 with the idea of ​​organizing a world tour 650 00:33:03,779 --> 00:33:05,340 and sent the 651 00:33:05,340 --> 00:33:08,960 astronauts to 24 countries. 652 00:33:09,899 --> 00:33:13,019 It was like the Beatles, everyone knew 653 00:33:13,019 --> 00:33:15,600 them and everyone wanted to see 654 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,059 them. They met dignitaries, kings and 655 00:33:18,059 --> 00:33:20,399 queens Presidents and 656 00:33:20,399 --> 00:33:22,860 Prime Ministers everyone wanted 657 00:33:22,860 --> 00:33:25,559 to be part of the Apollo program some were 658 00:33:25,559 --> 00:33:27,240 lucky enough and actually got a 659 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,600 share 660 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,340 it's a huge pr-kur for the 661 00:33:32,340 --> 00:33:35,000 United States they give every 662 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,460 US state and 135 countries in the 663 00:33:38,460 --> 00:33:41,059 world a small piece of moon rock each 664 00:33:41,059 --> 00:33:44,159 and now here comes this Reichsmuseum in 665 00:33:44,159 --> 00:33:47,299 Amsterdam came into play in 666 00:33:49,220 --> 00:33:52,760 1991 and received a donation from the 667 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,539 private collection of the former 668 00:33:54,539 --> 00:33:56,279 Dutch Prime Minister 669 00:33:56,279 --> 00:33:59,700 Willen Drews, including the alleged 670 00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:01,090 stone from the moon 671 00:34:01,090 --> 00:34:04,039 [music] 672 00:34:04,039 --> 00:34:06,059 grace-ambassador received as a 673 00:34:06,059 --> 00:34:08,219 reminder of the visit of the Apollo 11 674 00:34:08,219 --> 00:34:11,719 astronauts to the Netherlands, 675 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:15,839 so the stone ended up in the 676 00:34:15,839 --> 00:34:19,320 Art museum but why did it become a stumbling block 677 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,300 for science 678 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:25,939 [Music] 679 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,119 It lies in the museum's storage for 15 years 680 00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:32,280 until it becomes the centerpiece of an 681 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,159 exhibition about space. 682 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:39,780 The museum insures it for 500,000. It 683 00:34:39,780 --> 00:34:42,020 attracts the attention of a 684 00:34:42,020 --> 00:34:43,918 scientist who visits the exhibition 685 00:34:43,918 --> 00:34:49,259 Beginning of the controversy 686 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:51,918 [music] 687 00:34:51,918 --> 00:34:54,619 it all just can't be right 688 00:34:54,619 --> 00:34:59,599 the first problem its size 689 00:34:59,839 --> 00:35:03,119 80 grams heavy far too big for a 690 00:35:03,119 --> 00:35:05,000 piece of mouth stone 691 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,090 [music] 692 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:11,040 only a small amount of samples returned 693 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,140 to earth on Apollo 11 it was 694 00:35:13,140 --> 00:35:15,839 just 22 kilos The Americans 695 00:35:15,839 --> 00:35:17,460 gave away moon rocks to other countries. They 696 00:35:17,460 --> 00:35:19,500 were only a few grams each, a 697 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:21,720 crumb the size of a grain of rice, but the 698 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:25,220 thing is a real chunk. It's 699 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,140 not just the size that irritates the 700 00:35:31,140 --> 00:35:32,700 scientists. Thanks to the 701 00:35:32,700 --> 00:35:35,400 Apollo missions, they know the moon is 702 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:36,130 gray 703 00:35:36,130 --> 00:35:39,500 [music] 704 00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:44,660 the stone In the Reichsmuseum roth is 705 00:35:52,940 --> 00:35:57,320 rare, there is green food there 706 00:36:00,839 --> 00:36:04,280 is a reason for this, 707 00:36:07,339 --> 00:36:09,780 most rock on earth contains 708 00:36:09,780 --> 00:36:12,119 a lot of iron when it comes into contact with air or 709 00:36:12,119 --> 00:36:15,060 water it rusts, that does 710 00:36:15,060 --> 00:36:17,400 n't happen on the moon, there is 711 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,820 virtually no atmosphere there, just a little water 712 00:36:19,820 --> 00:36:24,140 The iron doesn't react 713 00:36:28,260 --> 00:36:31,380 when scientists look at the stone under 714 00:36:31,380 --> 00:36:33,599 the microscope in 2009, it becomes even 715 00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:35,780 stranger - 716 00:36:35,780 --> 00:36:37,520 small holes filled with 717 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,940 quartz crystals - that can't be the case. 718 00:36:40,940 --> 00:36:44,280 This mineral is common on Earth, 719 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,400 720 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,560 but for the formation of 721 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,700 quartz crystals it needs heat and 722 00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:53,700 water, both of which are there the moon 723 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:56,220 and the scientists came across an 724 00:36:56,220 --> 00:36:59,099 even bigger surprise - traces of 725 00:36:59,099 --> 00:37:01,579 life - 726 00:37:02,660 --> 00:37:05,700 clearly organic cell-like 727 00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:08,110 structures 728 00:37:08,110 --> 00:37:11,280 [music] - 729 00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:15,540 the alleged moonstone is not a 730 00:37:15,540 --> 00:37:18,540 normal stone but petrified 731 00:37:18,540 --> 00:37:20,720 wood, a 732 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,020 fist-sized red stone that 733 00:37:25,020 --> 00:37:26,880 734 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,460 was insured for half a million dollars In reality it is a very old 735 00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:31,640 piece 736 00:37:32,820 --> 00:37:35,040 then it cannot come from the moon. 737 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:36,960 738 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,540 Effort is on the moon it is desolate and 739 00:37:39,540 --> 00:37:41,700 empty there is no liquid water and 740 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,460 almost no atmosphere so 741 00:37:44,460 --> 00:37:45,960 the two basic requirements 742 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,200 for plants to 743 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,300 only grow in one way are missing With an artificial greenhouse, 744 00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:54,250 plants could survive on the moon 745 00:37:54,250 --> 00:37:55,520 [Music] 746 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,980 In 2019, the Chinese 747 00:37:57,980 --> 00:38:00,800 change mission landed a miniature biosphere on the moon. 748 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,260 749 00:38:04,260 --> 00:38:06,420 They wanted to germinate a few different seeds in it. 750 00:38:06,420 --> 00:38:08,520 There were also 751 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:09,780 fruit flies in there that were supposed to buzz around up there 752 00:38:09,780 --> 00:38:11,400 and yeast that they were 753 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,760 supposed to eat, 754 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,839 the flies and the yeast didn't 755 00:38:15,839 --> 00:38:18,000 survive but one of the seeds 756 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,760 actually germinated now there was 757 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,920 a cotton seedling with two tiny 758 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,940 leaves of the Drees moonstone is 759 00:38:25,940 --> 00:38:28,980 petrified wood the Chinese 760 00:38:28,980 --> 00:38:30,960 experiment shows that there could have once been trees on the moon 761 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,800 762 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,540 the experiment failed quickly the 763 00:38:36,540 --> 00:38:37,980 cotton seedling went because of the 764 00:38:37,980 --> 00:38:39,960 Ice-cold moonlit nights at 765 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,000 temperatures of around minus 170 degrees, 766 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,320 frost damage can occur. 767 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,599 Growing on the moon is 768 00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:50,640 completely impossible. No, maybe 769 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,260 there was microbial life for a short period of time a very long time ago, 770 00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:54,960 but a 771 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,800 forest never, 772 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:02,160 so this stone doesn't come from that Moon 773 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,859 is it simply a fake 774 00:39:04,859 --> 00:39:08,359 it wouldn't be the first time 775 00:39:09,570 --> 00:39:12,500 [music] 776 00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:15,540 the theft of moon rocks has been 777 00:39:15,540 --> 00:39:18,020 a problem from the start 778 00:39:18,020 --> 00:39:21,420 it is incredibly valuable there are 779 00:39:21,420 --> 00:39:23,599 numerous diamonds in the world 780 00:39:23,599 --> 00:39:25,980 but only a few hundred pieces of the 781 00:39:25,980 --> 00:39:29,160 moon each of them is unique and 782 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,240 incredibly valuable 783 00:39:36,740 --> 00:39:40,020 in the last 60 years some 784 00:39:40,020 --> 00:39:42,000 of the gifted stones have been stolen and 785 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,339 sold 786 00:39:43,339 --> 00:39:46,520 the prices are rising and rising in 787 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,619 1998 the US customs confiscated the 788 00:39:49,619 --> 00:39:52,500 moonstone from Honduras it had been stolen 789 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:54,599 it is the size of a 790 00:39:54,599 --> 00:39:56,339 fingernail and was supposed to 791 00:39:56,339 --> 00:39:59,420 cost 5 million dollars 792 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,420 [music ] 793 00:40:05,420 --> 00:40:08,099 Bringing it could theoretically be worth it 794 00:40:08,099 --> 00:40:11,400 because the real one is so valuable. 795 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,380 However, there is no evidence that 796 00:40:13,380 --> 00:40:15,119 anyone should be cheated with this stone. 797 00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:16,160 798 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,780 The plaque that belongs to the Drehs stone 799 00:40:18,780 --> 00:40:20,880 looks completely different than that of the 800 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,099 other moonstones that are given away and 801 00:40:23,099 --> 00:40:25,320 the word center is in the 802 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,160 Written in British spelling, 803 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:37,980 the error is so obvious that 804 00:40:37,980 --> 00:40:41,700 a forgery is unlikely. 805 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:43,320 Maybe it was just a 806 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,180 misunderstanding. 807 00:40:45,180 --> 00:40:48,650 There is no motive either. 808 00:40:48,650 --> 00:40:50,300 [Music] 809 00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:53,099 had the best intentions when he 810 00:40:53,099 --> 00:40:56,599 donated his collection to the museum to 811 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:02,000 sell it for 5 million dollars. 812 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,839 That was certainly only a 813 00:41:03,839 --> 00:41:05,760 misunderstanding or he was 814 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,339 mistaken in his memory there is 815 00:41:08,339 --> 00:41:10,260 in any case no evidence of an attempt to 816 00:41:10,260 --> 00:41:14,180 deceive or enrich 817 00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:17,599 one thing is certain 818 00:41:17,599 --> 00:41:21,839 and rock is earth rock 819 00:41:21,839 --> 00:41:26,660 and there is no earth rock on the moon 820 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:31,079 at least thought that all new 821 00:41:31,079 --> 00:41:34,400 research could disprove this 822 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,560 1971 brought Apollo 14 A particularly 823 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,040 large piece of moon rock with the chunk 824 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,740 was named Big Burger. 825 00:41:43,740 --> 00:41:45,180 Big Burger came with the 826 00:41:45,180 --> 00:41:47,940 Apollo program but was examined again in 2019. 827 00:41:47,940 --> 00:41:49,220 828 00:41:49,220 --> 00:41:52,020 Inside, the scientists come 829 00:41:52,020 --> 00:41:53,940 across a two centimeter large 830 00:41:53,940 --> 00:41:56,520 rock fragment that is four billion 831 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,820 years old, but its age is not 832 00:41:59,820 --> 00:42:02,300 the decisive factor 833 00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:04,980 and quartz on Earth there are 834 00:42:04,980 --> 00:42:06,599 lots of them 835 00:42:06,599 --> 00:42:09,300 but on the moon they hardly exist at all. 836 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:11,599 837 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:16,040 The only explanation sounds unbelievable. 838 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,400 A piece has arrived. 839 00:42:36,619 --> 00:42:39,420 A violent meteorite impact on 840 00:42:39,420 --> 00:42:41,520 Earth could have thrown chunks of rock into space with enormous 841 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,900 force 842 00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:47,579 Some of it apparently landed on the moon 843 00:42:47,579 --> 00:42:49,380 and was then 844 00:42:49,380 --> 00:42:51,820 accidentally picked up by the Apollo astronauts 845 00:42:51,820 --> 00:42:54,020 [music] 846 00:42:54,020 --> 00:42:56,160 if we 847 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,020 stumble across earth rocks on our third lunar mission, there will 848 00:42:58,020 --> 00:42:59,880 certainly be a lot more 849 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,060 of them there. 850 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,700 Dree's moonstone was never on the moon, 851 00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:08,780 it comes from the earth is certain 852 00:43:08,780 --> 00:43:11,819 but thanks to big Burger we now know that 853 00:43:11,819 --> 00:43:14,400 the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive. 854 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,760 855 00:43:17,420 --> 00:43:19,500 There are no petrified trees on the 856 00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:22,319 moon but there are earth rocks that are there 857 00:43:22,319 --> 00:43:22,910 858 00:43:22,910 --> 00:43:31,360 [music] 54645

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