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is this glass scarab from
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Tutankhamun's burial chamber not from this
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world
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what exactly is it from and where does it come from
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a real mystery
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is this 4000 year old clay tablet the
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building instructions for Noah's Ark sells
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a property build a ship load it
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with animals
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and how can it It may be that this red
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piece of moon rock contains traces of life.
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On closer inspection it becomes even stranger.
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Fascinating mysterious objects
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long hidden in museums, laboratories and
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archives.
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Now we can use the latest
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technology to reveal their secrets.
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We can recreate them
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and bizarre reveal
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these are the strangest things in the world
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in the great museum in Giza one of the
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most important treasures of ancient
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Egypt is exhibited
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the pectoral of Tutankhamun
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the piece of jewelry lay on the chest of the
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young king's mummy it was supposed to be on his
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body protect the journey into the underworld
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with the latest technology we are
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now revealing his ancient riddle
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the almost 15 cm long 3000 year old
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piece of jewelry was made of silver and gold
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and is artfully crafted
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you can see it in the many hieroglyphs
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at its center a striking and
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enigmatic stone
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represents the sun god
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the body of the scarab is made of
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a single piece of glass
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it is yellowish green and extraordinarily
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clear a piece of perfect glass
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it is super perfect there is
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no other
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artifact so ancient in the world that is so flawless
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is
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the latest research now answers
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long-standing questions about the pectoral
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Tutankhamun
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where does the glass of the gabio come from how did
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it come about what makes it so
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unique
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hidden in this sand and rock are the remains of a millennia-old advanced culture
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100 years ago, the English
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archaeologist Howard Carter came across a
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sensational
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map and found the tomb of the Pharaoh
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Tutankhamun, a king of the 18th
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dynasty who was only about 20 years old.
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He died over 3,000 years ago. His tomb
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contains an incomparable treasure. There
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were around 5,000 items in the tomb
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a fantastic moment for
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historical science
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statues gold jewels chariots
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animal figures and the famous sarcophagus
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with the death mask of the pharaoh
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it is one of the most significant
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discoveries in the history of
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archeology between the artifacts
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tomcat finds a highly unusual
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object
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in its midst the scarab from a
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Glass that is unlike any other from this time
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had a great symbolic meaning
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for the ancient Egyptians, among
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other things, it stood for transformation and it was associated with
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the movement of the sun across the sky,
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which repeats itself daily, which is why it
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also represented renewal and rebirth
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Of all things, glass
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was chosen as the material for an object with
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such symbolic power
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a huge area even outside of
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Egypt they had access to valuable
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gemstones gold and other
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mineral resources so why
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is a piece of glass the
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center of the pectoral and not gold
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silver lapis lazuli a turquoise or
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the like
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is not particularly difficult or
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complex
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Klaus is
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pretty simple, you just need sand
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and heat, you melt the sand and can
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then mix it with other materials,
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for example metal oxides like the glass,
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but in ancient Egypt, glass is rare
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and the Egyptians are fascinated by the material, including
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the blue stripes
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Tutankhamun's dead mask is made
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of glass,
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almost magical. The Egyptian
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character for glass means
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flowing stone.
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They knew
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the process but hadn't
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perfected it yet. Glass was still something
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mysterious.
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Glass was never flawless.
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The ancient Egyptians don't look like
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today's ones clear and
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transparent it is rather cloudy and full of
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inclusions and air bubbles because their
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ovens were not hot enough to completely melt the sand
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not it is perfect which means it
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could not have been made by the ancient Egyptians or
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any other civilization of the
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time its
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real mystery -
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there is not only artificial glass
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but also natural glass, for example
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obsidian
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Obsidian is created by one of the
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most powerful natural forces on earth
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Obsidian is formed when
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lithium-rich magma
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cools quickly after a volcanic eruption and
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therefore does not form a crystal structure,
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the result is obsidian
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e
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consists of oxygen but also
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contains many foreign substances such as
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iron oxide which also forms smaller crystals.
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This dark coloring of the
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piece of jewelry looks completely different
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it can't be obsidian
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glass can form not only during volcanic eruptions but
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also when lightning strikes When sand hits
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the high temperatures at the
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impact point, the sand melts and
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so-called fulgurettes are created.
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Lightning is the origin of the scarab. It is
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prepared to
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create something larger around the lightning strike, which has
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nothing to do with this piece of jewelry.
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The glass of the scarab was again
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created by lightning nor through a
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volcanic eruption.
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People can't have made it either.
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Where did it come from? Then for years,
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archaeologists have not been able to answer this question. The
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first clues appear during an
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expedition to the largest desert in the world
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on the Sahara
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a group of adventurers searched for in
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the Egyptian Libyan Border to the
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legendary city very Syrian
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one of them was the British
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surveyor Patrick Layton as he
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drove his car through the desert
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he heard a crunching sound to his amazement
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the desert floor is littered with pieces of
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a transparent greenish yellow
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glass
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he takes some with him to England and
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take it to the Natural History Museum there
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no one knows what it is
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only 50 years later a team of
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Italian scientists investigates Clayton's
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discovery -
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the fingerprints have geochemical properties - this
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proves the scarab was made from the
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glass from the Berlin desert
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but that will be one new question on why
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is such flawless glass lying around in the middle of
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the Sahara
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a clue may be found in
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a remote desert valley in New
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Mexico USA called hornada del muerto the
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path of the dead her similar glass forms
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a circle in the sand it has a
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diameter of 30 meters and is
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perfectly round as if it were of human
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origin and it is.
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On July 16, 1945, the Trinity test took
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place. The first successful detonation
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of an atomic bomb.
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The first tangible result of the
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Manhattan Project. They had to
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check whether it worked.
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The bomb was detonated a kind of platform
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in the desert ignited
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a fireball spreads out it is
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three times as hot as the surface of the
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sun a mushroom-shaped cloud rises almost
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12 km into the atmosphere
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explosion had an explosive power of
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20,000 tons of TNT
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the test leads to an unexpected
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by-product
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when scientists later examined the site
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of the explosion they found
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small pieces of glass they called it
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trinity
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in a startling way but they can't
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possibly have the same origin
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so the grass couldn't have been created
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in ancient Egypt there were no atomic bombs
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no force of nature on earth has the same
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power as an atomic explosion
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so where did the energy that
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led to the creation of the scarab glass come from
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is there a reference to it in the tomb of Tutankhamun
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there is another object from the tomb that
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was questions
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Ancient Egypt still dates back to the
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Bronze Age.
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The first evidence of the use
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of iron in ancient Egypt only appeared
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800 years after Tutankhamun's death. The
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ancient Egyptians
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cannot possibly have made this dagger.
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Like the glass of the scarab, the
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iron also clearly puzzles
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my test test Scientists
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actually did chemical analysis of the blade
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they found a fairly high
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proportion of nickel in it
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the blade is made up of eleven percent
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nickel no naturally occurring iron
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has such a high nickel content
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with one exception
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the core of a meteorite
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on earth one most of them are too
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small to make itself noticeable but
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some are much larger
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February 15, 2013
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Russia a meteor the size of a
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six-story building penetrates the
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speed of almost 65,000 km per
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it exploded 25 km above the earth's surface and
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released only 20 times as much energy
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free like the Trinity bomb
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had hit the earth, it could have
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turned sand into glass
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the glass of the scarab comes from a
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meteorite impact in the Sahara. In
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2019, some geologists took a
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closer look at the structure of the desert glass and, among
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other things, found a
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foreign substance called circumm
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in the mineral they notice an
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unusual arrangement of atoms,
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this is only found in zircon, which is
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formed when a certain crystal decays, which is very rare
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reddit
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[music]
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only occurs when the atoms are extremely compressed together at high
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temperature and under high pressure
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On Earth, such
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conditions only arise during a specific
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event. The glass
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was probably formed
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[music]
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29 million years ago in the
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great sand sea
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[music],
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there is still a question: where is the cat?
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A meteorite with so much energy must have
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a crater with 30 kilometers
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diameters,
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which is extremely difficult in a desert.
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Your desert is constantly changing when
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you climb up a thin one and
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come back after two days. The wind has
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long since blown away your footprints,
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so the crater has also disappeared,
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but we haven't
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found
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the old ones yet Egyptians probably didn't benefit from
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the extraterrestrial origin of the
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scarab glass, but they knew it was
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something very special.
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The ancient Egyptians certainly didn't
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know how this glass was created, but
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they recognized that it was very rarely
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flawless and beautiful,
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it is truly worthy of a king,
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this perfect one A
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piece of glass formed by a meteorite is actually out
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of this world.
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More than 400,000
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of these ancient clay tablets have been found in the Middle East.
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They come from one of the oldest
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known civilizations.
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One of the tablets in particular contains
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amazing things
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[music]
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the 4000 year old tablet is
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just 12 x 6 cm tall it contains a
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text in cuneiform
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it is the oldest writing on earth
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next to the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians
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the writing is very small very
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compressed in
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2009 the text will be translated its content
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is a sensation
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s the tablet contains instructions for
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building one Boat of a large one about half the
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length of a football field. The
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meaning and purpose of the boat are also in the
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text. It is a command from God to
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a man and exactly instructions on
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how he should save his family and his four.
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Sounds like a well-known
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Bible story
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but the tower tablet is a thousand years
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older than the Old Testament how can
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that be
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the parallels between the Sumerian
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text in cuneiform and the story
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of Noah's Ark are striking
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it is an instruction from the god Enki to
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a man named attraases
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who should sell his possessions build a boat
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and take it with him loaded with animals
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[music]
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the instructions for building the boat are
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amazingly detailed
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the clay tablet contains instructions for building
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a boat made of wicker a
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so-called coracle
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tied together with ropes and sealed with bitumen
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today Iraq is known for its
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petroleum is a byproduct of oil it
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is made Also used to produce modern
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asphalt in Misopotamia,
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they used it to seal and waterproof their boat hulls.
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With such
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boats, Mesopotamia even
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crossed several times.
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The construction principle of this messenger has
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not changed for thousands of years.
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They are still used today
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[music]
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but on the clay tablet it's not about
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a usual schilfotos
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the board describes is almost as big
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as a football field
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in one line it says build the floor
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as big as a field a field is an
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old unit of measurement that corresponds to around 3600
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square meters, so
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the ship would have a diameter of 67
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meters In a football stadium it would
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cover more than half of the field.
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Not only is the size reminiscent of
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the story of Noah's Ark.
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On the board it says that the animals
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should be brought onto the boat in pairs. This is
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the story of a man
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with his family a God
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is saved from a flood is a
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parallel that sounds exactly like the
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story of the flood in
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Genesis
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it is unlikely that there were two
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great floods
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the story of Noah for the
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Bible may have been adopted from a much older
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culture
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[music].
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Written in Arcadian the language is
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not so botanius Today in this
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area lie Iraq, southern Turkey,
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western Iran and eastern Syria
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ran along the Euphrates and is considered by
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many to be the paths of
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civilizations, including canals and
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irrigation systems, the first concepts
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of law and government
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The most important achievements
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were the development of writing.
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With the invention of writing, the
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rise of cities began. Many goods
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and food were needed to
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feed the inhabitants and so that the
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cities could develop.
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The
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movement of goods could be documented with cuneiform
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if I could give you one
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There is a certain amount of grain for storage, it is good to be
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able to prove that
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this means
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the writing was invented by accountants
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in the third millennium BC
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the writing became more complex and
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abstract like the one on the Ark tablet,
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stories could now
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be written down with it, for example about
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a huge Ship with animals in
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pairs almost 1000 years before the
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first Hebrew texts about Noah's Ark,
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this ancient Babylonian story was
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the origin of the story
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from Genesis.
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Attacked Jerusalem twice, enslaved
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its inhabitants and took them
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to Babylon.
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The book of Daniel describes the life of the
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Judea in Babylon
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they heard the Babylonian stories
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which in turn went back to the old
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Misopotamian stories
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like the ones about the flood
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they adopted these stories into their own legends
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is the story of Noah just a
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legend or did that really happen
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[music]
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interestingly there are several texts
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In cuneiform writing that describes a flood
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there is nothing on the archetic tablet about the flood
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itself,
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but there are three other tablets that talk
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about such floods. The Erido
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Genesis is an almost 4000 year old
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Sumerian story, it is about
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a king and about a god of
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destruction A
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flood is predicted for humanity, it
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storms and rains for seven days and nights
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without a break.
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According to theories, all of these
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stories could go back to an actual
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flood in the Black Sea. In
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1997, some marine geologists
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hypothesized that there was
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a flash flood there over 7,000 years ago
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According to the theory, the cause of
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the flood could have been tied to the end of the last ice age.
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The sea level at that time was
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extremely
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low,
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so much so that the Mediterranean finally
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flooded the land bridge to the Black Sea and the Bosporus was created
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[music]
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a huge tidal wave poured into the
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Black Sea According to
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calculations, the floods had
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200 times the amount of water per minute of
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Niagara Falls, a lot of water would have
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flowed into the Black Sea in a very short time,
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up to 100,000 square kilometers of land
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could have been flooded,
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but the theory is still
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controversially discussed among scientists today -
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there is another possible one
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Explanation of the history of the great
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flood and it matches the location where the Ark
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tablet was found.
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There are many flood areas. The
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sows are flooded when the rivers
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overflow their banks. In
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extreme weather conditions there is a lot of rain or
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heavy melting of snow. So large
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areas can be flooded
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from like a sea
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Scientists come across
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sediments from a flood
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5000 years ago at a depth of over 3 meters shortly before the Ark
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tablet was written on the
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flood plain the city was in
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front of Europarkan stories about these Noah-like figures so
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there could actually have been a flood
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but we probably never will Find out whether
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the huge ship whose construction the
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clay tablet describes ever really existed
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or perhaps
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[Music]
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the answer could be on another
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ancient clay tablet. There are
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more than 130,000 of these clay tablets in the British Museum alone.
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We have
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only deciphered a fraction of them
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[Music ]
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most of them haven't been translated yet
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there are so many texts there will never
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be enough experts to translate all the ancient
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cuneiform artifacts
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but there may be a solution to
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this problem artificial intelligence
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you scan images of the cuneiform
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and the computer deciphers their
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meaning it can
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Recognize and translate symbols directly and supplement damaged
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or missing symbols from the
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context. Many tablets are
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not completely preserved.
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Artificial intelligence can
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reconstruct missing parts. This means we can translate a
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lot of cuneiform texts in a short time.
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Who knows what else we might be able
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to find out about in the future
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The whole story
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of the ark is written on one of the thousands of clay
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tablets in our museums and archives
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that have not yet been translated.
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The value of this inconspicuous stone in
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a European museum was
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estimated at half a million dollars. They
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said it came from the moon but is that true
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[music]
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It weighs just over 80 grams and measures
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about 5 x 2.5 cm,
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quite large for a piece of moon rock.
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It is huge and looks somehow
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strange. It is indeed strange.
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Close inspection shows that this is
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not true. The mysterious object is
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puzzling scientists So what
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gets weirder under the microscope are
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structures that are reminiscent of cells
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and that no other
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moon rock has. The red color of
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the stone is also unique and
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it is not exhibited in a natural history museum
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but in an art museum
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in the Netherlands
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[Music]
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as a scientist in Finally,
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examine it more closely and
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question its authenticity.
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When you are presented with an alleged moonstone,
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it is always very
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likely that there is something wrong with it.
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New research questions how
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we should even define moonstone,
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but how did this stone
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come from the Earth's satellite to a Dutch museum
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At least we know how moon rocks
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normally got to us on Earth
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[music]
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with the Apollo missions,
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however, the astronauts didn't come to
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the moon primarily to collect rocks, the Americans
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really wanted to be on the moon before the Soviets,
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that was the space the race into
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space they wanted to be the first to land there
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and plant their flag. It's
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not really like that, but it felt like
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the USA won the race on July 20, 1969.
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NASA wants to convey to the Americans
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that their $25 billion in
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tax money will get more out of it than just
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a victory against the Soviets that the
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matter also has a scientific value
625
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only 21 hours on the moon at that
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time they planted the
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American flag for example but just as
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important they also collected some
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rock samples
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[music]
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from which samples answers
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important questions about the moon
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The biggest ones were
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and how did they come about, which
636
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leaves us with another question:
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if moon rocks are of such great
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scientific value, what is
639
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this stone doing in a
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Dutch museum
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[music]
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After their return, the Apollo
643
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astronauts are world stars with a
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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
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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
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with the idea of organizing a world tour
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00:33:03,779 --> 00:33:05,340
and sent the
651
00:33:05,340 --> 00:33:08,960
astronauts to 24 countries.
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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
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00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,059
them. They met dignitaries, kings and
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queens Presidents and
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00:33:20,399 --> 00:33:22,860
Prime Ministers everyone wanted
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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
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share
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it's a huge pr-kur for the
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United States they give every
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US state and 135 countries in the
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world a small piece of moon rock each
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and now here comes this Reichsmuseum in
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Amsterdam came into play in
666
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1991 and received a donation from the
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private collection of the former
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Dutch Prime Minister
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Willen Drews, including the alleged
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stone from the moon
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[music]
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00:34:04,039 --> 00:34:06,059
grace-ambassador received as a
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reminder of the visit of the Apollo 11
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astronauts to the Netherlands,
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so the stone ended up in the
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Art museum but why did it become a stumbling block
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for science
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[Music]
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It lies in the museum's storage for 15 years
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until it becomes the centerpiece of an
681
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exhibition about space.
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The museum insures it for 500,000. It
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attracts the attention of a
684
00:34:42,020 --> 00:34:43,918
scientist who visits the exhibition
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Beginning of the controversy
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[music]
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it all just can't be right
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the first problem its size
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80 grams heavy far too big for a
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00:35:03,119 --> 00:35:05,000
piece of mouth stone
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[music]
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only a small amount of samples returned
693
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to earth on Apollo 11 it was
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just 22 kilos The Americans
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gave away moon rocks to other countries. They
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were only a few grams each, a
697
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crumb the size of a grain of rice, but the
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thing is a real chunk. It's
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not just the size that irritates the
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scientists. Thanks to the
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Apollo missions, they know the moon is
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gray
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[music]
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the stone In the Reichsmuseum roth is
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rare, there is green food there
706
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is a reason for this,
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most rock on earth contains
708
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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
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n't happen on the moon, there is
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virtually no atmosphere there, just a little water
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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
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stranger -
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small holes filled with
717
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quartz crystals - that can't be the case.
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This mineral is common on Earth,
719
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,400
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but for the formation of
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00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,700
quartz crystals it needs heat and
722
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water, both of which are there the moon
723
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and the scientists came across an
724
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even bigger surprise - traces of
725
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life -
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clearly organic cell-like
727
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structures
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[music] -
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the alleged moonstone is not a
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normal stone but petrified
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wood, a
732
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fist-sized red stone that
733
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734
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was insured for half a million dollars In reality it is a very old
735
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piece
736
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then it cannot come from the moon.
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738
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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
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almost no atmosphere so
741
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the two basic requirements
742
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for plants to
743
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only grow in one way are missing With an artificial greenhouse,
744
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plants could survive on the moon
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[Music]
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In 2019, the Chinese
747
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change mission landed a miniature biosphere on the moon.
748
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They wanted to germinate a few different seeds in it.
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There were also
751
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fruit flies in there that were supposed to buzz around up there
752
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and yeast that they were
753
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supposed to eat,
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the flies and the yeast didn't
755
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survive but one of the seeds
756
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actually germinated now there was
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a cotton seedling with two tiny
758
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leaves of the Drees moonstone is
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petrified wood the Chinese
760
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experiment shows that there could have once been trees on the moon
761
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762
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,540
the experiment failed quickly the
763
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cotton seedling went because of the
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Ice-cold moonlit nights at
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temperatures of around minus 170 degrees,
766
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frost damage can occur.
767
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Growing on the moon is
768
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completely impossible. No, maybe
769
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there was microbial life for a short period of time a very long time ago,
770
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but a
771
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forest never,
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so this stone doesn't come from that Moon
773
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is it simply a fake
774
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it wouldn't be the first time
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[music]
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the theft of moon rocks has been
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a problem from the start
778
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it is incredibly valuable there are
779
00:39:21,420 --> 00:39:23,599
numerous diamonds in the world
780
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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
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incredibly valuable
783
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in the last 60 years some
784
00:39:40,020 --> 00:39:42,000
of the gifted stones have been stolen and
785
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sold
786
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the prices are rising and rising in
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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
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fingernail and was supposed to
791
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cost 5 million dollars
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[music ]
793
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Bringing it could theoretically be worth it
794
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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
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looks completely different than that of the
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other moonstones that are given away and
801
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the word center is in the
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Written in British spelling,
803
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the error is so obvious that
804
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a forgery is unlikely.
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00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:43,320
Maybe it was just a
806
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,180
misunderstanding.
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There is no motive either.
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[Music]
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had the best intentions when he
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donated his collection to the museum to
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sell it for 5 million dollars.
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00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,839
That was certainly only a
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misunderstanding or he was
814
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mistaken in his memory there is
815
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in any case no evidence of an attempt to
816
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deceive or enrich
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one thing is certain
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and rock is earth rock
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and there is no earth rock on the moon
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at least thought that all new
821
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research could disprove this
822
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1971 brought Apollo 14 A particularly
823
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large piece of moon rock with the chunk
824
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was named Big Burger.
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Big Burger came with the
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Apollo program but was examined again in 2019.
827
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828
00:41:49,220 --> 00:41:52,020
Inside, the scientists come
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across a two centimeter large
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rock fragment that is four billion
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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
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and quartz on Earth there are
834
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lots of them
835
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but on the moon they hardly exist at all.
836
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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
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A violent meteorite impact on
840
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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
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and was then
844
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accidentally picked up by the Apollo astronauts
845
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[music]
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if we
847
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stumble across earth rocks on our third lunar mission, there will
848
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certainly be a lot more
849
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of them there.
850
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Dree's moonstone was never on the moon,
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it comes from the earth is certain
852
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but thanks to big Burger we now know that
853
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the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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855
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There are no petrified trees on the
856
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moon but there are earth rocks that are there
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858
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[music]
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