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So the dating technique presumably assumes the object was only exposed to high heat (during firing) once. However, you said in the beginning of the video that the site was undisturbed after a fire occurred. So could this fire have left effects on the head that make the date more inaccurate?

Im here for this Trojan-Hittite arc you've been on lately, love it.

Excellent! Thank You for sharing your expertise.

I had some sea people I bought them out of the back of my comic book it took six weeks for them to show up. They where cool but they didn't invade anyone.

Fascinating topic! 👍

"Might be better off listened to than watched." HA boy, have I got a surprise for you

I wonder how many egyptians were able to read hieroglyphs in ancient egypt. Maybe 1 % of the egyptian society?

“Alaksandu” seems strongly indicative of a significant Greek influence in the region l.

Very interesting video. Extremely informative. One point of correction though, justinian was not the emperor in the year 435. 8:26 That’s 100 years too early for him. Theodosius the second, I believe, was the emperor in 435 A.D.

It was not, when the Romans left, the Romans did not stay because they knew that they would attack other tribes and they were in the lands as foreigners.

Why looser?

I’m surprised to hear the Philistines/Peleset be counted out as Aegean tribes among the sea peoples. At least in the literature I’ve read, they’re the group that’s most (and really only) securely identified as coming from the broad Mycenaean world. Archaeology, paleogenetics and names with plausible Hellenic origins such as Goliath all at least point in that direction. I mean, the rest of the examples are basically just demonyms

i dont get it. Why are they wearing helmets while their testicles are flapping around?

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Have there been any attempts to dig through the backfill at Hissarlik? Or is it theorized that the archive would be blown into tiny unreadable chunks?

About the time that the left in Egypt introduced New Math

Two words: Yes.

What is the kylix shown in the video, please

Who is the figure being stabbed by Ajax in the thumbnail. Looks like it's a Western Greek alphabet and appears to be something like "Gluqos" (qoth appearing before back vowels in place of kappa). Who is Glukos? Is it a shortened spelling of Glaukos? Any help appreciated!

Egypt is famous for its Past but what's Egypt famous for now?? Nothing.

Or maybe modern Egyptians are not the original kemet civilization

Schliemann used the Iliad’s geographic clues to locate Troy and excavate. We can judge his methods in hindsight, but using a book people thought was strictly myth to locate the city is remarkable.

I would be surprised if the Hittites didn't have some myths and some epics. Storytelling is human. Stories go around. And in my opinion the most "fun" option would be there was a city like Troy who first got into trouble with the Hittites and subsequently, later on, got in conflict with the Greeks as well. There's no reason a single city state (especially if it's been forced to rebuilt multiple times) only got into a big conflict just once.

I read an article about the discovery of mummified children remains in pre-columbian chile by a native group. The burial sight had the indications that the children were linely sacrificed. They were able to date all the mummified children to just 2 dates. Both of which corrosponded with sever protracted droughts. It seems, to whatever extent child sacrifice was ever pracriced by ancient peoples, it seems to have only occurred during times of extreme events, where a quick dearh via sacrificial practices may have been seen as merciful to the children; where the alternative would be a protracted painful death by starvation.

It most likely came from a Spanish ship that dumped it's ballast near a shore line. Spaniards used old stone and rubble for ballast, often taking it from the ruins of old Roman buildings near Spanish port sites. Some archaeologist is just desperate to get his name in a paper or journal and make himself famous... more clicks, likes, money, and fame!

I first read "A Hippie Trojan War?".

The practice of falsely accusing ones enemies of human sacrifice/child sacrifice as a means of justifying war against them is a practice that has carried upto even today as the false accusation of baby killing is being used to justify a genocide right now. We know that the accusation of human sacrifice was a common tactic used by Rone to justify it's wars of conquest, as they used this against the Gauls and not just the Cartheginians.

Reading all the comments I am amazed how much this story of events taking place 3250 years ago have captured the imagination of all generations thereafter! It's amazing how knowledgeable comments you can read underneath this video! To me the most amazing thing about the Iliad or Troy is how contemporary is. We, humans have advanced technologically so far from the time of Ajax but culturally we remain 100% the same. Not evolved whatsoever, no a single bit. Just like Paris and Helen and Achilles we are ruled by love, hate, ego, passion, pride, power, wealth, politics...we are still going to war for all the above! In addition, to understand Homer we simply have to watch the film Troy, how Hollywood has depicted the events as an epic love story, well Homer did exactly the same, he was the Hollywood 2800 years ago!

There was a world wide civilization before the last reset

It wouldn’t surprise me if it was a whole triangle of conflict over the centuries, with two forming an alliance against one but doing so with different people at different times

i have found this interesting channel suggesting Historical Troy was in Eupatoria near the Amazon city of Themyscira on the Black Sea southern coast ruclips.net/video/-zJ9a7o9r80/видео.html. he has also put forward quite detailed arguments of hittite chronology and mediterranean civilization chronology being off 332 years based on astronomical arguments. would you be willing to check his claims? he has other rather claims that are quite remote but his ancient chronology and ancient site claims seem well grounded

One thing of interest that I have read of recently is the Illyrian peoples (modern day Albania) have said that Troy or Illion was peopled by Illyrian, or that the Illyrians along the coast of present day Albania region, was a colony of Illion, meaning there was a physical connection between these peoples. I cant say either way but do find this a very interesting possibility that should be researched further. I know that Illyrian culture is thought of as Iron Age and that of Troy as Bronze Age, so if there was colonization going on then there could be a connection at some point in time.

Having Gunung Padang as a archaeology and historical site should be great, but some spiritualist supremacist wacko thinks that it isn't enough and somehow managed to convince the government to embellish it as some kind of "first human civilization" site. Not only it makes skeptical global scientists grows more cynical toward Indonesian archaeologist, it also hinders real effort on studying the site.

Outstanding

Wonderful information, Mike! It's exciting to know that the myths and legends might have some basis in fact.

Paris was a pusillanimous toad

So you are saying that the Achaeans did not fight with the Trojans... they fought *with* the Trojans against the Hittites?

-be an old world river-valley civilization -thrives for 600 years -refuses to elaborate further -vanishes

You mentioned that there may be evidence in the backfill. I have often wondered if anyone has searched that or not, and if not, would it be worthwhile to do so?

If there was, then the Hittites had it coming. They know why.

Isn't the shape itself a bit weird? It has realistic features and details, yet seems completely out of proportions.

Wonderful summary of the known Hittie souces!

Historians hides it, by calling it "The Invasion of the sea peoples"

The romans had Iron Will, with some major navigating mistakes i can see them drifting towards America and being too stubborn to die before they show up on land

good vid

Could ya point to quote in Odysseys in which suspected reference to Hitties is made in?

Michael Wood did a really good video about this very thing. The video was made in the 90s (I think) so might seem outdated but it's the same information and very well done. It's called In Search of the Trojan War. He uses translations from the clay tablets found at Hatusha and takes a trip following the route the king took when looking for his nephew, all the way to the sea. He raises the same questions about who the Acheawa were, and the king's nephew was Priamaridus (if I am remembering this correctly). It's unfortunate that the site at Wilusa (Illios, Troy) was not excavated, but instead blown up by Schliemann. He was more a treasure and fame hunter than an archaeologist.

I like how it jumps from 4 to 300 at the end with no reason. Also not mentioned if they had any healed battle wounds or skeletal changes due to training. So far the evidence are as solid as for the mentioned cannibals.

There was probably a civil war or a war of succession and Greeks supported one side and Hittites supported Alexandu