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The technical. Technological. Advancement. Is rapid, so. Rapid it's almost impossible, to keep up in the space of a lifetime. Rancic. We've discovered, thousands, of new sites from a range of different periods. Duncan. View the, data allows us to sharpen the focus of our inquiry and pinpoint, exactly where. To perform the dig. In. Archeology. State-of-the-art, technology, sometimes, assumes, the guise of an antiquated, handcart. While. Archaeologists. Root poising, and Roseanne shot set up their equipment on a meadow their. Colleagues, nearby, are preparing, a device that does look more high-tech. The. Geomagnetic, apparatus. Is so heavy it has to be towed by a vehicle both. Devices do the same thing only this one is larger and can survey a wider area. A, group. Of German and Irish archaeologists. Have met up at the old church at screen, a 15th. Century sites, steeped, in mysticism. But, the church ruin, is almost, young compared, to the ancient, monuments that, dot the surrounding, area. Northwest. Of Dublin the hill of screen is located, opposite, islands, cultural treasure, the, hill of tara a millennia. Old place, of assembly. The. Region, is also home to giant, megalithic, tombs, unique. Monuments, built around 3000. BCE, by. People who left nothing behind but their graves. A digital. Reconstruction lends. An impression, of the graves interiors. Many, built in alignment with astronomical. Events. The. Archaeologists, dragged the sensors across the meadow to determine, what lies beneath the surface. This. Device is 2 meters wide and equipped, with five sensors, you. Can cover two to three Hector's a day with the device like this so. It's a fast way of collecting, and evaluating. Archaeological. Data. Equipped. With 16 sensors, their colleagues magnetometer. Is even more effective, in gathering archaeological. Evidence. So. We need to be careful here because if, we swap the cables then the sensors will transmit the wrong positions. That's. Why we do a final check to see that everything's working so, the proof of the status will tell you the. Team is scouting for traces, of ancient life underground. Without, the intervention of, a shovel it's, a non-invasive technique. Called prospection. Are. Now hooking up the geomagnetic, device, to the computer the. Computer. Has the task of recording all the measurement data and showing, us where we have to prospect, even, when we are driving across the terrain, Invictus, hang forward to prospect in half. The, 16 sensor, device is used to take geomagnetic. Measurements. Of the ground. Really. Wondering what we were finding mysterious. The. Landscape, harbors, a history, that began thousands. Of years ago the. Archaeologists. Job description calls for knowledge not, just of history, but technology, too and today. It helps if they don't mind being followed by curious, horses, we, don't know exactly what, year the church was founded and we. Also want to know a little more about the history prior. To the earliest. Documentary. Sources, because. We have some, references, say from the the eighth century in the 10th century referring. To the. Hill, of screen being a place of burial. That's. Called the crosshair show us our exact position. With. The help of GPS data the archaeologists. Can steer their vehicle, across the meadow with the precision, they need to generate a comprehensive. Ground image. The. Sensors, dragging, behind their vehicle measure the Earth's magnetic. Field which, lies underground. Like an invisible veil, the. Presence of walls or graves alters, the pattern of magnetism, in the soil and, that. Is exactly what, the sensors can measure the. Computer, registers these, disturbances, to reveal a long-forgotten, structure. A shadow, of the past. 1,700. Kilometers, further east in Berlin, work, is underway on a different, type of digital archaeology in, game developer, Thomas Bremer's studio for virtual reality. It. Looks like a game but. It isn't. The. Game designers, are working with Berlin archaeologist. Kai kuhlmeier, hip. Technology, meets ancient, history their, cooperation, has yielded some surprising.

Discoveries For. Example, the Hittites, had an unusual. Reading, technique. This. One from left to right this, one from right to left this one from left to right this. Again, from right to left then, back again yeah. Like in wavy lines that's, awesome. Archaeologists. Are anchored, in past centuries and, that applies to their methodology, to. The. Rapid development of computer technology in general but, also a virtual archaeology. Is still something we need to get our heads around. And. When I tell people I'm working with a game designer they, just shut down because. Gaming, technology, sounds so frivolous, but. In fact this. Work is just the opposite. This, looks like a video game but. In fact it's a highly accurate copy, of a real temple, it's. The temple of the weather god from Aleppo one of the most important, deities, in the ancient Middle East the. Oldest parts of the temple date from the 3rd millennium BCE. With. Visualization, software, the operator, can make the Sun rise and set, allowing. For a view of the complex, in changing, daylight the. Viewer gets a sense of space size, and proportion. Providing, this damage though, we are not really standing, in this temple we can judge and see things very differently than, we could on a normal computer monitor. Morning. - am I on counter yeah. Just. The fact that I can stand here and for example squat. Down and, actually get a three-dimensional. View of the object that's, something I can't do on a normal computer monitor, at all. Aleppo. In Syria the. Temple was located in, the heart of the city in the medieval, Citadel from. 2012, rebels, holed up inside used, the Citadel to fire on government, troops the. Result, 5000, years of history turned, to dust in a brutal civil war in. Early 2011 the temple, was still intact. Hi Col Meyers team from Berlin was on site to scan the complex, security. In the country still seemed so stable that the professor, didn't just bring along his students, he, also took his young daughter on the trip. Below. Amelia you'll see another representation, of the weather god mounting, his chariot, here. He's presented his combat ready, what's. This, that's. The symbol for God and that's, a mace. Initially. It was solely research, but. The data required, new significance, through the ravages of the Syrian civil war. We. Had an unimaginably. Large amount of data but, when the Civil War erupted and we couldn't get there anymore we were left wondering what, do we do now. It, sounds almost cynical, now but, we were in an ideal position we. Were the only team, of Near Eastern, archaeologists. To have scanned everything, in 3d. It. Was a turn of good fortune in the midst of terrible misfortunes. It's younggook. The. Temple was badly damaged, in the war but. At least its memory, has been digitally, preserved. The. Scan data is so precise, the, inscriptions. Are even more legible, in virtual, reality than. They were in real life. That's. He be, hobbin on top when I learned to dig I had a piece of paper and a pencil that's mom that was all. Today. We can use a scanner, that is much more accurate than any reproduction, on the sheet of paper, of.

Course That also gives rise to new fields, of inquiry, and. We can see you know the olive harvest at home this is car. The. Generation, of exact copies, is a field that also interests, maritime, archaeologists. All over the world, measuring. And marking shipwrecks. Underwater, is one of their most demanding. And arduous, tasks, and the. Conditions, are not always as, good as they are here in the Baltic Sea of the German island of rügen. Only. Exceptional. Shipwrecks, are salvaged, and restored, like, the 14th, century Bremen. COG one, of the world's largest ship, finds. It. Took 18 years, of expensive, conservation. Work to restore it to its full glory, to. Learn more about this merchant, ship from 1380. Archeologists, created, a digital model of the kaga. The. Construction, of a ship like this is quite special everything. In the vessel is interconnected, if, you move one part by just 2 centimeters, it distorts, the entire shape of the ship so. The computer, gives you an overview. You're. Not dealing with a 23. Meter long ship you. Don't have to search the entire vessel. For the place responsible. For a deformation. Instead. You can clearly see how every step you take impacts, the entire structure, and check whether a given step has changed the overall shape. The. Technology allowed, researchers for, example to. Find out how the COG was sailed without, ever having to lower it into water. There. Is a shipwreck, off rügen that is not worth recovering, but, it is nevertheless of, interest to archeologists. Thus. What's. Special about this find is that it dates from the middle or perhaps even the early 16th, century a period, from which very few ships, have been found and there's. Evidence that the word may have come from handbook d, bizarre codes, are or sandbox, dams oil. Even. Today certain. Details of the ship can be more clearly rendered, if they are copied underwater, by hand. But. The main job is done by a special, camera it. Takes hundreds. Of images that are then used to generate a 3d, computer model, of the shipwreck, while. The wood has been perfectly, preserved in the nutrient-poor, water off the Baltic the, current has eroded the rig down to its floor. Deb. It's Tobias that's the great thing about it is you never see the wreck like this on a dive because visibility. Is poor but. You can create a model like this even, if you have a visibility, of just 30 centimeters, you. Just have to take enough photo so they overlap, then. You're looking at something no one has ever seen in that shape or form. For, example, the frigates ballast, stones that still lie along the ship floor, without. Them the vessel couldn't have carried its cargo of heavy cannons. One. Of the most spectacular exhibits. In the collection, of Berlin's Museum of Islamic art, goes, largely unnoticed, by, visitors, but. The digital world is coming to its rescue. Kai, Col Myers latest, project, is the richly carved wood dome that was originally, housed in the nasstrac, palaces, of the world-famous, Alhambra. In Granada Spain. In. Berlin, the dome is forced, to lead a wallflower, existence, for, conservation, reasons. The. Dome is very poorly illuminated here, in Berlin. Visitors. Can't appreciate it the way they could omit the light conditions in the Alhambra. Our. Aim is to recreate, those lighting conditions, virtually, to, allow visitors both here in the Berlin museum and, visitors, to the Alhambra an experience, of the dome in its original context. In. Invasion, context such as Italy. In, 1891. The, banker our turf on Grenaa was granted, permission by the spanish authorities to, move the dome to germany he. Had acquired a small palace on the alhambra, from a Spanish opera singer and later, bequeathed, it to the Spanish state but, he decided to keep the dome for himself, for. A time it, decorated. His villa in Berlin, before he donated it to the museum. The. Dome was originally, painted and gilded, it's. Crafted, from cedar and poplar wood and consists. Of dozens, of parts a, star. Ornament, of heavenly, beauty. One. Of the world's most important. Prehistoric. Landscapes, is located, in a bend of Islands River Boyne northwest, of Dublin. The. Passage graves of Newgrange Daffy and Nath were designated a, UNESCO World, Heritage Site in, 1993. The. Central Neolithic mound of mouth has a circumference. Of 275. Metres, and is, surrounded by 20 smaller tombs. The, significance, of numerous, engraved, stones remains, a mystery, many, stories, and legends, are associated. With the enormous, mounds, they, are said to be the birthplace of heroes, the. Hidden dwellings of, elves, and kings. The. Mound graves of Newgrange darth and mouth are all, located, within sight of each other. It's. Long been standard, practice in archaeology, to use drones to get an overview of the landscape. The. Drones gather data to build digital terrain models, on the computer, sites.

With Churches, dating, from the Middle Ages often. Have an older, heritage invisible. Underground. Evil. Rulers seeking to exert political military. Or religious, controller, for a territory, would occupy any place that carried, a particular, significance, so. We use these old sites as a starting, point because. It's easy to imagine that with Christianization. These ancient, sites were chosen as, places, to build churches. And. In. Fact when it comes time to evaluate the data from their geomagnetic, survey, the, archaeologists. Discover, round structures. That appear to predate. The small medieval, village. They. May be traces of circular, graves enclosing, burial mounds or they could be round house. In. Their distribution these objects, make no reference to this ditch complex, so, one can assume that they date from another, period. Discovering. Hidden relics, without digging draws, on technology, that originated. In military, applications. Which, Tim Takeo physically, from a certain geophysical, methods are based on measuring, differences, in the Earth's magnetic, field, the. Technology, comes from hunting submarines. Which, could be located under water because they created disturbances. In the Earth's magnetic field. This. Is a method that we now use in, a modified, form in archeology, Watson. Axel. Paz Lucien E is surrounded. By traces, of the past, his, work focuses on the mountain plateau of globert near Frankfurt that, was first settled thousands. Of years ago the. Celts in particular left, their mark on the area today. It is known that the plateau was surrounded, by a magnificent. Wall it, did not serve as a fortification, the. Slope was steep enough rather. It was designed to signal the power and splendor, of the Celtic princes. It. Began here in the so-called Neolithic, Age with the emergence of the first farmers, and cattle breeders, in the region of the Vetta the, first settlement, up here the Mitchells burg culture had no ramparts. Development. Continued. Into the late bronze age and by the early Iron Age around 500. BCE it. Was settled by the first people, we could classify as Celts and, they were also the first to fortify. This plateau, stitched. On an. Inconspicuous. Aerial. Photo taken, in 1988. Opened. The door to one of the most spectacular discoveries. In archaeology, in Germany. Archaeologists. Have been using aerial, photography, for decades, to identify, structures in the ground but, this method only yields, results following long periods, of drought. Ones. Each here. In. The field here you can see a darker, structure relatively, clearly in the grain which. Indicates that the grain is being supplied with more moisture, in this particular, place. So. It can be assumed that there is a ditch there that retains, the moisture better, there's, a holding.

The, Grave of a Celtic Prince was discovered, deep in the field at the foot of the globe urgh the. Corresponding, burial, mound had been plowed away long ago the. Huge hill has since been reconstructed and, a, museum installed, behind the hill. A. Life-sized. Sandstone. Figure was found near the grave. The. Figure was endowed with decorative, chains and rings it, was lying in a ditch together. With fragments, from other statues, the. Celtic Prince is crowned, by a strange, headpiece, a. Golden. Chain was found in the princes grave, the. Stone figure was depicted, wearing exactly, the same chain. It's. Likely, that the stone warrior prince of glaub egg is the exact, likeness of a person who lived more than two-and-a-half thousand. Years ago. The. Body in the tomb was found with the same strange, headpiece, as the one crowning, the stone figure. In. Subsequent, years aerial, archaeology, has made further strides. We. Are leaving the cluster in addition to classical, aerial, archaeology now carried out digitally, we, also have other computer. Assisted, methods of non-destructive, testing, to obtain information about archaeological. Remains. And. Often saw become, the. Most important, of these methods, is the lidar scan. The. Scanner is fitted to an airplane and surveys the landscape, below, lidar. Scanning, was originally, used by surveyors, but. For archaeologists, the data has proved a quantum, leap in knowledge even. If lidar terrain, models look somewhat, unspectacular, at, first glance. What. Makes the lidar scan, so invaluable is the methods ability, to remove the noise of trees and vegetation from, the data. Levin, knows diluted ground-penetrating. Radar. Shoots, electromagnetic. Pulses into the earth from airplanes, and sometimes helicopters. These. Signals, are reflected, back by any underground, structures, and the, difference in the laser return, times makes, it possible to create a 3d, image of the terrain it. Works in the forest as well because, enough laser light can penetrate through, the trees so, that we achieve a relatively, exact surface, image even in the forest, on. This image you can follow the course of the Roman Lemus the. Border between the Roman Empire and non. Occupied, regions. This. Here, may. Have been a watchtower. And. Here in the forest the, remnants, of a field of burial, mounds this. One here could theoretically, be a burial, mound that was opened in the past my, guess would be sometime, in the 18th century, at. The time people typically, entered, from the top we call it funneling, so, they've dug a funnel, into the mound to extract burial, objects or skeletons, and what, remained, were these small, holes at the top of the mound these. Faint traces indicate that's, what happened here. Axial, pasa Lucian he discovered, a large burial, mound very close to the grave of the Celtic Prince a tiny. Dot on the scanner image not, visible, as a grave amid the thicket of the forest. Multiple. Layers of our pasts lie beneath the ground we walk on we. Just can't see it. Digital. Archaeology makes. The invisible, visible. In, Ireland, to the number of discovered, monuments, has increased, a hundredfold, with, the use of modern prospecting. Methods, one. Particularly, spectacular. Example, is the Hill of Tara, the mysterious, national.

Treasure It. Was the seat of Irish, kings and pagan, priests, at the height of their power. The. Hill of Tara exudes. An air of magic, in Ireland. Back. In the 19th century Irishmen. Would gather here and, swear a holy oath not. To rest until, the land had won its independence. And. There was a reason they did it here. Today. Self-proclaimed. Druids inhabit, the area at night, you can hear them playing their harps. Christians. Built a church here. Ruth. Poising, and Roseann shot systematically. Stride the length and breadth of the meadow on the expansive. Plateau with their magnetometer. Here. In Terra it's a safe bet they'll, find something interesting and, they. Do the. Digital data shows, numerous circles. Below the surface grave. Mounds, or maybe sites of assembly. When. We first started investigating. Tired there were about twenty five monuments known these monument that are visible but, through geophysical, survey we know there's more than a hundred monuments. A lot of which you can't see above-ground are buried beneath the surface. Old. Maps, can give clues to vanish structures. The, people of Terah lived thousands. Of years before the invention of writing they. Recorded, their history, in the ground and crafted, sacred, landscapes, that, only need to be deciphered a. Deep. Channel on the plateau was probably once a processional, route it's. Clearly visible on the lidar scan, it. Leads directly to the inner sanctuary the, Ratner II a large, ring, wall complex, in, fact it's a processional, way and believe. This is the, route that the king, elect would take on his, way up to the summit of the hill of tara to be inaugurated. To. The left and right of the processional, route ramparts. Were built to direct the March as gaze to key monuments. Interestingly. There. Are a number of gaps, along, the length of the banks in which you, can get a view out on very, significant, monuments, and in, particular burrow amendments. So. It seems prehistoric. Builders knew, all about visual, effects. But, they also show infinite what I personally, find particularly, appealing is that up here you're afforded a wide view of the landscape surrounding. Town and. There are similar monuments, on many of these mountains, and hilltops. Not. In the abundance we find on the hill Otara that is truly unique but, there are also individual. Monuments, which ultimately may, have a common point of reference. The. Hill of Ward is another site that harbors, a mysterious. Sanctuary. Students. From Dublin are digging, their way into the hill at precisely, defined, points, according. To legend Halloween. Originated. On the hill of ward a pagan, festival, of fire on the night of October the 31st. And. In. Fact the students, do find a large amount, of animal, bones an indication. That people here may have come together for large celebrations, with, copious, amounts, of food, Irish. Archaeologist, Stephen Davis has surveyed the hill but, he was unable to find, anything with geomagnetic. He. Has a simple explanation. One. Of the problems with using magnetic survey, here which is what we might use of course the rest of it it's all this heavy burning, that you've seen behind you there's, all this heavy burning, it's, very heavily magnetic, just because it's been burned so, the. Whole thing really lights up and you can't see anything at all so with with earth resistance, in this case so we can see that this big mound behind us here is actually defined by us a stone wall, which, is actually what we're taking out now in this case that's why that's why we dug here we've, dug, a small section into the side of this mound with, the stone, ward in the centre, geo. Electric surveys, measure the soil resistance, and create images of structures, underground. Only. Now can researchers. Identify, the various, walls and ditches, in the complex. Were. Rituals, really celebrated. And large bonfires. Ignited. Here overnight on October, the 31st.

Archeological, Clues could, confirm, the theory. Is. The Lehrer Bernie. Okay. So the. Burn into a place before whatever happened here that's falling, down onto itself and this, extends, all the way up here, they. Have a fire festival here now but. It's it's. Hypothesized. Had, a fire festival going back almost since the I&A there. Are many. Evil references, to preachers. And druids meeting, here and lighting a great fire. But. Those references, would be several hundred years after it would have happened so we we always treat them with a certain skepticism but. We. Are finding a lot of evidence of fire here so who knows. Aside. From graves, and ritual sites, the people who built these complex has left only one thing behind the. Bodies of their murdered, kings, they're. Bog bodies are on display at the National, Museum of Ireland in Dublin the. Graves and their dead are the only testimony, of early Irish people are people, who had no written language. Like. In Tara a processional. Route can be made out in the digital data from the hill of ward a road. That is no longer visible in the meadows. The. Same was true of the Celtic burial, ground on the globe ERG. Here. It's not just the burial mound that's been reconstructed. But, also the processional, route leading up to the hill it. Was flanked, by deep trenches, and originally. Much longer, this. Is clear from the digital data a geomagnetic. Survey, has revealed the roads further course. Today. It's known that the road was bordered, by a high wall which. Was up to 12 meters wide at the base. Visitors. Could only see, the grave mound after turning, the corner. Researchers. Believe the hill was even whitewashed, like. In Ireland the structures, here were designed with visuals, in mind and. Astronomically. Aligned. Others. It's, not a road that marks, a path from A to B it's. Aligned, with the southern, major lunar standstill an astronomical. Phenomenon that. Occurs every 18.6, years so, it was possible to devise units of time without a calendar without a watch over a longer period of time, well, is your nest. The, Alhambra in, Granada, there. Are few other sites in Europe that draw as many tourists. Every. Day only, 5,000, visitors are allowed to enter the castle the, tickets are sold out weeks in advance. Keuchel. Maya feels privileged, to work here. Kuhlmeier, and his team have been working for days at the Palacio, del parral the. Villa that belonged to a sultan then, to an opera singer and then a German banker from Berlin it. Was from here that our tour Fond winner removed, the decorative dome in 1891. It. Was replaced, by a poor copy. It's. Really a great feeling to, be, able to get a sense of the domes original, setting. The. Aromas, the views through the windows all, make for an entirely different experience than, if you're standing in a museum and looking up in a dimly lit room. Every. Detail, of the chamber is carefully, documented, with a high performance scanner. Watching. The lengths being gone to hear one, can't help but ask why Berlin, doesn't just return the dome to its original home the. Archaeologists, call such considerations. A historical. Pickle, previously gone the. Dome was brought to Berlin legally there's no question about it, it, now has its own story and that story includes. That of its previous owner the German banker who acquired it and brought it to Germany. He. Incorporated. It into his own villa there and then via, a detour, it arrived at the Berlin Museum. This. Story belongs to the objects provenance, it can't be ignored. Let's. See me disappear. The, digital, reconstruction reveals. The Chamber's long-lost, splendor, the. Original, dome housed in the Berlin museum has. Been integrated, into this virtual reality, experience. The. Dome from this chamber was one of the oldest components, of the Alhambra, probably. Carved around 1320. If. The dome was still in place here the tower chamber is too small to accommodate the, alhambra z' 5000, daily visitors, no. One would ever get a glimpse of a Tina. In. Places, where the walls are too high for the scanner, another, method is used. Photogrammetry. A 3d. Model is generated, using thousands. Of overlapping, photos. In, principle. I think it's a good idea to upload, 3d images, of these objects, to the internet, because. Then everyone, can access them so, conch feeding. In. Island scientists. Are a step ahead, many. Scanned, objects, have already been posted on the Internet. Before. The German archaeologists. Returned home they, take a few soil samples, it's, an inexpensive, substitute. For an excavation. The. Researchers. Are in doubt an area, dotted, with prehistoric, burial mounds, and medieval farms.

A Power. Cable runs underground, through a small medieval settlement. Geomagnetic. Data, helps, archaeologists, avoid hitting an electric, cable rather, than, a medieval, ditch. That's. The big difference today in the ideal scenario I already know a tremendous amount about the site before I start, my dig and, that enables, me to plan the dig very precisely. Generally. The areas of excavation, are much smaller than they used to be because, I simply don't have to search as much as I used to. The. Archaeologists. Are drilling at a location they suspect, harbors a waste pit like. Modern, garbage bins their historical, predecessors say. A lot about the living conditions, of the people who lived here. The, team can tell immediately that, their technicians have hit the right spot. John. Boozman grants good see what. You can see quite well here is the lowest layer that, we still had on the drill head and that there is charcoal, in it. So. We already know we're in the middle of the occupation, layer, but. I can't say I'm surprised, because we already knew from the geomagnetic data that there's a structure here which, we've already been able to classify fairly, accurately. If. We hadn't found this it'd be an indication that we'd messed up our measurements. But. It was accurate, aha. We've. Collected a lot of information without, one's driving our shovel into the soil and what is particularly satisfying. Is what we found in the core sample namely. Charcoal. Through. Radiocarbon, dating. We'll be able to establish how old this charcoal is which. Doesn't mean we'll know how old the ditches, but, that's how we proceed one, step at a time and of course when the botanists, then examine, the charcoal for us we'll know what type of trees were burned here. The. Soil samples, undergo, further testing in Frankfurt, the. Small pieces of charcoal, from the historical. Waste pit are treated with the same tender, love and care as any ancient ceramic. Shard. Finally. The, soil is pulsed, with x-rays, to break down its chemical, components. Knut, Raz man is hunting for a very specific element. A. Minge. Divided. Among a human, excretes, about one kilogram of phosphorus per year in, cattle, it's about 8 kilograms. If. We have a lot of phosphorus it's, probable, that it's from the faeces of humans, and animals. So. It's an early indicator, of the length of time this spot was settled.

Was. This settlement used for a short time or a longer, duration the. Higher the phosphorus impact, the, higher the probability that the settlement, was used for a long time. With, their high-tech equipment, archaeologists. Have pinpointed. Many places, where they could dig but. They, don't because. Digging destroys, traces, that hold out the promise of key insights, with future, as yet undeveloped. Methods. We. Shoulder a responsibility. Archeology. Is a finite, field the. Sites do not grow back and things that have been excavated are lost to research. Unfortunately. This is an inherent, part of archaeological. Excavation. In, Nairobi Suba dissolves comes in your hand. Digital. Archaeology is the future, of historical, research but. Even today we can't do everything on a computer. We're. Standing here in the landscape and we feel what's unique, about it we. See the Hill of Tara we. See the topography we. Get a holistic, sense of the place it's. Not possible to reproduce that in a virtual world technology. Provides us with useful tools but, the archaeologists, still has to do fieldwork.

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is acid rain eroding aways these ancient relics in conjunction with green house gasses and carbon emmissions today?

Germans were and are always ahead in field of research and technology. Thank you Deutsche Welle for uploading such data, from Pakistan.

This is ground breaking!

Great vid, thanks.

Loved it.

left nothing behind but their graves....really....

woah mind blown. Space archaeology rules

Definite assumption is not in our judgement but that makes us loyal inquirerers

- Makes a documentary about archaeology - Can't spell "Archaeology" correctly

It's good to watch a documentary about archeology without mentioning any aliens involve

that 7:05 paradox lol, but utilizing the abstraction (Plato's philosophy) of VR (computer science).. is just brilliant.

I'm deeply grateful for this. Thank you DW.

Is it cold in Ireland on Oct 31 at night? I'm thinking bon fires to keep a group warm and for some spooky light for the atmosphere of Halloween.

Dw simple amazing...............

shall not be rebuilt!- shabbat holy shalom

in sryne eire

Excellent video! I was a bit surprised that the role of satellite imagery was not mentioned, but a very enjoyable and educational effort. Cheers!

As an amateur archeologist, I would like to thank for their efforts to preserve the treasures. Also thank you DW for great content

This is my dream job.

Germany ❤️

Awesome content. No needless drama like in American shows. Greetings from Denmark

I'd love to know the name of the music score in this documentary, if it can be provided... Great documentary as always, thank you.

The Greatest Archaeologist of all time? The Bulldozer! lol

Good video!! Thanks very much for not attributing the structures to aliens and wizards!

Well done!

Thats interesting. Wonder if they ever tried a place that no one has tried yet. Though most places are already found or behind restricted protection

Very recommendable!

Yes, exploration gets better with better technology, but the wide sharing of pictures and finds on social media is no less important. Even if I'd been an archeologist, I probably wouldn't have know the extent to which huge megalithic structures, monuments, pyramids, entire cities and roads are distributed globally – not just by perusing available books. Few of us would have seen even the well known cave paintings. Book do exist, but those with good reproductions are very expensive. I imagine we will get even better at sharing information openly over the next few decades – if only we can get our politicians to prohibit the budding censorship, designed to make the rich richer and the poor destitute – resulting in a much clearer understanding of who we humans really are.

Dinosaurs!!

Some crazy stuff, thank you!!

This is super!

Maybe they can find my familys diged money pot.

hopefully we have dense slam, and other similar technologies, algorithms to turn footage into 3d models

19:24 ...yes darling they just built the wall because it's pretty .

Nobody said the walls were for beauty. What they clumsily tried to say is that Glauberg was the seat of so-called Celtic princes who built these unnecessarily big walls to impress people. The place is located on a naturally defensible hill and so if they wanted a cost-effective defense they would have gone with more modest walls. After all, the celts weren't exactly known for their siege techniques. Instead the princes turned the fortification work into a costly prestige project in order to show that here is a powerful man who rules over a strong tribe.

At 19:24 how can the woman narrating state unequivocally that the wall around the Glauberg was not for defense? Is there any written evidence? Ignore the obvious and pacify the past in your own mind by all means but spare the viewing public your unfounded speculations please.

I love history U boring me get to the pointe for God?

Why are you guys anti China

Hi Sa gendo bi, why do you think that?

Great! We love to see more of these lovely people to find out our past. Al Hamra dom should be in Al hamra, eventhough bankers can buy it all. But it shouldn't be that way. Thanks for the beautiful documentary, salute!

A tangent: That hand scanner would be far more pleasant less jarring and tiring if equipped with a basic suspension, perhaps robbed from a cheap bicycle.

Now use this technology at the 'Richat' structure.

Please make a documentary on how the body heals after getting hurt from simple scrapes to healing after surgeries

So yu want to say charcoal does not turn into ash...? I doubt that

Only if fully burned....

"germans are great people, they were the true ancestors for starting a knowledgeable and logical civilization, all other civilizations were evolving at very stupidity but the germans came with innovation everyday and revolutionized the whole earth, they discovered maths and cosmology, strong metal weapons even the language, germans are the most greatest of people" . . This is what this video says

Hmm, when the Romans cast eyes on German they ambushed and then massacred 2000+ roman soldiers then burnt alive every prisoner they caught including women and older children. Later on they sacked Rome. Fast forward a few years they started more wars in Europe except Napoleon. Did I mention leadership? They produced outstanding statesmen such as Hitler. Not to mention outdoing the Romans job of genocide on the Carthagenians by slaughtering 6 million jews. I often wonder if Stalin wasn't German he massacred 27 million russians by some accounts not to mention every Polish military officer captured as well 7million russian soldiers fed into the meat grinder called the Eastern front which incidentally was started by the Germans.....The ""most greatest of people" did you say????

If you think that CaucAsians are the real Europeans then I can see how miss educated you are, it was a black woman who invented maths as the women need to understand their menstrual cycle, you have to be stupid to think that only 300,000 after the first modern human of African descent moved to India then moved to Europe and they would invent maths and science when black people left pyramids that you can’t reproduce with modern day tools over 5000bc when it was built, when Africans invented a sewer used in public toilets, Greece wasn’t even a country.

Ashamed Nature ....too bad there were far more ancient civilizations that were up and running for thousands of years while German tribes were still hunting and gathering

Ashamed Nature-Hey Stinky! Are you trying to look stupid? We all know your not even German. You can tell your little friend the same thing. What losers...

Every individual is good in himself. It's the brainwashing that happens and vague believe systems. Respect everyone and get the same. #peace

Please don't stop taking your medication.

Being of direct German ancestry... they are also the most arrogant and insensitive culture in the world and have a mental block when it comes to recognizing their own faults and mistakes (lost two world wars, VW emissions scandal). Most don't get that most people in the world are much more emotionally sensitive. They could get along better if they'd learn to sugarcoat things a bit and admit they can make mistakes and may not always have the best ideas. Their cars may be the best driving cars, but they not as well built and reliable as the Japanese.

Ashamed Nature The Germans were the ones who discovered “maths and cosmology”.

You can't deny it . If you want to be great like Germans, you better off starting to think like Germans.

hello DW, what country are you based from? i enjoy your documentaries and all the contents.

DW... the D stands for Deusche, the real name of Germans. Only we call them Germans, they are Deusche, which sounds a lot like the word Dutch to English speakers ears. This is why they called those German Immigrants Dutch. Pennsylvannia Dutch are Germans. They asked them, "what is your nationality" when they got to Ellis Island and they answered "Deutsche" but the English speakers heard Dutch.

+DW Documentary Really great work guys - This made me smile (German and Irish Archaeologists) - I'm "Basque-Irish and German" Mom was 100% Irish, Dad was Irish and German - My maiden name is Eddleman. Mom was Lynch, Murphy, and Sullivan. Just a unique find --

Hi Jaso, greetings from Berlin, Germany! Keep on enjoying our docs

Homo sapiens evolved in africa and formed civilizations in europe and there it spread to middle east to India, china and ancieny americans.... Its all europeans the civilizers of prehistoric world

+David You forgot to provide the evidence.... So when was it debunked, how (by which method), and by who (from which university)...?

Bhanu Mavani ....yeah the out of Africa nonsense has been debunked.

As above So below

Wow!

Alluring and beautiful filming, highly skilled editing and direction; All this along with the unique and intriguing information and content. Thank you so much for the hard work put into this film!! The quality reflects the efforts of those involved! Can say this about many of the videos on this channel.

In The Witch of Slieu Whallian... (Manx Folklore)... a "wise woman" foretells the destruction of a fishing fleet. Ignoring her, the fishermen die. She is rewarded by being rolled in a spiked barrel to the bog. Perhaps... if we take away all the christian elements... we are left with the story of a great Druid-Queen... who sees into the future... and is put to rest (or killed) and left in the bog as archaeology tells us Celts did. 31:00 http://asmanxasthehills.com/the-witch-of-slieu-whallian/

Yes, please scan as many of these things you can; upload them to the internet; and use them in realistic video games that are as historically accurate as can be. That'd be awesome!

​+Lewis Doherty Game engines can also just be used for cinematic too , not necessarily just gaming. Unreal engine 4 can be used royalty free for architecture visualization stuff.

Historically accurate video games like redheaded women with woad face a paint and bionic arm. rofl.

daddyleon Open world Assyria 800bc simulator thats what i need

I'm not into gaming, but since it is so popular, it appears it could provide a good vehicle to underwrite archeological scanning. The game company pays for the scanning which is incorporated into a game which is sold as containing real sites. The buyers learn about the sites. The gaming company makes more sales. The archeologists get a free scan on which to work. There would just have to be an agreement that the scan cannot be used in a game not created by the owning company. The archeological group and society own the intellectual property for research and educational purposes, and the company owns the intellectual property for gaming and entertainment purposes.

Insightful documentary and as an Irishman I appreciated it personally. I'm reading a book right now on the history of Ireland (pre-Patrick) in which Tara is heavily accredited. It was a very special place in Ireland for assembly, historically. It's a pity the Irish haven't maintained its location for religious, political and social matters, as times have certainly changed, but understanding your roots are very important regardless of current trends.

The Four Masters... it is all in there. The old books tell it all, but they call it myth. DNA proves the old books, NOT myth, but history!

Uisneach was the capital, not Tara, video should mention this important fact.

Fantastic!

Excellent, thanks.

DW Thank you for all the great content on Youtube.

Hi Meep, thanks for all the great audience you are part of

Notification about a new DW video....HAPPY DAYS!

Hi Duececoupe, wow, you know how to put a compliment...

Thoroughly enjoyed this Thank you

This is a very interesting video!

fascinating!

Um, ladies, you know even if I were living in 4000BC, I would still recommend a third wheel on the front of that thing instead of shoulder straps, thank you Sumerians. And since its 2019, I would recommend some spring shocks for all of the wheels, maybe better/more consistent results?

European archeology is very often stupid I think. Just because they look old and ancient they think it's old and ancient and assume they are important when in reality in most cases they are made by unskilled and untalented people from the past often with poor materials. It's fortunate technology will give them proeper help they need. So hard to credit most of these discoveries.

I have always said this: "Bring Germans and Irish together, and great things will follow."

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. :O)

don't wanna put a dome back where it belongs because -insert story here-. meanwhile it'll sit in that attic. that's part of the story. brilliant! for a scientist, he ain't too bright.

Ancien people watched the sky all the time , today we hardly noticing it .

When I see European natural land I can but notice the absence of forest and so few trees . A Canadian .

Put those models on Sketchfab so people can download and 3d print them;)

Not enough adds. Please put more.

PC Yellow vests worn in open fields devoid of dangerous trucks and cars? Otherwise a fun and enlightening DW Documentary.

today, we can hardly see any stars. Light pollution.

You should be glad it's open to the public, if he hadn't donated it, it still would've been owned by a rich person.

It's part of the history. What's wrong with that attic, should it be placed on the first floor instead?

Pay a visit to my country (sweden) woodland

Yah no trees same with America now. It"s amazing that just isince 1972 the amount of trees disimated is crazy. These scientist want to know why co2 is rising well no trees! Idiots. These scientist's should just look at the old maps and they would know where to dig up the cities they burries.

You know why THEY don't mention it, right? For the same reason they don't mention the bases on the opposite side of the moon! Put it together and wake up!!! Just kidding.

foreigners where in the word DATA is there an R?. it's DATA not DARTA lmao

Wow, this is such a fascinating video! It drives me crazy the woman keeps saying "lodge" instead of "large". At 1st I thought it was Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation but realized she would know that Data is not pronounced as "Dotta". LoL

Ex ploatation of mind modern man with manufractured histori made to order,.,.?,., the new ONE,.,all in one and one in AIl,., spot,., the dif,,., eran ti ,., all.,.,

+Angelica Salaris of course I forgot about the north . I really should visit .

THE PAST IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL IT IS FINISHED.

That's the joy of the English language.

But everything is a temple or an alter for sacrifices . In this case a processional way and ritual burials.may as well be landing strips and biological samples.

This explains the strategy of the US strategy to destroy our true history. Thank you, again! Teresa

Thank you, again! Teresa

Why alert people that this broadcast is from Germany....that's so weird and racist.

Ya that's good they are looking into the history! But lots of time they just want to talk about evil Egyptians and pyramids! Sure it's all cool

seems like you guys would of planted some trees by now. Unless you just like lawn

Atlantis is the eye of Africa. Check it out. Mind blowing.

Wowo lots of ads. You must be brich.

i almost believe this.

Human advanced civilization has been reset over and over throughout history. We aren't the only civilization to have advanced to this point

35:00 "...and then, via a detour..."

The ads!!!!!

She mentioned self proclaimed druids ! I wonder were the ancient druids self proclaimed ?

built in computers to chart the stars

i see ways to control energy

great technology cant wait to see all stuff found.

everyone copied and took all the ancient stuff turning it into there own stuff

all this ancient sites have been there longer then anyone thinks they have been there. its all refind and reinvent .

¡Muy bueno como siemprre! First of all, your impecable diction is very importan for us who english is not our native laguage. Second: When the bucks appear, we will be in first row to join your expeditions. Congratulations!

Very well done! It’s wonderful that we have scientists who bring deep and missing history for all of us.

Modern day grave robbing.. Done in the guiss of science..

I did some home archilology in vr and founds some cool things on google earth. Ive lost the images but around the island close to quatar there are arrows under the ocean pointing at the sea. They appear to be ancient and their space is being consumed by artificial islands. I also found more animals in the nasca plains of peru one being a strange tree or tree animal that i havent seen on any nasca line mainstream depiction.

Do you ever feel a bit greedy? All those adds must be pumping up your bank acct

I typed in Nazi in Ireland,wasn't expecting this.

I think man as been here a lot longer than anyone will ever know more advanced then what we could imagine,the cycle as an will repeat it self.

There are relics and artifacts a lot older than the "Iron Age" that litter these sites. The methodology employed in locating these sites is primitive, and ground penetrating microwaves and cameras capable of picking up the reflected images show much more interesting results. I doubt, even if they provided an email address, that they would show the pictures I have got of this site. !!!

Our major legacies will be plastic and radioactive waste.

More advanced

What if they were there much less time than anyone thinks? What if they were made only 2000 years ago? hmm...

Your a idiot and a half if you believe in the lie of evolution! Show me one transitional fossil! There would be billions if the lie evolution was real. Look up Ron Wyatt and see the truth of the world and us!

Everything that they shall find, shall only show and prove that the German are intruders to this region as invaders and North Babarian, who raided the Mohrs in their natural ancient Europe. The world is black.

Didn't even watch it huh?

I had zero ads.

I did and it's possible yes.

It's a remarkable documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!

Marina Sirtis doing the narrating?

Neato

It is because they thought ancient civilization dont have the technology. If they are that ancient, how come they can build skycrapping monuments.

But does it find gold? Most archeology is about finding treasure to fund the next expedition...why? Because most people could care less about what happened a millennial ago. Actual funding is scarce. Usually the average person will only hear about significant wealthy finds.

I would argue, the most destructive.

The Treasures would have been better off left buried so they could not be destroyed by the raiders,who brainlessly destroy their own histories past! Bcos you cannot keep it safe,you must leave it be!

Simply extraordinary.

29:20 His last name is my native, legal first name.

The US has no interest in destroying anyone's history.

this data needs to be available for free to the public in some sort of archive......our history belongs to us.

Watching this documentary makes me realize again why I am spending 50 hours behind a screen as a graduated archaeologist.

I am watching the your lesson s. Im deep a prissier This lessons I am CP I am disabled and I cannot staying in the abraded thank you so much for your support and your team program thanks a lot.

I am more impressed with kay's magnificent head of hair for an old man wow

So many adverts interrupting people talking makes it almost unwatchable

Amazing Documentary! Thank you so much for sharing all this information.

install adblock. you're welcome.

@Angelica Salaris of course I forgot about the north . I really should visit .

@DW Documentary Really great work guys - This made me smile (German and Irish Archaeologists) - I'm "Basque-Irish and German" Mom was 100% Irish, Dad was Irish and German - My maiden name is Eddleman. Mom was Lynch, Murphy, and Sullivan. Just a unique find --

@David You forgot to provide the evidence.... So when was it debunked, how (by which method), and by who (from which university)...?

You are both dummies.

Too many ads. Not watching

they looking for a gold a making up stories

Awesome upload. Thank you so much. In a side not and I probably should not say this but anyways.... To assume that these king's and Queen's of Ireland had no written language is exactly that an assumption. Just because they have not found any written language does not mean that they hadn't any! These people are known to be great writer's and artists. The English, in their bid for global domination most probably destroyed everything that they could destroy. Peace.

What the hell?? I'm 2 minutes in and then there's an add which lasts for 5 minutes with no skip option?? Sake DW.

I love that they think out of the Box with new technology but the got a long ways to go there very mature and I can see why people are quite often upset with their videos and I really don't need all the Background music but I do appreciate people's work anyway it is not conclusive it is just a perspective let's keep that in mind I have really funny stories about GPS and it seems to be repetitious thing that everything is a temple and everything is a Grave but I know people that study things that are only Ancient structures that are only 200 years old and there built with more resistant material and they don't hold up this well

I see more fuckin ads on YouTube than on TV I cant even listen to something before a fu kin ad pops up. YouTube can suck itself

Bs

As soon as I heard BCE rather than BC I turned it off and looked for a better documentary.

i am so keen on underwater subsurface scanning. i want to know what went on along the coasts of a world where the sea level was lower. migration, settlements, technologies...we will see so much once we get there. coastal migration along the americas, the pacific, doggerland and so on....

what are you talking about? we just took a picture of a black hole. hubble was great, just wait until james webb gets up....if it works. what i am saying is: we are still watching. just with better tech.

Thumbnail looks like QuikCrete... I'll pass

34:47 How could a true archaeologist say this? His judgement is clearly clouded by blinded patriotism. Yes the German banker did buy the dome and bring it to Germany, but is that story more significant than the Alhambra itself? That banker was just doing what many rich people were doing at the time: buying up exotic, ancient artifacts for their own vanity. The dome belongs to Alhambra, ORIGINALLY. It's a piece of history that was taken away. This documentary was good until that part, it's pure propaganda.

do you even adblock brah

Cupcake...

Dont kiss my flaws or say you want to and then want me to change who I am. I am good, but I am not looking for approval either. I am enough...

So true!

Great VIDEO, i've just started to work with youtube, you should take a look.

Help me out. You know in case an archeologist from the future is reading this. Why are they "self-proclaimed" Druids, but Christians are just Christians. Also, why are sites "destroyed" when they're in Syria but "vanished" when in the UK? There's weird bias all over the place in this.

Great doc

I used to date an Archaeologist. Man, I really dig her too.

The modern fools thinks they are the first at everything but, there is nothing new under the sun

YEAH RIGHT ON MAN YOU TELL EM TIGER!!!!!

The destruction of Syria, its people, and the present international obliviousness is so shameful that priceless ancient artifacts are forever lost. Every government should be responsible for virtually recording all the manmade history so that everyone everywhere can experience them for all time. That should be part of UNESCO's initiatives.

Such annoying music. I'd rather hear the commentary.....if that's ok with you...

Absolutely FASCINATING!!!

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