The Shocking Discovery Of A 3,000-Year-Old Lost Kingdom | Mysteries Of China

The Shocking Discovery Of A 3,000-Year-Old Lost Kingdom | Mysteries Of China | Absolute History

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4 ай бұрын

Construction workers in Chengdu, China, accidentally discovered the archeological site known as Jinsha in 2001, considered one of the most significant discoveries of the century. The site contains a treasure trove of Jade, gold, and thousands of human remains in burial grounds, with some suggesting possible human sacrifice. Jinsha was an ancient kingdom thriving around the same time as the Shang Dynasty in the Sichuan basin, challenging previous beliefs about the only birthplace of Chinese culture being the Central Plain of the Yellow River. Very little is known about the Shu People, the inhabitants of ancient Chengdu, as they left no written records, and information comes mainly from texts of rival cultures. The discoveries at Jinsha, including giant bronze masks and a bronze figure with divine powers, indicate a complex religious and cultural system. The civilization's disappearance might be linked to natural disasters like earthquakes and floods or changes in water management.
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@kurofan4235 4 ай бұрын

Documentaries like these make me realize how much I still don't know, and I am insanely happy when I found out something new. Thank you for making this available!

@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy 2 ай бұрын

Indeed just don't take everything literary, things like 1st they say oh these were advanced people yet in the next part somehow they had performed primitive level "sacrifices" and other nonsense. I mean that kind of satanic crap is happening today too but NOT majority of people are doing it and never was. Things like they found a hoard of tusks and other items "oh must be sacrifice" ... IT DOESNT, can be that they simply kept the things there as storage or was kept hidden during a raid. There been plenty of written evidences through the history that every civilization had hidden rooms to keep away tools, materials, children and woman hidden during a raid, be it at home, shrines or even middle of nowhere. Same thing. Even rooms big enough to hide the entire village inside. Recently I been talking to a man, about a place family names overall Serbian history and people there a once was fortified town in today's Hercegovina where none of the invaders ever managed to take over 100% because they had hidden cave systems, mountain formations etc where the whole village could hide and hide all the important things, from items to food water etc. They had well systems in caves and it was so greatly hidden no one could realize anyone lives here. Usually men were fighting the invaders while everyone else was hidden and they could see miles away when they will be attacked and could calculate when it will happen. Even today you can find in random rooms caves etc hoard of items because they kept it there safe and only took it out when they needed it. They all shared everything there was no "this is mine, that is yours" instead what is mine is yours too. It's been like this for centuries. But for someone today might this come odd because we live in a era of over-consumerism and everyone is locked inside their own imaginary world keeping things for themselves. We were not like that, we didn't had fences etc to keep away the neighbors but the wild animals and the enemy. MAJOR DIFFERENCES

@Pandorization Ай бұрын

WE know nothing, it's not just you. We really don't

@Nick-hi9gx 3 ай бұрын

It IS NOT a "lost kingdom". It is a city that is something like a "missing link" between two different periods of the western Sichuan cultures, which we group together as Shu. This find is more like accidentally finding a Greek city from 800BCE we didn't know about before, it is an intermediary period we don't know much about. The OLDEST "Shu" culture we have like 6 sites for, though only one that is large and with many artifacts, and not long after Jinsha we have multiple other sites, from the very late Spring and Autumn and into the Warring States period. But the kingdom of Qin conquered the Shu kingdom, and then the Ba-Shu people of eastern Sichuan, and the culture was essentially wiped out through forced assimilation. Only tiny remnants of their language and culture are still around. Jinsha was (likely) the capital of more like a series of hegemons or something like city-states, it is hard to say for certain.

@thebrowneyesofmandalore 4 ай бұрын

Something I find interesting about their discoveries about this ancient people are the early civilization tropes that parallel to that of the early Celts. They both have practices of human sacrifice and burying alive the servants or slaves of nobles along with them, adorned with precious items, chariots, and more. It’s fascinating how many early civilizations have very similar habits despite their separate locations and zero contact due to geographical boundaries.

@6Euphoria6 3 ай бұрын

From what I heard, they never found human remains so idk where ur idea came from

@huberthumphry280 3 ай бұрын

@@6Euphoria6 probably from History channel Ancient Aliens- I mean the Celts didn't do what this person claims either. This video isn't much better (at least the title) "lost kingdom" what?! the Chinese have known about the Shang dynasty for millenia, wait until Americans learn of the Xia

@6Euphoria6 3 ай бұрын

@huberthumphry280 I honestly despite that channel. What aliens? Ever heard of "artistic freedom?"

@huberthumphry280 3 ай бұрын

@@6Euphoria6 to me it seems more to be about superiority, as if people 2 or even 4 thousand years ago were not as intelligent, industrious and talented as us-- only difference is a greater amount of collective knowledge

@thebrowneyesofmandalore 3 ай бұрын

@@huberthumphry280 i apologize if what I said was too vague. I was referring to the tribes that became the Celts. If you’re wondering where I got that from, it was from a BBC documentary titled the Celts. If the information is false or the documentary itself is inaccurate then please let me know. Thanks.

@XiaofangYu 3 ай бұрын

Last summer, I visited this Jinsha museum, and I found it to be quite impressive.

@-Little-lily- 3 ай бұрын

A correction. The golden plate took several years for conservators to restore it, not for archeologists.

@mechannel7046 3 ай бұрын

This documentary is absolutely fascinating! Jinsha is a remarkable place

@geoms6263 2 ай бұрын

and reporter she is adorable

@MrsLovelyPendragon 2 ай бұрын

China has such a rich and beautiful history ❤

@Orangestardust Ай бұрын

It's amazing the Chinese government let any of this get out there. They usually hide anything critical and this history even though it's ancient isn't exactly rainbows and waterfalls.

@k.jespersen6145 3 ай бұрын

OK, there was a lot of neat stuff in this episode, but the presentation made it rather difficult to parse them. The use of superlatives in the very beginning ("some say the MOST important discovery") immediately evoked suspicion about who was saying this, to whom, and in what capacity. But the connection of the multiple different sites in relationship to one another was interesting (wish there'd been more proof of the connections and discussion about how they know the connections), and seeing the layout of the building complexes was a brief, fascinating window into the lives of the people. The focus on human sacrifice was a little sensationalized and forced, as though there was a subtext being pushed about these people being more violent or less worthy than the people who gave rise to modern China. Am a little concerned about there being proteins in the stabilization glue used on the tusks, and that would thoroughly confuse a lot of current methods for dating and determining the origins of ancient biological material. It's nice that the dig sites get enclosed and rendered open to the public. That seems a lot like the La Brea Tar Pits. Hopefully, there are robust measures in place to prevent or ameliorate site contamination.

@yin_xing 2 ай бұрын

Ecxatly!

@karenneill9109 2 ай бұрын

It was a common practice in colonial archeology to ascribe ‘war-like’, ‘human sacrifice’ etc to cultures to denigrate them. Whenever they find a mass grave ‘oh, it must have been a sacrifice’, instead of it being due to a plague or starvation or genocide. Someone in a posture with his hands behind his back, it might have been a criminal. Maybe they were used as ‘examples’ to dissuade crime.

@jasonle762 Ай бұрын

I agree that the human sacrifice angle was sensationalistic. The actual archaeologists who worked on these sites didn't seem to suggest human sacrifice anywhere as much as the program host. Eg. the bound figures were variably seen as shamans ritually humiliating themselves. What is disturbing however was the presence of dismembered remains in a gravesite - makes me wonder about cannibalism. I think the host was even handed in comparing the human sacrifice aspect to the contemporaneous Shang culture. The fact that the Shang dynasty is both cruel and an ancestral culture to modern Chinese common knowledge. In fact the rejection of Shang cruelty is the justification for the legitimacy of the subsequent Zhou culture. One example where we see the legacy of the Zhou culture is the tomb of the tyrant Qin Shi Huang: as cruel as he was, human sacrifice was no longer practised hence the terracotta warriors.

@EmbraceTheJourney 4 ай бұрын

thank you so very much for this historical video and the historical and ancient artifacts presented

@suzykeene9298 3 ай бұрын

Droughts and floods have felled many civilisations.

@karenneill9109 2 ай бұрын

And pathogens.

@kaitangtseng7719 3 ай бұрын

This is a very nice documentary regarding Chinese History. However, I do find it weird how there seems to be a kind of forced justification in the earlier part of the video that the Shu People conduct Human sacrifice. As stated in 7:38 "There is no trace of human sacrifice, However, we cannot dismiss the possibility that there were no human sacrificial practices in the ancient Shu Kingdom." I think this justifies the mindset of archaeology, that everything is indeed a theory and not a concrete definite fact, I feel like the video has been more leaning in trying to state everything as a human sacrifice without much concrete evidence to prove so. The evidence presented could be evaluated in a different sense - not necessarily human sacrifice. While it is a possibility, it is not definite. That being said, with the existing archeological discovery, I think it appears quite clear that the Shu people are highly spiritual and do indeed worship deities. That itself is something amazing to learn about but I think implying there is a strong chance of human sacrifice is still too soon.

@yin_xing 2 ай бұрын

Yes

@potatonoodlebear8035 Ай бұрын

I think it is just that there is a common trend of human sacrifice in prehistorical china with very well based archeological evidence. Thus, the same trend is being investigated here too.

@goldHydrangeas Ай бұрын

In order to claim the land as site to be protected for archaeological excavations & lessen the greedy real estate moguls' desire to keep hands on it, from just taking it.. they maintain the lie /hypothesis that it's "human sacrifice" site.. because people wouldn't buy houses over land that has had energy of bloody sacrifices where it's a graveyard of sorts... haunted. Like we know house don't sell or as well as quick that's haunted, or where there's murder happened or corpse found whilst building the foundation- don't sell or takes a lot of convincing to buyers or lie to hide it from buyers.

@Kairava Ай бұрын

This is just their usual discourse, and the entire "documentary" is meant for that sole purpose alone, so that people that are interested in this topic but don't know more than they're being told, always think there was something barbaric about a great culture's past, or if it's their own culture but they grew up abroad and no longer have access to it, they will feel ashamed of it and instead think higher of western cultures, as if they were a more civilized role model to follow and look up to.

@UATU. 4 ай бұрын

The editor needed warm milk and a blanket.

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 4 ай бұрын

and you

@UATU. 4 ай бұрын

@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn me too

@Patrick.Edgar.Regini 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic ... China was the world's economic "sleeping giant", now it's archeology's "sleeping giant" 🌄

@geoms6263 2 ай бұрын

now is comunist

@janusjones6519 2 ай бұрын

@@geoms6263it’s been communist for 70 years. You living under a rock or something

@Haoareyousohandsome 2 ай бұрын

@@geoms6263at least spell it right bruh

@HDsharp Ай бұрын

@@geoms6263it's only communist by name not in practice. It's a socialist in practice. Even if it's a communist, so what?, it's far more successful than the western capitalist governments. The saying goes, It doesn't matter what colour the cat is as long as it catches mice.

@xijinping9024 Ай бұрын

But technically china doesn't have its own culture. They borrowed from india. And the fact india culturally and economically dominated dominated china for many centuries. By the way india was more economically and culturally dominated as compared to china.. For facts you can check history" india was called a golden bird due to massive gold and natural resources 😂😂😂

@softde 3 ай бұрын

Jinsha museum actually takes forien speaking students as volunteers, every year.

@yin_xing 2 ай бұрын

為啥？

@gaborszegedy1673 Ай бұрын

@TheUnexplainable1 4 ай бұрын

The point of outfitting the gods with a mask is to cover his unsightly appearance because as Quetzalcoatl said "If ever my subjects were to see my true appearance, they would surely run away!"

@SafetySpooon 3 ай бұрын

In Judaism, we are told that no one can see G-d and live, for the glory & might would be too much for a human to bear. So it's a fairly universal idea.

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@JunoDiovonaDemihof 2 ай бұрын

23:13 They worshipped: 1. Sun, 2. Moon, 3. Rivers/Waters,.4.Birds, 5. Animals associated with the Sun and the Moon or Night and Day. Almost like in ancient Egypt. Very very similar to Ancient Egypt. Cool! They also got their beginnings in Africa!

@mattparke4370 Ай бұрын

They also worshipped the God of the Bible. His name was Shang Di

@JunoDiovonaDemihof Ай бұрын

@@mattparke4370 god of the Bible? Lol… that's a new one.

@user-hc5cg3jc3i Ай бұрын

@@JunoDiovonaDemihof煞笔说的你要不看看中国的山海经😅

@user-hc5cg3jc3i Ай бұрын

@@JunoDiovonaDemihof煞笔说的你要不看看中国的山海经😅

@jasonle762 Ай бұрын

@@JunoDiovonaDemihof Actually, there's a logical explanation: in the 18th Century the missionaries co-opted a semi-obsolete term for the highest god in ancient China "Shang Di" for the Christian god. Owing to this contrivance, obviously they are not the same despite bearing the same name and similar characteristics.

@SuenosDeLaNoche 4 ай бұрын

The artifacts aren't "spoils".

@DS.proudkiwi 4 ай бұрын

Everything in China is spoils of evil

@Syco108 3 ай бұрын

Utterly fascinating

@robbydaniels1716 3 ай бұрын

The obsession this woman has with trying to figure out if these people sacrificed their own people is outrageous.

@thedeesus4249 3 ай бұрын

State propaganda

@saraswati999 3 ай бұрын

Hmm how is that state propaganda ? I think she is a scholar who is just curious and has a hypothesis

@Bav_ar 3 ай бұрын

@@thedeesus4249weird because this documentary isn't made by Chinese state media 😂 she studied abroad so if it's obsessive this made be because you liberal university 😂

@SafetySpooon 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, some people just can't understand intellectual curiosity.

@ddding9518 3 ай бұрын

This woman obvious is not Chinese

@ronaldsummons6100 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting. I want to learn more.

@advaithramesh6697 3 ай бұрын

It’s possible that people used to bring back remains of humans in war, sometimes humans who died violent deaths may not have had their body parts dis levered and some missing. And so whatever body part remain it was brought back for funeral services

@jennat776 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video from an excellent channel!

@GreatKeny 3 ай бұрын

Interesting topic but I found the presentation lacking. Found an archeological site of an ancient civilization and immediately you question if there was human sacrifices? Like are there more important things to know. Like did they have written languages. Did they have contact with tribes in the Yellow River region. Not to mention the Shu Kingdom isn’t something new at all. And this was also not the first archeological site of Shu.

@danielr700 2 ай бұрын

Can't agree more, I just don't get it why she's so convinced on that human sacrifices topic.

@TracyD2 5 күн бұрын

⁠@@danielr700It’s all about the views.

@nghiado9895 3 ай бұрын

Please provide audible translation for listening as a Podcast

@JayantiArt 2 ай бұрын

i'm from India love to know about other culture and rich in history. lovely

@lutomson3496 3 ай бұрын

lot of the artifacts look like Maya, Inca, Eskimo Inuit and other civiizations all over the world great article

@petethefeet1461 3 ай бұрын

The ancient people where talented intelligent and creative we know so little of our ancient past No mention of aliens …

@aryamonaadahura2632 3 ай бұрын

According to the epic Book of Kings, Shah-Nameh * by Firdusi, 640 -1040 AD, religious human sacrification was Banned nearly 4500 B.C. worldwide by order of Key-Goshtaceb. But this Statue is the Statue of Key-Cyaavash, who was executed innocently by his uncle Afraasyab with his hands tied on his back! Then, it became a religion, and this Statue was their religious style!

@advaithramesh6697 3 ай бұрын

It’s possible Jinsha kingdom had a different belief system from Shang dynasty. And so unlike Shang dynasty they did not practise human sacrifice. Before the arrival of prophets and monotheistic religious gods kingdoms and cultures of diverse belief systems lived next to each other and had extensive contacts with one another. So it possible that Shang dynasty and Jinsha kingdom were two culture with extensive contacts but highly distinct cultures

@advaithramesh6697 3 ай бұрын

They clearly had a vibrant handicrafts and artisan communities considering all the statues sculpted? Have they decided to name the style of sculpturing the Jinsha style of sculpting?

@isabelleboyle6048 2 ай бұрын

I think it amazing finding a lost world but digging all those graves and leaving it exposed for all to see I find this spiritually hurtful for those who now can not rest in peace 🕊️

@karenabrams8986 3 ай бұрын

China looks absolutely beautiful.

@arbaz79 25 күн бұрын

Fascinating documentary regarding ancient China❤.

@marquisjackson474 4 ай бұрын

This most interesting

@DS.proudkiwi 4 ай бұрын

Not really all CCP lies

@hidearCellofGod 7 күн бұрын

The ‘music of the trees with the wind is like the sounds of the waves of the sea, that is like that with the tree I had in 1 of the houses I had lived, it was a beautiful sound, just like being near to the sea!

@annepoitrineau5650 3 күн бұрын

At 6:30, the gold objects are representing the Celtic triskell. Amazing.

@advaithramesh6697 3 ай бұрын

And Jinsha people also had an elaborate form military division, many kinds of weapons and possibly their own system of martial arts. Martial arts stems from beneficial exercises and observing nature so they might have had their own systems of exercise a rudimentary but similar system to Yoga or Ti Chi

@Meghanlovesroses 3 ай бұрын

The movie you are thinking of is called The Holiday and it’s a scene with jack black and Kate winslet when the are inside of a blockbuster type store.

@Embassy_of_Jupiter 3 ай бұрын

I didn't know gymshark was that old

@alexisdespland4939 3 ай бұрын

you should look into doing a joint episode of the china history podcast by lazlo montgomery.

@queerlemons1919 23 күн бұрын

I just realized that this is where one of my favorite authors got the name for one of the countries in her books, the country is called "Shu han" and this is very on brand for Leigh Bardugo

@asdsdfsdfdsfas2953 4 ай бұрын

Wait, so they suddenly found dozens of elephant tusks while they were conveniently filming this show? Not only that, the dirt isn't compacted, but loosely tossed around them so it can be easily brushed away in front of all the guest in a short amount of time?? Not only that, but since they just discovered this huge discovery in the middle of the viewing area, it means they decided to build this entire building before they even completed the excavation of the site and would have damaged all of the other artifacts they didn't bother looking for??? Not only that, they just jam wooden pegs in dirt trying to force a very thin piece of gold foil out and then physically bending it, not at a table applying gentle pressure with gloves mind you, but in front of other cameras that are there for this big discovery???? Everyone needs to compare how they are treating these relics compared to every other modern excavation with trained personal, not ones trying to film a show piece and make money through exhibitions.

@PimpessRockstar 4 ай бұрын

You realize everything was probably staged for the documentary right? You almost certainly aren't watching the original archeological dig.....

@lenabreijer1311 3 ай бұрын

Lol did you really expect to see the original dig? Of course it is reenacted for the camera in good lighting, good weather with nice looking clean crew!

@TheYah00netstar 3 ай бұрын

It´s all faked...

@6Euphoria6 3 ай бұрын

Oh the gullibility

@thhseeking 3 ай бұрын

It's a typically over-dramatised documentary made for U.S. audiences.

@bryanheath8138 Ай бұрын

All history matters, The Shou are a mixed bag. Nice video 🙂

@user-pj5zl4ys2y 5 күн бұрын

Couldn't get the AI to generate the guys with the tusks on their shoulders lol 😂

@janetleeadams7287 7 күн бұрын

I appreciate the creative thoughts of Professor Wang, but the kneeling figure with hands tied is a classic position for execution and is still the position of execution.

@WatitemjenAo Ай бұрын

Appreciate your documentary as an archeologist, we need to know how was it so that may help humanity how to foresee for coming days, combination may keys to something that cannot explain in brief

@付黎明 5 күн бұрын

The large shu bronze statue has the same v-neck shirt style as the urfa man near gobekli tepe

@VirgilJJacks Ай бұрын

Great documentary. The Shu were more sofisticated that the academics say.

@Watcher1852 3 ай бұрын

LOVE HOW U DID YOUR VIDEO, IT IS GREAT I ENJOYED IT, THANK YOU, SHARE, SHARE

@mrhassell 2 ай бұрын

Sanxingdui in ancient China that produced stunning bronzes, jades, and gold objects. Also part of the SHU dynasty, is mixed up in here by way of a mask with oval shaped eyes. Ivory? Africa?

@dadlight3783 Ай бұрын

India

@heenanyou 3 ай бұрын

Where were the nearest elephants at that time?

@WeMol 3 ай бұрын

Time traveler needed

@rolansmith9951 Ай бұрын

That gin thing haunted me my whole childhood 😢

@rogerdudra178 Ай бұрын

There''s a lot of very interesting archeology surfacing from China these days. It's cool.

@DeliYomgam 3 ай бұрын

But during those times even if earthquake happens the houses were made of wood n didn't get effected by it. If it was flood how deep were remain found?

@ianison9820 3 ай бұрын

Ave seen a peculiar Khmer bronze statue that bore facial features from the grotesque style of this culture - suggestive of some cultural exchange at 5he time.

@stephenblakely4463 3 ай бұрын

The chinese just in last few years have made this site known yet it was discovered over 23 yrs ago.

@user-uv9tl4jt8w 3 ай бұрын

Autocratic countries have many secrets, while democracies rarely have secrets.

@dokkiro 3 ай бұрын

@@user-uv9tl4jt8w Not true.. Squid game was real. And also democratic countries have these collective lies about communist countries. For example during Korean war if a communist soldier raped an old lady, he was shot dead immediately. If an American soldier raped a little kid? You already know the answer.

@aureliadiwu_cotofan 3 ай бұрын

That’s not true. It’s been famous within China, it’s just the West has never interested to get to know about Chinese history. I’m from Chengdu so I can tell you that has been a greatly known

@andromedamessier3176 3 ай бұрын

@@aureliadiwu_cotofan yet at the same time it was a mystery. Honestly, 5000 years old history is in fact just lost kingdoms.

@hamishstewart5188 Ай бұрын

Just as well it wasn't discovered 50 years ago or it would have been ignored or destroyed.

@زنكي Ай бұрын

Only wars can totaly distroy civilizations.

@ScrewyDriverTheMan 3 ай бұрын

I hope they truly uncover the Pyramids in China properly, one day also

@carnivaltym 2 ай бұрын

There's much tp be learnt.

@MegaTreethree 2 ай бұрын

Did anyone noticed the status hairstyle look like the North Korea leader? lol

@scaledsilver 3 ай бұрын

6:29 haha, You guys missed this gold egg. That pattern is extremely important to history in an extremely hidden way.

@ohmynester 3 ай бұрын

Explain

@scaledsilver 3 ай бұрын

@@ohmynester heaven, earth, the soul. 🌕🔺🌞

@scaledsilver 3 ай бұрын

@@ohmynester Daoist alchemy. The highest secret is hidden in that. What they call the magnum opus. Or atleast thats what jinnha says

@scaledsilver 3 ай бұрын

@@ohmynester it goes deeper than that. The symbols have multiple layers of understanding

@scaledsilver 3 ай бұрын

@@ohmynester all on one plate, means all as one. as Tao, or the idea of ☯. The deeper meaning is used to solve 🌕🔺🌞 which is used to get 🪙 from ⚫

@kyliebae-fr7yq 19 күн бұрын

I would like to know why the museum director was grabbing a 3000 year old gold artifact with barehands (no gloves) and then washed it in a bucket of water. Is he an idiot?

@southerneruk 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting, just another site to visit when I finally do get to China and the world's oldest civilisation

@margadebenport7352 3 ай бұрын

China is not the oldest civilization.

@southerneruk 3 ай бұрын

@@margadebenport7352 2 of the oldest civilisation are the Chinese and Hindu, they were in buildings while the rest of the world was still in mud huts at the best

@reynoldliao7462 2 ай бұрын

This thing’s difficult to watch. It as much about Agnes as it is about Jinsha.👎 I’m gonna watch the CCTV documentary instead.

@jerrymathura5807 Ай бұрын

All The CIVILIZATION HAD GONE, ONLY THE SANTANA DARMA STILL STANDS, WATCHING FROM SURINAME

@luzvisaworkman4797 3 ай бұрын

You have a wonderful voice ,great narrator 👍

@hamishstewart5188 Ай бұрын

Really? Sounds like an American Soap Actor to me.

@gregb6469 Ай бұрын

China is a large country; I wonder how many more previously unknown ancient cities are waiting to be stumbled across.

@jfasuba495 4 ай бұрын

I did enjoy the adverts immensely

@NormanLor Ай бұрын

ARCHEOLOGY HAS TO BE ONE OF OUR PLANET'S MOST IMPORTANT DOORS TO OUR HISTORY. PERHAPS ONE DAY WE'LL LEARN ALL OF THESE PAST SECRETS??

@YogiMcCaw 3 ай бұрын

I couldn't help but get the idea that this was the Chinese version of a BBC documentary. Like those BBC docs, there's a lot of focus on the presenter, not just the archaeological research. Anyway, I was glad when there were some scenes of her in a red shirt. I was beginning to wonder if she actually wore exactly the same clothes every day LOL Nevertheless, it made clear there's a real archaeological site of importance. It's always Interesting to me to hear something about the ancient history of China (before the Qin dynasty). You know that Chinese civilization, old as it is, didn't just pop up out of nowhere. It's always fascinating to learn something about the precursors to what we now call "China".

@sylviahuitson8309 20 күн бұрын

The statuettes of Gods are so Mayan like.

@Heothbremel 3 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@Alex-jm9ef 3 ай бұрын

Maybe my people the Mizo's from Mizoram ,North East India came from this place

@sabinadonofrio8863 2 ай бұрын

So tired of her asking if there were sacrifices. I mean really. It was obvious that.there were.why hype it up? Next documentary please 🥺

@DeliYomgam 3 ай бұрын

It's an ancient practice to bury people with the things they loved during their lifetime. Eg:dogs, swords, pottery. Although pottery doesn't seem important but think about times when it would be hard to procure even a piece of metal. Lol..

@PhilipIWorld 3 ай бұрын

As a historian,i would say this site of Jinsha could be considered as a colony like Hongkong thousands years ago. Its technology is much advanced than other of china at that time. It’s a Quite simple and topical paradigm in history itself .nothing special.

@marianonicolasromero6974 Ай бұрын

great to see a documentary that pays attention to the tones in the names, i always see documentaries that are made by not chinese and they mispronounce everything

@SuperLueking Ай бұрын

I think these are mong or hmong people, the symbol look similar to the hmong today symbol. You can find that on the clothes. Our history, we used to live in that area. Its pass down that we used to live under a very big trees but its got burn down to the only the root. That is all i remember from the story from all the elders.

@Adolph_shampoo Ай бұрын

Jinsha到底是指代哪个Jin和哪个Sha在汉语中?😅

@felixpoventud3914 5 күн бұрын

The gods walked on earth at that time! Humen took over the jobs the gods didnt want to do! They showed us! How to build! Math, writting, the weel, ect, we cared for them! Then when they left? We humens took over earth! After the flood! We relearned everything they showed us!

@VkK-xw4to Ай бұрын

1:01 1:03

@LuvLeighAn_ 3 ай бұрын

Did they show Viking Celt symbols (6:31 minutes) I want to know how and why

@carrirolloson3829 23 күн бұрын

Triskele isn't a Viking symbol. 🤣 It's purely celt.

@advaithramesh6697 3 ай бұрын

So Jinsha kingdom, symbol was the Sun and the Bird

@malcolmmyself9653 Ай бұрын

How did they get the tusks? Were elephants native to China at that time? Or, it means that they knew of and traded with Africa? Great doco.

@denisecampbell3416 Ай бұрын

There are Asian and African elephants so perhaps they came from India?

@terrencelandoll1933 3 ай бұрын

i hate sensationalism masquerading as science. After 5 minutes, i just turned it off. so sad...

@hamishstewart5188 Ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@allanroom 3 ай бұрын

Seems she stayed at chengdu shangrila or sofitel

@advaithramesh6697 3 ай бұрын

It may take awhile to reconstruct their culture. But we can confirm the basics they had a political institutution, they had an authority figure, they believed in after life since they had burials. Whether they believed in gods or were nature worshippers or were atheistic is a matter of debate. The language they speak also matters. Has their been a discovery of inscriptions? What language did they speak? What is the genetic make up or genome of the bones and skeletons discovered?

@davidleesn 3 ай бұрын

Any resemblance to statues at Easter Islands which has its own fascinating story? Bottom line is the human communities leaving us with great artifacts and sophisticated achievements be it in graves or places of worship!

@StarkIller-df7gw Ай бұрын

Kneeling statues could possibly be prisoners of war caught from neighbouring kindgdoms!!

@DeliYomgam 3 ай бұрын

Is there a dna trace to find the descendents?

@jandrews6254 26 күн бұрын

Less about the presenter and the chats, more about the artifacts

@zinthin8456 20 күн бұрын

It would have been better to hear more about its people, history and artifacts they found instead of trying so hard to prove they practiced human sacrifices....

@FreedomOfSpeech800 Ай бұрын

6:29 thos are Celtic symbols That’s actually one of the most popular Celtic symbols interesting 🤔

@weepingcamel1 3 ай бұрын

lost kingdom found in the downtown area of a 20m population city 😅

@brooklynka 2 ай бұрын

The only thing i don like this documentary is that it is raletively new and it was recently made, but the cinematic filter made it dusty and painful to watch....the official jinsha and sanxingdui archeo documentary look much more eyefriendly to me

@DeliYomgam 3 ай бұрын

That's a hornbill.

@advaithramesh6697 3 ай бұрын

There must have been many named tribes who formed a congregation or confederacy at Jinsha. Because all these are totem symbols and an organised from of animism. And an organised form of animism or shamanism only arises when humans organise themselves into tribal groups. And large kingdom such Shang or Jinsha arise when multiple tribal group unit to form a single political unit

@advaithramesh6697 3 ай бұрын

Did the Jinsha kingdom people also believe in ´The Mandate of Heaven’?