0:02 on the bottom of our planet lies The
0:04 Frigid land of
0:07 Antarctica the coldest and most
0:10 inhospitable continent in the
0:12 world stretching over 5 million square
0:15 miles Antarctica is covered in ice
0:17 sheets that reach more than a mile
0:21 deep the average daily temperature is
0:26 49° f and wind speeds can reach over 100
0:30 mph today the only inhabitants of this
0:32 Baron landscape are scientists who work
0:35 in research stations scattered across the
0:36 the
0:39 continent mainstream geologists have
0:40 long believed that ancient humans never
0:43 settled on Antarctica because of its
0:46 hostile climate but
0:48 incredibly in
0:51 2016 satellite images revealed a curious
0:55 formation emerging from the ice that
0:57 some researchers believe could
1:01 be a man-made pyramid
1:03 recently there have been a number of
1:07 reports of pyramids huge Great Pyramids
1:11 in Antarctica they jut out of the ice
1:15 and snow and they look perfect just like
1:19 those in Egypt but they dwarf those in
1:23 Egypt like the Great Pyramid one has a
1:27 perfectly square base that is 2 km
1:30 Square in each Direction
1:32 is it possible therefore that our
1:35 ancestors did actually reach the Antarctic
1:36 Antarctic
1:40 continent and perhaps even settle there
1:44 a man-made pyramid beneath the Antarctic
1:48 Ice if such an incredible notion is true
1:50 then it naturally begs some
1:53 questions how was such a massive
1:56 structure built on Antarctica when was
1:58 it done and by
2:02 whom Antarctica we have been told from
2:05 the geologists has been under ice for
2:09 many millions of years however there is
2:12 evidence that it could have been free of
2:15 ice certainly in certain
2:19 areas until perhaps 4,000
2:23 BC there are a large number of stories
2:27 from Polynesia of so-called culture
2:31 Heroes who reached the Antarctic
2:34 continent a French academic by the name
2:37 of aror put together all of these
2:39 different stories in a book titled out of
2:41 of
2:44 Antarctica the Polynesian people's
2:48 stories describe This Strange Land with
2:50 these white rocks that come out of the
2:53 water which are icebergs and other
2:57 creatures such as seals and Penguins and
2:59 seem to describe an area that we now
3:01 know as
3:04 Antarctica the Polynesian peoples
3:06 believed this was the place of the
3:09 ancestors and they said this is where uh
3:12 we came from originally why did they
3:15 believe this if this was
3:18 untrue is it really possible that the
3:20 coldest place on
3:22 Earth was once warm enough to be
3:23 inhabited by
3:28 humans well in 2017 German geologists
3:30 collected core amples
3:32 from deep within the frozen Antarctic
3:34 seafloor in order to analyze what the
3:37 continent's climate might have been like
3:39 thousands of years
3:44 ago what they discovered was
3:47 astonishing in the case of that
3:48 expedition in early
3:51 2017 we used a very special seaf Flor
3:55 drill r that uh hasn't been used before
3:58 in Antarctica so when we used this
4:00 special drill rig
4:02 and the settlement came up we saw
4:07 immediately more than 60 different taxa
4:10 of plants similar to something that you
4:13 would find in a rainforest in a
4:18 temperature regime that was similar to
4:21 what we today know from Northern
4:26 Italy and finding that on the Antarctic
4:28 continent that was the most exciting
4:32 thing because the climatic conditions
4:36 doesn't today allow any vegetation to
4:39 survive under those conditions So based
4:42 on that location and the environment we
4:44 found I think that the Antarctic
4:48 continent and the secrets that still
4:51 need to be recovered will tell us a lot
4:52 about planet
4:56 Earth Cairo
4:58 Egypt sitting at top a plateau just a
5:01 few miles west of the Nile River is the Giza
5:02 Giza
5:04 necropolis perhaps the most famous
5:07 collection of ruins in the entire
5:09 world believed to be constructed during
5:12 ancient Egypt's fourth Dynasty around
5:16 2550 BC these Limestone monuments
5:19 attract thousands of tourists every day
5:22 who come to Marvel at the immense
5:25 pyramids forbidding
5:28 tombs and a mysterious Stone Sentinel
5:30 known as the
5:35 Sphinx I think you can argue that the
5:39 Sphinx is the most recognizable statue
5:41 anywhere in the
5:44 world its scale is
5:48 immense it's one single piece of
5:52 stone it is cut from the natural rock of
5:55 the Giza
6:00 Plateau the Sphinx stands 240 ft long 66
6:04 ft tall and 62 ft
6:07 wide for thousands of years this massive
6:09 statue has been an object of both
6:10 Fascination and
6:14 wonder but even after centuries of study
6:17 the Sphinx holds many secrets that
6:21 archaeologists are still trying to
6:23 unravel the Sphinx that we know today
6:25 the Sphinx from the Great Pyramids of
6:29 Giza is the most famous of all sphinxes
6:32 but there are sphinxes all over ancient
6:35 Egypt there are smaller sphinxes there's
6:40 an Avenue full of sphinxes between the
6:42 temples but the great sphin of Geer is
6:45 something very different it's a single
6:48 sculpture it sits in a very particular
6:50 place it doesn't seem to have performed
6:53 the same function at all what was it for
6:55 this is what we really want to
7:00 know no one has understood exactly what
7:03 means because for literally thousands of
7:06 years the Sphinx was buried up to its
7:09 neck in sand so it's only a head
7:13 sticking out of the sand for much of its
7:15 history there is a very famous painting
7:19 of Emperor Napoleon standing in front of
7:21 the Sphinx buried still at this point up
7:23 to its shoulders you might think what
7:25 does Napoleon got to do with Egypt and
7:28 the Sphinx well in fact Napoleon LED an
7:30 invasion of Egypt in
7:33 1798 which had a big impact back in
7:36 Europe in raising awareness and interest
7:38 in ancient Egypt
7:41 sites it wasn't until the 1920s that a
7:44 team of archaeologists led by engineer Emil
7:45 Emil
7:48 Barz succeeded in unearthing the Sphinx
7:52 from the Desert Sands they were able to
7:54 expose it and to so to reveal for the
7:56 first time in centuries that this was
7:58 not just a head a disembodied head but a
8:01 a full Sphinx
8:04 sculpture and this is a watershed moment
8:07 for us understanding what the
8:10 Sphinx archaeologists and egyptologists
8:12 like myself believe that the Sphinx was
8:18 sculpted around 2500 BC by King keine as
8:22 a part of his funerary complex but a lot
8:26 of Scholars disagree about the sphin and
8:28 there's a lot of mystery surrounding
8:32 when was the Sphinx actually
8:34 sculpted one of the most important
8:36 documents we have to do with the dating
8:39 of the Sphinx is the inventory
8:43 Steeler this is a commemorative stone
8:46 that actually records details of how the
8:51 Pharaoh kufu repaired the Sphinx after
8:57 lightning the significance of this is
9:02 that kufu came before cfre the pharaoh
9:05 who is conventionally said to have
9:07 constructed the
9:11 sphin the inventory Stella has an
9:16 inscription that goes back to about 4600
9:20 years ago and that inscription says that
9:23 the Sphinx is a much older structure
9:27 that the Egyptians adopted and repaired
9:30 and venerated
9:31 based on the inscriptions on the
9:34 inventory Stila there are some
9:35 archaeologists who believe that the
9:38 Sphinx is so ancient that it could
9:41 predate any records in human history
9:42 that are known to
9:45 exist and some researchers are convinced
9:47 that physical evidence of the Sphinx's
9:50 true age can be found on the structure
9:53 itself the first time I visited the
9:57 Sphinx was in the summer of 1990 my
9:59 early studies of the Sphinx looked at
10:02 the erosional features on the body of
10:05 the Sphinx and comparing that to other
10:08 erosional features right on the Giza
10:11 plateau and what I found was the body of
10:14 the Sphinx and the walls of the Sphinx
10:17 enclosure are weathered differently than
10:19 everything else on the Giza
10:23 Plateau the rest of the plateau shows
10:25 classic wind
10:29 erosion but what is on the Sphinx is
10:33 water weathering it's rainfall
10:36 precipitation and this makes no sense
10:38 when the Sphinx is sitting on the edge
10:41 of the Sahara Desert that has been a
10:44 bone dry desert for literally thousands
10:48 of years so what I concluded is that the
10:50 body of the Sphinx and therefore the
10:54 original Statue had to go back to
10:57 prahara times when there was a much more
11:00 temperate climate much more moisture
11:04 much more rainfall and it has to go back
11:06 not just a little bit into that period
11:09 but quite far back given that we have
11:11 incredible amount of weathering and
11:13 erosion on the
11:17 Sphinx I now think that it goes back to
11:21 the end of the last ice age Circa 10,000
11:25 BC I am convinced that it is a ruin from
11:32 Cincinnati
11:36 Ohio just outside the city on a normal
11:38 Suburban Street in an ordinary
11:41 neighborhood is the home of Greg and Dana
11:42 Dana
11:45 newerk from the outside their home is
11:47 not much different from any other house
11:49 on the Block get some Fork action going
11:54 on yeah but inside it contains something quite
11:55 quite
11:58 extraordinary because there is a room in
12:00 the basement that is filled with a
12:03 collection of strange objects sent by
12:06 people from all over the world that are
12:09 believed to be
12:12 cursed Greg and I lead normal lives and
12:15 we we go about our life the same way
12:17 that everyone else does we just happen
12:20 to be caretakers for very strange
12:23 objects the way that we got started
12:25 collecting cursed objects was complete
12:27 accident it wasn't something that we had
12:29 set out to do
12:31 never would have imagined myself doing
12:34 this we were just interested in in general
12:39 weirdness my wife and I investigate all
12:41 manner of high
12:43 strangeness and we were both very
12:46 interested in the idea of cursed objects
12:49 we slowly gained a reputation as being
12:52 particularly good people for this and so
12:54 anytime anyone had a problem with an
12:56 artifact they would come to us and say I
12:58 don't know what to do with this this
13:01 thing is affecting my life will you just
13:02 take it off my hands it'd be easier to
13:03 just give it to you and let you deal
13:06 with it so we built up this collection
13:08 of very bizarre
13:11 things visitors to the new Kirk's home
13:13 are given ample warning that the
13:16 basement is filled with objects that are
13:21 cursed we have a lot of haunted robes
13:23 but curiously every day the new Kirks
13:25 receive requests from people who are
13:29 eager to view their cursed collection
13:30 you think with cursed objects you want
13:34 to avoid them but there is a draw to
13:36 them when an object is said to be cursed
13:38 another word you could use is special
13:40 it's special if this chair is cursed
13:42 it's different from every other chair in
13:44 the world and that makes it unique that
13:46 makes it interesting and that draws our
13:48 attention every single time and the fact
13:50 that that specialness is that it hurts
13:53 people that appeals to a certain maab
13:56 streak that we all have as human
13:58 beings people think of cursed objects as
14:02 being being kind of fun and spooky but
14:04 working with them it feels a lot less
14:06 about that and a lot more about that
14:08 kind of heavy responsibility to keep
14:11 some of these objects with us under lock
14:13 and key and maybe out of the wrong
14:16 hands and maybe in a place that's safer
14:19 not only for for everyone else but for
14:21 them the new Kirk's collection includes
14:23 several objects that are considered to
14:26 have the power to inflict harm on anyone
14:29 who comes near them
14:33 this is the cursed deer skull we drove
14:34 down to Nashville to pick up from a
14:38 woman who saw this in an antique store
14:40 and took it back to her office and
14:43 almost immediately her employees started
14:45 getting sick one of her employees was
14:48 hit by a car and then the wall that this
14:51 was hanging on actually fell down and
14:53 took half of the building with
14:55 it there are certain objects
14:58 specifically in our Museum that without
15:00 people knowing why they feel this the
15:02 way that they feel they will definitely
15:05 have heart palpitations
15:08 anxiety we've had people almost faint
15:10 we've had people throw up we've had
15:12 people dry Heap people have very
15:14 visceral physical reactions to being
15:20 objects among the accursed objects in
15:23 the new Kirks collection is a deadly
15:26 ring that is claimed to kill anyone who wears
15:26 wears
15:31 it a Bible used during a failed exorcism
15:34 and a doll that is believed to spread
15:36 illness wherever it
15:39 goes but of all the cursed objects the
15:42 Newks have come across there is one that
15:45 is so harrowing they refuse to keep it
15:48 in their collection it is an unsettling
15:51 wooden Effigy known as the
15:54 Chrome the Crone really is the
15:57 definition of kind of a cursed object it
16:01 is a carved statue of a woman someone at
16:04 some point in time took this object and
16:06 attached The Noose and the
16:09 nails it was given to us by some hikers
16:12 who found it in the cat skills off the
16:14 beaten path in a
16:17 cave they took it home and initially
16:19 started to experience really frightening
16:21 things their animals were behaving
16:23 strangely they were finding wet
16:25 footprints on the ground and they didn't
16:27 know what to
16:29 do someone who we had work worked with
16:31 previously put them in contact with us
16:33 and after you know having some
16:35 communication with them they they sent
16:38 the Crone to us people who would get
16:41 near the Crone they would be just
16:44 overwhelmed with
16:47 anxiety this guy came all the way from
16:50 Canada to come and see the Crone he
16:52 begged us to take it out of the
16:55 box almost
16:57 immediately his eyes roll up in the back
16:59 of his head and he starts to believe
16:59 from his
17:02 mouth and he has a violent seizure and
17:05 he has to be taken out by the paramedics
17:07 and that's when Dan and I looked at each
17:08 other and we said we have to do
17:09 something about
17:12 this it got to a point where the Crone
17:14 was just too dangerous for even us to
17:17 take care of and what we wanted to do
17:20 was bring her back to the cat skills
17:23 which is where she's [Music]
17:25 [Music]
17:28 from to remove the Cron's curse the new
17:30 Kirk's plan was return to the area where
17:33 it was originally found by two hikers
17:34 many years
17:37 before at which point they would remove
17:40 the nails embedded in the Crone in a cleansing
17:42 cleansing
17:46 ritual we wanted to bring her back and
17:48 every time a nail was pulled out the
17:50 intention was that we were pulling that
17:52 curse out of the
17:57 object we hiked into the woods for
18:01 miles and I set up a circle the idea of
18:04 setting up a circle was basically just
18:05 to create an energetic space for
18:07 containing this
18:10 ritual the whole time we were doing this
18:13 we were hearing
18:15 footsteps and strange sounds that
18:18 weren't animals around our
18:22 Circle but we couldn't see
18:25 anything we were absolutely terrified
18:28 but we start performing the ritual I
18:32 pull the nails out soon as that happens
18:36 we feel this almost electric pop in the
18:40 air when we were done every coyote on
18:42 the mountain just started
18:45 howling and the ritual was finished and
18:47 what we were looking at was just a block
18:50 of wood and we just kind of knew that we
18:53 had done what we went there to
18:57 do in the lower Jordan River Valley 8
19:00 mil north of the Dead Sea
19:02 a distinct Ridge rises from the
19:06 landscape but this is no ordinary
19:08 Ridge because buried under layers of
19:11 dirt and rock are the ruins of an
19:14 ancient city that dates back almost 4,000
19:15 4,000
19:19 years modern archaeologists have named
19:22 the site tal El
19:26 hamam when you look at tal ham from
19:29 satellite imagery it's long and it's
19:31 narrow it's about a mile from anend to
19:34 end we believe that as many as 50,000
19:37 people occupied the city according to
19:40 experts tall El hamam is shrouded in
19:43 mystery we don't know what it was named
19:45 in ancient times or who lived there but
19:47 in recent years some archaeologists have
19:51 theorized that tal El hamam is actually
19:54 the ruins of the biblical city of
19:58 Sodom in Genesis you have these cities
20:00 Sodom and more and there's wickedness
20:02 there's inequity in the city but then
20:06 God decides no this city is doing a
20:08 horrible kinds of things so I'm
20:11 literally going to rain fire sulfur down
20:15 I'm going to destroy this
20:19 city God said enough is enough fire and
20:21 burning Stone came forth out of the
20:24 heavens from Yahweh and consumed the
20:28 city in fact the Bible says that every person
20:29 person
20:33 crop plant tree twig anything that was
20:36 living was destroyed the Sodom and gomor
20:38 story is fascinating and it's meant to
20:41 be a metaphor an understanding of oh
20:44 when human beings don't do what they
20:46 should do here's what God does to
20:49 destroy us you it's God's power being
20:52 manifested it's an act of
20:54 God the destruction of Sodom and
20:56 Gomorrah has long been associated with
20:59 the wrath of God until recently many
21:01 scholars thought that the story was only a
21:02 a
21:05 myth so why do some experts now believe
21:09 that tal El amam could be the remains of
21:11 the city of
21:15 Sodom there is more geographical data in
21:16 the biblical text for the location of
21:19 Sodom than there is for any other
21:22 biblical site the Bible was very very
21:25 clear that it was north and east of the
21:28 Dead Sea and it was very clear that it
21:32 was east of Jerusalem and Tama matches
21:35 geographics of the text it matches the
21:37 time frame of the text it matches all
21:39 the possible descriptions of the text
21:43 describes it the idea that tal Elam
21:45 matches the location of Sodom in the
21:47 Bible is
21:50 intriguing and researchers also claim
21:53 that there is physical evidence on
21:56 site that confirms the biblical
21:59 description of sodom's Destruction
22:01 the actual destruction event is recorded
22:06 in just two verses in Genesis 19: 24 and
22:09 25 where it talks about the fact that
22:10 rock and fire came down from the heavens
22:13 and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah one
22:16 theory is that an incoming meteor or meteor
22:18 meteor
22:21 fragment exploded over the North End of
22:23 the Dead
22:27 Sea and destroyed talah
22:30 ham there are there are numerous proxies
22:32 that give strong indication that an air
22:35 burst or impact event have occurred the
22:38 first is the evidence of thermal damage
22:41 that's represented through melted
22:44 building materials and partially melted Pottery
22:46 Pottery
22:49 fragments the second is the appearance
22:53 and occurrence of microspheres very very
22:56 tiny spherical shaped melted pieces of
22:59 mineral grains and sand
23:05 and the third is a high concentration of
23:08 rare Earth elements Rare Earth elements
23:10 are very common in asteroids not so
23:13 common on the earth what's interesting
23:15 is that the middle layer of tal hamam
23:18 has a really high salt
23:21 concentration it's so salty that a lot
23:24 of times we excavate Pottery that's just
23:27 coated with thick salt crystals that's
23:30 pretty unusual why is is that layer so
23:32 salty well it's the same salt as found
23:35 in the Dead Sea probably because this
23:40 airburst event pushed a massive amount
23:44 of dirt water and salt over the
23:48 landscape a meteor explosion in the sky
23:51 if tal El hamam really was Sodom could
23:53 such an explosion be the reason why the
23:56 city is now buried in dirt that has a
23:59 high concentration of salt
24:02 some experts believe the answer is yes
24:03 and they point to the biblical story for
24:05 further evidence of the connection
24:09 between the destruction of Sodom and
24:12 salt the story of Sodom essentially
24:14 picks up in Genesis 19 where you have
24:17 these two angels that look like men who
24:20 travel down to visit lot who's living
24:23 down in Sodom and lot shows them
24:25 tremendous Hospitality you're supposed
24:29 to be kind to immigrants you're supposed
24:33 to be kind to foreigners as lot has
24:37 done God has decided to destroy the city
24:39 because of its
24:42 wickedness so the Angels grab lot and
24:44 his family and as they're leaving Sodom
24:46 the Angels give them the command don't
24:49 even look back and then you have this
24:52 fascinating detail where it says that
24:55 Lot's wife turned and looked back and
24:59 she turned into a pillar of salt
25:02 what could be the significance of Lot's
25:05 wife turning into a pillar of
25:08 salt does this detail from the story
25:10 support the theory that a meteor
25:14 explosion in the sky buried Sodom in tur
25:16 and salt
25:19 perhaps but is a meteor explosion a
25:24 natural event or is it an act of God
25:26 there's been a lot of question about
25:29 fire and brimstone coming down from the
25:31 heavens right this is one of these
25:34 Unexplained Mysteries and there have
25:36 been a lot of theories and this probably
25:40 has something to do with wanting
25:45 evidence that proves Faith a lot of
25:48 people believe in these stories and
25:52 archaeology can confirm them I think
25:53 from a point of view of science as we
25:55 look at the biblical text and we look at
25:57 the statement of this was fire and
25:58 burning Stone from God out of the
26:00 heavens if such an event actually
26:02 occurred would it have left some
26:05 evidences around well of course yes
26:07 that's all confirmed by the Science Now
26:09 science can't tell me one way or the
26:12 other whether it's an act of God but the
26:14 event is
26:19 confirmed Pompei Italy 79
26:22 ad at approximately 1:00 p.m. on a
26:25 peaceful late summer day this ancient
26:27 Roman city in the shadow of Mount vvus
26:33 is shaken by a massive volcanic
26:36 eruption within minutes superheated gas
26:39 and lav engulf the city and its
26:42 surroundings in an instant thousands of
26:45 people are buried alive as a city that
26:46 was once their
26:55 tomb nearly 2,000 years after the
26:58 eruption pompe is a city that remains
27:00 Frozen in
27:03 time this eruption was what we call a
27:06 pyroclastic eruption where clouds of of
27:10 Ash and debris hundreds of degrees hot
27:13 came flowing down the mountain flash
27:16 flying everything in its path and
27:20 miraculously the heat of this Cloud was
27:24 enough to carbonize and preserve rather
27:28 than destroy all kinds of information
27:30 we have well-preserved
27:33 architecture wood and organic materials food
27:34 food
27:36 stuffs human
27:39 remains animal remains that have been
27:43 preserved for 2,000 years beneath uh
27:45 this volcanic
27:48 debris today the excavated ruins of
27:52 Pompei offer archaeologists and tourists
27:54 a breathtaking look at the doomed ancient
27:55 ancient
27:58 city perhaps the most intriguing
28:00 Discovery found beneath the ash from
28:03 Mount vesuvius's eruption was an ancient
28:06 Roman structure located not far from
28:10 pompe known as The Villa De
28:14 papyri the villa de piri was a Roman
28:18 luxury Villa that was full of sculpture
28:21 and marble and bronze The Villa was
28:25 discovered by chance in 1750 by well
28:29 diggers who tunneling about 75 ft
28:32 through volcanic debris first hit a
28:35 colored marble floor with an amazing
28:39 pattern made up of bright red and yellow
28:42 Marbles and we think this was once the
28:45 vacation home of a Roman senator of the
28:48 highest rank of an old Noble family
28:50 named Lucius calpernius
28:54 piso the volcanic ash that buried Villa
28:56 De papayi did not only preserve the
28:59 physical structure it also entombed a
29:02 library that contained more than 18800 Papyrus
29:04 Papyrus
29:06 Scrolls these scrolls are an
29:08 extraordinary record of the thoughts and
29:10 writings of people who lived nearly
29:18 ago those texts were discovered when the
29:21 city was excavated and some of the
29:24 artifacts were first found they people
29:25 who discovered them didn't know what
29:27 they were they thought that maybe they
29:30 were pieces of branches or logs because
29:33 they were rolled up and carbonized until
29:35 someone finally realized these are texts on
29:36 on
29:40 Papyrus the villa de piri library is
29:42 significant because it's the only
29:44 surviving library from Antiquity with
29:48 its contents there were Scrolls found
29:51 that date to the 3D 2nd and 1st Century
29:55 BC in the 1st Century ad about 300 of
29:57 them or so have been
29:59 unscrolling they contain mostly philosophic
30:01 philosophic
30:03 texts some poetry some literary
30:07 criticism a little bit of history but
30:10 many of the scrolls are so tightly bound
30:11 together and carbonized that there's
30:18 them fear of damaging the Scrolls has
30:20 left many of them virtually untouch for
30:22 over a 100
30:25 years but new technology has presented a
30:28 potential opportunity to read these
30:31 mysterious ancient
30:34 texts scientists in the computer science
30:37 department at the University of Kentucky
30:40 have developed a new method known as virtual
30:41 virtual
30:44 unwrapping which uses a sophisticated
30:47 x-ray machine to scan the Scrolls
30:50 without damaging them the virtual
30:53 unwrapping that we innovated basically
30:54 allows a
30:58 360° set of views to be collected from
31:00 an object that rotates in front of an x-ray
31:01 x-ray
31:05 beam this is a real scroll that's 2,000
31:08 years old and in
31:10 crosssection we can see there's there's
31:11 damage there are parts that are missing
31:13 sections that are broken now we're using
31:15 our software for the Second Step which
31:18 is to trace these wraps all the way
31:20 through so that we can build a 3D model
31:22 that lets us flatten that out and then
31:25 read the text that's on it and once
31:28 we're done we've achieved this image
31:29 it's on the left which is the final
31:31 completely unwrapped
31:34 version this is a quote from
31:36 democratus who was an early Greek
31:39 philosopher and is very well known for
31:42 having postulated with others that
31:45 materials are made of
31:48 atoms I think it's remarkable that 2,000
31:50 years ago Greek philosophers were
31:52 postulating what we now know is true from
31:54 from
31:56 science thus far the team has been able
31:59 to digitally scan two complete Scrolls
32:01 and a number of
32:04 fragments they hope that in the future
32:06 technology will advance and allow them
32:08 to reveal even
32:12 more but what Secrets might be contained
32:15 in those 2,000-year-old Scrolls one
32:17 exciting possibility that has been
32:19 suggested is that the original letters
32:22 written by Jesus's Apostle Paul could
32:24 have been kept within the library of
32:26 villa de
32:29 papy The Villa of the hyrie was in tuned
32:32 about 40 to 50 years after the death of
32:35 Jesus at this time the original Apostles
32:38 are now outdoing their mission work in
32:40 various parts of the
32:43 Mediterranean so it's entirely likely
32:45 that the Villa of the papy could have a
32:50 collection of copies of Paul's
32:52 letters if the letters from the Apostle
32:54 Paul circulated and found its way into
32:57 the collection such a discovery would
32:59 represent the earliest Christian
33:01 material that we have almost dating back
33:06 to the time of Christ and the disciples
33:08 being able to use these techniques to
33:10 understand history in a way that's
33:13 almost forensic is going to bring
33:14 surprising things forward and we're
33:17 going to be revealing more secrets than
33:19 we'd ever imagined before [Music]