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Ancient Armageddon

Nobody, or except very specialized people knew that beyond theMemnon, there was a vast and...

Nobody, or except very specialized people knew that beyond the
Memnon, there was a vast and they were the ruins of a
very, very large temple

Full Transcript

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Nobody, or except
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very specialized people
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knew that beyond the Memnon, there was a vast and
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they were the ruins of a very, very large temple.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:57:14
Uploaded
Apr 16, 2025
Genres
history
Production
TV6 Production,Discovery Channel,France Télévisions,NHK Enterprises

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Movie Summary

This two hour special explore the mysterious and catastrophic collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bronze Age, from the Hittites to the Mycenaeans and the Egyptians, revealing the tumultuous events that brought an end...
[narrator] This temple known as Kom el-Hetan, - Ancient Armageddon 00:24
[narrator] This temple known as Kom el-Hetan,
Over the last few decades, - Ancient Armageddon 00:30
Over the last few decades,
[narrator] In the process of all the re-construction, - Ancient Armageddon 00:28
[narrator] In the process of all the re-construction,
What we see here, - Ancient Armageddon 00:08
What we see here,
We see all this block tilted few degree... - Ancient Armageddon 00:06
We see all this block tilted few degree...
And you see this row of blocks? - Ancient Armageddon 00:06
And you see this row of blocks?
So we have some kind of wave here. - Ancient Armageddon 00:05
So we have some kind of wave here.
We have a manmade mortar folded like this. - Ancient Armageddon 00:06
We have a manmade mortar folded like this.
Such a deformation can be - Ancient Armageddon 00:07
Such a deformation can be
[narrator] To try to pin point the date of the earthquake, - Ancient Armageddon 00:27
[narrator] To try to pin point the date of the earthquake,
We have a-- a thin archaeological layer. - Ancient Armageddon 00:06
We have a-- a thin archaeological layer.
And after the earthquake happened, we - Ancient Armageddon 00:06
And after the earthquake happened, we
We have like plume injection of sandy layer. - Ancient Armageddon 00:06
We have like plume injection of sandy layer.
You see some fraction of archaeological layer here. - Ancient Armageddon 00:06
You see some fraction of archaeological layer here.
[narrator] The team found several examples of this liquefaction layer. - Ancient Armageddon 00:16
[narrator] The team found several examples of this liquefact...
[narrator] Radio carbon dating of the pottery - Ancient Armageddon 00:22
[narrator] Radio carbon dating of the pottery
This pot, we showed it to a specialist - Ancient Armageddon 00:10
This pot, we showed it to a specialist
[narrator] A massive earthquake seems to have happened - Ancient Armageddon 00:26
[narrator] A massive earthquake seems to have happened
If so, - Ancient Armageddon 00:08
If so,
To determine the extent, - Ancient Armageddon 00:18
To determine the extent,