Tombs

Burial as architecture. Tutankhamun and the Valley of the Kings, Qin Shi Huang's terracotta army and the unopened mound, Newgrange and the passage graves, mummies and bog bodies, and the grave goods that tell you what a society valued.

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57 moments in this segment.

  1. - Coffin of Senbi (Lid). ), Egypt, Meir, Middle Kingdom (2040–1648 BCE), Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat II (1929–1895 BCE), reign of Senusret III (1878–1839 BCE), dated 1918–1859 BCE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  2. - Coffin of Bakenmut. (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22, dated c. 1000–900 BCE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  3. - Shawabty of Pinudjem I, High Priest of Amen and King. (1069–715 BCE), Dynasty 21, dated c. 990–969 BCE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  4. - Coffin of Nesykhonsu. (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22, dated c. 976–889 BCE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  5. - Canopic Jar with Jackal's Head (lid). ), Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26, dated 664–525 BCE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  6. - Canopic Jar with Man's Head (lid). ), Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26, dated 664–525 BCE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  7. - Canopic Jar with Baboon's Head (lid). ), Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26, dated 664–525 BCE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  8. - Shawabty of Nectanebo II. (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 30, reign of Nectanebo II (358–340 BCE), dated 360–342 BCE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  9. - Cartonnage Mummy Case. (332 BCE, 395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE), Roman empire (30 BCE, 395 CE), dated c. 50 BCE, 50 CE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  10. - Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl. 25–37 CE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  11. - Sarcophagus. 100–125 CE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  12. - Funerary Panel of a Man. (Egypt), unknown painter, dated about 138–92 CE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  13. - Funerary Portrait of a Woman. 138–92 CE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  14. - Funerary Urn. 350–500 CE. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  15. - Funerary Mask. 13th-16th century, dated 1200–1500. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  16. - Funerary Female Figure. 15th-16th century, dated 1200–1500. Museum photograph of an excavated object; the date given is the object's, not the photograph's.
  17. - Ancient Egyptian Mummies - Pomet's Drogues. Ancient Egyptian Mummies from Pierre Pomet's Histoire Générale des Drogues (1694) by Pierre Pomet [1658 - 1699] Compleat History of Druggs, a - translated 1737 https://archive.org/details/compleathist. Period photograph.
  18. - Tutankhamen's Tomb (1922). British Pathe newsreel shot at the Valley of the Kings showing the gated entrance to the tomb in the year of its discovery.
  19. - Groep gemummificeerde lijken, mummies op Luçon op de Filipijnen, SFA022815205. Omschrijving: Groep gemummificeerde lijken / mummies op Luçon op de Filipijnen. De doden worden daar bij elkaar gezet op een heilige plek in de bergen, waar ze door de zon verdrogen en mummificeren. 1. Period photograph.
  20. - The Sutton Hoo ship burial: 1939 excavation footage. Archive film of the 1939 dig at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, showing the ship's imprint emerging from the sand.
  21. - Bronsalderslik. Borum Eshøj Man of the Nordic Bronze Age at National Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  22. - Momie Xom Cai. Momie de Xom Cai, Vietnam's History Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
  23. - GiedraitisMerkelis2. Varniai church, Mummie of Simonas Mykolas Giedraitis, Lithuania.
  24. - The Terracotta Warriors. National Geographic's short account of the chance discovery of the buried army built to protect China's first emperor.
  25. - Richard III skeleton confirmed authentic. Channel 4 News reports the identification of the Leicester car-park skeleton in February 2013.
  26. - Richard III: the scientific outcome. The full 4 February 2013 press conference presenting the DNA, radiocarbon and osteological evidence.
  27. - Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur. The Penn Museum on the objects Leonard Woolley recovered from the Sumerian royal cemetery in the 1920s.
  28. - The moment the remains were found. Archaeologist Mathew Morris uncovers a human leg bone on day one of the Leicester dig.
  29. - Richard III: one of the great archaeological discoveries. The University of Leicester on the 2012 Greyfriars dig that located the king's grave beneath a council car park.
  30. - Leicester announces the remains are Richard III. The university's announcement of the identification of the skeleton from the Greyfriars trench.
  31. - The Terracotta Army: farmers digging a well. BBC News on the March 1974 find near Xi'an, when farmers struck a life-sized clay head and archaeologists were called in.
  32. - Where were the Sutton Hoo treasures during the war?. The gift of the treasure to the British Museum was announced on 23 August 1939, days before war broke out.
  33. - A 2,400-year-old corpse in remarkable condition. How the chemistry of a Danish bog preserved a murdered Iron Age man's body and face.
  34. - Bog body hand, Drents Museum 8951. Left hand with part of the forearm of a bog corpse from an unknown find from the 1920s, possibly from the Southeast Drenthe region of the Netherlands. Exhibited in the Drents Museum, Assen, Netherland.
  35. - Sutton Hoo: treasure collected across Europe and Asia. Smarthistory's art-historical reading of the buckles, shoulder-clasps and purse lid from the burial.
  36. - The Sutton Hoo helmet. A British Museum curator handles and explains the reconstructed Anglo-Saxon helmet from the ship burial.
  37. - The King under the car park. Site director Mathew Morris gives a full account of the excavation and identification of Richard III.
  38. - (Re)discovering the Sutton Hoo ship burial. Dr Sue Brunning on the 1939 excavation supervised by Charles Phillips and what the grave has revealed since.
  39. - Excavating Tutankhamun's mummy, in colour. Colourised footage of Carter's team unwrapping the mummy three years after opening the tomb.
  40. - 20220302 sepultures gallo-romaines. Sur le site gallo-romain c'est un endroit où étaient rassemblées des sépultures. Derrière l'arbre nous avons une tombe encore bien visible.
  41. - HS2 discoveries illuminate the Anglo-Saxon Dark Ages. HS2's own account of the Wendover burial site, where nearly three quarters of graves contained grave goods.
  42. - An Anglo-Saxon burial ground found by HS2 archaeologists. Rescue archaeology on the HS2 rail route uncovers a large early medieval cemetery at Wendover.
  43. - Atop Shell Mound view to Gulf of Mexico. 20220827 141528153 FL Shell Mound view to gulf.
  44. - Begravningsplats Visby 227 undersökt 1975. 3 individer framkom på en yta som är belägen ungefär mitt i bilden.
  45. - How Howard Carter located Tutankhamun's tomb. The search method and years of fruitless digging that preceded the November 1922 find.
  46. - A 5,300-year-old murder mystery. Palaeopathologist Albert Zink's account of what forensic study of Otzi's body has established.
  47. - Otzi the Iceman: a 5,000-year-old murder. NOVA reconstructs the Copper Age mummy found in the Otztal Alps in 1991 and the arrow wound that killed him.
  48. - Iceman Reborn. NOVA follows the making of an exact 3D-printed replica of Otzi and the science behind the original body.
  49. - Who was buried in the Royal Tombs of Ur?. An evidence-led look at the identity of the occupants of the Ur death pits and the sequence of their reigns.
  50. - Tutankhamun: the greatest archaeological discovery. History Hit's account of 4 November 1922, when Howard Carter's diary recorded 'First steps of Tomb Found' in the Valley of the Kings.
  51. - The Tomb of Tutankhamun. Imaging technology probes the treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb while a team searches for the quarry that supplied it.
  52. - The tomb of Thutmose II found. NBC News on the first royal Egyptian tomb discovery since Tutankhamun's in 1922.
  53. - The First Emperor's mega-tomb. Albert Lin uses remote sensing on the unexcavated burial mound of Qin Shi Huang, guarded by the Terracotta Army.
  54. - Anclote river mound plaque. The information sign marking the location of an indigenous shell midden at the mouth of the Anclote River, in west-central Florida.
  55. - Sutton Hoo and its global connections. Curator Sue Brunning shows how objects in the 1939 ship burial link early medieval England to Europe and Asia.
  56. - Europe's most famous bog bodies. Tollund Man and Grauballe Man, preserved over 2,000 years in Danish peat and thought to be sacrificial victims.
  57. - Cairnpapple in West Lothian. A kite aerial photo of Cairnpapple looking northwards.
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