This 5,000-Year-Old Tomb Is Spectacularly Preserved

Smithsonian Channel
Smithsonian Channel
51,253
0
Publicado 2020-08-20
Despite the fact that it’s over 5,000 years old, Maeshowe, Orkney's answer to Stonehenge, is in amazing shape. But why did Neolithic Britons go to such great lengths to build it?

From the Series: Mystic Britain: Monster of Maeshowe bitly.com/3gXPC8f
Todos los comentarios (21)
  • @traieking
    Always watch these thinking I bet if who ever is was around at that time is looking down shaking there head like wrong. Wrong. No that's not what we built it for 🤦‍♂️. 😂
  • @margo3367
    "...bits of dead people." I love British people!
  • @samh98239
    I’m loving the community comments here. A lot of interesting takes on what it could be for. But no doubt it’s amazing that the structure is still standing. Our ancestors were smarter than they get credit for
  • @jandoel
    The ammount of time, energy, and resources dedicated by a group of hunter gatherers is astounding.
  • @MrEjidorie
    I cannot believe that this tomb was built more than 5000 years ago. Even the Pentateuch was not written yet at that time.
  • @BoffinGrusky
    Very interesting, but one has to pause when you realize how much of our "history" is opined into existence by experts.
  • @mathiasandersen3401
    0:20 gotta love the sneaky little viking that made runes in there... Shame i cant see the whole inscription... "...-IhahÞina" is all i can see :c
  • @bb21again.67
    Amazing that these structures are still around today.
  • @ebayerr
    Maybe they think these were tombs because peoples in later years repurposed them as tombs. They may have had an entirely different purpose by the original builders.
  • @clambroth1923
    The speculation that the small chamber way entrance was to help the person entering to have an "experiential transformation" is somewhat hogwashery. I wouldn't read anything into that entrance way other than the size of the people and building material constraints on the island dictated the dimensions entirely.
  • @SANTO971
    Could be .. maybe.. could be.. maybe.. could be.. maybe.. try: a nuclear shelter, lol
  • @kamoogy
    It's a house. The residents buried their dead inside to keep them close. Many older societies did this. That's my story and I'm sticking to it