Saviez-vous que les archéologues pensent avoir trouvé le dernier lieu de repos de Saint Nicolas—oui, le personnage qui a inspiré le Père Noël ? Sous une ancienne église en Turquie, ils ont découvert un sarcophage qui pourrait appartenir au saint de la vie réelle du 4e siècle. Saint Nicolas était connu pour sa générosité et son aide aux pauvres, ce qui explique comment il est devenu la légende du Père Noël. L'église, construite en son honneur, a caché ce site funéraire sous son sol pendant des siècles ! Les scientifiques étudient encore avec soin la tombe pour confirmer s'il s'agit bien de lui, mais ils sont très enthousiastes à propos de cette découverte. 🎅✨ Animation créée par Sympa.
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00:00Great news, Santa Claus really exists and he looks like that.
00:04I know, this is not exactly the image that we made of the happy old man,
00:09but a tomb recently discovered could be the proof that we were waiting to establish that Saint Nicholas did indeed exist, and that he was Turkish.
00:17It turns out that he was not originally from the North Pole,
00:20he was a bishop at the heart of the 4th century, famous for the gifts he offered to everyone.
00:26Legend has it that he was born rich in the old city of Patara, in present-day Turkey,
00:32and that he would have ploughed the countryside to help the poor and the sick.
00:36For centuries, however, people did not know if he really existed.
00:42Some historical sources claim that he was buried in Myr, which is now called Demre, in Turkey.
00:48Since the 1980s, archaeologists have been digging around this region to try to find evidence.
00:54Today, their Christmas miracle has finally come true.
00:57After digging 183 cm deep in an annex of the Church of St. Nicholas,
01:03they discovered a mysterious tomb in limestone about 2 meters long.
01:07While they are almost certain that this is St. Nicholas' last home,
01:11they are still looking for an inscription that would confirm his exact age.
01:16As for the fictitious Santa Claus, legend has it that his house is in Lapland, Finland.
01:22In 2018, archaeologists made an interesting discovery
01:26that allowed them to hope that they would be able to prove the existence of Santa Claus.
01:30They were digging on a site called Tagnaro when they came across about 200 funerary pits.
01:36But when they looked inside, they found no trace of Santa Claus.
01:40In fact, there were no human skeletons, only pottery and bones of animals.
01:46So nobody really knows what this place was.
01:49It is quite the opposite of what happened with a team of archaeologists
01:52who worked in the former city of Petra, in Jordan.
01:55Since 2003, rumors have circulated about the existence of hidden chambers
01:59under the famous monument called Al-Khazneh, which some call the treasure.
02:0421 years later, researchers have finally decided to dig and have unearthed an intact tomb.
02:10Inside, they found at least 12 human skeletons and objects whose age is estimated at more than 2 million.
02:17Hundreds of thousands of tourists go to Al-Khazneh every year.
02:21Most of them probably go there to see the site of the Holy Grail
02:25in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
02:28But do you know what is more curious?
02:31One of the skeletons of the tomb held a ceramic chalice that looks a lot like the Holy Grail.
02:36You probably remember the devastating fire that caused huge damage to Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019.
02:43The building, built between the 12th and 13th centuries, must have been restructured because of this fire.
02:48But the archaeologists saw an opportunity in gold to search the site and discover its hidden secrets.
02:54The team was only allowed to dig 40 cm under the surface.
02:59But that was enough.
03:00As soon as they removed the slabs from the ground and cleared a thin layer of earth,
03:04they spotted the top of a lead coffin.
03:07They then discovered limestone sculptures, including heads and torsos of great nature.
03:13In total, they uncovered more than a thousand fragments of various works of art.
03:18Ancient statues were found in the most unexpected places, including in a well.
03:23In July 2024, Bulgarian archaeologists examined a Roman well in the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica
03:30when they found a marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of the Greek gods, measuring nearly 2 meters high.
03:37This city was completely devastated and abandoned after two earthquakes.
03:41One in the year 388 and the other in the year 425.
03:46But for one reason or another, these earthquakes did not destroy this statue.
03:50In fact, its head was found in excellent condition.
03:54The discovery of ancient works of art is certainly fascinating.
03:57But imagine that you came across an entire city hidden in the Amazon rainforest.
04:02Using high-tech lasers, researchers discovered the site of a lost civilization,
04:08including thousands of structures and a whole network of roads, canals and houses,
04:13all buried under the densest jungle.
04:16This city was built about 2,500 years ago, in an area in the shadow of a volcano.
04:22It is also possible that it erupted and destroyed this civilization at a time still undetermined.
04:28It is difficult to say exactly how many people lived there.
04:32But experts estimate that they stayed there for nearly a thousand years.
04:36This discovery proves that there were huge cities very organized in the middle of the Amazon.
04:41A similar event occurred in Campeche, in southern Mexico.
04:45An archaeologist was doing research on the Internet when he accidentally discovered a Mayan city.
04:51This site, now called Valeriana, was huge, the size of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
04:58It had a few pyramids, sports grounds, amphitheaters and paths connecting the different neighborhoods.
05:05Thanks to satellite images, archaeologists have brought to light an unknown civilization from the Bronze Age.
05:11It is by consulting aerial images that they discovered a hundred prehistoric establishments in the Pannonian Plain,
05:18a region that includes part of present-day Serbia and Hungary.
05:21The people who lived there are now known under the group name of the Tissa site.
05:26And it seems that they formed a fairly well-organized society, able to grow food, hunt and fish.
05:33Google Earth helped a team discover a mysterious set of 400 doors, ancient in Saudi Arabia.
05:40These doors, scattered in the desert, would have been built several thousand years ago.
05:46They are made of stone and arranged in strange configurations that have left archaeologists perplexed.
05:52They do not seem to have had a funeral function or to have been erected to shelter people.
05:57So we still have no idea what it is about.
06:00Technology is disrupting archaeology.
06:03Thanks to artificial intelligence and a contest with a prize of one million dollars,
06:08we were finally able to decipher part of an ancient manuscript, unreadable and very damaged.
06:14The scrolls of Herculaneum were discovered by workers who were excavating the ancient city of Herculaneum,
06:20near Pompeii, in 1752.
06:23But their condition was such that for years they were considered indecipherable.
06:28Fortunately, artificial intelligence helped to reveal their secrets.
06:33Based on the studies carried out so far,
06:35experts believe that one of these scrolls was written by a philosopher who prioritized pleasures,
06:40like music and gastronomy, over everything else.
06:44Stonehenge, in England, is undoubtedly one of the most mysterious places on the planet.
06:49Some theories even suggest that it was built by aliens.
06:54After more than a century of research, archaeologists still have not understood how it was designed.
06:59Do you see this big hotel in the middle?
07:01It turns out that it comes straight from Scotland.
07:04It's pretty amazing, given that this block of massive clay weighs more than 6 tons,
07:09and that the people who built Stonehenge more than 4,000 years ago
07:12did not have wheels or modern tools.
07:15The oceans are also full of amazing objects.
07:18In 2013, a mysterious wreck was discovered about 6 meters underwater off the coast of Kenya.
07:25At the time, no one knew where it came from.
07:28But today, researchers are almost certain that it could be a ship from the Vasco de Gama fleet.
07:35You know, the famous Portuguese navigator,
07:38especially known for being the first to navigate from Europe to India
07:42by crossing the Cape of Good Hope in Africa.
07:45If this is confirmed, this wreck could be one of the oldest European wrecks found in the Indian Ocean.
07:52Ancient treasures can take many forms, including that of a bottle.
07:56Recently, Norwegian archaeologists discovered an old 150-year-old message
08:01in a bottle during the excavation of a Viking tumulus.
08:05This bottle contained a letter written by Anders Lorange,
08:08an archaeologist who worked on the site in the 1800s,
08:12as well as his business card and some coins wrapped in paper.
08:16The letter contains some information about the excavations,
08:19but it seems that Lorange was wrong on some points,
08:22for example on the exact number of Viking shields discovered.
08:25At the end of the letter, he added a personal note in runic character.
08:30Emma Gad, my little friend.
08:32This letter allowed us to better understand history with a big H,
08:36but also to learn more about the love life of the archaeologist.