The Hunt For The Lost Survivors Of Carthage | Lost Warriors

this channel is part of the history hit Network [Music] angle of South America bronzaks ax occult object from the time before Columbus which should not be here at all is it possible that Warriors from the old world join it as far as cool up the most powerful Fortress in America relics of the legendary Cloud Warriors the Chacha Boya these mummies conceal a baffling mystery over the course of time I've come across such a large amount of evidence from a wide variety of areas towards one Theory but in ancient times people from the old world reach Peru and joined forces [Music] thank you foreign s are seafaring people founded Carthage at the site of unique strategic importance in the Mediterranean from here the trading Metropolis rules the center of the ancient world with its fortress-like location and secure natural Harbor nothing can stop the nation becoming the number one sea power precious resources and luxury goods arrive here from all over the world in a ceaseless flow laying the foundation for incredible wealth The Harbor at Carthage was the gateway to the known world at that time and sometimes even further afield War Gallows with 170 oarsmen or more set sail from here the first of these galleys were trirems with three rows of oars but then came the even more powerful ships thus the carthaginian captains dared to sail far out into the Atlantic foreign they ventured up the western coast of Africa as far as present-day Cameroon from Morocco they were able to control the trade in gold they obtained Copper from tatessos and the Celtic city of coronia dominated sea routes to the north to the tin miles of Cornwall in Britain their best warriors came from the Balearic Islands [Music] for many years Hans giffon has studied the ancient history of the Spanish Islands he is particularly fascinated by the cultural Legacy of the Phoenicians the German Professor takes a keen interest in the ancient legends valuable sources of lost knowledge [Music] hence Gifford finds it impossible to believe that such a capable people as the carthaginians simply vanished when their trading Empire collapsed surely the survivors would have started a new life somewhere else he is convinced of this he begins his search for Clues here on the Balearic Islands Phoenicians and carthaginians often journey to Majorca establishing trading settlements as they did in the Mediterranean and further afield many thousands of Iberian soldiers fought in the carthaginian Army which included men from various Nations the stone slingers from the Balearic Islands were considered particularly effective forming a much feared Elite hard to imagine that these wild Warriors and their proud generals from Carthage would have let themselves be enslaved foreign [Music] Alternatives were open to them did they flee across the ocean to Peru are the dead at kuilap the descendants of these Celts and carthaginians as Professor gifon suggests Carthage the most important port of its day the nautical skills of the Phoenicians are a key element in gifon's hypothesis the cargo port at Carthage was open to All Ships but only carthaginian warships were allowed through the barrage gate behind this gate secret boathouses have been constructed each six meters wide and 30 meters long space for 350 warships with a crew of 100 000 men on Lands 2 the superpower spread fear and Terror its War relevance were a feared weapon so much power also provoked bitter resistance the up-and-coming Rome soon became a dangerous rival after three bloody wars the Roman Empire was able to defeat Carthage hundreds of thousands died in the burning City countless more enslaved but many must have been able to flee Professor gifon believes that many of the elite Warriors managed to escape their Trail takes us to Northern Spain [Music] A Thousand Years the Tower of Hercules at coronia has been shining across the ocean it was built by the Romans based on the great Pharos of Alexandria one of the seven wonders of the world ever since then the light has Shone over the Atlantic far out over the water into the dreaded Bay of Biscay on the sea route to America just as was the case two thousand years ago [Music] when the harbor of coronia was an important staging post for ships heading to Northern Shores here seafarers from Carthage and throughout the Mediterranean came into contact with Celtic iberians who had been sailing the northern ocean for thousands of years businesses conducted The Riches of the country traded for precious goods from overseas a practice that continues today among the descendants of the Celts and the carthaginians trade brings the world together information is passed on all the latest news [Music] wild rumors circulate about goods and Technologies not yet known here but earlier also about unexplored coastlines Beyond the Horizon about Voyages of Discovery made by the Sea captains of Carthage which took them right across the Atlantic perhaps they even got as far as Brazil even if it were theoretically possible for the carthaginians to have reached Brazil this doesn't indicate by any means that they really got there more evidence would be required and such evidence is found in the writings of ancient historians such as diadoris the Greek historian diadorus reports in his history of the world that the carthaginians had discovered Paradise far beyond all known inhabited countries a land with wild animals rivers that could be navigated by ship and high mountains but they kept this discovery a secret perhaps this is where they set sail from carthaginian refugees and their Celtic allies from Spain it seems to me that without the nautical skills of the carthaginians it would hardly have been possible for the Celtic iberians and the stone slingers of New Yorker to cross the Atlantic carthaginian sea captains perfected the nautical Legacy of their Phoenician forefathers they could ascertain their latitude by the length of the shadow cast by the midday Sun at night they would navigate by the Polar Star in the constellation of the little bear the star known as The Phoenician star in ancient times [Music] as has always been the case ships are driven by the winds and ocean currents across the Atlantic from West Africa to the northeastern coast of Brazil Janus jakit has also crossed the Atlantic entirely by herself this woman from Heidelberg covered the 6500 kilometers from Southern Portugal to the Caribbean island of Barbados using her own muscle power it took her 90 days and she used a high-tech rowing boat foreign of course it wasn't like a lake in the park there were some critical situations waves up to eight or nine meters high collisions or near misses with fishing trawlers and getting caught in their Nets naturally the main problem is that you need fresh water and food of course you're constantly exposed to the Sun but you're permanently soaking wet once you're in the boat you can't turn back and row against the current Against the Wind so in other words you just have to make it even in ancient times large boats rode by strong men must somehow have been able to do it once they were on the water they would have had to get there after three weeks on the high seas the carthaginian ships could have reached the tropical coastline they would not have imagined that they had discovered a completely new world the island of itamaraka lies off the coast of Brazil an ideal Landing site for carthaginians since the islands which are close to the coast could be used as a base that is easy to defend Fort Orange here dates back to the 17th century underneath the Dutch Fortress there are remains of an ancient Indian settlement as indicated by ceramic fragments found here everywhere curious fragments of white clay are lying around in the sand is these are the remains of Dutch clay pipes we found more than 5 000 of them they certainly smoked a lot here at Fort Orange up to now the archaeologist has not found any traces of carthaginians and little remains of the original inhabitants in ancient times exhausted seafarers would have found conditions here extremely difficult after crossing the Atlantic the archaeologist is convinced of that [Music] the kind of dangers facing them are outlined in an account by a German mercenary in the 16th century hanstaden is taken prisoner by cannibals off the coast of Brazil he sees how these people slaughter their enemies cut them into pieces and then eat them however as well as portraying such gruesome practices he also describes the inhabitants here as very open to trade by barter and that was exactly the strength of the carthaginians could this have been their chance of survival there are no accounts of a transatlantic expedition to Brazil at any time before Columbus but not far from the coast but Rio paraiba there is an archaeological site which could be extremely significant the legendary Pedra dominga rock is part of a huge natural Monument countless figures and glyphs have been engraved into the monolith ever since their Discovery they have bewildered experts here in paraiba a very long time ago atarra culture existed many Engravings in stone remain from this period of the rocket but we don't know how these people thought or how they behaved we simply are not able to understand the messages they've left how are they created which people immortalized themselves it's a mystery however does it seem likely that the people who did this were not simple natives maybe it was a completely different culture two thousand years ago at an early stage local archaeologists noticed that many of the petroglyphs of the rock of the Inga displayed similarities with writing from the old world in classical times I've studied this only similarities with individual letters were found not with complete words however similarities were mainly with letters from a Celtic Iberian alphabet four symbols engraved on the stone resemble letters from ancient European languages we know their phonetic value but so far it has not been possible to translate the Engravings on this Brazilian Rock Monument into a meaningful text merchants or settlers would hardly consider the parched Hinterland of the Rio paraiba a Garden of Eden and the river itself is not navigable for very far the tropical coastal region gives way to a desert of rock and dust a dead end for seafarers as any explorers would soon discover their only alternative would be to return to the Atlantic coast to the Northwest there is a river of Dimensions that almost beggar belief surrounded by dense jungle the Amazon tropical rainforests would hardly have been a new site for seafarers from Carthage it will have seen similar vegetation in Africa but how the jungle have struck their Celtic allies fascinating menacing lurking in the green hell with the original inhabitants in the year 1492 the unwieldy ships Christopher Columbus had for his expedition took 36 days to cover the distance from the Canary Islands to the Bahamas this is twice as far as the shortest distance between West Africa and South America by taking the fastest route seafarers in ancient times could also have reached Brazil the natives immediately spot any Intruders who don't know the law of the Jungle and find it difficult to master the situation even with Superior weapon technology thus Spanish and Portuguese Invaders had sad stories to tell when they attempted to colonize the Amazon in the 16th century everything is hostile and death lurks everywhere it could have been exactly like this two thousand years ago too the first rule of survival for any stranger here is not to venture too far from the shelter of the ship and to bring with you plenty of colorful presents for the locals as the Conquistadors did [Music] for a tribal Chief perhaps a metal Ax from a carthaginian workshop in southern Spain would be appropriate it is close to the Amazon Delta that the Portuguese established their first base from here they exploit the tropical wealth around them with the blessing and encouragement of their God as they announced to the wild heathens in Berlin today archaeologists are hard at work studying Indian culture the goldie Institute has gathered evidence about Amazonian tribes which were neither wild nor non-religious for thousands of years there was a developed civilization here even the Brazilian cult garment the Tanga was invented at that time as shown by this ceramic version Dr Maura Silvera is the curator of the archaeological Treasures of the Amazon every day objects thousands of years old are stored in her vaults special cult objects were made from precious materials this valuable spearhead from rock crystal is a highlight of the collection terracotta Idols painted in Rich colors they are witness to the complex religious beliefs of the marashiwara this is a terracotta cult object from the marriage the Amazonian culture at that time was highly developed the people lived on man-made islands that had been constructed in the marsh foreign the very first people to excavate this area was staggered by the extraordinary fines dating back to the marital civilization the funeral earns painted in a variety of colors a reminiscent of classical forms found in the Mediterranean Greek vases with Celtic spiral patterns the Amazon basin has been settled for 11 000 years but for a long time the population here was small but two thousand years ago there was a population explosion and this growth took place extremely quickly Ultra in 1541 according to an eyewitness a Spanish Expedition ventured up the amazon in search of the legendary country of gold the chronicler reports that they were suddenly attacked arrows rained down upon them from the densely populated Riverbank naked light-skinned women were fighting in the front line of the enemy forces it was reports about these Fearless Amazons that led to the river being given its present name although such accounts were considered untrustworthy by many foreign was unfounded as recent archaeological excavation show in the Amazon region there really were large settlements with thousands of inhabitants the population was supported by Lush fields of maize tended with special agricultural techniques the Amazon is home to the plant that will provide seeds which as cocoa will conquer the entire world that the Spanish kills a chocolatier 2000 years ago is pure speculation only now as an understanding about the flourishing Amazon civilization being rediscovered today experts have no doubt whatsoever two thousand years ago a cultural revolution took place there the formal style used by artists developed in Leaps and Bounds did the impulse come from the other side of the ocean this special ceramic style is really fascinating it was first developed in marriage funeral earns in such a range of colors only appeared in the upper Amazon region much later than this that's why I believe that the development began in marriage and influenced the other regions later it's often suggested that this new style might come from outside the region fascinating possibility could seafarers have brought new ideas from the old world two thousand years ago Heinz budvig is convinced that this was the case the German Brazilian amateur archaeologist has found more evidence an ancient ax as far as budwig is concerned this is 100 proof that foreign explorers landed in Brazil long before Columbus the river that forms the border between Brazil and Bolivia and he said he bought it direct from a Bolivian India the thing has to be genuine even the wooden handle was still quite down a chance find a metal ax encrusted with patina with a wooden handle but what does the figure on the blade of the ax represent the head of a bull or it could perhaps be an antelope but in any case it's an animal that didn't exist in South America does everything he can to shed light on the mysterious find from the jungle in The geoscience Institute of the University of Sao Paulo scientists examine the acts with the latest laboratory technology the result comes as a surprise [Music] 61 copper and 39 zinc and metal alloys like this didn't exist in America before the arrival of Europeans another important point is that the wooden handle comes from a forest in the pantheon a marshy region around the Rio Paraguay and this wood has been dated by scientific methods it's about 1 500 years old even 2 000 years ago there was an extensive trading network based on the rivers of the Amazon basin could this have been how the cult acts got to the interior of the continent did counts and carthaginians simply follow the Watercourse from the coast heading further and further Upstream it has been reported that Indians escaping from slave Traders fled as far as the chachapoya this means they covered the huge distance of almost 4 000 kilometers from the Atlantic coast of Brazil to Peru so evidently the journey would not have been impossible for determined individuals but could immigrants from the old world also have done this made their way through the biggest jungle in the world threatened by wild animals and unknown diseases in the end the refugees would have found a gigantic mountain range blocking their path the Andes does the trail of the Celts and the carthaginians lead here to cool up the most gigantic of the chachapoya structures the biggest Fortress ever built in South America the computer reconstruction reveals that in terms of the massive Stone used kuilap is even bigger than the kiops Pyramid in Egypt the Chacha poya were fantastic Masons they even buried the dead in their houses but where did they obtain the knowledge that enabled them to build structures like this three thousand meters high ornamental decorations on the houses bear witness to an artistic Sensibility sophisticated sewage system indicates high standards of hygiene and comfort they're really best known for their architecture but that is what we see now that's the best preserved thing that sits on the surface as we as visitors walk around and some of it is really quite spectacular some of it is Monumental it speaks power has been living in Peru for over 30 years he was even mayor of the provincial capital he is completely captivated by the people here the living and the dead how can we explain cooler all the c14 analyzes we perform so far suggest that it's not really very old it dates from around 800 A.D the exception is here at the main entrance 500 A.D I was particularly puzzled because no other Fortress in the whole of America displays similar construction techniques but I knew fortresses like this were quite common in the Mediterranean region during classical times one detail of the main temple in kualab appears to support GIF Horn's Theory [Music] the head engraved in the wall is reminiscent of a gruesome cult on the other side of the Atlantic there the Celts would decapitate their prisoners and hang their heads on their houses a proud demonstration of power did the chachapoya also practice this ritual the Celtic custom of using human headsets trophies is connected with their belief that the soul resides in the skull that's why they treated their head as hugely important and this also explains why they were masters of trepa nation but they weren't the only ones both the Celts and the chachapoya would make a hole in the skull of a sick person to relieve pressure on the brain and drive away evil spirits in the case of the chatapoya we know they use this technique because it's described in Hippocratic accounts dating back to about 500 BC entrepidation was also practiced later by the cows which we know from archaeological finds in lower Austria so this represents a very interesting parallel between the cultures is the use of the same healing method evidence of contact between the two cultures pieces of a jigsaw puzzle which add up to irrefutable evidence as Professor GIF horn believes the decisive proof May well be hidden in collab [Music] the tachipoia were special in the sense that they did these kinds of very intricate stone work the building is supercharged with power whatever those symbols mean and they meant something and very powerful to the chachapoya who were the inhabitants of this place and which traditions did they follow in their lives knows the facts here we have a particularly large chatter roundhouse we can see holes in the walls where beams were placed to support the second floor to form the floor above two-story houses were required in cure lab to make maximum use of the space available because 3 000 people lived here to this day the natives of the Andean Highlands tend their fields using methods and implements handed down from their forefathers agriculture in the days of the chachapoya would not have looked very different then Highland region of Peru [Music] the merinion canyon is deeper and wider than the Grand Canyon in the United States this is a hard place to live and really it's been very hard for many archaeologists to accept that anybody would want to live there what are they doing here why do they want to live there and it sets up the mystery okay clearly they didn't choose to live there the massive Citadel of the chachupoya still conceals many puzzles but Professor Gifford believes he is close to finding Solutions so fortresses like cool lap are not found anywhere in America but archaeologists have never considered as an explanation of its origin might be found outside America on the other side of the Atlantic the remains of a fortress City can be found on man-made Terraces Iberian Celts constructed the city over 2000 years ago just before or after the destruction of Carthage and just as in quillap the houses were built on round Stone foundations here too the people who built the city chose an extraordinary location perfectly protected from the rest of Iron Age Europe by thick walls the similarities between the Celtic settlement on the Atlantic coast of Spain and the mountain Fortress in the Andes are staggering did the people who constructed these places know about each other laughs the mystery can only be explained in South America there is still no conclusive proof that Kelts and carthaginians were ever present in Peru even for the Incas the kingdom of the chachapoya was simply too remote hardly any chroniclers from the Spanish Colonial period ventured this far either today the chachapoya settlements are ghost towns hidden on steep Rock faces funeral figures bear witness to their strange ancestral cult iologists are exploring a burial site that was erected at a dizzying height the Warriors bury a tear were Headhunters making them unique in the entire Indian Highlands people surrounded by mystery German archaeologist geologist Klaus koshmida has also become fascinated by the chachupoya because people in houses is actually quite normal for the chatterpoint we find quite frequent evidence of burials in the roundhouses however this might indicate An Origin in the Amazon basin region because it's still the custom there to bury people in houses the ritual sites are decorated with paintings and despite the tropical climate since they are protected by the Steep Rock faces they can still be made out quite clearly there are figures in Splendid costumes crowned with clumps of feathers or wreaths of light another excavation also reveals a being with a magnificent headdress [Music] in the Celtic mythology of ancient Europe the God cenunos was depicted with similar antlers as can be seen here on the silver cauldron of gundersdrop in Denmark [Music] here we have an extraordinary image of a boat with a person sitting inside it on the other side is a very simple similar example class called Schneider also thinks the Chacha poya moved here from the East although his East is only a few hundred kilometers away in the Amazon region Only The Dead know the truth every storm reveals more skeletons and destroys other traces of the chachapoya for days now it has again been raining without a break in the codiliaras the sources of the Amazon are transformed into raging torrents in lemon Bamba the people are not the only ones who have learned to come to terms with these Natural Forces everybody makes the best of the situation which is likely to be repeated many times during the rainy season probably the one of the biggest concerns was just the severe weather tremendous hail storms there great uh rainstorms unlike any rain storms I'd ever experienced anywhere in the world I've seen in touch a Poise it just seems like the sky is absolutely falling and the ground under your feet turns into liquid it's it's from one rainstorm to the next valleys transform with landslides it's a very dynamic environment and it makes perfect sense that they live down the top of the mountain just for that very reason [Music] in April 1997 the ethnologist Peter is allowed by an appeal for help grave robbers were plundering a burial site dating to pre-columbian times and many of the mummies have been left in the rain unprotected now there is no time to lose organizes a rescue Expedition and they set off at the mountain from Lima Bamba their destination is the Laguna De Los condores the Lagoon of the Condors local farmers have discovered a previously unknown burial site at an altitude of 2 600 meters and the team headed by the German Peruvian leche hopes to preserve it the grave robbers have been busy and the place is a shocking sight many of the sarcophagy have been smashed the graves devastated there are fragments of chachapoya mummies scattered around The Rescuers decide to perform an emergency excavation in the end they managed to transport over 200 mummies to the provincial capital today the Dead from the Lagoon of the Condors are kept in Lima Bamba the bodies were originally sewn inside sacks in a crouching position being excavated some of the mummies were examined at the University of Vienna these people died before the Spanish arrived however the surprising thing is that they show traces of diseases which had been assumed to arrive in South America with the Europeans in gertingen paleopathologist Professor Schultz performs research he attempts to obtain information from the Mortal remains of our ancestors about the sicknesses they suffered and the causes of their deaths and the extraordinarily large extent of tuberculosis among the chachapoya arouses his interest too here we have a lesion which is typical for tuberculosis the structure is ulcerated and eaten away and these typical changes in bone structure caused by tuberculosis were found in skeletons and mummies of the chatter which is of course extremely curious because we now have evidence that the disease was present in the chachapoi population to a significant degree even in the time before in Columbus at the same time evidence of tuberculosis alone does not prove there was transatlantic contact with the chachupoya before Columbus ancient traces of the disease have also been found in other areas of South America the cases of tuberculosis with so far been able to prove among the chachapoya really do correspond to cases that we know from The Classical period if these people were the descendants of people who came from the old world that would be a possible explanation and we could go further suggesting that maybe the disease found its way to the New World by this route at a relatively early stage foreign came from why did they build such a massive Fortress here anyway [Music] suggests that kuilap was a bulwark against Invaders from the lowland regions to provide protection against neighboring tribes who suffered from starvation during the regular droughts archaeologists have found more than 50 skeletons here with skulls that were smashed in were the victims attackers or Defenders the Fatal injuries could have been caused by axes or slingshots one thing is certain they died violent deaths that Frontier can be often a place of lots of jockeying for position for who gets to trade with who who gets the wealth who gets to occupy the site at the trailhead who gets this much take who gets to be the middleman and so I'm sure that there was a great deal of internal politicking shuffling squabbling and probably uh bloodshed the administrative center of the province of chachapoya today deals in precious metals and drugs but the proceeds are invested elsewhere the collection of mummies in the local archaeological Museum also seem slightly Dusty but anthropologists here are gathering important information about the fate of the chachapoya and about their Origins this mummy is one of a family it's a 25 year old woman with her six-year-old child and her husband [Music] three in the back of the head and one in the forehead appear to have been made during wartime but again and again they find indications of unnatural causes of death traces of murder and violence had the reputation of being an extremely warlike people and they used slingshots as their main weapon both to defend themselves against attack and to attack their enemies they used slingshots which differed completely from those used by the other tribes in Peru [Music] once again the trail leads us back to the old world to Majorca here we find a world champion on his way to a training session a king among stone slingers he is the balearic's champion with a fine record of direct hits but his Rivals are working hard so Juan Caballero spends all his free time practicing Professor GIF horn has brought the champion a reconstructed original Chacha poya slingshot from Peru almost 10 000 kilometers away when this is compared with the traditional slingshot from Majorca the expert is startled to discover that the two are practically identical even the special way of fastening the loop around the projectile is exactly the same Juan remembers that his ancestors used to wrap the slingshots around their heads the chatterpoya also had the habit of proudly wearing their slingshots to Adorn their heads but this custom has died out now foreign ERS community in Peru some traditions have been maintained many of the inhabitants here still have typical chachapoya names as has been the case for centuries clotilda Alva a Potter is one of those who are proud of her legendary ancestors Pottery is an ancient tradition from the time of the chachapoya it has outlasted the arrival of the Spaniards we do know that chachapoya were actually a very active Traders they're in the perfect position of middlemen uh everybody wants to be a mental man it's the most lucrative really position so they could uh they had maximum exposure to all of these things which really is one reason why they have um so many different influences in their art and their architecture and their culture they really have the best of all Worlds at their fingertips like New York City in the sense that they were almost a port of trade geographically speaking very strategic the women were also highly prized a painting from the Inca period shows captured chachapoya women with light skin and reddish blonde hair the king of the Incas would choose the most beautiful girls for himself perhaps one would be a blonde like Cecilia Flores she lives at the edge of a village in juancas with her family and a lot of pets in appearance it is easy to distinguish her from the dark-haired brown-skinned Neighbors Cecilia lives the life of a typical Local woman which includes a division of labor each day she takes her husband something to eat and drink at his workplace as has always been the custom she can't explain why her appearance is so distinctive I'm one of four children and three of us have blonde hair two of my cousins do as well they live in the city of chachapoya and also one of their daughters while the others are all dark-haired my father couldn't explain to us why we are so blonde his grandparents also had hair like this is there's no statement that says all the judge point de Leon remarked after travels throughout Peru and throughout the Indies as they were known and Panama and the areas that he walked through he said these people these chachapoya are the whitest people I have seen they are very agreeable graceful the women are beautiful and often taken as Inca concubines or wives and he described how they were dressed sometimes with a slingshot wrapped around the head of the males Woolen clothing or cotton clothing but he was clearly impressed with them and thought they were attractive people it is also said that there have always been a lot of light-skinned blonde locals in the village of Lima Bamba although originally it was populated mainly by Indians just as in huancas nobody has any information about ancestors of any sort from Europe a visit to an elementary school here confirms the reports a significant number of the children here have light-colored skin and blonde hair now saliva samples are being taken from these children in order to establish their genetic fingerprint little Valentina is also allowed to provide a sample although only samples from male donors who are not related can provide meaningful results the blonde girl comes from a native family none of her relatives can recall any ancestors from a non-indian background Juan has given a saliva sample too his red hair makes him an ideal test subject however as with the other pupils this could be caused by a genetic mutation from exclusively Indian ancestors foreign tests performed at the University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands are intended to clear up the issue an international team of experts is already waiting for the samples from Peru in the molecular genetic Institute under the supervision of Professor Kaiser the scientists succeed in identifying a special marker for hair color in the human genome so now we have the first genetic results from the lab of the gringuito samples and the first thing we looked for is the question is the red hair color of European origin or is it not of European origin we use DNA analysis to basically classify the people according to their Geographic origin so what we see there is that these individuals are of mixed ancestry so we indeed see between 10 and 50 percent European origin which does coincide with the red hair but the remaining part of their genome as far as we can say from our analysis is of Native American origin the genetic analysis also indicates which part of Europe the ancestors of the test person came from did seafarers from Europe really get as far as America in ancient times did they Venture at the Amazon two thousand years ago as far as Peru into the land of the chachapoya [Music] do these children carry the answer to this question in their genes all the evidence we have at this moment really points to the western part of Europe we detected a type of Y chromosome called r1b that has hits its highest frequency on the British Isles and in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula Galicia once settled by Celts is in Northern Spain fresh fish is bought at auction on the keysight in Corona and then taken straight to the market the destiny of the people here is determined by fishing and sea trade the forefathers of these Galatians take their biological and cultural Legacy with them to Peru Celtic warriors did have the ability to sail across the Atlantic two thousand years ago foreign together with the survivors of Carthage the former superpower who were forced to flee from the Roman Legions people with the courage of those who have nothing to lose refugees full of Hope of finding a new home on the other side of the ocean did they leave traces when they got to the new world roundhouses and Fortress walls reminiscent of their Homeland in Galicia but ax decorated with an animal that was unknown in South America funeral homes with Celtic spiral patterns painted in a style familiar from the Mediterranean or highly developed techniques of medical treatment opinions about these theories differ I do not see a break in the sequence I don't see a cultural turnover I don't see an invasion of foreign Styles foreign elements something that indicates to me whoa wow everything changed right here in the state obviously because they are unique they attract a lot of attention hence giffon is also convinced that his idea is correct now he places his hopes in scientific advances there's been very little work on exploring the chachapoya culture so I'm expecting lots of surprises so far however there are only suggestions that support the professor's vision but no smoking gun as yet [Music]

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Keywords: Ancient artifacts, Ancient civilization, Ancient ruins, Ancient seafarers, Ancient seaports, Exploration, Historical artifacts, Historical research, Lost tribes, Maritime history, Mediterranean exploration, Mediterranean history, Roman Empire conquests, Roman conquests, Roman diaspora, Roman influence, Roman invasion, Roman trade routes, Roman warfare, Seafaring, Timeline - World History Documentaries

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Length: 53min 23sec (3203 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 20 2022