3000 Years Old Hidden Treasure Found in Egypt - Part 2

When the Egyptian King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt, this news caused a stir all over the world. This tomb, hidden 26 feet in the mountains, was opened for the first time in 3,000 years, which also contained countless treasures and the mummy of King Tutankhamun. The gold found in this tomb was absolutely pure and its total weight was equal to 1,03,000 tons of gold, which is almost equal to the weight of a Toyota car. Although all the treasures and gold found in this tomb are priceless, but even if an estimate is made, it is worth 5.5 billion rupees today. Welcome to Zem TV's videos once again. Viewers, after the discovery of this tomb, archaeologists were worried that even in today's modern era, it takes at least 10 years for a mining company to find and extract so much gold from the mountains. So finally, 3,000 years ago, when there was no machinery and no technology, the ancient Egyptians found this gold. So how and from where? French gold expert Thomas Faucher came to the field to find out the secret of this most difficult challenge with his team. First of all, Thomas studied the gold found for many years and compared its composition with gold from different places. After many years, Thomas and his team finally found out that the gold found in Tutankhamun's tomb was also extracted from the nearby mountains of Kings Valley. Now the challenge was to find that mountain from where ancient miners extracted so much gold. But this task was not an easy task. There are thousands of mountains around Kings Valley and it was really a very difficult task to find out which mountain gold was extracted from. French gold expert Thomas Faucher, along with his archaeologist friend, reached a desert 80 km away from Kings Valley. Because there are many stones in this desert that contain gold deposits, he believed that if the gold found in Tutankhamun's tomb was also extracted from this desert, then there must be some signs of mining operation here. This desert is spread over 136,000 square kilometers, where due to shortage of heat and water, life is almost impossible. Thomas believed that if so much gold had been extracted from a mountain in this desert, it would have taken a lot of manpower. Thomas and his team kept going into the desert in search of gold. After traveling for many hours in this barren desert, they went inside and saw a strange scene under the mountain. When they got closer, they found that this was an ancient well that was completely dry. It was obvious that this well used to supply water to the caravans passing through here at some time. But surprisingly, there was something else here that was more important than this well. Yes, Thomas and his team also saw an old room here, which was presenting a scene of a place of worship from inside. Paintings were made by carving on the walls and roofs of this room with great effort. When this artwork was seen closely, there was a secret hidden in it that was difficult to believe. A friend who was an archaeologist came with Thomas. He said that the same secret is hidden in this painting, which we have come in search of. In the painting, it was obvious that this well and rest room in the desert is the first stop of this desert, where ancient gold miners used to rest. Ancient engineers had created a network of wells and rest areas to reach the gold mine. According to an estimate, each rest area is built at a distance of 70 to 80 km. And it would have taken the miners' team many days to reach from one rest area to another. Thomas and his team were very happy with the information from this rest area. On the other hand, they also learned that they had to travel many more stops like this. Because the destination to which Thomas had been waiting for many years and that destination was now very close, he decided to go deep into the desert. In the barren desert, one rest area after another kept coming, but nothing like a gold mine was seen. Finally, after two days, Thomas saw a lot of stones lying on the edge of a mountain. At first glance, it was a normal scene, but Thomas believed that this place was the camp of ancient gold miners. And something like this happened. Yes, at this place, some tools made of stones were found, with the help of which the stones were broken and gold was taken out of them. This stone, which looks like a normal stone, was broken and crushed with the help of this tool, and then the gold minerals from that crush were separated. When further searching was done at this place, many gold mining tools were found lying on the ground. Because Thomas had a lot of knowledge about ancient gold mining techniques, that's why he believed that ancient miners used to dig these mountains and make tunnels in them. In these tunnels, special types of stones were found and brought to this mining camp where they are present at the moment. The second team of miners present at the mining camp crushed these stones and took out gold from them, and then that gold was sent to Kings Valley. Thomas had already found an ancient gold mining camp, but it was a pity that he did not see any of the tunnels he was talking about. Perhaps the tunnels dug thousands of years ago were weak and collapsed due to earthquakes. Experts believe that this method of gold mining is very difficult. If 100 people were working on gold mining for a week at that time, they would have been able to collect only one spoon of gold from it. It would not be wrong to say that thousands of ancient miners worked at the same time to mine gold from Tutankhamun's tomb, but it would have taken them many years to complete this task. The gold mined was sent to the Kings Valley in the form of small ores, where a separate team put them in different shapes, including Tutankhamun's Death Mask, Coffin, Statues, Jewelry, Chairs, and Gold Chariot. In 1922, when Howard Carter discovered this tomb, there were 5,000 different types of things in it. It took the British archaeologist 10 years to make a catalogue of all these things. I hope you will like and share this video of ZamTV. Thank you very much for your loving comments. See you in the next video.