#Josh Gates

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Josh Gates was leading me on a tour of Disneyland. His theme was Myths and Legends of Disney. One myth was that Disney owned the top 56 Worlds Biggest Buildings and cut them off from the public. Then he was geeking out over the parade.

[blueiscoool]

Tomb Filled With a Dozen skeletons Found Underneath the Treasury in Jordan

At the heart of the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, carved into pink sandstone cliffs, lies an elaborate monument known as the Khaznah, or the Treasury.

And buried beneath that edifice, archaeologists recently discovered, is a tomb with at least 12 human skeletons and artifacts that are estimated to be at least 2,000 years old.

Archaeologists led by Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman, executive director of the American Center of Research, unearthed the ancient tomb. The expedition was studying the Treasury after years of speculation that two tombs found below the left side of the monument in 2003 weren’t the only secret underground chambers. But that theory had not been confirmed — until now.

Creasman and his team performed ground-penetrating radar — a remote sensing technique that uses radar pulses to detect underground objects — earlier this year to see whether the physical features on the left, where the original tombs were found, matched those on the right. The detections revealed strong similarities among the two sides, and it was the proof they needed to receive permission from the Jordanian government to dig beneath the Treasury.

At this point, Creasman contacted Josh Gates, host of Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown.” “I think we’ve got something,” Creasman said he told the explorer over the phone.

With a film crew, the team excavated the newly uncovered tomb in August. But the real surprise was what lay within the tomb. While many tombs uncovered within Petra are found empty or disturbed, the chamber was filled with complete skeletal remains and grave goods made from bronze, iron and ceramic. The intact burial found beneath the Treasury provides rare insight into the lives of the , ancient Arabian nomads whose desert kingdom thrived during fourth century BC to AD 106, Creasman said.

“This is a hugely rare discovery — in the two centuries that Petra has been investigated by archaeologists, nothing like this has been found before,” Gates said. “Even in front of one of the most famous buildings in the world … there are still huge discoveries to be made.”

The significant finding may be the largest collection of human remains found in one place within Petra, according to researchers, and it was featured Wednesday on the season premiere of “Expedition Unknown.”

Exploring Petra, a world wonder

Petra was voted as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in the 2000s for its unique architecture and the many mysteries that still surround the city. While experts have debated the Treasury’s purpose for centuries, the most popular theory is that the monument serves as a mausoleum, although no skeletal remains have been found within the building itself, Gates said.

The Treasury receives hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, and it has also been featured in several movies, most prominently as the site of the Holy Grail in the 1989 film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”

Among the artifacts were several vessels, with one skeleton found clutching a ceramic chalice that resembled the shape of the Holy Grail. “It really was this awesome moment of history imitating art,” Gates said.

The artifacts are extremely well-preserved, Creasman said. However, the human remains, while intact, are in more delicate shape than expected. Their condition may be a result of the humidity and seasonal floods in Petra as well as the porous sandstone surrounding the tomb that has entrapped moisture, he said. Some of the skeletons were found with mold.

Only a handful of tombs uncovered in Petra in the past several decades have been found with untouched burials, Creasman said. Grave disturbances were most likely due to travelers looking for shade and protection in the desert, he added.

The two tombs uncovered beneath the left side of the Treasury two decades ago by archaeologists from the Jordan Department of Antiquities had partial skeletal remains, but the data was not published, so it’s unclear how many individuals were found, Creasman said.

“We were hopeful to find anything that might tell us more about the ancient people and place — human remains can be a really valuable tool in that regard,” Creasman said. “The burials in this tomb are articulated, so the bones haven’t been rummaged around and moved, so that’s exceedingly rare.”

Rare insight into the ancient Nabataeans

One mystery that remains surrounding the Nabataeans are their burial practices. In literature, Nabataean society is often described as being more egalitarian, with the king more integrated with lower classes than leaders of other civilizations, Creasman said. So far, out of the Nabataean tombs found, there does not seem to be a huge difference between royal and regular burials, so it’s difficult to say whether the recently discovered tombs below the Treasury were designed for royalty.

The researchers also suspect that many of the textiles and jewelry that are usually found in Nabataean burials, such as cloth wrappings and necklaces and other beads adorning the bodies, were lost due to the humidity and floodwaters seeping into the tomb, Gates said.

As the researchers continue to study the skeletons, Creasman said they are hopeful more details will come to light about who the people were in life. Researchers would like to date the skeletons and artifacts as well as use extracted DNA to determine whether the dozen skeletons are related. Other analyses may be able to help assess their diets and unravel whether they had physical jobs, Creasman said.

“They must be hugely important people, because where they’re buried is such prime real estate; it really is the main entrance to the city,” Gates said. “I think learning who they are is really going to help unlock part of the story of the Treasury.”

By Taylor Nicioli.

[milotonin]

i hope there’s someone out there who finds this and has the exact same interests as me

i can’t be the only one in the world that like josh gate, descendants (the band,) falsettos, and dear evan hansen

if you like all of those be my friend

i need some

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[old-type-40]

Given the number of very risky things he's done, it's good to know he doesn't dive head first into his expeditions without careful consideration.

[melanieexox]

EXPEDITION UNKNOWN | Greatest Lakes' Vanished Warships: Josh Gates vs Canadian Border traffic.

“Shouldn’t this border just be some guy be on a horse and a funny hat?”

[labete-du-gevaudan]

[danny-pino-group-therapy]

I was so elated to find out Evan B. Stone (Josh Gates/Expedition Unknown cinematographer) edited my photo after asking to see it. Now he’s following me on Instagram. I’m so excited as a photographer to have this happen and him follow me.

[iguana-braces]

I know the show is literally called Expedition Unknown, but it'd be really dope if just once they ended with the mystery becoming Known

Just once. Come on science, I know you can do it

[learningfromlosing]

I'm fucking watching expedition unknown and I was about to change it to put on a movie when Josh was going through the Audubon "also known as Hitlers only good idea" at like 230 mph and then he was like, before my car broke a sweat I'm in Austria, "don't worry if you didn't see the border sign, neither did the German army" and I

[milotonin]

nobody asked but since i’ve given up on my -old- hyperfixation of dear evan hansen here’s some of my opinions (i might do more):

i’ve seen things saying that some of the characters are bad people, like larry or evan or whoever. i don’t think this is true. none of the characters are bad people, granted none of them are good people. all of the characters are just trying their best with what they’ve got. this is just something that happened to them and they’re working with it. evan doesn’t want to hurt the murphys feelings by saying “actually i didn’t know him” so he lies thinking it was harmless and actually helping them. it just snowballed into something no one could control. and i think the murphys understand that bc they don’t tell anyone at the end. larry did try with connor not as much as cynthia- who tried too hard- but he did at least put in effort, he wasn’t a bad dad. he was just out of his depth, most likely he never sealed with any mental illness so he didn’t know how to help, same goes for cynthia. she was just trying to find something that would help immediately when things take time. she’d go from “one miracle cure to the other” (as the musical states) because she too was out of her depth and probably heard that this was the best or that was the best so she’d try all of them hoping that one would help her son.

evan dating zoe i didn’t like. i get that hed had a crush on her before the whole connor thing happened but it’s weird and wrong. he knows he lied (for a reason) but she doesn’t so their relationship already started off rocky, you can’t keep something that big from someone. what if they got married? had kids? would zoe go like “evan tell the child about their uncle connor, you guys were best friends in highschool.” and so the lie would just have to keep going forever. (this is if he didn’t tell them) that’s not good 🙅‍♂️ evan should have either lied about connor and gave up zoe or told the truth and tried working up the courage to talk to zoe. i understand his deathly social anxiety (i really do) but don’t combine the two. she just lost her brother. her brother just killed himself and you’re on HIS bed kissing HER.

connor and evan would have been such good friends had they met, this is something i think everyone in this fambase can agree on. had they met under the right circumstances they both would have hit it off. given that evan isn’t paralyzed by talking to him. (there’s more to this but i don’t feel like typing)

that’s it for rn

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[xximperioxx]

Respectfully I want to fuck josh gates

[melanieexox]

I am so glad Josh was smart enough not to go down in that submarine. I would’ve been devastated!

[labete-du-gevaudan]

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

Josh gates : the 12½ minutes on a Japanese train is possibly the longest I've gone without talking

me, who can go a week saying maybe 10 words : amateur