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it might be the most sought-after cult

object in history the Holy

Grail Christians crusaders and Nazis

have all tried to find it the Grail

promises power influence and eternal

life I certainly believe that the Holy

Grail could

exist which cup is the real

Grail will the lead take us to King

Arthur or is the crucial clue hidden in

duin's master

piece researchers are trying to solve

this Millennia old

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myth the great myths of mankind

Mysteries passed on over thousands of

years inexplicable events places

shrouded in Legend and superhuman Heroes

even scientists are

fascinated is there any truth to these

ancient

legends researchers across the globe are

working hard to solve the greatest

mysteries of our time

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to Spaniards this is the Santo khis the

Holy

Grail Valencia Cathedral has been its

home for

centuries Believers think this sparkling

vessel is the cup Jesus Christ handed

his disciples at the Last Supper but is

this truly the real Holy

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Grail art historian Ana mafa Garcia is

trying to get to the bottom of

this I am convinced this is the Chalice

of Jesus it is the Holy

Grail she's the newcomer in the Quest

for the real Grail adopting new

approaches like using images of the

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Grail they inspired me to look for the

Holy Grail in art

history in her s she pours over all

paintings featuring The

Grail paintings of the Last Supper the

origin of all stories linked to the Holy

Grail the Bible describes the eve of the

crucifixion when Jesus asked his

disciples to drink from a cup of wine

saying this was his blood that would be

shed for

everyone a key moment for

Christianity Jesus promises to remain

present present in Bread and Wine the

supper stands for

Community those who drink from the cup

are part of this community and can hope

for life after death the Holy Grail is

like a condensed conduit for the power

of creation which can be used to heal to

restore sanity it's comes in the form of

a cornucopia which delivers uh the

sustenance of life and the womb from

which life comes you name it the Grail

in its Essence represents the source of

creation

itself the Chalice disappeared over the

centuries in medieval times the

Crusaders reviv the legend they want to

conquer the holy land and bring relics

to

Europe the myth of the Holy Grail is

born in this

era Christian orders of knights travel

to Constantinople and Jerusalem M to

free the holy city from Islamic rule on

their way they pillaged cities and

temples at the time relics purportedly

sacred objects were highly sought after

items like wood splinters or Nails said

to come from Jesus's cross bones of

saints one object is particularly

coveted The Grail the Lord's chalice I

certainly believe that the Holy Grail

could exist so much associated with

Christ was preserved and carefully

looked after at the time and the idea

that the cup from The Last Supper is

still there is to my mind perfectly

believable but the real question is

whether it still actually exists in a

private collection perhaps even in a

museum and no one knows what it

is vessels that prompt speculation

surface time and time again which goblet

is the real Grail bowls made of wood or

of precious stone

Celtic cups which allegedly can feed

thousands of men or raise the dead

elaborately decorated vessels Laden with

ritual

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significance what's fascinating about

all of the different cups that survive

that claim to be the Holy Grail is that

they're all completely different they

look different they're made out of

different materials and it makes you

wonder what actually you need to have

what properties you need to have to be

the Holy Grail today we know that the

object known as nanas cup from England

is actually a fruit bowl which dates

back no more than 600

years the sakro catino made from Emerald

is a medieval Islamic

Bowl Valencia perhaps this is where the

real gril can be

found this Spanish sea port was an

important trading Hub in the Middle Ages

could the Holy Grail have ended up

here July 2006 Pope Benedict the 16th

presents the mysterious cup to more than

1 million worshippers in

Valencia it is a special moment for

Christians from all four corners of the

world but to this very day there is no

scientific evidence that the valencian

challenge is the real Holy

Grail this is where the Santo khiz has

been preserved for the past 600 years

the Valencia

Cathedral closely guarded in a side

Chapel behind glass and secured with

alarms anima fasia and German historian

Michael hzman have the chance to look at

the cup up

close up until now both have only

studied the Grail in theory they know

how charged the debate is regarding the

authenticity of the

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vessel finding and in fact proving that

the Holy Grail is real is important

because it's evidence if we find the

Holy Grail then it tells us definitely

that Jesus was real that the stories

about him were real and that the

religions that rely on these stories are

not just symbolic but can be taken

literally the valencian cup can only be

observed under strict security

measures Garcia and hazman are looking

for clues that previously have been

overlooked the cup is definitely old

enough it was probably made about 2,000

years ago by Middle Eastern Crafts

People the researchers gather insights

and facts to solve the mystery of the

whole ho

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Grail the Santo khis from Valencia could

it really be the cup from The Last

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Supper anamara Garcia needs more

evidence

she meets Daniel bito an art

historian he takes it to the colio Del

patriarcha a seminary founded hundreds

of years

ago Garcia is looking for

representations of the Holy Grail in art

she wants to trace it back to the

artists who saw it what did they know

about

it the refectory is decorated with a

1599 depiction of the Last Supper a

shows a chalice bearing a striking

resemblance to the Santo

khis what we see here is a conventional

or even ordinary depiction of the

refectory It's the Last Supper of Jesus

and his disciples before the passion it

is usually portrayed from a theological

perspective focusing on the Eucharist

this is an archaeological and not

theological construction of how this

supper might really have

happened the most interesting part to me

is that the valencian Chalice has a

central position in this

image no matter which painting Garcia

examines if there is a cup on the table

artists seem to agree as to what the

real cup looked like 500 years ago there

was broad consensus in Christianity

regarding the appearance of the Grail

from the 16th century onwards in the

world of art history just one single

Relic is depicted in the paintings it is

the holy Chalice of Valencia

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cathedral but how did the Grail travel

from Jerusalem to Spain across the

entire Roman

Empire Garcia's hypothesis is that the

cup came to Rome at some point during

the first

century there an early and persecuted

Christian Community hides it maybe in

the catacombs beneath

Metropolis we can still see images of

Christian ceremonies on the walls to

this day

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and indeed the catacombs of Rome Show a

cup that at least Bears some resemblance

to the valencian

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Chalice when Research into the Holy

Grail began it was fascinating to learn

that there really was a primitive

representation of the upper part of the

Holy chalice in the katoms of Rome

kumas Garcia corroborates her theory

that the Grail must have been in Rome

with yet another piece of

evidence the first popes used this cup

to celebrate Holy Mass in the

underground it's the era of the

persecution of

Christians an old Latin text Bears

witness to how Christians used the cup

for Holy

Communion in this text the early

Christians refer to the cup literally

during the ceremony they say that Jesus

used honk praram kich this precious

chalice they mean the Santo

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khis could the upper part of the

valencian Chalice be the original with

the lower part being added at a later

date and if this is true how did the cup

travel from Rome to Spain

for 20 years Michael hzman has been

looking for evidence he believes he is

close to a

breakthrough his key to the Grail a

medieval verse romance

persal written in the 12th and 13th

century by cran D trer in France and

wolam front ebach in Germany Hesson is

certain that these ancient texts will

provide crucial clues in the search of

the real

raal is a real treasure map you just

have to follow it and you will find the

Grail peral's story is unique in Europe

to fulfill his dream of becoming a

knight the young hero has to pass

countless

tests one of them is to find the Grail

peral arrives at the castle of the Grail

a mysterious Place inhabited by the

terminally ill fisher king who can only

be kept Alive by The

Grail the king invites peral to his

castle

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the young hero Witnesses miraculous

events food and drinks Galore said to be

provided by The

Grail eventually he sees the Chalice

being carried through the

room the text describes it as a shining

star from the

heavens is this merely medieval

ition hesan is convinced there's more to

this

story

when reading persal you will find the

place where the Grail was hidden in the

11th or 12th

century hean has found a suspicious

location in the text young persal

receives a description of the castle

where he will meet both the king and the

Grail it's called mon salv

much Michael hazman seeks to find this

legendary Castle in

Spain his quest for the Grail takes him

to the Spanish Pyrenees where the castle

Mont Salvage could be

located hazan wants to retrace the path

The Grail has taken he thinks that after

Jesus died the Grail was taken from

jerus M to Rome and later St Lawrence a

third Century Deacon brought it to

Spain hazman drives to an old country

house where the family of St Lawrence

lived St Lawrence tried to save the

church possessions from Rome during the

persecution of the

Christians when the Roman Emperor

persecuted Christians and seized all

Treasures of the church Lawrence managed

to entrust The Grail to a Spanish

legionaire who brought it safely to this

place Lawrence's parents

Manor The Grail remains hidden in the

Pyrenees for centuries nobody knows its

exact location but hazan believes the

Guardians of The Grail used landmarks

for

guidance behind those clouds lies the

the patal the mountain of the Grail

1,563 M high this was their marker

behind it the land of the Grail began

this is where we begin our

search hzman believes the mon Salvage

Castle from the peral PO lies behind

those

mountains the narrow serpentines take

him deep into the Pyrenees hzman thinks

the peral epos is like a treasure map

that just needs to be interpreted

properly

peral's first stop in the romance a

river where he meets the fisher

king hazman thinks he has located the

exact place of the

encounter Rio we can see the Rio aragan

here pble rode along its Shores and in

the background there is the mon

salvatoris the picodi San Salvador

in the local oxitan language spoken in

aragan at the time it was called Mont

Salvage and later this became the name

of the castle of the Grail in

persal the castle of the Grail does it

really exist outside the realm of

imagination this is the historical path

peral took on his horse of course you

can't use today's roads but have to

investigate historical roads and

trails peral and the castle of the Grail

in northeastern

Spain the text comes with

directions at the foot of that mountain

turn

right at the end of the path lies an

ancient building hidden below a ledge

the monastery of San Juan de

laena it was built in the 10th Century

long before peral was

written today the monastery is a Spanish

National Monument Michael hzman finds

depictions of the Last Supper everywhere

which isn't necessarily unusual for a

monastery but is this really the place

the graa was hidden

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hesseman is not the first to follow the

clues in persal and to end up in the

Pyrenees around the year 1930 German

author Otto ran takes the ancient text

literally his search takes him to the

other side of the mountain range to

France ran believes the Chateau de

Monsur is the castle of the

Grail later he looks for the Grail on

behalf of the Nazis

all sorts of people throughout history

have been hunting for the Grail because

it's such a mysterious object if you

were the people who could actually find

it after centuries of being lost then

you prove that you've got the power

you've got the legitimacy that you were

destined to own it and that's exactly

why Hitler and why himler searched for

the Grail during the second world war it

would prove that they had a right to be

doing what they were doing

Hitler remains skeptical but himler head

of the SS is obsessed with occult

Germanic rights the M murderer firmly

believes that he who has the Grail will

be

Invincible Hinrich himler sincerely

believed in the occult which didn't just

mean that he wanted to find occult

objects he wanted to make a Mythic

reality he wanted there to be Nazi

Knights of a kind of new Aran

order himler wants the Grail to be at

the center of a new Germanic cult he

invests means and men in the search for

the Grail but to no

avail otan commits

suicide the SS largely disregards the

monry San Juan de laena the Nazis don't

want to share the Grail with the church

are they missing out on the most

promising

lead if the Grail used to be here there

could still be traces of it

today Michael hean wants to take a

closer look at the

basement a local guy takes him through

the monastic maze

the heroic epic provides an exact

account of the rooms where peral sees

the

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Grail in the mid in the middle he saw

four pillars and in between a giant fire

was a

blaze and here he met the king of the

Grail and spoke with him and then he saw

how procession entered through the door

on the other side of the

hall carried the Grail carried it

through the hall and disappeared through

another door on the other side of the

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room peral witnesses an Easter

procession a mysterious ritual to him

hean is certain this is the right place

we

we can see one 2 three four large

pillars here and one two three spaces in

between where the braziers were placed

because it was cold down here in

April the peral text also describes how

the Grail is retrieved from a chamber

hzman believes he sees evidence pointing

to this romance verse too he finds a

small side room

in this Niche this Chapel is where the

Grail was stored for more than 300

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years the text contains another

important detail it references a baptism

what looks like water turned into a

stone today are actually calcium

deposits of an Old Spring this place was

really used for

baptisms in the Epic The Grail is

carried up a flight of

stairs from there the stairs led up to

the church of sanan DEA San

de hean climbs to the Church of the

monastery if there is truth to the

persal story this is where the monks

must have worshiped the Holy Grail

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looks like the entire description of the

castle of the Grail in the poem matches

sanan de laa all the places all the

rooms are here exactly as the text

says there is some evidence that Michael

hzman is right and that there was a cup

that was worshiped here in the Middle

Ages is it the one that's in Valencia

today could it be the real

Grail it will probably be impossible to

prove once and for all that Jesus used

this exact

chalice truth is the valencian Chalice

doesn't look anything like the Grail

described in

persal it is described as a shining

Stone from the heavens how does this

relate to the Santo CIS

at the department of art history of the

University of Valencia Maria Gomez

expert for ancient artw work is

preparing an

experiment Ana mafa Garcia wants to know

if anything about the Santo khis could

in fact point to a shining star from the

heavens

all literary descriptions of the Holy

chalice or Holy Grail agree on the upper

bowl The Chalice which is in

Valencia I hope exposing the egot to

light will show us whether it really

shines the way it's been described in

the medieval

texts at certain light temperatures

gemstones begin to Glow in different

colors the colors can vary greatly

depending on the light light has a color

Kelvin degrees

Kelvin let me give you an example a

painting made outside like the picture

sororia painted on the beach was painted

in

daylight if we expose this painting to

warm light that is 3,200 de Kelvin it

loses its blue color

the color spectrum of the color blue

verise and

changes look here the stone has a red

shap we'll increase the

temperature we're

increasing and it seems like it's losing

its color like it's getting more yellow

opaque Browner even Browner even Browner

is there a stone that shines like the

gem mentioned in the medieval

texts the stone on the light table is an

agot it glows red like fire the women

are certain

Maria Maria yes we've discovered the

holy chalice in the stone look that's it

look I can see

it that's

incredible eure

yes the Santo khiz a chalice made of

aot in pars ofal The Grail is actually a

stone brought down from the heavens by

neutral angels and the only Stone I know

of that comes from the heavens is a

meteorite so if it is a meteorite then

it would be the common denominator

between Excalibur and the Grail the two

most important important objects in the

Aran tradition and both are Divine Right

To Rule and that relates to the meteor

which of course comes as a light from

the heavens anointing the

finder Spain isn't the only place where

legends about the Grail

flourish glastenbury in the southwest of

England with numerous myths attached to

this region many believe the Grail was

hidden here in the first century

after Jesus died at the cross the other

legend of the Grail suggests Joseph of

artha collected his blood in a cup and

brought it to

England he said to have eventually

hidden this Grail in

glastenbury it is the exact same place

where one of the most influential

monasteries of the mid ages emerges

glastenbury

Abbey the magical ruins still attract

tourists and esoterics alike a magnet

for myths legendary King Arthur is said

to be buried

here archaeologist Roberta Gilchrist

tries to find out how much truth there

is to the myths linked to

glastenbury glastenbury Abbey is a

famous medieval Monastery and one of the

reasons is that it's associated with two

key Legends one of them is King Arthur

and the other one is Joseph A veraa and

both of them provide a kind of origin

story for the Abbey and this isn't a new

story these things have been connected

with glastenbury for about 800 years so

it's a huge part of the Abbey's

Heritage a painting in the chapel of the

Abbey commemorates Joseph of

ARA it shows how he traveled to England

with the Grail

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after arriving in glastenbury he sticks

his walking stuff into the ground and it

turns into a magnificent Hawthorne to

this day it is a landmark of glastenbury

and blooms twice a year once at

Christmas a Divine symbol of the birth

of

Christ there are several of these trees

around

glassenbury Joseph is said to have

buried the Grail somewhere here

but it has never been

found the second big story of

glastenbury Abbey revolves around

legendary King

Arthur the myth says he's buried on an

island named Avalon some believe Avalon

and glastenbury are the same

place the legends of King Arthur and his

Round Table are inextricably linked to

the Holy Grail finding it is a primary

duty of the noble order of

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knights the myth of Arthur being linked

with the Holy Grail is a very important

part of the Arthur story because it

makes him more powerful it gives him the

Divine anointment he needs to make him

into a true legend which can withstand

the

years in glassenbury ancient legends

take shape

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in the 12th century there are a lot of

stories circulating about King Arthur

and the monks of

glastenbury connected the Arthur story

with

Avalon in their Chronicles the monks

documented how they come across a tomb

during renovation Works inside they find

two skeletons a very tall man with

strong bones and a woman King Arthur and

his wife gwy

with this they find a small cross with

the name Arthur and make their ABY a

place of

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pilgrimage we suspect that that was a

forgery something that they copied from

material culture of about a century

earlier and but that gave them a kind of

um Relic if you like of Arthur that

people could come and look at on the

site

Roberta Gilchrist knows that after a

fire in the Abbey the monks were in

desperate need for money since then the

story of Arthur's grave has turned

glastenbury into a tourist magnet which

it remains to this very

day it would appear that once one myth

has become attached to an area then

other myths start to be attached to it

too this is partly due to a coincidence

of events for example at glom where we

have the meeting of Leila we have the

ancient Church on top of the hill and we

have the burial of the Holy Grail and

King Arthur and because of this these

places become a place of

pilgrimage glastenbury is an elderado

for all those on the search for life's

deeper meaning the priestesses of the

Goddess movement follow ancient

Traditions which believe in the maternal

essence of life and

Earth people come here and search for

the holy Grill but in my tradition in

the godess tradition the Holy Grail is

far more intimate it is really the

sacred part in yourself it's the

creation so it's really finding that

that sacred part in ourselves that we

all search for the Holy Grail some

believe it's an inner state of mind but

most think it's a real cup a cup that

has forged

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Legends but if King Arthur's too is just

fictional is it possible that the king

and his quest for the Grail were never

real either is the English lead

misleading us after

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all many find this hard to

believe the search continues like in

tintagel on the western Atlantic Coast

where Arthur was purportedly conceived

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archaeologist wi Scott wants to go over

to the

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peninsula the bridge remains closed if

the winds are too

strong what does the wind gauge

say ah it's between two and three at the

moment so fine to go

over according to the Legend This is

where King Arthur's Castle is

located it could be true since the

oldest remnants date back to the Early

Middle

Ages so we're now crossing the bridge

across to the main part of the castle

where Richard Earl of Cornwall would

have had his feasts this was his great

feasting

Hall the problem is the cliff was

falling down already in the in the 13th

and 14th century so soon after he built

this Great Hall it started to fall down

the cliff so the outer building in front

of us here is the first one he built

part of it came fell down the cliff and

then he built a smaller building and

that started to pull down the cliff and

then he built a smaller building and

that's and well that

survived the hall falls into the sea

repeatedly every time it has to be

rebuilt so the medieval people see ruins

constantly and believe they are looking

at the ruins of Arthur's

Castle but on the island there really

are Clues pointing to the ancient Royal

site so once you get outside Richard's

castle and you go out onto the island

your you find lots of buildings that

have been excavated in the 1930s but

that's just some of them we now know

there's roughly 100 buildings across the

island um it's in fact bigger than

London was at the time we don't have a

site as big as this for the Post Roman

period three of those houses were

excavated in 2017 and we found large

amounts of pottery there um and a lot of

this Pottery is from the Mediterranean

from Greece from tun IIA North Africa

and also glasswar from Spain and

France what it's indicating is that this

site was very prestigious it was a very

high status site and really important we

think it's probably uh a royal

site tin tajil was once ruled by a

powerful man possibly a king perhaps it

was Arthur after all

well the first reference uh of tagel in

the legend of King Arthur is when

Jeffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century

uh said that Arthur had been conceived

here this may be entire Fiction made up

in the later medieval period in the 12th

century or round about then because they

knew of this being an important ancient

site they must have been able to see the

ruins right across the island um but

maybe there was real folklore that

Associated King Arthur with this site so

it is possible if King Arthur was a real

person and lived in the post- Roman

period it's quite possible since this is

such an important perhaps Royal site

that King Arthur was very closely

associated with this so the legend might

well be

true King Arthur might have been a Roman

Commander or the chief of a Celtic

Germanic tribe but there is no hard

evidence confirming his existence or

that of The

Grail have people been looking for the

wrong

thing what if the Grail is not a chalice

but something completely

different Leonardo da Vinci's the Last

Supper is said to contain explosive

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information visitors Marvel at the mural

in the Church Santa Maria de graia in

Milan it depicts Jesus and his disciples

on the eve of The

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crucifixtion DaVinci lived in Milan at

the end of the 15th

century a universal genius who allegedly

put encrypted messages in his

artwork D Vinci is known for hiding

secret messages in his works and this is

because he was much more than an artist

he was a Visionary and an inventor and

an intellectual but in doing this da

Vinci is actually operating a lot like

myths myths are not supposed to be read

literally they are supposed to be

symbolic so in the same way we have to

decipher the meaning behind a myth we

also have to decipher the message that

da Vinci is putting in his paintings

what secret does dain's Last Supper

hold while it shows Bread and Wine there

is no

chalice the gril should be right in

front of Jesus but it isn't instead

Jesus and his disciples all have their

own

glasses author Dan Brown puts forward a

spectacular theory in his book The

DaVinci

Code he states that the painting depicts

the Holy Grail but it isn't a cup he

points to the strikingly female features

and the posture of the disciple next to

Jesus could this be someone else other

than John the

Apostle and there's more Jesus and the

person next to him form a v the symbol

of femininity and

fertility Dan Brown concludes that the

disciple is in fact a woman Mary

Magdalene she is said to be close to

Jesus the even have children is she the

Grail a scandalous thought for the

church

if Mary magdalene's really the mother of

Jesus's child then the Catholic Church

shouldn't just be afraid of the

authority that that lineage might have

in competition with their own the bigger

threat is that it introduces a different

path to the heart to the Divine than is

offered by the Catholics it's a path of

romantic

love Dan Brown's theories are based on

pure fiction but he sold millions of

copies Mary magdalen's role however is

also contested by

scientists is it possible to solve the

mystery of the Holy Grail many

valencians believe there's no need to

since the Santo khiz is the

Grail historian Michael heon's findings

also support this he believes he has

proven The Chalice was kept in the

mountain Monastery San Juan de laena

but hazman can't provide more than Clues

the historian returns to Valencia to

meet Gabriel

SEL the professor of design has

discovered something that could

corroborate the legend of the Grail with

new facts an 11th century list of all

the properties of the monastery

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everybody has already read about it what

I want to see is what people hasn't see

that is the design that is inside people

have known about the list for a long

time at first glance it doesn't make

mention of the Santo khis but Sanel has

a theory a secret encryption code could

reveal hidden

information the benal was one of the

sing of the pose is a very interesting

graphic design based on the big

n Benet farewell is a seal of Medieval

popes a capital N forms the basis the

other letters are ornately arranged in

the nend how can this key help us find

the Grail SEL places it on the text this

is a very important background to

understand how they build this this

acrtic okay you will see the big and

especially the letters l i s are

separated and what we see here is the C

from the uh letter C on the

glossarium khis kalis now we build this

vertical line uh towards Jerusalem and

then we find

lapis

ex these are the exact words wam Fon

ebach uses to describe the Holy Grail in

person

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so Al together we're talking about

Callis lapis exilis Domin that means um

a Callis of precious stone from the

Lord the medieval poet describes a stone

from the heavens bright like

fire it's a sensational find dating back

to the 11th century this is not only the

earliest document mentioning how the

Chalice of the Lord was taken from

Jerusalem to sanan De laena it also

features the term lapis which wbach used

in persal originally a Challis made of

precious stone but vam continued his

poem saying that this could also mean a

stone from the stars from the heavens

this is his interpretation but this

document is 150 years older than the

ible romance and it contains this

term

in the raw material used and its age

could indicate that the upper part of

the Santo khiz actually comes from

Jerusalem but is it really the cup Jesus

held a chalice made of precious

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stone very few people know as much about

the Santo khis as Antonio

hero decades ago the Goldsmith measured

the Chalice with his own hands since

then he and his sons have been making

handmade replicas of The

Relic now anafa Garcia wants him to make

an exact copy

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well this is very emotional for

me as a choir boy I spent a lot of time

in the cathedral and we would also sing

in the

chapel and that's how it was brought to

my attention my dad got married in this

Cathedral and so did I which is why I

have always felt a special affection for

the Chalice

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the art historian knows exactly what she

wants to her only the upper part of the

Grail is

relevant so this upper part would be the

sacred part of The

Relic this here this is the holy chalice

right without this part I have already

inserted this to adjust it fascinating

the Chalice the Lord blessed at the Last

Supper is this

here making the replicas just like the

exact model of the original poses a

challenge there are two main problems

the material and the

measurements these are the first

sketches the drawings from the time when

we first started

wow poo wasn't allowed to touch the

Santo khis when he measured it he uses

simple

tools that's the

stencil that allows you to see the shape

of the bowl

perfectly very

interesting of course it's the best way

to see if the size is

right for Anna it's the volume of the

Chalice that counts most because it

sheds a lot of light on its

Origins the material is also key to

comply with Jewish Purity laws the cup

has to be made of stone wood is too

porous making it hard to clean and

therefore unsuitable as a ritual vessel

the question of the properties of the

Holy Grail are very interesting

especially the fact that if it was a

chalice or a cup that was used at the

Last Supper then it would have to be

coosh

Jesus Christ is Jewish he and his

Apostles follow Jewish laws and

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rituals when Jesus arrives in Jerusalem

he is sentenced to death and invites his

disciples for one last meal the Last

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Supper the vessels used for this event

are ritual object objects and have to

meet certain

criteria Anala Garcia checks the volume

of the

Chalice its capacity can tell her

whether it was used as a ritual

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cup The Chalice of the Holy Grail

represents a Jewish

supper a Passover meal 2,000 years ago

Jews had a family chalice that had to be

filled with a minim minimum amount of

wine to allow them to celebrate the

right of

Passover just like they do to this very

day this cup holds four fingers which is

half a span and these are Jewish units

2.5 Revit that's about this

much the minimum they have to drink is

one Revit 86

ml another Revit is for the

family A according to Garcia's

calculations the Chalice can hold 2.5

Revit so it's possible that the Santo

khiz was really used as a ritual

cup another part of the puzzle a

valuable ritual cup dating back to

Antiquity whether Jesus held it remains

unknown the long for the Grail has left

its mark on Christian Europe

it's reflected in myths and legends in

poems and songs is there at least some

truth to all this

fiction in Valencia people commemorate

the Festival of the Santo khis every

year to many Christians this Stone bowl

is nothing less than the cup of the Last

Supper Michael hzman and Anna mafa gasta

are convinced of this too the Santo khiz

is the real chalice used during the Last

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Supper the Holy Grail is here in

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Valencia the message of the Holy chalice

is universal it has to be understood by

everyone with their hearts

the yearning for salvation and an

ancient myth from a scientific point of

view there's still no evidence the

search for the Grail will most likely

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continue it's the greatest German Legend

The Saga of the

Noms Heroes dragons and a lot of

gold I think the treasure is still

there researchers and adventurers search

for the legendary treasure the neong

treasure can definitely

exist a huge amount of gold and silver

you couldn't even fathom it in your

wildest dreams how much truth to the

myth is there what is with sea Creed's W

sword you can see where it got hit

scientists are unearthing the origins of

the Saga the traces lead them to

Scandinavia Z's horse granny with a

legendary cursed treasure on its

back the search for the neong

treasure the great myths of mankind

mistress passed on over thousands of

years inexplicable events places

shrouded in Legend and superhuman Heroes

even scientists are

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fascinated is there any truth to these

ancient legends researchers across the

globe are working hard to solve the

greatest mysteries of our time

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the

Ry stream of sagas and myths and Center

Stage for the tale of the

Nealon allegedly their legendary

treasure was sunk near the German city

of vs could it still be there

today hands your yakobi is a neong

hobbyist a former city architect he has

been looking for the Ry gold since

childhood you have got to believe that

it's true that what's written in the

nalong lead might actually be

correct he believes in the neong and

lead the song of the neong he used to

scour the rine with his dad today he's

following a lead

we asked ourselves how would we pull it

off and surprisingly there's one

approach that seems pretty logical in my

opinion the treasure is still

there the legend says the shores of the

r were once home to the mysterious

Burgundian

Kingdom one day an unknown Warrior

arrives at the Royal Court of vs

it is SE freed of santon a legendary

Warrior he is said to have seized The

Treasure of King neblung in the high

North 40 cartloads of gold and silver

and a cloak of invisibility to top it

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off seek freed kills a dragon with his

wers

sword he bathes in the dragon's blood

and becomes invulnerable but a Fallen

Leaf from a lime tree leaves an

unprotected spot between his

shoulders the Victorious hero pledges

allegiance to King gun as a reward he

can marry gun's sister cre

hild they are the protagonists in this

epic poem of Love betrayal and

murder zek freed and his wife cre hild

her brother King G and Haan fontron the

king's

advisor he sees SE freed as a threat and

puts King gun at odds with the

hero in the Name of the King he sets a

trap for seed and kills him by thrusting

a spear into the only unprotected part

of his

skin Haan gets hold of the treasure and

throws it into the Rind to hide the gold

from CRE

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hild the river has kept the secret ever

since the neblung treasure has become

part of the many tales of the r shrouded

in

Legend the haran monument in vs is a

reminder of the neong but if the

treasure didn't exist and there was no

hope to find it this tale would have

likely been forgotten long ago humans

are fascinated by Treasures partly

because of the monetary value obviously

but the treasures that we see in myth

tend to be more than that they have a a

magical value to them they have a

personality of themselves they're a

character in the story so for example if

we think in the neong of of seek Freeds

invisibility cloak and I think we like

the idea of there being something in the

world that connects us to a realm

towards our beyond our own so it's a

magical power the forests along the rine

are enchanted by the nong's magic to

this day Benjamin Cherney is a

passionate treasure hunter using a metal

detector he searches for the riches of

the

past I think there are still tons of

precious metals buried in the ground all

over Germany just waiting to be

found it is illegal to unearth Treasures

in Germany without a permit as soon as

he finds something of value Benjamin

churny needs to report it to the local

authorities but that doesn't stop him

this feeling takes you back to your

childhood you never know what you will

find you could dig up something special

on any given

day Benjamin cheny has made a great find

once before but he dreams even

bigger of course The Treasure of the

nangs is one of the biggest myths a

treasure hunter can discover an enormous

amount of gold and silver cartloads you

couldn't even fathom that In Your

Wildest

Dream he too thinks the treasure lies

near the Rind there once were early

settlers along its Shores and they left

behind their goods and

shuttles this is the old R running

through the cities of and R down to Gim

and noot and this Forest Area over here

is quite interesting there's a creek

running through it I think we might be

able to find a few things

there but without a specific lead it's

like looking for a needle in a hay stack

St G Switzerland there's an important

clue

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here the Benedictine Monastery is home

to one of the oldest manuscripts of the

neba Lan

lead it dates back to the second half of

the 13th

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century medievalist Yim heiner knows

aalong Saga better than

most he believes the text is based on

true events that took place many

centuries before the manuscript was

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written generally speaking heroic

Legends were considered historical a

form of passing on history

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to preserve the ancient knowledge the

nealan lead was recited in

Rhymes in Germany its first lines are

legendary is in Alton v filite felden

l

Arab has an essential function for

humans it is a social act that

demonstrates our shared identity

we tell each other stories not only for

entertainment but also to share our

values and our history creating a

cultural memory in doing

so there's truth to heroic Legends

Hinrich schan a 19th century

archaeologist is also

convinced he analyzes locations provided

by Greek poet

Homer and looks for the ancient city of

Troy

following the leads he actually manages

to find the city

ruins the discovery of a

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century does the nealan lead also

contain tangible Clues leading to The

Treasure of the

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nalong after seek Freed's death his his

widow cre Hill seeks revenge she turns

away from the burgundians and marries

etel King of the

Hunts cre Hill moves to etzel's Empire

by the danub where she plants her

Vendetta against SE Freed's

murderers upon her invitation Burgundian

King Gunter and his entire Entourage

traveled to the court of the Hun King

they all die in an unparalleled blood

bath the burgundians have been

eradicated pure legend or historically

accurate truth is in the Middle Ages the

nealan lead was also popular beyond the

German borders in Scandinavia where zek

freed allegedly obtained the neong

treasure The Saga of the Dragon Slayer

has also lived on

Zigman Earl Paws over the story of the

neong on the Swedish island of gotland

the archaeologist knows details from the

Swedish sources like the back of his

hand and it turns out there are

astonishing parallels between the Norse

tradition and the nean

lead that's

the main characters in Scandinavian

tradition are the same as in the

N the German name zik is Zur in the

north we also have King whose name in

Old North tradition is gar

and who appears

as an 11th century depiction portrays

the details of the nor Saga of Zur

this is clearly zot the dragon slayer

old Icelandic sources claim he did not

fight against the dragon but duck a pit

and waited inside until the WM heed its

body across it and that's when he jerked

up his sword and stepped the

dragon 11th century is this the earliest

record of the

myth there are even older traces

invisible be on the island of gotland

during the Viking years gotland was a

hub for trading Goods news and

Legends at the museum for Island Sigman

Earl stood his ancient sources the

famous picture stones of gotland some of

them dating back more than 1500 years

they tell a Viking gods and heroes could

they also hold Clues to the ne

belongs using photo technology Zigman

Earl examines a Stone dating back to the

fifth or 6th

Century here we can actually see a

depiction of a warm like a dragon like

monster and a human figure in front of

it is it SE the Dragon

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Slayer the experts create a detailed

computer model of the stone bringing

invisible parts to

light the artist may very well have

depicted a dragon slayer 1500 years

ago but he carries an

axe this doesn't match the legend of zot

in the old no literary tradition zigo

does not fight the dragon with a hammer

or an ax but step from

below it turns out the Old Stone does

not show Zig or SEC

Creed the search continues in bonga

godland where other picture stones from

the 9th century are kept some of them in

good

condition and the researcher actually

finds what he's been looking for a

picture that could tie into The Saga of

Zig good

Z Z's horse gany with the legendary

cursed treasure on its

back this is the image that became a

metaphor in the language of the

Vikings they called gold Granny's burden

and this is exactly what we see

here and another detail fits the Norse

ler

zig's death indicated by the figure

underneath the horse a crucial sign for

Zigman

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o if this was really the depiction of

the Fallen Hero Z it would mean that we

had the earliest record of the zig and

nalong Saga right here on the Baltic

island of Scotland

the oldest likely source of The neong

Saga roughly dates back to the year

800 400 years before the story was

written in

Germany a valuable clue in the search

for the true

story it is during this era that the

serious repercussions of the migration

period are

seen with the fall of the Western Roman

Empire in the fth century the continent

is shaped for Generations by the

migration of entire

tribes during this period of transition

it is also the golden age for the

historical inspiration for the nalong

Saga The Burgundian Empire on the Ry the

first records of the Germanic

burgundians date back to the first

century when they were settling in a

region now belonging to

Poland the burgundians established

themselves on the at the start of the

migration and the Heart of their empire

is exactly where the nealan Saga is set

vs and just as in The Saga the real

burgundians are

doomed in around 435 they are defeated

by Roman troops they were forced to flee

and resettle the name burgundi now lives

on in France

King gunter's character is based on an

historical figure the real Burgundian

King

gundahar but there are more parallels

between reality and Legend according to

Roman sources the Empire got military

support from the

Hunts and etel as a real counterpart two

a

tiller legendary leader of the

Huns like edel Atilla is said to have

been married to a Germanic woman she

could be the historical inspiration for

cream hild her name ILO would be hilan

little hild in

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German theong lead mixes reality with

fiction there were real group of people

called the burgundians and this is a

story about the fall of those great

groups of people we also have the Hun

who are mythologized as being incredibly

scary so the fact that it has this this

Central core of reality means that we

can actually believe all aspects of the

myth which makes them more

powerful with so many characters having

traceable Roots it makes it even easier

to conclude that the legendary treasure

must truly exist the neong treasure can

definitely exist between the 3 and the

sixth centuries people buried things

constantly particularly precious metals

gold silver jewelry dishes weapons

they've been found repeatedly over the

years hordes of the most majestic

treasure so the idea that the nebling

treasure is still out there somewhere is

very

real for treasure hunter hands your

yakobi the traceable Roots serve as

confirmation during the migration

periods it was common for every group to

carry a treasure they had to pay their

people somehow that's why every tribe

had a

treasure in the Rind countless divers

have searched for the treasure to no

avail hog yakobi is convinced of one

thing they were looking in the wrong

place

theong Le actually gives the exact

location of the sunken

treasure one line in the nean lead has

caught his

attention s the treasure

near is this the location of the

treasure yakobi studies old maps of the

region and comes across a PL that has

long since

disappeared not only the name stands up

the location seems perfect

too a bit further down the rine there's

a corner a large band in the river where

the water's very deep down about 16 or

18 M at average water level today it is

called the dark

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place the bend is still obvious to the

this day but yakobi has a theory as to

why divers couldn't find

anything the course of the river has

changed over the centuries bends have

been straightened tributaries have dried

up the river bed has moved many times

what used to be the bottom of the rine

is dry land

today might this also affect a spot that

haran once

chose Benjamin Cherney also searches on

land the forest he's scouring lies right

next to a small tributary of the Ry

unlike in fields and populated areas

many things remain buried in the ground

untouched

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[Laughter]

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sign I'm getting a good signal

here I'm definitely going to dig

here oh I've already found something

there it

is there

look man that's crazy

look that's

incredible an old bro made of silver

this

is that's really cool it's definitely an

art Novo bro dating back to around

1910 they used to make a lot of things

with these flowers back then that's

beautiful a great find for

sure not from the time of the ne belongs

but the first sign he's on the right

track

the ground is a bit deeper here and this

deepening stretches out along this line

from here to there I suppose this used

to be a path a long time ago there could

be more let's continue looking over

there he follows the former Road

attentively and it's not long before he

gets the next signal

wow wow I think that's a

coin it's tarnished in green but you can

see a bit of red along the edges so it's

probably

copper it seems pretty old

too they had copper coins 2,000 years

ago copper bronze and so on they had

that very early

on chy can only determine the exact age

of the coin and whether it will lead him

to the neong treasure once he's

home while Hano yakobi believes he has

already found the right

place we suppose the Ry used to run

closer to here and moved slowly over

time maybe even by as much as its own

with and that's when we said we actually

have to go down there and see what we

find yobi followed his hunch in the

1970s with some heavy machinery he

drills a shaft but the treasure hunt

proves

complicated at 10 m down the drill hits

Hard Rock yakobi orders to stabilize a

shaft with

pipes but the structure isn't safe

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we sent a diver in who immediately

started knocking against the wall and

then we pulled him up again with great

effort the Endeavor is too dangerous and

yakobi aborts the mission but the

failure still boosts it

hopes he believes the impermeable layer

of rock could be a cover Haren placed

over the

treasure he suspects there is a cover

beneath it filled with the gold of the

ne

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belongs it's possible that there are

foras standing side by side and maybe

there's some sort of Stone cover on top

of them yakobi can't secure any funding

for other excavations to this day he

hasn't been able to prove his theory I

think one day it will be found but it

won't be so

easy or was the gold of the neong

already found long

ago one of the most precious finds from

the Rind lies here today on museum

Island in

Berlin the museum is filled with show

pieces of centuries past and Hino NOA

museum curator has a real sensation in

store

the horde of

noots in 1967 the first of these pieces

appear in a gravel pit in the rine a

dredger brings them

up historians feel incredibly

lucky because they were encased in the

sand of the river bed large Parts have

been well preserved over the

centuries it was a coincidence and luck

that the workers paid attention in that

moment and realized the importance of

their find rway

divers closely examine the ground of the

gravel Quarry they want to make sure

they don't miss a single

piece the treasures unearth by the

dredges exceed all

expectations mirrors weapons and vessels

brimming with ornaments silver bronze

copper iron the value of the raw

materials alone is quite

impressive what have here is really

extraordinary really unique it's the

biggest H from Roman times that was ever

found north of the

Alps together the object weigh over

1,500 lb a real treasure just like in

the neble Lan

lead the divers also retrieve military

equipment and tools and the hinges of

rotting

cartwheels another consistency because

the Treasure of the Nealon is loaded on

carts

too the Nong also states that heavy

bullet cards moved this treasure out of

the city of WS so there are a few things

that

adop many details seem fitting but there

are also some confusing

discoveries we also discovered skulls

skeleton parts in the r

although we can never determine for sure

whether they belong to the

treasure they could point to a

battle in Roman times the r was a

demarcation line subject to Fierce

fighting the Romans used battleships in

an attempt to protect their empire

against Germanic

attacks with limited success Germanic

pillagers incessantly attack wealthy

Roman settlements

and return East with lots of

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loot it's possible the Roman Fleet

intercepted the Tans on their way

back we know that the Romans trapped

returning Jans in the province of Ria

but also in Colonia and defeated

them but the Tuton can't outrun the fast

boats of the Romans The Treasure of

noots might have in the Rind during one

of their

battles the Roman coins that were found

along with the treasure seemed to

confirm

this it is striking that there are no

coins minted after 260

CE we therefore have to assume they all

went into the r before or around the

year

260 this is exactly when the tons

launched what was then their most m

major attack around the year

259 they crossed large parts of the

lemas and Advan deeply into Roman

territory there are sources that

document these pillages in combination

with the serious of coins this leads us

to a very concrete event in 259

260 it is clear the hord of noots Can't

Be The Treasure of the

nalong it's theong is set around the

year 500 while this event took place 250

years

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earlier is the neong treasure still

waiting to be found or is it merely a

myth the treasure hunt begins when old

manuscripts were rediscovered

the nealan lead got hardly any attention

for centuries but was found again at

just the right

moment the nibong Le had basically

fallen into Oblivion until

1755 that's when it was rediscovered

that's when the modern history of the

begins late in the 18th century medieval

Legends suddenly become hugely

popular in the same period Germany is

nothing more than a patchwork of

Kingdoms and

principalities the feeling of a national

identity or a common culture is still

weak and is shaken by an

invasion Napoleon successfully wages war

against Germany's

monarchs in 186 he invades Berlin many

German cities fall under the French

military

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rule The nebelong Saga became very

important in the 1800s because Napoleon

was rampaging through Europe he was

conquering everywhere he went and when

you have conquerors doing that what

happens is there's a real desire and

drive for people to find their own

national identity especially stories

which are all about honor all about

strength and all about resistance and

that's exactly why the nebling was so

important in fact copies of it were

given to troops on the Battlefront to

inspire them against their new

foe composer rard Vagner takes up the

story The Opera cycle daring Des nean

becomes a worldwide success

in 1924 Cinema Legend Fritz Lang creates

the first motion picture of the

legendary characters in his 5-hour long

silent film he writes cinematographic

history with a KNE belongs rising to the

status of national

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heroes the Nazis use a tale for their

own purposes it doesn't matter to them

that the story actually depicts the

downfall of a tribe seek Freed's Valor

and The Burgundian loyalty until death

are idolized Nazi propaganda is home to

anything that can be presented as

typically

germanis the Nong Le represented a real

treasure in terms of something they

could exploit for their own propaganda

it features Concepts like honor

Vengeance battles blind loyalty these

are themes the Nazis often used for

their own Pur

and their

warmongering seek freed becomes the

quintessential German hero his victory

over the dragon fans the Flames of the

fantasy a mysterious sword is said to

have led him to

Triumph but is there truth to this part

of the Neal longan lead bladesmith

Stefan rot wants to get to the bottom of

this myth he has mastered must the

forging technology that was used more

than 1,000 years

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ago in the Early Middle Ages blad Smiths

were highly specialized workers who

basically manufactured every Hightech

product of their time equal to the

weapons that are perhaps manufactured in

Hidden Laboratories or in Area 51 today

back in the Early Middle Ages these

Smiths did this

watch but in the fifth century swords

were high tech weapons luxury gods and

Status symbols alike they are featured

in countless

Legends like in the North SRE Saga which

has striking parallels to the nibong

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lead vand forges a powerful sword by

rasping an old sword to powder which he

mixes with the feed for his geese

the blacksmith then takes the digested

steel using his hammer and an anvil he

creates a wonders

sword does the legend contain a secret

medieval

formula the transmutation of

metallurgical recipes into Mythic

stories was common practice for

Alchemists of the time you might have

even seen this as more normal than the

writing down of a simple

recipe Stefan Ro wants to fact check

this he and his son Darius make a sword

following the ancient instructions as

closely as

possible we simply mixed the iron or

with dried bird

feces bird feces contain a lot of

nitrogen which could make the steel

harder does this technique really

work using a special bloomery the men

set out to manufacture the medieval

Wonder steel so they can get started

with the actual forging

process they start by tackling the ball

of Steel with nothing but a

hammer we don't just forge the steel to

shape it it's also a purification

process we obviously want to get rid of

the slack the carcoal rests and of

course the

ashes after many hours of work they end

up with a rectangular

block they go on and fold this basic

shape several times working it again and

again with a hammer until they create a

Long

Blade Stephan rot forges a second sword

to compare with a VIN sword this weapon

does not contain bird

feces which sword will be better

they will test both blades in an old

factory

building hi stepan hi Stefan hi yes here

they are our beautiful

sorts six vler from the German blade

Museum wants to put the VIN to the

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test it's a fascinating experiment to

try and find out whether mixing bird

feces into the steel really changes its

properties I'm really excited to see

what we'll find

six veter is not only an archaeologist

and expert for ancient Blade weapons he

is also an excellent swordsman in our

experiment he will wield the

conventional sword the blade without any

bird feces stepan rad brandishes the

sword he forged according to vlan's

technique he too is an experienced

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swordsman what's behind the legend of

the wonder weapon

the two experts put the swords to the

test challenge number

one sever a rope with a 2-in

diameter a test that only a particularly

sharp blade can

withstand the salt has to really rip

into the hanging rope making a clean cut

if it is too blunt it will merely

displace the

Rope six goes first with the

conventional sword

the test goes off without a

hitch next up the legendary

sword the Rope stands no chance against

Stefan rot interim conclusion after the

first round I say it's a

time it's time to up the game six will

now have to cut through a steel

pipe the medieval blade only makes a

dent in the modern

steel will the alleged wonders sword be

more

powerful not at first glance but the

blacksmith detects a visible cut

the wh and sword performed better

literally a clear-cut

case the final hurdle is a real stress

test 175 pounds of massive

ice I'm really excited now I don't know

what's going to happen with this

material how the ice will react so yeah

we'll see

time not only is ice extremely hard

it also poses a risk to the blade which

can become brittle and break due to the

cold the regular sword withstands the

test but not

unscathed Jo you can see where it got

hit it's pretty bent right there

the ice block shows that a sword doesn't

just have to be sharp but stable as well

will the nitrogen from the bird feces

prove effective once

again Stefan R shows no mercy on the

ice it takes few blows to destroy

it the crucial question is how did his

sword withstand exposure to the cold the

edges are perfectly fine I'm actually

surprised myself how much such a sword

can withstand I mean it's a really

brutal

test and the winner

is congratulations Stefan won two

rounds though vean sword scored slightly

better as wondrous as the mythical

formula may sound it seems to have been

based on actual knowledge

maybe people found out by accident and

maybe this story is lived on in the

legend our test has shown legendary

swords are more than just a

fantasy swords are really powerful in

myth because they tend to be associated

with power and they tend to be

associated with a particular hero so for

example if we think of Excalibur and

King Arthur also these swords were often

highly decorated and people wouldn't

have seen anything like this so it made

them feel like this was an important and

magical

symbol SE Creed achieves his greatest

feat with a

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sword he defeats the dragon an opponent

far

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superior in the Middle Ages dragons are

more than just mythical

creatures people actually believe that

they exist they represent the ultimate

Evil Church go believe they have been

sent by the

devil stories of Dragon Slayers like St

George depict the victory of good over

evil

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the myth is fueled by bones that are

inexplicable to our

ancestors it is not until the modern

period that researchers start to

investigate these bones at first they

believe they are dealing with elephant

fures or the teeth of prehistoric

giants in 1824 British geologist William

Buckland is the first to attribute a

Jawbone to an entirely new species of

animal he says his find is part of a

gigantic reptile that he calls

Megalosaurus dinosaur research is

born can you imagine finding dinosaur

bones this happened all over the world

in ancient times and they didn't know

about dinosaurs or Evolution uh so it

was easy for them to project the dragons

on those which they did the dragon the

sword seek Freed's feet

if we can find explanations for some of

the most fantastic details of the myth

the gold has to exist for

certain he also firmly believes the

neong treasure is Somewhere Out There

helmet Seager from heidleberg

the former engineer is a real expert

when it comes to finding

Treasures I've known of theong saga

since I was a child I still have the

book here it has always fascinated

me seur has developed his own method to

hunt for

Treasures he has detected hundreds of

water sources with a dowsing Rod he has

built himself now he believes to have

located the neong treasure

too he is using a thin wire Rod meant to

pick up electromagnetic

vibrations I sat down and said okay okay

WMS

WMS is where can I find

anything and the rod was here and

nothing

happened that's when I said okay taking

the adjacent

map and you can already see what is

happening the rod is moving to the

left so I drew this line here and turn

the

map and then the rod slowly moves

further over

there really is even a sign on the map

marking the location very close to the

rine will it lead seaga to The Treasure

of the ne

belongs his Discovery exceeds all of his

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hopes you stay here I'm standing in

front of Runes of an old fortress this

used to be a Roman bulus with a harbor

where the loaded stones from the odal

mountain range onto

ships an ideal hiding spot for the neone

treasure taking a small tributary a ship

can quickly cover the distance between

the rine and the castle even if it's

heavily

loaded The Fortress lies protected deep

in the woods

according to seagar's Theory Haan loaded

the treasure onto two boats which then

traveled to the former Roman Harbor

Basin where they were sunk along with a

treasure to retrieve it he would have

only needed to drain the

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Basin to check his theory seur is using

a ground penetrating radar which detects

metal in the ground

the device picks upon vibrations exactly

where he suspects the treasure to be

something seems to be buried 4 M beneath

the surface seet is sure it's one of two

gold Laden boats for him this is proof

that haard sunk the neong treasure in

this very

location it was the most logical thing

to do you could conduct the clandestine

operation in the dead of n here bringing

two ship here and sinking them to the

ground you could block the branch of the

Ry you still could access the treasure

which was also mentioned in the nimil

lead since they wanted to retrieve

it everything fits perfectly this is

where the nielong treasure

lies but seagard can't confirm his

theory the site is listed as a cultural

heritage excavations are prohibited

at least he has had a notary attest to a

finder's fee just in

case in 2014 another fine near the Rind

makes headlines in a forest area in

rheim located in the same region a

detectorist finds gold and silver

jewelry worth more than a million euros

is this the neong

treasure in the rheim forest Benjamin

Bernie takes us to the place where he

made the find of his life back in

2014 and this is where we founded you

can still see a little

depression Benjamin Chen has nearly made

his way back home when his detector goes

off he and his companions immediately

take out their

Spades we started digging first we found

some rots 50 cm Deep Silver rots that

looked like they were from a garden

fence they unearth more and more pieces

one by one adrenaline of course we felt

a certain Adrenaline Rush as we found

all the individual parts and saw how

they shimmered all silver and golden

it's the best outcome for any Treasure

Hunter he fums the entire horde at his

home and proudly presents his Discovery

online the most beautiful piece

unfortunately the gems are missing they

probably fell

out the video attracts the attention of

the authorities who then sees the

treasure the Barbarian Treasure of rheim

ends up in the State Museum of coblin

what the treasure hunter thought to be a

garden fence is a Roman folding

chair but the real sensation is the

bowl these bows are absolutely typical

of treasures linked to the

Hunts it's the archaeological proof that

the Hunts were near the Rind at the same

time as the

burgundians is the Barbarian Treasure of

ruim the legendary neblung treasure

scientists still haven't been able to

answer this the problem a Layman has

excavated the pieces a lot of important

information was lost in the

process to archaeologists an excavation

site like this is just like a crime

scene as an archaeologist you can find

countless pieces of information there in

the way the objects are lying next to

each other or the scientific samples you

can take and of course this changes

entirely once someone goes digging about

with a spade or a hoe that's just as bad

as being a detect itive who arrives at

the crime scene and the cleaner has

already tidied

up while the pieces are clearly from The

Burgundian era it remains uncertain

whether they are part of their

Treasures it's possible that this

treasure is one of many that went into

the ground during the migration period

and one that lay the groundwork for

future

Legends so maybe the treasure is already

in a museum without being labeled as

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such or the H is still deep in the

ground somewhere in Germany just waiting

to be found by detectorists like

Benjamin

Cherney I think you only come across a

treasure as huge as the neong Treasure

by coincidence it takes a lot of luck

just like winning the

lottery and so he hopes that one day he

will make another set Sensational

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find treasure hunter Hans yakobi has

found Bliss in the actual song of the

nalong he has even composed his own

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Melody

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for the Ry seems to be the only one that

knows for sure whether the neong

treasure has ever existed the only

certainty we have is that the old myth

is much more than mere fantasy it is the

dramatic echo of

History the Hans a symbol of fear and

Terror and their King

Atilla many Legends and sagas feature

the funeral of Atilla to this day his

death is shrouded in mystery they try to

hide the Tom

Hungarian scientists are searching for

the legendary tomb they make fascinating

discoveries and are getting closer and

closer to the

Huns I'm standing on the wall of AOS

Castle will they uncover the secret of

the Hun King

unbelievable where's atilla's tomb

the great myths of mankind Mysteries

passed on over thousands of

years inexplicable events places

shrouded in Legend and superhuman Heroes

even scientists are

fascinated is there any truth to these

ancient legends researchers across the

globe are working hard to solve the

greatest mysteries of our time

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the Hungarian step home of the Huns in

the fifth century from here they set out

to plunder and

Conquer Ghost Riders attacking out of

nowhere forcing entire tribes to flee

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their greatest leader Atilla the king of

the

hanss who is this legendary ruler

responsible for instilling fear across

Europe Adam Bal Gardner is fascinated by

the myths surrounding the hanss he heads

a group south of Budapest that examines

ancient combat techniques

equipped with horses armor and weapons

they dive deep into the history of the

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hanss the most fascinating thing about

the hanss is that they came from nowhere

they fought with both Roman Empires

defeating one of them and they also

wanted to recreate this beautiful period

of History to recreate the hanik

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lifestyle to the group there's more to

than just the folklore armor clothes

weapons and combat techniques they want

everything to be as true to detail as

possible a tiller has become a cult

Legend to many

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hungarians nobody knows exactly what the

Hun King looked like his people didn't

leave behind written documents only his

enemies write about him and so Atilla is

remembered mainly as one thing the

scourge of God the Incarnation of the

devil spreading doom and disaster across

the

world psychological warfare works on the

basis that we are hugely intelligent

cognitive beings with very very strong

imaginations which means that

imagination and our emotions can be

manipulated if works because it takes

some of our attention away from the

battlefield it was in The Hun's favor to

be feared because it meant that some of

the battle had already been won even

before the actual battle

commenced in the West in the 4th Century

CE the hunt appear on the world stage

for the first time as part of bloody

campaigns martial Horsemen Advanced deep

into the heart of Europe their greatest

enemies are the Romans still ruling over

half the continent but the Empire

struggles to fend off the quick advances

of these new opponents the Hunts overrun

and raid vast stretches of

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land in the 4th Century the Roman Empire

is divided into two separate Empires one

in the west and one in the East after

subjecting a large number of Goths to

their rule the Hunts move on to Roman

Legions we don't know exactly why the

Huns started to move perhaps it was

climate change perhaps they were

searching for new fertile land for their

growing numbers of Horsemen but we are

certain that when they started to move

they pushed in front of them tens of

thousands of people and they fought

those tribes as well pushing them up

against the walls of the Roman Empire

scientists still debate the origins of

the Hunts to this day the only thing

they agree on is that they came from the

huge Asian step Nomads living of

husbandry and hunting their departure to

the West is closely tied to one name a

tiller born around 400 CE in the fifth

century he and his allies took regions

by storm to this very day hungarians

celebrate him as a national

hero myths tend to get exaggerated over

time because they come from an oral

tradition which means that each

retelling is different further many of

them were performed so to hold the

audience's attention it's important to

make them as entertaining as possible

the heroic become more heroic the magic

becomes more magical and the power

becomes more

powerful his death is shrouded in

Legends helping to solidify his mythical

image

to this day nobody knows how and where

he was buried his dead body is said to

be protected by three layers of iron

silver and

gold allegedly atilla's followers cut

off their hair and wounded their faces

to mourn his death with blood in place

of

Tears Legend has it that the men who dug

the pit were then killed to ensure the

tomb would forever remain undiscovered

the Practical answer for why the

undertaking slaves were killed is that

they didn't want anybody to find the

treasure or find the tomb but the more

religious reason might be that he wanted

to take these people with him this was a

common Motif this happened all over the

world where Fallen Kings would want to

leave with their

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servants most experts believe Atilla was

buried in Hungary in an undisclosed

location near the

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Danube the search for the legendary

location inspires researchers and hobby

treasure Hunters alike time and time

again someone claims to have found him

but they are never right

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musician lenti sereni has been looking

for traces of Atilla and the hunts for

quite some time he's on his way to an

excavation site in the pish

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mountains no we're going to

hell his search for the hunt Treasures

is financed with private means he has

had a decade long fascination with a

tiller and a brilliant career as a rock

star in Hungary since the 1960s lenti

serin has been as famous as John

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Lennon today he's visiting the place

where he believes he'll find traces of

the hanss the Moonshine

Quarry here lenti sereni and his

excavation team have Unearthed several

Treasures from the Hun

era any new discovery could bring him

one step closer to a

tiller lente serini thinks the Hunts Ed

the area as a burial

site and he's hoping to find Clues

leading to the legendary hun

King do

this used to be a Roman Quarry when the

Hunts arrived they changed everything

but nobody knows

why recently the team has found some

bones dating back 1500 years a first

clue as to how the Hunts might have used

this former

Quarry researchers have found a complete

skeleton beneath this rock it belong to

a cow

they discovered more bones deeper down a

human

skeleton this is a typical Pagan burial

ritual the place seems to be a sacred

sight to the Huns could atilla's tomb be

close lenti sereni and his team will

continue their search in a few months if

atilla's tomb was to be found it will

probably be here in the Hungarian and

plain but without any written Clues it's

nearly impossible to pinpoint exactly

where it could be studying the Huns is

very difficult indeed because they were

a nomadic people and the only way you

can find out about them is to see what

other peoples wrote about them when they

came into contact are peoples like the

Romans who described the Huns in some

detail Eastern Roman historian priscus

of pum describes a visit with Atilla

based on that we know how Atilla and the

Kurt looks like and how the traditions

of the Hans l so priscus said that AA is

a very noble man and he's very simple

compared to the other hanik

Lords priscus presents AA in a soft

light he showed himself temperate his

cup was made of wood while to the guests

were given goblets of gold and silver

but Atilla has more than one face he

kills his brother bedder to come into

power both rule as kings but Atilla is

only second in line he wants to be the

soul ruler and bring his brother's

devotees into his own Army it remains

unclear whether the fratricide really

took place as recorded or if atilla's

enemies were merely attempting to

slander him

but we know Atilla wins the Loyalty of

the most important tribal Chiefs

Germanic tribes also fight alongside him

contemporaries estimate his army

consists of half a million Warriors

which is probably

exaggerated jointly they wage war

against the

Romans Atilla starts by fighting the

Eastern Roman Empire Emperor theodosius

pays dearly for peace and agrees to

Tribute payments

Atilla goes on to turn against the

Western Roman Empire the Empire of the

Hun King stretches from the Caspian Sea

to the

Alps despite what some historians would

like us believe ETA wasn't just some

ruthless Barbarian he must have also

possessed some fairly exceptional skills

to have been able to organize a Cavalry

this large he must have spoken several

languages since the Hunts were people of

various ethnicities so he was

knowledgeable he was strategic and he

knew how to negotiate with other

rulers remains of the H are scattered

all over

Hungary archaeologist gabo vilhelm

specializes in Excavating antique tombs

to him each grave is just a piece of the

puzzle archaeological finds are crucial

sources when it comes to reconstructing

the history of the hanss their spread

and their Wars

starting in Central Asia a map shows how

the Huns ravaged almost all of Europe

and Asia some finds even point to

artilla

himself one particularly spectacular

object is here in the ketket museum it

is a skull of a warrior whose entous

tomb was only discovered quite recently

this Warrior lived in the first half of

the fifth century just like a tiller and

he was buried in a hun

ritual this tomb is an important find

because there are still many unanswered

questions on the

Hunts thanks to written tradition we

know a few things about a Tilla but

finds from this era are rare

even the smallest artifacts help us to

complete this Mosaic this

puzzle we got the skull back from the

Anthropologist he pointed out that the

nasal bridge is very large this is a

crucial detail it's a typical Mongolian

feature right after the excavation he

also said that there are traces of the

upper bandage up here we were Al able to

see this in the first

pictures a very particular custom of

ancient tribes is artificial cranial

deorations to elongate the skull the

Huns wrap their baby's heads in bandages

while their bones are still

malleable these defamations were likely

most practic amongst aristocratic

families to demonstrate their Superior

status

brilliant one of the most deformed

sculls he's ever seen byut Shan he must

have been really

handsome but who is this mysterious hun

Warrior their tomb is unusual y

Exquisite could this be a tiller himself

Bountiful burial objects could mean a

tiller is close golden jewelry belt

buckles an iron sword no doubt this has

to be the grave of a powerful man but

one detail doesn't add up this Warrior

died young a tiller however probably

lived until he was about 50 nevertheless

the archaeologist linked the find

directly to

Atilla as a if this young man was part

of the Han Elite so it's very likely

that he knew

AA it is quite possible that the young

Warrior fought alongside a

tiller as the supreme ruler of the Hunts

a tiller always leads his people into

battle it is not only the Hun's

legendary moral that gets the Roman

rulers into Dire

Straits Adam Bard has men train with

with weapons of antiquity swords Spears

arrows and Bows the premier class

fighting on Horseback like in a tiller's

Time the HTS are training their whole

life they are training with different

weapons they are training to use the

spears use the

bows the bow is the basic weapon and it

is used for break up the formations of

the enemies and also strike them from

far away

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HS are

coming the Hunts are specialized in

taking their opponents by

surprise B Gardner group is rehearsing

an attack on a Roman

Camp secret of the hanik Warfare is that

they are fighting from a running horse

and they are using a very powerful bow

the Hun Retreat after every

attack only to strike again unexpectedly

at a later date everybody's afraid of

what they don't understand especially

when it can sneak up fast and kill you

at a distance the Huns were very foreign

and somewhat unknown and not only that

they had practices of ripping their

faces open when somebody died in battle

as though they felt no pain and when

they rushed into war they showed no fear

when you're thinking about having to

face that kind of a force it might be

really scary to think that you might not

have that inside of you that you need to

match

it the Hun use a new technique to wage

war their secret weapon is the HBO which

at the time was unheard of in

Europe the ancient high-tech bow is made

from various materials wood horn senu

and Bone glued together in multiple

layers here on the inside of the bow you

have the animal horn the center has a

wooden core and on the outside there are

animal senes here we can see that the

horn and the grip have been reinforced

with bone

plates all these features reinforce the

bow while making it highly

flexible the bow is drawn further back

and its various components are able to

store more

energy the composite bow used by the

Hunts also has a special

shape the Hunts used asymmetrical

composite bows equipped with rigid horns

we can see that the lower limb is a bit

shorter than the Upper Limb making it

much easier to move on

Horseback this type of composite bow

helps Atilla win the deadly arrows are

accelerated by the horse's speed which

further increases the force of their

impact the Nimble composite bows allow

the hunt to shoot backwards even when

Galloping in the opposite direction

meaning they can weaken their enemies

even in Retreat

mode we want to put the impact of these

ancient arrows to the test our Target

Two pumpkins

our weapons are Longbow the typical

longrange weapon used in Roman times and

into the Middle

Ages next to it the composite bow of the

hanss bows can only be drawn right

before they shot otherwise the force

exerted at rest would be too

great which type of weapon is more

destructive

the bows are shot from the same distance

using the same type of Arrow the long

bows up

first the long bow went

through next up the composite bow it

stores almost twice as much energy when

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drawn who you smashed

it yeah comp the result is clear the

arrow from the HBO penetrates the

pumpkin almost

completely composit boo is the winner

the composite bow makes the Hunts the

superpower of late Antiquity and their

merciless Warfare becomes part of

collective

memory the rumors about the brutal

Horsemen were quite

demoralizing their goal is to force the

enemy to surrender and have frightened

soldiers join their ranks a myth that

survives the centuries

the expression the Hunts are coming

remains a symbol for Calamity up until

the 20th

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century in 1900 German soldiers are

deployed to China to th a

rebellion Emperor vilhelm II gives his

Infamous hun speech asking his soldiers

to show no mercy to their opponents he

wants the Chinese to fear the Germans

like the world once feared at Tilla the

Hun based on wilhelm's address the Hun

becomes a new epithet for the Germans

British and American newspapers happily

use this image during World War I in

World War II natsi propaganda tries to

instrumentalize the old fear of enemy

attacks from the East comparing the

Soviet Army to the hanss in December

1941 Hitler declares the Soviet Union is

trying to destroy Europe as the Huns

once did and therefore to save Europe he

must invade

Russia the Huns became a very valuable

tool for later propaganda purposes

because if you needed to label a people

as unpredictable as violent as ferocious

then you simply called them the Huns and

to do so brought with it this air of

mystery of wildness and of

violence The hanss Fearless and

merciless Warriors an image that lives

on for over 1,500

years in another experiment we are

trying to find out from which range the

weapons are effective in battles

penetrating power isn't the only

deciding factor reach also plays a key

role on a field near the riding arena

the men Mark out 200 me M by placing a

pumpkin on the ground every 20 M the

Roman Longbow is once again going

head-to-head with a composite

bow at 32 m/s the Roman Arrow covers 100

m what force will the composite bow

unleash the Hun Arrow reaches a speed of

42 m/ second and hits the ground at 170

m a difference of 70 m a clear advantage

in attacks on the

Romans with their Superior longrange

weapon the Hunts under Atilla weaken the

Roman Empires in the East and the West

they Advance by the thousands and break

their adversary's line of defense with a

deadly reain of

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arrows Roman army is

helpless the Hun arrows decide battle

after

battle the Hunts are legendary because

of this novel military technique soon

every child in Europe knows a tiller's

name but his death Still Remains a

mystery to this day nobody knows where

he was

buried some believe a tiller's tomb has

to be in the riverbed of the danu or the

Tissa one of its tributaries the exact

location

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unknown descriptions only tell us how

the burial reportedly took

place the details bear great resemblance

to the funeral of visigoth king allerik

who ruled only a few decades before

Atilla allegedly he is buried in a

drained riverbed as

well A's found resting place is also

meant to remain a secret

forever he is said to have been buried

per request under a river in a secret

ceremony so can we find a tiller's tomb

in one of the Hungarian

Rivers a tiller toad is an underwater

archaeologist the Hungarian rivers are

like a second home to him and his team

if a tiller's grave really were to be

found on the bottom of the danu or one

of its tributaries a tiller tote would

be the one to find

it from his boat the scientist scoured

the riverbed for hidden objects using a

sides scan

sonar there are big trees on the

water it's been dangerous today

not to keep a tree

trunk can he find a tiller's

tomb actually we don't know where is AA

sto it is possible that under the danu

because of course he was a very

important person his Center uh of his

Empire was in the present day Hungary

somewhere so uh probably they try to

hide the tomb so it could be Act

true riverbeds are wonderful locations

for preserving historic material there

is no air and that means that the

material can be preserved for centuries

so there's every chance that if we found

the right place then a tiller's burial

chamber would be preserved just

perfectly but how could a king be buried

under a river that Daniel batisa would

have had to be damned or

drained the Hun warriors on Horseback

could only have achieved this by using

topographical

features with Islands to shorten the dam

a natural barrier would mean the water

only needs to be dammed on one side

while the other side serves as a natural

drain this way artilla men might be able

to dig a grave that could be inundated

at a later date

we found Roman materials and far older

relics along the danu I don't see why we

wouldn't be able to find memories of the

Huns if not a tilla's grave

itself will the underwater archaeologist

track down a tilla's hidden tomb the

danu is full of cultural remains

starting from PR history up to Modern

period because this was the highway of

Europe

it's highly likely that it was crossed

by a hun Army 1500 years

ago on the screen we can see what is

under the water it's like a map uh a

flat map of the danu right and left of

the boat and we see everything which is

just a little bit emerging from the

river

bed ultrasonic waves and GPS data from

the boat provide researchers with images

of what Li beneath the river bed

whatever is hidden down there a tomb

ruins lost treasures will be visible on

the

screen suddenly they discover

something we have a a very big block

maybe a piece of

wall we are just going over two walls

forming a rectangular structures

structure maybe maybe oh it's beautiful

I think it was

a a Roman Tower a big tower of

fortification an old Roman fort on the

outer Imperial

Frontier so this is the position where

we have to dive and I think it's a very

good location because we have no uh

current the dep is only for 4.7 M yeah

we save the position so we dive here and

look at what's under the

water the site is promising this is

exactly where the river divided the

Roman Empire from the great Empire of

the Hunts 2,000 years ago the danubian

lemas the Romans build a series of forts

along the stream because of the repeated

clashes between hunts and Romans

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a tiller is looking to raid and force

them into making tribute payments a

business model that submits opponents to

the Romans it's the beginning of a long

and trying

War neither protective walls nor

military equipment can shelter them from

the H

attacks the chain mail is a typical

piece of roman armor used for centuries

it protects them against cut and thrust

weapons but can it also deflect hun

arrows this group wants to put it to the

test from a 10 m distance the

penetrating power of an arrow is

deadly the chain mail does not stop the

projectile the Hunts use another kind of

protection Lamela or scale armor which

can even withstand

arrows H leaders and tribal Chiefs went

into battle wearing this armor and

Atilla most probably did

too the armor is Created from thin

plates of lamelas made from Iron it's

very light very

movable you could raise your hand you

could use the bows this is a very

protective

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layer a test will show if the Lamela

armor can really protect against

projectiles can the thin iron lamelas

deflect an

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arrow the arrow re really bounces

off the energy spreads across the

lamelas weakening the impact it's clear

the Hun armor provides better protection

at least against incoming arrows it's

also light and flexible ideal for

fighting high on

Horseback it went through the chains and

the lar blocked

it their weapons armor and combat

techniques fuel the the myth of the

Invincible

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hun the Hun combat technique is superior

thanks to their Bowman and

horses together the rider and his horse

form a perfect fighting machine Nimble

and fast contemporaries scuffed them

claiming the Hunts lived their entire

lives on Horseback purportedly even

sleeping in the saddle and negotiating

on

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Horseback the hands are training from

Early Childhood on

Horseback the speed of the horse is also

giving them additional range and

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power there the horses allow the Hunts

to cover up to 80 km per day which makes

them more than twice as fast as the

Roman Legions the horseback attacks are

also psychologically

powerful they are using the blood of

their enemies to warming up the horses

they put it to the nose so they are not

afraid from the smell of the

blood Ghost Riders attacking their

adversaries out of the blue likely armed

but incredibly fast and Nimble they

instill fear into the hearts of

Europeans and one man embodies his

Terror like no other a tiller almost

superhuman

Invincible at the peak of his power in

451 a tiller attacks Roman cities in

Gaul culminating in the decisive battle

of the catalonian Plains 40 ,000 Roman

Warriors against 45,000 huntts and their

devotees in ancient times it's the

battle of the

Nations the Roman troops manag to push

back and Surround a tiller it's a

stalemate for the very first time the

dreaded hun King is forced to admit

defeat Atilla loses his reput ation for

being Invincible the following year he

invades Italy but can't conquer

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Rome in

453 Germanic princess ILO arrives at a

tiller's court he marries her and the

Huns celebrate all night but in the

morning there is silence the legend goes

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an attendant finds a tiller dead in his

bed next to his

wife he is said to have choked on his

own blood maybe in a drunken

stuper or did iGo kill him so was he

poisoned did he die in his sleep there

certainly would have been motivations to

tell a different story if he did die in

his sleep one Warrior cultures tend to

to prioritize Warrior deaths uh so to

die of a murder would have been much

better than to uh die in your sleep and

at the same time people want to blame

somebody when something bad happens and

so you can imagine that when you walk in

and you find your King dead and a woman

cowering there uh it would have been

easy to have blamed her whether she did

it or

not atilla's death is just as mysterious

as the circumstances of his funeral

shrouded in ancient myths

the version of the story in which a

tiller is buried in a river makes it

enter the Hungarian history books but

the tomb still hasn't been found to this

very day does it lie on the bottom of

the danu or Tia and why is the

uncertainty so

tormenting when there are knowledge gaps

that need to be filled when we haven't

been able to find out what happened to

the Mortal remains of a famous person

like ATA there's always room for

speculation there's no tomb we can

examine no skeletons we can look at so

there's a lot of room for

imagination a tiller tote and his team

have found the remains of a Roman fort

in the Danube using a sonar device they

need special equipment for the dive this

metal detector is a very useful device

for us because the visibility is very

short I mean 20 40 cm in the danu so

when we are swimming we are just uh

scanning the riverbed and it is signing

every small metal object so you can

touch it and uh and look at it if it is

archaological find or

not atill to's group is one of the most

experienced teams in Hungary they have

found many remains from the Hunts and

Romans discovering atilla's tomb would

fulfill their lifelong dream

of course everything could be possible

so we are searching the danu for and the

Tisa and All Rivers here in the

carpatian Basin uh for cultural

heritage the divers have reached the

sight of the former Roman

fortifications they go down to where

there was once dry

land patience and the right tools are

the only way to find something in the

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mud the diver passes the Roman walls

once providing protection against the

Huns diving through the murky water of

the

Daniel suddenly the metal detector

starts going

off there's got to be an iron object

hidden between the

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stones will the diver manage to retrieve

it

a piece of iron emerges from the

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duu looks like a

handmade ancient iron

nail a Roman nail not a rare site for

the archaeologist

they don't discover any H remains this

time if in a day I will find an iron

coffin inside silver and gold coffin of

course naturally I I will not throw it

back to the water but we will excavate

it and investigate of course everything

could be

possible until then the danu shall keep

the secret for herself a Great Hero

needs a death shrouded by

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myths to the

hungarians is like a national myth he's

become a central figure in Hungarian

histography because of his power and the

way he was able to intimidate his

opponents

maybe those wanting to find a tiller's

tomb have to look

elsewhere Budapest wants the heart of

Europe the once Royal City of Hungary

back in medieval times is now a major

tourist

attraction it is also where the life

work of an unknown author is stored the

hungarians refer to him as Anonymous his

U is titled the guesta hungar roram the

Deeds of the

hungarians the 800-year old manuscript

is kept in the National Library in

Buddha castle historian Lazlo VES primy

has studied it for

years it is the first depiction of

Hungarian history that goes back to

atilla's time narrations and legends

that had previously been passed on

orally in Hungary it's a valuable

treasure documenting their

past and it turns out the old text

really contains hidden clues about a

tiller's tomb

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this is one of the most valuable

manuscripts of the National Library

written by anonimos a nameless Hungarian

chronicler and entitled The Deeds of the

hungarians It Was Written around the

year 1200 and has been preserved in a

13th century

manuscript the text tells of arpad who

ruled 450 years after

Atilla is Arad the key to aer's tomb to

hungarians he's the second hero besides

a tiller he freezes people from foreign

Rule and secures the region around the

danub before he died in 97 he made a

special

request when the Great Prince arpat died

which was in 9007 according to

Chronicles it was documented that he

wanted to be buried in the city of King

AA in

ctim but where is this ancient Royal

City of Atilla

some think it could be the old Buddha

west of

Budapest on medieval Maps the place is

called sambria capital of the

hungarians was this the city of the

Kings Arad

Atilla sambria is believed to be lost

but its ruins might be found in the

woods of the pish mountains

just a few kilometers outside Budapest

near the town of Buddha kalash

everything comes

together ecologist IM ransky has studied

the medieval maps and is convinced that

the ancient Royal City is located in

this

Forest I can't put it in any other way

this is the atrium of the castle and

I'll show you where the wall stood there

we can also see the moat

IM ransky is sure that he's standing

amidst the ruins of the Palace of hon

King Atilla this look and this

look I'm standing on the wall of tilla's

Castle the was already here back

then if Emer lans's assumption proves to

be true a tiller's tomb might also be

somewhere among these trees and

rocks this

Wasa later it was called aa's

Castle in German

atilla's life is a source of myths and

legends the once powerful hunking also

inspired European poets under the name

of King etel he was also featured in the

medieval German Saga nealan

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lead yakim heiner takes a closer look at

this myth in the monastery library of s

gal he is a neong expert he thinks the

investigation needs to be conducted

using the old

text these in Germanic poetry thisel is

indeed the name used in literature to

refer to a Tilla the Hun you can tell by

the name language historians were able

to trace the name etel directly back to

Atilla in the neong lead etel marries

Burgundian princess creem hild etel is

not portrayed as a brutal ruler but as

an old and Mild mannered King his Royal

City is called selburg and lies where

old Buddha used to be

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this is old Buddha this old Buddha o

Buddha was called selburg in the Middle

Ages we know this as there are records

confirming it and in the ni lead the

etel B is also referred to as etzel's

residence IM ransy believes aa's grave

lies in an Old Quarry directly behind

the ruins of the reputed Royal City and

next up from the guesta hurum serves as

his Guiding

Light this book describes that Arad was

buried over the source of a small Creek

running through the

rock this is why we've come here I

followed the directions in Thea

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and it is also written that he was

buried in a

mine if it hasn't been pillaged aath and

AA have to be

there the ecologist has observed

irregularities in the

Treetops some of the trees have grown in

a peculiar way which could point to a

cavity in the

ground after 8 or 10 m the tree or its

main branch begins tilting to the side

and cannot continue growing straight so

it grows sideways you can see that

perfectly over there and over there on

the black locust we can also see the

deformation along the whole tree there's

got to be a large cavity underneath us

between here and

there infrared Imaging also points to a

cavity the crosssection of the area

reveals a source of heat this means

there's an air

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pocket Lansky has the ground drilled and

uses an endoscopic camera he wants to

see if Specialists can confirm his

suspicion are there man-made cavities

beneath the rocks

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at about 12 M down there's got to be a

crack and the edge of a

city the camera probe slowly makes its

way through the

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ground how many meters down are we

there you go here we

are slowly

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slowly this is too straight this Stone

has been

worked this is a fragmented

Stone pretty smooth over here

too go back a bit and the rock is not

the

same this shows that we're looking in

the right

place IM ransky has found the

cavity it's fantastic that's

fantastic

unbelievable so very very

good is this the defining piece of the

puzzle in the search for atilla's Tomb

emanski has to be patient and raise

money to excavate this

site if we were lucky enough actually to

find the place where Atilla the Hun was

buried then and only then I think could

we say that he would be no longer a

myth Atilla the Hun feared and admired

to this day it only seems to be a matter

of time until the mystery surrounding

his tomb will be revealed