that's uh very thrilling for an author to see um this is West kennet Long Barrow in Wiltshire it's a chambered tomb from the Neolithic the late stone age uh which makes it about 5 and a halfthousand years old and I first visited this site when I was about 18 years old on a university field
before the stone was brought to West kennet and incorporated into the tomb and this blew my mind to think that I I I kind of felt that I'd been at thebeginning of history for this place the the start of the story and then realized that actually no there's so many more
And a lot of really other interesting stuff, such as this, which is from a legal document that was written about 40 years after his death when his body was disinterred from his tomb because it was rumored to be a group of foreign language enthusiasts who were trying to get a hold of his skull.So they dug him up to make sure that his body was intact.
believed to belong to King Midas and they didn't have the technology to really analyze what they found in that tomb unlike the legend of Midas being buried with you know this vast Fortune the tomb was really significant for anumber of reasons the first was as the archaeologist pulled the Rocks away and actually walked into the tomb the first thing they noticed was all the
Because for the rest of her life, what she would be trying to hide would be, first of all, that she came to Tombstone to be the common-law wife of Johnny Behan. And second of all, that Wyatt already had a wife in Tombstone, and that was Mattie Blaylock.
passions looking for patterns and all stuff and asking you that second question this morning what I want my Tombstone to say a mission statement or statements will come actually can come very very quickly let me give you an example this this is a passion pyramid for um
So let that be a warning. So "Tomb Raider" came out originally in October 1996. And Lara Croft became a pop culture phenomenon not just in the games industry but way beyond.
I had begun to understand that what really mattered was my happiness in here and now, in the present moment, and not what any future happiness may be. The tombs were surprisingly sunny.
traveling rabbis in in the ancient world. Why is the tomb opened? Where did the body go?" And then there's also an account of an angel appearing and saying, "Why are you looking for the
And how did it form? For decades after the tomb ’s discovery in 1922, no geologist could find a solid answer. But now, we have one.
Has anyone ever heard of the Tomb of Horrors? Who's played the Tomb of Horrors? Raise your hand if you've played the Tomb of Horrors.
Look at this. The fear is still with you after all these years. Did anyone survive the Tomb of Horrors? Thank you. Thank you.
First honest group. No one survives the Tomb of Horrors. No one survives the Tomb of Horrors. This is universally known as the most deadly, maybe unfair adventure in "Dungeons and Dragons." In the novel "Ready Player One,"
Welcome to "Dungeons and Dragons." You die. Enjoy the Tomb of Horrors. And to survive it, you had to often bring hirelings or in-laws to send into the room in front of you-- Right.
And to cut a long story very, very short, what we discovered was that two of the monuments there are probably about 500 years older than Newgrange. So the passage tomb story in Ireland is a long story. And there's a whole series of developments leading up to Newgrange.
until eternity. And the Taj Mahal isn't alone. In the tomb built by a Muslim monarch for his beloved similar architectural achievements you will find almost in every Muslim town and city and indeed even villages, the Sufis in particular, and I'll come to that in a moment.
And of course, Eidos best known for launching "Tomb Raiders." And I was the executive chairman when we did that. So where did "Tomb Raider" come from? Again, lots of people think it was developed in the States or in Japan.
And so he engineered an attack like this, and then showed it to the media, and showed his own army coming in to save the inhabitants, And his tomb is inside the Aleppo Umayyad mosque.
edifice of Standing Stones laid out at the front some of them were original constructed when the tomb was first constructed about 3,600 to 3,400 BC but some of them were brought much much later around 2000 BC when we're now in the Bronze Age as a
I had begun to understand that what really mattered was my happiness in here and now, in the present moment, and not what any future happiness may be. Rabbi Simeon's tomb had all the single ladies, so I headed there first, as kind of a joke.
And this is Ptah Hotep inside of his tomb . And this is his tomb here. Here's a close up of his tomb .
they had all these crazy carbon blah blah blah testing I can't explain to you where they analyze the residue of stuff found in tombs around the world from whatever era and so in the 50s University of Pennsylvania discovered a tomb in Turkey believed to belong to King Midas and they didn't have the technology to really analyze what they found in that
You can go to the greatest church in Christendom, St. Peter's, and take a flash photograph of Michelangelo's Pietà. Or go to Mass right at the that high altar above the tomb of Saint Peter. Two different ways to experience that church. You can be in France during harvest time.
What would my tombstone potentially read?
Et tout le reste tombe, si le fait de nature ne tient pas, l'appartenance religieuse ne peut pas tenir.
She was a tomboy.
She's a tomboy, and her best friend is this queer boy.
So for the next few slides, they're going to be quite fast, and we're going to get into a little bit of detail on passage tombs . So anybody who's had a particularly hard day in the office, this might be a good time to switch off for a couple of minutes. Or if you like pretty pictures, there's some beautiful photography here, particularly by a guy called Ken Williams.
And I'll point out some of his photographs as we go along. So this is passage tombs over most of Ireland, but largely on this line, from sort of South Wicklow over to this Sligo, Mayo area and north of that line, as you can see.
She's a tomboy. I thought when we started working on this, I thought, oh, well, that won't be Della.
I was a tomboy.
as elegant as his tombstone, but maybe more understandable to a lay audience.
There's some tombstone with my name.
So you were a tomboy?
I was a tomboy too.
I had begun to understand that what really mattered was my happiness in here and now, in the present moment, and not what any future happiness may be. Because these tombs , they're really interesting.
I had begun to understand that what really mattered was my happiness in here and now, in the present moment, and not what any future happiness may be. So there's two tombs that are in one room.
-On your tombstone, at the end of the day, they're going to see three things.
when I learned that she'd been a Jewish woman in Tombstone. A Jewish woman in Tombstone sort of sounds like a joke you might read on "The Onion." And I thought about how much I thought I knew about the Old West, which turned out to be mostly untrue.
That's not really true. She came to Tombstone to marry Johnny Behan. But when she got there, the situation was very different.
But certainly in common parlance, we think of it as the O.K. Corral. Josephine was in Tombstone. She heard the shots.
There's Josephine with one of her biographers. She visits Tombstone for the first time since 1882. That must've been an incredible journey.
at the tombs were bronze, wood and terracotta and so our three breweries are doing the exact same recipe but fermenting the beer with different material. So, Baladan's doing their fermentation
decided to make tombstones so I have these like submit you know how you can make like a cement stepping
traveling rabbis in in the ancient world. and on the third day and the tomb is empty.
traveling rabbis in in the ancient world. "I I I met you the tomb is empty. I met Jesus. Jesus is not in the the tomb .
This is the Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun, AKA King Tut. And this was found inside his tomb . It’s an ornate breastplate, and the pièce de résistance is that gemstone in the middle.
Another recreation of what the tomb would have looked like.
And while certainly finding a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings like Tut would be amazing, that's not going to tell me as much about daily life in Egypt
to be co-DMs with him. And he built something called the Tomb of Horrors. Has anyone ever heard of the Tomb of Horrors?