1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,239 Speaker 1: Hey, history enthusiasts, you get not one, but two events 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: in history today. Heads up that you also might hear 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: two different hosts, me and Tracy V. Wilson. With that said, 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,399 Speaker 1: on with the show. Welcome to this day in History 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: Class from how Stuff Works dot com and from the 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: desk of Stuff you Missed in History Class. It's the 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: show where we explore the past one day at a 8 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: time with a quick look at what happened today in history. Hello, 9 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson and 10 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: it's November. Archaeologist opened King Tuttenhaman's tomb on the stay 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: in He's also known as King Tut and he was 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: born around thirty two b c e and ruled Egypt 13 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: for nine years. British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team 14 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: found the stairs down into the tomb in the Valley 15 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: of Kings about three weeks earlier. There had been numerous 16 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: excavations in this area at the end of the nineteenth century, 17 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: and a lot of archaeologist thought that everything notable that 18 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: could be found had already been found. A lot of 19 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: these excavations had also been at burial sites that had 20 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: already been plundered by grave robbers long before, but Tuton 21 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: Common's reign came at a turbulent time in Egyptian history. 22 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: His father, i'm in Hotep the fourth was also known 23 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: as akan at In because of his worship of the 24 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: sun god Aten and only that god Aconat and tried 25 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: to totally change Egyptian cultural and religious life, and then 26 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: after his death, Egypt basically tried to put everything back 27 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: the way it had been before. That meant that after 28 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: Tuton Common died, he wasn't very well remembered because of 29 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: his father's legacy and his place within that legacy and 30 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: the efforts to undo all of it. Later. Pharaoh's basically 31 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: wrote him out of history, but that may have offered 32 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: his tomb some protection from looters. It wasn't very well documented, 33 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: so people didn't know to go and rob it. When 34 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: he discovered the plaster door to the tomb, which was 35 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: still sealed, Howard Carter ordered everything to be filled back in, 36 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: and he sent a message to his patron, George Herbert, 37 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, who was paying for this 38 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: whole expedition, and told him quote a wonderful discovery in 39 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: Valley a magnificent tomb with seals intact. They all waited 40 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: for him to get there to actually see the thing 41 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: that he was paying to be excavated opened up for 42 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: the first time. They were joined by both British and 43 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: Egyptian observers, and what they found was exactly what they 44 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: hoped was behind that door, an intact tomb, still filled 45 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: with its original grave goods, including jewelry and statues and 46 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: beads and baskets and musical instruments, just thousands of objects, 47 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: some of them very ornate and valuable. This tomb of 48 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: Tuton Common is actually the smallest one in the Valley 49 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 1: of Kings, possibly because he died suddenly at a very 50 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: young age, but it's also possible that he was buried 51 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: in a tomb that was being planned for the man 52 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: who wound up being his successor. It's not totally clear regardless, though, 53 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 1: because it had not been plundered like all these other 54 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: grave sites had, it turned out to be a major 55 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: major fine in spite of its small size. The door 56 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: to the burial chamber itself was open to the following February, 57 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: which also led the team to the treasury adjacent to it. 58 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: It took Carter almost a decade to catalog everything that 59 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: he had found there. Today, most of the tomb's contents 60 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which is also 61 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: where the beard of the mask of King Tutenhaman was 62 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: accidentally broken off in that made headlines because it had 63 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: been clumsily reattached and later had to be repaired and restored. 64 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: The Grand Egyptian Museum, which is still under construction as 65 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: of this recording, is planned to exhibit every object of 66 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: the tomb, some of which have never been on display 67 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: before now. In the decades since this tomb was discovered, 68 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: a number of teams have tried to find any still 69 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: unearthed areas of the tomb, with speculation going back and 70 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: forth about whether or not there are hidden chambers that 71 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: have not been found yet, with the most recent announcement 72 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: coming in May that no, there are not That means 73 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: one of the things they had thought they might find 74 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: there is probably not there, which is the tomb of 75 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: never t d who was one of the other wives 76 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: of Tuton Common's father Akonatin. You can learn a bit 77 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: more about this in the septemberisode of Stuffy miss in 78 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: History Class called who was King tut Anyway, thanks to 79 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: Ksey P. Graham and Chandler Maye for their audio work 80 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: on this show. You can subscribe to The Day in 81 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: History Class on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and wherever else 82 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts, and you can tune in tomorrow 83 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: for another of this month's assassinations. Hello again, it's Eaves 84 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: and you're listening to this Day in History Class, a 85 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: podcast that truly believes no day is boring. The day 86 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: was November nineteen. Southern Television's news anchor Andrew Gardner was 87 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: presenting the news when at five ten pm the news 88 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: was interrupted by a distorted voice delivering a cryptic message. 89 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: It was the first major broadcast interruption and it's still 90 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: a mystery who was responsible for it. Southern Television was 91 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: the license holder for the I t V service that 92 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: covered parts of the south, southeast and southwest of England. 93 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: The Southern Television broadcast was interrupted via the Hannington transmitter 94 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: near the village of Handington in England. The TV image 95 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: wobbled a little, then the sound was replaced with the 96 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: mysterious audio. The voice speaking in the transmission identified itself 97 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: as real on an alien that claimed to be a 98 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: representative of a body called the Ashtar Galactic Command. It 99 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: urged humans to live in peace to avoid disaster. Here's 100 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 1: an excerpt from the transmission. Be still now and listen, 101 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: for your chance may not come again. All your weapons 102 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: of evil must be removed. The time for conflict is 103 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: now passed, and the race of which you are apart 104 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: may proceed to the higher stages of its evolution. If 105 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: you show yourselves worthy to do this, you have but 106 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: a short time to learn to live together in peace 107 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: and goodwill. Small groups all over the planet are learning 108 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: this and exists to pass on the light of the 109 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: dawning New Age to you all. You are free to 110 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: accept or reject their teachings, but only those who learned 111 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: to live in peace will pass to the higher realms 112 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: of spiritual evolution. As TV engineers worked to figure out 113 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: what was going on, TV visuals continued as normal. The 114 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: communication ended about six minutes after it began, with villain 115 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: saying that it was quote leaving the planes of your existence. 116 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: When it ended, a Looney Tunes cartoon was on air. 117 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: The station apologized for a quote breakthrough and sound, but 118 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: the press jumped on the story and even I t 119 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: V was reporting the incident on its own news network. 120 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: The broadcast interruption was a hoax, as the Independent Broadcasting 121 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: Authority announced after the incident. It was a broadcast signal intrusion, 122 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: where a hacker gets control of a broadcast frequency. The 123 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: hacker likely jammed Southern Television's transmitter by putting another low 124 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: power transmitter close to it, but some people were still 125 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: concerned about the strange message, and many called Southern Television 126 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: voicing their worry. Not everyone accepted the eruption as a hoax. 127 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: Some believed that an alien really was the culprit. There 128 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: are still conspiracy theories around the incident, since the person 129 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: who conducted the interruption never stepped up, and because there's 130 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: disagreement over whether the voice actually said the name Ylon 131 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,679 Speaker 1: or said a different name. I'm Eves Jeffcote and hopefully 132 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: you know a little more about history today than you 133 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: did yesterday. Spend some of your daily social media time 134 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: with us at T D I h C Podcast. If 135 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: you prefer something a little bit more formal, then you 136 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: can write us at this Day at I heart media 137 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: dot com. 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