The narrator sounds like John Hurt, the British actor. 👏 This is probably the best documentary I've ever seen! Thank you.

Such a beautiful, well made documentary. I'm only roughly an hour into it but so far I'm loving how well it's made. Top notch everything. Bravo!

This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen about the ancient cities around the Mediterranean. There is wonderful testimony from scientists, archaeologists and historians, interspersed with vignettes about the actual people who lived in the cities. The little reenactments are tastefully done and quite interesting. I have always thanked God when people in antiquity left their stories in hyroglyphics, stellae, papyri, tablets and burial sites. We also can be extremely grateful for the boundless work of modern professionals for uncovering and interpreting the evidence and fossils. This presentation provides the best of all sources of information about Athens, Alexandria, Carthage and Rome. It is really amazing what they were able to find out about Carthage, in particular, considering the Romans pretty much wiped it off the face of the earth. So kudos to the team who brought us this documentary. I enjoyed it and learned a lot.

@KingCircles

7 ай бұрын

Whole another lesson of English language in several sentences - thank You.

@btekwindsolar

7 ай бұрын

absolutely a pile of rubbish, all the architecture was inherited, all so called Victorian buildings are literally buried in the sedimentary layer of Noah's flood. They didn't put windows in the ground those were 2nd or 3ds floors up now under ground. Literally same architecture on every continent buried. Nagasakiand Hiroshima were carpet bombed not nuclear weapons no radiation to destroy the architecture that was literally the same as new york. however it did not fit the narrative. ALL FAKE his story.

KZread, thou vanquisher and abetter of insomnia.

Athens 1:22 Alexandria 53:09 Carthage 1:44:53 Rome 2:36:22

@cjyoung4080

Жыл бұрын

so... its pretty biased... really nothing from Asia? Middle East?

@metoo7557

Жыл бұрын

@@cjyoung4080 Okay so Babylon isn't here, but the video is how long? Beggars can't be choosers. Go make one of your own then.

@kristiskinner8542

Жыл бұрын

@@cjyoung4080 biased? Lol🤦‍♀️ the title doesnt say "the only great megacities. . ." There's nothing "biased" about it. Its simply the 4 these producers etc chose. Thats inanely rediculous to say its biased smh

@ibrahimmuzzafar8053

Жыл бұрын

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@ibrahimmuzzafar8053

Жыл бұрын

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This well done walk through history is a glaring reminder of the adage, then more things change, the more they stay the same.

@kristiskinner8542

Жыл бұрын

We are all creatures of habit

@bonnieagliata4780

Жыл бұрын

So true Floy Grace...& People do evil in the name of God. It will never change, sadly.🍂

@orionxtc1119

Жыл бұрын

History repeating itself

@alidangideon

8 ай бұрын

@@bonnieagliata4780doing evil in the name of god is a sin

I would like to congratulate the people of Greece on their restoration of the Parthenon. The whole world has been influenced by the ancient Greeks and the whole world rejoices with Greece.

A mega documentary :) this looks awesome.. perfect timing on a Sunday night 🥰

@trippsmclovin

Жыл бұрын

Amen. 🤳

@6offdutyninjasN1

Жыл бұрын

And it still works well on this Sunday night 3 months later friend

@btrizzle2150

11 ай бұрын

5 months later, on this Sunday I am sure enjoying this doc!

@alidangideon

8 ай бұрын

@@trippsmclovinno

I appreciate this series taking the time to show the lives of some normal people whose records have survived.

@JasonJrake

7 ай бұрын

The “closed caption” button KZread provides does work for this video now, if it didn’t when you made this comment.

Very complete documantry and after watching this i know i have to visit Greece, I'm from Iran and i love Younan 💙

I remember watching this absolutely awesome

I use this to help me sleep .. 💤 Works like a charm 😊

This was absolutely brilliant and informative Corina thank you.❤

AMAZING WORK & VIBE!!!! Full deep dive

I love how the man discusses falling in love with the vase. Lovely stuff. 🧡✨️🧡✨️💕

@Mandolatron

Жыл бұрын

That vase loved me first 😢

@Laocoon283

Жыл бұрын

I made love to that bowl and now he's drinking out of it...

@TinyPendle

Жыл бұрын

I love lamp.

Thanks!

So cool about the car for Steven ! Congratulations Steven ! Glad your family is ok. We had fires/ drought in 97 in florida and i know how stressful that whole situation is for you. I pray for rain instead of griping about it now ! And am praying for yall too !

@MegaRaked

10 ай бұрын

Uuummmm...???

@insidiousbeatz48

10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 maybe the fact the ancient world drove cars was lost when the the great library was burned down

@jasondrummond9451

7 ай бұрын

OMG - this looks like a comment misplaced from another channel: Curiosity Incorporated. In fact I'm pretty sure I read this comment ON that channel. How the heck did it wind up here??

@lisavanderlinden777

7 ай бұрын

Wow

@lisavanderlinden777

7 ай бұрын

@@jasondrummond9451 it was for courisity inc. Weird , huh?

Great documentary. Thank you

Wolf nipple chips! LOL the Roman Colosseum part reminds me so much of the Monty Python segments of the Life of Brian scene!

Great video Joe 👍🏼

Thanks for the inspiration!!

The first early big cities were always beside large flowing rivers for obvious reasons. Rome was an inland port when it started out, and there were many other similar places. Then the iron age required massive amounts of charcoal and forests were felled everywhere to produce it. That despoiling caused the rivers to begin silting up as topsoil lost its protective cover.

@christopherc8563

6 ай бұрын

the beginning of man made climate change

I thought it said something else but glad I clicked it. 💯🤙🏽 Edit: 23K views and only 720 likes? 🤔🤔🤔

Phryne’s unrobing to prove her beauty’s worthiness of Aphrodite’s statue was an absolute BOSS move! I love this video, thank you so much.

@hornytarot

7 ай бұрын

Too bad it never happened

@jnielsen90

5 ай бұрын

I'm rather suprised no one said they wanted to inspect the evidence first hand......to verify it's authenticity of course, with other unrobed beauties I could then make comparisons with....all in pursuit of the truth of course lol

@jnielsen90

5 ай бұрын

I beg to differ as my imagination made it happen@@hornytarot

Wonderful, I really enjoyed that :)

This is phenomenal 👌

Rudyard, you blew me away.

loved it!

Beautiful thanks...❤💐from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Great seeing and hearing your Dad's views on all the turmoil going on in the world. I found him very knowledgeable, reasonable, and interesting, just like you Jake!

How did they do it? They had far greater but simple technology than we can imagine. Frequency and vibration. The beauty of sound. That's the key. We like to believe we are a greater civilization but it's just not true. These pieces of history are amazing and I thank you for sharing this ❤️

@sweettaterpie7009

Жыл бұрын

The real on my land can build a better, longer lasting home than we humans do today.! The ants are pretty good too, for that matter.

@schwabe7794

Жыл бұрын

Lol u made this comment on the internet we are far more advanced.

@nicholas6626

Жыл бұрын

We have ways to work around problems now, different solutions, asking other countries for their specialties, back then they had hand tools and their local think tanks. They were just like us, just way early. Think long enough on anything without help and you'll get it eventually.

@Laocoon283

Жыл бұрын

Well I think he said they used a compass a ruler and a plumbline... I dont think he mentioned sounds vibrations lol

@hectordelarocha10

Жыл бұрын

They also had slaves who worked to death, so building a city is still impressive but just less when you know this fact.

I heard her say ' all this gold just lying around, you just had to pick it up ' ...if only it was that easy today! Lol

Thnx for your content

great content on video

Thanks for uploading this older video! Still good to watch!

48:44 POV: Me at the flea market looking for an old CRT to pair with my Pentium II.

@xtr3m3fLx

8 ай бұрын

p2 phhht, I run a p3 coppermine @ 733 mhz peasant.

very good work

I’ll be buying some soon!!

Incredible documentary

very informative, i like it

Excellent !!!

The catacombs were stunning.

I likes history. back to the ancients.

Intresting how two nationalities coexisted that long ago.

Sumerians were first civilization. They got things rolling...

Beautiful video

The uniqueness of the Parthenon says we were smarter 5000yrs ago than we've been told all our lives. And there were other even more powerful with beautiful architecture earlier than the Greeks. Darwin's folly makes us still dragging our clubs on the ground, looking for food and women. WE HAVE B@EN LI@D TOO!

There are better history articles. But if this is what it takes to get people interested, good luck to you!

Please subtitles for the deaf

@terryhuffaker3615

Жыл бұрын

Go to settings and turn on auto generated captions. Best of luck.

@maryb3136

Жыл бұрын

My mother is deaf

@BairMendoza

Жыл бұрын

If you’re on an iPhone, just tap the screen and tap the cc in the top right corner. ☺️

@904duvalslim

Жыл бұрын

Tap the cc icon. Booya

@tee1up785

Жыл бұрын

@@maryb3136what?

This was so very well done. Thanks. A lot of this type of thing on this topic are not so well presented.

Nice historically accurate bench grinder at 30:22 lol

Looks really interesting to me for sure . Would love to travel and explore different countries and history too. Never knew about mega cities before . Interesting for sure . Beautiful for sure . Weird snd crazy story .

@ervishyseni7712

11 ай бұрын

For sure

@avuci

7 ай бұрын

@@ervishyseni7712for sure

5:30 Athena was the goddess of wisdom & war… not victory (that was Nike).

@TheBigBowks

2 ай бұрын

According to a paper by Harrison (as cited in Sikes, 1895) Nike was once a facet of the Greek goddess Athena, who was composed of Boulaia (good council), Ergane (skilled handcraft), and Nike (victory). According to this theory, Nike eventually broke off from Athena to form her own distinct personality.

have been to carthage twice it is nice

@cruisepaige

Жыл бұрын

I loved seeing the battlefield and the museum but it was creepy. No women anywhere and all those identical flags row upon row in black red and white up and down every street. Was like 1939 Germany.

It is unfortunate the library of Alexandria was burned. I often wonder what wonderful information was lost.

@mr.l7471

11 ай бұрын

I know I like to go to libraries and always try to picture what works of history were lost at the Library of Alexandria 🤔

@ReapWhatYaSow

8 ай бұрын

I, too, have thought of the resources lost..

@johnjohnson16

7 ай бұрын

The earth was givin to the hand of the wicked! Only thing was burned was the original books of the timeline of the most high the families an the true story of which todays bibles are just a fraction of!

I loved this video. I am canadian and love the states. I am Albertan and have lived in many provinces i live in southern BC now. This is the first time living so close to the montanna border. I love Americans as most of my family immigrated to canada from Massachusetts in 1636. Thank you for the history lesson that i completely forgot about in the 5th grade!!!!

Remarkable telling the way it once was

thank you

Athens Alexandria Carthage Rome Apparently the "Ancient world" was only around 2000 kilometers long

Most likely place for statue of Phryne is at the bottom of the ocean with the antikathera mechanism. That ship had a lot of carved statues on it when it sunk.

I usually listen to these when i sleep

Exelente

Interesting watch. Occupied breakfast, two breaks, a lunch and a few bowls of cannabis. Thank you :3

@charliekezza

10 ай бұрын

Omg me too 😂😂😂😂 just finished a bowl now

@jdearie9932

10 ай бұрын

@@charliekezzalol same, been finding my way to this channel a lot lately

@lagodifuoco313

9 ай бұрын

Strange how smoking weed makes intellectual things even more interesting...

@michaelallain7706

9 ай бұрын

@@lagodifuoco313 wholeheartedly agree.

@jondoe2k

9 ай бұрын

Got through half a cartridge

There is no bigger expert on the genius of Greeks than a Greek.

@dukkiboi

7 ай бұрын

Or those that were their teachers

Keep doing your thing. I’ve always come here for gear reviews. I’m a backpacker, but now realizing my car camping gear is not up to par with my backcountry obsession. I can’t keep using my ultralight for mountain bike car camping trips.

Shame of the destruction of the library of Alexandria, but then with most ancient cities so very much of the ancient civilizations is lost .

I wish that the ancient world would’ve been more connected than it was. Where culture, science, technology, and resources would be traded all around the globe leading to faster innovation in certain areas and civilization spreading faster. Imagine a medieval style world where the Chinese empire is warring with the Aztec empire. Where Rome becomes basically like a Westeros style empire with all the kingdoms across the world bending the knee to the emperor whether they mean it or not.

Historical events reappear through the timeline

@buck1andy

Жыл бұрын

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Poor Petronius. Imagine getting your bones chewed by lion for a mere harmless fiddling with the books 😞

Now this guy knows how to grow a Mustache @ 7:15 ....too bad he grew it on the wrong spot .

@Rico_G

Жыл бұрын

LOL!

ok dont know how to spell the name but the best vause painter statement falling love with the peice that your painting love is the master of artistry perfect statement only way i done my best works too ...same saying different language

Cool

Alexandria. The Library. All the works lost from Sophocles, Euripedes. THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN LITERARY HISTORY

9:30 whenever the narrator says the American School Of Classical Studies, he is referring to The; American School of Classical Studies at Athens Educational institution in Athens, Greece Wikipedia

Athens wasn't that big but it was very important for its democracy,its philosophers and other thinkers and the skill and beauty of its artists and architects-a classic case of quality over quantity!

@frosmane9041

Жыл бұрын

We're beginning to see that democracy isn't very useful. I can see why the founding fathers of america were against it.

@sebastianbergstl4423

Жыл бұрын

big versus our cities with 8 billion of us on the planet, sure. back then there where 200m ppl i think, so quite big.

@kaloarepo288

Жыл бұрын

@@sebastianbergstl4423 No I wasn't comparing Athens to our modern mega cities but to the mega cities of the ancient world like Rome that had about a million and Constantinople about half a million and the big cities of ancient China and India-Athens was small compared to these -and even Alexandria and Antioch -Greek cities in Egypt and Syria respectively.

@Josh_009

Жыл бұрын

@@kaloarepo288 again your comparing different times, rome was 500 years later, Constantinople 1000 years later. Your comparing apples to pears

@alioshax7797

Жыл бұрын

@@kaloarepo288 At its height, before the Peloponesian war, Athens was by far the largest city in the Mediteranean. Alexandria and Antioch weren't even funded at the time, and Rome was a village.

What’s up with all the comments of people thinking they are saying these are the only 4 ancient mega cities?

@taylorcliff6609

Жыл бұрын

ive noticed an increase of stupidity on a few of these videos over the last few days...school on break or something maybe ?

@colly7963

Жыл бұрын

In the 21st century, every idiot is a self-appointed expert.

@kristiskinner8542

Жыл бұрын

Because too many ppl have terrible comprehension/reading comprehensive skills for some reason. Guess like common sense isnt common, comprehension isnt either anymore smh🤦‍♀️

@liquidgal9867

Жыл бұрын

@@kristiskinner8542 b/c the educational system doesn't believe in critical thinking anymore. Kids now a days have been dumbed down.

@roguewolf7053

Жыл бұрын

@@liquidgal9867 “Education” is nearly all memorization. Teaching kids to think critically is now considered “liberal” or “being woke”.🙄 If anyone doesn’t believe me…just google lists of books parents are demanding be removed from school & topics removed from school books. This documentary would absolutely make the “ban” list if included in school!

Mohenjo-daro would be an interesting subject! There are so many candidates for future documentaries 😮

I’m figuring this comments section is littered with people pissing and moaning why (insert city) wasn’t included. Just a wild guess

Sending prayers and a few bucks brother. All I can do right now man.

Wonder when this was made. Judging by a glance of a computer, crt monitor, im guessing around 1995 or so.

cool

Never knew George Costanza was a historian.

Voice over translations because I'm trying to listen to this at work.

Mr Viko, "changed his tune" since back then... hmmm 👁️

Interesting how the documentary keeps heralding and praising democracy in ancient Athens as an "advanced form of government", yet many enlightened philosophers of Athens at the time (including Socrates and Plato) were highly critical of Athenian democracy and skeptical of its efficacy.

started watching call of duty videos and woke up 3 hours into this.

Such frequent military service would develop courage, mutual trust and good-fellowship among the Greeks. Qualities now absent in, for example, America.

3:03:30 - Roman? Openess & "Honesty" Revered! Amen!

47:29 The great great great grandmother of Robert Z'Dar

tap touch the square ⬛️ box third from the top right side and you can start reading on the bottom of your screen.

We look at child sacrifice as such cruelty now, which it is, but I'm sure carthage felt like they were giving the gods their purist souls. I can't imagine it being easy for them. We see many animals morn their offsprings deaths.

@apokatastasian2831

7 ай бұрын

dude we try to end child sacrifice today, not for gods, but merely so we can dispense with the hassle and get back to the corporate grind... and there's marches in the streets to allow the slaughter to continue

I bought a house the house was built in the late 1600s and when I discovered a well under one of the additions I really regret going now and seeing what was I'm sure there were some goodies down there

@Laocoon283

Жыл бұрын

Prolly just water bro lol

@merfalerf2201

Жыл бұрын

@@Laocoon283 They really regret going now and seeing what was bro.

I love how the guy was hammering nothing 😫

Such frequent military service would develop courage, mutual trust and good-fellowship among Greek men. Qualities now absent in, for example, the contemporary American 'male'.

3:26:00 why are the birds flying sideways?????

is Venice there?

@demitasse22

Жыл бұрын

Venice was like 1500 years later

Awesome video

Explore Golgumbaz with Guide Jahangir,South India 🇮🇳

17:20 something happened at the stotument

@Jaska8000

Жыл бұрын

Colosseum whats up so cool Italy Rome so cool...

The Romans did not invent the arch, they got it from the Etruscans, who probably got it from the Greeks. The oldest arches found go back to Nippur, Iraq, and have been dated to before 4000 bce