Greek antiquity the best... how wonderful...

most underrated history KZreadr, on your various channels you had tremendous videos in 2023!

Wow, absolutely jaw dropping. This is a must for me to visit some day. The statues could come alive at any moment!

@lunarmodule6419

8 ай бұрын

At night when we are not looking!

5:29 that horse that is getting bit by the lion has a huge chunk getting torn out of its chest.....awesome details!

We were here in 2021, what a fantastic museum! The Sidon collection was incredible.

The outdoor collection alone is better than most indoor ones. The indoors is tastefully decorated too and matches the collection.

Given the quality of carving, the pigmentation must have been applied with equal skill. It would be quite an experience to see faithful reconstructions. Thank you for this extraordinary tour Dr. Ryan.

One can tell the difference between the Greek and Roman statues. They may have the same subject matter, but the Romans never mastered the contrapposto style enough to make them free-standing. If you see a stump or branch or post- something supporting the statue (like the boy leaning), then it is almost assuredly Roman. Greek statues don't normally have these devices

Fascinating! The detail on these statures and other carvings are simply unimaginable! I think that these might be some of the few works that I have seen that have some residual color on them. They must have been remarkable in their day. Thanks for the presentation!

Thank you for these informative tours of places most of us will never get to see in this lifetime. I really appreciate your efforts and the education it provides me regularly. Your content is consistently high quality and I always feel smarter after viewing your videos!

It's amazing to see the sculptures with some of the paint still on them! That's very rare, but I suppose because it was in the ground. There is one in Pompeii with the hair painted red and the painted eyelashes still showing. It makes a lot of difference in how they look.

Now , I've been to many museums and have never seen such beautiful sarcophagi here in America. Excellent vid. I never thought I'd be inspired to go to Istanbul. Thank you for your service.

@Monkey2ewok

7 ай бұрын

Are there any sarcophagi in American museums? It makes more sense that they would be in the part of the world that used sarcophagi for thousands of years. 😊

@DanDan-fu6sd

7 ай бұрын

The NYC Met has several. @@Monkey2ewok

I've always been fascinated by the porphyry sarcophagai in Istanbul. Thanks for the close inspection

I visited several years ago and found the more humble tombstones of commoners extremely moving. The small dedications to loved ones summerising their lives was very touching and moved me much more than the ostentatious sarcophagus of the wealthy.

I would have paid more attention in art history if I had someone explained things like this.

I think this is the finest archaeological museum I have ever visited. Thanks for another glimpse.

I'm an art history teacher. Fantastic commentary! Many thanks.

@DonariaRegia

8 ай бұрын

Hello! Something you might find of interest: The Forma Urbis, the 60 by 45 foot marble map of Rome, was a full color map. Maps of the period were in color and marbles of the era were as well. To my knowledge there are no complete color reconstructions, only three fragments held in the upper floor of the Vatican museum that show the original appearance. That would be quite a project to undertake!

Great video, thanks a lot

I've been here! This place is so impressive, I wish I'd had time to see more of the city.

Okay it's time for me to go to Istanbul I've waited long enough. Thanks Garrett .

What an impressive collection! The purple sarcophagi are really cool. The mourning women are beautifully carved, and seeing the paint colors still showing is exciting. I'm an artist who loves rich colors.

Absolutely incredible that those tombs survived so many centuries. So many aggressive religions. So much traveling around for so long. Such incredible that the pigment survived so long. Such beauty & talent so long ago.

@1106gary

8 ай бұрын

It helped that some of them were buried in the ground for the first few centuries of their existence.

@ggoddkkiller1342

8 ай бұрын

Yep aggressive crusaders burned and sacked Constatinople so badly, they even stole bronze and copper statues out of their wicked greed, what a tragedy...

I've been to this museum two years ago, and it seems they've added a few nice new rooms to the exposition! Thanks for the tour Garrett!

Headed to Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan next April with a stopover is Istanbul on the way there. This video got me excited to visit the museum .

Thanks to my old English Grammar, I knew Bucephalus was Alexander's favourite warhorse. Thanks for the video. Loved the commentary!

Very disappointed I wasn't able to have the funds in time before your trip to Rome and Florence sold out. Hopefully, my new cards get here soon so I could hop on the waitlist just in case. In any case, thank you for this channel! Getting to see neat museums that one might not know about or have an opportunity to visit!

Amazing! Thank you for making these

Grazie mille! Great video tour. Unfortunately last time I was in Istanbul this magnificent museum was closed for renovation. It was certainly worth the wait!

Absolutely incredible

Thanks for posting this. So nice to see close-up details. Especially Alexander sarcophagus . 😇

Thanks for this- Knockout. Great narration aided by your voice and easy manner

Thank you for this video. I visited the National Museum in Istanbul in April, 1973. Looks like they have partially cleaned up their act. I remember dusty exhibits and cabinets crammed with artifacts and identified by number. I suppose there were labels posted or a guidebook for the visitor to attempt to match the numbered item with the proper description. I am still appalled then, as I am now, that so many fine examples of ancient art are scattered outside of the museum and subject to the elements. There seemed to be a disdain by the Turks for ancient relics of pre-Islamic peoples. I found a similar attitude in Greece toward Roman antiquities. I appreciate the tour. The exhibits today appear more professional.

@ggoddkkiller1342

8 ай бұрын

There are literally tens of thousands Roman artifacts in Turkey and entire city is needed to protect them all from outside elements. So what we do is protecting the most valuable ones while keeping the rest outside which is same for Greece and even Italy, they simply don't worth the investment to keep them safe. It is sad but it is what it is unless more tourists visiting them or it is funded we can not protect them..

@fredyair1

7 ай бұрын

@@ggoddkkiller1342 Exactly, as you mentioned the same can be said for Italy and Greece, the sheer amount of art (just decoration for the Roman and Greek culture, mostly outside palaces and temples) makes it impossible to house them all in protected areas.

@IsengardMordor

4 ай бұрын

Its not out of disdain, but rather the lack of sufficient space to move everything inside. Then there are countless more relics that are held in storage at a seperate location. What you see in and around the museum is a mere fraction of the entire collection. Occasionally they rotate some of the relics, but as a history enthusiast like me in the city it would be perfect (and a wild dream come true) if the entirety of the collection could be displayed in a building one day.

Truly amazing 😮Thank you for sharing your adventure and contributing to the world 😊

Your video resolution has really improved. Your travel videos are a great way to add fascinating museums to a trip. Keep it up. All your channels are great.

Thanks so much! Istanbul here I come....

That's a fabulous museum. Allow plenty of time as there's lots to see. ❤

Thank you for this awesome video. Welcome here

Very interesting 👍

Very interesting - thank you

I went there two years ago. Its fascinating how much history in that one building that I just wasn’t aware of or knew fully of yet.

Having the museum practically all to yourself to boot. Traveling in the fall is where it's at!

Wonderful ❤

Most excellent, if brief, treatment of a first class museum narrated by a grade-A educator.

Wow. New favorite video

Izuzetno, vanvremensko, značajno, fantastično.

Very cool. The full length statue of Alexander reminds me of Michelangelo's David.

I was there in 1989. I am happy to see they have improved the interior of the building a great deal since then.

was just there this summer, very inspiring place

Great Museum!

Question: Is that not a pineapple atop the the Tyche and Ploutos statue as mentioned dated from the 7th century? Pineapples originated in Brazil and were not seen in Europe until the 16th century.

Παντού Ελλάδα !!!

Just wow, they are huge

Thanks for introducing me to a magnificent collection of which I was previously unaware : fascinating and interestingly presented.

Thank you for showing this, it makes me realize even more how much was lost and destroyed because of the Ottomans conquest

@mukan9

8 ай бұрын

Please dont spread wrong information without any proof. Ottomans destruction level was low. The most destructive period of Istanbul was 4th Crusade (1204). Most of the valuable monuments destructed or stealed and carried to West Europe.

@vsgapturk

8 ай бұрын

Constantinople just before the conquest had nearly 50.000 population. After the crusader sack of the city in 1204 and 57 years of Latin rule, the city had lost most of its precious artifacts, religious relics and its population. Turks had nothing to do with it. In fact, it is the Turks that rebuild the city again, made it capital to their empire and thanks to that, the city reclaimed its world center status again. But who am i telling…..

@elenilepouri7253

8 ай бұрын

​@@vsgapturkThey rebuilt the city but destroyed Churches and emperors tombs and monuments Turkis museum has nothig from turkis civization bcs not existed We can see the situation in Agia Sofia- Im not speaking for converted to mosque its another story

@ggoddkkiller1342

8 ай бұрын

The ones who burned and sacked Constantinople, even could steal it's bronze statutes out of greed trying to blame it on us, LMAO! Ottoman at least wasn't as cheap as stealing bronze and copper as you crusaders were...

Thank you , SRP, for another wonderful and thought-provoking video. I was recently at the same museum in Istanbul and one artifact in particular left me very curious. It is the bronze wall plack proclaiming Caligula as emperor. A decree ,if you will, to inform some such province somewhere. I was curious of what an exact translation of this plack would be and what it was insisting on those common subjects of Rome follow and understand. Yet , I have found no translation after extensive research. Perhaps you could elucidate on this particular artifact? Thank again for the video.

Absolutely stunning! The "Alexander" sarcophagus would have been even more amazing when new since, as well as the paint, there would have been bronze or iron weapons in the hands of the figures (as can be seen from the holes in the gripping hands).

There I was in 2007. Only 30 minute ( rest People of excurtion visit in this Time sultan' s harem ) , sarcophags laughters and Alexandros cosmic, incredibles, like out of this World.

very nicely comented….

You must see Antalya Museum and it's Sculpture collection. One of the finest antiquity museum which i've seen.

Are these statues the originals or casts of the originals which may be stored in the vaults for safekeeping?

Cannot help but notice the swastika on the sarcophagus of Alexander how often were they used in classical art?

@colemantrebor1610

8 ай бұрын

The “swastika” is and was a religious symbol that was stolen and corrupted by the nazis

@1106gary

8 ай бұрын

While the mind picks out the pattern, in this running connected form I am not sure they can really be called swastikas. That said, the Old US Mint in San Francisco built in 1874 has an identical decoration.

Can you teach history in my school? My teachers are either really boring or really stuck up

So many ancient Turkish exhibits or not???

This is amazing and I believe our history timeline is way out. They remind me of the huge boxes in Egypt they believe were done before the dynastic Egyptians and I wouldn't be surprised if Constantinople had a history dating way before Constantine like Baalbek is given to the Romans but everyone knows the Romans touched up an already existing site. We can't make those boxes easily with modern equipment

Hey, I recognize this voice ….you are the “told in stone” guy!!!

when you see the level of craftsmanship and art displayed on these sarcophagi and consider that they were created for absolute nobodies in the hellenistic era, you can only wonder what the likes of the Diadochi must have looked like, with regard to masonry and Splendor....

Amazing footage and commentary.

The crazy thing is, these guys didn't have Dremel tools or power tools of any type. I would've loved to seen how they got through all of this intricate detail, then polished it so well. And not to mention, the Egyptian's thousands of years before, were doing carvings in diorite without the use of anything but copper. If you believe that..

They should keep those sarcophagus inside or under some kind of protective casing considering that weather conditions and pollution will slowly eat away at the details and destroy them over time

One of the imperial sarcophagus outside the museum has no cross on it, hence thought to be belonging to Emperor Julianus the Apostatle.

❤

Do you host Roman tours like Mike Duncan?

@scenicroutestothepast

8 ай бұрын

I'm leading a Rome tour next May, and have other trips currently in the planning stage.

5:18 That is the peak of history. Even the genital is so detail.

3:20 That's such a flex. As in, _"I know y'all illiterate but can still read this: Bitches be weeping over my dead gangster body for millennia to come, that's the kinda baller I was, yo!"_ It's like he dropped a hot rap dis track from the afterlife.

2:44 that is Phoenician influence not Greek

Explore Golgumbaz

What a complete catalog of a non-ending criminal record ..... Such a shame !!

Imagine if the tombs and bodies of the eastern emperors had survived instant?

Ancient Turkish civilization, coming directly from Central Asia.

Turkis museum without turkis archaeologicals 😄😄

My god, why keep these priceless artifacts outside and exposed to the elements?

Pse nuk e shkruani aty qe e keni mare ne durres sargofakun e meleandrit shkruajeni sepse eshte nga toka jone nuk eshte turp te tregosh se ku e keni marre

so many salty comments here crying about turkey

Everything is Greek

how do you know that is Romans ,where is prove ,🤔

It's Constantinople

@ellen4956

18 күн бұрын

It's Istanbul, not Constantinople now!

@dkr000theOne

18 күн бұрын

@@ellen4956 Its Occupied land. The Otomans are colonists from Asia

@Emiryldz-li5hb

12 күн бұрын

@@dkr000theOne We conquered Istanbul before Europeans colonized America. If you're talking about stolen land, leave America to the Indians. Germany, France and England were barbarian tribes that came to Europe with the migration of European tribes. Let these states leave Europe, let's leave Istanbul behind.

@dkr000theOne

12 күн бұрын

@@Emiryldz-li5hb I didn't conquer America, I asked t come in. Your lot didn't. you murdered everyone in your way up to the Armenians, Greeks and Kurds. Some day, your turn will come. And no one will lift a finger to help you

@a.l.3664

10 күн бұрын

​@@ellen4956constantinople...all Greek...

These archaeological items are not Turkish yet the Turks have them!will they be giving them back as demanded of the 🇬🇧?

@vsgapturk

8 ай бұрын

No, they will not. Its ownership belongs to these landa conquerors since 1071. You can hand back the Roman era artifacts in Britain back to Italy. Since it has nothing to do with your Anglo-Saxon plus Norman history

03:04 it is Ionians/Luwian not Greek mate. And Luwians are not a Hellenic nation but a Native minor Asian. They got Hellenised after the conquest of Alexander the Macedon. They were far more advanced then the Greeks so it does not require a "Greek" master to carve such pieces.

@elenilepouri7253

8 ай бұрын

Alexander conquered anatolia at 4th cen . Greeks were to M asia after Trojan war( 12th cen ) lol They defeated Louvians and Hittites who assimilated later by Greeks and persians. Today there is no monuments or writing documents by these people Most in museum are Greek as the names untill today- Anatolia Kapadokia Pontos Aegian Mediterranean lol

@MCMLXXXVICCXII

7 ай бұрын

@@elenilepouri7253 Yes, Achaeans began to "migrate" Minor Asia in the 12th cent. with the Dorian invasion from the north but they did not "founded" a city or "conquered" any in the 12th cent. There are no archeological evidence supporting there were a catastrophically huge "Greek" invasion at those cities, so far, but only their relatively insignificant presences. Those cities began to "rename" after the failed Persian invasion of Greece, like Turks "renamed" them after their invasion. The real invasion have taken place with the conquest of Alexander of Macedon and Rome's conquest cemented it. Today we know they have had their own alphabet, a heavily modified Phoenician alphabet, and their own language. There are numerous written stones and monuments been found and decyripted and keep coming up. So we gotto question those "excavations" maden by Philhellenic-Western plunderers'. Your historical knowledge is out-dated lol. You better upgrade yourself and come to reality :))

@elenilepouri7253

7 ай бұрын

​@@MCMLXXXVICCXIIGreek colonies had nothing to do with invations or ruins they created new cities- many of them more famous and biggers than mother cities- for commerce and then inhabided( Italy M asia Pontos Cyprus.) It happened the most after 9- 8th cen. Greek language LINER B originated- exists untill today and the ancestor language was the Minoan LINER A and not Phienician. Greeks were in Cyprus with Phoenicians( Greeks named their country Phoeniki) from 13th cen in Bronze age but today there arent Phoenician writings or language or findings. Even Rome using Greek language and in East Rome( ethnically Greeks) was the main language as the dominator language in M east Anatolia Balkan Biblos translated in Greek and Old - New testanents had been in Greek too And ofc Apostotles their Gospels and epistotles Thats why M asia Anatolia all archaeologicals and epigraphes are in Greek. Temple in Ephessos has 3000 yrs history as many other cities- Byzantio Alikarnassos Pergamos- hundred yrs before Romans

@STELIOSGR65

7 ай бұрын

You need to refresh your "history knowledge" I must say... We understand the agony of Turks to establish (if ever though) 'some' Asia Minor identity. They are the dominants there, for sure, but... they are more foreigners than a foreigner can be there... Only the city names Ismir, Manisa, Isparta, Nebolu and so forth reveal the dramatic (actually traumatic) aspect of that so called "Turkic Asia Minor connection". Non sense really... Με τίποτα!😉

@MCMLXXXVICCXII

7 ай бұрын

@@STELIOSGR65 Funny :))

First of all is an insult to the Greeks and Europeans to refer to this Megacity as Instanbul and show us the Archaeological museum.

This is proof that the Queen City(Vasilevousa) still is a Greek city! This kills the modern day Turks.. That's why they are just visitors..

Roman art Bharat se ho kar gaya tha wahi iss mei dhikh raha hei dusra muslim mei art culture nahi hei wo kehtey hei butt or art faltu hei even sangeet bhi haram hei par ye nahi jaantey swar awaj bhagwan ki di hui niyamat hei halla karne se bandh tori ho jayegee kukur mukh ki tareh halla kar ke hu hakbar khoos hei ya ro rahe

Usually, archeological museums represent the history of a nation. Ironically, in Turkey nothing is Turkish. Turkey does not have it's own history. Everything of an archelogical value goes under the title ' found on a modern territory of Turkey'.

@kimphilby7999

8 ай бұрын

It's not wrong,if they explain and describe the items accurately...

@ggoddkkiller1342

8 ай бұрын

Because we didn't carve naked statues we didn't have history? Care to explain how exactly we defeated the most powerful empire on Earth then? Ohh yeah, it was ''an inside job'', LMAO! You are good at carving naked statues we are good at carving empires and our work changed Europe forever..

@elenilepouri7253

8 ай бұрын

​@@ggoddkkiller1342Nomadic horsemen empires means nothing if they hadnt left something important except of invations and wars. Mongols had the strongest and biggest empire.. so what? Also east rome( byzantine) and Alexanders empire were more important in civilization and culture

@ggoddkkiller1342

7 ай бұрын

@@elenilepouri7253 Sure, then could you explain please why there were more books published about Turkish threat than about renaissance between 15th and 17th centuries?? Comparing Turkic nomads with Mongols is just a joke, Mongol empire couldn't even last a ceuntry while Ottoman more than six centuries, in fact Turks are the only eastern nation who defeated Europeans in their own continent and permanently annexed a good of part of it. This is also why you are so salty about it wasting time by writing such a nonsense :)

@elenilepouri7253

7 ай бұрын

@@ggoddkkiller1342 In histiry its well known that europeans had always wars between their countries from middle age untill 20th and turks been profited of this Yes after 15th 16th cen had organized the state but before? Greeks first and romans later had superior states and empires thousands of yrs before and not only 500 yrs

Constantinopel

Istanbul should be Greece

It’s not well executed museum. It could have been a lot better.

Not much Turkish stuff to look at 😂😂😂😂

@purushanda

4 ай бұрын

There is another Museum in the same neighborhood for Turkish stuff. And also Topkapı palace museum is very close to this one. According to Turkish heritage rules the term archaeology museum used for those where stuff before medieval id exhibited. At least Turks are not shameless to call it Turkish museum as the Brits call theirs “british”.

@dionf3858

4 ай бұрын

@@purushanda fair enough

@splintercell5551

3 ай бұрын

Most museums in turkey hold Turkish artifacts, this is one is mosty for Greek relics

@dionf3858

3 ай бұрын

@@splintercell5551 there wouldn’t be many from before 1453, would there

@saadahmed780

2 ай бұрын

​@@dionf3858 in other parts of turkey yes, constantinople no, Turks and arabs been in the land of Turkey way before 1453

All of these things- including the city of Constantinople itself- rightfully belong to the Greeks. That any of these treasures should belong to the ones who stole them after so long is a travesty. Notice how all of these things represent Greeks, Romans, and "Romaioi", which are Greeks living under the later "Byzantine" Roman empire. None of these things are Turkish, Islamic, or even from another group of related Turkic people. If nothing else, these should all be sent to Athens and the museum should be full of whatever "treasures" the Turks actually made. Probably a bunch of Quorans, tile mosaics representing geometric patterns, maybe some old weapons and armor. Not a lot of representational art.

@vsgapturk

8 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that we couldn’t meet up your expectations. If u want to see more Greco-Roman artifacts, u can visit Greece and Italy. And by the way according to who “Constantinople rightfully belongs the Greeks”. I sense a terrible butthurt here. Deal with it.

@ggoddkkiller1342

8 ай бұрын

Anatolia belonged to native Anatolians until Greeks invaded and colonized their lands exactly same as Turks did or Romans did! So your ''genius'' logic fails as soon as you learn some history instead of moronic racism...

@Nonamearisto

8 ай бұрын

@@ggoddkkiller1342 Nice try, but the Anatolian peoples, such as the Isaurians, were still content to live under Rome by the 400s AD, and by that time and place, "Rome" meant the Greeks. Everything was fine there until the Turks kicked the door in.

@ggoddkkiller1342

8 ай бұрын

@@Nonamearisto Uhm, this supposed to prove you know history? LMAO! There are so many mistakes in your message it is hard to choose where to start. First of all Turks didn't kick the door in 400 AD rather in 1071 which is over 600 years later! So your 400 AD example is nothing but just empty talk like Greeks or Romans didn't completely enslave or assmilate Native Anatolians. When Turks entered Anatolia there were no Native Anatolians left, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM. Also ''Rome'' didn't mean Greeks in 400 AD while it was still Latins who controlled Roman empire. We could only say Roman empire became entirely Greek after the masscare of Latins which happened in 1182 by your lovely, peaceful Greeks..

@jun2011jh

8 ай бұрын

Want the Turks to rule Greece again😂😂😂

there is more or less nothing to do with turkey ,,,nothing ancient things from turkey,,,,

Turks must never make light of the heritage and history they “acquired”. What a cultural treasure and prize…

@ggoddkkiller1342

8 ай бұрын

Finders keepers, cry more and perhaps we would send one or two! Nahh, they all are ours :))

Is Alexander truly more "famous" than Caesar? I mean..... Does Alexander have Casinos and salads named after him? I don't think so!

@thislittlelightofmine8776

8 ай бұрын

Not like Alex is even the only "Great" one in history, Peter, Catherine, there's even a Wall for cryin out loud!

@AJWRAJWR

8 ай бұрын

Julius was the fanboy who modelled himself on Alexander though.

@AJWRAJWR

8 ай бұрын

But Antiquity's most famous person would have to be Jesus Christ.