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Street Gems
Canada
Приєднався 10 кві 2023
History, Travel, Archaeology, Art & Architecture
Street Gems is a channel about fascinating historical places.
The focus is on antiquity and the Mediterranean world, but other periods and regions will also be explored. Whether it's documentaries or travel vlogs, the focus will always be on history and world heritage.
The creator, Jordan Amit, has a bachelor's degree in ancient history and archaeology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, and lived in Italy for 3 years, which was the richest cultural experience of his life.
This channel fuses his love for history and travel, with his passion for video editing and storytelling.
He is keen on collaborating with like-minded content creators, as well as documentary editing work in genres similar to this channel. His portfolio is in the links below.
Humanity has left us with endless architectural gems. Let's explore them!
Street Gems is a channel about fascinating historical places.
The focus is on antiquity and the Mediterranean world, but other periods and regions will also be explored. Whether it's documentaries or travel vlogs, the focus will always be on history and world heritage.
The creator, Jordan Amit, has a bachelor's degree in ancient history and archaeology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, and lived in Italy for 3 years, which was the richest cultural experience of his life.
This channel fuses his love for history and travel, with his passion for video editing and storytelling.
He is keen on collaborating with like-minded content creators, as well as documentary editing work in genres similar to this channel. His portfolio is in the links below.
Humanity has left us with endless architectural gems. Let's explore them!
Why is it that NO Greek Temple has a Roof anymore?
This video talks about the structural limitations of Greek temples, what their roofs were made out of, and the reasons why no Greek temple that has survived still has its original roof.
Check out my video on the best preserved Greek temples in the world:
ua-cam.com/video/Rqh_i0TBs6E/v-deo.htmlsi=X8X1Bh-D4V-ZOLbP
Written, Edited and Narrated by Jordan Amit
jordanamit.com
Follow me on Instagram: jordan.amit
Reconstructions by:
Marco Mellace - aka Flipped Prof
@flippedprof on UA-cam
Nikita Tomilo
Ilayda Karabulut
Muisc by:
Vassilis Papadopoulos
“Mesa Sta Matia Sou”
#greektemple #greekheritage #greekarchitecture #greek #greekmusic #greekhistory #ancientgreece #ancientgreeks #temples #ancienttemples #ancientcivilizations #architecture #archaeology #archeology
Check out my video on the best preserved Greek temples in the world:
ua-cam.com/video/Rqh_i0TBs6E/v-deo.htmlsi=X8X1Bh-D4V-ZOLbP
Written, Edited and Narrated by Jordan Amit
jordanamit.com
Follow me on Instagram: jordan.amit
Reconstructions by:
Marco Mellace - aka Flipped Prof
@flippedprof on UA-cam
Nikita Tomilo
Ilayda Karabulut
Muisc by:
Vassilis Papadopoulos
“Mesa Sta Matia Sou”
#greektemple #greekheritage #greekarchitecture #greek #greekmusic #greekhistory #ancientgreece #ancientgreeks #temples #ancienttemples #ancientcivilizations #architecture #archaeology #archeology
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The BEST Preserved Greek Temples in the World
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Get 20% OFF Free International Shipping @Manscaped with promo code STREETGEMS at Manscaped.com/streetgems #manscapedpartner The Ancient Greeks built hundreds of temples to all their gods, both in Greece and in the rest of the ancient Greek world. Each ancient Greek city would have had at least one, if not several temples to various gods and goddesses of their pantheon. These temples were the ep...
The BEST Preserved Roman Colony in the World
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Timgad was a Roman city built for retired veterans of the Roman army. It is located on the edge of the Sahara Desert, in modern day Algeria. It is the best preserved Roman colony in the world, with a perfectly preserved grid plan, a forum, a theater, a triumphal arch, temples, bath houses, and even a library. Many Roman colonies had a similar grid like pattern, but Timgad gives us the best idea...
The Death of a Great Roman City
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Ephesus was one of the biggest cities in the Roman Empire. But unlike other large cities that continued to be inhabited, Ephesus was abandoned, and today it’s only a ruin. So what were the causes of its decline? And eventual Death? This 4th and final part in my history documentary series on Ephesus explores all the reasons for its demise, including natural disasters and attack, the slow dismant...
Early Christian History of The City of Ephesus
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Ephesus was an important city in early Christianity. It had originally been an important Greek city, and eventually got absorbed into the Roman Empire. The Romans made it the capital of their province of Asia, which turned it into a world class metropolitan center, a large population center bustling with trade and commerce. Being such a large city meant that Christianity naturally spread quickl...
The Magnificent City The Romans got for FREE
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This documentary is about a great Greek city with a long and rich history, which was given to Rome as a gift, in a will. This city was controlled by the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon during the Hellenistic Period. But when the last Attalid king died without an heir, he gifted his kingdom to Rome, which included this magnificent city. This city was Ephesus. When it got absorbed into the Roman Empi...
What Ancient Ephesus Looked Like
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Come on a journey to ancient Ephesus. This short video will guide you through what it looks like today, and what it might have looked like 2000 years ago. The 3D reconstructions were made by Halit Selo, a talented artist in Turkey. You can find his Instagram account at: lavarchstudio Video edited by Jordan Amit jordanamit.com Follow me on Instagram: jordan.amit A ful...
The City that Built the Largest Greek Temple in History
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The City that Built the Largest Greek Temple in History
Wonders of The Lost Lycian Civilization
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Wonders of The Lost Lycian Civilization
The Lost Jewish Colony Forgotten by Time
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The Lost Jewish Colony Forgotten by Time
Great footage. Enjoyed this video.
In the war between Greece and Turkey, 1919-1922, Greece chose to store weapons in the Parthenon. Turkey wasn't going to fire upon it until they did that, but place weapons or ammunition there makes it a valid military target. Turkey fired cannon at it. A lot of the damage was caused by that. Whichever Greek official decided to involve the Parthenon was stupid, stupid, stupid!!!
I believe there is a Roman Colosseum in Libya. the Romans went almost everywhere!
Rome treated its veterans far better than the US
Another existing temple that has a double colonnade is the temple of Aphaia in Aigina…one of the best preserved Ancient Greek temples
Roofs were made out of wood and tiles. When burning only the stones remains. And even if not burnt, we all know that roofs do not last for centuries when not maintained.
damnit i thought it was the trailer to a new strategy game
To avoid paying tax?
"Persecution by Christians?" What? Christians persecuted Muslims, because Arab/Muslims were persecuting the Christians. And The Christians, said no way in hell is that going to stand. And kissed their asses back to Arabia.
so why did you persecute greco roman pagans then
Notre Dame fire - I see a lot of people claiming it was arson. Where's the evidence?
That's what I wanna know.
Romans and their arches.... and thus, some original roofs survive on Roman temples - particularly including those converted to Churches or Mosques - the Pantheon in Rome being one.
The pantheon is an anomaly. It’s the most perfect concrete dome that’s in existence. They still don’t know how they did it to this day.
The interior of the "Tomb of Agamemnon" (aka "Treasury of Atreus") near Mycenae looks an awful lot like a real dome. It is not simply chiseled from "live" rock, but consists of cut stones that support the ceiling based on compressive strength, limiting tension, which can crack stone. Given the tomb's age, built around 1,300 BC, roughly 900 years before the now roofless Parthenon, this should be astonishing. Why was the technology forgotten? Why did arches or domes not reappear until Roman times? Did they ever appear in ancient India or China at all? Please explore this.
Yes the Treasury of Atreus is a corbelled dome. Not exactly like an arch or a round dome, but same principle. I'd like to explore corbelled architecture in the future.
clay or wood shingles
wood rots
Why no roof? There were supply chain issues and they are still waiting on the trusses which remain lost in shipment. 😂
😂😂
Why did they have so many roads ? Other later cities don’t have roads like in Italy and or parts of Scotland????
Mediterranean states constantly denuded of larger timber for ship building. Greek and Roman temples demanded the biggest lumber. $$$? Roofs of all buildings need regular maintenance and as Roman empire became Christian, the offerings to pagan sites dwindled.
Great video!! 🙌🏼😄
In any structure, antique or recent, the roof is the first thing to go.
True
Muslims burnt many temples
In 1687, Venetians (Catholics?) fired the canon shell that hit the Parthenon (Pagan?) and ignited gunpowder the Ottomans (Muslim?) had stored there. All will deflect any blame.
Anybody know what the building at 3:20 is? It "seems" to be an ancient temple with an intact roof. Reproduction?
I can answer that since I made the video. It's actually AI generated, the only one in the video. I try to avoid using AI as much as possible, but sometimes I need a shot that doesn't exist in reality, like a temple still with a roof but crumbling. So there it is.
Thank you for the " tour " ! Such beautiful structures should be protected . I'm a Christian ,so I know the " whys " of temples being destroyed, but I wish my religious ancestors would have converted more into churches !!
I agree. I think some of my statements really trigger some Christians, so I'm glad to see someone that isn't triggered. Thanks for your comment.
Couse they deported all the roofers
I maintain that given the evidence, all the church burnings in france and many other countries, the Notre Dame fire most likely was not an accident after all, I can not prove it but I just can't imagine such a major landmark just burning down due to pure negligence given the strict labour codes France enforces as well as the cheer stupidity that would have been needed for such an accident. nah I say it probably was just the latest case of vandalising churches, and there certainly was a flurry of cheerfull comments coming from a certain religious demographic even if you can't blame anyone for anything collectively. just saying, I believe that it was no accident.
I've felt the same way since the fire !!! That other religious " group " considers Christians " infidels, " and there's been a big influx throughout Europe as well as France . Paris in particular. GOD will certainly know what happened, and IF we're correct, will deal with the perps for burning down one of His Houses !!
Yes, pretty sure it was the "religion of peace".
Or the cursed fig trees@@thebes118
Are you French? How many people believe this in France? I'm just curious. I actually wasn't aware that so many people believe this until I made this video and read all the comments.
@@Street-Gems I am Flemish but western Europe, North America and even beyond have been hit by waves of church vandalism, in Canada it came mostly in the wake of claims that the church was guilty for the deaths of 150 000 natives, a claim that was later disproven but still many catholic churches were vandalised and even burned down over it, probably more so by anti church white canadians than natives though that is yet to be investigated but most likely wil not be anyway in Europe the vandals are allmost solely young islamist thugs. in most cases these churches were not very prominent and the news didn't seem very keen on reporting it, but cathedrals and especially one as prominent as the notre dame cathedral can't escape attention as easily. moreover the fire took place on april 15th, that day the temperature ranged between 2 and 9°C humidity between 70-50%+- the days prior had been even colder and more humid than the 15th had been. and both government and media were seemingly desperate to declare it "likely accidental" and they have not come to any specific conclusions since. now, feel free to try and burn a roof that has been coated in fire retardant on a particularly cold and humid day, anyone could do it but only with intent, and highly combustable materials and even untreated wood would simply be to cold to ignite without help, the only other option is pure incompetence of the governing agencies and contractors but here's the thing, these types of buildings are only maintained by companies specialising in monument maintenance and restoration, they use materials and techniques specifically meant to not alter the nature of the building whilst taking great care to not damage anything they are not replacing with an exact replica and that only happens if there is no way to keep the original element, in such cases they wil always keep the original part and it is likely to be studied at a university to learn more about it. the Macron administration also didn't want to give Le Pen another scandal to boost anti islam and anti immigration sentiments and this counts double for the very "progressive" Paris administration with a significant percentage of Muslims in it's electorate. in other words, if no evidence to the contrary is found then deliberate arson is the most likely scenario. there are preceding cases that are highly similar in nature, there is incentive for those in charge to deny it being an act of religious terror and there wasn't supposed to be anyone up there at that time, the conditions for a natural or even accidental fire were just not met. terrorism is the most likely scenario
Notre Dame's roof has been rebuilt roughly every century since the cathedral was constructed. The Acropolis lost it's roof in September, 1687, when a mortar shell exploded the Turkish ammunition and powder being stored in it.
No it wasn't! What are you talking about? Sure there would be minor repairs but it couldn't be rebuilt. We dont posses the old growth forests today that would be necessary to build the roof as it was back then. Why would you lie about something like that? It's like saying the Monet Lisa was repainted every ten years. Insane.
I'm more amazed at the amount of "experts" in the comments.
Notre Dame was arson by Muslims, but France these days goes out of its way to protect and support Muslims.
Got Proof?! 🤨
@@AngkatanNamwaranDon't cry because you know he's right.
@@thebes118 I'm not religious 😆... I don't pick sides, I believe that in a perfect world all religions would have fizzled out by now so that we could finally move forward as a species, what I don't like however is when a group is blamed even if there is no evidence to warrant accusations against them... All I'm saying is, gather your evidence then blame who is rightfully to blame, be objective about it. Accusing groups of people based on your bias is not going catch the real culprit, if the fire was even intentional to begin with. If it was purely an accident, then you are doing a witch hunt for nothing. Maybe the workers working on Notre-Dame that day were just purely incompetent, and they are actually the ones to blame, after all, they admitted to smoking on the job, which could have started the fire.
@@AngkatanNamwaran I really like your comment. Very wise and objective.
@@Street-Gems Thank you... By the way, hopefully you've already read up on Angkor 😋🙈
Likely the temple use to have a roof thousands of years ago. It just collapsed do to age.
Who could have forseen that xD ? nonsense to make a video about this topic...u nailed it in one sentence haha
They only had 30-year shingles and the cheap owners didn’t want to pay for a new roof when it was time. Also, they haven’t invented tar paper yet. Trusses and underlayment rotted. The rest is history.
Some Japanese wooden temples are destroyed and rebuilt every generation, to keep the skills alive, and to purify the sacred site.
Not some, but literally all.
Even today, most masonry houses have timbered trusses. So, the answer to the question came immediately to my mind.
The ancient Greeks found these temples already in existence and repurposed them for their own use, just like the ancient Egyptians did with the Great Pyramids and other monumental architecture they found there. Neither of these groups had anything even approaching the technology required to quarry, transport, carve and construct the monumental buildings to the precision they exhibit. Egyptian monumental architecture and sculptures have visible markings of having been produced using precision machining and power tooling. The Greek buildings have not yet been extensively studied for machine marks that I know of, but I have no doubt they are there if someone knowledgeable were to look for them. I think I even saw some indication of machining in this video, myself. Both groups of architecture are vastly older than claimed by establishment academics.
LMFAO!!!😅😊😅
"The entire educated body of academic archaeology is wrong, guise, Graham Hancock said it, so it must be true"
only we know how they did it, and if a bunch of academics can build a medieval castle with no experience and medieval tools then surely skilled craftsmen troughout history could do so as well, in fact you now have several people who made rediscovering these techniques and applying them for an audience, as for the ancient egyptians, people keep ignoring the context of what type of society they had. when the floodseason came most of the farmers went off to work on the public construction projects, imagine tens of thousands of people working to build the pyramids and many more working on them indirectly in all possible ways, they also built canals right up to the great pyramids and we even have descriptions of how they worked. and what they were fed. I know it is hard to imagine building these things without powertools but we also have gigantic mines that were dug by hand by far fewer people by hand as late as the 19th century is it really that strange to imagine a very straightforward and decadesspanning construction project being done by a highly centralised and organised copper age society? what's more the Nile was an incredibly reliable highway where wind always blew inland, and offcourse always flowed to it's delta, allowing for easy transport of goods and people, + you certainly underestimate what wooden barges can carry
@@stonedwizard0420 Well, legacy archaeologists offer no explanation whatever as to how the ancient Egyptians, for one example, carved extremely hard stone such as diorite into perfectly shaped, thin-walled vases using copper chisels and wood mallets. They seem to deeply resent the question even being asked, as if it is a personal attack on their scientific competence. Which it is, of course. They all have PhD's...can't possibly be wrong, eh?
@@istoppedcaring6209 Not arguing any of that. What legacy archaeology cannot explain (and seemingly has no interest in explaining) is the astounding precision with which certain artifacts were created given the technology available at the time. Not to mention the clearly seen, obvious powered tool marks left all over many ancient artifacts and structures.
Notre Dame was not accident!
But?
How clever! Thanks for such an interesting and informative video!
Notre Dame was burned down by foreigners and blamed on an "accident" in order to prevent another Charlie Hebdo situation.
😢😢😢 that's sad....
@@squidwardwithoutaclue and you believe that?
I don't understand how can any building made from stone/concrete etc burn..
Are there any evidence and how do we know it's not domestic or an accident? But of course I know Charlie Hubdo's murder is a tragedy and yet we shouldn't let them scare any artists.
@@undefinednull5749 I don't understand how anyone could think the Notre Dame didn't have lots of wood and other burnable materials in it's construction and decoration (you can plainly see burning wood that made up the roof spires in the video footage), on top of the fact it was under renovation at the time so there was also plenty of burnable materials from the company doing the renovating. Conspiracy theories may be fun to throw around but very few are ever actually true.
Because they fell during earthquakes and invasions, DUH!!
wooden roofs of course
The fire at Notre Dame was arson.
who did it?
Are there evidence?
@@okamijubeiDid they really investigate? Doubt it.
"accident"
they knew all this and could build all this, but not a roof? lol more baseless talk
did you even watch the video idiot?
Yeah, pretty much. My house has brick walls but a wooden roof. So does pretty much every house made of brick
Because throughout the entirety of human history, roofing companies have ALWAYS been crooked!!
100% roofers and pavers the biggest crooks
Those early Greek asphalt shingles were poor quality 😊😊
It's amazing some structures are still standing after thousands of years. A company fixed my porch less than two decades ago and its already falling apart.
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they were not greece or roman i bet/ haha
Isn't it because porches are usually made of wood?
@@okamijubei the roofs yes
Unfortunately, like so many wonderful structures, the Parthenon still had its roof until it was used as a powder magazine by the Turks during a war, and was accidentally blown up.
Accident?
I’ve been in both Sicily (Agrigento, Siracusa…) and Paestum, stunning sites ! Magna Graecia !
Check out my main video. I delve into these places in detail. Here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/Rqh_i0TBs6E/v-deo.htmlsi=8bc9A3q7NEfLuNsi
the rooves would be shingles over timber beams, but would the shingles be stone or timber ?
Vitrified clay
I'm not sure shingles is the best word. They were tiles, and made of different types of stone, depending on the temple.
Rat meat on a stick.. the ancient version of a corn dog..
Good video. Keep up the good work.
I'm guessing they were made of wood😊
Yes correct
Because the Greeks knew how to party?
You mean the ancients, absolutely