The 2000-Year-Old Harbor Found Buried Underneath Istanbul | Emperor's Last Harbour | Real History
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2023
- In 2004, construction workers digging a tunnel to link Europe and Asia underneath Istanbul found an amazing discovery. They found the remains of an ancient harbour left untouched and unseen by humans for more than 2000 years. What secrets does it hold and what can it teach us about the stories history of the city?
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As a young man of 21 I first visited Istanbul in 1968. I was in awe. Where east met west, I visited every available part of that great city. I learned of the food, eating in the local bistros. Wonderful history. Paul, Johannesburg
come on now, just say it, you were a hippy.
@@danielponiatowski7368😅😂
What a fascinating story! We learned about this massive tunnel project, watched a 18,000 ton section sink into place; we learned that Istanbul initially was the world's largest city when they ruled civilization for nearly a thousand years, and we got to see the excavation and preservation of 37 ancient shipwrecks. This video should win a prize.
Istanbul did not rule civilization. Constantinople did.
I originally saw this video as part of CBC's The Nature of Thing series, hosted by Dr. David Suzuki, who also narrated this video. It was indeed a prizewinning series, largely covering nature (biology and geology) but also medicine, agriculture, archaeology, psychology, how business decisions affect our health and wellbeing, and so on. Dr. Suzuki retired just a year or so ago. A lot of the episodes are on youtube. We Canadians are so darned lucky to get quality television and we take it for granted.
Ah, a professional with a ton of experience. Still, a great job. I enjoyed David Suzuki back when I watched TV 25 years ago. Now I wonder when this video was made.
@@ajknaup3530jealous much 😂
@@ajknaup3530
we learn that Istanbul > initially < was
emphasis, stress is given to,
lays on the word - >initially
They can whine and moan about cost overrun, but they're insured for that. A subway station has a life span of about 40 years same as a damn shopping mall. This is 3000 years of irreplaceable history.
loved this! kept me enthralled all through, Rosie from New Zealand
Should check out the 8000 year old boatyard submerged in the English Channel..
Deep respect Turkey for preserving this piece of history.
Where is the rest of the archaeological world? I expected them to come here to help, this is an extremely rare occasion
We need "Archaeologist sans Frontiéres" 🤔
I'd be happy to spend some Danish tax money on sending a bunch of young archaeologist to help.
A fantastic chance to exchange knowledge and gain experience.
It's decades since we've uncovered a Viking Ship up here... perhaps there's one in Istanbul? 😉
All round the mediterranean are similar sites. Also compare with the now cancelled HS2 project in England where archaeologists had a watching brief and uncovered new sites.
I love the tunnel man, "We are engineers! We can make it light!"
There is another ancient harbor at Ephesus. The old Roman city is 5 miles inland now. Completely silted up and buried!
A very cool place to visit!
Constantinople was truly astonishing and beautiful!
Istanbul is the most amazing city I have seen, explored, visited many times and again will. It has it all. You feel history at every step. One of the culturaly richest places on Earth.❤ I am not surprised at the discovery, there must be so much more beneath. It is a treasure box. I pray for it's safety.
Turkey is a great country for plenty ancient archeological discoveries, including these amazing artifacts ships and ports (Istanbul, Izmir, Bodrum),
but also up to ruins of mysterious old villages like : Gobekli-Tepe, Karatepe, Seyrantepe, Tepekoy .
I take a lot for granted as to how not all that long ago we never saw such amazing film making. The graphics, the images that appear so effectively, the activities of massive teams of Archaeologists and the hard work to slowly but in short time requirements try to save so much of not only the history of Turkey but of the world. I was surprised that help from all over the world did not arrive, but it seems there are a phenomenal amount of professionals within Turkey who specialized in Archaeology. When I traveled in Mexico and went to language school and lived with the indigenous people there I was impressed too with how many Mexicans study Archaeology and Anthropology that was very impressive to see. I feel the same way when seeing this very fine documentary. Thank you very much as I was so engrossed I even would forget where I was while watching this ha! The music and narration and interviews were very remarkable, all of it!
Try a visit to Canadian indigenous cultures, too. Doctors w/o Borders do missions to remote indigenous tribes, too. They come back with a glow, from a new perspective and pleasure in treating illnesses ,without insurance fights.
This is a "Nature of Things" episode with Dr. David Suzuki narrating. After 50 years still an eminent sceince program and preeminent science educator, Dr. David Suzuki.
its easier being an archeologist, than a builder or mechanic.. this is recent history, recorded.. i look at history of our beginings, 200,000 yrs ago.. real history.. we were made, genetically. if we came from monkeys,,there wouldnt be any now,,would there...darwin knew this..
our biggest nemisis,, is religion.. its man made.. god does not exist,, god,, was enki.. he, made, saved man..
Extremely interesting and historical documentary. Thank you for producing it.
I love to see history saved. Growing up as an American in Germany I saw it every day. Walking to school, driving places, school trips, and family vacations. Amazing.
What an amazing film of an amazing city. Thank you for all involved including the engineers and most of all the archeologists.
Even just above ground, Istanbul has such a rich history. The nation did so much work to preserve ancient structures and art. It's truly a remarkable city, in a remarkable nation. And the people are wonderful too. They have a great passion for tasty fresh food. I could eat Turkish food every day and not get bored!
Preserve? Seems like they rush to build over, under and through history.
My sister visited Turkey a few years ago and said much the same thing. She went on a bus tour of historic sites. They had tomato soup with lunch nearly every day, and it was always fresh and never the same in each place.
When they built a underground garage here in Zürich/Switzerland they found a 5000 years old wooden door.
Probably from the previous garage.
@@marcharsveld2914 😃👍
So much history out there we will never know . This was very exciting thank you for showing this ❤
You're right as we can't possibly learn it all, but our willingness to learn helps us to understand others.
Every town along the Black Sea coast has a little museum of Roman and pre-Roman artifacts dug up in the course of construction. The Black Sea itself has treasures from antiquity which are being discovered.
Pre-Roman, and during the Roman times was the Greeks and their Greek culture, that influence the Romance, and they been assimilated with the Greek culture. Even the Romans admitted to that, that’s why they did not distinguish themselves apart from the Greeks, and all been named Roman citizens with the Greek language as the international language, NOT the Latin language, which never been spoken by the average citizens… Italian language is based on the indigenous people of the italic Peninsula Etruscans, Not the Latin…🏛️🏺📜🏛️🏺📜🏛️
We were only taught a little of the vast history of Constantinople, to watch this was amazing, thank you for this history lesson.
2:51 gotta appreciate how the animation has the tug boats driving away from the underwater view😂👏
Our Christian history. How moving. It was all destroyed. Thank you for this documentary and the hard work of Turkish archéologues.
Much like the Christians destroyed everything they could of the centuries of accumulated learning. Not to mention the way their missionaries destroyed not only older religions in Europe but in Africa have been complicit in the slave trade and in teaching Africans that they had no civilisation or history prior to the coming of Europeans. Missionaries ran the schools.
Its only with the spread of modern media that younger people are realising what has been done to them.
I’d love to see Istanbul even more now. I hope they use some of their finds to decorate the rail systems.
… probably not. You’d rather see it now than in its ancient glory??? 🤨
Probably the artifacts will not be used to "decorate" the rail stations - - but I am sure there will be provision made for a historical museum as part of the overall project.
I also liked to visit Istanbul Constantinople of Roman Empire which I recently know it once belonged to Roman empire. I visited Rome 3 times already but never knew that Roman Empire stretched to Istanbul Turkey. 🇹🇷
@@maily8388 I read that Constantinople’s Queen Irene was going to be made the first female Pope, but the Catholics couldn’t stand the idea of a female Pope. My brother just returned from Rome and told me about the story of Pope Joan.
The most astounding fact is that they are still building this train tunnel knowing that there will be another major devastating earthquake event "perhaps in the next twenty years"! 29:52
I got so wrapped up in the story about tunnel construction for the first four minutes that I forgot this was actually about archaeology 😂😂😂😂😂
This video kept my interest all the way through. The railway under the water was an interesting modern event that will be a great boon to both sides of the land bridge. The ancient discoveries of animals, ships and other materials where exciting to hear about and see. Both layers of history ancient and modern were both of interest.
How excellent! I'm glad they are taking the time for science and history while doing nation building.
Fantastic video, thanks
Narrator: "Finally connecting Europe and Asia by train..."
Trans-Siberia Express: "What am I, a joke to you?"
History is fantastic
WAS
Historical artifacts first. They cannot be replicated. Train tracks second.
Fascinating, Thank you for this documentary.
Fantastic view of both harbor and its recreation through modern technology. Many thanks!
amazing, would love to watch more videos on this project
Thank you for preservation of history of man kind
Absolutely interesting! I would love visit Istanbul for it’s rich history. I started to learn the history from my gamers friends from Turkey. I learned so much from them. ❤
Same, and they are the sweetest people in the world.
I heard about this project but could not find anything about it before today.
The History of Istanbul / Constantinople, has very little to do with the Turkish history other than the barbaric Ottoman conquest..
Very good program ~ History is a treasure to all .
Impressive! thank you all!
Wonderful video, thanks for the history lesson!
Seems almost appropriate, new modern transportation system overtaking an ancient transportation system. Totally fascinating. I assume this was filmed before this years earthquake.
Earthquake happened in eastern Turkey over 1000 kms away, Turkey looks small on world map but actually second largest country in Europe.
With the soot layer over Byzantium would it not lead to evidance that Atlantis could of been a real city. Just look how much of the city was burried here and no one knew about. To burrie a city must of been a massive event.
Will you do another show on the prehistoric settlements that were found while digging the tunnel? As I heard with the first reports they were estimated to be 10,000 years or older.
and are now no more thanks to greed.
Fantastic, very interesting and informative video. I'd love to visit Istanbul one day.
You have to admire the work that they do to go though all those historical figures and pieces together take some patience and time
That was great! Leave it to David Suzuki to tell us all about such an epic find.
That was excellent 👍
Excellent program! Thank you
Wasn't it Edgar Cayce who predicted that natural disasters (earthquakes) would shake Turkey and reveal ancient truths that will forever change human history?
The shoreline going out much further into the sea than it did in ancient times, is similar to how the UK used its landfills to extend its land further out. There were also ships found when San Francisco dug its subway tunnel, these ships had been filled with dirt and sunk to add land.
I can see some great pottery made with all that clay!
Is that David Suzuki who's narrating this? Sure sounds like him...
Yes. This was originally presented on The Nature of Things.
This is actually an episode of David Suzuki's The Nature Of Things, from 2011: The Emperor's Lost (not Last) Harbour. I recognized his voice immediately. Give credit where it's due.
Fascinating
I wish they showed were the port was in relationship to today, the ocean side was never shown.
yeah dumb production .
You can easily find it on satellite imagery as the outline of the harbor is still clearly visibly in the topography of the city, but if you still cannot find it then search for Yenikapi Metro in Google Earth and that is the exact spot and the harbor is now roughly a half mile away from Sea of Marmara today.
The Orthodox Chuch still commemorates the Earthquake of 740 AD on October 26. Edit: (Devastating Constantinople.)
Great doc.
I live near Malaga in Spain. Founded by the Phonecians and then called Malka. Like other sites round the Mediterranean coasts there are remains of these people plus the Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths, Muslims, with Jewish and Christians in the mix. And of course their indigenous predecessors like the Tartessions, Celts, Iberians.
The recently completed metro system was both an engineering project and an archaeological dig.
Just think if they could do the whole ancient harbor, what more they could discover.
Nice to hear a nice, erudite, clear SRP (Standard Received Pronunciation) accent.
This is an old ''Nature of Things '' film with host David Suzuki from years ago.
Yeah can’t stand fake Suzuki.
@@brucebaum1458 Fake Suzuki, WTF?
Explain the fakeness without making yourself look too foolish if that is possible.
I'm so thankful that they were willing to stop and explore this ancient find! Here in the USA they don't do that. It is very sad
The US explore any time they build if it is a site they will explore because they held up a subdivision close to my house because they thought there was an Indian village but I knew better becauseI had looked the field before.They delayed the subdivision for a year or two.
@@garrypeek897unfortunately many finds are kept hush hush so companies don't have their job sites shut down. I've personally come across bison remains in the heart of Washington DC about 75'-90' down below the current road level. We were in virgin ground and I was amazed. I stopped and told my boss I found ancient bones to which his reply was to shut my mouth damn it. Get back in your excavator and make them go away before the state inspectors see. I kept a few and unfortunately did what I was told with the rest. From the research I've done they haven't lived in DC for 12 thousand years. I'll guarantee this happens way more often than you think.
@@PatrickCavanaugh0420 My father in law has a brick masonry construction company that was restoring an old brick cemetery wall from the early 1700s. While re excavating for a foundation they found crumbled coffins with bodies still in their colonial garb. They immediately poured a new foundation over it and rebuilt the wall. He had trouble in the past when discovering historical finds that would delay the project as much as a few years and would lose thousands so I can understand why this happens.
@@PatrickCavanaugh0420 profit over everything is all this is
In todays world profit is the new religion It demeans that we feed it everything we have Have had or will ever have
The only ppl who get anything our of profit are its rich ppl priest
Lets face it kids it all will mean nothing within the next 40 yr b/c those of u left will all be living at the south pole wondering who to eat next b/c of the new god profit
There's a good reason the U.S cover over archaeological sites in America. It's because it's not their history and they don't want the world excavating black people.
In the Grand Canyon, a hundred years ago, hieroglyphics, mummies and artifacts were discovered with the walls. While Egypt, thrilled the world with the discovery of Tuts tomb, the U.S was busy covering theirs up.
Recently, someone again stumbled on the site, took pictures of the artifacts and reported it. Did the U.S announce this find, no, they cordoned it off and made it a no fly zone, with parts covered over with tarpaulin.
Smithsonian, will be there, removing and overpainting the artwork and removing all evidence of black people being there before them.
They're so pathetic.
Interesting. Clearly well researched and edited.
May I recommend 1.15x speed for native speakers or those that find the ai voice a distraction or an annoyance.
I feel that since the Byzantine Empire rose from the ashes of [half of] the Roman but didn't add too much extra that the Romans hadn't previously had under their sway, it's tough to say that 'the Byzantine Empire ruled the world'. Saying 'the world' in The Old Testament and meaning the Levant is fine (archaic ignorance as we judge it), doing the same a thousand or two years later, when Alexander has been to India and gone all Persian, after Ibn Fadlan, isn't really kosher. They had an empire amongst numerous others and they ruled a large part of their region; not the majority of the world known to them. It was, after all, not they who fought the Battle of Talas but two inarguably greater Empires. I mean the Danish Empire (2.23% of world population at the time) was greater than the Byzantine (from 2 to 2.08%), in landmass too - the Danish being 3M km2 over the (at max) 2.8M Byzantine. I'm not lobbying for the Danish Empire, just pointing out that nobody would claim them to have been ruling the world at the time, nor should we the Byzantines.
Amazing greek history
Hello, I love history. A love I inherited from & was encouraged by my Dad. There is so much history can help us with today's problems, water 💧 conservation is just one. Certain types of concrete for one - hello, Roman seawall, anyone? Structures that can survive earthquakes? China & Japan wooden temples transfer to steel? The past can help the future, learn from it! Please!!! This world 🌎 is all we got at present & bigoted idiots are going to get us killed 😢. Everyone is needed to create an Eden. Balance must be achieved. Or we will be a charred remant of failed potential circling thru the stars. The Lord & The Lady prevent this.
Istanbul is one of the places I would love to see before I die.
Then fecking go there then.
saw it back in 69 Just another place where ppl live cheek to jowl in their own flit
same as any other city
A place to avoid at all cost
I have not been in a city of over 20,000 ppl in more then 50 yr now and living very happily
Cities are places where ppl live who are nuts, their cities an asylum, with the inmates as the guards and they take pride in the shit their city is
Perhaps . But I want to see the architecture and feel the history. @@user-zk4vi5hw6x
WOW Love This!!!! Sooo Cool!!!💓🎶💗👍
Human history is more important than money .
And thus Greece and Turkey love each other.
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Soooo what sank the port ?
It is difficult to understand why they are building a massive, underground transport system in an earthquake zone ?
Like Japan?
Tech marches on
@tomrobertson3236
Would you buy a car designed and built in Turkey ? Yes, tech moves on , but Turkey doesn't even rank on the top 10 countries that are tech savvy in any area.
The port was silted in over time. Harbours, canals, rivers, etc. have to get dredged to stay navigable. In its heyday, Constantinople had a population of about 500,000 and a heck of an infrastructure, including cisterns that could supply water for firefighting and a chariot-racing stadium that could seat 80,000 spectators. But the city lost 30 to 40% of the population to plague in the 6th century, and the population dwindled to around 100,000 because of wars, sieges, political corruption, and loss of a reliable supply of grain from Egypt. The manpower to maintain a huge harbour wasn't there. Nor political ambition. When the city peaked again in the 12th century, a different harbour was in use.
Beautiful Istanbul 🌐👍🐱🎇🎇🎇
Seems to me that they should declare an archaeological zone first and let the archeologists do the excavation for free, then come in behind with tunnel stuff.
I agree with you, but that makes too much sense. 😛
Is there a way of turning the station and shopping center as the top of a cave over the the excavation site? I realize that there is a great cost to doing this but it could mean that the time for excavation much extended.
Great film, a lot of Turkey is steeped in very very old history, most of it yet to be discovered I suspect. My mind wandered to Gobekli Tepi and then wondered why we have not heard of this work in the UK. Conversely. have the Turks heard about our Roman harbour oak timbers in the Thames at Battersea
There has never been a subway station there before so a little longer is not going to hurt. It wod be different if they were replacing or expanding it and it was shut down for construction. That's not the case. Opportunity like this has neve happened in the history of man kind given that it's the largest find in history. I say shut the construction down, send the workers to other projects or send them home with pay and allow them to write off the expense and revise the contract to reflect the historical find and allow what ever time it takes to recover our history. As for the archaeologists company they need to get in and get out. Get her done.
Here in London we’ve just opened the Elizabeth tube line. As this was a brand new line with new stations going the central London there was a massive archaeological dig alongside the construction works. Thousands of funds were made including quite a few Plague burial pits which had to be carefully dealt with as the virus could lay dormant! The skills shown by the Turkish archaeologists would have drawn on the expertise worked out from other digs similar to the tube line here.
The preservation of the ships timbers would have been taken from the way the ships timbers of the Mary Rose ship which was raised from the sea bed after sinking there in the mid 1500’s.
The name of Constantinople has changed only recently as only 100 years ago. Istanbul it’s another Greek name which refers of course to the same city, which means THE CITY. Turkey or Turks have nothing to do with archaeological artifacts of the whole Anatolia, as only they appear very recently in historical terms, only for the last 500 years. Some Greeks been forced out from their native lands of Anatolia, and the remaining ones are not allowed to speak their Greek language…
Istanbul is a corruption from the Greek "Is stin poli" what the Greek would say "going into town".
So sad, true and ignored by many!
Same with the east side of tge country. And in the east, is even worse with the curds and Armenian peoples. Actually, it's occupied land by the more violent turks.
The Blue Mosque was St. Sophia's before it was looted and converted to a mosque. Paul the Apostle travelled this area, as did Mother Mary. Many ancient ruins in Turkey; it's too bad I didn't get to see too much when I worked in Izmit 20 years ago. And now with war in the Holy Land, I can't visit Galilea, Jerusalem, or see the Pyramids!!
@@johnbatinovic6593 and before that? We know that almost all Christians church's were built in pagan sites. The Christians destroyed everything
First they said from 3,000 years ago, which would mean from Byzantium before it was Constantinople. Then they said 4th to 15th century, when it was Constantinople. Are there artifacts from both periods? But yeah, there will have to be some kind of compromise between pursuing the archeology and getting the tunnel finished.
Build platforming over site with station above?
Another shopping mall that is useless. Malls are on a decline but history is timeless.
Fascinating that there was not a single thought expended at suggesting the most obvious reason for the harbor coming into disuse over the centuries due to climate change. During Roman times the harbor of Rome was also located further inland. that period 2000 years ago was characterized by a climate substantially warmer than todays climate. Warmer climate sustained over centuries means sea level rise. If all ice remaining on land today would melt we can expect global sea levels to rise 60-70 m. We now have a sea level 120m above that of the height of the last ice age, yet 60-70m lower than what it could be. As it was warmer during Roman times (the Romans were growing grapes and citrus in colonized England for centuries) and Konstantinoples time, we would have to expect a sea level somewhat higher than todays. that would explain near perfectly the current inland location of the old harbor. Another 4000 years prior to that saw earth in it's warmest climate of the past 12000 years since the end of the last ice age. In fact it was so warm for thousands of years, that the coast of northern Norway, at the Norkap, there was mature pine forest, that had migrated that far north all by itself. During that period surely the arctic ocean must have been largely ice free. somehow the Polar bears survived that though. as well as the siberian Permafrost, full of it's shock frozen whooly mammoth and other megafauna carcasses, and all the methane contained therein, they want us to believe, will soon be released, triggering runaway warming. Why did it not get released during that super extended warm period around the time when the pyramids were built in Egypt?? Anyone ever been to Nordkap will perhaps recall the barren landscape around there today. Even when standing thee in July, looking north across the cold sea, if not shrouded in fog and cold rain, one can consider oneself lucky to catch some direct sunlight, and having driven there coming from the south the travellers will surely recall that the nearest unbroken Pine Forest lies 100-200 km to the south, 2 degrees of latitude!!!!
Thank you for the informative video. Without background music while somebody is speaking it would be even better! 10:00 11:00 13:00
I’m sure I heard the sound of the worlds oldest musical instrument,the didgeridoo, at one point. Used in Australia for the past thirty thousand years.🤔
omg the dice are so sick tho
I love the tunnel guy repeatedly just shitting on the archaeologists for being lazy self-entitled do-littles holding up his mega project on a tight schedule
turkey is such a cool country i gotta go someday
Constantinople is İstanbul since 15th century i believe
Something about tunnels and earthquakes that doesn't appeal to me, there bad enough on the surface.
Yup, me too!
The only way they could be so well preserved is by a cataclysmic event burying them suddenly and blocking oxygen! The boat with the peir built on top and through it is very telling. Fascinating! Sorry it is so costly but it is what it is.
Cant argue the engineers logic.
We asked them work at night, they said no its dark. We are engineers we can make it brighter then day light.
Lol
Fascinating how archeologists find amazing historical artifacts when construction projects are undertaken all over the middle east. Except in Mecca where not one single artifact has been unearthed to verify its existence from the early days of the prophet Mohammed. Rather, the whole area was never properly investigated but hastily covered in concrete.
Holy shit Borat is the director of this project XD
Great video and thank you for sharing it history is very important so that we people can learn from all that has happened in the past thank you everyone who has been working hard to not only save history but create history in the now god’s blessings to all 🙏🙏🙏😊🩵💙❤️💛🩷💚🤎♥️🧡💜🖤🤍🩶
Not so long ago i visits Istanbul to find my daughter and wife, and believe me i have certain skill to do it.
is that a 2004 drone? 10:46
"The tunnel was suppose to open it's doors in 2010 but *suddenly,* almost everywhere engineers dug they came across artifacts"...How convenient. Who would've guessed! 💸💸💸😂
Lol i saw you edit that in real time 😂
Anyway, you misquoted him. He said almost from the beginning, not suddenly. 4:10
Archeological finds usually make conpanies mad lol, cuz it slows or stops whatever they were doing which in turn hurts profits.
In all these years nobody has tried to put a rail line across the channel? Curious. Impossible maybe? Curious. 👍
History from all over the world is exciting, interesting, and informative. When there are archaeological artefacts, excavations, buildings, and even just foundations. When it's all put together, it truly is amazing.
Turkey should be named Buzzard. One who's looking for what's dead to eat.
The Seapeople: what happened?we did
Questions: Was the Bosphorus more narrow 3000 years ago? What was the name of this city before it was Constantinople?
Is this railway part of the BRI? If it's not, I think they'd probably help out! Thanks. Very interesting.
The city was founded by Megarian colonists in 657 BC under the name Byzantion (Greek: Βυζάντιον).It was first renamed "New Rome" (Nova Roma) by Constantine the Great during the official dedication of the city as the new Roman capital in 330 AD.[1] It soon became known as Constantinople (Constantinople). After the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the name of the city was officially changed to Istanbul in the 20th century.
@@maviatlastv3051 Thanks for this. I'm going to have to read more about this. It's a gap in my knowledge of history in that period. You know it might just wind up being Constantinople again! The changes we're seeing. Have a good day, fren.
@@whollybraille7043 by the way ,I would like to remind you that Istanbul means Megacity . Konstantiniye ( Ottoman ) means only old city .
Historically ,the Hittits were settled in Anatolia and Thracian were in istanbul before the Colonist Hellens . Istanbul's historic peninsula was settled as far back as the 6th millennium BCE.- 5500 BCE - That early settlement, important in the spread of the Neolithic Revolution from the Near East to Europe, lasted for almost a millennium before being inundated by rising water levels.
I wonder if some of the ships sunk dockside were from showing up with a person with the black plague onboard. Maybe just a storm or earthquake sunk them.
Harbors silt up. A harbor is quiet water,, to protect boats at the dock,, or boats anchored out to hide from storms. But that quiet water also allows the water to drop its silt. It is only in modern times that we have had the dredging machinery, technology and raw horsepower to dredge and dispose of the spoils.