@@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
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.
Agreed, except if you run around naked today they will toss you in the nuthouse and of course the Christian right would view ancient Greek art done today as obscene.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 ❤️
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.
36:38 You can definitely tell the ancient Greeks were a major influence on the creators of modern day Mexican Telenovelas. If you don't speak ancient Greek or Spanish they look exactly the same and can be interchangeable without anyone being the wiser...
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!
So many documentrys that use pics this was vey interesting i had to watch how they lived uncovered alexander's city naval ports hidden in a circle from prying eyes .
1:28.45 Approx. The narrator mentions that none of the scrolls survived from the Library of Alexandria. But they did as far as I've read. There are thousands of scrolls from the library in the Vatican Archives. I hope one day they will share some of what is held secretly.
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 “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!
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.
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.
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!
@@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.
@@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.
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!!!!
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 !
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??
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!
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 .
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.
Wait a minute. We have no idea how many big shoreline cities there were at the lowest Ice Age ocean levels. Amazes me those sunken metropolises are never discussed by so called modern historians.
Greek civilazation is not Western civilization but global it belongs to all the world it can liberate both Europeans Africans Asians and Americans It's a cosmopolitan civilazation
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!
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.
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
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
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
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.
Athens 1:22
Alexandria 53:09
Carthage 1:44:53
Rome 2:36:22
so... its pretty biased... really nothing from Asia? Middle East?
@@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.
@@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
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The narrator sounds like John Hurt, the British actor. 👏 This is probably the best documentary I've ever seen! Thank you.
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Actually (and it took me a good chunk of the doc to realize this) it sounds like Mr. Feeny from boy meets world. William Daniels.
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.
Agreed, except if you run around naked today they will toss you in the nuthouse and of course the Christian right would view ancient Greek art done today as obscene.
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.
Whole another lesson of English language in several sentences - thank You.
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.
This well done walk through history is a glaring reminder of the adage, then more things change, the more they stay the same.
We are all creatures of habit
So true Floy Grace...& People do evil in the name of God. It will never change, sadly.🍂
History repeating itself
@@BlueBonnie764doing evil in the name of god is a sin
Please subtitles for the deaf
Go to settings and turn on auto generated captions. Best of luck.
My mother is deaf
If you’re on an iPhone, just tap the screen and tap the cc in the top right corner. ☺️
Tap the cc icon. Booya
@@maryb3136what?
I appreciate this series taking the time to show the lives of some normal people whose records have survived.
The “closed caption” button UA-cam 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 💙
A mega documentary :) this looks awesome.. perfect timing on a Sunday night 🥰
Amen. 🤳
And it still works well on this Sunday night 3 months later friend
5 months later, on this Sunday I am sure enjoying this doc!
@@trippsmclovinno
Interesting watch. Occupied breakfast, two breaks, a lunch and a few bowls of cannabis. Thank you :3
Omg me too 😂😂😂😂 just finished a bowl now
@@charliekezzalol same, been finding my way to this channel a lot lately
Strange how smoking weed makes intellectual things even more interesting...
@@lagodifuoco313 wholeheartedly agree.
Got through half a cartridge
I remember watching this absolutely awesome
I use this to help me sleep .. 💤
Works like a charm 😊
Wolf nipple chips! LOL the Roman Colosseum part reminds me so much of the Monty Python segments of the Life of Brian scene!
Great documentary. Thank you
UA-cam, thou vanquisher and abetter of insomnia.
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.
the beginning of man made climate change
I love how the man discusses falling in love with the vase. Lovely stuff. 🧡✨️🧡✨️💕
That vase loved me first 😢
I made love to that bowl and now he's drinking out of it...
I love lamp.
Thanks!
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.
Too bad it never happened
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
I beg to differ as my imagination made it happen@@hornytarot
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 ❤️
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.
Lol u made this comment on the internet we are far more advanced.
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.
Well I think he said they used a compass a ruler and a plumbline... I dont think he mentioned sounds vibrations lol
They also had slaves who worked to death, so building a city is still impressive but just less when you know this fact.
love watching timeline episodes
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!
wery informative thanks for your amazing work
I love that the archaeologists in Alexandria fit every single Indiana Jones stereotype of archaeologists.
36:38 You can definitely tell the ancient Greeks were a major influence on the creators of modern day Mexican Telenovelas. If you don't speak ancient Greek or Spanish they look exactly the same and can be interchangeable without anyone being the wiser...
AMAZING WORK & VIBE!!!! Full deep dive
Great video Joe 👍🏼
Rudyard, you blew me away.
I likes history. back to the ancients.
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
Incredible documentary
Thanks for uploading this older video! Still good to watch!
I thought it said something else but glad I clicked it. 💯🤙🏽
Edit: 23K views and only 720 likes? 🤔🤔🤔
Sumerians were first civilization. They got things rolling...
It is unfortunate the library of Alexandria was burned. I often wonder what wonderful information was lost.
I know I like to go to libraries and always try to picture what works of history were lost at the Library of Alexandria 🤔
I, too, have thought of the resources lost..
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!
So many documentrys that use pics
this was vey interesting i had to watch how they lived uncovered alexander's city naval ports hidden in a circle from prying eyes .
Wonderful, I really enjoyed that :)
1:28.45 Approx. The narrator mentions that none of the scrolls survived from the Library of Alexandria. But they did as far as I've read. There are thousands of scrolls from the library in the Vatican Archives. I hope one day they will share some of what is held secretly.
There are better history articles. But if this is what it takes to get people interested, good luck to you!
Thanks for the inspiration!!
Intresting how two nationalities coexisted that long ago.
What’s up with all the comments of people thinking they are saying these are the only 4 ancient mega cities?
ive noticed an increase of stupidity on a few of these videos over the last few days...school on break or something maybe ?
In the 21st century, every idiot is a self-appointed expert.
Because too many ppl have terrible comprehension/reading comprehensive skills for some reason. Guess like common sense isnt common, comprehension isnt either anymore smh🤦♀️
@@kristiskinner8542 b/c the educational system doesn't believe in critical thinking anymore. Kids now a days have been dumbed down.
@@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!
Thnx for your content
great content on video
have been to carthage twice it is nice
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.
Shame of the destruction of the library of Alexandria, but then with most ancient cities so very much of the ancient civilizations is lost .
There is no bigger expert on the genius of Greeks than a Greek.
Or those that were their teachers
gotta always claim e'erybody else's shine cuz the truth is, yours is non-existent.
Poor Petronius. Imagine getting your bones chewed by lion for a mere harmless fiddling with the books 😞
The catacombs were stunning.
Its amazing how similar daily living 2000 years ago was like city living today. Hardly nothing has changed except for modern technology of coarse.
Excellent !!!
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.
very good work
Beautiful video
This is phenomenal 👌
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!
We're beginning to see that democracy isn't very useful. I can see why the founding fathers of america were against it.
big versus our cities with 8 billion of us on the planet, sure. back then there where 200m ppl i think, so quite big.
@@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.
@@kaloarepo288 again your comparing different times, rome was 500 years later, Constantinople 1000 years later. Your comparing apples to pears
@@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.
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!!!!
I usually listen to these when i sleep
loved it!
I’ll be buying some soon!!
Beautiful thanks...❤💐from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
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 !
Uuummmm...???
😂😂😂😂 maybe the fact the ancient world drove cars was lost when the the great library was burned down
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??
Wow
@@jasondrummond9451 it was for courisity inc. Weird , huh?
48:44 POV: Me at the flea market looking for an old CRT to pair with my Pentium II.
p2 phhht, I run a p3 coppermine @ 733 mhz peasant.
Now this guy knows how to grow a Mustache @ 7:15 ....too bad he grew it on the wrong spot .
LOL!
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!
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 .
For sure
@@erv.shysenifor sure
Remarkable telling the way it once was
Oh damn, are we all actually learning from Mr. Feeny??
Alexandria. The Library. All the works lost from Sophocles, Euripedes. THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN LITERARY HISTORY
very informative, i like it
thank you
This was so very well done. Thanks. A lot of this type of thing on this topic are not so well presented.
Athens
Alexandria
Carthage
Rome
Apparently the "Ancient world" was only around 2000 kilometers long
Nice historically accurate bench grinder at 30:22
lol
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.
started watching call of duty videos and woke up 3 hours into this.
Historical events reappear through the timeline
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Wait a minute. We have no idea how many big shoreline cities there were at the lowest Ice Age ocean levels. Amazes me those sunken metropolises are never discussed by so called modern historians.
Needs evidence unless you want to watch history channel
Haters gonna hate.
@@stankmiester101so they’re suppose to make videos in cities they know nothing about? Yes, modern historians are completely lost. 😂😂😂
Don’t disturb the climate change narrative.
@@lengould9262 think they're being sarcastic
Greek civilazation is not Western civilization but global it belongs to all the world it can liberate both Europeans Africans Asians and Americans
It's a cosmopolitan civilazation
Did anyone else read "Great magicians of the ancient world" ?
My go to is the earth chronicles series from Zechariah sitchen
I’m figuring this comments section is littered with people pissing and moaning why (insert city) wasn’t included. Just a wild guess
This was absolutely brilliant and informative Corina thank you.❤
Never knew George Costanza was a historian.
tap touch the square ⬛️ box third from the top right side and you can start reading on the bottom of your screen.
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!
Chipping stone with no safety glasses
OSHA has entered the chat
5:30
Athena was the goddess of wisdom & war… not victory (that was Nike).
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.
Honestly from alllllllllll of the ancient theories this one I feel it's a clear and present danger. Anyone else feeling like building a pyramid ?
9:30 whenever the narrator says the American School Of Classical Studies, he is referring to The;
American School
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Classical Studies
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Athens
Educational institution in Athens, Greece
Wikipedia
Those are for the Emperor and wealthiest family only. The poor are the slaves and were not allowed to watch them for their fun.
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
Prolly just water bro lol
@@Laocoon283 They really regret going now and seeing what was bro.
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
Voice over translations because I'm trying to listen to this at work.
Sending prayers and a few bucks brother. All I can do right now man.
Exelente
Anyone else hearing the hitchhikers guide to galaxy voice?
Now I can't un-hear it...🤣😂
I immediately guessed which four cities. The truth is they each peaked at vastly different times.
also rome just kinda killed or conquered the other three eventually.
This the beginning of western thought. It was from the onset above all else a civilization.
Mohenjo-daro would be an interesting subject! There are so many candidates for future documentaries 😮
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.