Alexander Sarcophagus: A 2000-Year-Old Secret! Does It Really Belong to Alexander the Great?
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Don't miss the story of one of ancient world's greatest artifacts : The Alexander Sarcophagus. . A masterpiece of art, mystery, and ancient power. Step into history and discover the remarkable tale behind this ancient tomb.
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Many years ago I spent an hour staring at this sarcophagus because the carving is so masterful that it conveys more than mere physical events. Back then it was not enclosed in glass so it was possible to see luminosity in especially thin areas of stone. I appreciate this presentation for displaying such clearly captured image and accompanying them with informative narration.
I liked that you included the information on the man who petitioned for the museum be built.
I agree, that was a welcome addition to the already interesting content.
No one has found where Alexander was buried!
I have been lucky to see it one of the most beautiful objects on earth truly magnificent
Imagine how amazing it would have looked with all the colors painted on it.
It’s a beautiful object, but a preponderance of evidence tells us that during the Diadochi (the inheritors of Alexander’s empire) after Alexander’s death and after the failed regency of Perdiccas, Ptolemy I Soter (Alexander’s General, and member of the Diadochi that took control in Egypt) directed the entourage transporting Alexander’s body to Alexandria. This sarcophagus being found in Sidon, may have been commissioned by Seleucus I Nicator (member of the Diadochi that secured the the Eastern Provinces (including Phoenicia) of the Alexandrian Empire), founder of the Seleucid Empire, in his bid to solidify his position by taking control of Alexander’s body. It is documented that Seleucus attempted to gain control of the body as the entourage moved from Asia Minor to Egypt.
how beautifully bright colored was the sarcophagus to begin with.
Very nice and beatifull video, you made a Dutch historian very, very happy!
I am not Dutch, I am not a history professor, just a retired Russo American fine-art restorer, and this video made me also very happy😂🫶👍😢
It is not known where Alexander was buried
Nope.
محل دفن اسکندر مشخص نیست چون اسکندر وجود نداشته. چرا در فلات ایران هیچ اثری از اسکندر نیست؟شخصیتی خیالی برای تمدن غرب
He was buried in the Egyptian Alexandria, in Roman times they showed his mausoleum, as we know from literature. In between, the sea shore sunk deeper so the ancient Alexandria is flooded now. The harbour has been excavated, but the mausoleum is still not found.
NOBODY knows where he’s buried. Both he and Cleopatra’s burial sites are still a mystery. It will be all over the news and online whenever it actually happens. The archaeologists that discover either one, will definitely want recognition.
As the documentary suggested, but thanks for clarifying.
The only information missing in your video is about the context it was found ( for instance: the other 3 sarcophagi found with it) and the eventual contents of this magnificent box. For the rest you gave us a good report. Thanks
This A.I narrator makes it sound like we're watching a trailer for a movie.
Alexander was called The Great by the Romans long after his death and was never known as The Great in his life time.
Was anything found on the inside of the sarcophagus?
This was so absorbing! So well-told, despite AI vocals. I thought I had been in a college class that takes 48 minutes! But because real scholars with real knowledge actually share it on youtube, I recognize the very Era in which this took place, and lot of the ramifications of his conquering ways. This work of grand artistry is a STUNNER! Thank you! I checked, only eleven minutes! Wow!
It seems to be a close portrayal of Alexander's actual appearance, so that it really honors him as seen by eye-witnesses, or portrayed by witnesses and passed along like his many ram's-horned in profile coins.
I have a keen interest, and bug, about which portrayals of known ancients actually look like them AT ALL.
As Mary Beard has tried to instruct us, just because some narration about Roman history shows a bust labeled Julius Caesar in the screen graphics, it might not be Julius Caesar at all.
I have to crow about this close look at this wonder, seemingly contemporary to those first post-conquest years. Of course the way they sculpted his face would come as close as they could, even with the bias toward the Classic Greek profile.
Something tells me, being a Greek fellow after all, I think Alexander could have looked a lot like any of the young Greek Gods we see in the pantheon itself. His face, taken out of this context, could be mistaken for Hermes, or Prometheus, even Apollo! Clearly Aristotle must have taught him to deliver rousing brilliant speeches to inspire the people and the troops, of whom he demanded A LOT. No wonder he swept sub-continents numerous times.
What's the saying ... Be charming, and be backed up by thousands of warriors? What a combo!
Anyway, I wish we knew for sure who the mis-named people actually were, as Mary said.
After seeing so many Julius Caesar busts that are all too different from each, that it can't be accounted for by aging. Unless there is an inscription, who knows? And even then ... Somebody should straighten that nonsense out and get back to me. Thank you.
It's interesting that the weapons, possibly bronze or even gold, were removed, probably by tomb looters. Holes in the figures indicate there were other ornaments such as belt buckles.
Lovely highlight. Thank you 🌸🌾
3:58 It is not Alexander the Great's sarcophagus...
THAT IS WHAT I READ A LONG TIME AGO, IN A PROFESSIONAL ART HISTORY MAGAZINE@ FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY. IT IS NOT ALEXANDER'S.
Thank you, Wonderful video.
Nice, Thank you.
Muy interesante y bien mostrado. Gracias
Absolutely brilliant work 👏 first time see this even today is very hard to made it
It's a magnificent detailed work of art, but pure fantasy to believe it was Alexander's.
We are lucky to have it in such amazing condition though.
A sarcophagus is not a coffin.
Thank you for such a wonderful presentation. Having many years ago seen the sarcophagus this now fills in a good deal more of the story of what I actually saw.
Excelente narração
Give it back to Lebanon. It was stolen by the ottoman turks from Sidon, Lebanon
Why not the Greek Museum?? He was Greek!!
@evanhi450 this isn't actually Alexander's it belongs to a Phonecian king from Sidon did you even watch the vide0😅
It is a false news, apart from that the tomb of Alessandro Magno was placed in a place currently disappeared by Alexandria, as reported by ancient historians his body was enclosed in a crystal coffin and immersed in honey. He was still visible towards the end of the Roman Eastern empire. Then the traces are lost.
As for your comment about people who call themselves great well my friend you can call yourself great but the truth of the matter is that if others call you great it’s because you are !!!! Maybe because he did something so magnificent plus his strategies on the field of war that so many still talk about !!!!!! Do some research I’ll do you good!
I thought Alexander is buried in
St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice?
@lancebane3088
What ever made you think that?
@user-overload A Documentary on PBS(?). An archeologist proposed that the "mummy dealers" of the time knew they dug up somebody important in Alexandria and sold the sarcophagus to the Church as St. Mark but the sarcophagus is believed to be Alexander's. Also, where the sarcophagus was said to have been found was the site of a Roman castle.
At 3:58 we are told: “strangely, the Alexander Sarcophagus does not belong to Alexander the Great”…
I treasure my time in Turkey seeing this and many other objects in the fantastic Turkish Museums. Turkey is one of the great nations of the world with welcoming people and one of the world’s most sophisticated cultures.
These are not turkis sculptures and monuments lol
Do ya? Thieves & Robbers ? Give me 5 minutes with you I'll change your mind
@@evanhi450 I'll give you 30 min. and could u explain me pls how planet Mars lost its atmosphere because of TURKS. Start to change my mind you smarta**. Go on...
@@evanhi450 The excavations in the then Ottoman Libanon were held by the then legit authorities of that area. Imagine what had happened to it when it had stayed where it had been found.
Go on?
It is very strange but all "greek" soldiers are equiped with phrygian helmets!
Could be any of the Ptolomies, If they find one with Alexander portayed with the Horns of Amun I might start to beleive it.
I think Alexander's sarcophagus is here in Istanbul
きれいな状態だが、ここにあるということは墓所から出されたのだろうが死者への冒涜じゃないのかな。
Maybe. That’s the ongoing debate isn’t it?
KÖSZÖNET, LENYÜGÖZÖ ANTIK GÖRÖG MÜVÉSZET
On n’a jamais trouvé le corps d’Alexandre de Macédoine.
Even his natural perfume was sweet...Sassoon tell me something about that
El mosaico no representa la batalla de Issos sino la de Gaugamela. La de Issos es probablemente la del sarcofago.
My dear lady what you saw ( antiquities in the Turkish ) museum there not Tourkish they are GREEK .Greeks had been there before the mongols took it over today s Tourkey
The name of the Holy City is Constantinople.
Alexandre foi trocado , está enterrado no túmulo de um cardeal em Constantinopla. Esqueci o nome da catedral.
Shall be returned to Lebanon 🇱🇧,Turkey 🇹🇷 has more than enough own historian artefacts
the carvers - are these craftsman unknown?
Why wasn't it explained whether there was any attempt to open it like the Egyptian mummies - King Tut for example!
So sick of people calling this the Alexander Sarcophagus its 222 years too Old the shields and weapons and cloths prove this, Even the chariots are primitive in comparison…
And "that" what means?
Überschrift auf Deutsch und das Video auf Englisch. Könnt Ihr stecken lassen.
Όταν οι κατακτητές , οικειοποιούνται τήν αίγλη της Ιστορίας σου !!!!😮
This is a Scythian(Saka) or Turkic city, and you are Persian settlers from depths of Persia, before Greeks, Scythians lived on territory, they left behind Lemnos stele, text of which can be read from Turkic languages, this writing was used from Paleolithic from Spain to Japan thousands of years before appearance of Hindus and Iranians(who are Greek settlers). No Alexander of Mekodon existed in nature, they(Hindus, that is, the Indo-Europeans) simply invented him
And when you steal Turkish good music dance clothing and culture and appropriate it as your own. Thieves!!
It's not istanbul, it's Constantinople, on the first word and I'm out.
Since the Eastern Roman Empire was the losing side of the war, you'd better get used to the name Istanbul..😉 Btw who are you lol?? You are just a Greek who has been under our rule for years... You belong to the same religion as the Eastern Romans. Is it up to you to claim rights over our lands?lmao
Ugh, again with the AI narrator. Aside from the fact that Alexander's grave never having been found to date, wouldn't whatever the "secret" is be around 2300 years old (rather than 2000, as indicated in the title) since by the time of Christ, Alexander had already been dead for 300 years?
Remember these are opinions not facts we cant tell for sure who's sarcophagus it is there is not a sign that says here lies whoever so we know for sure, but they are a work of art
Huh? You mean...
CO N S T A N T I N O P L E ?
No I mean Istanbul
@Tolga_Ornek, that's not a place
@@terrancejfry497 check any map
@@Tolga_OrnekGreeks had Constantinople more than you've had it !
@ this is a very childish and archaic argument. The city is called Istanbul now and is part of Turkey and the sarcophagus is in the Istanbul Archeological Museum.
Istanbul Museum
Its all Stolen !
Yawn more clickbait. Didnt show the contents, who, what is contained therein
Nothing is inside
No " istan...bul " ...
Yes 👍 👉☦️CONSTANTINOPOLE☦️
FREE CONSTANTINOPLE!
Alexander is English not Greek;
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Perhaps, maybe, the museum should restore the sarcophagus to it's former, colorful outer shell. It seems like they have a good idea what the colors were. It might be interesting to the folks going to the museum what the tomb originally looked like. and what sort of color sense the ancient people who made it, had.
Should be restored to Lebanon, this is cultural theft.
ナレーションの読み方が変で楽しくない
Your video and production are great, but please use an actual human being for the narration. It doesn't cost that much, and sounds much better than this. You're talking about some of the most important people, places, and events in human history.
Don't strip the humanity out of *human* history...
Hubiera sido fantastico haber visto el sarcófago de Constantino 1ro el de justiniano y su esposa oh elde belisario oh el heraclio pero los barbaros nos lo robaron ese gusto 😡
Pourquoi utiliser une voix et une musique de film pour teenagers pour présenter un sarcophage ?...
Why not?
I was aware of it, but had no idea quite how amazing it is. Can you recommend a good pictorial book which documents the carvings in detail and gives good contextual data?
日本語がかなり怪しい
probably not
That would’ve been a very a short film.
@@Tolga_Ornek all conjecture they didnt provide real concerte hard evidence
Def isn’t ATH maybe a rip off lol 😅
Alexander can run as darius with Caesar can walk.his body t take and have it died about 2million soldiers for diadohi wars and he isn't greatest of LaSalle???...???whooo at that times think like him?the vision and ambition is relentless ruthless restless unbeatable unbreakable unstoppable mix and the responsibillity belongs to Aristotle who is teached by Pluto and Pluto by Socrates...the biggest man on the planet earth and no-one nobody can rich him and exists in earth again wow wow wow and again wow well wwwoooooooooooooo.in greek language not called greedy but aplistia which means that I want to live one bed one house one woman one launge and one glass of water and I want it all from all
Here's a mystery, who said these people are "great"? A: is "They" did they called themselves great. think about that.
Even Julius Caesar considered Alexander the greatest military leader in history. Some of his battle tactics are still studied today. He appears symbolically in the Bible in the Book of Daniel and 1 Maccabees. He also Hellenized the world from Egypt to India making Greek the common language of the Roman Empire. Therefore, the Christian Bible was written in Greek and the inscription above Jesus on the cross was in Greek (and two other languages).
I don't think it's a mystery.
@@RandallvanOosten-ln5wf *I learned more from your post than I ever did in high school.* 📚
you should think about your comment, seriously.
@@Dr.Yalex102 if you believe sovereignty "divine right to rule" is right then bowing down and serving them makes you a useful slave,
CARLOS MAGNU ERAN UN ATLANTE! Y LA MAYORIA DE LOS GRANDES CONQUISTADORES FUERO ! DE TARTARIA
False information