3 Hours Of Awe-Inspiring Cities That Ruled The Ancient World | Metropolis: Full Series 

So who else got here from the auto play going on all night?

Who else puts this on to fall asleep to

I'm watching this to help me fall asleep right now

Imagine 2k years from now, someone collecting your trash, and placing it on a shelf.

Burnt bones of small animals were found, sounds like you found their lunch. Not a religious ritual.

I took my Mrs to Athens to propose to her in 2023, absolutely stunning city. And yes, it's not perfect but what city is? Athens stole our hearts and we both want to come back. We fell in love with Greece that much that we're getting eloped in Corfu. ❤ love, from Scotland

What a sad loss...the Library of Alexandria...can you imagine what a treasure that was...all that knowledge

Thanks for the great historical content. You’ve helped inspire my own channel. 😊

Ptolemaic Alexandria is a city where I would like to live, an PERFECT city❣❣❣

No mention of any ancient Chinese, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Persian, and Indian city in a three and a half hour video about the greatest cities of antiquity? You should change the title.

1:04:47 this man is so dedicated to not ruining the shot that he almost lets a fly into his mouth...

Prof Roald Docter is a professor in my local university (Ghent) and he is very accomplished! Idk if his students even realize how amazing he is

What about Nineveh and Babylon? Each one is about 2,000 years older than Athens, and they were the most magnificent metropolises of antiquity. Nineveh was unfortunately obliterated in 612 BCE, but it was the capital of the known world between 700 and 630 BCE, while Babylon reached its height 150 years before Athens.

Been telling this my friends co workers family etc, jet only my dad understands it and what kind of path it could lead. 8 years ago i deleted all social media. But last year i was like there's no escape. Even when i don't have a digital footprint A.I knows everything about me everything i ever wrote or been trough (we don't know how much your phone records literally every detail in a persons life). The father of my grandfather was still alive when i was 12 years, and the moment internet and phones where just getting hyped. He told me be careful with that new technology, it is the smartest creation ever made by satan, people will waste their lives and time, people will guard it like it's a relationship, in WW2 they already were kings in manipulation and propoganda and in a few years people will have it with them at all time, don't fall for the trap you will see who are the intelligent people, and i would honor it if you take a step back and wait until you're a few years older and see what tesla predicted in his time. This always stayed with me, i also find it ridiculous that i need to be able to be in contact 24/7 if i don't people will think i died just because i am not online... Sad to see people having more interest in their hand computer than humanity itself and love one another. And this will be fed in someway into a A.I even if it won't be used. Just remember you're being used and robbed off your time and distracted during work i bet most people don't want to know how much time they wasted in this short life

🌙 excellent video, very informative. Glad to have RU-vidrs like tou around

This is, by far, one of the BEST series of docs on ancient civilizations I have ever seen-combining first-person accounts, local tales, researchers, historians & archeologists ….Altogether, a solid introduction to the “Big Four”….

A woman disrobing in ancient Greece like that would have never happened.

I cant imagine a worse punishment than being an accountant slave

Truly awesome. By definition.

More like the Classical World amirite? Ancient World would be Sumer, Akkad, Egypt, etc. Greece at the time was Mycenaean and Minoan.

Nice thumbnail. Good picture of our Nordic Jesus, a surfer dude - Jason of Nazareth. I was worried that he might look like, Oh, y'know... a Sephardic Jew or something, just because of where he was born. Thanks to our god of wealth and prosperity that you got it right.

Athens is one of the most affordable cities in Europe. If you are moving here as a couple, you could easily live comfortably here on a budget of just €1,000 a month. This is practically unheard of in the western and northern parts of the European continent.Oct 12, 2022

I'm grateful for curious people who have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. If the world were full of me we would know nothing about the ancients and I wouldn't have these fascinating videos to watch lol. I love ancient history.

Thank you so much for providing us all with this video. So much tragedy, yet so much history. Excellent presentation too, especially the English version.

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@2:35:55 2nd Century there were 1 million inhabitants, no city was larger. Uh,.. they found that there were 10 million in just 1 city in Columbia guys, snap out of it.

All this enthusiasm for Falsehood, and all this effort for preserving Myth. عاملة ناصبة

It seems that "the ancient world" is somewhat misleading. The focus seems to be strictly ancient European cities.

Make Rome and Greece great again

Completely left out the Muslims who conquered Spain for over 700 years.😂 Eurocentric Propaganda

"The Parthenon is the grandest building of its time". No, it is not. Wtf!

if someone is looking for the name of the courtesan it's Phryne (the automatic subtitles spell Freeney LOL)

Interesting- the comments talk about the great art and buildings and literature of these old civilisations but neglect to mention how they came about. Like all others on history : Conquest, bloodshed, war, slavery. Far worse than any modern European empire. Yet they are lauded for the amazing achievements not lambasted for their crimes. No self flagellation, no lament for the tribes who came before and got swallowed up. No talk of reparations. Why is that?

My buddy broke his family's two thousand year old Greek blood line by getting a girl pregnant back in high school. His father was so pissed 😂

Hmm... what's for dinner? Let's buy a cow's head, with eyes (and flies).

Not knocking this....but I like Israel architecture...yeah I know....just hit the knob😂😂😂

Music in the background ruins documentaries. Trying to listen to the story..not background music

now you wouldn't need a paraglider, you could just use a 300 dollar drone

these documentaries are so good. I learn more here than in college

I believe that the claim that Athens had 300,000 people is false. Maybe that was the total population of the polis but not Athens itself.

Build a replica city of Rome , ,, you can go and spend the weekend living back in the roman days ..be ceaser for a day ,, Gladiator events at the colosseum hahahahahaha

I loved listening to the portions where the actors were speaking Latin.. how cool is that

hey mr expert the sun is strong in greece people were happy to get away from the summer sun hence lack of windows , duh… also, no glass 2000BC!

Wellp since no one else is asking lll ask... Where oh where do all of our Facebooks tiktiks IGs snaps etcetera go to when we leave ? Think about what you share and who you share with bc one of these days the Internet archaeologists will come for each and every single one of us 😮

CANT BE BOTHERED..RU-vid AND THEIR PATHETIC ADVERTISING MAKES IT TO ANNOYING..IM NOT PAY THEIR EXTORTION FEE..THEY ARE RICH WITH GREED ENOUGH...

These Grecian urns are beautiful beyond belief. Extraordinary. A joy and privilege to view them

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A great program. Except for him saying Rum instead of Rome. Ah whatever who am i to complain

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0:21 Was Carthage a European city?

Archeology is dumb. Someone finds an artifact and makes up some story that sounds good to them: Un real

I was wondering if Portugal would make the list. I found the people to be very friendly and concerned about the welfare of everyone else. Another country that I would put on this list is Malta. Extremely nice people.

Brilliant!!! Ready for more!!!

everyone Participated in Everything , from Theatre to War….

buddy said pompii was 4 or 5 hundred years old i thought it was a newer city like only 2 hundred years old

I fell asleep and woke up up to this playing

I had to look it up to find out but everything I saw confirms what was said .....and the metro area is in the millions. Omg there's a lot more ppl there then I thought bc I thought that's sounded funny too, but I guess I was wrong which doesn't surprise me. Here what I asked....... How many people live in Athens today? The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (in 2021) within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 km2 (15.04 sq mi). en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki Athens - Wikipedia

The US Founders wrote, repeatedly, how they universally despised Democracy. They saw it for what history had show it to be, quoting James Madison: "...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." & Jefferson: “The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” James Hamilton said it this way: “Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch, but a republic is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” & Hamilton rightly saw that in a democracy, the majority have the right to take away the rights of the minority simply by being the majority. Aristocratically minded Europeans may have thought well of "Democracy" simply because they didn't consider Women, the poor, or slaves, to be actual people but the Founding of the American Republic was created, intentionally, to prevent the rise of a Democracy, which is why they secured the right, the duty, & the tools needed, for the minority, if necessary, to violently oppose any attempts to enforce one.

Sand scaffolding??? Just a thought... I am not an archeologist, or a geologist... But it would make sense to me.... 🤔🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄

Interesting pieces of ancient history, thanks for these

The Armenian capital city is older than Rome. And the arch was not invented by Romans. Both, arch and the cement are Armenian inventions. So is the wheel and the chariot and much more.

They're called "Awe-Inspiring" because when their societies collapsed, everyone living there said, "Awww".

They doing it now

Thank you for the documentary. It has left me with a moral and philosophical question: What is the scale by which we judge the rise from brutish barbarism toward enlightened civility? And do hedonism, gluttony and cunning belong to the former or the latter, or perhaps along a parallel rail of human behavior, which cannot be cultivated out of man simply by living interdependently within cities under rules? These revelations about Roman life leave me wondering how it was that Romans thought themselves competent to rule an empire that spanned the Eurasian continent, when history reveals that they could not rule and subdue their own passions, perversions and carnal urges. Is it not proper that one should subdue one's own animal nature before coercing the same in others? And shouldn't any thinking person find those, who would dictate the behavior of others without first demonstrating mastery over their own self, to be held suspect of having exploitative, predatory and parasitic goals in mind? Men, still lacking discernment between friend and foe of mankind, the result is now as we see in Roman history. The rule-makers, who do not follow their own rules, are nothing more than shepherd kings herding flocks of human livestock with carrots and rods. Perhaps if the flock can't detect that wolves in sheep's clothing are herding them, they deserve the consequences, i.e. of being the meat that feeds the elite. Of course, as in ancient history, these societal conditions remain with us. And still the flocks find peace of mind in their paddocks and graze happily as long as shepherds allow. We're hearing the bleating of distressed lambs now, but few would dare escape their confines and venture into the wilderness alone. Oh, how we love our gilded cages! They are convenient and cozy, until crowded. Then culling season begins again. For as much as history might teach man, he is changed little by hearing of the past. If he did, indeed, come down from the trees, it's hard to see if he has evolved or devolved since!

Can’t feel too sorry about Petronius becoming Lion fodder….”Give to Caesar that which is Caesar’s” - He was 100% aware of what the punishment would be, were he caught….Harsh, but effective….

i asked ChatGPT to write a poem about Carthage... In shadows of a distant age, Carthage stood, A city proud, in splendor once it glowed, But fate's cruel hand, with time's unyielding flow, Has cast its legacy in ruins, cold. Mighty walls that once touched the sky, Now crumble under nature's silent cry, Where laughter danced upon the bustling streets, Now echoes whisper, as memories retreat. Carthage's sails once kissed the azure seas, A maritime empire's proud victories, Yet stormy waves of history's bitter tides, Swallowed its glories, as time subsides. In temples grand, where fervent prayers arose, Now only ghosts of worship remain, enclose, The gods themselves, once worshipped with devotion, Now stand forgotten, in nature's quiet erosion. Carthage's tales, of battles fierce and brave, Lie buried in sands, an ancient maritime grave, Legends once sung by poets' inspired art, Now fade to whispers, torn apart. Oh, Carthage, a tale of rise and fall, Your splendor's echoes, a haunting call, Through ruins' heart, the wind does weep, A lament for a city, forever asleep. pretty sad......

Could you do something on the Cajuns and the Creoles? I think that would be fascinating.

These videos are always a great thing to fall asleep listening to ❤

l do My family thinks its weirdo but it calms me down

have seen documenterys of such as this an Adam is said by science this is so and in Genisis it is hinted about that the answers to all question s of universe is there /this Adam that is maybe equation of love for ???God to show us who and why he loves and shows threw creative earth and human kind to work and humain and to follow Good Laws such as the Comandments as they be some what basic of all even when his name is differnet places we still see him do the same even when we do not know them yet in hystory yet they belive not to murder or steel but have just as many troubles trying to comply as many other countries as well /

The intro has a real Carmen san diego feeling... what's with this style of like showing computers and the digital world always merging back with ancient greece/Rome... like vaporwave for example

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I went to this place w/ Lt. Capt. General Theresa and that one general with kinda dark skin who works with the SSP once.

What year was this filmed? They have safety harnesses and ropes that have a weight safety factor built-in, are much lighter, don't take on wear, and absorb moisture as readily now. Manila rope went out in the late 80's. No need to risk life to look authentic.

Athens here is depicted so wrongly it hurts my eyes!

In before a massive earthquake destroys the acropolis after it's been finally rebuilt

When you can present TANGIBLE EVIDENCE that people built the Parthenon only then can you substantiate your claim is Factual, yet until then our 1st parents built the Parthenon; #1 1st Father/Sun-Sunlight causes gravity and All matter is Positive and Negative charges, Air is a positive charge. (Dust, Dirt and stone) is a negative charge. #2 1st Mother/Earth/Eden/Erde, Erden, Eden German for dirt.

Very interesting video. Stupid question but was there water boiling by the water well? What was the point of adding bubbling noise to the scene?

That thumbnail is fu**ing beautiful.

Interesting facts about congratulations for very much welcome

That was a good one

Thanks for posting. I need as much smarts as I can cram in my little skull before it goes on someones shelf in 2000 years! 😂

Editing an over 3 hour long video by just using one show Doubled so it just plays twice sometimes even 3 times is a cheap way to get view time

Athena is not the god of victory, Nike is the goddess of victory, Victoria to the Romans

In the 'exposure' scene, I'd be the old man saying "can you turn around... wait... ok, continue."

How about Persians, they were world supper power more than once and their contribution to human civilization is no less than the ones you have mentioned.

So one of the bowl figurines looks more like woman and monkey watching

"Before the birth of Christ"? How old is this - the 1950s?

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no priests, ie they were Protestants

What about Hermes?

1:11:25 Or... they just restored what already was there, since long ago.

25:02

Its not restored until this temple or one other are not fully functional with the peoples in culture, with their jewel and the love.

Obviously, this channel has it out for Rome. 🙄 👎

too many commercials/ads

What about persepolis? Athens never ruled the world

We've been there during our Mediterranean cruise November 18th to November 28th 2011 !

Imagine u bought bitcoin that time 😂😂

Although it's a little dated, it's pretty great hearing multiple stories of women throughout these periods