7 Lost Cities (that could still be found) 

But it could be something more valuable than pottery shards: Old latrines!

as a non archeology student, pottery shards sound pretty cool too

Hey don’t underestimate pottery shards I have a huge scar on my bicep caused by tackling someone into a giant ceramic pot plant.

yeah, but think that it was actually used by someone who lived back then....it really does stir the imagination.

pottery shards would be exciting! arrow heads are boring

You throw a torch into the hole and see that it just keeps stretching further and further. It would freak me out to have mysterious unexplored parts of my home

It's not Byzantium and it's definitely a lot older than two thousand years old. They can't really date properly because there is nothing to carbon date except the rocks. I've seen one man studying it had a geologist In one room saying it's at least 5 thousand years old and could date anywhere to 40 thousand years old. They just don't know there is no evidence it was built then just people talked about finding it and inhabiting two thousand years ago.

as I hail from just outside of chicago I can say I would be shocked as shit.

What did the builders of the house think when they put that wall there?

Lol 😅 imagine.

I imagine so many cities and civilizations have been completely destroyed and leveled to the ground by warmongering megalomaniacs through time. There has been one after the other through recorded history. We are still doing it. I think thats how we have been living since we started dominating the planet, maybe even longer

Yes, but I'm also happy that redundant information wasn't shared. That one is probably the one that comes to mind for most people if you're asking for a lost city that can be found

William beckett I was about to comment exactly that. I am a fan of ancient Mesopotamian history like you can judge by my youtube handle. I'm surprised someone else remembered akkad,a city ruled by Nimrod 👍

I promise you you can't find 10 people in the city you live in that have every heard of it outside a college faculty.@@TheKlaun9

@@TheKlaun9I didn’t know about it but now I see it in the comments so it’s a win-win for me lol

There are pre colonial christian and jewish communities in india. I wonder if any of them have a direct link to the christians and jews of that period.

⁠@@Marvin-sj9lr yeah many of them actually do, we tend to forget how connected the world was even in those times. Like one of the 12 apostles (Thomas) went to India and spread Christianity there, Christianity in India is older than most of europe. So fascinating

There is still a large Syriac Christian community in Kerala State in southwest India

Also according to some ancient sources there was a temple of Augustus in Southern India🤯

Voices of the past have a episode talking about Roman's who traveled down the Nile to modern day Somalia to trade with folks from India, its worth a watch for sure

Also, the water impounded by man made dams cover former river cities. Many pre-historic towns, no doubt, were covered below the Black sea and the Mediterranean sea due to global warming ten thousand years ago. Before 12,000 years ago the Black and Mediterranean seas were just lakes.

You would have to dredge 2000 years of sediment and debris, not just dive.

Like Wisconsin?

Pompeii’s pillar is the only structure from the Roman period still standing in Alexandria.

The ruins of ancient Alex underwater have fared better than those on dry land

I think a lot of Alexandria is just under the modern city.

That is a great line.❤

He IS titled toldinstone after all

Graham Hancock quotes this same quote from an ancient Egyptian proverb.

Pretty neat expansion to ones humble abode

They should make a movie about that

Speaking of mythological cities, the city of the caesars is a fun hole to dig into

The same has been done in the Amazon rainforest and Southeast Asia

I remember hearing of one where they found bodies (human and animal) at the bottom of a pit or well. As we know now in modern times, most water connects somewhere, so they think the area was abandoned an forgotten after the water network became tainted by the rotting getting into the drinking and bathing water. The reason they think it was abandoned rather than everyone suddenly died or were kicked out, was something to do with the artefacts they found combined with a lack of bodies (so not a massacre or mass dying). Like there was evidence people packed up what was important, but also buried caches of things like pottery, cloth, gems and metals, etc near homes like they planned to return. If you're in a hurry to leave, you don't usually have time to make a literal nest egg. Fascinating stuff

Indeed, in guatemala is the greatest and biggest city ever seen of and precolombine culter, but it is under the ground and it will take a ton of years to finally get it discovered.

The Kurds are American friendly. Were allies during gulf war and after. The Kurds are awesome peoples.

Even trade centers... really gives a perspective of how frail our existence can be historically...

There are so many towns getting abandoned and forgotten forever in Europe right now.

GPR and LiDar. Excellent tools!

to elaborate. Dikran -> Dikr -> Diyr -> Diyar

No, it's generally identified as the site of the ruined medieval city of Arzan (presumably the capital of the Roman Armenian Province of Arzanene) near Ikikopru on the road between Batman and Bitlis. There's even a Roman Theatre on the site you can see on Google Earth - the furthest east Roman theatre ever identified. 37.978, 41.385. Hopefully it will eventually get excavated and we will get some inscriptions.

Even if that etymology is correct it doesn't mean the present day city is in the same location as the old one. The vestiges need to be discovered

This channel is a gem.

Though the narrator talking like William Shatner is a bit weird. Just enunciate. your sentences. Normally. Instead of. Stopping. every third. word.

I'm p sure they didn't know til the new city was built

@@cloudmaster182 ok, fair enough. Say it gets lost to time. Why would anyone stay after rediscovery though? Ought to be deserted just on common sense, no force required.

Do visit it. I've visited twice and the views of the amphitheatre at the edge of the mountains are truly magical.

Probably because it's too logical.

Its an old hypothesis. Been discussed in the literature for 100 years.

Not enough screaming, capital letters and/or aliens in them.

I want the government to know where my wallet is located at all time

@@DixieSchizodo you carry a phone?

​@@DixieSchizo use a credit card regularly?

RFID blocking is for credit card skimmers, the tracking is outside of the RFID blocking layer so you can find it if you lose it. People don't block RFID for privacy, they do it for safety.

@@NathanCaggiano The’re’s not much difference between privacy and safety for me.

Notice that the pretty woman is not carrying a heavy load. There are advantages for being good pretty , both then and now.

we should recruit Indiana Jones

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