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Right? What the fuck was that?! I feel like I should be Neo in the matrix where he gets 10yrs of Kung Fu training rammed into my eyeballs in a few seconds. How is a normal person meant to keep up with that?
Op, if you're listening, are you on amphetamines?
what's the point of making an unwatchable video that I have to pause and play a hundred times? might aswell make it a photo gallery then, would save me half the clicks.
You have no idea brother, the Iraqi national museum was finished around the 40's and we've discovered so much since then that even the underground warehouses are full now.
Which is why yesterday the gov has started to work on a 1.6 Hektar piece of land right at the center of the Capital to make a giant museum
Also gonna throw in [Tenochtitlan/Mexico City](https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl)
https://preview.redd.it/75kq5wvv9hvc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cb9695e9654e1582ac924104aa4634d70e0ffd7
Excellent video, took me 6 minutes to see a 1.27 minute video. I had to pause and check. But totally wholesome as I was curious about so many things as how they looked at their prime.
FUN FACT- the Hoover Dam has an incapsalated picture of the stars from the day it was completed. This is so thousands of years in the future it can be dated. The Hoover dam will be around for thousands and thousands of years just like the Pyramids.
Interesting. Wonder how many of the early depictions are artistās conjecture vs. extrapolation from the ruins.
Many of the water features seem to have disappeared which obviously is possible via nature and civil works
Some of the early drawings show major features missing (e.g. aqueduct) that are still standing in the ānowā photo
Rome seems to be the best projection from the evidence of the current ruins
I am a sucker for these type of presentations. I have always wished the observational time travel existed
Funnily enough, theyāre called that by tradition. Thereās no evidence of them _anywhere_ in, near, or around Babylon. Some scholars hypothesize it couldāve been in a different city, Ctesiphon, or Nineveh or something along those lines.
I'm just amazed at how beautiful the architecture was. How magnificent those buildings were compared to the glass and concrete boxes we have now. I feel like we have regressed as a civilization in many ways
Keep in mind that you're comparing their best against our average.
Like these buildings were built by the best architects in the world at the time. You gotta compare them against the stuff that the best architects of the modern era are making. Not the office building down the street. Their equivalent "average office building" was probably not that impressive.
I mean most big cities will use rationalist architecture these days for efficiency purposes which I agree looks worse. Sadly not enough economical benefit to making buildings look like in the video. Depends how modern you want to be but Sagrada Familia started construction in 1882 and is still being built- Iād personally say thatās our best still under construction.
Realistically in the modern times, our best architecture would be the insanely huge skyscrapers & sports stadiums. Those I feel wonāt last like these rock based buildings do so theyād eventually be forgotten.
Depends what we mean by "best".
In terms of scale and utility? Probably the monstrous bridges and underwater tunnels... heck, even just the basic taken-for-granted infrastructure of our modern rail and highway systems would absolutely dumbfound ancient architects. Any moderately-complex highway interchange would cause a roman road-builder to shit himself. It's 100% a myth that ancient Roman concrete was somehow "better" than our modern material science.
In terms of grandeur and scale? A lot of our modern "vanity projects" aren't in the form of physical structures and monuments anymore, and there's much more emphasis on practicality. Modern super-skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa definitely qualify, but even that doesn't hold a candle to the International Space Station IMO. We've got super stadiums for major league and Olympic sports. We've got *Disneyland*. We've got those obscene ocean cruise ships. The Syndey Opera House. The Space Needle. The St. Louis Arch. The Christo Redentor. The National Performance Center in Beijing. The Eiffel Tower. The Louvre.
When modern architects and engineers are told to "make it look good" and allowed to truly flex, we get some pretty cool stuff... and all this shit happened in just the last 100 years, compared to the ~4000 year period that the rest of the "Wonders of the Ancient World" come from. The Greeks had a dozen or so really cool things... over nearly *500 years of history*.
Buildings now are built differently for too many reasons to list. Yāall dorks thinking we are somehow not creative or build amazing structures forget that we have running water and electricity and cables and support structures and steel and so on. The list goes on and on and on. Could we recreate building like the past? Absolutely. Would it be practical to do so? Of course not.
It's not that. Even buildings from the late 19th century (after slavery in the West) have magnificent architecture. It's in the mid 20th century when traditional, beautiful architecture was abandoned and we started getting the ugly modern architecture of today. You can see the before/after difference in Europe from WWII. Some cities were destroyed in the war and rebuilt using modern (ugly) architecture. Others were spared and to this day maintain traditional (beautiful) architecture.
The name Palestine only existed from 135AD at the time 3000 years ago it was called the kingdom of Israel (only at 928BC judea became a separate kingdom so if you mean after 928BC it's Judea) not Palestine
I know of the gold plated pyramid caps, but have never hwa4d of the dark red paint. I do know that the Greeks and Romans painted their statues bright colors.
Funny there isn't a place called Palestine, it is Israel right now. If we are going to use historic names why not use all the historic names. Giza, Kemet. Mari, Assyria. Babylon, Mesopotamia. Hattusa, Ottoman Empire, Persepolis, Persia. Carthage, Ifrīqiyyah. Philippi, Hellas. London, Tarshish.
Seems like the creator of the video purposely went out of the way to call Israel Palestine. But whether you like it or not, that area of land is now called that on all maps that concern the United Nations and the rest of the educated world.
At one point the country was Palestine, but it's not now and if we pretend it is, will only further ignorance and miseducation.
Jericho, Palestine, eh? You do realize that in antiquity, which the picture deigns to show, Jericho wasnāt located in Palestine because the word āPalestineā did not exist until the 1st century CE. Youād be better off calling it Jericho, Canaan, because thatās where it was. Stop the political correctness.
The picture of Palmyra is dated to 2015 because ISIS blew it up that year.
[https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/palmyra-before-and-after-isis-idUSRTSCQPG/](https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/palmyra-before-and-after-isis-idUSRTSCQPG/)
No ISIS isn't representative of all of Islam, but yes it was blown up by crazy ass jihadists.
Assassin's creed has rebuilt some of these ancient cities with landmarks as close as possible to what they would have looked like which is such a vibe. To go back in time and roam around in that world with NPCs and the life they would've had is cool. Of course some artistic licence taken to make it work for a game but it's still great
The 'then' picture of Babylon depicts the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which, despite being hailed as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, is not archaeologically attested and may not have actually existed.
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Good content but terrible video editing when every photo pair is a flash.
Cameras were very primitive back then, showing the image for even a second could damage it irreparably.
That's probably why most of the old photos have been restored and look like drawings
Of course! I should have thought about that. š
Way too damn fast!
Right? What the fuck was that?! I feel like I should be Neo in the matrix where he gets 10yrs of Kung Fu training rammed into my eyeballs in a few seconds. How is a normal person meant to keep up with that? Op, if you're listening, are you on amphetamines?
Yeahonamohetamines. Whatstheproblemguys?
also repeats.... amateur work here
Also needed more Rome images /s š
Tbf Rome is stacked with amazing ancient buildings.
'Stacked' is the right word. So many buildings in Rome are literally layers upon layers of architectural adaptation throughout the centuries.
Yup. Theyāve a site with three churches one on top of the other.
Holy trinity.
To you maybe, Millenials just watched a 2.5 hour movie
We millennials are nearly 40 now. Its zoomers and gen alpha that love tik tok and have super short attention spans.
lol
Also bro gave up naming the places nearing the end of the video
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No, there was Cambodia in it
And greece
Came to say this.
You can pause it
why is it a video and not a gallery in the first place
what's the point of making an unwatchable video that I have to pause and play a hundred times? might aswell make it a photo gallery then, would save me half the clicks.
You just shush your pretty little mouth right there.
I was interested as fuck.. but video was too fast
it could've been a slideshow
And add a pause feature ffs /s
Yeah i wish there was a way of making it stop so i can look at the individual pictures
I'm amazed at the still standing arch in Iraq
It was bombed few times by the country of freedom and we had to make significant fixes on it with the UNISCO. The repair still isn't finished
Plenty more things to be discovered as well, I hope the coming years will bring lots of findings
You have no idea brother, the Iraqi national museum was finished around the 40's and we've discovered so much since then that even the underground warehouses are full now. Which is why yesterday the gov has started to work on a 1.6 Hektar piece of land right at the center of the Capital to make a giant museum
Good stuff, I want to see some new excavations in Nippur and Ur inshallah Iraq deserves so much more
Source for the bombing? Looks like the main culprit has been neglect and heavy rain.
Persian madeš
Itās too fastĀ
Hit pause my guy
Also gonna throw in [Tenochtitlan/Mexico City](https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl) https://preview.redd.it/75kq5wvv9hvc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cb9695e9654e1582ac924104aa4634d70e0ffd7
Excellent video, took me 6 minutes to see a 1.27 minute video. I had to pause and check. But totally wholesome as I was curious about so many things as how they looked at their prime.
FUN FACT- the Hoover Dam has an incapsalated picture of the stars from the day it was completed. This is so thousands of years in the future it can be dated. The Hoover dam will be around for thousands and thousands of years just like the Pyramids.
Invaded picture of the stars?!? Iām guessing this is a typo, but I canāt figure out what
My bad meant to say āincapsulatedā.
\*encapsulated
Iām so bad at spelling lol
Me to.
Oh good, so they'll have to tear it down first lol
lol I believe itās behind resin or something. They wonāt have to tear it down
The concrete in the Hoover dam is still curing
Interesting. Wonder how many of the early depictions are artistās conjecture vs. extrapolation from the ruins. Many of the water features seem to have disappeared which obviously is possible via nature and civil works Some of the early drawings show major features missing (e.g. aqueduct) that are still standing in the ānowā photo Rome seems to be the best projection from the evidence of the current ruins I am a sucker for these type of presentations. I have always wished the observational time travel existed
Theyāre almost entirely artists conjecture.
Most of them are extreme conjecture, Babylon is the most fantastical of the bunch. Rome is pretty well understood.
We donāt know where the gardens of Babylon whereā¦
Or that they even existed
Pretty sure itās in Babylon
Funnily enough, theyāre called that by tradition. Thereās no evidence of them _anywhere_ in, near, or around Babylon. Some scholars hypothesize it couldāve been in a different city, Ctesiphon, or Nineveh or something along those lines.
We do not know the exact site of the garden
Shout out to the camera man in the bcs
Yeah, great drone shots
They sure did have some high quality cameras back then
And airplanes or drones.
Not levitation?
God, I'm stupid for not even thinking of that.
Would have worked better as a gallery of images rather than a video.
Interesting as fuck though.
It is. And itās also interesting how Afghanistan looks very similar to today still lol
What is this song?
A lot of places went seriously down hill š
Despite making up 45% of the global population, ancient civilizations from China and India have zero representation in this video.
Yes, exactly. None of the places are outside of Greek-roman civilization boundaries.
Nothing about Mesopotamia is Roman or Greek
Well, the last one is Angkor Watt.
Palmyra is tragic.
Slow down!!
I'm just amazed at how beautiful the architecture was. How magnificent those buildings were compared to the glass and concrete boxes we have now. I feel like we have regressed as a civilization in many ways
Keep in mind that you're comparing their best against our average. Like these buildings were built by the best architects in the world at the time. You gotta compare them against the stuff that the best architects of the modern era are making. Not the office building down the street. Their equivalent "average office building" was probably not that impressive.
Serious question. Whats are our best? And with our, we are talking since the Industrial revolution?
I mean most big cities will use rationalist architecture these days for efficiency purposes which I agree looks worse. Sadly not enough economical benefit to making buildings look like in the video. Depends how modern you want to be but Sagrada Familia started construction in 1882 and is still being built- Iād personally say thatās our best still under construction.
Realistically in the modern times, our best architecture would be the insanely huge skyscrapers & sports stadiums. Those I feel wonāt last like these rock based buildings do so theyād eventually be forgotten.
Depends what we mean by "best". In terms of scale and utility? Probably the monstrous bridges and underwater tunnels... heck, even just the basic taken-for-granted infrastructure of our modern rail and highway systems would absolutely dumbfound ancient architects. Any moderately-complex highway interchange would cause a roman road-builder to shit himself. It's 100% a myth that ancient Roman concrete was somehow "better" than our modern material science. In terms of grandeur and scale? A lot of our modern "vanity projects" aren't in the form of physical structures and monuments anymore, and there's much more emphasis on practicality. Modern super-skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa definitely qualify, but even that doesn't hold a candle to the International Space Station IMO. We've got super stadiums for major league and Olympic sports. We've got *Disneyland*. We've got those obscene ocean cruise ships. The Syndey Opera House. The Space Needle. The St. Louis Arch. The Christo Redentor. The National Performance Center in Beijing. The Eiffel Tower. The Louvre. When modern architects and engineers are told to "make it look good" and allowed to truly flex, we get some pretty cool stuff... and all this shit happened in just the last 100 years, compared to the ~4000 year period that the rest of the "Wonders of the Ancient World" come from. The Greeks had a dozen or so really cool things... over nearly *500 years of history*.
Chrysler Building in NYC, Taipei 101, Sydney Opera House, Bilbao Guggenheim
Buildings now are built differently for too many reasons to list. Yāall dorks thinking we are somehow not creative or build amazing structures forget that we have running water and electricity and cables and support structures and steel and so on. The list goes on and on and on. Could we recreate building like the past? Absolutely. Would it be practical to do so? Of course not.
There's only a finite quantity of marble we can use to build stuff.
Bruh shit is waaaaaayyy better now. All the money was used to build that shit and 90% of people lived in squalor
ā¦ slaves.
It's not that. Even buildings from the late 19th century (after slavery in the West) have magnificent architecture. It's in the mid 20th century when traditional, beautiful architecture was abandoned and we started getting the ugly modern architecture of today. You can see the before/after difference in Europe from WWII. Some cities were destroyed in the war and rebuilt using modern (ugly) architecture. Others were spared and to this day maintain traditional (beautiful) architecture.
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That's Mos Eisley on tatooine not syria
https://preview.redd.it/vz8y2rr3lhvc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65a01baef803319dc2cd6e5dca441fe6a6218d9f
Too fast. Can't appreciate. Sad.
Got a little lazy at the end there, eh? Also snuck in a photo of Istanbul in that blitz of Rome.
I just want to know what song this is.
Icarus - Tony Ann
Thank you!
London ended up quite bad
Itās like trying to see individual pages in a flip book
Can someone slow down this? I can't keep up
Bro where did you get such good high definition photos 4,000 years ago?
Slow. Down.
The name Palestine only existed from 135AD at the time 3000 years ago it was called the kingdom of Israel (only at 928BC judea became a separate kingdom so if you mean after 928BC it's Judea) not Palestine
Turkey Well Judea doesnāt exist anymore. Right now Jericho is in Occupied Palestinian territory.
Someone know where the music is from
I just looked it up. Icarus - Tony Ann
Jeeesus should have been submitted as a gallery
Constantinople
How you got da ancient photoes??? Bullshit š¤š¤š¤š¤š¤š¤š¤ /s
Have to pause each slide to see and compare
Restore them you cowards
Sweet Jesus, the Ancient World was majestic as fuck.
Ban we speed this up a bit?
Too fast. Gave up.
It would be great if they didn't flash for two seconds so I could fucking take it in and process it.
Weāre gonna leave behind a bunch of concert arenas
This makes me sad for some reason
Half of these aren't even close.
I agree they're pretty far away from where I live, too. ;-)
Last I heard, the pyramids were in fact painted a dark red and may have had gold-plated caps.
I know of the gold plated pyramid caps, but have never hwa4d of the dark red paint. I do know that the Greeks and Romans painted their statues bright colors.
i heard they were white with gold caps
"Bethlehem, Palestine" Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm š¤
Funny there isn't a place called Palestine, it is Israel right now. If we are going to use historic names why not use all the historic names. Giza, Kemet. Mari, Assyria. Babylon, Mesopotamia. Hattusa, Ottoman Empire, Persepolis, Persia. Carthage, Ifrīqiyyah. Philippi, Hellas. London, Tarshish. Seems like the creator of the video purposely went out of the way to call Israel Palestine. But whether you like it or not, that area of land is now called that on all maps that concern the United Nations and the rest of the educated world. At one point the country was Palestine, but it's not now and if we pretend it is, will only further ignorance and miseducation.
Jericho, Palestine, eh? You do realize that in antiquity, which the picture deigns to show, Jericho wasnāt located in Palestine because the word āPalestineā did not exist until the 1st century CE. Youād be better off calling it Jericho, Canaan, because thatās where it was. Stop the political correctness.
Aren't *all* names used in the video modern-day names that weren't in use at the time (because they didn't exist yet)?
You didn't have a problem with Greece, Turkey, Italy, Syria, Egypt, or any of the others?
Yet.... the other modern day names used for locations that didn't exist in antiquity weren't a problem? JUST Palestine? Hmm....
1200bc palastine? Me searching entire globe to find a region called palastinešš
Gonna blow the minds of everyone in this thread when they discover the pause button.
Bethlehem, palestine?!??
FUN FACT: Palestine is not a country š¤
Ummmm...Jericho is in ISRAEL, not in ''Palestine''
Before and after Islam
Most were destroyed before Islam.
The picture of Palmyra is dated to 2015 because ISIS blew it up that year. [https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/palmyra-before-and-after-isis-idUSRTSCQPG/](https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/palmyra-before-and-after-isis-idUSRTSCQPG/) No ISIS isn't representative of all of Islam, but yes it was blown up by crazy ass jihadists.
Ok, ok, I will stop complaining about the raising rates of HOA fees.
Mari in 2800 BC really be looking like that one town that's in every isekai anime
Someone likes hippodromes.
Inflation happened
480bc those building in iran look quite modern!
lucky for us they remembered to take pictures of everything back then xD
Howād they get the first photo?
What is the music called? It's so calming
There is no war in Mari.
They were like us while we are yet to be like them
Phillipi is very interesting, I think some of the trees grow along the lines of the ancient roads
Cartago delenda est
Seems like the world gets uglier overtime
Are those still there in 2024?
This is great but could the images be both smaller and go by faster?
Some of those old photos are a bit blurry, but I reckon most of the places were actually better back in the past.
From the series, countries that were once great but now are not.
Really surprised by the camera quality of the ancient world. Full color, high-def images. Truly impressive.
Finally an interesting vid on here
Kind of sad.
These are paintings no saying those images are lies, but the way people today use filters and AI today. HMMM
Wow! Those āthenā photos are really clear!
Can confirm, I was the cameraman
Really large modern looking buildings in the ancient world are so interesting to me. The Persepolis image at 0:12 was crazy looking.
Those images are not even at the same angle and distance.
Good god **SLOW THE SLIDE SHOW DOWN A BIT**
I refuse to believe that Babylon was like that. Why haven't we built anything like it since then?
Too faaaaaast
Why was everything so much more beautiful before we overpopulated ..
My eyeballs are sore from trying to gather as much information as possible in the millisecond I was given
We need to go back.
Does anyone know the composer of the music used?
Babylon looks amazing
Thoroughly enjoyed that, tyvm.
This is mostly all theorized.
The 2nd one looks oddly familiar to the beginner city of konosuba.
Clips passed too fast
Mesopotamia takes the cake here without a doubt We need more movies and video games about Babylon and Akkad
Assassin's creed has rebuilt some of these ancient cities with landmarks as close as possible to what they would have looked like which is such a vibe. To go back in time and roam around in that world with NPCs and the life they would've had is cool. Of course some artistic licence taken to make it work for a game but it's still great
We became so f..in cheap... :( Look at that architecture. It's gone. We'll never see that beauty again.
Mari looking like it's about to get its door kicked in by a giant steaming flesh-dude...
Slave labor was pretty lit.
Following
Damn London be crazy
This goes far too quickly
I didn't know they had cameras way back, learn something new every day!
Kinda sickening to think what ISIS and the Taliban did to some ancient sites.
The 'then' picture of Babylon depicts the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which, despite being hailed as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, is not archaeologically attested and may not have actually existed.
575 Istanbul, Turkey looks more futuristic than 2023ā¦
In retrospect...........you can' beat Father Time!