BURIED For Centuries: The Astonishing Ruins of Koi Krylgan Kala | Ancient Architects
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Sometimes you come across pictures on the internet and they really do captivate the imagination and that’s exactly what happened this weekend, when I stumbled on an aerial photograph of a site I had never heard of before.
It’s called Koi Krylgan Kala, an archaeological site located outside the village of Taza-Kel’timinar in the Ellikqal’a District in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, in Uzbekistan.
According to experts, it a temple complex or ceremonial centre, belonging to the Chorasmian Dynasty. It was built sometime in the 4th century BC, a monumental building laid out on a circular plan with large fortified walls and nine towers, encompassing a circle 87 metres in diameter.
Apparently, a nomadic people known as the Apa-Saka tribe, destroyed the site around 200 BC. It was later rebuilt into a settlement and it stayed in use until 400 AD, when it was abandoned.
Watch this video to learn more about the astonishing ruins of Koi Krylgan Kala, a site buried for centuries and sadly left in a very poor state after the excavations in the 1950s.
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thank u... another piece of the puzzle... i find the pentagon shape interesting....@ 55sec - 1min 10sec... ps...great channel.
"that sentence took me ages to record ..." ... ;-) ... and we listened to it again and again wondering if you were making it upppp ...
These designs of this structure go back to about 1800BC, the Yamnaya came west and settled in Europe around 4500BC but a tribe of people that settled in Germany then returned to the steppe way of life for some reason around 1800BC. I think personally it was the proximity to Afghanistan to the south as they where renowned metallurgists and there access to tin would of been most important, they began building settlements in this circular shape to defend from any potential attackers so these peoples ancestors who built the structure you are showing would of been big power players on the global stage in ancient times.
As an astronomer, I find this fascinating. It should be noted that many years later, the region was a hotbed of science and mathematics producing the famous Al-Kwarizma, father of algebra, from whom we get the word "algorithm" (his Latinized name was Al-goritmi)
This region of the world is massively under-excavated. Thanks for presenting a bit more info.
Yes. Little understood and little excavated for sure
As a child many years ago I had a book about Scythians and their culture. I recall the author stating how difficult it was (during the Soviet era) to get access to some of the burial mounds and other sites.
The few photos in the book were black and white pre WWII and all the grave goods were sketched.
I wonder if Alexander the Great ever saw this place or if there was ever a Greek outpost here?
Being underexcavated is a great thing. See what happens when they excavate?
Totally agree
pretty sure if you took away all the sand in the Sahara you would find a lot of these sites
Impressive for something being around 2500 years. Nice to bring this to the attention to your audience. Sights like the pyramids or recent years gobekli tepe get so much attention, that many other things fall just short. This is a great example and what I have subscribed to the channel for. Not hearing about the same things we already "know", but connecting us with the ideas of a long forgotten time and what it can tell us today, if we just be enthusiastic to listen.
Yeah, I have 5-6 lesser known sites lined up over the coming 10 days or so
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He's only 3 letters off from being a bogdanoff
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Koy Kirilgan Kala
On our language (Uzbek) it means "citadel where sheep were decimated"
I always found it so funny and sad at the same time😅😅
The ancient world is so incredible. I'm consistently blown away by each discovery, many of which I never heard of before.
That's amazing it looks a little bit like the Mayan calendar or the Hadron Collider
You are by far the best channel on YT. Not only do you do significant research, and offer fairly objective commentary, but you really strive to provide new and unusual content.
yes this is the way
I do appreciate this. I do everything on this channel by myself, always have. It’s a lot of work, so thank you!
viper tv, sumerian tablets,. brian foerster,. praveen mohan..
@@harrywalker5836 this is my opinion. Viper tv, ST, and mohan's Chanel have to much fantastical nonsense and not enuff facts I find it intellectually dishonest.
Brian forester I love the man but his Chanel has to much of him walking around half out of breath. But his Chanel is pretty dope over all.80 of of 100
Acient architects has the meticulously researched well Narrated videos that provide historical background and honest opinions that answer the questions that plague me.
he has a video with an awesome explanation of how the acient people could melt rocks with acid. Also shows Helmer trebuche research on it.
Such an incredible shame that these antiquities are being slowly erased.
I know. Real shame
Worst of all, we don't even know about most of the destruction!
not so slow really, just a lot of ground to cover... stuff keeps popping up too... not for much longer
either we are heading for a dark age the likes of which humanity will probably never leave, or we are barreling into the light where hopefully we can still see...
@@wrongfootmcgee what an extreme pendulum you have there guy. I'm thinking it will stay somewhere in the middle like has for hundreds of years. I don't see a dark age coming and I don't see enlightenment. I see humanity plodding along at a decent pace.
@@IceManHG117 lmao considering our Mother Earth is being industrially raped at a greedily fast rate I’d say that dark age is coming pretty “soon”
Fascinating... Throughout history, it always seems the herding peoples can't tolerate an impressive city such as this one.
Thank You Matt! You find the most interesting archaeological information. I had never heard of this before. Thanks again!
I'm so happy to have found this channel. I fascinated by ancient civilizations. Thank you for providing this wonderful opportunity to learn more. 💜💜
It's such a cool looking structure ! Thanks for bringing on new archeological sites as such as this one ^^ keep on your amazing work Matt
That sentence at the start with all those names 😂 i can't imagine how long that took you 😂
Amazing video as always Matt, never heard of this before🤗
About 7 minutes of audio to 10 seconds of video 😂😂😂
@@AncientArchitects the struggle is real 😂
@@AncientArchitects pronounciation would've proven impossible with my geordie accent lol
@@gazpal I'm American, with a "Midlantic" public accent and a New England Yankee accent at home. I was having a very interesting conversation with a Geordie colleague in the faculty room, about Buddhism and the Dalai Lama. When he left, five colleagues, an Englishman, Australian, Canadian and two Americans, surrounded my desk and demanded to know how I could fake a 30 minute conversation about an esoteric topic. I had understood or was able to intuit 50-70% of what Goeff was saying, probably because of shared interest in the topic. They, including the Londoner, claimed to have not understood a word Geoff had said. American Southerners and Australians can, IMO, be equally hard to understand.
@@JMM33RanMA geordie's are the British military equivalent of the US military's WWII Navajo "wind talkers" 😁
Looks like Atlantis
Wow, how much else is there to be discovered. Thank you, Matt ❤️⛰️❤️
Loads of amazing ancient structures out there. Good to see you in the comments, Lynn!
It is always a pleasure when you upload a new video.
Do tell Matt!
Great job on the first sentence.
✌🙂stay safe.
Ha - thank you
I bet that sentence took a lot of work to record. I don’t know how you do it but you do it well. You have always been my favorite ancient history channel. Much respect.
Amazing how some sites that must have taken incredible resources and time to build were not used for very long before becoming abandoned.
It seems like such a waste.
Am I the only one looking at this ruin and thinking: Iron Sky... those pesky Zjermans have been at it all along?
Haha
@@AncientArchitects you Matt, had me well cracking up with that "that sentence took me 8 years to record".. lol
Thank for sharing this information with us all.
True tongue twister for sure 😳😂
Oh so sad its let go to crumble.
TY for bring great info to widen our intelligence. Love ancient civilizations.
Haha
Looks like its straight out of Conan the barbarian.
Haha. Yes!
It’s amazing how much we don’t know anything about. Thank you Matthew.
Humans have always been so fascinated by the stars!
I had a good belly laugh over the pronunciation efforts. It was a mouthful to say all those unfamiliar words in one sentence.
Well done.
Close to impossible
Sometimes, when I think about abandoned sites - I wonder if they were abandoned in the same way we do it today - boredom and neglect. Some of the former Olympic Games sites are like this - built and then forgotten. (Not saying this site was built with the same short term intent - but they share that boredom and neglect part.) I think a lot of would-be history gets lost that way, just part of our species.
The foundations always confuse me, no door ways in most and a lot of squares within squares of some unknown purpose, mostly just looking like groupings of boxes with the tops ripped off
I always think the same thing. Like, where are your doors! Lol what is this for! I feel you on that 💯
Props for your site and work! Much appreciated!
It is weird that it is so old, but, because of excavations it sort of melted? It is quite amazing, and reminds me of many other sites, including the kivas in SW USA. Thank you for this information.
Well that caught me off guard, an interesting video about an interesting architectural ruin I'd never seen or heard of. Subscribed.
2022, and people are still tearing down ancient sites, just to build a home so they can survive. How about the nations government, do something about both... If our ancient past disappears, we can never learn the truth of where we came from, and possibly avoid their fate...
Commenting before I watch. I've never seen this before either. Now I'm going to watch.
How I wish we can somehow see it during its peak, the colours, the sounds, the talk of the people there, the life....
so much lost to time, only God knows.
We have forgotten more of our history than we remember.
New logo is cool
Thanks buddy
Thank you
WOW! Really caught my attention and interest in learning about something I've never heard of before today. Thanks! I briefly looked at what some of your other videos entailed and again... Something I have never heard of or seen photos of peaked my interest. Amazing finds! So I subscribed! Again, THANKS for sharing!
Incredible, thanks for sharing!
Looks like something one would find on Tatooine!!
Excellent job bro!
Wow that WAS a mouth full !!!!
Ran it back twice since you worked so hard on it. Lol.
Wow that really is incredible, this site is a great wonder.
Dormed roof looks to me.. cheers matt.
Cheers
Very good visual transition at 3:30mins…
Looks to be a huge bath house for being cleaned.
Thank you for another interesting episode, always looking forward to your posts
Thank you my dears ❤️ God Bless my dears ❤️❤️🌈☀️
It reminds me of one of the ports behind my smart TV tbh lol
Haha
@@AncientArchitects kinda makes you think huh lol I mean scale wise an object that large could exist as large as the universe is right !? Lol seriously tho doesn’t it look like one of those plugs ?
Almost didn’t recognize the channel from the new channel icon. Very cool! This site is INCREDIBLE! Never seen it before!
Thank you! Yes, refreshed the logo :)
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Love the channel dude, even though I’ve disagreed with some things in the past haha. Also, yes! “Logo” was the word I was looking for! 😂
I love that you find this crazy stuff
Very interesting
I notice that it is in the middle of a pentagon, approximately 400-500ft out from the complex, is this the remains of the canals that were mentioned? Also, from the north-east of the pentagon there is a straight line, running about 1,000ft to the north-north-east where it meets an outer formation. Whether the outer formation appears was also a pentagon is unclear as it may have been partly erased on its western side, that is if a western side ever existed. These formations remind me of the canals / moats around the temple complex of Angkor Wat and others near it in Cambodia, except that those are square in shape while the one round Koi Krylgan Kala is a pentagon.
Of course, this poses the question of whether 5 was a special / sacred number for these people.
The outer formation is a canal, to the west it ends up what seems to be a marshy area and to the east into a larger canal system. If you look on Google maps, you can see that this Kala/Qala lies east of what once must have been a large lake running north to south, maybe a branch of the Amur Darya, maybe the Aral sea reached all the way down there at one time. You can also find several other Kala's/Qala's in the area.
They were astrologically-inclined. Venus draws a 5-pointed shape in the sky.
"That sentence took me ages to record"....LOL. Thank you for your great work !.
There sure seem to be a lot of old circular settlements out there.
Yes. Perfect circles too!
I wonder if the Greek scientists that invented the Antikythera Mechanism travelled here, and were inspired to make their device?
Our ancestors were VERY serious and knowledgeable about the sky back then, and I just love the old stories.
Thank you for another great video 🕊
Hey like the new logo man keep up the good videos
Thank you
Incredible!
Great isn’t it?!
Interesting one, thank you.
Fascinating!
That looks more like a castle than a religious site. An outer wall, a moat, etc... Not to say it couldn't be both though.
It was a fortified temple with settlement/dwellings. So a bit of everything apparently
Thank you again for another interesting video of a place I had no idea existed.🤩🌏⛲
Thanks for watching
Thanks, Mat, for another super interesting Video about a little known corner of the globe. In the 1960s, when I was learning about earth science and social sciences, I became disillusioned with the Atlantis fantasies, but still wondered where all the various invaders came from. The fantasy fiction did, occasionally, offer alternatives like Hyboria, Hyperborea, and lost cities buried under the sands and steppe of Central Eurasia. I doubt that there is a super scientific or "Atlantis-type" civilization there, but finds like this present the possibility of hunter-gatherer or early village types of civilization having arisen and then been lost in that area.
The ongoing research at Göbekli Tepe certainly shows that a form of civilization existed before pottery, domestic livestock and settled agriculture. Those three factors used to be the defining characteristic of "civilization," which is derived from Civitas [Latin for city, city culture or state]. When I first studied history and civilization, the term uncivilized was used for any group without those characteristics. Now we have to face the fact that hunter-gatherers or nomadic herders using meeting places or ceremonial centers like this one, or Göbekli Tepe or Persepolis, were "civilized" and had thriving ranges, kingdoms or empires.
These discoveries and conscientious, factual and meticulous investigation and internet publication on this site are a great public service. Your excellent work may well lead to better and more widespread knowledge of humanity's early years. Thanks again for your excellent and ever growing body of work! Kudos earned and awarded. 💯🏆
Thank you for watching 👍 and thank you for such a lovely comment. Yes, I’m about 99% convinced a lost advanced civilisation and Atlantis never existed.
@@AncientArchitects Matt, what are all this geo-glyphs good for? You can see them only from the sky. They are all around the world. Would you help me, if I want to build something huge but useless. I believe somebody could fly. 99%. Just logic. We do not know, who. I'd call it a missing civilisation.
@@AncientArchitects Matt, 99% convinced? 95% of all archeological excavations took place in Europe, northern Amerika and Egypt. There's an impressive map. On Internet, somewhere.
You're an European at Cabo Roca, who looks at the Atlantik and says: That's the end of the world.
How about a bet. Under the sand of the Sahara, we will find at least one civilisation. There was this huge river, 12.000 years ago. Warm rivers, perfect for human development.
If we search, we will find.
@@AncientArchitects Matt, in southern Afrika they mined gold, 175.000 years ago. Without civilisation? No way!
Jay, this town really looks like done by hightech-guys. Shame, nobody takes care.
Notice how it’s surrounded by a pentagon/pentagram?
Yes. Can’t find much info on that but clear as day on aerial photos
That was the first thing that came to my mind too.
Awesome work as usual, thanks!
Very cool find!
👍
Pretty interesting looks like a giant storage citideal
Nice find. Very interesting!
👍
Fascinating, as always.
Magnificent site of great antiquity.🕊🙏
Ayo, awesome video.
Thank you. And thanks for being a member and supporting the channel. Appreciated
Thank you for your work.
Had never heard of it! Subscribed!
Thank you and welcome
THAT is amazing ... thanks for bringing it to us. I'd never heard of it.
Wow! Very cool!!
Wow! That is Awesome. Within a Pentagon Enclosure too.
Amazing! It looks like an ancient star fort, especially in the reconstruction drawing. Thanks for sharing!
Very nice. How many sites like this have yet to be discovered? Hundreds? thousands? more? Each giving a glimpse into the past, and raising more questions.
A circle inside a pentagon... in a Delta. Very cool, never heard of it before.
you're a treasure to human kind 👌🏻
Impressive site and impressive sentence !
It's a shame it wasn't protected. Science had come a long ways, and much more could have been learned.
I wonder how far back we can find?
There is so much in the world!
Great video as usual. I like the new logo BTW
I feel like more gets sifted out of the sands of time as it runs out.
Fascinating. Just subscribed 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Cool looking structure.
Thanks, as always.
I had a good laugh with the little comment about saying that sentence took several recordings. Thank you. I have to also admit, just before you said it took several recordings I thought, "yeah, say that 5 times fast."
Thash amayshing!
(I play too much Skyrim) lol I was loosely referencing the staff quest from the Whiterun Inn
Thash grape!
Thank you !
Oh wow.
Looks amazing doesn’t it!
@@AncientArchitects Beautiful site!
Great video as always 👍
Fascinating. Thank you Matt for this introduction to an extremely few known site. I'll search some extra data about it. It interests me.
The original building build by the *_Achaemenid Persians_* was an open area for stargazing and astronomy but in the *_Sassanian Persian_* era it was repaired and a huge dome was made on top of it.
Why was every structure a temple or burial site?? Always fascinating to see such beautiful architecture.
Thank you.
Wait, are those patterns along the outside a bunch of small rooms? The layout looks very confusing, like a maze.
شكرا فيديو مثير للإنتباه شكرا لله على تعرفي على قناتك
Entrance was from South.. looks like keyhole structure style. Typical for fortifications as it seems and a very old design.
Yeah the was interesting, thanks.
Indeed ancient Persia reached all the way ro Uzbekistan. Ghengis Khan did somewhat alter the demographics of Central Asia. Indeed Indo Europeans' Kurgans reached Baykal while ancient Tocharians in the Tarim basin reached the Great Wall, interesting speaking a western European Language and being blonde and ginger haired!