What Remains From Anscient Alexandria On Modern Egypt? | Metropolis
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- Alexandria, a royal Greek city in the land of the Pharaohs. Along the sandy banks of the Nile delta on the African Mediterranean coast, the most powerful metropolis of its time rose from virtually nothing. The Hellenistic culture mingled with the legacy of the Pharaohs and bore the fruits of a glorious new heritage.
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I was named Alexandria coz I was born on the day Alexander the Great allegedly died and my papa loves anything Egyptian. He said he named me specifically after the first Alexandria that was founded and coz the great library was there. He said it worked out because I’m a big book worm and I try to absorb as much fun facts and history as I can.
I wanted to name one of my daughters that. My wife wouldn’t let me.
Cool Dad 😎👍🏻
Greetings from Alexandria, Egypt! It's a nice place to visit
not Egyptian.He'sGreek.A white guy didn't build the big city in Egypt LO?L question😊😊 It is crazy. You know what? 😊😊😊😊😊😊
I love that the entire city was planned,
with systems of water piping,
cisterns and wells
and the canal /aqueduct system
fed from a branch of the Nile.
Even the street grid
was planned to ease traffic congestion.
Anyone who hasn't seen the value
of applied geometry
before, should watch this. It's amazing what was done here.
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@@noladiorez8305 ? I'm a layperson.
@@barbaralemons4741 Sorry, this is an accident. I was listening to this documentary while hiking...these replies were made without me knowing.
@@noladiorez8305 Gait dialing. Okay, thanks. Thought it was a given I had forgotten from Geometry! :D e.g. CPCTC
I was always fascinated by the story of the library and the lighthouse but now to learn so much more is really great thank you
It didn't exist
Love it !!! Thank you for the best documentation on the planet. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I can't imagine the amount of knowledge lost when the library burned. I wonder where we would be today if it survived.
We’ve definitely caught up and shot far ahead as far as any technology or medicine goes, it’s really history and literature where we lost out
It ALL resides in Collective Consciousness. One may Meditate and gain the answers desired.
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Yes, but that is too far of the Left Brain, at the expense (off balance) of the Right (Philosophy, Creative, the Quantum Physics subjects ....)
Quantum Physics requires Dual Brain Thought, "dualism" infusion to gain Harmony, Balance.
We've been far too "matter" oriented, the Right needs to catch up with the Left (Science and Math)
The Ego Mind need to be mastered by the Higher Mind, which requires the realizing of the value and an effort of making a habit of Conscious in Thought and reaching for the Higher Mind, aka Mature Mind Thought and Actions.
The years 2016 - 2020 are an observation of this need for Mature Mindedness.
Harmony is achieved in this balance.
Most of the important works were copied and in other libraries. We didn't lose too much, just a bunch of lesser known works that people didn't feel were valuable enough to be copied.
@@Zyxi7 What about the Krabby Patty secret formula and Shrek 5 ?
I have been following this channel since it had 1k subscribers,The great thing about this channel is that it’s able to abstract old videos that am unable to find towards certain topics,I have to say it’s the best ancient channel right now!thank you
Thank you for the wonderful content!
Superb to learn about the enormous feats of these ancient peoples.
What a magnificent documentory with fitting background info. Beautifully shot and lovely music. I love it. Well done!
Always happy to see an upload from your channel! Thank you :)
Till the end of the video, I was waiting to listen about Alexandria. Alexandria was always associated with Hypatia, a unique women of her times,said to possess rare combination of great beauty and erudition, became a victim of and mercilessly treated by obscuratists. Her brutal death also signifies the story of the end of glory of Alexandria.
I too was expecting this.
Fundamentalist minds are fearful minds.
I might as well say it. Early Christians were like present day jihadis. They trashed Alexandria. They skinned Hypatia alive with shards of pottery, and prior, the savages somehow were able to bring down the great Temple of Serapis which houses what was left of the Library. It p£ssed me off that the narrator waxed vague when describing the end of antiquity circa the Fourth century.
Hypatia was brilliant mayhematician. Killed by Christians.
This is a differenr historic period.
The documentary is beautifully done and fascinating. The acting, though...😂 they look like they're straight from my great grandmothers greek soap operas that she watched, in like, 1998. Phenomenal.
Your great grandmother? Your lucky to still have her alive 25 years after she was watching some late 90s daytime television…
Your great grandmother? Your lucky to still have her alive 25 years after she was watching some late 90s daytime television…
@@ssherrierable she died years ago at the age of 99, when I was still a kid. She was feisty as all hell up until she did die, though. And loved her soap operas til the very end.
Love megacities content
Amazing.
أنا من مصر تحديدا الإسكندرية. كم أنا فخور بتاريخ بلادي الرائعة والمدهشة ❤️❤️
No white man Greek LOL bill Alexandria.It was an Egyptian. They lied. lied about his race.The greek always wanna steal stories
beautiful
I’m pretty sure a lot of the scrolls were moved to other libraries before it was completely burned. The library had trouble with fires a few times so they copied a lot and moved a lot over the years
What i wouldn't give to have lived in ancient times.. The times n society of today have just turned me off completely.. Even in 15+ years time i cannot believe the changes I've seen, n not for the better
WHO IS THIS NARRATOR? PERFECT relaxing voice for a good documentary 😃
🌿⚱️🌿Ancient Alexandria: lost except for catacombs , and temple ruins so degraded that only brief information can be gleaned. Fascinating. Clay water pipes, outlines of the footing of ancient villas- Alexandria both new and old living in a type of suspended animation.
That dude at the beginning riding his bike with a 20 ft metal plate full of bread got skills, lol....
It's always the older documentaries that end up the best docs, And the Alien artifacts of ancient tech never gets showed, Lol....
Jokes aside its the older docs like this are the best docs, Also be perfect for schools....
nice history
I just finished writing a paper on Alexandria haha
Hope you pass.
Made easy work for the algorithm
I wish I was "young" having to write a paper.....good luck with your grade.
@@rachellaurent4394 Thank you !
@Seymour Butts bjh
Alexandria library did not burn down in one go, it happened over many years. Many books were saved and sent to other liberys around the city's of the empire even to Rome. More Facts. 👊☘️
It's under chunks of ct used to be public knowledge, older I tried looking into the tours again and people told me im mental used to be regular church basement tours and feild trips
The saved stuff are small part.
No Greek white guy built Alexandria at Egypt took over and built a big city.LOL quite a lot.It was an Egyptian 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Awesome Video! now please see mine on, the out of this world show
Woot! Learning!! 😁😁😁
Will you please put the English caption on the bottom screen for the non-English native audiences?
Where did all the wood come from to fire the kilns ? I thought trees were at a premium in this desert environment.
It was most likely fed by oil to make it last continuously
Or resin
I always wonder why is everything down?, in London for example in some places they dig and find pavements 20 feet down , the world must be getting bigger, strange things have been found in seams of coal its claimed
Dust
Stone is heavy and settles into the surrounding earth 😅over hundreds of years. Volcanos, earthquakes, fires, wars destroy old structures. Builders prefer to build on a plarform like structure, thus over existing ruins. Only buildings that have been, more or less, in constant use since construction, like the Parthenon, the temples in Pastuem, Agrigentum, the Flavian Coliseum, & castle St Angelo have not settled below current street level level
The Romans didn't take over Alexandria and add Egypt until the Founding of the principate by Octavian Caesar. So why would she have to leave Alexandria when the lighthouse was still being built around the time of ptolomey II?
@JRG Yes...they were a client kingdom. Same as Judea and all future Roman provinces once were. Under Roman law a client kingdom and friend of Rome was still independent...technically.
Not at all the same as a province.
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28:00 is just ridicilous to assume
14:52
Nevermind the archaeology. I want a show about that driver and his over-the-top taxi decorations.😂
A ride in an Egyptian taxi is an adventure in itself!
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Pres. Sisi , he makes a new , or , re-newed , Egypt 🇪🇬 , does he not ? I remember when fanatics executed Sadat. Mubarak , he , kind of failed. But I tend to believe , that Sisi , will not fail the Egyptian people in this modern era. It is very modern now , this era. Everything is so different , from ever before.
he already failed , his approach isn't working , he's only benefiting the already wealthy few who surround him , while most of egypt is impoverished and living in the dark ages
From which year is this documentary from?
probably from the 00's I think
@@Seven-ld9zv Thank you
Why is half your content Unavailable because I live in the UK? It keeps saying Unavailable in Your Region, even when that content is Specifically about the UK?!
First comment thank you for the upload
Don’t they have freaking Nile crocodiles there?
who is the voice over? delhom elliot?
It boggles the mind that there existed a Male to Female prejudice, discrimination, a literal belief, *learned,* that there was a unequal value between the sexes.
It represents a Human Ego Mind aka Lower/Adolescent Mind of Thoughts. From there the Fear, need for Power, Control, Ownership...
If I was incarnate then as a woman, I can only hope I was surrounded by Male family members whom mastered their Higher Mind, where Wisdom resides.
One could only wonder to what degree my Spurt rose, for if as in this life journey, its certain I would have Stretched the Boundaries.
The required Independence and Freedom fuels my personality.
Single in the Human Journey does not factor to loneliness. It is Time for that which one's heart desires. 💨
"Existed?" There still exists sexism. Sexism still thrives today. Maybe not quite as much as in the ancient world, but it's quite well entrenched in many human cultures around the world yet.
We haven't arrived in the world where we can speak of sexism in the past tense yet. Unfortunately.
Sorry to say it's not the same without =Tony ,Phii and the rest of the crew
Mr. Feeny??
Wow the credits really suck.
Can anyone tell me who narrated this please? Thanks!
It's probably Tim Taylor the creator of Time Team=== Not Tony Robinson whom I love
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Tony Robinson is a burrowing owl
Lol, what did the guy with the fedora do to you that you just put him in front of the whole Internet saying "like New York compared to Paris or London" as if it meant "grand" with a straight face?
I think what he meant was New York as a young city, built using the latest in construction techniques and mostly planned as a grid from its inception, unlike the slower and more organic growth of old world cities such as London and Paris.
God I wish I could be as successful and badass as Alexander the great. He was pretty much the living embodiment of Zeus and brought each empire he conquered to a sort of Greek influenced golden age yet I still dislike it that he sacked thebes in Greece.(he totally decimated thebes burned the city state straight to the mutha fucken ground into ash THAT SAVAVGE) He was a tough as steel momma's boy whom was motivated by his mother to take the world by storm. It was Alexander's mother whom the hard base foundation in his life. ALEXANDER WAS A GOD AMONG MEN! 🤘🏿💪🏿
And, as you know, he did all of his military career between the ages of 20 and 32. A great many 20 year olds in the West today are drooling on themselves. Today, it appears that adolescence has now been extended into one's late 20s, may all the Gods help us, even into their early 30s.
Just try to be successful and to go to yiur goals. Dont try to emulate someone else.
Was her name really Hadno Dicki?
Wow, that was one fresh stiff cadaver. Pink and supple, not a mark on him.
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Alexander came from the king 🤴 line of the Red Thread line of the tribe of Judah
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If only the library had survived. This is exactly why tearing down statues is not a good idea. History is what it is wiping it out means it will be forgotten, and repeated almost in a rhythmic fashion.
The Greeks didn't take Egypt by force? Tell that to the Persians.
Also the Romans forced their culture and allowed no other Rulers?
Alexandria was created as a Greek inspired city and symbol of Greek culture and Greek (Alexander the Greats) power. The Ptolemaic dynasty married their siblings to not mix with the locals. And yes the Greek dynasty took on some Egyptian customs and titles, but so did the Romans especially locally.
There were no major battles between the Greeks and Persians in Egypt.
Egypt was the only Roman province that was not allowed any representation in the senate. No senator was allowed to visit Egypt, and no local representation was allowed to be formed. After the battle of actium, the Romans were not taking any chances with Egypt; if Egypt won the battle of actium, they would have done the same to Rome.
Alexandria is a greek inspired city, but with an Egyptian mix. There is no city in Greece that matched its size or grandeur. When the narrator said It's like NewYork to London or Paris, he is kinda right, but in this case, The Egyptians had ALOT to bring to the table - Never before or after, that the Greeks built in that scale.
Ptolemaic incest had nothing to do with 'not wanting to mix with the locals', they could have married Macedonians. The incest was solely due to their blind imitation of ancient pharaohs.
The Romans hated everything Egyptian, they hated them for Cesar, Mark Antony, battle of Actium, they hated their Gods, Women rights, even their form of christianity..
@@Marwan-tx5nb I'm not sure what you are getting at, but there are some misconceptions in what you write. When you write that there were no battles in Egypt between Greeks and Persians you are semi right, but that is not my point. The point is, that Egypt was part of the Persian empire at that point and was taken from the Persians by force. The last resistance Alexander had met on his way to Egypt was in Gaza which before the Persian conquest also belonged to Egypt and was controlled by the Persian satrap in Egypt at the time.
No province had "representation" in the Senate. There were Senatorial and Imperial Provinces but that only had to do with who appointed the administration, not with representation. Egypt was the only province that was governed by a prefect from the equestrian class, but he had the same standing as a proconsul. The senate had mostly administrative tasks during the empire the closeness to the emperor decided who got the most representation and Egypt with it's prefect directly appointed by the Emperor skipped the senate. Outside of Alexandria which was directly controlled by the prefect Egypt was divided into districts ruled and administrated by representatives of the Egyptian upper class. Your claim that no local representation was allowed to be formed is false.
The battle of Actium had little to do with how Rome treated Egypt. What do you mean "were not taking any chances"? There was no real threat from Egypt as a power after Actium and Actium was part of the civil war between Octavian and Antony.
Alexandria was a mixed city for sure not only Greek and Egyptian but also with a large Jewish influence, still it was founded and chosen as a capital to show Greek influence and rule over Egypt. I didn't say that Egyptians didn't bring anything to the table, but when you talk about scale the environment and symbolism of the city is far more important than anything else. In Greece because of the terrain it was harder to build to that scale and as "the" Greek city in Egypt and city of Alexander there was a special importance placed on Alexandria.
My comment about incest was partly meant as a joke but partly had still the effect that they didn't mix with the locals.
"The Romans hated everything Egyptian" how do you substantiate that claim? There were Temples of Isis and Serapis in Rome itself and all over the Roman empire, there were Egyptian statues and obelisks in Rome, there is a Roman grave in the shape of a pyramid. Romans had a fascination with Egypt there was a time where Egyptian was "the" style in Rome and everybody tried to emulate it or use visuals from Egypt to sell their product. Egypt was seen as a mystic region a region of wisdom.
"Romans ... even hated their form of Christianity". That had nothing to do with Egypt as a location the conflict of early Christianity had more to do with the the different religious viewpoints and interpretations of who Jesus supposedly was. Pretty much all early denominations "hated" each other and there were bloody conflicts among many of them. That is not particular to the "Egyptian version".
That there were more Christians persecuted under Roman Christian rulers than under Roman Pagan rulers is another discussion.
What "women rights" do you think Rome hated Egypt for and how did you come to that conclusion?
@@jpx1508 They took Egypt by force from the Persians.
@@Marwan-tx5nbEgypt did not belong to Roman Empire. It belonged to Augustus. He would take wealth from Egypt conquered and pay the soldiers.
Ad free huh? Funny that...
What is not super mario odyssey
I've tried to subscribe to History Hit TV twice, separated by months, but each time after all my info was in and correct the "subscribe " button wouldn't work. I wonder how many other wanna be subscribers have given up. This is not the way to sell subs.
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It took 20 year to build the lighthouse, ok so it kind of poo poos the idea that the pyramid also took 20 year
*Why* was there *no* mention of the great Temple of Serapis which was an ancient wonder and stood for centuries? No mention at all. Early Christian lunatics destroyed it.
Why is this silly story a part of the documentary. It is totally unneccesary. It is disrespectfull to subtitle a foreign person who takes the trouble to speak English. When you are going to do that, then just let them talk in their mothertongue.
Just saying that German guy dressed in white looks like the nazi in Indiana Jones. Lol
اسكندرية مذكورة فأحاديث ضعيفة احسن من رأيك
No mention of Christian destruction.
All religions are holy bull shit.
Redundant , next argument---
Yeah, Krates. GIRLS can perform basic first aid too, you BIGOT. (My sincere thanks to the filmmakers for repeatedly shoe-horning this message into a documentary about ancient Alexandria.)
Lie's
Pretty sad wat has become such a marvellous city...
world so called evolution is pathetic...
Ive visited the marvel of ancient Egypt during a two months trip from Alexandria till Meroe ruins so i know wat im talkin about
😆😂 still fallin for these obvious lies
The "dramatizations", and feminist script, makes the video slow and hard to stand, like the old History Channel were.
I will never suscrbe to this History Channel clon.
Lol none of this is true
STOP THE LIES DESTROY THIS CHANNEL
History books are free to the public, you could read one but be warned, there's no crayon illustrations, kiddo.
Alexander is not Greek, he is Macedonian, why are you spreading false history?
for god sake get over your self read a book ,stop spreading lies,you should be embarrassed for your lack of knowledge.
@@konecho7792 Jas sum roden, i ziveam vo Makedonija koja Fasistite ja rasparcaa na poveke delovi. Kako mozes poveke da ja znaes istorijata za Makedonija od mene koj se dvizam niz Makedonskite anticki gradovi i znam sto sodrzat vo svoite rusevini.Ne mi trebaat knigi, tebe ti trebaat bidejki kojznae od kade ti e potekloto pa se povikuvas na fasistickite knigi koi se polni so lagi i nevistini zatoa ke ostanes siromasen, i nikakvo znaenje za Makedonija.
And what is Macedonian? Greek.
Actually Macedonians created Greece of post 3rd century BC and the Koine Greek form of Greek and later Greeks of Byzantine period.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT and FILIP --- MACEDONIANS. before 25 centuries
FILIP KING ON MAKEDONIJA, ALEXANDER TSAR ON MAKEDONIJA ! ! !
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