25 Lost Cities - mental_floss on YouTube - List Show (318)

[@angelamariehessenius411]

Smooth transition from "Life is fleeting and at any moment a volcano could destroy us all" to a promotion is peak John Green

[@michaelwhittaker4246]

I'm climbing Vesuvius next week so thanks John for the re-assuring comments at the end. Looking forward to seeing Pompeii again.

[@pancreasnostalgia]

I got to visit Pompeii last week. Of all the sites I've visited, it was by far the best preserved. I would recommend going there when the heat and humidity is down. We were all on edge though because Vesuvius is due to erupt any time now.

[@saxybandgeek9645]

For the record, Cahokia is also called Cahokia Mounds as to differentiate the historic site which is technically in Collinsville from the separate modern day city of Cahokia. That being said, there is no one mound named Cahokia Mound. That one pictured is actually called Monks Mound. It's pretty cool to climb it because you can see the Saint Louis skyline from the top.

[@bentoth9555]

A video with John and a mention of the Mongols feels incomplete without the Mongoltage.

[@wophful]

I really don't want to see paper towns but John Green comes off as such a good guy in these videos I feel like I have to.

[@coolmoviewatcher]

***** I'm reading the book right now... the movie should be fun c:

[@l.tc.5032]

***** Don't watch it it's not very good

[@joser9237]

Same, I like John but the books are pretty lame and I wouldn't even want to watch the movie.

[@ReginaAnnRod]

If you want to watch them, then go for it. I personally love John Green's books and movies(obviously not everyone does but what else is new), but form your own opinions don't just base them off of a rando's comment.

[@alisea1911]

***** I really didn't like The Fault in Our Stars book. It just wasn't as deep or thought-provoking as I was expecting. But every time I watch him host Mental Floss I kinda feel bad about not liking his book, because he seems like such a great guy lol.

[@elliottmcollins]

So glad to find another grown man into the Octonauts.

[@lucymumma8840]

Well, he does have two kids, but I would have to agree that a lot of children's television is freaking amazing.

[@elliottmcollins]

Lucy Mumma I have kids, too. I definitely wouldn't watch it otherwise. Adventure Time, but not Octonauts.

[@lucymumma8840]

Adventure Time should be mandatory for all human beings.

[@Rainefaelyn]

Elliott Collins Octonauts are good. With a great educational aim. Same could be said for team umizoomi. I prefer these. But what even is The Bubble Guppies? I like to think that it is some kind of post apocalyptic earth flooding event. Where all people, animals and plants ...and vehicles...had to immediately evolve to survive underwater. Where gravity still sometimes applies to varying levels of effectiveness. Leading to the immediate evolution of aquatic life to become more intelligent and guides to the new arrivals to underwater existence.... Except for the episodes where they are not underwater. And are some how hovering fish humanoids who are not affected by gravity. Or any other above water environmental factors. Maybe I have over thought this and it only bothers me... The songs are kind of catchy.

[@JenDeyan]

+Elliott Collins I love the Octonauts. It teaches kids about marine life and they have such good manners. It's a good influence for kids. And KZbin commenters. More people should definitely watch it.

[@guanche011]

Hi John, just a little, often misunderstood addition for those who care; The casts you will find in Pompeii are made the archeologists. The real casts are cut away after filling the inverse casts they found with plaster, which were made by the molten rock and ash.

[@yambaopaula]

Yes! Shameless plugs on Paper Towns! (Learned that from Tyler Oakley huh?) Hahah! I've finished the book years ago. I can't wait to see the film!

[@1fbgsp]

Wait... so this is the jon green who wrote the fault in our stars? Wtf

[@SplittTwig]

yup

[@DaedricSheep]

jb1370GM Yup, that's him!

[@jupitersorbit9314]

DaedricSheep I always thought that the author was another person, but with the same exact name! :p I feel stoopid.

[@DaedricSheep]

Mya McGrath It's a fair assumption tbh. I got into the game maybe a few months after TFIOS was released (and like a year before I actually read it) so I went through roughly the same thing "wait this guy's an author????"

[@Gontor11]

jb1370GM to be fair he hasn't published anything since he started this YT channel.

[@Siboistoast]

Having visited Palenque, I can attest, it's super really cool to get to since its in the densely wooded area. You literally have to walk through the forest to get to it, and there's a million iguanas you meet along the path before it opens into the clearing that is shown in the video.

[@kilgoretrout1952]

Don't you mean hectacres John?

[@JeremyEllwood]

racecar palindrome - I have a feeling that's going to be a running joke. hehe

[@jbottei8588]

Jeremy Ellwood no actually im pretty sure its hectares. I would look it up

[@JeremyEllwood]

/facepalm J Bottei - You obviously have no idea what racecar palindrome and I are referencing.

[@Sara-jg2qx]

Was just about to comment this

[@jbottei8588]

Oh sry what's it from

[@MrANFE17]

so he is the same John Green of "The Fault in our stars" and " Paper towns"? Wow! wouldn't have guessed that now i feel a little compelled to actually watch those movies or read the book

[@herranton]

This video would make an awesome travel itinerary.

[@KitCat898]

Hey Mr. Green!!! I loved the movie Paper Towns!!! Thanks for continuingly remembering to be adding awesomeness to the world

[@Goabnb94]

The people in Pompeii were killed by pyroclastic flows (basically, large waves of super hot gas exploding from the volcano), and the ash settled on them, forming the casts. But, disappointingly, you forgot the town of Herculaneum, which was much closer to Mt Vesuvius and suffered far greater and was buried, only to be rediscovered very recently.

[@cornishphilosopher]

There's a lesson for all of us I think, Don't kidnap mermaids, only take a mermaid home if she concents

[@alisea1911]

cornishphilosopher *consents. :)

[@magykalego49]

"Life is fleeting and at any moment a volcano could destroy us all," he said glancing warily toward northwestern Wyoming.

[@SavvyScribblin]

Possibly my favorite episode ever.

[@RMoribayashi]

No, there were "people shaped voids" in the hard ash. Those who found Pompeii broke through several of these before they even realized what they were. They tried to preserve them by filling the voids with concrete so that after the ash was removed. the remaing concrete was in the shape of the people when they died A large part of Pompeii may never be excavated because it's under existing homes and other buildings.

[@stevenwills4660]

Rip Palmyra you cant be replaced and it saddens me to see place like you destroyed by hateful people.

[@leahheartcheck9479]

"Life is fleeting and at any moment a volcano could destroy us all." Lol

[@emmittmorgans8076]

"Gigantic Viking Girl?" Psssshhhh! I recognize Maude Lebowski when I see her!

[@devinvillanueva9006]

Oh my goodness grace! I've been watching these videos on this Channel for quite some time now without even realizing that you are the JOHN GREEN! #amazeballs

[@marcocarbajal1532]

John, Congratulations !!! I just came back to my home and realized a big panel in front of it. "Ciudades del papel" then I realized again it was your movie. I really enjoyed the first one and I hope I can watch the new one with my family. From Trujillo - Perú

[@LizaPrx]

This episode needs to be added to the list show playlist

[@sammiaho6613]

I love it when people are amazed that "this John Green" is "the same John Green" that wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns etc.

[@NewRecruitInNatsArmy]

Saw Paper Towns yesterday, thought it was very good, as was The Fault is in Our Stars.

[@samanthaspellman6376]

Loving the Octonauts shout out. Those dance breaks were my favorite part of being a nanny.

[@evilcam]

That Paper Towns segue. Also hurray! I am a "Lost City" nerd, and of course then I was happy to see that you made a list episode about them.

[@xXSellizeXx]

5:31 Don't you mean "hectacre", John?

[@rhettcochran8824]

Jake Whitton Nope. He means Hectare. That's how it's spelled and how it's pronounced.

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

Rhett Cochran Reference to a Vlogbrothers video from the last year where John spent the entire video pronouncing it "hectacre" many, many times. The next video was all about how stupid he felt having done such a thing...

[@rhettcochran8824]

Aha I shouldn't be such a smart ass

[@MrFallingcats]

I know a lot of these cities. THANK YOU SID MEIER

[@EddyGurge]

Good job on Hectare!

[@MobiusPeverell]

El Dorado? Granted, the real Lake Guatavita is about 3,000 miles from New Mexico or Colorado or wherever, but it was undeniably lost, fabled, or however you want to put it.

[@woomba7]

"Pfft, there's no volcano anywhere near me that could..." and then I remembered the Yellowstone Caldera/supervolcano...Well crap

[@Thereviewer-lg6yr]

Geologists say that it's very unlikely to erupt in the next few thousand years.

[@aleeshachoksi9258]

It's amazing that they're so many lost cites

[@enidvermaak3508]

Interesting stuff! This guy cracks me up!

[@PegasusPablo]

Paper Towns came to my hicktown in Brazil two weeks ago!

[@KrisPunke]

Cliff Palace, while the largest of the constructs, is only one of the numerous dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Combined population of the individual structures at Mesa Verde is estimated at about 4500-5500 people. There is no "lost city" of Cliff Palace. In southwestern New Mexico are the Gila Cliff Dwellings, outside of Silver City. They were found (by non-natives) in the late 1800s, though local tribes knew about the ruins. You can find similar ruins from Anasazi, Mogollon and other pre-Pueblo peoples all over the southwest.

[@himynameisben95]

Oh man that segue into the Paper Towns promo was absolutely flawless, John, I can see you're getting better at this stuff!

[@LifeofMarie267]

And I just finished reading Paper Towns. Good book...now I have to watch the movie.

[@gabrielpeinado123]

I've been watching Mental Floss and Crash Course for a long while...and I never know John Green wrote "Paper Towns" and the "The Fault in Our Stars". Mind blown!!! John doesn't seem to like the type of person to write young adult novels. Despite this I am still a fan of his for Crash Course and Mental Floss.

[@pollyflores418]

I love John trying to do advertisement cause he's clueless about it and it works

[@chandlerantill3925]

You guys basically disprove everything the people on Ancient Aliens claim. And for that, I thank you. It makes arguing with my dad, who believes everything they say on Ancient Aliens, a lot easier.

[@enablechaos6344]

2:25 John Green mentions Mongols. *smiles to self*

[@the_long_forgotten_quest]

Shouldve mentioned "The Lost City" in Colombia, Buritaca. Founded around 650 C.E. Found in 1976. Believed to have been home to 2000-8000 people.

[@BrutticusForce]

Viking girl is Maude Lebowski. And Catalhuyuk maybe have been the largest city at the time. Read Ian Wilson's before the flood

[@jamiebryant8423]

Thanks for the notion that life is fleeting. Now I shall sit and wait for that uber volcano to make me the best dang statue ever.

[@angelicakosasih]

I feel like I should go backpacking after watching this

[@DaedricSheep]

So 21 is BASICALLY the Eastern Air Temple from Avatar the Last Airbender???? I can visit a place from Avatar??? pls????

[@ThePhotory]

DaedricSheep I think maybe the city of the Chachapoyas are more fitting? They were literally called "The cloud warriors" and their architecture was kinda very cool

[@DaedricSheep]

***** Oops! Thanks ^^

[@zephaniahgreenwell8151]

John Green also writes books?!

[@VictoriaFaye09]

Zephaniah Greenwell if this is a genuine question, yes! And they're pretty excellent. They will certainly give you lots of feels.

[@zephaniahgreenwell8151]

I was joking. To me, John Green will always be the internet celebrity alongside brother Hank. When I first discovered he did YA fiction I was surprised because, after researching, I realised he was probably more famous for that.

[@Majin_Souji]

Zephaniah Greenwell Hi, Zeph! I found you on the internet! (Miriam)

[@MatthewJDrake]

Fascinating stuff, but I'm surprised; no mention of the Anasazi living in the Grand Canyon?

[@hd_inmemoriam]

Aww, I hoped you'd mention Hedeby, a major Viking city basically where I come from.

[@sjoerdwennekes]

As a Dutch guy: I never knew we had a lost city. Awesome!! :)

[@FaultAndDakranon]

I’d love to see this updated with the Australian lost cities that colonisers dismantled.

[@ellenmurphy2150]

Four towns in Massachusetts were flooded to create the Quabban reservoir in the 1930s and 1940s.

[@terashewchenko3021]

Wait... wait. YOU are the guy who wrote Paper Towns? I have been watching these videos for a week now and I had no idea! Congrats :D

[@mushye27]

Appreciating the Octonauts love

[@PortooCalia]

There IS a chryse island in greece, look it up, south of crete! :)

[@rachelstevenson82]

Congrats! You totally nailed hectare'!

[@ibqtubu]

Wowsiers. I've been to one of the places listed. Cahokia mounds was a common field trip when I was in grade school. Side note. Yes paper towns was pretty good. #wallofcow

[@alyrios]

Going to Pompeii was quite a trip.

[@DJosiahHicks]

cracked up at john's look as he said 'a volcano could erupt and destroy us all. anyway' so fucking funny :')

[@22freedom33]

To quote Dr. Dig "B.C., which stands for "Before Christ," is used to date events before the birth of Jesus. A.D. is the abbreviation for the Latin phrase anno Domini, which means "in the year of our Lord," and is used for dates after Jesus's birth. This system of dating has been used for many years by Western archaeologists. Today, however, with a growing understanding that not all archaeologists are Christians, some archaeologists prefer to use the terms: Before the Common Era (B.C.E.) and the Common Era (C.E.), which are exactly the same as B.C. and A.D. but have nothing to do with Christianity"the more you know.

[@TMB247]

Too Drunk to keep up with your mania, keep working on it, We Love You!

[@bramf4172]

Valyria

[@kallirhcp]

Yes !!!

[@michaelbarton2549]

Bram Flol

[@typograf62]

Rungholt was a town in the western Jutland, Frisland. Two prankerst called upon the catholic priest to give the last sacrament to a dying woman. It appeared that the "woman" was a pig or sow. The priest angrily left. He got a divine warning and with his family retreated to a high place. The same night the sea swallowed the town and the area around it. Two prankerst called down punishment for everybody. It happened in 1362. The town has been rediscovered in documents and on the bottom of the sea. Of course the church bell can be heard chiming on stormy nights. Early Christianity in Denmark mentions various bishops from their respective cities. One is said to be the Bishop of Vendel. No such town is known but a district, Vendsyssel, is known (northern Jutland). So the town/city Vendel is lost. North of Aalborg, also in Jutland, a wiking town was found below a layer of sand. The area now is called Lindholm Høje, but the original name of the town is not known. It might be a precursor to Nørresundby. It might also be identical to Vendel. Other places have been suggested for that town. Then there is an old iron age castle in Borremose, Jutland. It is somewhat odd as it is fortified, has a ditch with nasty spikes to hurt feet and then could be easily attacked from behind. It may have been some form of stronghold for the Cimbri who troubled Rome a lot.

[@lukehayden5492]

the timing in that ending. classic.

[@derstytutorials]

You guys realize that John doesn't get paid extra to promote the movie right? Just let the guy be proud and excited to see something he worked hard on come to the big screen, I know I can't wait to see it.

[@lizkasper]

Hectare! You said it right, John! :-)

[@btetschner]

I watched the movie Paper Towns, it was really good!

[@MEG4nerd]

Helike is actually pronounced Hell-i-kay. Source: My Prof is one of the archeologists studying it and I have had several lectures on it.

[@danlee1739]

John wrote a book? And it's being adapted to the screen? Wow, that's pretty impressive... Nice one, John. I thought Hank was the smart one. 😬

[@soxfanification]

"50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town," first thought that came to mind when I read the title.

[@sh0ppy95]

Wow I actually know most of these places from my ancient architectural history class! Aghk my nerd is so happy!! XD

[@h0wardCS]

perfect timing, i visited pompeii today

[@Skippa1986]

3:55 I'm pretty sure the viking girl doll is supposed to represent Julianne Moore in The Big Lebowsky

[@shanedestroyer]

"just a pleasant reminder from mental floss on youtube that life is fleeting and at any moment a volcano could destroy us all" *looks in the rough direction of yellowstone*

[@rjfaber1991]

You know those Big Questions that you do, Mental Floss ? Here's one: Why can headphone cords, despite being non-sentient objects, work themselves into such unbelievably complicated knots? That one I was confronted with right while I was preparing to watch this video...

[@Ratryoshka]

Kuelap sounds like Kiulap, an actual existing town in Brunei.

[@YraExalgaSkgs]

I prefer AD over CE and BC over BCE. I grew up with it. Its like Pluto for me.

[@DCP111ful]

Fun fact paper towns comes out in the US (7/24) on the 102 anniversary of the discovery of Manchu Picchu

[@phoenixliger948]

congratulations on paper towns picking the book up next pay check

[@dm_nimbus]

Reminds me: Unearthed by E. S. Posthumus is one of my favorite albums to listen to while studying; check it out if you like classical + electronic

[@Deprezke91]

Dear John, for all your Dutch pronunciation problems, try Forvo.com. :) It has a library of words recorded by native speakers (not only in Dutch, but it's the best thing I've found so far to explain Dutch pronuciation to my English friends...) Saeftinghe is also in there: forvo.com/word/verdronken_land_van_saeftinghe/#nl

[@AndileJGumbo]

Great Zimbabwe!!!

[@kaninerflagg9998]

Wait... John wrote that Fault in Our Stars? That the book about kids that die or something that got really popular? Had no idea it was the same guy. Today I learned...

[@corbinpeacock8722]

I've been to both of the ones in the USA.

[@engleshen]

Talking about volcanoes...how about an episode about the biggest eruptions :D

[@mw66683]

Houston will be a lost city due to flooding one day.

[@mw66683]

***** any Gulf Coast city is under the gun.

[@crystalbuttersworth4166]

***** I don't think a lot of people know how close to the water Houston is.

[@mw66683]

Crystal Buttersworth or how flat the concrete jungle with subpar drainage is.

[@crystalbuttersworth4166]

***** That is okay,a lot of people think that most of Texas is a desert land. Houston is actually a really green (as in a lot of trees.) city. It also rains a lot. I live 30min outside of Houston and I use to play in a little forest aria as a kid. Houston Is close to Galveston if you know where that is.

[@Darticus42]

***** I think you're thinking Dallas or San Antonio. They're both in the middle and (I think) have a more arid clmate than Houston.

[@kalikid021]

No mention of El Dorado?

[@jackdeath]

What about the Island of Santorini (Thera)? Even Issac Asimov said it was likely the origins of the Atlantis myth.

[@t.l.3970]

Omfg i just realized something. You are John Green like the John Green. Like the writer John Green. I was sitting in my room watching your videos when i actually listened to your intro and i was like thats funny because he really looks like john green, and then i literally died... my mind cant handle this right now.

[@nori9686]

So the Mongols are not the exception here? :O

[@corbinpeacock8722]

I've been to the two in the USA

[@MrStephenfull]

Wait. No Mongoltage?

[@mayau6703]

I was shocked at the mention of Oman xD loved the video ~

[@Luxebus]

cool!! i love ur guys videos

[@ravenheart2752]

Anyone notice Wilson from "Cast Away" in the background?

[@johnclavis]

Way to go dark at the end, there. Good luck with the movie!