7 Lost Cities (that could still be found)

The most intriguing lost cities of the classical world...
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Chapters:
0:00 Formerly lost cities
2:30 Ekster
3:32 Suburbs of Pompeii
5:01 Tripergole
5:45 Helike and other drowned cities
6:44 Tigranocerta
7:12 Ptolemais Theron and Muziris

[@Summarcheo]

As an archeology student, stuff like this is what makes me push forward, even though reality will probably be finding pottery shards 😂😂

[@lakrids-pibe]

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

[@arcade5765]

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

[@ddc2957]

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

[@michaelbrownlee9497]

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

[@leandrotami]

pottery shards would be exciting! arrow heads are boring

[@anonymous5405]

Can you imagine finding an ancient Byzantine underground city while investigating a weird hole in your basement

[@nicholasbrassard3512]

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

[@sydneysimpson3814]

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.

[@amandahugankiss4110]

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

[@carstengrooten3686]

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

[@jackmullin8962]

Lol 😅 imagine.

[@williambeckett6336]

I'm surprised Akkad the capitol of Sargon's Akkadian empire wasn't mentioned. Despite numerous records about it including a fairly detailed location description it has never been found.

[@t16205]

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

[@TheKlaun9]

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

[@akkadian4709]

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 👍

[@williambeckett6336]

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

[@EJD339]

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

[@rogerc7960]

In earthquakes landslides can easily block rivers, causing lakes that destroy towns. Worth diving every lake.

[@snotnosewilly99]

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.

[@scoon2117]

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

[@megansfo]

In 2008 I travelled to India and we spent a lot of time near the southwestern tip where the Romans and orhers came to trade. I was fascinated by this, because though Ive been an ancient history buff for many years I didn't know about it. There were Christians and Jews living there in ancient times.

[@Marvin-sj9lr]

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.

[@BL1NDK1NG]

⁠@@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

[@jasondaveries9716]

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

[@jasondaveries9716]

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

[@missourimongoose8858]

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

[@soadfe]

1:42 thats got to be the coolest, most exciting unexpected discovery you could make in your own home. It's an almost dream-like notion.

[@RubenKelevra]

1:50 Imagine going into your cellar drilling a hole to screw a shelve to the wall and finding an ancient lost underground city with 18 levels for 20'000 people 😂

[@micshaz]

Pretty neat expansion to ones humble abode

[@dsj82]

They should make a movie about that

[@BlaBla-pf8mf]

Much of Hellenistic and Roman Alexandria is under the sea. A potential interesting find would be the capital settlement of the Huns under Atilla somewhere in Pannonia.

[@MattStrand1985]

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

[@stephenchappell7512]

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

[@daveweiss5647]

"Only silence, and the stones remain..." you sir are a poet.

[@marial8235]

That is a great line.❤

[@EMNstar]

He IS titled toldinstone after all

[@josephpatrick]

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

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Another one that's kind of fascinating is old sarai, the capital of the golden horde. It was a HUGE city and it only dissapeared relatively recently. Despite that the city has never been definitely located. Straddling more into semimythological territory, the city of tratessos, said to be somewhere in southwestern iberia, has never been found. That is despite the many attempts at locating it. These two cities actually have something in common which makes their search very hard. They were fluvial cities in shallow terrain close to a significant river delta. As such, both ruins have likely long been buried by sediment.

[@devildante9]

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

[@t.vanoosterhout233]

I seem to remember that a slew of lost cities were found under the canopy of the jungle of the Yucatan peninsula.... Even though that's in the Americas, I think it still counts. Btw, I marvel at your ability to find sponsors for your vids, and I usually find even your self-made advertising quite amusing.

[@axmajpayne]

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

[@NiaJustNia]

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

[@Plasmacore_V]

400,000 pounds of silver is about $140,000,000 dollars. That's some top tier looting.

[@jeffersonkee6440]

I believe more ancient cities hidden by rainforests in Central America will be found.

[@felipechoy2156]

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.

[@Ethan_Frost]

It’s terrifying that an entire city could just get forgotten, even without a major desaster or anything…

[@saalok]

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

[@fueyo2229]

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

[@michaelporzio7384]

Ground penetrating radar is the future of the past. Amazing tool that is now being put to use by archeologists. Scholarship plus technology, there are some amazing discoveries ahead!

[@laurieleannie]

GPR and LiDar. Excellent tools!

[@walterht8083]

A lost city that could very probably be found but isn't because it isn't safe, is Washukanni, the capital of Mitanni, a bronze age Mesopotamian superpower of Hurrian language with indo-aryan elites. Archeologists know the general area where it is located, and have identified some big mounds that may be it or another lost city, but it would be located in current Kurdish controlled separatist region of Syria. Too problematic to excavate. It's also pretty much on the border between Turkey and Syria, in a kurdish majority region.

[@JasonHolody76]

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

[@robk8463]

Can't you please make longer videos?!! It so good! If you subscribe to the concept of "leave them wanting more", you've succeeded!

[@MattStrand1985]

Great video! Sometimes to fill time I go down 2 cool lists on Wikipedia, they are ‘Roman cities and towns by modern country’ and ‘Roman buildings and structures by modern country’. Wikipedia usually has latitude and longitude coordinates with each article where you can look at the sites on Google Earth through Street view. It’s even more immersive with VR. 😅

[@Chellebelle121]

Fascinating. This is the kind of information that made me fall in love with history. Your videos are very well made and interesting. The only fault I can find is that the end surprises me and arrives too soon! lol. Thank you, great video!! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ve only just discovered your channel, and I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thanks!

[@SobekLOTFC]

Keep up the exceptional work, Garrett 👍

[@coryfritz9198]

Man you just have the best channel ever!! I really love your presentation and work you do. Thank you!!

[@TattooedTraveler]

Awesome bro, thanks for the idea, time to start looking

[@markbeck8384]

The Past is thrilling. These people were: like us, cultured, practical, living full lives. To know them better is to understand where we came from, and where some of our beliefs/habits/inventions/Arts started. I find it particularly interesting how one Culture & it's Trade/Warfare/Religion influenced another.

[@hmao4466]

I would love to know more about the most eastern Greek cities from the conquests of Alexander.

[@He1loEarthling]

Idk how this channel popped up out of nowhere but I'm glad it did. Good stuff.

[@hmao4466]

This channel is a gem.

[@Nazuiko]

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

[@sarahd1250]

Hello! Do you think you could make a video on ancient sleeping habits?! I love watching your videos as I fall asleep, as I find them calm and fascinating. ❤

[@dianespears6057]

Appreciate your videos very much. They are remarkably informative. Thank you.

[@williamsullivan3967]

Wow this was really good!! Thanks!

[@ryoukazika9454]

Just what I needed, more told in stone

[@markrowland1366]

Fantastic presentation. Thankyou.

[@lukea997]

Would love a video on the known cities yet to be excavated and the history behind them

[@brandonhamilton833]

Great video as always!

[@TXMEDRGR]

It is exciting to contemplate what might be discovered in the future.

[@seanledden4397]

Great use of maps! Thank you. :)

[@dimitriantanov3150]

Actually we do know where Tigranocerta/Tigranakert is. The city's Armenian population was decimated and Kurdish settlers moved in. It is now the modern city of Diyarbekir. The western Armenian (dialect) name for Tigran is 'Dikran'. Dikran was corrupted into "Diyar" by Turkish and then Kurdish mispronounciation. "-bek" relates to the possession of a 'bey' a term for king. Diyarbekir = King Diyar's city. Diyar being the common Turkish/Kurdish version of Dikran. We can see that this is King Tigran's city, Tigranakert.

[@dimitriantanov3150]

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

[@scottn2046]

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.

[@Bayard1503]

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

[@HistoryFirst]

As well for any archaeology students interested in discovering lost cities, I recommend checking out Colorado State University, which was and is doing GIS mapping and LIDAR in the Honduran Jungle to look for el blanco cuidad or the white city

[@charleswilmot7612]

Wonderful video, as always. Well done! Your output is always greatly appreciated and is a refreshing academic perspective, especially when so much “historical” content on this platform is created by untrained amateurs. Thank you for your work.

[@SL4PSH0CK]

i keep learnign new things every channel upload

[@atlantic_love]

Very. Interesting. Video I must. Say.

[@beezowdoodoozoppitybopbopb9488]

That overhead photo of pompeii blew my mind. Here lies the ruins of a city instantly buried in volcanic ash and somebody says.......hey lets build ANOTHER city here!

[@cloudmaster182]

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

[@beezowdoodoozoppitybopbopb9488]

@@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.

[@tomb614]

Thanks for the video. I just missed Falerii. I am not sure if it classifies as a “lost city” as we know where it is, but much of its structure remains buried only seen through radars and geoscans.

[@jerryblainii1208]

Always a banger

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Thank you for the video.

[@jeromepeters9842]

Just thought I’d let you know this is one of my favorite KZbin channels!

[@marxista]

i love your channel so much

[@gino7lord]

thanks for mentioning Termessos, never knew about it and it looks really fascinating. Would love to visit.

[@danielshimmin3438]

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

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

I'm reading the new book now. It's quite good. I recommend it!

[@TigerofRobare]

I think Akkad might be the most signifigant lost city. I just hope the archeologists can find it before the looters do.

[@cerberus6654]

Dr. G! This is you at your best. After some rather 'dry' posts if I may say so. This is fast and furious, deep and dark. Like Vivaldi played by Alexandra Conunova.

[@raffriff42]

The compelling paintings @ 0:30 & 3:32 are the work of Édouard Sain (1830-1910), based on field photography by Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914)

[@Melkorleo103]

That was good. I liked it. I want more!~

[@dianabriggs1032]

Curious where the artwork you use came from. Those images of girls excavating Pompeii are intriguing, and the forlorn-looking women amid the ruins are haunting- are they real 19th century art or AI?

[@celsus7979]

Helike has got to be the model for the destruction of Atlantis in Plato's tale. It happen during his life. I wonder why this gets no attention in the Atlantis discussion.

[@johnlastname8752]

Probably because it's too logical.

[@sugarnads]

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

[@noahvasquez8777]

brb ill find them

[@monalisamartinez2628]

I Swear I will the lottery and be able to go see all the places/things you show on your videos! Til then, I get to day dream about it all. Love love love your channel and thanks for the entertainment 😃

[@gardnep]

You are exceptional.

[@urdnal]

Turkish guy: "Hey, what's with this void behind the wall of my cellar.." >>> Ancient underground city of 20,000 people I don't imagine he was expecting that.

[@roflnosedlolfin]

Hello! I'd love to know the source for the painting on the left at 3:37. It's interestingly beautiful!

[@lepermessiah665]

I just started collecting coins and have quite a few from ancient Rome

[@calebwilliams7659]

I'm reminded of the lost cities of Akrotiri on the island Santorini, buried in a cataclysm but now being excavated, and the city of Uber in the far southeast of Saudi Arabia, now located, but too remote and too deeply buried by an earthquake to be recovered.

[@danielevans3932]

Love listening to interesting history that is often forgotten. Considering we are living in the softest of times for our human race.

[@theskycavedin9592]

The ancient all-important city of Akkad in Mesopotamia has never been identified. I personally think that it's probably because it's under Baghdad or somewhere near-by.

[@anguscable2819]

Akkad is still under the sand in Iraq somewhere, that might be the find of the century if someone fouund it considering how long people have been looking for it

[@stargazer4683]

Finding a ancient city under your cellar wow

[@FreeFallingAir]

I would give anything to be able to travel to these sites, one day maybe

[@t16205]

I love this channel! Thank you for what you do toldinstone!

[@maplecote]

thank you

[@PixelWolv]

Could you do a video on Cities or civilizations to Asteroids? If there ever has been

[@darthsnarf]

what is the opening musical tune from? sounds very familiar but i cant but my finger on it., is it from a game or something?

[@RobertJones-ku4fg]

@1:42 the square meterage on that guy's property suddenly increased 😂

[@geovanaborgo7365]

Fascinating topic! What's the name/artist of the painting in 7:41?

[@kowalityjesus]

Garrett can you tell us about ancient loot being melted and coined? How were spoils of war made into eg an aureus and were there any notable examples of historical artifacts that were destroyed for coinage?

[@HughesEnterprises]

The product you’re promoting has RFID blocking, but also a built in tracking device 😂

[@DixieSchizo]

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

[@hasanabireactionsclips]

@@DixieSchizodo you carry a phone?

[@ericwilliams1659]

​@@DixieSchizo use a credit card regularly?

[@NathanCaggiano]

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.

[@HughesEnterprises]

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

[@Yuvraj.]

I don’t know why your videos aren’t pinging the algorithm like they should be

[@Game_Hero]

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

[@optomix3988]

Good video.

[@TheAtomoh]

5:01 I live at 10km from Monte Nuovo, and i've heard that another eruption from the Phlegrean fields might happen in the next 50 years. Every month there are small earthquakes and i can smell the sulfur (it smells like rotten eggs).

[@DavidRodriguez-of9ch]

Hello. Could you tell me what's the name of the last painting in the video? It looks awesome! (The one of the woman lying over the stones)

[@bydysawd]

A lot of Sogdian cities that were recorded by Arab, Persian, and Greek travellers have yet to be rediscovered, which is a very interesting prospect as Sogdian ruins preserve a lot of art and documents. There are also long lost settlements in Mongolia that are yet to be found. The Orkhon Valley especially is mostly unexcavated and new ruins are found each year spanning from the Xiongnu to the Mongol Empire. So far one of the only recorded Orkhon Valley cities that is yet to be rediscovered is the Rouran capital of Mumo, so hopefully someone finds it soon!

[@uncletiggermclaren7592]

Wow. This one was poetic in the extreme. Did you spend more time on writing the script than you normally do, may I ask?.

[@julians7268]

7:49 wow... what is that piece called or who made that? It sent a shiver through me. So much is wrapped up in that image I have been staring at it and just cant seem to pull myself away from it. Its devastating and you can only imagine how many times this very image has been recreated across mankind's history.

[@p1971cuda]

After the Earthquake by Sophie Gengembre Anderson

[@julians7268]

@p1971cuda Thank you so very very very much! I greatly appreciate it.

[@elijah1157]

What is the painting used at 7:46? It is quite striking!

[@BaalFridge]

Entire cities gone without a trace. History truly has no mercy.

[@xavierbreath2227]

I have never even heard of that underground city in Turkey. That is crazy!

[@maxwellschott6660]

Who did the painting on the left at 3:49? It's really cool.

[@snotnosewilly99]

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

[@goranmarinic2923]

You forgot to mention SIRMIUM (Serbia), a capital of the Roman Empire during Tetrarchy (2.,3. and 4. century), birthplace of 8 roman emperors, place where is the second biggest roman hippodrome still un excavated. Sirmium was truly a center of Roman political and military power and an important christian city. It was destroyed in the early middle ages, and its importance is largely forgotten Today ancient Sirmium lies under the level of modern city and waits for its glory to be rediscovered.

[@armandochardiet1046]

i think it’s funny that his intro ditty is just “the lick” lmao

[@10hawell]

We need to do more archeological studies about western sahara, there must be something there.

[@vrccim5930]

Thanks.

[@XXfea]

Lets go find them!!

[@patrickols]

we should recruit Indiana Jones

[@briteness]

Time washes almost everything away, and faster than we would like to admit.

[@weefek]

If I was the guy that found that stuff in Turkey I would have never told ANYONE and just lived in there , using my actual house as cover. That's every man boys dream lmao

[@ShreyaRao]

Imagine a Lost Cities themepark

[@HistoryFirst]

Dont forget the original capitol of the Akkadian empire has never been found, but due its location along the euphrates river, it is possible the city couldve been washed into the river

[@SirKanti1]

Could you do a video on how we know about Roman history? Like we know that X person when to Y person house for dinner kinda detail.

[@basilbrush9075]

Wow, the ads are even greenwashing leather now!!

[@sugarnads]

Bronze age Sparta. Seems like the obvious leading candidate for 'lost city'. Amyklae isnt really doing it. I vaguely recall reading theyve found a megaron somewhere near by.

[@sebastienhaimet2819]

What's the painting at 3:50 called?

[@ExtremeVariety]

The western coastline of the Sahara, when the Sahara was green, once had a large river system. Looks to be a good candidate for a location to search for lost cities. Hopefully that region gains some political stability so that this is possible one day.

[@Matteo-jd6mt]

Where can I find more about that scottish wanderer? he likely found other good stuff. I'd like to know more

[@Sarnarath]

''David Roberts, a Scottish artist who traveled extensively in the 19th century, creating detailed and vivid illustrations of ancient cities and archaeological sites.'' i think it's this guy

[@user-jv9qz2bu1r]

I enjoy the paintings - can you start crediting these?