Exploring the Last Untouched Roman Ruins

[@steviechampagne]

One of my favorite videos i've ever stumbled upon. what a treasure. what glorious achievement!

[@DaveTheTurd]

Great video. I've never heard of this city before, I'm going to dig a little deeper now. Thank you, sir.

[@darrellid]

Stunning. Thank you for sharing.

[@nancybryson5488]

The theatre, and the estimate of the city population based on the seating, just blew me away. Hard to comprehend 10 K people living there. Thank you for the education. (From Deep South USA)

[@finding_mojo]

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this with the world. Imagine the life they would have lived up there in safety and isolation. Must have all had strong legs too!

[@GhostofSicklesleg]

Very informative video, you earned my sub! Keep up the content

[@jeboccuzzi10]

Great presentation. Thank you.

[@JamesCruise-j8l]

Truely amazing

[@dougfife7956]

Amazing footage thank you. Theres such a wealth of history in Turkey. I would love to see more if it. Thank you

[@StoneworkStories]

love hearing that! more will be coming

[@АнтигаСулейманова-д7з]

Dear Dkitrii! It is very interesting and very beautiful ! Thank you very much!

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

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[@ABCPoland]

These are not Roman remains. And the interior of the sarcophagus was hollowed out by machine (please note the regular marks). These are buildings from the Hellenes (not to be confused with the primitive Greeks). The Hellenes were Scythians. The Scythians, on the other hand, were the ancestors of most Slavs. The Romans were too primitive. Today, these truths are slowly coming to light. /To nie są rzymskie pozostałości. A wnętrze sarkofagu wydrążono maszynowo (proszę zwrócić uwagę na regularne ślady). To budowle po Hellenach (nie mylić z prymitywnymi Grekami). Hellenowie byli Scytami. Natomiast Scytowie byli przodkami większości Słowian. Rzymianie byli zbyt prymitywni. Dzisiaj te prawdy powoli wychodzą na jaw./

[@ElizabethDMadison]

This is a delightful video, I have never seen this incredible site before and you have presented it so well. Thank you and please make more videos!

[@LarsOfMars.]

Nice piece of storytelling unencumbered by superfluous anecdotes and inane hypothecating. I also hadn’t seen this site before so this was an altogether refreshing and enlightening experience. Ten out of ten 🧐

[@StoneworkStories]

Yeah, it's one of the most unique ancient sites yet so underappreciated. But thanks to that you can be all by yourself there

[@PeterDuke-j6f]

Great video, saw this impressive city around fifty years ago. Well worth the climb and amazing views from the top.

[@mariemelansongundy-vx4ox]

Turkey: you just keep amazing all. Spanning History is continuing to make progress. Thank you. Very interesting site.

[@dianespears6057]

This was a wonderful video. So well presented with very interesting information. Thank you.

[@Marshal_Dunnik]

Remarkable. The city's remote location saved it one last time from raiders - raiders of free high quality stones.

[@emmaphillips3847]

Frozen in time ❤

[@jaytiarks2592]

I am very impressed with preparation given to this show. Sir you're english is impeccable. Good show

[@bdhaliwal24]

Stunning site. Thanks for bringing to light how special and different this city must have been.

[@tscully1504]

I;ve never heard of this site and in such undisturbed condition. Amazing they lived so high up. I'm used to seeing fortifications perched on mountains, but not classical cities.

[@EnglishHobbies]

Great presentation! Thanks

[@ArchPrime]

Very interesting & well presented

[@brutus4013]

Well done. Cheers 😎🥃

[@StoneworkStories]

@@brutus4013 thank you! Much more coming soon 😎

[@322dan]

Great video. I subscribed and looking forward to more videos in the future.

[@Horrid1960]

The tool marks inside the sarcophagus are interesting in their consistent & evenly curved pattern, as if done with a machine as opposed by hand.

[@nelsonx5326]

Amazing.

[@Jugulator31]

Fantastic!

[@RizzstrainingOrder66]

wonderful and very captureating video!

[@greenr369]

Great video. In the mountains / hills of the lake district in the UK is a fort that's not had its stone taken because it is so out the way it is not worth taking the stone. It is a lovely place to visit. It's nothing like you have shown but still wonderful

[@eclecticx]

WONDERFUL presentation!

[@koloblicin]

thank you so much for showing me something i would probably have never seen in real life myself.

[@DeviPrasad-k8p]

Beautiful. I enjoyed learning so much from you.

[@GreatGreebo]

Wow! Incredible footage. Thank you for sharing this site and its history with us. I’ve subscribed and truly hope you keep making videos. Cheers!

[@georgeralph8031]

Very smart guy.

[@polinasterligova3518]

Прекрасный рассказ. Возможно ли присоединиться к вам в поездку? ❤

[@StoneworkStories]

dmed you!

[@PhilK1080]

Superb post thank you

[@anastasia_tu]

Wow, great content 🎉 please keep your channel growing 🙏

[@StoneworkStories]

Thanks! that's the plan

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

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[@skpjoecoursegold366]

well done, thanks.

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

Nice Work & Video 👍

[@StoneworkStories]

thank you!

[@MseeBMe]

Thank you.

[@vesaleppanen275]

Interesting!

[@brianmckeever5280]

What a terrific find, thank you!

[@Puzzledtraveller]

Imagine all the work that went into making a place like that.

[@evanmorris1178]

Thanks so much for showing us this hidden gem. I gather from some other comments, that it’s in Turkey, but it would be lovely to know where exactly. I wish you had edited in a map or something. I’ll try to look it up myself, but just a suggestion for next time. Thanks again.

[@StoneworkStories]

thanks for the suggestion! The site's called Termessos and it's close to Antalya, Turkey

[@evanmorris1178]

@ You’re very welcome. We plan on visiting Turkey in a year or two and will try and fit it in.

[@t.miranda176]

This place reminded me of Amon Hen.

[@SocialObject]

Wow very interesting! It’s very clear that the earthquake was devastating

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

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[@MudflyWatersman]

That's what happens when you build by stacking rocks... Even nicely finished ones. Eventually an earthquake destroyed every roman city... It might take 500 to a thousand years but it finally would happen

[@CobinRain]

Thank you so much for uploading this!

[@StoneworkStories]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@badbiker666]

It is too bad that all the ruins that are visible are Roman. From what I read, folks lived in this place before Alexander the Great was there in 333 BCE, but there doesn't seem to be any history of it recorded before that date. Not that I could find in a quick, online, search. I would love to know more, such as why was it here in the first place? A strategic point to control the lower-down valleys? A hiding place? Was there some kind of resource available only here that drew people this location? What a fascinating piece of history! Thanks for the video. I had never heard of this place before, now I need to know more.

[@celsus7979]

It was part of the Roman empire, but apart from a few traders and maybe an administrator there wouldn't have been many Romans. There probably is some, partly Roman, outside influence on later architecture but it's mostly the people that lived there for centuries that build all this.

[@celsus7979]

A bit of history from wikip. "The location of the city at the mountain pass between the Phrygian hinterland and the plains of Pamphylia is described by Arrian. Alexander wanted to go to Phrygia from Pamphylia, and according to Arrian, the road passed by Termessos. There are other passes much lower and easier to access, so why Alexander chose to ascend the steep Yenice pass is still a matter of dispute. It is even said that his hosts in Perge sent Alexander up the wrong path. Alexander wasted much time and effort trying to force his way through the pass, which had been closed by the Termessians, and so, in anger he turned toward Termessos and surrounded it. Probably because he knew he could not capture the city, Alexander did not undertake an assault, but instead marched north and vented his fury on Sagalassos. "

[@StoneworkStories]

Thank you for great questions! Some of the tombs predate Roman integration of the region, as well as the big retaining wall, parts of the theatre, fortifications etc. The city did control the valley and the pass through the mountains, but climbing that high and living there on this large scale is absolutely uncommon indeed!

[@StanJan]

Incredible. Thank you New Sub Woodmont Connecticut USA

[@StoneworkStories]

glad to hear! New stuff coming in a couple of days

[@crazyjd64]

This site is megalithic, pre great flood.

[@lorenzor2555]

It seems that there are some polygonal stone works over there

[@StoneworkStories]

yep, the big retaining wall and the foundations of the theater are polygonal

[@waldemarvogelsang3766]

Nice, but where it was "untouched"? Broken Sarkophags and destroyed Ruins

[@asiridesigns5344]

Imagine taking a metal detector there!

[@mickel1634]

They should probably take care of those ruins...

[@xa9590]

Those are the best preserved Roman ruins?

[@StoneworkStories]

Depends on to count as best preserved. These are the most intact from quarrying for construction materials and the most unrestored ones

[@Dano12345100]

My family originated in Northern and Central Italy so I've always thought my ancestors were Roman at time...Not so much. I did a DNA test which sh9wed Germanic, Eastern Europe(Polish) and Northern Europe(Finland) so instead of Romans, I guess my ancestors were part of the barbarian invaders that brought the Roman Empire down.

[@celsus7979]

That could well have been the Lombards. Here is a bit of wikip "By late 569, they had conquered all of northern Italy and the principal cities north of the Po River except Pavia, which fell in 572. At the same time, they occupied areas in central and southern Italy. They established a Lombard Kingdom in north and central Italy, which reached its zenith under the eighth-century ruler Liutprand."

[@Dano12345100]

My family came to the US from Italy so I always thought my ancestors were Roman at one time but... Not so much! I did a DNA test and my DNA is from German areas, Nordic and Polish ancestry. I guess instead of Roman ancestry my ancestors were the barbarian invaders that destroyed the empire

[@briendraper4818]

One thing I have learned from all these types of videos is that tomb robbing has been in business ever since tombs were made. Sad really.

[@StoneworkStories]

yep, my favourite evidence for that are the inscriptions cursing the potetnial robbers

[@CaptainSharkbait]

Nothing about this is roman, its mostly hellenistic and predates roman occupation of the area by several hundred years. The people that built it were the lycian people in the Greek sphere of influence.

[@StoneworkStories]

There are some hellenistic tombs and buildings indeed. Still, most of the tombs and buildings that are there were built in times of roman empire under the roman influence, and many of them are really typical for a roman city of Asia Minor

[@crowe6891]

Not Turkeys history that’s for sure…

[@tonylarussa4046]

And now that you posted a video about them, they will be overrun by tiktok "influencers" and obnoxious tourists taking selfies!

[@StevenZagaris]

"Untouched Roman Ruins" proceeds to give us a tour of ruins that have been pilfered and desecrated hundreds of years ago

[@Asa-bh7zi]

These ruins have almost never been significantly pilfered. Of course small items of value are gone, but almost none of the stone here was taken for spolia because of its inaccessibility. Neither has an excavation ever taken place here. What you're seeing is the devastation of natural cataclysms centuries ago, with the stones then abandoned in place where they fell.

[@StevenZagaris]

@ what are you talking about!? These tombs are all empty because people robbed them. Look at the hole people smashed into that empty tomb with the “pillow” in it. That wasn’t caused by a falling tree my guy.

[@Asa-bh7zi]

@StevenZagaris I think that you're being extremely pedantic. He didn't call this an "untouched roman city" full of "untouched tombs" - i.e. virgin, entirely unspoiled interior spaces with every artifact left in its place. These are "untouched *ruins*". Ruined buildings that haven't been carted off, used as spolia, or burnt for lime.

[@StoneworkStories]

@@Asa-bh7zi this! Ruined and untouched by humans are two different categories.

[@rexmasters1541]

You obviously have never seen the Roman ruins in England??????

[@StoneworkStories]

I've seen some of them, wouldn't say they are quite untouched :)

[@dannyfreitag8853]

More please

[@StoneworkStories]

will do!

[@glenncheatham1320]

Amazing!

[@Obiter3]

Amazing!