How the Romans Supplied Constantinople with Water | ATG Highlights

In this excerpt from Season 4, Episode 1 of the Antiquities Travel Guide, we take a look at the Roman infrastructure that was able to bring millions of gallons of fresh water into the city of ancient Constantinople.
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[@marklaurenzi1609]

These videos are so great! More please.

[@johnfoster6412]

Although I agree with your mostly silent comments on modern art in ancient places, it is a lovely example of how ALL historical locations change over time, especially once discovered. The aqueducts tell the same story.

[@gomahklawm4446]

Eh. So out of place. It's like a self-insert.

[@afd1040]

@@gomahklawm4446 It is the new mayor put them there so it looked "modern" before him it was kept as tourist spot and it is not the only cistern he did this to.

[@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks]

A university study should be commissioned to locate the various origins of the columns

[@contextologia]

Amazing 👌✅️📚

[@brianedwards7142]

To an antiquities professor Giotto is "modern art". 🤣

[@FischerNilsA]

meh

[@mikeFolco]

I am subscribed to hundreds of youtube channels and yours is in my to 5 easy.

[@sparkyfister]

The Romans were the greatest recyclers in human history!

[@sparkyfister]

@MFletch87 I'm not familiar with that.

[@kiasia3219]

Thanks for your videos! Do you think you'll respond to UnchartedX's new vase scan videos?

[@varyolla435]

Why...... - seriously. Ben's problem is methodological. As such as long as he keeps beating the same broken drum then the previous rebuttals still apply. He can create a hundred "vase videos" as you say and rest assured everyone will reflect the same flawed approach. Moral: to constantly react to new videos puts Ben et al in control as they can gin up new ones faster than you can respond. Better to as has been done expose the dubious nature behind their "process" as then no matter how many "new" videos they create = they all reflect the same flaws.......

[@kiasia3219]

@@varyolla435 True, I just find the debunking videos particularly entertaining and also very informative.

[@varyolla435]

@@kiasia3219 True. Dave of course being a historian as well as a teacher however must keep the discussion going. One does not wish to become a _"1 hit wonder"_ as it were giving people like Ben too much attention. That would also be counterproductive. Better to expose them and move on to leave that information out there "hanging" over their heads. Too much focus on them plays into their conspiracy argument as they'll whine "the deep State" via academia is supposedly trying to suppress them. p.s. - there is a concept behind casinos and gambling based upon psychology = intermittent rewards. It is why people will say continue to push coins into slot machines despite the odds being massively against them in the hopes of hitting the jackpot. So Dave debunks a main talking point ----> and moves onto other historical subjects -------> debunks another one's talking point -------> and moves onto other history videos.........

[@giovannigio6217]

it would be interesting making a video of the history of greek and roman alphabets. I don't know for example how exactly the greek alphabet ended up influencing the roman alphabet. Etruscan may be involed too. in the video you can add historical facts like the addiction of certain letters in the roman alphabet later on (for example the letter G, U...). maybe you can talk of the role of greek letters in latin (I know for example, romans used "K" as shortening for calendae). the two cultures were very much connected so I think there are other thing I missed.

[@AlbertaGeek]

IIRC, the channel Rob Words has a video about that sort of thing. He has a lot of interesting videos about the history of words, languages, and letters.

[@giovannigio6217]

@@AlbertaGeekI haven't found anything there. it looks a very english focused channel. it's not history focused

[@grindsaur]

When was the active use of the cisterns (or rather, that particular cistern) discontinued?

[@afd1040]

Ottoman era because their use wasn't needed because Ottomans used running water instead ofstoring it in cisterns.

[@grindsaur]

@@afd1040 OK, nice. Do you happen to know approximately how long it took them to get the new water supply up to speed?

[@punyaslokmohapatra7528]

Great

[@syjwg]

I don't get it. How did they manage to have the water flow from the lower to the higher parts of the city?

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

They used great big circular saws. 😉

[@TheMoneypresident]

Sonic lazers ​@@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer

[@TheMoneypresident]

They have a taller aqueduct. He said so at the end.

[@syjwg]

If it went uphill (the idea at 4:06), then my question is still: How?

[@TheMoneypresident]

@syjwg draw a mountain on paper on one side. And a town low on other side. Draw a line from top of mountain to low town. Now Draw a line if town was taller. Never took water from low part to higher.

[@comentedonakeyboard]

Future Archeologists will be confused by the modern Art and future Pseudoarcheologists will count it as evidence for the lost city of Atlanta

[@dennisrydgren]

Exiting

[@nilkilnilkil]

They should get that modern art out of there to be honest

[@varyolla435]

Absolutely. While this deals with the Romans the concept behind it - _"necessity is the mother of all invention"_ - is not new. Remember things like this when the "Alternative" schtick attempts to portray ancient cultures as supposed _"primitives"_ as they like the Romans had the capacity for developing technologies etc. to overcome obstacles. Moral of the story: among the first "technologies" man would need and hence develop would be = _"hydro-engineering."_ Man requiring water to survive quickly developed ways to obtain and store it. In the Near East where the terrain is often arid and mountainous and rainfall is seasonal you can find sites of ancient habitation in otherwise rocky ground - how. The people millennia ago developed underground cisterns to store water and cut channels in the bedrock to funnel that intermittent rainfall to where they wanted it. The Egyptians as another example being a river-dependent civilization as Egypt is mostly desert + being forced to live on the banks of the Nile which annually flooded = became experts in the creation of things like dikes/canals/harbors and shipping. Their communities had to be built beyond the floodplain and thus they required means to access the river during periods of high water. These people might have been "less technological" than we are today - but they were not stooopid.....

[@Tony11442]

Agreed

[@varyolla435]

@EduardoBarros-rj8bz No = today's class is recognizing the sadly puerile - yet stereotypical - nature of = _"Ca-Ca Boy"_ - and their comical sockpuppet iterations. p.s. - perhaps one day you will reach a level of maturity to recognize that despite what you may tell yourself = your presence and actions here embarrass you to no end....... Naturally you do not recognize this as in your limited cognition you are supposedly achieving great things. For everyone else however we see what you do not......

[@GorgeousAndSexy]

Absolutely. While this deals with the Romans the concept behind it - "necessity is the mother of all invention", I totally agree with you, because i think that the big cities on ancient Egypt may also had aqueducts to take the water from the river Nile to their cities for example, or something similar.

[@GorgeousAndSexy]

Perhaps Carthage for example? That was more advanced than Rome at its time it seems?

[@varyolla435]

Chum the water ------> drop a line...... = and they come......... 🤣 The kiddies simply cannot help themselves - which kinda takes all the fun out of it by the way.

[@schreckpmc]

Ides of march…

[@floydriebe4755]

yeah, agreed...great ancient structures need no "modern art"....meh, for sure otherwise, cool footage.....thanks, David!

[@rdawson808]

I like the addition of modern art. It's a great space for sculpture.

[@Lostboy811]

Justin the Great

[@RoryVanucchi]

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[@Satans_lil_helper]

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