Lets Visit the Library of Alexandria - History Tour in AC: Origins Discovery Mode

[@InvictaHistory]

What other locations would you like to see us visit! Check out all our other history tours: Let's Visit the Parthenon kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIPYeX95pbSifJIsi=jW-b3YuBEWab7cya Lets Visit the Oracle of Delphi kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZTUd6Z3m6ujaqssi=NecESI8C98O73jk7 Let's Visit An Athenian Home kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3PbaKKPjtpjp8ksi=67xkh8gqNkiebqD5 Let's Visit Port Piraeus kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2LJl3SmebyGjLssi=XyDRlyIP--IHtHgk Lets Visit Ancient Sparta kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKC9nIytmLBpqtUsi=R-Wbg8EH6Np7rWOx Lets Visit a Mycenaean Citadel kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3-oaJWVoZyAbdUsi=j8Lfikjj7_WU1bRp Let's Visit Minoan Knossos kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYjSlpSaiJueq9Esi=wBGQwEO9dtztuET5 Let's Visit Baghdad's House of Wisdom: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqHaqYRtq995a9k

[@debbielungsodaitfllo]

Please make a video about the battle of the teutoburg forest, and I mean the Battle itself, not one's you made before

[@ietsbram]

new bro Chris is chronically american in the way he describes cities of today, poor boi :(

[@CleverRiley9]

the discovery mode is the greatest thing AC has ever done in terms of teaching history. I remember when they first introduced it i brought it up to my history teacher and AFAIK hes still using it in his ancient egypt unit to this day.

[@MuddieRain]

“You can tell how middle-class you are by how aggrieved you are and how much you wince every time someone mentions the fact that the library of Alexandria burnt down. Ahh! Grr! Oh if only it hadn't! Agh!” Lindybeige

[@RealKlausSchwab]

Great quote 👍

[@ct6502c]

Or just how curious you are about the world and how much you like to learn. You can be dirt poor and still wonder about what knowledge was lost.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

That myth really needs to die, to be honest. The Library died not because of a fire or even multiple fires but due to neglect...

[@API-Beast]

@@ct6502c Class is not economic status but rather personal beliefs and understanding of social norms. A merchant who becomes rich stays a merchant, he does not become a nobleman, and a nobleman who loses his wealth is still a noble.

[@MuddieRain]

@@ct6502c they made copies of everything

[@SwaggerjackProductions]

I have never seen a video like this before. This was incredible! Please make more of these ^^

[@InvictaHistory]

We've actually done a ton of these tours in the past in AC:Odyssey for things like the Parthenon, Delphi, Knossos and more. It's linked in the video description

[@SwaggerjackProductions]

@@InvictaHistory Definitely gonna check those out. Very creative

[@bl2575]

I highly recommend the ClickSpring channel's "Antikythera Fragments" playlist to get a feel of the complexity of the Antikythera mechanism. He rebuilds it using tools from the time, giving us insight into their methods (except for lathes since we don't know anything about their lathe design). For me, the Antikythera mechanism is mind-blowing due to its complexity and advanced mechanical design (~30 gears!). IMHO, the sophistication of the epicyclic gearing system and the pin-and-slot mechanism to model the varying speed of the Moon due to its elliptical orbit clearly show it is the result of a mechanical design culture, not just the work of a single genius.

[@ISawABear]

i really hope they continue the discovery tours modes in future AC games. Honestly they should sell it BEFORE the main games as like an "early preview" mode for the games. side notes for Invicta, - i know the landmarks and monuments are the most detailed parts of these games but i dont mind if you just go to a more isolated random spot and just talk about stuff. (Also maybe get Max miller from Tasting history to talk more about Silphium in Origins since there's fields of it near Cyrene in the game) - I also dont mind if you guys play the in-game tour stations to give you guys extra talking points.

[@johnpijano4786]

Don't think so since the past 2 AC games did not have it. But hopefully they add it for AC Yasuke.

[@elijahwatson3474]

⁠@@johnpijano4786No Ac Valhalla had it, mirage didn’t because it was a smaller game but there was a in game data clusters where it give you more details on Arab culture. Shadows will most likely have it

[@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw]

I visited Alexandria in the 90's. There's practically nothing remaining of the old city, but I found it to be a more pleasant city to be in the Cairo.

[@Mr.KaganbYaltrk]

God i love these ancient structures

[@tendopain2585]

These are some of my favorite videos of yours! Please keep them up!

[@NomeDeArte]

I love this tours. Thank you so much, best regards from Argentina!

[@blackfoxstudioX]

This was absolutely amazing to watch and listen!

[@AllTheHandlesAreTaken]

The interior of the library reminds me of the reading room at the U.C. Berkeley library, which was built in the early 20th century. Even the tables look similar. 😊

[@austinguthrie5528]

AC Origins is my favorite if the recent Assassins games. Best lighting, combat was fun, and the RPG element wasn't as insane as the next games. Roman-Greecian history and Egyptian shenanigans, yes please!

[@ElderFreeman413]

This was such a cool concept, thank you both

[@KaloyanGeorgiev92]

This video format is dope. Do more pls

[@3gunslingers]

9:19 The perfect example of the death grip of the car on far too many (american) cities.

[@reopreop4690]

My favorite videos 😊 This amazing city needs more videos

[@barrackobama2422]

This was absolutely awesome. I was only able to listen but it was a nuanced and detailed trip through an amazing cultural landmark. Maybe it's time to do a "In the life of a Classical Era Egyptian" video.

[@WhoIsCalli]

Thanks for this guys. This was fun

[@theflame5919]

I want to hear more about the Imperial library in Constantinople, last known library to contain most of the books the original library of Alexandria had, as well as the later additions from the Imperial Roman era. Thats then the library of Alexandria was truly lost, with loss of that final institution... but there is so little information on it. Would you guys be willing to research that topic a little more ? Im curious on what you may find. Edit : im aware what that final ancient institution was not all concentrated in Constantinople, but had subsidiaries in Greece and Anatolia, such as in Nicomedia. Constantinople, was more of a central node for it.. but i dont know as much, as i would like. Maybe you can help ? Thank you in advance!

[@BnaBreaker]

Makes me want to play this game again!! So beautifully done by Ubisoft.

[@armandoabrahamsson]

@@BnaBreaker what game is it?

[@BnaBreaker]

@@armandoabrahamsson Assassin's Creed: Origins

[@armandoabrahamsson]

@@BnaBreaker cheers bud

[@1998topornik]

Lose of this library was loss was scientific world but not lethal one.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

Discovery in AC shadows is gonna be KZbin content creators gold.

[@lachlanclune9766]

@@AncestorEmpire1 why

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@lachlanclune9766 the historical inaccuracy. I’ve said this years ago when Disney started “modernizing” the Wikipedia page for Star wars( different IP, same arrogance). Wikipedia is not a source, it was never a source. Its news section has the same reliability as Reddit.

[@lachlanclune9766]

@@AncestorEmpire1 k pal

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@lachlanclune9766 ok casual.

[@lachlanclune9766]

@@AncestorEmpire1 k pal

[@successthruknowledge]

Great discussion and great videos! I wonder how these scrolls were organized; do know? What systems were used before the Dewey Decimal System?

[@Argacyan]

Origins imo had the best discovery tour. I still hope there could be a discovery tour for every AC game, but it should've been done like in Origins for Odyssey and Valhalla.

[@JeffBilkins]

I think it is interesting how assassin games have to have such environmental detail by the nature of their slow and free gameplay.

[@davidhughes8357]

So the bird is us? Just kidding. Great video!!

[@-RONNIE]

Thank you for the video

[@jakel.1724]

we need a history game. like google earth. but you can flip thru the years and see what went down in a specific day, in a specific area. and you can just walk around

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

COOOOOOOOOOOOL 🙀🙀🙀😻😻😻

[@RoyalTeaLegion]

Lets goooo! 🎉

[@hydroac9387]

You should explain that the roman library in Celsus is the former city of Ephesus, which is located in modern Turkey in Asia Minor.

[@MC-gj8fg]

Do we have enough information about paint make-up, color use, and other such matters to create a believable period accurate reproduction of a painted statue?

[@Callmecel]

Oh absolutely - some paint still remains on some of the surviving statues. Sadly that paint is mostly in the crevices for obvious reasons, but chemical analysis of the traces gives a really neat potential view. Overall, it seems that they were painted relatively true to life.

[@ivanavila1589]

I was browsing for entertainment and I found it.

[@ianmurphy9955]

I hope this is one thing that Ubisoft kèep in future games, the discovery mode

[@coughcough3323]

So you can explore Chinese architecture in Japan?

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

This is more or less the only reason I play Assassins Creed anymore; I generally ignore the story and gameplay because I just like to explore the setting. Origins had a beautiful location with so much work put into it (Bayek's story was decent but not really enjoyable from a gameplay perspective).

[@InvictaHistory]

I'm right there with you. Love the history Sim side of it

[@nixielee]

yeah we get it, they were painted. manus would be good

[@sitrilko]

I really, really appreciate the last chapter on 'lost knowledge'. I absolutely hate the modern memes and tropes on setting humanity back by hundreds of years or whatnot. A) it discredits the continuous knowledge in rest of the world (China, India, anyone?) B) it glosses over countless other archives and libraries around the Mediterranean (texts that wouldn't have had copies outside of Alexandria would've been rare, and quite possibly unimportant) C) it's used in modern politics to attack Christianity (or sometimes Islam, or even by proxy of Caesar western culture as a whole), while completely ignoring facts how much Christian institutions helped preserve and further teaching in the remnants of the West Roman empire after it's disintegration As the video pointed out, what killed the library was very boring (funding) and mundane (nat. disasters). Human-induced destruction was only the nails in the coffin.

[@dezzdinn]

it was all painted. the important building areas. blues, reds, brown, whites, gold.. ect

[@debbielungsodaitfllo]

Please make a video about the battle of the teutoburg forest and mean the the battle itself not the ones you made before

[@InvictaHistory]

we plan to do one in "True Size"

[@debbielungsodaitfllo]

​@@InvictaHistory???

[@blackfoxstudioX]

@@debbielungsodaitfllo Its their True Size Series, what we are watching right now is History Tour series.

[@vhaelen326]

@@debbielungsodaitfllo "true size" is a video series visually showcasing the actual size of historical and fictional army's as well as a series going over the composition of said armies

[@youtubenone8075]

Can you make true size of Ottoman army?

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

The Library of Alexandria! If it were atill standing we would have advanced further into the future!

[@Inimigododinamico]

@@alfrancisbuada2591 you did not watch the full video light?

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

@@Inimigododinamico Nope. Just making my own observation, and quoting the thing that one dude said

[@Inimigododinamico]

@@alfrancisbuada2591 understandable, have a great day

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

@@Inimigododinamico Seriously, though a lot of knowledge was lost when it went up in flames

[@Inimigododinamico]

@@alfrancisbuada2591 kinda

[@vhaelen326]

i know that historically virtually all statues were painted but for me personally non painted statues are much more apealing maybe because its such a detailed sculpture of a human in a material that is very clearly not human, but especially realistically painted statues are similiar to wax figures where i can admire the craftsmanship but the beauty of it gets overshadowed by the extremly uncanny feeling because its not just a human form its so close to passing for real that it just doesnt appeal to me

[@theflame5919]

The more impressive statues, that is , particularly important ones, there not just painted in any common technique. They would be using gold, and silver, and other elements (think jewelry, such as rubies, emeralds, diamonds, in powder like state, mixed with paint) . They would have been very impressive to look at. Not to mention silk garments with gold and silver threads over it. (they would be especially brilliant during day light, with prism like effect.. almost "magical" from a distance)

[@vhaelen326]

​@@theflame5919 very true

[@fersacristan8716]

Could any person simply enter the library? Or just the elite?

[@CrimsonAlchemist]

AC: Origins is just beautiful & detailed! But the story & gameplay lacks the excitement of AC: II and III. Ubisoft should take notes from Witcher, Fallout 4, Kingdom Come Deliverance, etc.

[@suryapanditi3161]

Personally I think the story is great. Maybe not as good as something like Witcher 3 but few things are haha. The gameplay is lacking, though, I definitely agree with you there.

[@magnubeido832]

The sad thing about this is once you've bought into the delusion you are going all the way and you stay in the train when it falls off the cliff and tell yourself this was what you wanted all along. Terrifying for everyone else who is forced to be in the same train car as you and you directly had a hand in making sure the train goes off the cliff, even when the other passengers don't agree

[@ericwilliams1659]

Lol, playing that game now.

[@davidhughes8357]

Question, Why are you running? Answer, because I cannot fly!!

[@southtexasprepper6605]

Would love to watch a tour of Constantinople!

[@Jonnygurudesigns]

So what about what we are seeing is similar to what the actual City would have been?

[@Solidfluids]

Since Alexandira was founded by the Greek, does the overly Roman aesthetic of the city in Origins make sense?

[@Alexq79-]

How do you mean? It seems very Hellenistic to me.

[@woodchuck003]

It's very strange how this channel made yet another video talking about the attention to historical accuracy in Assassin's Creed considering the channel took the position the Ubisoft is correct to push fictional history as if its real history.

[@InvictaHistory]

We've got like 10 videos in this series now where we use discovery mode as a backdrop for history tours. In a lot of ways the accuracy is quite good and we point out nuances or errors along the way. It's just a great setting to discuss history in an engaging way. You don't have to drape the whole thing in conspiracy

[@woodchuck003]

@@InvictaHistory when did i suggest a conspiracy? I simply stated the fact that Ubisoft is lying when it says they never tried to be historically accurate in the past. Your video is proof of that. That makes your channel's pro-Ubisolft stance funny.

[@LuKo3x5066]

I think the percentage of female professors was also not kept to the best knowledge regarding reality in the game.

[@LiveinPeace1-u6f]

Where is the hanging garden

[@Logan-cu9di]

Ninevah

[@RealKlausSchwab]

Babylon

[@VRichardsn]

Near present day Hillal, in Iraq. Allegedly.

[@ct6502c]

​@@VRichardsnProbably destroyed then, since "it offends Allah" or whatever. 🙄

[@Argacyan]

@@ct6502c If the hanging gardens were even real is debated, but modern-day Iraq invested billions into restoring historical sites like that until they were bombed by the US in 2003. These things were destroyed because they offended Dick Cheney.

[@HRTWARRIOR]

Mate, stop making/talking like you are making a School PPT or Lecture. People get bored there, People get bored here. Take note from other channels. Stop giving Introduction to the capters, tf is going on

[@RoseSharon7777]

Everytime God destroys world Empires due debauchery and perversion, he includes knowledge along with it. When I think about the middle ages and just the lack of common sense people suffered from, I'm amazed all over again at the Babylonian and Roman Empires.

[@ct6502c]

It's a shame, the middle east was much more advanced in ancient times...until Islam came along.

[@joshuaspaulding2978]

The Islamic golden age alone is objectively more advanced than 1st century near east.

[@ct6502c]

@@joshuaspaulding2978 Islam didn't appear until the Middle Ages. Ancient civilizations were already much more advanced, as shown by this video. Islam made middle eastern countries go backwards.

[@Lightningdvc]

Among their own discoveries, the Islamic world helped to preserve the ancient world. I t was the Christians who repressed knowledge.

[@joshuaspaulding2978]

@@ct6502c do you think Christian Europe in the Middle Ages wasn’t more advanced then the ancient world or is it always just Islam bad?

[@davetremaine9688]

This guy spends A LOT of time repeating the same thing 4 to 5 different ways without adding much if anything in each iteration...

[@tpl608]

The bird is in the way. Dumb.

[@pierevojzola9737]

Hi, it’s a bit difficult to take a narrator seriously when he describes a city as “a bunch of districts”. A bunch? The English language is made up of some 75 thousand words, so I am sure that he could chose his words better! Even us foreigners to the language find that expression unfathomable. Cheers Harera

[@TheRedleg69]

It's a perfectly valid word in modern English. Do you want them to just take a guess and say between 2 and 200 districts?

[@jayb2661]

Sad that AC is a product of ubisoft and how it has corroded with corruption and deceit…. Then there is the gameplay and micro transactions and how the focus shifts away from quality to pumping out silly bloat with no understanding or real connection to their gamers. Sad.

[@itsmeebz]

omg i missed these AC visual history tours 🥹.