The Lost City Of Knowledge: What Life Was Like In Ancient Alexandria | Metropolis | Timeline

Alexandria, a royal Greek city in the land of the Pharaohs. Along the sandy banks of the Nile delta on the African Mediterranean coast, the most powerful metropolis of its time rose from virtually nothing. The Hellenistic culture mingled with the legacy of the Pharaohs and bore the fruits of a glorious new heritage.
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[@onlyme219]

I enjoyed that listening in bed before going to sleep and nodding off. I don't state that as an insult its the truth and a compliment if that makes any sense

[@SaltlakePromotionz]

Ditto

[@onlyme219]

@@SaltlakePromotionz we are not alone, Best wishes :)

[@Jason.cbr1000rr]

I do the same!! And mafia documentaries too! But these history ones are more soothing.

[@Musick79]

Ditto!

[@swagatron9477]

Same

[@rick7043]

KZbin and all those who contribute all the content allow me to travel across time and the earth and fill my eyes and mind with knowledge and wonderment. I am grateful. Thank you

[@BiffSteele]

Ancient construction methods and labor practices always amaze me.

[@anthonydoyle7370]

Can we even begin to imagine what they could have achieved with today's technology?

[@gutsfinky]

It was aliens, obviously. Jk

[@crzzymnn911]

@@anthonydoyle7370 or maybe the other way around ?

[@henryjumbohead5391]

It's so terrible that the library of Alexandria was destroyed. The amount of knowledge and historical accounts that we were lost is crazy if the stories of the libraries contents are true.

[@purefoldnz3070]

what was saved after the fire was destroyed by the christians setting back civilization at least a thousand years.

[@shailonnoelle7175]

Catholic propaganda

[@Tawadeb]

Yes a huge shame

[@baldbastardo]

Knowledge is the enemy of those who are greedy for power. From the panic over the invention of the printing press, to what was deemed politically incorrect by the politburo to most recently the controlling of online content by various powers in all regions of the world this is trackable and verifiable. Pretty interesting to think where humanity could possibly be if free exchange of ideas was allowed to happen.

[@surlygirly1926]

@@shailonnoelle7175 Nothing to do with catholicism

[@jon5457]

Love this series, esp the narrators voice!!! Please keep the ancient history docs coming.

[@VOpopuliUK]

Agree 💯

[@Bryan-fb8dh]

We are where we are now because of that library. Its contents are gone but the people that studied there left and spread their knowledge around the world and others that learned from them spread it as well. It isnt a total loss.

[@innosanto]

Most was lost , i have heard people say we would go to thr moon 100 years prior if the library was intact

[@firmak2]

​@@innosantounlikely. Its just as possible that all the books and scrolls wrre moved.

[@roguewolf7053]

What is mind boggling to me is the fact that the ancient Muslim empire, Greeks & Romans were *so advanced* yet *nearly all* all of it was lost with the onset of the dark ages…not to be re-invented until *centuries* later. It’s honestly terrifying that so much advancement can be lost so rapidly. - But what I don’t understand is WHY so much of the technology that wasn’t directly related to the infrastructure that collapsed was lost when tons of examples were still standing & available to study & replicate. - The fact that multiple times in history almost everyone knew how to read. Something not seen again for centuries. - Also the amount of medical knowledge & basic understanding of how the body functioned that was obtained & then lost only to take centuries to be rediscovered/relearned is also shocking. - It’s not just the physical technology that is mind blowing but also the loss of sociological & political advancements as well. The fact that equality between races has been achieved multiple times in large cultures like the Greek Empire & to a certain extent the Roman Empire & in a few cases there was also basic equality between males & females. Yet *we STILL ARE STRUGGLING* with these issues today. But what scares & worries me from studying history is the fact equality was lost over & over. And it was typically lost rapidly & violently. Living in the US right now I fear the slide backwards towards *losing* our advancements towards absolute equality may have begun.

[@HannahRoot55]

Rogue

[@eastsidemuu]

Every golden age, ends with a dark age.. is just the facts of life

[@christiehiggins4855]

God is in control, from the beginning of time and life, teaching us, over and over in every new generation

[@Red_Rebel]

Years later Taposaris Magna is now a site of great discoveries particularly during the reign of Cleopatra VII, thanks immensely to Kathleen!

[@mclarenscca]

There is so much dialog in this video! It's a documentary with archeology! Feed me more!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@grampsizzakilla7981]

An excellent overview of the city and its development. Fascinating!

[@grahamgillard3722]

“Agora” is my all time favourite movie.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Fantastic historical coverage about Metropolis to Ancient famously Alexandria & Ancient Greek civilization trailer gloriously found

[@tarikmerdad2421]

We need a movie about this story.

[@grahamgillard3722]

“Agora” is my all time favourite movie. Its plot is about the destruction of the library of Alexandria, but its theme is universal.

[@pthomson9736]

Wonderful. Fantastic person who narrated. He kept me engrossed to the end.

[@VOpopuliUK]

Incredible right. Sounds kind of like John hurt

[@hmzdu]

Such great episode, thank you very much!

[@nicolasntovas5667]

An interesting fact few know is that Homer has chosen the site over 1000 yrs before Alexander. There is an incredible description in Iliad and why the site would make an excellent port city. We all know the love Alexander had for Iliad....

[@youngzzaz5407]

Sources....

[@annas4843]

@@youngzzaz5407I think he already stated it.. Iliad 😅

[@The.Original.Potatocakes]

The library of Alexandria is one of my favorite Magic the Gathering cards.

[@bndrslak]

absolutely in love with life in ancient countries

[@maggiemakeupnails1056]

So proud for my Greek heritage! So proud to be Greek! Thank you 🇬🇷♥️🇬🇷

[@danaanceski550]

Yes you are proud to be Greek. But Alexsender was not Greek. Hi Was Macedonian his name. Was Macedon from Pela. Hi Was fithing wit Greeks. You telling the wall the word . Bicouse hi was Alexsender the Great. His Father Philip 2and was Kild bay Spartan man, Greese was Not tere Spartans was.

[@scottcrosby-art5490]

I mean thats great but he was Macedonian 😂

[@markuzs25]

Macedon was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. Which became and recognized as a Sovereign State to date

[@danaanceski550]

@@markuzs25 ; You look lake Mexican on the picture.

[@starcapture3040]

this is Egyptian city baby boy!

[@rogerrogerbrogan493]

Well done! Quite informative.

[@jordanbailey8808]

I love your docs for awhile I thought I had seen everyone ever made then I found you all thanks!!

[@TheDisinformationProjectNz]

Would be awesome if they have video cameras back then to see it thriving

[@angelique7618]

Thank you, this was an excellent documentary,

[@carlosacta8726]

What a fantastic documentary!!!!

[@bloomingaccents]

LOVE THIS, THANK YOU

[@nanayj.c.g.8675]

So very good content thanks for great sharing and god bless you

[@Amaan_Zargar]

Truly magnificent!

[@Creeer2005]

Love listening to these as I work. With an occasional peek.

[@bosslady7611]

Same. That's exactly what I'm doing now

[@sharynhughes1061]

What an Amazing Life and Stories. What an Amazing Time Line City and Country. ThankU!! Soooo! very Interesting.. I Love these Stories!!! i'm so Attracted to them!!! ThankU!!!

[@jamesjohno1180]

I’ve watched this ten times😂I’ve always been fascinated by Alexander the Great and the legacy and the legend he left behind, he died so young but it didn’t matter he done all he needed to do to establish the name “the great” he even became a pharaoh! But places like this Egypt Alexandria rome Greece, these places should still be the epicentre of the world we should all look to those places as the top of the world like the way they where thousands of years ago, how did they fall into ruin! How didn’t amazing feats of engineering continue in these places how aren’t these like the west of today the heads of the world….imagine Egypt as beautiful as it was back then today somewhere where you go and live the life of royalty like a pharaoh and be in touch with history, no Egypt is a dusty sandy desert with some old rocks even the people who live there done care about past history they sell you the rocks and the bones of the ancients, it’s sad we should all dream of going to those places because of what they are and what it’s become. The best thing about Egypt is still what the ancients left behind not that as well as what it’s become.

[@TheSilmarillian]

The library's of Alexander where sacked twice imagine the knowledge that was lost

[@tulipsontheorgan]

Same as now…all the censoring keeping knowledge from the population

[@TheSilmarillian]

@@tulipsontheorgan There be truth in that but now the so called elites miss judged the power of the internet and social media .May their downfall be swift and painful.

[@martinputt6421]

Amazing narration and visuals.

[@VOpopuliUK]

Agreed

[@andytucker6783]

I've found a similar climate and geography to Egypt. Like a empty canvas before the pyramids and Alexandria is remote parts of northern California Oregon

[@morenofranco9235]

Fascinating. Thank you.

[@tanias4877]

Fascinating, thankyou 😯

[@amandabarker2047]

Amazing videos, I always like to watch all kinds of educational videos; love learning !!

[@annettepiff4583]

Yay Amanda!

[@matthewbarber4993]

I love this documentary felt like I was there

[@acsalusa7540]

I got addicted watching documentaries! Let's do this.

[@drisselkhoukhi2112]

The same for me

[@swymaj02]

Very captivating

[@valenciawalker6498]

Excellent presentation.

[@williamcastonguay2396]

This was a good one

[@Ankur_explores]

Great documentary! I like to think about better ways to preserve all the human knowledge and creation that we have today. What if all the timeless information in today's libraries can be made more engaging and easily accessible to everyone!?

[@dangreene3895]

I wish the library of Alexandria would not have burned down , I wonder what ancient texts it held

[@57113]

Great re-enactments, narration and so full of knowledge of the ancient culture of Alexandria. Thank you for this historical documentary. 6:15

[@rasheawhite3644]

🥰! Thanks for sharing!🙏🏾💕💯😊 EXCITED!🥰🎉

[@mariadaluzmoutinho5701]

Este documentário está excelente!! Teletransporta a um passado de uma Alexandria evoluída e de conhecimento ..aos nossos olhos passam memórias de viafens infindas na biblioteca em busca de livros, sabedoria em busca do zero do infinito, em busca do futuro e das portas do presente ..onde estara a chave?!! Alexandre o Grande quando viajava fazia questão de enviar a Aristóteles espécimes botânicos e no seu cofre cravejado de jóias levava uma copia da Ilíada com anotações suas ...a vida pode ser breve mas a arte e pode ser longa!!

[@kemomoh9484]

I am an English learner and this video is very good I enjoyed it very much and I need your support guys to continue be cause I want to learn English

[@D.AGE.]

Mimi's time material 👏. If I can't sleep I throw this on and drift away

[@lauralafauve5520]

Really good.

[@bighappygomateshwara8794]

OMG. The planning, execution and maintenance of these ancient works is unrivalled, except for a few cities (metropolis) around the globe. Rome, Persepolis, Mohenjadaro and Harappa (in india) come to mind. These cities just didn't spring up like magic. The precursors of human civilizations must have taken at least a millennium to experiment, innovate and finalise, to pass on the knowledge for these cities. Thanks to KZbin that you can watch and learn from anywhere.

[@moshemankoff7488]

Thanks!

[@politecat4236]

This video taught me a lot about making a good chicken pie so thank you for your recipe 😊

[@stacyMighty]

This is wonderful! She risked so much for knowledge

[@Valkyrie1941]

This video will have millions of views in long run and I'm one of the first hundred to view and comment on this video .

[@hulguiniiiadolfo]

The ancient city of knowledge Because of thousands of books 📚📖

[@alexandrosonassis3436]

500,000 Hellenic books

[@danielazizomar7226]

I always fall asleep to these documentaries..- and the next day I don’t remember anything at all. I’ve been through almost all world history and I still struggle to remember if Napoleon was a General or a rapper! Hate it… should’ve known so much by now.

[@mohamedabduweli5091]

😭😭 I'm actually opposite. I wouldn't sleep for hours thinking about the documentary

[@marysalinas6146]

Love the narrators voice!

[@janinebean4276]

The lighthouse sounds like the statue of Liberty!

[@StoneInMySandal]

Good for you for noticing, most people do not. The reason for the similarity is the Statue of Liberty is an anthropomorphic Pharos (lighthouse). Her torch held high to light to path for all who seek freedom. “Liberty Enlightening the World” is the actual name of the statue.

[@joycelynbrandon755]

The Satue of Liberty was a gift from France and was not built by Americans as the Lighthouse

[@emmaponymous]

@38:54 I screamed when he picked up an ancient papyrus with his hands and THEN BLEW ON IT. 😱

[@zchesiq]

hii when was this aired on television? bc the frames looked nostalgic, albeit circa 2010?

[@frankiewelch8306]

This channel is way better than history hit.

[@omaroba1490]

Top level history

[@Mossyz.]

This is great .

[@drisselkhoukhi2112]

Wonderful and magnificent !

[@osirusgtr]

History is just so Amazing!!

[@brandonlamontcooper8141]

thank you

[@user-hv3uj4uj7x]

Aparently the library of alexandria had information on botany and the origins of some rose breeds etc..things that are lost due to the fire during the egyptian fight against the greeks ..absolutely tragic.

[@cdfdesantis699]

Oh Lord, the loss of that library! Rome gave a lot of things to the world, but it surely took a lot away when it burnt that library.

[@marcusagrippa8078]

We’d probably be growing weed on mars right now if that library never burned down.

[@kiq654]

Lets be honest now. It probably was full of pornographic inscriptions and poems about getting blown off by a females. You are naive to think 'greatest' thinkers had anything to do besides jerking off to statues of goddesses. Science was rare occurrence back in that region and philosophers too btw.

[@anubisswift]

Nothing like an ad every 4 minutes to keep up the continuity😂

[@Black___Book]

So much that was old and ancient even then was lost

[@ninogaggi]

3:50 Belloq!

[@andrewtongue7084]

Superlative !

[@ikeyshuster9801]

I wonder what year this was released

[@michaelwiberg7419]

This building was constructed with material that upon being burned turns into powder. Marble doesn’t survive fires , try the experiment if you like. Knowledge is required to be aware of truth.

[@RAGNAR7722]

Health and safety would have a field day on that site!

[@bsaxton6400]

Plumbing is taken for granted. Today in the USA each house has the advancements that only kings, queens, and emperors were privy to back in the day.

[@MikeSmith-vl5em]

Haha privy 2 😂🎉

[@bsaxton6400]

@@MikeSmith-vl5em lol..

[@tnteachertim]

Excellent presentation. Such a pity that the Egyptian authorities are so restrictive of access for archaeology and learning. Imagine how much MORE there is to learn from that country?

[@starcapture3040]

the Egyptian authorities are sponsored by the west

[@NorceCodine]

They are not restrictive at all, Poland has the concession from the government to actually dig in Alexandria. The Egyptians are restricting Western countries because of their role in the Suez crisis and the following expulsion of Westerners from Egypt. The French are outsiders here, that's why they just take pictures.

[@martinputt6421]

@@NorceCodine Well that's just silly of them. The Suez Crisis happened in 1956 and the leaders that invaded Suez are long dead.

[@user-ix1rp9ff3p]

simple: *ISLAM* according to their narrow-minded religion, anything that is not Allah is blasphemy which should be totally destroyed

[@jeffmiller3499]

@@NorceCodine as an American, good. A large part of modern westerners destroy most they come in contact with. No appreciation or admiration for things, especially history. it's sad & at times disgusting.

[@stevenleek1254]

What of Hypatia and her murder--one of many events that suggest some interesting political/religious tensions?

[@deamicisfrank1308]

what do yall think is the modern equivalent of the Libary of Alexandria?

[@buckwheatINtheCity]

The system of clay pipes fitted end to end was used by people of the Indus Valley. Alexander was a late comer in this resect. He copied this system from the Persians who he hated so much.

[@monwell250]

Today cities are hot because of the heat from the roads 🔥

[@Entreprenoob]

35:00 stunning and brave

[@heidiengellenner9651]

I wanted to ask Isadore, what our current residency total has grown to for human and animal beings? I know that we are set up for 17 trillon but what is our current total?

[@heidiengellenner9651]

Isadore- our residency has grown to 483 billion human residents, and 1.1 trillon animal residents.

[@gleefulme9617]

300 yrs is not a drop in the bucket.

[@nicolasoyarce9734]

Does anyone know the year of this documentary? Maybe the early 2000's? The cars look quite old

[@markgarin6355]

Nice ladder...

[@gregg7992]

It is absolute idiocy, or unbridled insanity that there are people in this comment section, and people in the world quite frankly, who continue to question the ethnicity of Alexander, his predecessors and his successors. The Macedonians were the largest Hellenic ethnos on the Greek mainland and one of the largest of the Greek world. According to archelogical and papyrological evidence, their dialect was grounded in Doric form, characterized by harsh consonants and elongated vowels. Dialects were common in the Greek world of antiquity, as they are in parts of Greece today. In fact, in the Lagidae Kingdom of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, it was considered a mark of prestige at court to speak the Doric dialect of the ancestral homeland. Moreover, of the written evidence uncovered throughout the kingdom of Macedon and its subsequent empire within Greece and the Balkans, close to 99% are strictly Greek. Sure, they absorbed certain Thracian words into their speech but that is a consequence of geographic proximity and exposure. In their religion, they worshipped the gods and demigods of the Olympic pantheon as other Hellenic states, particularly Zeus, Dionysos, and Herakles; the names of their people, Alexandros ("protector of men"), Philippos ("horse-loving"), Ptolemaios ("great war"), Nikanor ("people of victory"), Seleukos ("lightness"), or Antigonos ("worthy of his father") are all Greek in etymology and structure; the lunisolar calendar month names were derived from feasts and related celebrations in honor of the gods, as other Hellenic peoples such as the Athenians, Corinthians, and Spartans did. People are so hungry for identity, for a sense of belonging that they would appropriate the heritage and history of completely unrelated people. The Slavic peoples who inhabit the land around Skopje only arrived in the region several hundred years after Christ. They have a rich, fantastic history. But they are in no way affiliated with the Makedonia of antiquity. It is a fabricated nation of Slavo-Albanian peoples who took the name of Makedonia as their own in the early 19th and 20th century, though they have no rightful or just claim to it.

[@user-xo9ud3lb3q]

Maybe u need to make ur own documentary

[@menikiwarren2473]

Does the hat give anyone else silence of the lamb vibes

[@pamlovell9125]

All that knowledge yet not the common sense to take measures to protect the library from a possible fire.

[@Nimrod215]

The fire was clearly an attack

[@NourhanFares-gg9ud]

اسكندرية اباطرة اليونان

[@spookerredmenace3950]

almost like the city planners back then had some common sense in how to build things and not so primitive after all like some people think , they had running hot and cold water and street lights back then. i'm sure they would have the combustable engine if they worked long enough , they already had steam power

[@michaelrisman3199]

Scissors? Are they part of the archeological record?

[@mikemondano3624]

Eratosthenes did NOT discover that the Earth was not flat. He measured it's circumference. In no written records is the Earth ever referred to as "flat". Even the earliest written records call the Earth an orb or globe.

[@edwither8284]

How many feet is a 140 m?

[@politecat4236]

A lot of feets

[@LondonPower]

The first Cosmopolis in the world was Alexandria not London New York and Paris

[@kosmicroyalty]

BE WITH SOMEONE THAT LOVES ❤️ YOU LOUDLY, PUBLICLY, PRIVATELY, WILL STAND WITH YOU, SUPPORT YOU WILL FIGHT FOR YOU WHO IS LOYAL WITH INTEGRITY BEHIND YOUR BACK WILL ALWAYS BE THE SAME!!

[@tomasinacovell4293]

Wow, 140 meters is nearly exactly 460 feet.

[@Dawah_Help]

The assessments of the following are revelatory. British historian & scholar, Arthur Stanley Tritton British - American historian Bernard Lewis British philosopher & historian Bertrand Russell English historican Alfred J. Butler is one of the first scholars in the western world to have written extensively on the conquests of Egypt. Indian scholar D. P. Singhal Ruth Stellhorn Mackensen The late Emeritus Professor Of Semitic Literature Princeton University, Philip K. Hitti English historian & scholar Edward Gibbon Diana Delia The book, “The Library Of Alexandria, Centre Of Learning In The Ancient World” written by the Emeritus Professor Roy Macleod. Contemporary scholar Robert Barnes, who is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University, with interests in ancient philosophy & religion, & in bibliography & the history of libraries. He too comments on the Alexandrian Library. 🔬

[@lucasjames7524]

Agnodiki could have done without the eyeliner and shaped eyebrows to get into the library, tbh...

[@kahlesjf]

She should have worn a knee-length white lab coat, bow tie, and wire rim glasses down on the tip of her nose.

[@HannahRoot55]

@@kahlesjf Where ya from ??😾