What's at the site of Troy? All revealed here.

[@exittomenu]

I have loved this series so much, I can tell from your voice there were no vendors selling water up there But the show must go on, much respect Edit, the horse being under construction struck me as incredibly funny, they’ve had thousands of years No one can talk about my procrastination anymore

[@gregorynixonAUTHOR]

You're a great host, David, but I must thank you for bringing Tess along. She lights up every scene she's in.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

It's very valuable to have her perspective too. It makes a great mix. It's like an alloy. A superior result compared to the parts.

[@ShitterMcGavin]

Doc....how do you not have your own network show? This is better than 99% of the historical documentaries available anywhere. I'm always sad when it ends. I want it to go on for hours and hours! Another excellent, informative and educational adventure in the books. I love hearing you go thru the history. I can listen to you talk about this stuff all day. Safe travels to you all!❤❤❤❤❤

[@stankythecat6735]

Hell yes!

[@salinagrrrl69]

On THC they get views via that bad-hair Greek on space aliens🛸👽 I dont know about the, Travel Channel" ....anymore.

[@backalleycqc4790]

He'll never get his own show, he didn't say "Space Aliens built this" or "There's evidence that suggests the civilisation founded this 300,000 years ago", and he says "BCE" all the time. No network will touch him.

[@bodnica]

😂😂​@@backalleycqc4790

[@davidtydeman1434]

That is why KZbin is so great

[@mayflowerlash11]

This is a rather well thought out channel. It combines ancient history and its importance and relevance to current times, and it shows that some of these famous sites are accessible. Very well done.

[@thomasp.kitten2517]

This was FANTASTIC! Thank you!

[@Nakaska]

Troy is the most famous sight but honestly Pergamon seems to me like a much more interesting place to visit. There's not that many tourists and you get some of the best panoramic views in the ancient world. It also looks like there's much more freedom in terms of exploration, you are not confined to narrow paths as in Troy.

[@postyoda]

Woo, another episode of my favorite series on KZbin!

[@LouigiVerona]

My fav history channel

[@edgarsnake2857]

Thanks Tess and David for the tour of western Turkiye. I always find the info on Troy to be pretty sketchy and a bit unsatisfying. I guess everybody feels that way. It's amazing that we know anything about it. Thanks again for the glimpse into the past.

[@mhmt1453]

I love these episodes. I was actually in Turkiye for a month in 1989. Unfortunately, it was while I was in the US Army, so my “tourist” exploits were very limited! It’s hard for me to reconcile the fact that I was in Bandirma and Balikasir, so near to so many of these ancient sites you guys have visited, yet never got to see them. I did fly over many in a helicopter, and I do have some interesting photographs, but it’s not the same. As well, Gobekli Tepe and the other pre-pottery Neolithic sites had yet to be discovered, otherwise I’d have probably gone there instead of taking the cruise ship to Istanbul. I can’t complain. Few have even had the chance to visit these places, and I have. I look forward to these videos, and being a student of both history and archaeology, I appreciate Dr. Miano’s narratives immensely!

[@mythosboy]

Another fantastic video: Pergammom, Turkey/Turkiye, pictures of food, Troy. I'm getting a serious traveling bug just watching these. Thanks. Also, not a horse, but a rabbit...

[@JAG8691]

I thoroughly enjoyed traveling through Turkiye including Wilusa.

[@anasevi9456]

Love to your guide, wonderful patient man. Thank you for another wonderful travel documentary!

[@timb8970]

I can only imagine how incredible it would be to have seen the city at its peak.

[@KasumiRINA]

24:03 Yeah I know it, we have a copy of Laocoon and Sons in front of Archeological museum in Odesa, a corner around our Neoclassical city hall, it's a fav spot of local skaters.

[@slaer]

Guy is creating his own 7 wonders itinerary 😊

[@KasumiRINA]

1. The Trojan Horse (Under construction) 2. Laocoon's weeny 3. The skyway price 4. Translator's hand fig 5. Raki 6. UN actually ratifying something 7. Torso-less woman pants

[@XyrxesTube]

Great Video👍🏻 Thank you so much for your Work❗️

[@MrZurbagiu]

i visited these sites last year, it was a magical experience, diving so deep into the past. great to revisit them in your videos about Turkey! and revise what i have learned :D thank you for doing these travelling guides!

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Thank you, this was really great. I think I will watch it again later!

[@jacynthemailly5237]

Thank you for a top notch presentation. It was so informative and fun to watch. I can’t wait to visit Türkiye.

[@bassplayersayer]

Really enjoyed the video tour!!!!!! Rock on !!!!!!

[@JayCWhiteCloud]

Wonderful...Thank you Dr. Miano. Have a great Holiday weekend!

[@no-secret-chart]

Doc, I laughed out loud when you said, "Help me, Obi-Wan..." because I had literally just said the same thing in my head seconds before that, when I saw the Princess Leia lookalike. I'm sad this series is about over. Can't wait for the next one. My favorite KZbin channel ever!

[@hayabusaTravels]

Been to Troy since oct. 2018 as part of a bigger motorcycle tour of Turkey. The main point of that trip was Gobekli Tepe, near Urfa.

[@Tony11442]

I was surprised when i went to Turkey to discover that they don't know that a lot of their words come from other languages especially arabic. Merhaba, Teshekur and Lutfen are all arabic words with the same meaning. So is Sabun (means soap). Lavabo is french. We could go on and on. Turkish language and culture are relatively recent in history and are a mix of different other languages and cultures. Turkey is very beautiful geographically and has a lot of great ancient ruins. I too had to go see Hierapolis and stood inside the huge roman theater and took pics. Great video as always.

[@98Zai]

The last video?? NOOOO! I enjoyed this series so much :(

[@rachelann9362]

Thank you once again for another absolutely wonderful tour of ancient and historical sites! Due to some health conditions and disabilities, traveling outside of the US is just not something I can see myself doing but I WANT to see all these places. I want to know what it feels like to stand in homes, theaters, religious centers, etc that are thousands of years old. It makes me incredibly sad that the colonizers of American, my ancestors, did not see the value in keeping the history of the natives. People want to say that it’s only because they build in wood and other decomposing materials, but thats just not the case in all tribes nor for sites close to them. I hope to visit one of the mound sites eventually. I live somewhat near Jamestown and Williamsburg (about 2 hrs away), and I hope to visit them sometime this late fall or early spring. It’s not the same as ancient sites, but for me Jamestown is a dive into my family history. I have ancestors that came into the colony, some VERY early on that were killed in the massacre (1612ish?.) Some were settlers, businessmen. But most of mine in Jamestown were indentured servants. One of them was actually an exile from his home land for not pledging to a new monarch in his home country (I believe Scotland) I do already feel connected to some of my Jamestown and colonial Virginia family. I grew up in NJ, and moved down here about 5 years ago. I didn’t know about my ancestors back then. When I was doing some research on the members that my aunt had found, i discovered some of them lived on the VERY SAME property I’m living on right now, except then it was listed as a plantation and was FAR bigger than it is now (It’s only a few acres at this time.)

[@salinagrrrl69]

Is there any reconstructed views of how it might have looked? Back in the 1960s70s80s I was fascinated by anything in, "NAT-GEO" of the ancient MedWorld. What great photography they had.

[@rf6902]

That was amazing Dr. Miano, I wonder if the previous layers of Troy were renamed every time.

[@scoon2117]

If we had as much reverence for each other as we do for the ancients, it would be a good world.

[@Demane69]

Don't be a misanthrope. The problem begins and ends with you. You only spread negativity, and your voice is your only power.

[@pamtaheem12]

I have truly enjoyed this series. Thank you so much.😀

[@catman8965]

Walking on the ancient road is like walking back in time.

[@no-secret-chart]

I have been waiting for this one! ❤❤❤

[@JeffRicksDude]

Great stuff Doc!

[@UberGringo]

Thank goodness for that tram up the hill cause that hike would have been brutal!

[@historyngames]

Fantastic and informative video! I loved seeing both ancient cities. It felt like I was really there. ^___^

[@daily.trades]

Troy, how exciting !!!!

[@GLeibniz1716]

I’ve been waiting for this one. Long live the Acheans! Great vid!

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Thanks!

[@DaveLopez575]

In Spanish we say “Pergamino” for parchment or scrolls. Awesome video! I am learning so much!

[@serhanacar7788]

My favorite historian has come to my country.

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

I have been to Pergamum on a cruise ship day tour. In those days cruise ships used to stop in Dikili and Antalya as well as Ephesus, two stops in Israel and Alexandria---don't see those stops advertised lately. I would love to revisit Turkey (whatever it calls itself) and am sorry you are not taking a tour there.

[@Hogla287]

The construction sites while these were being built would have been pretty amazing to see

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana. I've read about Troy many times.

[@ShitterMcGavin]

29:14 he's seems like such a great guide! Great sense of humor

[@Jurek009]

The production quality if your videos is simply amazing! The music was great as well! And thank you for showing the map of the various layers of Troy, I was always curious about the configuration and how you can distinguish them.

[@tsangyman]

Thank you for everything you do, show and tell us! Love your channel, I'm seeing things I would never see or know :D Your tik tok slay YT shorts crank me up too.

[@EnigmaSeeker2012UAP]

Troy is the war Plato speaks about in Atlantis. The island is Egypt but the war was with the Hittites.

[@markdevries1535]

The USA this week returned a looted Chalcolithic idol figure to Turkey which is now exhibited in the Troy Museum! Let's hope other artifacts will be returned soon too.

[@liquidnectarine9151]

I can listen to this while I cook! Happy Labor Day tomorrow!

[@thomasdriscoll6846]

If the History channel actually did history shows… I would watch Dr Miano

[@davidtydeman1434]

Thanks for great info 👏👏

[@gregorynixonAUTHOR]

What "Troy" did Alexander de Great visit and apparently steal the "shield of Achilles"?

[@TheJCJexe]

Just for the food, Turkey is worth traveling to.

[@JAG8691]

@@TheJCJexe Fully agree a must on any travel list.

[@seansmith3058]

Just watching those scenes makes me want to go back.

[@KasumiRINA]

47:36 It's funny how the older layer has obviously better wall, is it because of lower erosion or just because "they don't build it like they used to?"

[@rogeriopenna9014]

In Portuguese, a scroll is called a PERGAMINHO. That can't be a coincidence And indeed... From late Latin pergaminum, from Latin pergamenus, meaning something relative to Pergamos Ps: just arrived in the part where Dr Miano said Parchment also comes from Pergamon... Clearly a much less obvious linguistic connection than Portuguese "pergaminho", where the first 6 letters are the same

[@KasumiRINA]

"parchment" is "pergament" in Ukrainian, so yeah, outside of English it's very obvious.

[@rogeriopenna9014]

And pardon too... Even knowing Turkey was built over the considered eastern Roman Empire, it was an area that spoke Greek, not Latin, do the amount of Latin in these everyday words caught me by surprise

[@MetastaticMaladies]

This was so good, loving these videos! Does anyone know if there is an on going process for artifacts to be returned, or are there any talks/requests for artifacts involving the Pushkin Museum? They really should be in the museum of Troy, and same for artifacts displayed or privately held in foreign lands, they should be in the country they were found in, where the descendants of the people that made and built those artifacts live.

[@Kingdho]

Well done!👍

[@mv11000]

"I and Tess"? My, my, David, I expected a man of culture like you to know that you should always mention yourself last, especially when the other person is a lady. :) As for the video: excellent as usual, thank you!

[@KasumiRINA]

44:44 So that is obviously true from the story: the walls of Troy WERE absolutely legendary. We have proof of that! Shame mordor museum stole most of artifacts as you say.

[@theultimatedude-q4n]

Very interesting, thanks! But I recommend your camera man follow where you are pointing or zoom out so we can see what you are referring to (ie: statue of Trajan, scope of the temple, etc.)

[@anaX1man]

Red Basilica is also worth mantioning in Bergama. Egyptian gods temple which is quite far from Egypt. It's outside the acropolis.

[@EnigmaSeeker2012UAP]

The place name of Atlantis has been adopted from peoples names as the Greeks explored the Atlantean world which is the middle east and north Africa, with Egypt being the inspiration for the island paradise.

[@nexpro6985]

When I was eleven years old and in secondary school (the UK version of high school) we had a class called 'Classical Studies' Our teacher was Mr. Hobbs. He was a great communicator and taught us about Schliemann and the discovery of Troy among other accounts. To us he was an old man, like a grandfather, but his passion for the subject made the lessons stick.

[@TGBurgerGaming]

The only overseas place I ever wanted to see. Never will so thanks ✊

[@craigmiller4528]

What stadium was he locked out of

[@rschultz9492]

EXCELLENT 👍👍

[@western302]

As with so many theaters of the ancient world, I've never seen a video of how well the human voice would carry throughout each of these theaters. What volume would be required to reach the farthest seats? Would a normal speaking voice be enough, or would the performer or speech maker have to shout? I would love to see you do a test of this at some point in your series.

[@seansmith3058]

I had that exact same thought when I rode that cable car in February. 😬 Needs a bit more maintenance.

[@fredkarenclark4551]

Hi Dave new to the channel what's the cat 1 cat 2 cat 3 mean, also is there any bio on everyone in your show?

[@WorldofAntiquity]

The categories refer to the size and complexity of the sites, the best being Cat 1. No full bios, but in episode 1, I introduce my co-host.

[@besticudcumupwith202]

...other than much appreciated eye candy, what does Tess do on these excursions? Does she guide on other episodes?

[@seansmith3058]

Anything she wants.

[@skeptigal4626]

Pergamena is the Italian word for parchment. I wonder if parchment originated there.

[@MossyMozart]

The video speaks of the parchment production there.

[@estrafalario5612]

4:10 lávabo? Like in Spanish? I didn't expect that one

[@gruboniell4189]

After you were initiated into the mystery via death and resurrection one would find themselves in Pergemon for extended periods of time trying to read their way out of a mortals enteral maze. Discussing matters with their muse in the museum

[@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks]

The cacophony of insects sounds like my place this time of year

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

😁 I like the Full Metal Helmet t-shirt.

[@michaellitchford9285]

Wc means water closet. Or bathroom.

[@trippknotic]

Very interesting video but what makes Troy 7A the Troy of Homer’s Iliad?

[@WorldofAntiquity]

It’s the right time period and shows evidence of destruction.

[@KasumiRINA]

Ah, Orlando ♥ Brad Pitt ♥ and Peter O 'Toole ♥ I wouldn't know where to look if I was in Troy!

[@jakobo88]

Hi Professor. Thanks for bringing this amazing and so often misrepresented part of our history. You and your wife do a great job introducing the sites but also the country and the folk, and congrats on the production quality too.

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Tess is not my wife, but thank you!

[@fadd6895]

Is Göbekli Tepe next video ?

[@helenamcginty4920]

Bathroom for lavatory is just American. In the UK the bathroom is where you bathe. They do have toilets/lavatories in them now. My student days living in a crumbling Victorian house had just a bath in the bathroom. I am 76 and grew up calling it the lavatory, lav or loo. But we had public toilets. 😊 Ps old novels puzzled us by using the word 'toilet' for washing, dressing, doing your hair or having your maid to do it for you. 😅.

[@rogeriopenna9014]

Lavatory comes from Latin for washing. So not much difference from English washroom or bathroom. They also used the word LAVABO, It at least it sounded like it, which is Portuguese for lavatory, all from Latin lavar (to wash, verb is still the same in Portuguese)

[@KasumiRINA]

Having bath and toilet separated increases the value of aparment here in Ukraine, it's one of the points you see on real estate classifieds: "combined bathroom" or "separated bathroom". And yeah, "toilet" in old books sometimes meant "outfit", I guess same way "closet" can mean either. Hilariously "toiler water" is male perfume. I think you guys use the French version, Eau de toilette.

[@rogeriopenna9014]

@@KasumiRINA Toilet comes from towel. Toilette means little towel. In Portuguese it would be "toalha" and "toalinha". The little towel was used to wash yourself in France. Not sure as if esponges OR just to make the towel humid and passing in the smelly parts of your body instead of going under water or into a shower. I am under impression that just cleaning yourself with a humid towel (which is something we commonly do with small babies here) is even called "french bath" here. But sometimes also "cat bath", because it's like a cat cleaning itself with the tongue.

[@bluesky6985]

Troy the Red Thread line of the tribe of Judah 😊

[@gregor299]

Great series. You could do a TV show--if that's still a thing :-)

[@helenamcginty4920]

Some of the older UK ones are available. You might like Michael Wood (and enjoy the old fashions) and Bettany Hughes. The algorithms will probably send more similar to your mobile.

[@helenamcginty4920]

Of course some ideas change.

[@davidbeazley1958]

A genuine question but I thought we don’t use the terms first world or third world anymore?

[@SodaDjinn]

I think he just really tried to advertise the country there for some reason. I mean it doesn't have the best reputation and there certainly is some tension between Turkey and Greece to say the least.

[@KasumiRINA]

it kind of obsolete because second world was Soviet-aligned countries and third world were unaligned (and usually poor) states, so now first world really means countries that attained Western standards of living and service, i.e. Czech Republic was a part of Eastern Bloc state but definitely is a first world country now.

[@mikebannerman72]

Dr David, if Troy exists does that not mean the Iliad and Odyssey were most likely factual and not just myth or is it still debated whether the Trojan War actually occurred?

[@varyolla435]

Reminds me of the old _"travelogues"_ we used to see back in the 1970's before you had "travel" channels on cable television dedicated to showing people the wonders of the world. As an aside. As we see Troy was real and despite it being destroyed and subsumed by the surrounding environment to be lost to time = "something" remains nevertheless for archeologists to study. Remember that when LAHT speaks of things supposedly "lost" = something always remains if it was actually real. More importantly here is that as alluded to in the video = evidence of Troy's existence was noted by multiple cultures they the fought over the site as Dave spoke to. Unlike "Atlantis" which is basically a "single source" claim tied to a writer who mostly wrote stories etc. = people were referring to and fighting over Troy in antiquity which lends to it being real - aka contemporaneous evidence. p.s. - final thought = see the tourism infrastructure. Why is that important?? Answer: of late LAHT and others speak at times of _"Noah's Ark"_ supposedly being found - yet in stereotypical LAHT fashion that is supposedly being withheld from the world by those mean old academics. Yet as with here if the Ark was actually found the world would know --------> it would be covered as here under the UNESCO Treaty to be preserved -----> archeologists - and likely theologians would be studying it = and the host nation Turkey as here would more than likely promote tourism of the area and there would be a road lined with shops leading straight to it - yet we see nothing.......

[@peterhadley1654]

Instead of taking cablecar down, you can walk, seeing great ruins such as the gymnasiums the Villa of mosaics, including a great one incorporating Roman theater masks.

[@valeriejackson7429]

It’s frustrating that everything has been moved to Berlin.

[@karlkarlos3545]

Not if you're living in Berlin.

[@seansmith3058]

@@karlkarlos3545 Finders keepers!

[@KasumiRINA]

Yeah then stolen by you know who... it's always the same story. Trojan treasures? Stolen and ended up in mordor... Scythian gold? Moved to Kherson, robbed by invading horde. Chernobyl artifacts??? Yes.

[@ShadowDragon1848]

Did you feel anything about the fact that Turkey president tries to reform the country into a dictatorship?

[@hmldjr]

I did. When I was there it seemed like that.

[@Tony11442]

A dictatorship is only bad when the dictator is bad. There are examples in history of great dictatorships that saved nations from being collapsing corrupted republics. Rome is one of those examples. In the case of Turkey, even though the president isn't the best person ever, he did lift Turkey a lot higher than it was 30 years ago. They barely had roads there. Now look at them. That's why turkish society as we know it today is rather new. They started appearing to the world as a civilised country only 2 decades ago. They had like 2 brands of beer available in markets in the whole country (not necessarily produced by them) that barely anyone drank. Now they have like 50, plus they produce beer and wine.

[@seansmith3058]

I did as well. People were cautiously rueful and sardonic about it like the guy in the video. I think it's literally a crime to insult the President now. 😦

[@KasumiRINA]

@@Tony11442 "dictatorship good because beer variety", amazing take! USSR had one beer and it was worse than piss, while Western countries had tons to choose, stuff like ordinary American beer was like, elite alcohol only party bonzas and sailors could get. A lot of alcohol is market economy thing, nothing to do with dictatorship or liberty.

[@seansmith3058]

@@KasumiRINA Interesting take is right. The real builder of the country was the first president and the current one is (in the lingo of this program) a cheap imitation of a rare artifact. The only thing he builds are ever-changing political alliances to remain in power. When I was there the country was (like many others) still reeling from inflation but it was made worse by Erdegon's insistence that raising interest rates is "unislamic". And no one was able to question him on THAT interesting take.

[@drummerdad80]

Have you heard of the copper polluted harbor in egypt? Would love a video on that, to all the people who say can't do it with copper then why is there a polluted harbor lol...

[@robzagar4275]

Up your ass ! Love the brevity! Great show mates!

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

Looking at the gate level 7, well, the only wooden horse that could squeeze through there would only hold one or two warriors, but then, if all the citizens were passed out drunk it would only take one or two Greeks to tiptoe to open the gates. Also, I just finished reading a (shudder) Clive Cussler fantasy (hey, I needed something to read, stat, and it was all I could lay hands on!) that posited that Troy was actually in England and the Greeks may have been Iberian Celts. For good measure, he threw in that Odessyus actually wandered around the Atlantic and Caribbean and Circe was a warrior priestess on an island near Puerto Rico. From the notes and dedications, it appears that he based all this on some "experts theory (surprisingly, it was not Graham Hancock).

[@petrapetrakoliou8979]

Are you visiting an ancient city or entering into a subway?

[@yaldabaoth2]

In German "parchment" is called Pergament.

[@KasumiRINA]

Oh so that's where it got into Ukrainian and russian from!

[@yahwea]

I have been to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and seen the Troy artifacts. A lot of jewelry.

[@josecavazos1194]

Disappointed that you didn't pass by the Asclepieion of Pergamon or the Red Basilica. The Troy horse is under renovation, not construction.

[@brondavis1601]

Demountable?

[@salinagrrrl69]

I can only wonder how much material has been repurposed for churches & homes.

[@mayflowerlash11]

I have a better idea than returning ancient artefacts to their place of origin. The modern countries involved should exchange artefacts so they are in the protection of the other country. This would bind the two countries in an arrangement where each is responsible for the safe keeping of the other's historic artifacts.