Cities in Anatolia that Held Out Against Alexander the Great

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Continuing their exploration of southern Anatolia, David and Tess investigate the ancient cities of Aspendos and Perge in Pamphylia, and Sagalassos in Pisidia.
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[@brazenatheist1676]

Thank you for all the time it takes to make this. In a world where the "history" channel pushes pseudo science click bait it's immeasurably appreciated that people like you exist, love the content and want to share your knowledge with us all.

[@Jonnygurudesigns]

"This theater is more than 15,000 years old" 😂😂😂 hilarious 😂😂😂

[@cyan1616]

Anything to get someone to leave a comment, that's how they make their money. Thumbs down on this video, "Do not Recommend" this channel.

[@steventhompson399]

​@@cyan1616this channel has good content, unlike the fake fantasy nonsense from foerster or hancock or uncharted x or bright insight that takes advantage of people who don't know any better, they are the ones making money off people by recycling old ideas of Atlantis that no serious history student would take seriously

[@IsntTheInternetGreat]

​@@cyan1616 well, boohoo, Mr McGrumpyface.

[@thagenet]

@@cyan1616 Must be a truth hater

[@Jonnygurudesigns]

@@thagenet yeah, imagine thinking that the doctor is some sort of grifter or something hahaha it's amazing how many people have it absolutely backwards.. Hancock and people like him are the intellectual scammers.. it's amazing how many sheep there are out there in the world.

[@feralfoods]

great tour. i really chuckled at your 'ancient high technology' joke in the theatre around 10-min in. thank you for all your videos.

[@kennybobby201]

9:45 that is actually 20,000 yrs old and was used to power their stargate. Its covered in ep 2 season 3 of stargate atlantis.

[@markcorrigan3930]

No.

[@Mpel3]

​@@markcorrigan3930 Whoosh!

[@MossyMozart]

@kennybobby201 - You ARE being sarcastic, aren't you?

[@kennybobby201]

@@MossyMozart correct, just as dr miano was.

[@Imperiused]

Out of the Antiquity Travel Guides in Turkey, I think this one had the most humor in it. I chuckled quite a few times!

[@ike4425]

Dont miss the Antalya Museum Dr, Miano!

[@kasturipillay6626]

Wow thanks for the informative tour Dr Miano. Your'e a great tour guide. ❤

[@samwill7259]

The thing I'm looking at is that that resturant made such a delicious looking dish out of cheese and fish. That's black magic.

[@daviddupoise6443]

Love everything you've seen and done here. I really loved the musical choices in the edits. Thanks so much

[@brianmsahin]

Fantastic video as always. We are lucky enough to be permanent tourists living in Turkey and we have immersed ourselves in the incredible history. Loved Perge and Aspendos. I persuaded my wife to quietly sing in the stage area while I was sitting on the top tier and heard her! I csn believe the legend !

[@Tabletsculptingtips]

I really appreciate these wonderful antiquity focused travel videos. Thanks for making them!

[@Tareltonlives]

Anatolia is the land of 10,000 cities, each with thousands of years of history. It's so cool to learn about these cities that don't make the big books or appear in conventional campaign histories.

[@-OICU812-]

15,000-year-old theater huh, you almost make it sound plausible: If only you had squirrely hair your proposal would be a little more believable! 😂 Great video!

[@onnoede7515]

Welcome to Antalya the city I live in and also is mentioned in the New Testament as Attalia

[@MossyMozart]

@onnoede7515 - Hello! I wish I could have gone on such a trip, too.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

The proscenium is everything in front of the sceni. It’s the arch that the main curtain hangs from in modern theatres. The rigging of the shade over the seats eventually went on to be foundation of the flies when theatres began having a roof, allowing backdrops to be raised and lowered as needed, changing the appearance of the sceni. Even as late as the Elizabethan period, a theatre was designed the exact same as an ancient amphitheater. That theatre history class I took as part of a technical theatre minor is seldom useful, but in this rare occasion it is. Those arched alcoves may have been for the chorus if there are no statues on the site. That’s why they’re life-sized. A person would have stood there waiting to deliver their lines.

[@dandare1001]

A great tour, and some good background music. Thanks.

[@MossyMozart]

I, too enjoyed the music a lot.

[@garymaidman625]

The theatre at Aspendos or Asbestos if you like, reminds me of the Roman Amphitheatre in Verona in Italy. It's also so well preserved that live performances are regularly held there. I've been to Verona when one of these operatic performances were taking place. While I wasn't within the amphitheatre, I was in the piazza and it was still incredible.

[@UberGringo]

Turkey is so pretty! Spectacular views!!

[@lawrence5117]

I've really been enjoying this series on Turkiye. Its great to get to see and know about about some of the less well known ancient regions. Thanks to all involved in producing such interesting videos.

[@hellenicarmorsofficial4439]

Hello sir . If you come to Athens it will be a pleasure to meet you ! I am Dimitrios , the only armorer of modern Greece .Enjoy your trip

[@MossyMozart]

That would be an interesting interview!

[@timfogelson7076]

I love all the neat food you got to eat..Cause all that walking around makes you hungry. Such neat stuff.

[@andreweaston1779]

This is amazing. Thank you for showing this.

[@thearaucariafarmer556]

These videos, the antiquities travel guides, are awesome, and this video had me genuinely chuckling, im thoroughly entertained (and INFORMED!)

[@postyoda1623]

I think it probably would be a fun idea to make one single review video of all the videos of this series and the places you visited, briefly mentioning their importance and history like a synopsis of the whole thing squeezed into one video, showing the routes on a map also.

[@tgeezee3453]

Great Field Trip ...I think this was my fisrt trip to Turkey ? I've been so many places with david hopefully did not forget one of our previous destinations in the area

[@postyoda1623]

Amazing as always. Much appreciated.

[@mythosboy]

Got to love the local restaurants with their own gardens and farms. That corner of Turkey looks a bit (Southern) California. Love these videos: adding Turkey to the list.

[@Mrch33ky]

These walk throughs of ancient sites are an order of magnitude better than anything on Discovery Channel; or PBS or... was History Channel ever really a thing?

[@MossyMozart]

I would say NOT better than PBS, but more intimate and funny. Yes, when it started out, the History Channel _was_ about history, but it didn't take many years for it to swerve off the alien trackway.

[@Taomantom]

Loved the 15,000 year old joke!!!

[@russellmillar7132]

Wait...that was a joke?

[@Taomantom]

@@russellmillar7132 the amplifiers in the stadium are too advanced for the time. MUST be from an ancient civilization. Graham reference most likely.

[@catman8965]

I thought it was Younger - Dryas lost high technology 😮😢

[@kaloarepo288]

The Italian word for "yacht" is "panfilo" and apparently the origin of this word goes back to the coastal region of Pamphylia because of the type of seacraft used in this area. The word Pamphylia itself may come from the Greek and means "pan phylum" -all the tribes.

[@wardafournello]

Aspendos is known for having the best-preserved theatre of antiquity, the Roman Theatre of Aspendos.With a diameter of 96 metres (315 ft), it provided seating for 7,000. Even though, the recent Aspendus Culture and Film Festival has shown that it can hold over 20,000. It was built in 155 by the Greek architect Zenon, a native of the city.

[@red_sodium]

interesting topic, Could we have a series on alexanders campaigns around the world??

[@arnorrian1]

Great tour.

[@GothPaoki]

It's worth mentioning that in popular tradition it was believed that the argives who founded the city did so after the fall of Troy and they settled there after the war ended. It was to say colonisation by proxy and not directly by the founding city if Argos. I like how the story of this city ties with mythology and the general background of the Mycenaean - Hittite historical conflict. One can only imagine how chaotic this period was in that area during that time.

[@khaleelkhan4556]

Great video keep it up bro ❤️

[@tabsdarby9011]

Breath of fresh air, I’d been trapped by the pseudoscience algorithm, but now I’m free of all that crazy stuff

[@NeutralDrow]

May be a weird thing to notice, but the landscapes remind me so much of southern California's inland mountains and valleys. If it wasn't for the ruins, I'd probably think it was Cuyamaca or Palomar! (Then again, given that they're both "Mediterranian" climates, maybe it's more appropriate to say SoCal reminds me of Anatolia...)

[@ike4425]

Because both S. California and Antalya are riviera. So it is quiet normal one to remind other.

[@candui-7]

The Nile River Valley, heavily populated since the beginning of human overpopulation, was largely depopulated at 14 ka. Repopulation happened at 5.5ka. Surrounding areas with water were not depopulated. The Nile delta shows high levels of heavy metal concentrations in these time constraints. Did meltwater pulse 1A have anything to do with this? Did MWP 1B, coincidental with Plato's reference to Atlantis, have anything to do with the burial of Gobeckli Tepi?

[@T61APL89]

great video

[@BazNard]

Superb

[@syntropyandtheholdingcompa9908]

Thank you for the globe links. I wonder if the ancient alien version rotates North /South. I am ordering one the antique one.

[@Tabletsculptingtips]

I'm curious: of all the many ancients sites you've visited, do you have a favourite? Maybe not the biggest, or most well known sites, but perhaps somewhere that was surprising, or highly atmospheric? Thanks

[@Where_is_Waldo]

4:35 I recognize that three legged symbol from the isle of Man flag.

[@olorin4317]

Oh I wish we’d stop unfurbishing such marvelous places.

[@Soundwrecker]

9:48 Lol. Nice!

[@southsidetoo]

love seeing the ruins but know i would be to lazy to see them in person

[@chilledwalrus]

You didn't mention anything about büyük tuvalet (sorry, this is the Turkish word) when in Perge. This was and still is extremely important to the lives of the local residents.

[@TT3TT3]

Thanks!

[@castlephoenixandsculptureg6467]

Imagine the number of chisles made and worn down with these intricate carving and sheer quantity of masonry!

[@filmbuffo5616]

Very good.

[@juhonieminen4219]

4:40 I'm sure people at Aspendos love to be mixed with Asbestos.

[@SaraWilsonBasturk]

Thank you so much for this video! I had the great privilege of living in Antalya for several years and have wonderful memories of these sites. A farmer near the Aspendos aqueduct showed us bits of water channel (or maybe it was pipe?) that had fallen off the aqueduct and into his orchard.

[@podemosurss8316]

4:14 Est-Wadiya? I wonder if their ruler was called Aladeen 😉

[@fuferito]

Plancia Magna was a remarkable woman. I wonder if the Hellenistic society that preceded the Roman one that she lived in would have made allowance for such a prominent woman.

[@ike4425]

Plancia Magna was a defacto senate member , an Archontissa of Perge.

[@chrimony]

I thought for sure there would be a battery in that globe, but I found a video where they smashed one open, and it was indeed solar panels and magnets, along with some copper coils. Pretty cool.

[@MossyMozart]

Kidding? I think that is this group had smashed open any of the theater's equipment, they would have had to run for their car!

[@Where_is_Waldo]

We just arrived at asbestos and now we have cancer.

[@sahilbaxi]

9:43 😂😂😂

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

I'm glad you spelled it correctly instead of kow-towing to their fascist leader. {:o:O:}

[@Fetguf]

thingies that holds up stones = Steel Soldier

[@GizzyDillespee]

No perga bee bread? (I don't think it's really from Perga)

[@GizzyDillespee]

It's also not bread. How do they come up with these names?!

[@Eyes_Open]

Christopher Dunn would wrap a cotton thread around the globe and then say that that the lines of latitude were a continuous downward spiral.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

How would we know if he was Dunn?

[@michaelterry3885]

I sincerely think saying that they "held out " is a bit of a stretch, and a gross misrepresentation if not exaggeration, of what most likely occurred when facing the armies of Macedonia and Alexander... When not attracting his attention, incurring his Wrath, or being worthy of conquest... Is probably the best explanation of the survival of these cities or societies... Simply put.... If Alexander wanted your city, he would get your city, if he wanted your entire Empire, odds are he was going to get it...

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Holding out doesn't need to be for an infinite amount of time. You can hold out for a week. You can hold out for a day.

[@michaelterry3885]

@@WorldofAntiquityAgreed... However, that being the case... The term and point, seems a bit moot, doesn't it..?

[@WorldofAntiquity]

@@michaelterry3885 No.

[@michaelterry3885]

@@WorldofAntiquity 🤥...😏uh huh.👍 😅 Regardless.... I sincerely enjoyed your video....

[@candlelightman653]

people come here to drink out of this special temple water! *proceeds to put feet in water*

[@danielcross434]

LOL 15 thousand years old! ancient alien technology found!!

[@G-Sam786]

The jab at pseudoscience was brilliant.

[@keishablossum]

SINGLE. PIECES. OF. GRANITE.

[@Cmr_5vifail]

How he defeated is a greatest puzzle ,which later feebly imitated by Religions and communism and now a kind of madness

[@Bigk671]

9:42 that's an interesting observation 🤣

[@jakobo88]

hahaha the atlanteans

[@russellmillar7132]

Tess, please tell me "asbestos" was a joke. I busted a gut either way.

[@Taomantom]

I noticed that Tess dresses according to local customs. Do not want to offend the local religious dress police. 🙃 And she is an excellent communicator as are you! Thanks! on a side note: when I saw the title and having read about Alexander's conquests do not anticipate happy endings. Rhodes is a great example. Now to the video!

[@modo2213]

Maybe that was a joke? Anyway, there is no religious dress police in Turkey. You can wear what you want.

[@Taomantom]

@@modo2213 When in the Middle East you can see she dresses very modestly with a head covering. Not a hat. It is a statement about social norms mostly and her dressing to them. I MIGHT be wrong. It does happen. Ask Dr. M about my water drop measurement thought that he blew out of the water. Have to love that kind of dedication.

[@bubaks2]

First 😎 I want that globe!

[@twonumber22]

and survived?!

[@user-cofee]

Alexander the great and Turkey in the same sentence, feels like anachronisme

[@Lostboy811]

You sure it wasn't ancient aliens that built it

[@Mrch33ky]

That Tess is one of the good ones! You should do something nice for her Dr. Miano, for putting up with your endless monkeyshines. Give her The World On a String, one of those magnetic globes. Something!

[@steventhompson399]

@ 9:45 No sir, I'm afraid you're mistaken! Atlantis was utterly obliterated by the magic comet and the younger dryas apocalypse around 12900 - 11600yrs ago. Thats why there's no evidence whatsoever of Atlantis, every single building and individual artifact was destroyed. So, obviously, that theater was built shortly after the younger dryas, by primitive cavemen who were guided and influenced by surviving atlanteans to become more advanced and civilized, but they were not actually atlanteans themselves ^joking^ That part was funny, but Atlantis believers probably don't find it funny

[@mayflowerlash11]

"15,000 years old" LOL very droll.

[@PeteSty]

Great video as always! But you get to travel all over with that pretty girl, what if your wife finds out?

[@somnambulist7705]

The globe tells everyone you’re not a flat earther

[@millamulisha]

Sort of ironic that most of Turkey’s revenue for tourism comes from people wanting to visit ancient Roman and Greek sites. Do the Italians or Greeks get royalties at least?... 😅

[@ike4425]

So ironic that you are not aware that indigenious people of Anatolia ie todays Turkey expossed and impossed to Hellenic culture were genetically not related to Greeks. Turks living around those ancient sites today are descendants of the people whom used to live in those ancient cities.Check out the DNA research of Belgian Prof. Waelkens on skelotons found during excavation in Sagalassos vs the DNA of the locals living today around that ancient site. Yeap, both DNAs were perfect match.

[@millamulisha]

@@ike4425 But the Turks who conquered Anatolia (e.g. the Ottoman rulers and notable classes of people) were ethnically people who migrated from an area closer to China. I’m not surprised that indigenous people were assimilated by the Ottomans, who did all manner of things to subjugate indigenous peoples like the Armenians and Kurds. But the vast majority of the ancient sites of modern day ‘Turkey’ which tourists flock to are Byzantine Greek and Roman, not Turkic. 🤷‍♂️

[@ike4425]

@@millamulisha I understand your pain hence your desperate non sense. So the “Byzantine Greeks” and Romans assimilated indigenous people of Anatolia. Needless to say, before the Greeks and Roman Anatolia was land of Hitites , Lydians, Luvians…non Greek, non Armenians people. And Turks were already mixed race way before they stepped in to Anatolia, so They did not come to Anatolia with slint eyes and with physiological characteristics of Middle Asian people. We are looking after very well those ancient sites , investing millions of dollars for keeping them intact as if those antiquties heritage to us from our own people of Anatolia. And we are not doing it to atract tourists to come over and leave money in Turkey but doing it for appreciation , pleasure of our people.

[@millamulisha]

@@ike4425 The genetic analysis has already been done, Hittites are Indo-European people from the Caucuses and Lower Volga and Dneiper region. Turks on the other hand are from Central Asia and Western China - e.g. not the indigenous people of Anatolia. Turks colonized the Ancient Greek and Roman cities of Anatolia. These are just the facts. Sorry you’re upset about it. Was just a funny flippant comment.

[@chilledwalrus]

Who's the WOA babe now? But OMG, she washed her feet in the drinking water!

[@kkupsky6321]

Hey. That’s not funny. I have a splinter in my eye and don’t have perspective. Not cool man. I like your gloves and the way you shut down charlatans. Good work prof

[@nilkilnilkil]

😂😂😂

[@rasaltpeso1466]

Looks like Tess is getting bored.

[@GJP1169]

Just found your channel. Thanks for the sanity debunking. Pseudo science

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Welcome!

[@joeneil5485]

I prefer you more dressed up, sir... More gravitas, more credibility...! 😊

[@nappispi7780]

No cities in Turkey held out because there was no Turkey then. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Lover-ji3je]

You look so Old

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

Who here cause of Rogan?

[@johnpaullaizure7330]

The correct answer would be all of them.....since "Turkey" did not exist when he was alive......It was called Anatolia back then........Misleading title........they also did not hold out, if you live in any country even today, and the leader genuflects and capitulates to a foreign leader, you can call yourself independent all you want, but you are not really.

[@twonumber22]

Obviously by Turkey he meant the current state we English speakers call Turkey. Obviously.

[@johnpaullaizure7330]

@@twonumber22 In Correct English it would still be Anatolia, For example i would not say that "Bak Hyeokgeose" ruled South Korea, He was King of Silla. Even if the area is now known as South Korea.....The title this person used was incorrect clickbait.

[@twonumber22]

@@johnpaullaizure7330 No. You are living in 2024. Turkey is a country that exists in 2024.

[@johnpaullaizure7330]

@@twonumber22 I missed Alexander the great?!?!?! I would have flown to Macedonia to meet him! Oh wait, you are incorrect in your English. Is it not your first language? Then maybe i could forgive you for your error, but my guess is that it is your first language. That you are just a lefty fool. Since the title is referring to a different time period, the name the land used at the time would be correct, which is exactly why i used my example of south korea depending on the time period it is being spoken about, would not bet called south korea, it would be called what it was called during the time period that was being disscussed, in my example i used the kingdom of Silla.

[@WorldofAntiquity]

If being pedantic about video titles makes you feel superior, have at it, but maybe watch the video before making judgments.

[@faizanrana2998]

i love professor miano but this other host ia killing my vibe. why does she always complain about the entry prices? if you dont like it then stay at home. her tone is so offensive, always so condescending about other cultures. I hope she doesnt come to visit our sites here in the UK