The best thing about Bettany Hughes is the passion for her subject in her voice. No matter what topic in her documentaries you can tell she really loves learning this and talking about it. It's as far from a cold, dry recitation of a subject as you can get. I never fail to learn watching or listening to her documentaries.
Within seconds I recognized her voice. The way she pronounces & accents words as a narrator does relate her own passion for the subjects... I do enjoy her work!
I was familiar with the history of the Minoans however; whenever Bethany Hughes is the host/narrator I feel as if I am watching any historical program for the very first time. What a wonderful work she does!!
@joe jitsu yep my history teacher was a cranky old sod who we thought knew Jesus Christ personally...This lass on the other hand would have ensured none of boys would have ever wagged history
This doc absolutely made no mention of the half-man-bull creature imprisoned in a labyrinth. It's the doc about the rise and fall Minoan society , which I watched about 5 years ago.
I've been to Knossos, the minotaurs palace... beautiful & what really asthonishes is that that community didn't know any violence! and their jewelry is just simply amazingly incredible and very complex .. 6000 year old, absolutely amazing
@@shable1436 The Minoan culture was either in decline or gone by the time the Sea People were a thing. I don't much about the Sea People. One theory is that they were Mycenean pirates.
The soundtrack really breathes life into the images. It transports and eases you into an ancient state of mind. No matter if it's nothing like their music, the important thing is the sensory experience.
Didnt like the soundtrack actually, I don't find it resonating to the land, zone, culture, and it plays with emotions of anxiety and unknown bad darkness. Why making something negative and dubious just because you dont have the knowledge, it could be otherwise.Anyhow, didnt resonate with me. Love
@@dukenegju It's been a year since I watched this, but you may be correct. I have had phases in my life when I listened to reconstructed ancient music (Synaulia etc) so I am probably pretty biased. I assume the people who are interested in ancient history have been exposed to the same limited well of music reconstructions! The "foreboding" or ominous character of the music adds a mysterious and sort of legendary feeling I think, rather than angst or darkness. Though, the minoan culture was wiped from the face of the earth so it would fit the narrative I think!
@@98Zai Thank you dear friend. We all have our truth and possibly need for momentary various tones, which even might help us in our situation. However I don't like it when external views tend to be to much on the entertaining side and on certain misunderstood 'dark' narratives. Mediterrenean zone is joyful, when I was there actually my perception of the deity was powerful in a positive way. Being back in some external zones, its rather where it becomes depressing like the music actually .. haha. And the sea told me with a smile I am what I am, and you stay true to your nature ;) Best wishes. Love
Excellent! I traveled to Crete years ago. The ruins of the Knossos palace and the associated museum were truly astonishing, especially considering their ancient age. Go see them if you can.
Knossos is a good introduction, but for me, you can’t beat Phaistos. Beautiful setting, no painted concrete, ahem, “reconstructions”, barely any tourists and no tacky souvenir stands. It’s truly blissful and far more authentic. Stop off in Matala for lunch afterwards at one of the seafood restaurants on stilts over the beach. Lovely day out ☺️
@Eric G. Davignon does it make it less impresive? I mean, everyone on tv is reading off a script, but it's the way that she presents that makes it really great. It has nothing to do with who wrote it (male or female) thats not even the point. she knows how to "TELL" a story
I wanted to know more about the minotaur! When where legend come from. Did I miss on the video? Don't get me wrong I love it but what about the minotaur?
@Cassiano Batalha.....did u ever get your answer about who were the minotaur? Be- cause there IS an answer that is NOT...."oh it's just greek myths.....someone saw a statue and made up a story to go with it"...NOT! 👋🏻😊
Anyone else detect a bit of cheekiness in a British TV historian starting off with, "Island races have a reputation for being arrogant, self-absorbed, , but the Minoans..."
Not really cheeky is it? England isn't an island for a start. Britain is but it has 3 countries on it and 65 million people so far to big to be an island race. Stupid comment.
"Mother nature having a tantrum" ! Beautifully put ! Can one imagine 100 foot waves (about 30 metres) ? I experienced massive waves on the island of Tenerife, about 50 foot (15 m) high and they were terrifying - one sudden wave nearly swept scores of people, including me and my family, off the beach into the sea by the backwash, we held onto each other for our lives. But that wasn't a Tsunami, just "normal" Atlantic waves. A true Tsunami must be absolutely horrifying. 😵
@@stofosaurus It must have been a horrifying experience and she was extremely lucky to survive. The experience we had at Tenerife one year earlier (2003) really showed us the true force of nature and when the great Tsunami of 2004 happened, we could really imagine the horror and destruction it caused. I have always loved the sea, but after Tenerife I look at it through different eyes - as your sister most probably does after the far worse event she went through.
@@Enonymouse_ I can well imagine ! I have experienced the power of the North Atlantic Ocean in Scotland's west coast, in France, near Bordeaux and in Brittany, in Portugal, near Cape St. Vincent, and Tenerife, as I said in my comment. When there were high waves, the were really HIGH ! Truly awe inspiring and extremely dangerous and never to be ignored - some people did when I was in France, and paid their foolishness with their lives. I know the North Sea, which can also be very rough, the Baltic and the Mediterranean, but no ocean I have ever seen has the wildness of the Atlantic. 😰
Excellent work. She has brought ancient history alive. I grew up 4 years on this beautiful island on airforce base. Best time as a kid there. Hope to die there. Before I left I sat on the beach looking at the sea. Part of me died there.
I completely understand Christopher, my Dad was in the RAF and I left a little part of me in every place we were posted to. I met so many different people who I still think of to this day, aged 58 and it makes me sad knowing that none of them probably even remember me. I was born in Singapore and would love to meet my Amah but probably never will
I've been to Crete and toured the Knossos labyrinth where the Minotaur supposedly was kept. It was one of the highlights of my trip to Greece. And believe me, there are some absolutely gorgeous women on that island.
And 75% of that 95% are about Hughes' sexual appeal (that she has never been shy about flaunting) rather than her qualities as an historian . . . which is just as well as she oft-times leaves much to the imagination as regards the latter. One of her latest efforts -- Eight Days That Made Rome -- is absolute rubbish next to which the occasional misinterpretations and dogmatic opinions expressed here-in pale in comparison. Ah well, why bother with thoughtfulness when what you really aspire to is a reputation as the thinking man's crumpet . . . Cheers!
One can well imagine that after such a cataclysm, after such an absolutely massive Tsunami, that the survivors discarded their Earth Goddesses and began to worship the ocean in the form of gods such as Poseidon, deeming him much more powerful - he was also thought to be the source and master of earthquakes, so they obviously also hedged their bets at the same time, worshiping his oceanic power but also over that of the land. This is such an excellent documentary, brilliantly presented and narrated by lovely Bettany Hughes. To think that the ultimate survivors of the fantastic Minoan civilization fled to the top of mountains, literally just clinging on to life in horribly bleak conditions, hoping above all hope to survive and one day return to the shores of the sea that had destroyed the lives they had known before.
What a treasure these Ancient History videos are. Ive wanted to study this stuff and Bethany makes History very entertaining and keeps your interest with her obvious passion for the subject. They do make you yearn for that beautiful Mediterranean sun though.
Love Bettany Hughes, especially her series called - The Ancient Worlds. If you've not seen them then I highly recommend watching ASAP , you won't be disappointed
@Mars Dunes I know, I actually made up a minoan based society in my D&D campaign I run and they called their place kriftu (a blend of the words Crete and Keftiu). Although I imagine regardless of where their language descended from it'll be a chore to pronounce as most ancient languages tend to be relatively for us.
@@veraxiana9993 I am from the island and I also play DND. The dark elves race share the fact that lolth is female as many priests in ancient Crete were. Drow culture was extremely matriarchal and it was unique and fun to roleplay drow. Women in my family still wear the pants and have endurance and will far greater than most Greek men.
It amazes me how a game can relate more real world concepts than an education system...That is the True beauty of that franchise...& the source of my genuine love for history!
these history videos have some of the best narrators in the business . most are experts on the topics and have a well established knoqledge of the subject .
13:06 she says "...boring into them, and then sucking out the insides." That woman exudes a constant aura of foreplay with every word and gesture. I'm a pensioner. I'm not sure my heart will survive the remainder of this video.
As an aspiring historian myself, Bettany Hughes is one of my two idols for how to be a historian. The other historian who holds that honor is Mike Loades.
@@brettcurtis5710 one has a speech impediment, and the other sounds like she's wearing a poorly fitted retainer. While some might find it charming I just find it grating. Cute only goes so far.
As always with Brittany Hughes , her documentaries are wonderfully presented both in subject and language. Add to that her passion for history. Yet, this documentary is from an earlier time, not from 2019, when she looked different. But that is less important, her presentation is a masterpiece.
@@sophitsa79 No it is not and the cretan museum will stay closed for as long as they can and even if it opens there will not be such information. The same holds for many other museums all over the country because my country is run by traitors who hate Greece and the scientists that are promoted by these traitors are those who take part in international meetings where foreign scientists tell them "But we have proof Greeks did this" and they go " This is racistic nonsense" th-cam.com/video/OnildHRaKCo/w-d-xo.html
@@sophitsa79 On the island I live the museum is closed for ten years now. The reason? They say they can't find staff. The museum is full of findings dated to 4.500 b.c. a date that no Greeks were supposed to be here.
@@kostaskolomitroushs2813 exactly! Greek civilization including the Kretan one is infinitely older than the establishment archeologists admit. There is so much evidence it goes back more than 30000 years but of course it will change history and the whole established modern theories. So they hide the evidence and close the museums
Wow! The most awesome presentation!! I loved every second. The background music score superb!! I am saving this one to watch over and over. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@raptors887... you see little child when you find someone attractive when you're younger and they're younger many years later when you're both older odds are if they look similar you're still going to find them attractive because you've aged and your body has sagged just as they've aged and their body has sagged if anything they're more attractive than looking at a picture of them when they were still a child.. I've noticed this in my own life actors who I never found attractive when I was younger I suddenly find attractive because I'm closer to the age they were when the footage was recorded.. also young men I was once attracted to I can look at those pictures and scoff and say oh my God it's just a child. People who date extremely old people or extremely young people have mental problems and fetishes it's not normal it's normal to find people who share things with you attractive, that's the reason why all the big starlets who were Bombshells when we still had Bombshells where women in their 30s, not too old and Haggard so that the younger people don't find them attractive and not children so that older people find them attractive...
I enjoy her programme very much always had interesting content. I remember her from time time baxk in rhe day she had a small part but even then there was something about how you could see how muxh joy she got from sharing her knowledge.
This must have been filmed a while ago cause look how young Bettany was and what a doll~!! There would have been no use to have taken one of her classes cause I wouldn't have been able to concentrate on anything but her~!!!
Could have been just me, but. I started with a prophane, intellectual state of mind. But then she uttered 'A pair of fine leather boots' , that set me off into a whole different mindset. Nuff said. Great doc this is!
I'm so proud of our clean waters surrounding our entire nation of Greece. We've had elaborate sewer systems, aqueducts and even Islands were drinking clean waters by drilling into the mountain from both sides while our advanced mathematics, especially from Thales that built many famous ones, they were able to drill from two sides and meet with exact precision in the middle, bringing water to our first city-states. All these helped keep our sea clean and avoid diseases while in Britain even until 19th century, they were defecating into the rivers that were drinking from dying from cholera and other horrible illnesses.
All the Greek ages were great. Especially the Classical age. Advancements in culture, philosophy, Engineering and Mathematics was phenomenal. As a British descendent, I agree that the Northern Europeans were backyards for the longest time.
wish i'd seen this before going to crete this year. it exceeded my expectations. it is an island of great beauty. the beaches are quite simply stunning. the mountains are arid, limestoned and beautiful. but the most beautiful place is elafonisi beach - this beach actually has pink sand. it is mad psychedelic. it looks pastel like a milkshake at your feet, and the water is the clearest, most beautiful shade of almost neon turquoise. it was truly otherworldly in beauty. balos bay, samaria gorge, knossos, chania, rethymno, heraklion, the caves all gorgeous places.
Hmmm. The Egyptian link is new and would make sense. The Apis bull was one of the earliest Egyptian gods and held power over fertility, harmony, balance and eternity, not to mention was closely associated to the goddess Hathor and Ptah (crafter god). Bulls we’re a big thing in Minoan culture. There’s also a theory that the two goddesses were the early incarnations of Demeter and Persephone, linked to Poseidon and possibly Egyptian influence through the bull cult turned Ptah into Hades (my own theory).
Sooo... anyone else click on this because you thought Brittany was in a bathing suit? I don't mean the only reason, but it was A reason. Edit: because spell check is demonic sometimes.
Do you mean that, spell check, wouldn't let you type, "Bettany"? That does sound, "demonic", indeed! I'm typing this reply on my phone and it also wanted me to type, "Brittany", but I was still allowed to type, Bettany. Best take you device to a Catholic priest and get it exorcised ... LOL!
Yes, very common misunderstanding. The original meaning of 'corn' is any grain, and you see the word used in that context in a great amount of literature. In English speaking parts of the Americas, corn came to refer specifically to maize.
The best thing about Bettany Hughes is the passion for her subject in her voice. No matter what topic in her documentaries you can tell she really loves learning this and talking about it. It's as far from a cold, dry recitation of a subject as you can get. I never fail to learn watching or listening to her documentaries.
Within seconds I recognized her voice. The way she pronounces & accents words as a narrator does relate her own passion for the subjects... I do enjoy her work!
I would like to see her in a history reenactment of some of her subjects
the lady is a complete package. brains cool compassion great tanning skin. : )
I thought the best thing was her nips poking through her shirt @4:00
I was familiar with the history of the Minoans however; whenever Bethany Hughes is the host/narrator I feel as if I am watching any historical program for the very first time. What a wonderful work she does!!
If Bettany Hughes had been my history teacher I would have learnt nothing, but loved every minute of it.
id love to colour the hem of her garment!!
You aren't shittin'!
I keep having to rewind it, as my mind keeps wandering off!!
@joe jitsu yep my history teacher was a cranky old sod who we thought knew Jesus Christ personally...This lass on the other hand would have ensured none of boys would have ever wagged history
@Juan Perez You're quite right I was just being facetious. I love ancient history and Bettany Hughes is brilliant and talented.
This doc absolutely made no mention of the half-man-bull creature imprisoned in a labyrinth. It's the doc about the rise and fall Minoan society , which I watched about 5 years ago.
for 15 secs at the very very beginning
I think she wanted us to see all of her outfits.
Thank you. Saved me time.
@@rebecca5303 I didn't understand what kind of pose that was at 6:30. When there was a flat surface at the beginning of segment.
Yeah, pretty irritating! I really wanted to hear about the minotaurs.
I've been to Knossos, the minotaurs palace... beautiful & what really asthonishes is that that community didn't know any violence! and their jewelry is just simply amazingly incredible and very complex .. 6000 year old, absolutely amazing
Ever heard of the sea ppls?
I would love to visit Knossos.
@@shable1436 The Minoan culture was either in decline or gone by the time the Sea People were a thing. I don't much about the Sea People. One theory is that they were Mycenean pirates.
Came to fall asleep to a documentary.
Ended up enthralled by this woman explaining Minoan history…
The soundtrack really breathes life into the images. It transports and eases you into an ancient state of mind. No matter if it's nothing like their music, the important thing is the sensory experience.
Didnt like the soundtrack actually, I don't find it resonating to the land, zone, culture, and it plays with emotions of anxiety and unknown bad darkness. Why making something negative and dubious just because you dont have the knowledge, it could be otherwise.Anyhow, didnt resonate with me. Love
@@dukenegju It's been a year since I watched this, but you may be correct. I have had phases in my life when I listened to reconstructed ancient music (Synaulia etc) so I am probably pretty biased. I assume the people who are interested in ancient history have been exposed to the same limited well of music reconstructions! The "foreboding" or ominous character of the music adds a mysterious and sort of legendary feeling I think, rather than angst or darkness. Though, the minoan culture was wiped from the face of the earth so it would fit the narrative I think!
@@dukenegju Also thanks for bringing this back to my attention, I'll enjoy rewatching it tonight❣
@@98Zai Thank you dear friend. We all have our truth and possibly need for momentary various tones, which even might help us in our situation. However I don't like it when external views tend to be to much on the entertaining side and on certain misunderstood 'dark' narratives. Mediterrenean zone is joyful, when I was there actually my perception of the deity was powerful in a positive way. Being back in some external zones, its rather where it becomes depressing like the music actually .. haha. And the sea told me with a smile I am what I am, and you stay true to your nature ;) Best wishes. Love
@@dukenegju Synaulia - symphoniaci
In ancient times you'd never know what madness might strike the gods. It was beyond your control.
Excellent! I traveled to Crete years ago. The ruins of the Knossos palace and the associated museum were truly astonishing, especially considering their ancient age. Go see them if you can.
Knossos is a good introduction, but for me, you can’t beat Phaistos. Beautiful setting, no painted concrete, ahem, “reconstructions”, barely any tourists and no tacky souvenir stands. It’s truly blissful and far more authentic. Stop off in Matala for lunch afterwards at one of the seafood restaurants on stilts over the beach. Lovely day out ☺️
I'd still like to see more about the "labyrinth" and if it existed historically.
I believe it did. But some men have very extravagant imaginations.
Yes! and what about the minotaur? I would like to know more. Don't get me wrong it was amazing! But I was expecting more minotaur and labirint!
@@CassianoBatalha Yeah, they didn't even mention the labyrinth. Or if it existed historically, that's the whole reason I watched it.
@@johnprzybycien1644 for me was the minotaur it there was any statues or was a God or whatever. Also the labirint that he guards.
@@johnprzybycien1644 did you whatch another good video more explanatory about the labirint?
She is the reason I continue to watch this documentary.
What is her name? Did she lose all that weight or is that some other lady?
lol same here
No bra and no panties! I'm all in!
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Are the Russians this vulgar? Lol.
@@DakotaFord592
Brittany Hughes
My God, her voice is pure ear candy. I could listen to her read the dictionary. Not to mention she's absolutely beautiful.
and sooooo smart
she really knows how to tell an attracting story
couldn't say any better!
@Eric G. Davignon does it make it less impresive? I mean, everyone on tv is reading off a script, but it's the way that she presents that makes it really great. It has nothing to do with who wrote it (male or female) thats not even the point. she knows how to "TELL" a story
@Eric G. Davignon I’d still go her though 🤷🏼♀️
My history teacher couldn't make gladiatorial fights sound interesting but if Bettany described paint drying, it would be fascinating.
Finally Timeline posts top notch documentaries again.
I wanted to know more about the minotaur! When where legend come from. Did I miss on the video? Don't get me wrong I love it but what about the minotaur?
I clicked on it just to make a comment about the 1986 movie, "The Eliminators," and credit the time-traveling cyborg for the legend.
www.britannica.com/topic/Minotaur#:~:text=Minotaur%2C%20Greek%20Minotauros%20%28%E2%80%9CMinos%E2%80%99s%20Bull%E2%80%9D%29%2C%20in%20Greek%20mythology%2C,Poseidon%20for%20sacrifice.%20Minos%2C%20instead%20of%20sacrificing%20it%2C
Um, the minotaur was invented in a Greek authors mind [Ovid] after they saw the ruins of Knossos.
Its a classic example of clickbait , I was disappointed too . Not one mention of the minotaur!
@Cassiano Batalha.....did u ever get your answer about who were the minotaur? Be-
cause there IS an answer that is NOT...."oh it's just greek myths.....someone saw a statue and made up a story to go with it"...NOT!
👋🏻😊
The light in greece makes every part of this video look beautiful
Anyone else detect a bit of cheekiness in a British TV historian starting off with, "Island races have a reputation for being arrogant, self-absorbed, , but the Minoans..."
Yes the Philistines
1:40
*Brexit*
Not really cheeky is it? England isn't an island for a start. Britain is but it has 3 countries on it and 65 million people so far to big to be an island race. Stupid comment.
Implying that they're negative traits? Being arrogant and big-headed is wonderful, you should all try it!
Thank you...well produced. The talent, her voice, and the information. Loved the visuals. So happy I found you Timeline...Namaste
"Mother nature having a tantrum" ! Beautifully put ! Can one imagine 100 foot waves (about 30 metres) ? I experienced massive waves on the island of Tenerife, about 50 foot (15 m) high and they were terrifying - one sudden wave nearly swept scores of people, including me and my family, off the beach into the sea by the backwash, we held onto each other for our lives. But that wasn't a Tsunami, just "normal" Atlantic waves. A true Tsunami must be absolutely horrifying. 😵
My sister survived the Thailand tsunami in 2004. The waves were 20 meters (65 feet) high.
@@stofosaurus
It must have been a horrifying experience and she was extremely lucky to survive. The experience we had at Tenerife one year earlier (2003) really showed us the true force of nature and when the great Tsunami of 2004 happened, we could really imagine the horror and destruction it caused. I have always loved the sea, but after Tenerife I look at it through different eyes - as your sister most probably does after the far worse event she went through.
Nazarene Portugal regularly see's extreme waves of up to 100-ish feet tall.
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I can well imagine ! I have experienced the power of the North Atlantic Ocean in Scotland's west coast, in France, near Bordeaux and in Brittany, in Portugal, near Cape St. Vincent, and Tenerife, as I said in my comment. When there were high waves, the were really HIGH ! Truly awe inspiring and extremely dangerous and never to be ignored - some people did when I was in France, and paid their foolishness with their lives. I know the North Sea, which can also be very rough, the Baltic and the Mediterranean, but no ocean I have ever seen has the wildness of the Atlantic. 😰
A Tsunami is not like a regular wave (or what is shown in movies) - it comes in and just keeps coming.
I never had a history teacher like her, probably would have paid more attention in class.
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Excellent work.
She has brought ancient history alive.
I grew up 4 years on this beautiful island on airforce base.
Best time as a kid there.
Hope to die there.
Before I left I sat on the beach looking at the sea.
Part of me died there.
I completely understand Christopher, my Dad was in the RAF and I left a little part of me in every place we were posted to. I met so many different people who I still think of to this day, aged 58 and it makes me sad knowing that none of them probably even remember me. I was born in Singapore and would love to meet my Amah but probably never will
I absolutely love learning about ancient Greek history
Then visit us.....
@@stylianoskampouris6608 got to have some money, not everyone is rich to visit the places we want
I've been to Crete and toured the Knossos labyrinth where the Minotaur supposedly was kept. It was one of the highlights of my trip to Greece. And believe me, there are some absolutely gorgeous women on that island.
95% comment on Bettany Hughes
5% on d island
may be this channel should start making documentary on her
What island ?
And 75% of that 95% are about Hughes' sexual appeal (that she has never been shy about flaunting) rather than her qualities as an historian . . . which is just as well as she oft-times leaves much to the imagination as regards the latter. One of her latest efforts -- Eight Days That Made Rome -- is absolute rubbish next to which the occasional misinterpretations and dogmatic opinions expressed here-in pale in comparison. Ah well, why bother with thoughtfulness when what you really aspire to is a reputation as the thinking man's crumpet . . . Cheers!
@@tomrobinson6779 Too funny mate. Cheers!
She's Archeology's Nigella.
You aren't shittin'!
One can well imagine that after such a cataclysm, after such an absolutely massive Tsunami, that the survivors discarded their Earth Goddesses and began to worship the ocean in the form of gods such as Poseidon, deeming him much more powerful - he was also thought to be the source and master of earthquakes, so they obviously also hedged their bets at the same time, worshiping his oceanic power but also over that of the land. This is such an excellent documentary, brilliantly presented and narrated by lovely Bettany Hughes. To think that the ultimate survivors of the fantastic Minoan civilization fled to the top of mountains, literally just clinging on to life in horribly bleak conditions, hoping above all hope to survive and one day return to the shores of the sea that had destroyed the lives they had known before.
you had me at bethany hughes
@@randyrysdale852
Actually, her name is spelt Bettany and not "Bethany", as I misspelled it.
What a treasure these Ancient History videos are. Ive wanted to study this stuff and Bethany makes History very entertaining and keeps your interest with her obvious passion for the subject. They do make you yearn for that beautiful Mediterranean sun though.
I could look in to her eyes and listen to her all day
Love Bettany Hughes, especially her series called - The Ancient Worlds. If you've not seen them then I highly recommend watching ASAP , you won't be disappointed
Minoan history is fascinating but currently frustratingly incomplete, I hope one day we learn how to translate their writing
A bit more to love these days but still looking great
Maybe, AI could be used to help crack the code, on day?
@Mars Dunes I know, I actually made up a minoan based society in my D&D campaign I run and they called their place kriftu (a blend of the words Crete and Keftiu). Although I imagine regardless of where their language descended from it'll be a chore to pronounce as most ancient languages tend to be relatively for us.
@@veraxiana9993 I am from the island and I also play DND. The dark elves race share the fact that lolth is female as many priests in ancient Crete were. Drow culture was extremely matriarchal and it was unique and fun to roleplay drow. Women in my family still wear the pants and have endurance and will far greater than most Greek men.
I wonder if Drizzt Do’Urden has ever been to Crete
AC Odyssey showed me this island and the quest line their was quite remarkable.
It amazes me how a game can relate more real world concepts than an education system...That is the True beauty of that franchise...& the source of my genuine love for history!
@@thedirty530 Same here bought Oddyssey last year now I'm a full blown historian 😂 Love History & Mythology & the newer AC games
Here because i just took down the minotor!
Thanks!
Love her laid back and informative style..................a great presenter and program.
The way she talks about women, with such love and enthusiasm, it's positively infectious!
Documentaries like this are the antidote to reality tv. Dig in and inoculate yourselves.
The best part is I am going today on an extended weekend on Crete 🤣.
I stayed at a place called Maria Villa when I was there. Wish I could have stayed longer.
Congratulations!
these history videos have some of the best narrators in the business . most are experts on the topics and have a well established knoqledge of the subject .
Ms Hughes certainly makes history even more appealing.
The ending literally brought me to tears. Such an amazing documentary and host!
Been looking for this documentry for years!!!!
I'm surprised how long sailing took from Crete to Egypt even in those days. I would have assumed it would be counted in days not weeks.
Splendid docu! Brilliant host!
13:06 she says "...boring into them, and then sucking out the insides." That woman exudes a constant aura of foreplay with every word and gesture. I'm a pensioner. I'm not sure my heart will survive the remainder of this video.
As an aspiring historian myself, Bettany Hughes is one of my two idols for how to be a historian. The other historian who holds that honor is Mike Loades.
Mike knows alot about medieval soldiering.He can handle a bow and sword.
I was dragged into history by (Dame) Frances Amelia Yates. Do not, I repeat, do not google her pictures.
The only person in the world who can make ancient history sound sexy.
She was hot, sadly now is overweight, her younger days she was dream girl
Don't forget those other British women academics … Mary Beard and the lovely Lucy Worsley!
@@brettcurtis5710 one has a speech impediment, and the other sounds like she's wearing a poorly fitted retainer. While some might find it charming I just find it grating. Cute only goes so far.
@@brettcurtis5710 ``Worsley``
This chick is weird
The art is the most beautiful ever created IMO
It takes a passionate teacher to bring history to life and make it live and breathe again for students
So chilling, the way she describes every disaster with "but the gods weren't finished yet", over and over....
I feel like a 12 year old boy with my sisters cosmopolitan magazine, in the 80's.
XD
Bit deep that one kid
Go on my son 🤣🤣
Been there, but for me it was the mid 90s
Haha!
Classic documentary. I haven't seen this in a long time. Definitely going to use it in my classroom.
she has many
Showing that shipwright working away, I'd say the invention of the adze has been more effective in human history than the invention of the wheel.
this is probably the best documentary on the Minoan culture!
She doesn’t know what she is talking about
so beautiful and beautiful delivery of history
As always with Brittany Hughes , her documentaries are wonderfully presented both in subject and language. Add to that her passion for history. Yet, this documentary is from an earlier time, not from 2019, when she looked different. But that is less important, her presentation is a masterpiece.
Yes, great presentation here. Unfortunately she speaks so differently now with fake overacted admiration. She was much better back then, more natural.
Great soundtrack! I went looking for music by Tony Burke, but the one I found was pretty obviously not this one.
Very decent efford. Latest discoveries have revealed the construction of even bigger ships and trips to USA and Canada. Thank you for your work.
Is this information in the Crete museum? I think it's finally open?
@@sophitsa79 No it is not and the cretan museum will stay closed for as long as they can and even if it opens there will not be such information. The same holds for many other museums all over the country because my country is run by traitors who hate Greece and the scientists that are promoted by these traitors are those who take part in international meetings where foreign scientists tell them "But we have proof Greeks did this" and they go " This is racistic nonsense"
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@@kostaskolomitroushs2813 I thought I heard it had opened and was looking forward to going next trip. I'll watch the video, thanks
@@sophitsa79 On the island I live the museum is closed for ten years now. The reason? They say they can't find staff. The museum is full of findings dated to 4.500 b.c. a date that no Greeks were supposed to be here.
@@kostaskolomitroushs2813 exactly! Greek civilization including the Kretan one is infinitely older than the establishment archeologists admit. There is so much evidence it goes back more than 30000 years but of course it will change history and the whole established modern theories. So they hide the evidence and close the museums
Wow! The most awesome presentation!! I loved every second. The background music score superb!! I am saving this one to watch over and over. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Very well done. Thank you!
Well, we know what a Greek Goddess looks like.
Smoooooth!!!
You aren't shittin'!
Titless?
@@thegamersgalaxy2855 Certainly not! They were perfect back then.
@Grim Reefer You surely must be joking?!
3:56 its sure nice weather with a hint of a cool breeze..lol
Ms Hughes is what makes men interested in history (:-)
If you can only be interested in something when a chick in a plunging neckline is flashed in front of you, then you're not really into it.
Midnight perfect time to learn from this teacher
What a beautiful Herstory Teacher and lesson.
8:35 says it all.
i still have a crush on ms. hughes
She’s not hot anymore unfortunately. This is an older documentary.
Who doesn't 😍
She looks BETTER now! Asd if that was possible.
Married
@@raptors887... you see little child when you find someone attractive when you're younger and they're younger many years later when you're both older odds are if they look similar you're still going to find them attractive because you've aged and your body has sagged just as they've aged and their body has sagged if anything they're more attractive than looking at a picture of them when they were still a child..
I've noticed this in my own life actors who I never found attractive when I was younger I suddenly find attractive because I'm closer to the age they were when the footage was recorded.. also young men I was once attracted to I can look at those pictures and scoff and say oh my God it's just a child. People who date extremely old people or extremely young people have mental problems and fetishes it's not normal it's normal to find people who share things with you attractive, that's the reason why all the big starlets who were Bombshells when we still had Bombshells where women in their 30s, not too old and Haggard so that the younger people don't find them attractive and not children so that older people find them attractive...
i forgot she was talking about history "more please
it's very good!
I wonder how long it took to upload... XD
But who is the narrator tho? I think I have a new crush.
In my house, when Bethany is on, everybody else can take a seat and hush!!
CLEAR AND CONCISE IN HER WORDS.
Did hear a word, shes looks hot though
CLEAR AND CONCISE IN HER WORDS.- so would I be if I ever got to meet her!
Have you trolls stopped drooling yet?
Young Bettany got a lot of British Boys loving history.
One of the 50 Feral Hogs her boobs werent that Big sadly
And one old American guy, too...😍
Mary Beard's nemesis.
I enjoy her programme very much always had interesting content. I remember her from time time baxk in rhe day she had a small part but even then there was something about how you could see how muxh joy she got from sharing her knowledge.
Meant time team back in the day
Does anybody know the song at 2:38? It just Sounds so ancient, love it. Gettin pictures in my head how life Was back then and such 😅
The soundtrack and the cut scenes are just amazing they give the show an identity
14:53 "People with greedy eyes and a natural curiosity". I'll raise my hand to that
LOL yeah.
This must have been filmed a while ago cause look how young Bettany was and what a doll~!! There would have been no use to have taken one of her classes cause I wouldn't have been able to concentrate on anything but her~!!!
She still is a doll imo
Could have been just me, but. I started with a prophane, intellectual state of mind. But then she uttered 'A pair of fine leather boots' , that set me off into a whole different mindset. Nuff said. Great doc this is!
Legit my favorit channel on TH-cam
I'm so proud of our clean waters surrounding our entire nation of Greece. We've had elaborate sewer systems, aqueducts and even Islands were drinking clean waters by drilling into the mountain from both sides while our advanced mathematics, especially from Thales that built many famous ones, they were able to drill from two sides and meet with exact precision in the middle, bringing water to our first city-states. All these helped keep our sea clean and avoid diseases while in Britain even until 19th century, they were defecating into the rivers that were drinking from dying from cholera and other horrible illnesses.
All the Greek ages were great. Especially the Classical age. Advancements in culture, philosophy, Engineering and Mathematics was phenomenal.
As a British descendent, I agree that the Northern Europeans were backyards for the longest time.
This is an older documentary and she is knockout and still is today .
The background music is hypnotic 😵✨ I was under Bettany's spell the entire time.
Does this chick narrate any other vids on timeline? Or others? She has my full attention.
Who's the Beautiful Lady?? Awesome......
Unfortunately, the focus isn't Cretan history, but, the host.
Very little content in the end.
I played between x1.25-1.75 just to get to substance between the long and at times even pretentious streams of words.
I don't mind at all.
Academy Award presentation!
@@ytusersumone melodious awakening of an interest in a dull, but glorious subject. Bravo.
I'm thoroughly OK with that.
For some reason I can't remember anything that was talked about in this documentary. Almost as if I were distracted. Strange...
You better go back and watch her again... I mean watch the documentary again.
Distracted by what?
Oh, you men.
wish i'd seen this before going to crete this year. it exceeded my expectations. it is an island of great beauty. the beaches are quite simply stunning. the mountains are arid, limestoned and beautiful. but the most beautiful place is elafonisi beach - this beach actually has pink sand. it is mad psychedelic. it looks pastel like a milkshake at your feet, and the water is the clearest, most beautiful shade of almost neon turquoise. it was truly otherworldly in beauty. balos bay, samaria gorge, knossos, chania, rethymno, heraklion, the caves all gorgeous places.
Hmmm. The Egyptian link is new and would make sense. The Apis bull was one of the earliest Egyptian gods and held power over fertility, harmony, balance and eternity, not to mention was closely associated to the goddess Hathor and Ptah (crafter god). Bulls we’re a big thing in Minoan culture. There’s also a theory that the two goddesses were the early incarnations of Demeter and Persephone, linked to Poseidon and possibly Egyptian influence through the bull cult turned Ptah into Hades (my own theory).
She’s a SMOKE SHOW!- good info too... 😁
Sooo... anyone else click on this because you thought Brittany was in a bathing suit? I don't mean the only reason, but it was A reason.
Edit: because spell check is demonic sometimes.
Nope, the subject was the reason but the speaker is a bonus. Well spoken, very intelligent.
@@Enonymouse_ sure..
i clicked because i thought she was in a bikini... i was kinda like "Oh! Hot babe!! well maybe ill learn something too..." lol
Do you mean that, spell check, wouldn't let you type, "Bettany"? That does sound, "demonic", indeed! I'm typing this reply on my phone and it also wanted me to type, "Brittany", but I was still allowed to type, Bettany. Best take you device to a Catholic priest and get it exorcised ... LOL!
Schwooo-wee! You aren't shittin'!
I really love and have always liked English accents when I hear them! I also love the Austrailian accent too! sounds gorgeous.
It is a remnant of John Lennon and the Silver Beatles
I have been in Hitlers house inBertchengarden and Thoueaus cabin at Walden, human experience is as great as we can know.
26:28 "....ripening the corn,..." Would've been quite an achievement back then, considering corn originated in the Americas!
Corn in the UK refers to any grain.
Yes, very common misunderstanding. The original meaning of 'corn' is any grain, and you see the word used in that context in a great amount of literature. In English speaking parts of the Americas, corn came to refer specifically to maize.
Corn refered to large grain seeds.
I feel corn holed 🌽
Man I really love this narrator, real passion in that delivery :)
Thourghly enjoyable ! Bethany is a superb presenter.
It's cute they let her pretend to steer the boat.
She's so Gorgeous that I can't even remember what was shown in the video 😂
I think it was about an island or something...
She kinda sounds like Queen Gorgo of Sparta
A complete woman: smart, beautiful, competent.
@Vlodec Elegance and arrogance are often confused. In the case of the latter, she can back it up.
Alluring...you left out!
Keep it in your pants buddy.
@@nastybastardatlive I doubt she wants it kept in pants.
I like this style documentary. Reminds me of the late 90s and early 2000s
OMG Bettany makes history look and sound good😎😎😘
This girl is too beautiful I can't focus on the documentary 😍😍😍.... and it takes 12k of those shell creatures to make 1 dye garment?!?! Holy
Lara Croft is telling me Ancient Greek history. I'm sold! 😂
PS, I know it's not Lara
The next time Bettany is feeling down on herself I really hope she finds these comments sections. Y’all have excellent taste. ❤️
Absolutely Beautiful place. Hope to visit some day
JoAnn here----thank u for your beautiful lesson.