The Dystopian Collapse of Alexandria | Alexandria: The Greatest City On Earth | Odyssey
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- The story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the world's first global centre of culture, into which wealth and knowledge poured from across the world.
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My word, how have I just found this scholarly channel now? It’s so well organized and presented with passion and panache! I’m hooked. Thankyou!
In fact it simply copies everything from others especially from channel Timeline. It just gives them different title eg this video posted 7 yrs ago th-cam.com/video/pixDj1NlRok/w-d-xo.html
Try DW English they produced high quality documentary on various topics such as travel culture world news environmental science etc
The destruction of the great Alexandrian library is so very tragic!
Yup, I’m still mad about that lol. It was such a loss.
Nothing important was lost though, it wasn't some mythical place where the worlds knowledge was kept and then lost. Everything in the library was everywhere else.
I want whatever your smoking
@Jordan Sagar he’s somewhat right, most of the knowledge was likely widely known to other philosophers. The destruction was tragic but not the end of the world.
we should thank the christians for that my friend!! Thank you for bringing up this very important historic fact!!
I am made to enjoy this from the Lady's passion and charisma, she tells the story as I've never heard before. I am spellbound.
The one she done on the Spartans is fantastic
Its her spicy, sultry voice.
I'm not sure why it's not mentioned but but the Alexandrian library was burned three times. First, during Julias Cesar's attack on the harbor, apparently accidentally. Next by order of the Roman emperor Theodosius in 391AD. And finally and completely by the Caliph Omar in 640AD. It's said it still took muslim forces 6 months to burn all the documents as fuel for the bathhouses in the city.
Beyond tragic!
I sometimes have nightmares about the destruction of the library. Because mainly it gives many the ability to fool us And causes me to not know the difference. So thank you for this video.
@@panninggazz5244 great statement
Islam-so much for the 'religion of peace'😮
I think we can guess why it’s not mentioned - because it muddies up the “bad bigoted Christians” narrative. You weren’t naive enough to think the secularization of the west was entirely organic, were you?
bettany the way u explain the story of lost ancient world comes to life from the past ppl like me feels tht like i am watching with my own eyes n seening the real evants happening even after very long time before us thmk u
Awesome video..
Thank you for posting
Thank you this and and the many other wonderful presentations!
Wonderful structured, excellent...
Very Cosmos-esque beginning, I love it.... a subtle salute to Sagan.
Many Thanks for this excellent and informative presentation of magnificent and wonderful place in Ancient World : Alexandria !
Thank you. Nice video
I've only just now discovered this video. It's awesome. So we'll done. And Bettany is a great presenter. She has such style & class & a very calming & beautiful voice. Loved it!
Bettany you are very good historian,thanks you.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me to get through the pandemic!
I’d say it’s on the loop all day long!
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The great Hypatia’s violent and tragic death was one of the indication of the beginning of the dark ages. A new era of power but to be wronged and condemned for being intellectual as a woman reverberated throughout the modern world like the witch trials. Really one of the saddest turns of events to me.
Well done professor Hughes. Beautiful and informative documentary. Thank You.
great education, and free. thank you
I have seen this documentary on another channel. But when it's Bettany Hughes.....
guess what i have in my hand
@@dougthompson5586 what?
Ignorance breeds evil thoughts.
Thank you
Very interesting look at a wonderous city and its tragic demise. I do wish she would have expanded a little more on what exactly happened. The ending felt a bit rushed.
Bettany Hughes reinvigorated history on television with her passion👍👍❤️❤️
Her name is actually Bettany. Sounds similar tho.
@@aliengibberish your right,same derivation I guess
You both spelled it the same!
Yep her passion. 😉
You got that RIGHT.. I bet her husband is Adrian is happy.
An interesting presentation. The end of Hypatia was gruesome indeed, but from my reading 30/40 years ago, was acompanied with the burning of the library of Alexandria. Being a show about the library I saw that as an omission. The library was burned by Moslems who saw it's books as blasphemy. By 1000 or 1100 AD there were many things in libraries that conflicted with Moslem scriptures. Their answer was to make the Koran the source of all knowledge. If one had a question and the Koran didn't have the answer - the question didn't exist.
In trying to clear this up I found references to both these events which happened 5 to 600 years apart. But to leave out the Burning of the Library of Alexandria in a program about the library seems a bit of an oversight.
I Totally Love this vedio.
What a very intelligent and BEAUTIFUL Woman!!!!!!!
Even at that time, to raise a voice of sanity and vested interests was a unforgivable crime as we learn about the sad fate of Hepatia.
22:21 Hypatia is also my favorite great scientist in Civilization 6 game.
Ahh...
This lady is awesome.
Most of the time I get frustrated by the hosts of these history shows dumbing things down.
Best of all she doesn't ask the experts stupid questions. Usually these hosts ask questions befitting elementary school students.
Greek historical lie he was Macedoian! n Grece was born 1831
@@bobtrajkoski9379 Pedantic.
@@bobtrajkoski9379 Greece is a region not a country. Macedonia was a tribe in Greece not a region. Macedonia today is populated by non Greeks.
@jorgan Kharn What the hell are you trying to say?
@Stoyan Stoyanov Huh? Are you a random word generator?
The water is beautiful
Wouldn't mind going into the water
Not to be able to see all these lost civilians and cities is tragic
Good evening everyone
Such a wonderful story teller this woman is. And such a classy lady. Wonder what her name is? Were she is today?
She's called Bettany Hughes. She's presented history on most UK TV channels mostly Channel 4 in her early career more recently on Channel 5. There are quite a few of them uploaded to TH-cam.
Near the end of 1Peter, it says: "Mark and I send greetings from Babylon." For hundreds of years, the Vatican has maintained that that
"Babylon" is a pejorative term for "Rome". Some Protestants say that word "Babylon" refers to the famous Babylon now in Iraq, but there was a second less famous ancient Babylon on the Nile River. It was a Roman army garrison town. Since Mark and Peter were friends and since Mark brought Christianity to Egypt, Peter probably meant that city of Babylon on the Nile River. There is a tradition that the Holy Family stayed at this Babylon on the Nile when it escaped into Egypt to get away from Herod.
The evil consequences of spreading rumors!!! still works today in all kinds of society. So, basically the library was the original Google back then.
BTW, I will add Alexandria on my bucket list, I hope to see it soon. It's amazing that many cities in Egypt had changed it's name over the years, but Alexandria remains to keep it's original name. Thanks to Alexander, I can have Greek food in Egypt! I noticed the similarity in street food between Greek & Egyptian food from many Vloger's
Bettany is causing a stir
The great Bethany Hughes. Always the best
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity nothing straight has ever been made" Emanuel Kant
Alexandria as a site for a commercial port was actually identified 13 centuries before Alexander. It is described in detail, SWOT Analysis, in Homer!!!!!! The continuity of the Hellenic World is amazing. A vision for humanity where humans are the center. As an example, Ptolemy processed machinery and boats powered by steam power, but he said, "what will happen to the people if I industrialize my economy???" A dilema that no modern "leader" seems to have with AI
لاست كولتوراليسم من الاسكندريه!!
If there is but a single copy of a book in the world, does that mean there are two physical books containing the same text? Or is that single copy indeed the original and not a copy at all? Can a book be a copy of itself? Does a flawless copy become the original after the previous original is destroyed while the copy survives?
12:13 - 12:25 Damn dude, take a picture of her, it'll last longer!
I looooooooove all the ancient juiciness !!!
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That Astrolabe wow what an amazing instrument.
Also our brain is neurologically connected to our heart and communicates with it through the electromagnetic fields that they both emit.
Good times
I'm learning to allow my heart to rule my head not the other way around , good for your health apparently
@@CM-le1yb I'm trying my best too Take care =)
Only education can overcome the enemies of the lovers of wisdom and humanity: ignorance, selfishness and lust for power.
Folks interested in the tragedy of Hypatia, watch the film 'Agora.' It depicts her life, but also the destruction of the Mother Library at the Serapeum of Alexandria.
Yup, great film
In every age it only takes one man’s greed to destroy all. Very sad😔
@Amy Paps Not Alexander, the other man who destroyed the town by his greed and murder of the woman. Sorry I can’t remember their names😒
Worse to come
🇹🇷if possible, can you put
subtitles, please
The correct phrase is enable subtitles please, that would take another upload I fear for them to hit the checkbox enabling subtitles.
@@couttsw thank you
Wow how terrible the library place thing burned down, the host is hot tho
Bettany’s done a great job with this. Alexander needed a great university / library to house his insatiable collections of written works, and Ptolemy was faithful to his word. The evil ones had to destroy them so we couldnt back cross check, and track the enslavement of humankind.
This is a ‘rerun’ of her video the death of Hypatia.
Egypt was probably a better place to live at some point in history than what it is today
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Yeah Egypt decline is very sad but I guess it's not really there fault more like the foreign conquerors and rulers that ran it into the ground
@@marionhoward2939 But it was their actions that left them open to foreign rule
@@davyroger3773 True
Egypt is a mess today lol I'm sure it was more peaceful in history before it was conquered
The scene with the brains tho. She was not here for it 😂😂😂
And I had just started tucking into a sandwich, at that very moment, too 😭
What genius decided to have her drowned out by traffic every other segment?
NOT ONLY ARE YOU VERY BEAUTIFUL BUT I REALLY ADMIRE AND LOVE YOUR PASSION .
Maybe admire her brain / passion first? Not OWH YOU ARE HOT, kind of childish.
Where are you resting Alexander 🤔?
Enjoyed this presenter and the subject matter. What happened after the people went crazy and destroyed all the knowledge? Did it ever recover as an intellectual city? Or did the ignorant citizens take the city backwards into poverty and chaos? The sad part about it is the people who destroyed this probably never understood a single idea from this wealth of knowledge. They basked in their ignorance. Brings to mind the Salem Witch Trials.
The glory of Alexander the great came to end when he went to conquer India.
Too greedy
Cyril can go to that fiery place below.
Bettany would have made an awesome spartan woman :)
by the way that Hebrew fragment -- upside down. :-0
I liked this - but I wish it was presented and directed by Mary Beard. There are moments when I can't hear the narrator because of all the horns honking and street noise. Whomever directed this doc, made some unfortunate decisions. The background noise is really a pediment.
Ok Karen
So kind of the gasping Ms. Hughes to mention a little history in this documentary about her.
OOooooooo.
Shots fired
Alexander envisioned and founded the library.
What about the Library at Nalanda , India , it's more older ...
@@exploreandunravel5773 do they have books?
@@Norr42 😂 , What else you expect in library ? Cocaine and marijuana😂😂😂
I believe the library was burned down
@@Norr42 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda
Anica Butnaru ! An = ON !
Good information, but this TH-cam edition is absolutely PLASTERED with multiple ADS. Just greedy.
One second, the magic of egypt, then
CONCERT AMAZING !!! SEATS AMAZING !!! SEAT GEEK AMAZING !!
and twice the decibels
It's really plastered with boring christians.
It would seem knowledge really isn't power.
Is the host/narrator a Hapsburg?
What is that. It doesn't look like a cross
I'm assuming you're referring to the chi rho? It's an early christain symbol based on greek letters. Basic history here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho. You can still see it at some churches today.
Thanks
Alexander did not unite the greeks, his father "united" them. Albeit so loosely that when his son alexander died they immediately fragmented and rebelled.
You are incorrect. Thebes rebelled and athens said they would rebel too but never did. Thebes openly rebelled and was seiged and destroyed. No other greek state rebelled.
Please w'ar dhe barberias.
Alexandèr w's not grikè.
hi is Albenian?
Aleksander, Macedonien pellazg, ylirium,Arvanit,.Arberor Albanien Dardania.
HIS NAME WASN'T ALEKSANDER BUT ALEXANDER ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ AND HE WASN'T MACEDONIEN BUT MACEDONIAN . NOT PELLAZG NOT ILLYRIAN NOT ARVANIT NOT ARBEROR NOT ALBANIEN AND NOT DARDANIAN
Ohara of One Piece?
It’s been shown that it was the nose the brain was scrambled
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Alexander was not Greek stop with fake bullshit .He was Macedonian and Illyrian
@@ks0434 LOL How about the name "Alexandria" is it Slavic too? It's obviously a Greek name.
This is when Alexander becomes Zeus Amon,the god king..
he was a nightmere- thats the point......... the burnt the Female Sophia- until Today. He brought the Dark Time in thats why Hypatia had to die. And the Egyptians they dint love him- not at all. ???
Why lost? In what is the cosmopolitan and sophisticated culture of the west, by the broader definition, if not on the Hellenistic culture of the empires of the Epigoni of Alexander/
Alexander was the leader of the greatest conquests the world has ever since
no it was not
Yes he was
@@seleshemisker5859 Ghengis Khan not Alexander
@@seleshemisker5859 Nah it was Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.
I found it interesting that Ghengis and his family conquered virtually everywhere in Asia and part of Europe, that Alexander didnt go.
But, he was not great....
He destroyed so much....
Destruction, does not make You great!!
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Like her presentations on various subjects, as a whole; but she DOES get to be a PILL with her 'Veggie Distain'--just a bit too often. Also, should have done a Topographic comparison as to the City's layout as compared to today.
Disdain
how very christian of them to treat a woman like that
I want some of Bettany! Mmm
6/10. Prof Salima Ikram on the otherhand is the finer woman aesthetically, in my un-biassed, un-lusting opinion. Classical dark allure, coupled with well sculptured lines; more the 'thorough-bred'.
@@KernowekTim she’s a 7 at best. Bettany is much more attractive.
Your politics is showing Professor! Alexandria endured other tragedies than the Christians. Maybe these comments comments will be archived and the future historians can deconstruct the layers of thought we shared.
Ironical how quickly the persecuted become the persecutors.
36.02 „new sort of shit“?
Alexander was worshipped like a God for centuries after this death. A cult developed around him. Only after Christianity took over Rome did the cult go under ground and eventually died out.
Yes just the humans consider a barbaric criminal as God, probably Hitler will be consider like this...
@@blockie9706 my Albanian friend, Alexander and Phyrrus were great men.
Alexander among tother things, envisioned and founded tve library of Alexandria.
@@blockie9706 Then why is he remembered for his diplomacy? Derp.
The information in this video not accurate at all
Zain Zeniths Brain Sensitives Female's Brain and Zain Thought
And there are still lots of Christians at it
A religion who always have conquered through war and hate now preach speeches of salvation and peace.
Knowledge is never lost. Its just exchanged from one hand to other.
From India, China, Mesopotamia to Jews, Persians, Greeks, Roman in antiquity to Arab, Turks, British, German, America in modern days.
so when its transcripts are burned and its hosts slain, where has the knowledge transferred to?
DON'T want to see people walking sailing talking driving ! Want to see the archaeology evidence/fines/suits/documents ! , NOT people/host etc !!!!!!!
Christian love and mercy. Ask Hypatia what she thought of that!
The Egyptians couldn't carve granite. They were a bronze age culture. Anything made of granite is a legacy of an earlier culture, including the great pyramids.
Alexandria City of Alexander the Great.
The Greatest Greek..
Alexander Macedonian !!! and
Filip Macedonian !!!
@@milchostefanoski4050 Dorian Greeks
@@ellinmakedon1216
😂😂😂😂😂
To be honest he was a good commander but not a greek
@@blockie9706 ΕΣΤΙΝ ΟΥΝ ΕΛΛΑΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ
. Another fine example of the *Poison of Christianity*
Rome should have ended Christianity while it had them in the arena, including Constantine.
Learn about maui, the one who brought the mathematics of the planets and stars bringing navigation to the westerners
Word ?! They didn’t bring it to anyone because they were running around naked on islands alone without buildings or metallurgy.😂 come on man, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Muslims created math and engineering and helped each other build on it. That’s why their descendants own the world
@@AT-wj5sw you are sadly uneducated, the austronesian genetic comes from the indus valley which created the greeks and Egyptians, we are talking far before them, you do know we navigated to the most isolated place on earth right? Wake up bro, europeans stole indigenous history, and that's what we are looking at. That's why they couldnt even explain how aboriginals had been in australia so long, back to school for you
@@AT-wj5sw While the Maui didn’t invent it, you’re very rude and dismissive about why exactly they could only progress to a certain extent. As you say, those other civilizations were able to build on each other’s works. That’s what made the difference.
The Maui were on their own on an island, so they were limited. To make great scientific progress in the ancient world, you needed a large population and a surplus of food so people didn’t have to be farming all the time. The Maui were limited by their geography, but you make it seem like they were simply lazy and unintelligent.
How many discoveries did your own ancestors make by themselves? Did they independently invent the wheel or was it introduced to them from other people’s? Did they independently discover iron mining or did they learn it from other people? (Perhaps the Romans even, if you’re Anglo). Fact of the matter is, we would all be living in mud huts if our ancestors hadn’t been lucky enough to have access of knowledge from other people, because there’s no group of people on earth that made every single discovery by themselves.
@Rishi Jha peoples from mauminland countries know so little about oceania yet they are the oldest civilizations out of Africa, you believe yourselves to be so advanced. Go back to school and start again,
@@medit8iv_native970 Bro, Maui are nowhere near as old as Mesopotamia and Egypt. In fact the people of Easter Island didn't even have written language. It's cool to be proud of your heritage, but stop making things up that are not true, that makes you a maui liar. The Polynesians were matrilineal and matrilocal Stone Age societies upon arrival in Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, after having been through at least some time in the Bismarck Archipelago. 3000 BCE from which they set off from Taiwan is no where near 4-10k BCE of Mesopotamia and Egypyt.
But they were Christians? I've had this conversation with so many people regarding Hipátia but yet for disgusting and political reasons many people refuse to denounce this act of cowardness. As they say, more people have been killed in the name of religion than in any war.
ALEXANDER der grose war und ist GRIECHE 🇬🇷