The Hunt For Ancient Afghanistan's Lost Metropolis | Alexander's Lost World | Odyssey
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- Alexander's journey into Asia is legendary but perhaps not fully understood. Join David Adams as he retraces the step of this giant of the ancient world as he ventures deeper into central Asia, capturing along the way the ancient Mother of Cities.
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I was in Afghanistan in 2007-2008 and I still remember the bazaars and especially the flatbread. I made friends with a man called Azziz outside of Khowst and that man was an excellent cook! I was blessed to be able to have flat bread and chai at least once a month with that man. I also traded him for some old Pakistani Rupees that I still have stored away.
Edit: spelling
*bazaars
@@LoneKharnivore thanks much! Edited for spelling
Sorry he may be dead of us bullet
@@sumankhatri9623 what do you mean mate? He was shot? Is he dead? If so please show proof!
David Adams makes the best docos ever
This just goes to vividly illustrate how the Earth naturally changes over time. This area once supported enough agriculture to feed cities of thousands of people, and generated enough manpower and wealth to defy the Seleucids and maintain its independence, albeit under the rule of ethnic Macedonians or Greeks. It's a shame that Afghanistan has been torn by war for so long.
Being that it is the meeting place between west and east… it is the centre of all things.
Why do you think these videos don't talk about Indo-Greek in Afganistan?
Well traditional farming, overuse of underground water resources, global warming, and more importantly, war and not having time to build infrastructure is the reason northern Afghanistan is turned dry. We haven't been using Oxus waters, neither the inland Hari.
Afghanistan has been part of the Indian and Persian civilization. It has been a prosperous area.
One method you could use to find it is to follow the routes taken by Chinese merchants. There are several accounts of this city in recorded Chinese history. One only needs to follow the routes taken by the merchants and ambassadors in these accounts. Many of the ancient cities and way points have been lost but many still remain and the ancient roads are still visible.
Michael Wood does this in his documentary In Search of the Trojan War, following routes recorded by the Hittites.
Hittite history is based on misleading Bible. There was no such civilization. It was all Persian history stolen and claimed over by the west especially German tribes.
Ah yes let’s just follow a bunch of stuff that isn’t there anymore
@@tdot8146 You never know. Having been to China, the way they preserve their history is incredible. There could be plenty of evidence to back that up but we just don't have access to it.
Zoroaster (Zardasht) was from here and his religion started here and the Monolithic God Ahoramazda Statue is there. His father was hors marchant.
Absolutely amazing documentary. Thank you very much Mr. David Adams and hope to continue in Afghanistan.
This a much different and refreshing view of Afghanistan. Great
I want that rug! I really really want that rug!
enjoyed every second of this doc, great story telling from an expert
Thank you for this video
What a spectacular seems of opper pokhtoonkhwa civilization’s …seens. A really great job. I hope this effort continues.
lol how desperate you racist munafiq Pashtun are to edit the history. Afghanistan is Persians and Tajiks are the real people of Afghanistan/Khorasan!!
Excelent, many thanks
Thank you
It’s amazing this is the only place on the internet with one exception that I could find this… even then I didn’t find it, just asked somebody else who found it and shared it. But it’s annoying this series is SO hard to find. I’m Guna be pissed if YT blocks like 2 of the episodes just bc they’re a-holes
It's nowhere else on the internet because it's a highly dubious theory. Just look at the documentary, there really is no evidence, just speculation about the location of ancient Bactria.
Bruh... i been watching Odyssey for years 😂. Idk about this (which is why I'm watching), but they have tons of documentaries and easy to find....
@@spiegelburg I haven’t actually watched it yet bc I was waiting for them all to be uploaded. I just assumed it was more copyright BS
@@StretchMedia THIS series is not easy to find. I’ve been watching for years too so not sure what you’re point there is lol there are a ton of docs sure but this one isn’t
@@Andy_Babb maybe for you🤷♂️
The Afghan cemetery has buried Mongols, Persians, Turkic tribes including Uzbeks, Russians, American and the Europeans, etc. And Afghanistan continues to challenge the modern world. To paraphrase Churchill’s iteration about Russia...Afghanistan too is an enigma inside a riddle, wrapped in mystery. Those trying to handle this oldest and largest tribal society without the full backing of anthropology, sociology and contemporary politics - with a premium on inter and intra-tribal politics - do so at great peril. The fifty plus Coalition of the most powerful nations on earth, led by the sole superpower, found this truism in losses and embarrassment, after twenty years of dogged futility.
Well....not interested in modern Afghanistan anymore - the self-destructive backwards Taliban Society is keeping its people poor, hungry and with no vision for the future.
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just an fyi since the uploader didn't mention this
This is from 2013 and is a six part series. Idk where the other parts are
I was wondering so I found it on wikipedia
What a detailed and lovely presentation! So much knowledge in this whole content! I hope I will visit Afghanistan one day. Love and Respect from India!
Maḥmūd, (born 971-died April 30?, 1030, Ghazna [Afghanistan]), sultan of the kingdom of Ghazna (998-1030), originally comprising what are now Afghanistan and northeastern Iran but, through his conquests, eventually including northwestern India and most of Iran. He transformed his capital, Ghazna (modern Ghazni, Afghanistan), into a cultural centre rivaling Baghdad (now in Iraq).
I really like the video, but the background music is relatively loud and I can not really listen to your words. The music is distracting and not necessary. The music does not add to the value of the history, but only attempts to add to the mystery of the project.
What a country and with this folk. Fine storys but little known... 😮
Great.. ❤❤❤❤❤...
Alexander Helios tomb in Southern Illinois (see Harry Hubbard) is amazing history. My Irish ancestors settled that land 1760ish
I remember when people would catch " the Magic bus" for 40 pounds and travel overland from London to Afghanistan and onto India.
They called it the Hippie trail. I would love to travel to Afghanistan on a motorbike.
Yes i have travelled this rout from peshawar in pakistan to Venezia. it was 1977. in novembre. it took me 25 days.when i arrived in Venezia. i lost my 15 kg weight. On the way.i meet many hippies from every where. To day there are many tourist from europe to india.but they don't follow the road to Afghanistan. They enter from to pakistan..
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Why did you lose 15 kg? You must have been very sick
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David Adams is the man. Where can I buy all of his series at?
Maḥmūd, (born 971-died April 30?, 1030, Ghazna [Afghanistan]), sultan of the kingdom of Ghazna (998-1030), originally comprising what are now Afghanistan and northeastern Iran but, through his conquests, eventually including northwestern India and most of Iran. He transformed his capital, Ghazna (modern Ghazni, Afghanistan), into a cultural centre rivaling Baghdad (now in Iraq).
Have you seen his earlier series, Journeys to the Ends of the Earth? It is also excellent.
Does anyone know when this was filmed? Thank you.
I cant find this series to watch anywhere.. Anyone have any tips? Thanks
The food and eating traditions are indeed similar to Uzbekistan
When was this filmed?
I love David Adams adventure films but i am always missing the reference time pointing when was he at these places
It looks like more than 15 years ago
Karzai's photo was on the immigration office's wall. When I worked in the area Najibullah's photo graced those same walls. A true Afghan leader compared to the horribly corrupt karzai regime.
Get some LIDAR technology up there and scan the ground for ancient structures. Lots of speculation here and not really any payoff.
Afghanistan is always be a battlefield much before the Alexander
Love Afghanistan! Thank you for the documentary! The land of Bactrians and Greek and Bactrian empire! First European and Afghan mix empire that was based on mutual grounds! I read history and this land is fascinating! from Zoroastrian to Greeks to Bundist to Islamist!
Did Alexander the great reached amritsar in punjab India
Kindly reduce background music... It's noticing 😢
The Greek foothold in the Indian Subcontinent is limited and that includes later Greeks of the Magadh Era.
Indian records are silent on Alexander and that probably means his attempt at entering India was insignificant. It is only in the colonial era that the story of Alexander " the great" was thrust down the throat of Asians.
I do enjoy Odyssey's documentaries, they are informative and interesting, however if no filming was permitted why was there no safety precautions taken to obsure or blackout the guards faces as well as the drivers in the beginning as if they are seen in this documentary thier lives may be in danger.
When a photographer dreams he is an archeologist...
Imagine still believing a fancy degree means you are more qualified than others to explore other countries
@@theamericandream5917 a relevant degree (like archeology) makes you more qualified to make claims about archeological sites. That's how it works. Exploring is anyone's joy, making archeological claims (of which many false) isn't.
Alexander house is in Herat and I khonom
East was andstill is vast. Alexander could not go beyond Afghanistan.
Secondly Iran had already a flourishing civilization and culture alo g with India. It had a vast empire. So East ,at least Iran and India were fairly civilized. However , the interaction with Greek might have benefited both. It was not all one sided, as you want us to believe.
Alexander's general Seleucus was defeated by Chandragupta Maurya. Seleucus was forced to offer his daughter with big dowry to Chandragupta in marriage.
Alexander was same as Indus people. This narrative to paint him blonde and blue eye is a German origin bs.
Alexander defeated Porrus in Hydaspis river battle. His successors created the famous Indo-Greek kingdom which lasted till the 10AD and ruled vast areas of India reached as far as Pataliputra city.
@@GrecoByzantine1821lolx Alexander Went back after that battle.. It was Selecuid who ruled Northwest India : Present day Pakistan. The NANDA were ruiling Northern planes.. It was then Defeated by Mayura.. Which went to Fight Selecuid, and Then Won over them.. Move on History is Not in 10 year..
@@sasmalprasanjit2764 You like it or not Alexander won, it's globally academically accepted.Just absorb it! As about it's successors states read the above:
The Indo-Greek Kingdom, or Graeco-Indian Kingdom, also known historically as the Yavana Kingdom (Yavanarajya), was a Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom covering various parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and northwestern India. This kingdom was in existence from c. 200 BC to c. 10 AD.
The next important Indo-Greek king was Menander I who is considered to have been the most successful of the Indo-Greek kings, and who expanded the kingdom to its greatest extent by means of his various conquests.
Menander subsequently made an expedition across northern India to Mathura, where the Yavnarajya inscription was recorded.
Some sources also claim that the Indo-Greeks may have reached the Shunga capital Pataliputra in northern India.
"After having conquered Saketa, the country of the Panchala and the Mathuras, the Yavanas, wicked and valiant, will reach Kusumadhvaja ("The town of the flower-standard", Pataliputra). The thick mud-fortifications at Pataliputra being reached, all the provinces will be in disorder, without doubt. Ultimately, a great battle will follow, with tree-like engines (siege engines)." (Gargi-Samhita Paragraph 5, Yuga Purana.)[7]
"The Yavanas (Greeks) will command, the Kings will disappear. (But ultimately) the Yavanas, intoxicated with fighting, will not stay in Madhyadesa (the Middle Country); there will be undoubtedly a civil war among them, arising in their own country (Bactria), there will be a terrible and ferocious war." (Gargi-Samhita, Yuga Purana chapter, No7).
*Pataliputra city is located in the north east part of India, not far from the borders with Bangladesh.
So the Greeks stayed in India till 10AD and they also extended their Hellenistic kingdoms so far as Pataliputra which is very close to Bangladesh!
Go drink your milk now 🤫👌😉😂
this heapen whean you study from cow dunk university
Thanks you. Beautifully made and very brave of David Adams but do I believe his findings. I don't know. And why can't the world leave the Afghans to develop the society they want.
Still not found Horse Bucephallus Tomb grave filled with Diamonds and Gold wealth from Wars booty of Alexander
Where did you hear of this? Where do I learn of it?
@@jesterboykins2899 Jalalpur Sharif town ( Pakistan ) the Horse was buried
At 1:07, you have vaguely Hellenised your title, but in fact you have replaced the English 'e's with capital SIGMA'S, (sigma is the Greek 's'); instead of replacing them with capital epsilons; and in fact, capital epsilon simply looks like the English capital E anyway!
Well it’s a very nice car
Taliban must encourage tourism as a industry
does anyone know what year this is set in? I think mid to late 90s.
oh it's after the Taliban was subdued
His D2X camera came out in 2004 so around then I presume 📷
thank you @@davidfoster9540
wikapedia says it was made in 2013
a six part series
David Adams is now 60 he looks younger in this series
bhru its called ghandhar it is older than 5000 year old it was bharta India fronial border kingdom and city
u don't see ancient first stcture in i9ndia because we didn't need it because our border cities in ghandhar after that worst invation started to happen
its an curse place people and to break it it would take work
ghdhar was forested area because of ice age after the the ice started melting people move more north to fortified the passes and trade rout
Apparently according to German logic, Gandhar means something in Greek but in fact is Indian word.
Lol 😂
Ghandhar is our northern Pakistan which was never Bharta 🇮🇳🤡...
Pkistan even was never India how come Afghanistan ????
Afghanistan is a Middle eastern and Central Asian country...
Not Hindu Indian.
Hindu jagana ay hai hindu jaga ker jy ga 😂😂😂
Ghandhara is northern Pakistan
Not Afghanistan.. Afghanistan is Bactria ...
And gandhara has reained part kf various iranian and greek kingdomes also ..so it was also never india
@@humnnn yes
I am Afghan. The word Afghan means “The Seven Nobles” referring to the ancient Parthians Seven Families or as Indians called it Satavahanas “The Seven Mights” which as per the ancient book of Zoroastrians “Avesta” dates back to over 3000 years back.
This is the land of the ancient Indo-European deities including the religions of the Norse, Goths, and many other ancient nations.
Alexander is not an historical figure. He is a perfect example for the dominance of mythology accepted as history.
To understand this logic, you will need to explore about ancient Commagene & Macedonians. You will be shacked to know what Balkans stand for and why they share so much in common with Bacterians or Balkhian.
Wait - Alexander is not an historical figure? What? Are you ok mate?
@@bavariancarenthusiast2722I'm "shacked, absolutely shacked!"😉
What is Commagene? By the way, Bactria (today's Afghanistan) existed long before Alexander the Great invaded Persia. Bactrians (Asians) migrated indeed to the SouthEast of Europe - they landed in the Balkans south of the river Danube and formed the country of Bulgaria, which has one of the most ancient roots in Asia and is the most ancient country with the most ancient name Bulgaria.
Well, today, it means terrorist Pashun Taliban. Tajiks or the Persians of Afghanistan have nothing to do with this dishonorable name Afghan.. The name of the land was always khorasan or eastern Iran. In fact the fraudulent country of Afghanistan was invented by the British to serve as a buffer zone between British India and Russian Czars. We live in a country that was created by the British, but we are not one nation because we do not have any shared values. Who could possibly have any kind of shared values with terrorist Pashtun Taliban?
What's the spelling of this legendary city (in English)? I'm reasonably well acquainted with ancient histoiry but do not recognize the name (Bactria was the name of the entire region of Hindukush and parts of modern-day Uzbekistan and Pakistan, and googling on "Bathrah", "Bethra" etc turned up nothing.
Balkh, there is a Wikipedia article on it.
There was a Persian city in Civilization III called Bactra, perhaps its that.
@@daveweiss5647 Balkh is not a disappeared city at all, any more than Tashkent (often identified with ancient Alexandria Eschate, "the utmost").
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Why all the bang bang musics
So, he found what could be a city on a plain, and just declares it to be a monumental find of archeological and historical immensity? He doesn't even set foot inside the ruins, but it MUST be Balkh?
The idiots who write Ancient Aliens use the same logic.
Also, there's the fact that the city's ruins are VERY well known- so well known it has its own wikipedia page:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkh
wrong place. re watch the show
Like Graham Hancock says, we are a species with amnesia
Undoubtedly Alexander was a great warrior, commander and an intellectual, however, he never succeeded in entering India as it is now. He fought the mighty Aryan Kshatriya (Rajput) Porus in the area of Jhelum in what is Pakistan today. The truth is no one knows genuinely who lost or won, however, it is known without any doubt that Alexander decided to move back to his home after this battle. Interestingly history records without any doubt that both Porus and Alexander survived this great battle. The Aryan tribes living in India have a well documented existence in the subcontinent much before the period of Alexander as well.
Even barber hoard of Muslims were able to conquer India and loot and plunder it thousand times but Alexander couldn't. India was never famous for its war capabilities but for grandiose. Otherwise we should have stopped the invasion by the Muslims which we certainly failed and it destroyed our culture and identity. We were lazy people and never ready to fight for our country or lands bcz we're land of rich and plenty which was also the cause of our demise.
Even if Alexander lost the war, the Greek historians would never admit it since he had conquered so much at such an young age. Also, the historical event is narrated from their side, so, a healthy dose of doubt is necessary.
Porus was Yadav.
Ganpati bapa Maurya has something to do with Mauryan history.
False, it’s widely known Alexander won…… even victory coins of hydaspes are still being found in the the region.
Alexander also went on to fight even more after hydaspes, in the Malian campaign.
They had to turn back because his army mutinied, his men saw no point in going further, considering Alexander already told them they’d be going home even after capturing Bessus.
Saying " no one know who won" is wrong, the battle is incredibly recorded on how it played out……
@@VntiHeroignore these Indians..
They just bring themselves each and everywhere...
It's not calked bulk! But Balkh, meaning you were not prepared! Arshloch!
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Alexander came as far as Himachal in India ,Greco Roman style structure exit there ,these irrigation systems of Afghanistan north mostly are not created by Greecks but Persians before, mostly who delt with local population of farmers of diffrent religious belief, Persian interaction with Hindus or Buddhists is undocumented in this era here and they both existed there in time , Persians for a fact in that era of Greeks, meaning , Zoroastrianism and Jews ,who did exist then and originated out of morden day Iran need to be studied too to find gaps in this one track European Greek myth of Alexander, who looked like bypassing main routes with cithadels and finding altenate routes to east .Porus did exist too , whether a Indian or persian but Porus is a name in Persia and not central or south Afganistan , Buddhist though came later in Roman era .
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Afghanistan used to be part of Persia some 200 years and had been as such for time and eternity. So the title should refer to Persia..
Ancient Greecian metropolis...
Persians were also invaders - these documentaries seem to always miss that point. The "fire" temple were probably built on ancient and native structures.
It's been a couple thousand years - don't you guys think its about time to replant your trees?
Why is it that some peopl still drool over Alexander's invasions?
"Could these carpets hold the secret to the true location of the legendary city of Bactra?" turns out they couldn't because they are carpets.
But they really tie the room together.
@@timothyhaack1207 they looked beautiful, not sure red would work in my apt though
It was a Buddhist city and every single Indo-Greek in Afghanistan was Buddhist. Do you think these misleading documentaries will tell you this?
دغه وېډیووګوری.نورټول لری واچوی.دلرغون بالاپختونخوادټول شارېګرېیو(تمدن)پاتې آثارښیې.کوم چې۲۰,۰۰۰کال وړاندې نه پکې خلک وسیدل
That’s time Afghanistan was part of Iran ( Persia) about two hundred years ago this part called Afghanistan
You start history from the end in this video
Actually, Iran was part of Bacteria (Modern Afghanistan)
A lot of the Greeks never left
persians too.
Just Sodimite
Alexander was defeated in India.
Chandragupta Maurya defeated Selecus Niketor, Alexander greatest General. Chandragupta Maurya married Niketor daughter, Helena. Chandragupta Maurya gave 500 war elephants to Selecous Niketor.
Alexander invasion of India was a very minor event, because Indian history does not even record this event.
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Well no - and well who cares. Nobody heard about this local general. Alexander was defeated by the weight of history, his army was stretched to far and wanted to turn back. As you wrote it was a minor event, since his army had no motivation anymore to conquer more. There was no point.
@bavariancarenthusiast2722 Selecus Nikator was NOT a minor general, but Alexander's greatest general, who took control of Asia Minor, after Alexander's death.
Chandragupta Maurya decisively defeated Selecus Nikator, married Helena and gave 500 war elephants to Selecus Nikator.
Please read about Selecus Nikator on internet.
Why is it so difficult for you to admit that Alexander was forced to turn back, after he was defeated in India?
If he had won, he and his army could have marched into central India, after resting and regrouping.
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@@razraza3183 it is not difficult for me to admit. I don't find any sources what you are telling us.
"The Macedonians suffered heavy casualties during the battle of the Hydaspes. Nonetheless, when Porus surrendered, Alexander the Great spared his life, returned his throne, and helped him reconcile with Ambhi out of admiration for his bravery and prowess. An able local ruler also helped Alexander administer his territory. During the battle, Alexander the Great’s horse, Bucephalus, had suffered a mortal wound. Having first received Bucephalus as a teen and ridden him across Asia, Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria Bucephalus in his honor. Alexander the Great then marched on receiving the surrender of additional kings until near the Hyphasis (modern Beas) river, his men finally refused to go further. They mutinied and begged Alexander to turn back and allow them to return home."
Alexander doesn't have body and facial hair
Red salute
Goes to say “ if u want to look at the face of a Bactrian then look no further “ then goes to show nomadic Turkmen and Uzbeks … who are of the mongoloid/turkic race that came to the region mostly during and after the Mongol invasions of the 12th century. The bactrians were a a eastern iranic race belonging to the indo European race . Poor journalism
No that's just how the camera played out. I knew what he meant and which people he was referring to. Your wrong David Adams is a world class journalist and a brave man of integrity
@@phillipjordan1010 I hope I am wrong, i think he is a good journalist just needs to enhance his knowledge of this part of the world
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The delusional nostalgia and longing for Afghanistan is extremely dangerous, to the point of being fatal.
It's true even for South Asians, but especially more so for non-South Asians.
Ancient area of today´s Afghanistan must have been amazing - now its so sad
It is not a masjid it's a Atashkada
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The White Huns once ruled Afghanistan before Turks
yo its ancint gandhar older than roam and grees its our indian frontline rulled by many kinddome finally cursed by queen mother of kuru
its biggest metropolitan trade frontal border capital of bharat India
Lol 😑
Again you are bringin India ....
Nothing from Afghanistan is similar to Rundia
@@muslimh-cs5eo noting to do then why ruines tell everything lol porki hate its na that's
Ooo hi first check flat earth is real or not like in ur book
Madarschap 😂🤣🤣🤣 need to read history who thinks Earth is flat and world was made 4000 years ago
Gandhara and Kandhara are different
Gandharais was a Mahajpanada and Kandhara was and is a city in the region of Arachosia/Harauvatis
@@ayushkumarsingh3029
Gandhara was never Indian ...
I am from gandhara and we never acceoted ourselves as Indians...
We have our own history
@@muslimh-cs5eo Who cares
All lands east of indus was called as India by greeks
Greeks who ruled in India were called Indo Greeks, so do Indo Scythians and Indo Parthians
Islam took over afghanistan in last decade 1000AD i.e around 992. Afghanistan was under the karakota Hindu dynasty till 8th century & then flourished under Hindushahi kings who kept their hold defending till 10century AD(998.AD)
😂😂😂😂😂wrong
Go to school and educated your self.
@@akmmoinulhassan6431 ..... keep your madarsa & communist history🤣🤗
@@yonusa72 .... jali na, teri bhi jali naa😉😂
Cool revisionist history. I just want you to recount the events since 1900. From the industrial revolution, oil, fascism, colonialism, and war. Just answer your own question for a second. You don’t need propaganda to prove the contrary. Verified scholarly history of matter of fact events is all you need. See what Saudi Arabia’s involvement was in the 70’s together with the U.S. and why they got involved to begin with. Then in the ruins of an attempt at a thwarted socialist state, what happened in 2001 to onward.
Adam has done such a poor job with pronunciation. It's sad. Everytime he says BULK, he deserves a punch its BALKH, , Bactria or Bactriana, BAL E HISAR,, etc.That aside, ethnic groups in Nothern Afghniatsn get along just fine and have been for centuries. Little research into local live and history would have been educational.
As a history buff, I wonder how much human history will change if Afghanistan is excavated and researched. So many civilizations, empires, and human development are hidden there. Plus, these people have been selling their own history on the black market.
That person dos she has a thank croam
Afghanistan is the best shooting gallery
Clearly thumbnail used in the video is misleading, hateful and racist.
Your Historic information regarding the population lived there at that time is incorrect. There were no persians there and the eople you see there now they are quite contemporary migrants belong to Turkik ethinic race came from central Asia. The original people there were Arrians belong to Saka Race. They were the one who had built the city and had the civalisation. They fought the Greate Alexander and Alexander intered in a contract with them, married one of the tribal leader's daughter Rokhshana (Roxane). Later tthese people mved south crossed the Hindukush Mountains establish big dynasties strached all the way to India. Today they make big part of the current population of Afghanistan.
Camels and that
But where’s your archeology?
Afghanistan nevere existed before 14th century . He fughted against Indian king porous and India was known as Baharath that time
India born in 1947 from queen Victoria before India is land of Afghan and turk empirer
name India come from Afghan word endh and hind and this both name of Punjab and kpk not India
@@barkjanjan734😊ya ya there was no Bharat before Mohammad Gazani looted temples
U need mental check up
Alot of filler, not much archeology.
I thought the same thing. What a waste of time.
I thought it was interesting regardless of the constant speculation + lack of anything verifiable. Neat to see huge walls and such in the middle of (now) nowhere at least. Surely there's lost civilization out there... but we'll never know much about it.
Afghanistan was a Buddhist country and became Muslim extremist. Remember the bamian statue
You’re wrong, Buddhism was an imported religion like Islam, and people in some parts of the geography practiced it, not the whole area. The native religion of the geography was Zoroastrianism. In fact, the birthplace of the religion was in Bactra which is today’s Balkh, northern Afghanistan. Anthropologically over 80% of the people are Iranic so it’s obvious that everything linked to them, is of Iranic origin - whether it’s culture language, religion, or race. Even after they became Muslims, there are many Zoroastrian elements in their culture, that have been kept and disguised as Islamic practices.
Fire the sound guy already... FFS he's ruined 3/4 of these documentaries.
Yeah I remember when you were there. Your Mom kept calling me over! 😳😬😎🤢🤮
Alexander the midget, its story became vastly exaggerated during 18th century by anglos to artificially pose themselves as superior.
Greeks had slaves, no religious freedom, engaged in immoral activities (gay, pedo) etc they were nothing compared to the real civilizations of Iran and India. Hence why Alexander wanted to become a Persian.
Unfortunately Ancient Greek savage behavior is still present in some places of Afghanistan in form Of bache bazi (Playing with children).
Do independent study don’t be fooled by Eurocentric historians.
I don't understand how the Anglos (English) used Alexander to pose themselves. Alexander was a Macedonian Greek, not English, nothing to do with England.
@@user-pf6yx3su4p the Anglos after gaining dominance had no prior history of their own, Greeks were the closest to them. To admit that democratic principles and civilization came from Persia and India whom they tried to enslave would be counterproductive. The very idea of slavery is that u are inferior and have to submit to me. Hence it became the norm by Eurocentric historians to distort history. If they admitted that India f ex had a superior civilization colonization would not be possible.
@@user-pf6yx3su4p it was Anglo historians who divided ancient history West vs East.
German historians generally did not do that, hence why they are very much disliked within British academia.
The absence of women is heartbreaking but #patriarchy.
I was thinking the same. The only time you saw women, they are serving the men or covered. They are never openly participating in public activities in the same way men, or even boys, were.
Same throughout the muslim world. Third class citizens. Animals have a better life there.
(Edit: all in the name of “respect”)
It is not a stone age society or medieval - it's something new and very oppressive especially against women. It's an anti-women society.
It is always the same old bull with these people .they travel to these remote places and act like the saviours of those people..
Ha ha ha . You wrong ! He was looking for something new , but found something old. Older than 20,000 y . That’s the history of that land shown to the people of that land.,That’s more than anything for them in reality
He never said that. By your statement, no one should be curious?
Once upon a time Afghanistan was a vedic kingdom, after advent of Islam everything is devasted
Its tiresome watching hate against women. Im weary of looking after men's feelings
Someone is single or divorced
What? Wtf are you talking about… ?
@@mujwardakyou nailed it 😂
@@jesterboykins2899she is talking about the absence of women in the landscape. If the women are present, they are covered from head to toe.
@@mujwardakthe man that wronged her was named Alexander and he left her for a better woman from Afghanistan. This documentary triggered her on multiple levels.
Is Afghanistan central Asian country?Also Indian subcontinent includes Afghanistan I suppose.
Afghanistan is a Middle eastern and Central Asia country ...
Afghanistan is not indian
Maḥmūd, (born 971-died April 30?, 1030, Ghazna [Afghanistan]), sultan of the kingdom of Ghazna (998-1030), originally comprising what are now Afghanistan and northeastern Iran but, through his conquests, eventually including northwestern India and most of Iran. He transformed his capital, Ghazna (modern Ghazni, Afghanistan), into a cultural centre rivaling Baghdad (now in Iraq).
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North westren India ???
Lol it was Pakistan not india
from amu river to endus river this is Afghanistan nowadays India is part of Afghanistan for thousands of years they become India after 1947 from British empire
Afghanistan+ pak KPK was always central Asia. Food, traditions, cloths every thing is common with other central asian countries.
E.g, People of Pakistan KPK province only started using spices in their food in last 30 years ago.
Your documentary is too dam old, so why did you post it now again ?
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Calling out to my Christian brothers and sisters. Please re-examine the bible. Especially, the verse Samuel 15:3 where god commanded the killings of children and babies.
Samuel 15:3 - “Go and attack the Amalekites! Destroy them and all their possessions. Don't have any pity. Kill their men, women, children, and even their babies.”. Clearly, this is illogical as God is merciful. Don’t let the church and preachers deceived you with a tampered scripture.
Religion is bunk and the bible is a poorly written collection of bronze age fairy tales.
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Well all this old books are full of cruelty, histories which dont add up, slavery etc. Bible, Thora and worst the Quran
Not relevant.
@@explosivehotdogs How is it not relevant? Is that not the words of god?