Hierapolis: a city encased in stone
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Hierapolis - modern Pamukkale, Turkey - was built over hot springs. During the Middle Ages, these encased much of the city in gleaming travertine.
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You know, your extensively-researched videos are some of the best on this era of history on all of TH-cam. They inspire further reading; thank you.
Thank you for making accessible the work of our ancestors in this format. Thousands of hours of reading is no substitute for visceral experience. It's a tragedy to be stripped of one's past. Thank you again for these small acts of resurrection & reconnection.
I remember 1987, hitchhiking around Turkey, and camping and sleeping out under the stars amongst the Roman ruins at the top of Pamukkale, Turkey... The things that one does in their 20s... Now camping for me is a four star Hotel!
Dr. Ryan, thank you for delightful, succinct, and highly informative video about Pamukkale.
Thanks!
Thank you - that's very generous!
Even after all these years these structures are still so beautiful. I wonder how these places would have looked when they were at they're most complete, when people used these spaces the most in they're prime. I also love how people will always occupy hot springs and freshwater pools, something humans will always have in common no matter what the time period is 🤽♨️ Another wonderful video 🏛️❤
They came, they saw, they built, everywhere.
Thank you for your videos, I very much appreciate your work.
fascinating presentation
Thank you for the tour. This seems to be an interesting site.
THANKS for this, I looked for a good video on these a few years ago and now we finally get this one. :)
Very interesting!
Many thanks again ! As usual, I love the format where the presentation is done objectively. Very interesting and informative.
In the mid nineties I was a pamukkale guide. The place is truly magical.This as fun for me to watch. :)
Fascinating. Thank you for this look into such an interesting place!
still amazed that these spots are so desolate, so dry and so rocky.
Amazing these cities existed so long ago and weee probably beautiful and bustling and then they weren’t . And people just forgot about them .
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and tremble, for I am Ozymandias...
I visited in 1993. Even with quality sunglasses I ended the day with a minging headache from how bright it was. It was fun visiting the Roman ruins and cemetery.
Mausoleums were the highlight of my visit to Hierapolis. Too bad you didn't show them in your video.
great video
Excellent video! How much more of the ancient world is yet to be discovered?
Why don't you show the building in the thumbnail? Can we see any buildings that were absorbed by the springs? Are they excavating any of those?
The tomb in the thumbnail is far from the walkways, and inaccessible to visitors.
What, no comment on finding a swimming angel in an ancient abandoned city? This seems like a case for the history channel 😂
Can you imagine the time before people? Slopes clad in trees? What is wrong with humans? Happy to live in a denuded land!
2:54 the infamous plutonium??? Was it radioactive???
No.
It just means "the shrine of Pluto"
@@scenicroutestothepast I know, I was just being silly
What's going on with the person wearing angel wings in the pool around 1:45?
I went there this year. There is a service there that rents this angel wings for tourists take pictures dressed with them.
@@omelhorcanal Interesting! I was imagining it could have been a person who works there, kind of like how there are a few places in Florida where women get paid to dress as mermaids and swim around.
@@MatthewTheWanderer Yes, it's interesting but a bit tacky I think. 😂
@@omelhorcanal Yeah, it's very strange.
Yes, it works 4 me 2 hav them populate Dr. Ryan's cast of extras rather than the coach trade he stumbles upon waiking in2 frame. Local color, w/o being intrusive which wd require a release form, wd b nice as inserts capturing the wonderment of ancient site interactions.
1:47 and some poor, vapid Instagram soul along for the ride 😅
I'll probably never visit Turkey, I wouldn't feel safe, so it's cool to see these ancient places vicariously. Cheers.
Same, I wish most places I want to visit weren’t in places where I’d be afraid to travel alone.
Turkey and its people are very hospitable. It’s extremely easy to travel around the country via modern reliable coaches. Accommodation is plentiful. Turks pride themselves on many things especially their food. It’s mostly produced within the country and therefore always fresh. Don’t be put off by what you may think Türkiye is. Go and visit the country and marvel at its countryside full of Roman, Greek, Byzantine ruins especially just out of the tourist seasons. You’ll have the whole place to yourself sometimes it’s marvellous.
Turkey is one of the most easy going places to travel. The Turks are so mild mannered, hospitable and genuinely helpful when needed. Between two trips I solo travelled about 5 months which included hiking the 300 mile trails of the Lycian Way and the St. Paul Trail. I had some wild boar drama in the mountains but other than that I felt extremely safe.
This is probably gammorrah