The Drowned Ancient Civilization Beneath The Black Sea | Dark Secrets of the Black Sea | Odyssey

Does the Black Sea hide the dark secrets of a long-lost ancient civilization? An international group of experts examine the evidence for this possible bronze age civilisation and more in the depths of this mysterious sea.

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[MrBakedDaily]

I think why we can't find alot of old civilizations older than 10000+ because the settlements were so close to sea level .

[waxy]

If sea levels rose thousands of years ago, and people have always lived closed to bodies of waters, I think is simply natural to believe we could find towns or even cities submerged in many parts of the world.

[richardgraham]

Pastoralists, small agriculture, and fisheries: I never knew that Thrace may be a heart of ancient civilization based on shipping. Wonderful science documentary.

[johnmcclain]

I began working in metal at about seven or eight, casting lead and forging it, working into copper and alloys by ten. One thing I noted was I constantly recovered the metal I'd used earlier, for ever more expansive extensive experiments and projects. I would suggest one possibility regarding the plethora of stone tools versus the paucity of metal could well be the fact the metal tools could be recovered when worn, by re-melting, casting and forging, while stone tools, worn beyond the design use would be re-purposed when worn, and discarded when no longer seen as useful. I've explored substantially, around the world, living in Spain a couple years and Italy a couple and exploring the Med as a child, intrigued by the remnants of the civilizations left behind. I've worked in metal close to sixty years, I believe because of my exposure to the Mediterranean cultures in growing up. This has been truly eye opening, I've little exposure to this Sea.

[laurentiubucur]

In front of Constanta's well known Casino I personally dove and during 6 hours on a sunny day through huge blocks of an ancient fortress, huge blocks of fortress wall, I used an old type italian 3 bottles very big Barracuda SCUBA diving apparatus at a depth from 10 to 20 meters depth. Actually my former mentor in science of archaeology and diving Constantin Scarlat wrote a book on " The invisible shore of Black Sea" in the seventies of last century. I was impressed by the massivness of those blocks of stone, I dove along and between them along like in a maze, I think they must have been the former wall of a former port, quay or something.

[rustybolts]

Not so long ago there were videos posted claiming that submerged civilizations did not exist. They tried to dismiss obviously man made structures as natural. Good to see times have changed. Very informative well made video, thank you.

[AmericanWoman]

This is one of my favorite videos now. So good to see some new and exciting theories and archaeology. Thanks for uploading!

[headedforthegrammys]

Perfect 👍🏿 right on time for bed 🛌
Happy new year everyone 🎉

[tonyincs]

Wow, so much to unpack in this. You could make an entire series out of this.

[SecretSquirrelFun]

The Black Sea is flipping amazing.
Shells and sand dunes are great,

They found a 74foot, Ancient Greek sailing vessel, sitting there on the sea bed, undisturbed for around 2, 400 years!!!

Two THOUSAND four hundred YEARS 😳!!!

- and it’s down there, under the water and you can see the mast, the benches for the towers, on one wreck they found, the ROPE was still looped and hanging on its wooden peg.

The condition the boats are in, after 2, 400 years is astonishing.

A team of marine archeologists found this and many other ancient vessels. Each was recorded using photogrammetry as well as complete laser scanning.
If you are interested there is/was a multi-part documentary about the expedition and their discoveries that was on YouTube.

[michellerenner]

It’s so refreshing to see a prof who’s open to change and debate from their students

[sinkhole]

it's interesting when the old guy at 47.36 is talking about what caused the fluctuations in the glaciers/ice ages he talks about the older understanding - changing sunlight levels, then mentions the new theory - changes to equatorial currents, but sees it as a 'one or the other' scenario, The new idea makes the old one wrong'. Why can't they both have had an impact?

[amr]

Does anybody else think that one of the speakers reminds them of Dr Phil but the archaeologist version! Lol.

[sinkhole]

Great attitude shown by the old guy a few minutes later, when he states it is fantastic when you students prove you wrong!

[michelbrown]

Anyone remember tje frozen Mamouth of Siberia, frozen solid with food in their stomach. . . The event happened in some hours not days nor moths. . .. . .

[mmaximk]

Very interesting documentary. Many thanks.

[davidstorm]

Lots of great info, shame there was not more UNDERsea video of these Ancient civilizations.

[Moto_Medics]

Amazing info! (and old 90s doco vibe with the audio and effects)

[kaarlimakela]

This clears up a lot of questions.
Still, I'd like to see the DNA distributions to tie it all together.

[honeybear]

Absolutely fascinating... I always say question the science.... I like how this video breaks down the inaccuracies and accuracies of carbons testing... I've never even heard of carbon 12... Until this video... Which gives very good examples why these environmental changes would occur and be possible... Excellent job please keep up the good work make more videos like this 👍👍👍👍👉❤️