10 Of The Ancient World's Greatest Mysteries | Top Ten Enigmas of the Ancient World | Odyssey

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[deefacebook]

I vote for the on going dig at Helike in Greece being the lost City of Atlantis.

[JonnoPlays]

Easter Island was devastated by disease after first contact just like everywhere else. They experienced contact very early in the time of colonialism and the encounters are well documented. After their first contact there is a long Gap and the next recorded contact reports a drastically different situation with the population devastated and reverted to subsistence living whereas before they were providing for themselves with great ease and supported a huge population. It's the same story as every other place after European contact. It wasn't canabalism as is widely reported in error. The tree theory is also widely called into question. Europeans arrived before the 18th century. There was contact before that. Basically this is only telling the very old and euro centric version of the story. I would encourage everyone to watch "The Fall of Civilizations" podcast that did an episode on this subject. It's based on more up to date science.

[alittlecreepywhenyou]

I love "Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries", and I enjoy and admire all the quality content they produce. But...this title is pure clickbait.
I'm not stating that as a criticism in this case, because unlike the majority of other clickbait, they actually delivered on the promise.
Edit: Yeah...The shroud of Turin is nothing more than an elaborate hoax. That's not at all how a 3D object like a face would be "projected" onto any material it was wrapped in. Nice try though.

[flwnzrz]

if we worried about the future like we do the past we would be better off

[charleslaurice]

I absolutely love this channel just the way it is, keep it coming!!!

[edgarsnake]

Great entertainment for history lovers. Thanks. Atlantis is fun fiction by a master storyteller.

[matthewblanchard]

A great documentary, worthy of an award winning prize. The cinematography, the vocal narration and the musical score really blend together as stated, an award winning documentary. I've been lucky to see several of these wonders of the world, from Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain to the Pyramids in the Giza Plateau and Machu Picchu, the Incan Citadel high in the Andres Mountains. If you can travel, no matter what your budget is, or your physical limitations are, take an adventure of a life time. There are some much to see on this great big blue marble we live on. Explore... 🤠🤚🙏

[pattysherwood]

Atlantis is describing the imperfect memories of the Island of Thera, a nice place to live, but the gods heaped up a mountain of ash over them over a ten year period, and in the end the volcano exploded and sent ash over Asia deeply, killing all the trees. There are many references in ancient literature to this terrible event

[PaulineMontagna]

The Easter Islanders are indeed remarkable. It seems they must move backwards in time if the ancestors of the makers of the Mauis are living on the island today.

[douglasbyers]

When is it going to sink in between the thick people who make these videos, that Egyptian pyramids were not tombs.

[MTB]

There was one thing not mentioned about the shroud of Turin. There was a fire and it was saved from it but damaged, so that could have made the dating inaccurate.

[markuslaugner]

There is a big part of our history missing
For years I research and listening too
Documentaries
I have spoken too people in many different countries
How ever
I see a similarly all over
When it comes to stone calendars
Especially in South Africa there is a lot nobody knows how old
But..
Older than any one allows to admit
So it's obviously that there was a civilization alone time ago before us today's

[Tywithay]

The Sumerians created the world's first known writing system to write a SciFi novel...adds up.

[benediktmorak]

- top 10 -, it is up to everyone's discussion and imagination hat is greatest, best, most mysterious or whatever.
What this episode is, a short concise episode of 10 mysteries, some truth, some fiction, some say this, some mean that. But makes for easy one hour watching.

[lindakay]

Serious question here, could there have been an ancient sea or river that went from Wales to Salisbury when Stonehenge was constructed? 🤔

Also, if you watch the entire Amine series "The Seven Deadly Sins;" it postulates that Stonehenge was an ancient burial site for druid monks, and that villagers would tend the burial site (If I remember correctly) just the night after burial, to make sure the monk didn't rise from the grave. I haven't watched it in years.

[christurnbull]

90secs in and we have had our first mention of ancient aliens. Why do people think humans weren't smart enough to build amazing structures back then so it must have been aliens? Give our ancestors more credit as the a majority of technology we have today began thousands of years ago and has been improved over time.

[cpt.oblivion]

Stonehenge is so overrated. There's so many better topics that could be analyzed

[aripiispanen]

♪♫♥Very Interesting - Thank you for sharing this ;)

[timgchannel]

Hmm. Where to start?
One. One of the most remarkable things about Stonehenge is something people hardly ever mention, that it is in the middle of a henge theme park. There are several archaeological sites of henges in the area, including henges that are bigger than Stonehenge. But here’s the difference: they’re all wood henges. They have rotted down to dark spots in the in the dirt.
Two. Modern historians consider the sea peoples to be symptoms of economic and environmental collapses of the time, not the cause ofit. We know the names of many of the sea peoples, and in some cases, something of their history. The Philistines of the Bible were see peoples, and they attacked Israel from the land, not the sea.
Three. The Shroud of Turin is not an impression of a body. If it was draped around the body, and impression taken from that, we would have not just the front of the face, but the sides as well. That would make the impression of a very wide face. This is the impression from a bas relief, not a body.
Four. The Book of the Dead was not, per se, a single book. It was a book written specifically for the person to take into the afterlife, and each version was different. The richer the person, the longer his book. Often it was written with the assumption that the owner would not be able to get in to a good after life on his own merits. It was written so he could his way past all the tests.
Five. Ancient aliens. <eye roll>

[walterdavidjimenez]

Funny that the only thing this guy is sure of about Easter Island is that it’s down fall was due to climate change, overpopulation but nothing else is known about the people, their lives, the climate or anything else. They have no idea what life in the island was like.