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Athens 1:22 Alexandria 53:09 Carthage 1:44:53 Rome 2:36:22

The narrator sounds like John Hurt, the British actor. 👏 This is probably the best documentary I've ever seen! Thank you.

This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen about the ancient cities around the Mediterranean. There is wonderful testimony from scientists, archaeologists and historians, interspersed with vignettes about the actual people who lived in the cities. The little reenactments are tastefully done and quite interesting. I have always thanked God when people in antiquity left their stories in hyroglyphics, stellae, papyri, tablets and burial sites. We also can be extremely grateful for the boundless work of modern professionals for uncovering and interpreting the evidence and fossils. This presentation provides the best of all sources of information about Athens, Alexandria, Carthage and Rome. It is really amazing what they were able to find out about Carthage, in particular, considering the Romans pretty much wiped it off the face of the earth. So kudos to the team who brought us this documentary. I enjoyed it and learned a lot.

This well done walk through history is a glaring reminder of the adage, then more things change, the more they stay the same.

The first early big cities were always beside large flowing rivers for obvious reasons. Rome was an inland port when it started out, and there were many other similar places. Then the iron age required massive amounts of charcoal and forests were felled everywhere to produce it. That despoiling caused the rivers to begin silting up as topsoil lost its protective cover.

Such a beautiful, well made documentary. I'm only roughly an hour into it but so far I'm loving how well it's made. Top notch everything. Bravo!

I appreciate this series taking the time to show the lives of some normal people whose records have survived.

I would like to congratulate the people of Greece on their restoration of the Parthenon. The whole world has been influenced by the ancient Greeks and the whole world rejoices with Greece.

I remember watching this absolutely awesome

How did they do it? They had far greater but simple technology than we can imagine. Frequency and vibration. The beauty of sound. That's the key. We like to believe we are a greater civilization but it's just not true. These pieces of history are amazing and I thank you for sharing this ❤️

Very complete documantry and after watching this i know i have to visit Greece, I'm from Iran and i love Younan 💙

A mega documentary :) this looks awesome.. perfect timing on a Sunday night 🥰

So cool about the car for Steven ! Congratulations Steven ! Glad your family is ok. We had fires/ drought in 97 in florida and i know how stressful that whole situation is for you. I pray for rain instead of griping about it now ! And am praying for yall too !

AMAZING WORK & VIBE!!!! Full deep dive

I love how the man discusses falling in love with the vase. Lovely stuff. 🧡✨️🧡✨️💕

Wolf nipple chips! LOL the Roman Colosseum part reminds me so much of the Monty Python segments of the Life of Brian scene!

Phryne’s unrobing to prove her beauty’s worthiness of Aphrodite’s statue was an absolute BOSS move! I love this video, thank you so much.

I use this to help me sleep .. 💤 Works like a charm 😊

This was absolutely brilliant and informative Corina thank you.❤

YouTube, thou vanquisher and abetter of insomnia.