Uncovering History: From Schliemann’s Explosive Quest to Modern Day Destruction – Witness the race against time as ancient treasures fall victim to greed, negligence, and ignorance. Explore the shocking stories behind lost heritage.
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To be honest, aren't we always told to look ahead to the future than to wallow in the past? Metro station – yes please! Old musty tomb, nah unless it comes with a Lara Croft!
“This is why we can’t have nice things”
we as humanity don,t deserve beauty and history but only uglyness and amnesia but i hope it is all that worth this socalled human-progress or just brutal barbary!
Hopefully the Americans sorted this guy out.
I really shouldn't have watched this. It's not good pre bed time watching. It's just makes you dispare.
The big mound in St. Louis would be my addition to this list.
As a history enthusiast. As a man who loves to know and ponder the mysteries of ancient times as much as I read into recent eras scarcely a hundred years old.
This whole episode made my soul scream with indignant rage. Just like when I heard ISIS was bombing Akkadian and Assyrian sites from some of the most ancient temples and cities in the Middle East. I mean. This was educational. But. Simon. I leave this episode deeply wounded.
Tailiban /ISS destroyed more in a couple years than everything else through out history combined.
About 40 prehistoric standing stones in Carnac, France were destroyed to make room for a retail store last month
how about the French mayor who wants to level an area with neolithic standing stones, to make a shopping mall….
human stupidity says it all
Gee Simon, did you take the time to address Islam's dedication to destruction of priceless artifacts, artwork etc? The defacement of the Great Pyramids? Attacks on legendary works of art? Did you know that Islam has been doing this for over a thousand years, beginning with Mohammed himself?!
5:54 this happens almost everywhere where 500+ stone monuments gather, and japanese people are repeat offenders despite their own historic sites being covered with signs stated everything that's forbidden to do at them (which is everything they do at other people's historical sites).
Idk the name but everybody knows what it looks like. The rock that was really big but had a small piece still holding it up. Tourist pulled it over. I hate people
Some of these make me feel sick
what do you want to bet that the unidentified foreign tourists were Americans 🤦🏾♂
The tourists that broke the statues etc should be jailed.
A 3k fine? That’s bread crumbs to a construction company
Muslims love destroying ancient artifacts it is in their nature to destroy anything that is not islamic. Heck they destroy themselves too lol.
Archaeologists be like: "it must have taken hundred… no, thousands of years to carve this thing."
Corporations be like: "Hey, look, I made a bridge. It only took me like, what? Ten seconds? Eleven tops."
Priceless is just another word for worthless, under most circumstances. Is it useful? It's worth something. Otherwise, it's probably priceless, especially to someone with more money than brains cells.
The one about Guangzhou is reflects the ancient chinese practice of not giving a single damn and just doing whatever you bloody want with blatant disregard for the people and world around you in complete ambivalence. They have 32 different ways to say "disregard", it's part of the culture
First guy was def a time traveler and knew something we didn’t
Why is nothing sacred when it gets in the way of "progress"? I would think that certain things would be off limits for legal, religious, or a myriad of other reasons.
You didn't mention the total destruction of ancient Sparta by the French priest. THAT was TOTAL stupidity.
And now Afghanistan is selling tickets to the ruins of the statues they destroyed
I live in Londonderry and our council thought it would be a crackin idea to cut holes in our historic city walls…for lights. Lights! Absolute idiots!
Simon, of the many many videos of your that I have watched, I don't believe I have ever been so disgusted as much as I am over this one. The unbelievable carelessness of people have destroyed not only ancient artifacts, but the incredible beauty of these items for millions of people who will view them in the future! Who wants to remember for the rest of their life "some a&$ clown destroyed this statue", rather than "WOW… what a beautiful work of art"?
It was a different age and time and Shleman (?) Should not be judged by today's standards.
Why didn’t ISIS destruction of Nimrud get mentioned and they did a lot more than that? While we’re at it the Cultural Revolution was completely ignored.
Can't we blow up the Vatican city 😂
I watched so many people wanting to touch ancient artifacts. Just why? What do you gain from running hands along priceless works of art? Just why??? I felt mortified watching people do this, and then having museum people scream at them to stop. Why do this at all, please stop.
This isn't much different than what is still done to Egyptian and other tombs, the pyramids, and any other site deemed "history".
That's China for you. Imagine all that was submerged in the creation of the 3 gorges damn!
A big one that could be covered is the destruction of the Bonwit Teller Building Art Deco Friezes in New York City in 1980. An asshole real estate mogul bought the building and promised to donate the friezes on the edifice, one of the best preserved and important Art Deco pieces in the city to the Met. However, shortly after he used underpaid Polish illegal immigrants to intentionally destroy the friezes because he felt the $9000 it would've taken to take them down wasn't worth it on a $100+ million dollar construction project. It was a travesty.
Danhausen would have cursed all of these objects
I have a LOT more empathy – as re: destruction of works of antiquity – for those back in the day who simply didn’t know what they were doing/didn’t have the technology to excavate properly, etc., than those who today WILLFULLY destroy works through their narcissism, ignorance, or political/religious/climate terrorism.
Hundreds of the megaliths at Karnak were recently bulldozed to make way for a hardware store.
Napoleon using the Great Sphinx nose for cannon target practice.
A Turkish army using the Acropolis of Athens as an amunition store.
The US military building a helicopter landing pad on top of the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon.
So what I learned from this is that the penalty for intentionally destroying significant historical sites is insufficient. I reccomend increasing the fine to something ridiculous like $300,000,000 that ought make people think twice about it I reckon