The Ancient Greeks have long been credited for bringing ‘civilization’ to the East. In fact it appears to be the other way round. Alexander the Great discovered a highly developed civilization – a lost world – that pre-dated even the Persians.
Following the course of the River Oxus (Amu Darya), we take you on an extraordinary 1,500-mile journey through Afghanistan and Central Asia and unravel the mysteries of the Oxus Civilizations.
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You wrong Aleksander the great was Macedonian king. Hi took so meny Macedonians not greeks. Greeks has nothing to do with Aleksander. 🇲🇰 🇲🇰 🇲🇰 macedonia was split in thre playces on 1913. Egeya was the one thet and up in greese. Aleksander an all the heroes come from Egeya.
I enjoyed this immensely! Tho i don’t think it’s more likely the Argonauts myth derives from the time of the Younger Dryas warming than the Mycenaean’s sailing towards Ararat via the Black Sea, which had Minoan settlements already existing- this was still a very enjoyable & informative video. And you never know, your theory could be more accurate than we know! Cheers friend 🍻
The greeks it is not the saem spartans teare Afrikans thet is way they caal greese new.
Did the ancients have F14s? 0:03
You should know that the travel and discovery happened by the south to north and the east to the west .. not the other way around
I dont suppose the sheep enjoyed it much. 😢
There is desendants from Aleksander there in Hinukush. Dose piople never said thet teare greeks or any adher than Macedonians. Greeks wass kiling so many Macadonians and get readov them from Egeya, that was in 2and Wrld war, my grand parents Was ahplaing to mi.
Tere Was no greeks at that tame, it was Spartans, dont tell mi greeks tere were no were tere
Are you nuts. That whole thing could collapse at any time,!!! 😮
The end of the Ice Age was a massive cosmic event. There was a nearby (within 160 light years) a (super)nova explosion, and a shockwave, a plasma tsunami of a cosmic coronal mass ejection, and various star material impacted on the planet. This happened 12,800 BCE. The shockwave knocked down megalithic site, (and blowing the limestone casing of the pyramid off). Other pyramid limestone was superheated into quicklime and blew away as a powder. Many of the bloopy looking megaliths, were actually superheated back up to asthenosphere pressure and temperatures (of middle Earth) 5000 degrees Centrigrade, into ductile material. These superheated rocks then still having form, but ductile, started bloopy down and outwards, and cooking again. In some of these stones with weakened interiors, they superheated and extruded out nubs or noobs (like Peruvian megalith sites, and then cooled giving these anomalous features to what was once straight-sided quarry rocks. Also the supermelting of the rocks, also increased the total contact between each boulder, into their present razor-thin contact surfaces all around.
The polar glaciers (north and south) were immensely superheated, supermelted, and also instant evaporation into jetstreams of superheated steam … instant sublimation from solid ice to water vapor was thrown up into the stratosphere creating the (later) biblical Upper Heavens waters that came back down ~1987 BCE with the biblical Flood. These instant supermeltings created massive flash floods of glacial lake waters ripped through the geology as 700+ feet Ice Age glacial floods (flash floodings) that slough and scoured the Pacific Northwest Columbia River Basin, gouging out the immense elevations of basalt of the Columbia River Gorge, and out into the sea.
The same could be said for all the rest of the northern and southern hemisphere glaciers, and ocean's sea level rise 400+ feet, submerging former shoreline civilizations. The Alaskan and Canadian tundra, … and the Scandinavian and Russian-Siberian tundra were massively massively changed up, floods encircling the Antarctic continent, and the Arctic Ocean also swelling its banks. Other European glacial floodings coming off the Alps, Apennines, Caucasus, and the Indus/Himalayan mountain ranges would swell up the Mediterranean, known Black Sea inundations of submerged cities and civilization, the Sea of Azov, the Caspian Sea, etc. Rivers would swell to massive size and volume of waters raging down their ravines and valleys out into the nearest oceans of the Arctic, Baltic, Black Sea, Mediterranean, Caspian, Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean.
amazing. thank you
Very speculative documentary. The battlefield where Alexander fought with Persian Army and a very old civilization was located 2000 km south of Caspian Sea. There was no way for him to sail and cross the Alborz mountains. He reached there somewhere thru Syria, Turkey, and Iraq. That climate change and expanded seas on the north could not coincide with Alexander era which was about 2200 years ago.
i would like to say to all directors , producers and historians , people who cannot think pass their noses , would say alexander did not discover because there were people there before , it is like when C C discovered what is noe the Americas people say he did not discover any thing there were people here , i m no historian , im no philosopher but common sense rules the day.
How can you say you discovered a place that's already inhabited by people? Very delusional 😂
10:00 minutes in, and I wonder what exactly am I watching. 12k BC to 6k BC, even if true (where is the evidence?) is a completely different timeframe as 1k BC. The tale could be at a minimum 5k years older 'than we think' just to fit some crazy alternative history? What the heck is going on? Are they serious? There are getting very close to ancient alien made up fantasy 'history' content.
I'm giving it a bit more time, but for now I'm highly sceptical of this programme.
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The seats on this ship at the start are too far forward compared to the paddles. You can see rowers struggle to pull the paddle all the way back through as they have too little space between their chest, how far their back can lean back, and the maximum paddle extension. Moving every seat 15 cm or more in the direction of the rowers back would allow them to pull the paddles with their backs instead of with their arms, allowing more strength in the paddle and a more natural rowing position. You can especially see it here: 8:15, take note of the older gentleman with dark glasses struggling in an awkward paddle motion.
28:00 if thats an inland water way, then the easiest way to prove that is to look down and see if there are any marine shell remains. If there aren't, then it wasn't. The fact they didn't look down and show these marine animal shells IMO hints at there not being any.
>since 2001 and the fall of the taliban government
Hmmm, yea.
Why can’t they ship in a giant heavy steamroller to remove the mines?
Alex wasnt great
Alexander was Macedonian, and Greece is not Europe. It is said the people's in the land called Hellenes (back then not 1 country but several kingdoms) called the section way up to northeast Europe, but they too did now know how much more land was all the way up north or exactly which areas as it could have been just Spain and Italy.
For 1000’s of years, Afghanistan was territory of Persian Empire and a century ago it was divided due to nasty influence of British Empire. Alexander invaded great civilization of Persian Empire before long before leading his war toward India and passing through Eastern territories which is now called Afghanistan. He had to climb north to skip the vast deserts located in central and eastern part of Iran. Nobody was lucky enough to pass the desert with an army and survive in lack of water and vegetation. Deserts were extended to south and southeastern part of the country covering eastern part of current Pakistan. So, the India was the next eastern neighbor of Iran and two nations were divided by very large, dry and salty deserts. No army passed those arid lands by horseback riding. This Photojournalist should explore the history and civilization among the cities governed by Persian Empire. Long before Alexander, Persia and Greece and Romans were in bitter fights for near 300 years. While he is crediting Alexander for building some villages in Afghanistan, he disregards his destructive demolishing of the Pasargadae and Takht-e-Jamshid Palaces which were capital of first and largest empire in the world. The nation believed on God (Ahoora Mazda) led by Zoroastrian. Afghanistan was the most remote territory of Persian Empire and still is considered very underdeveloped rural area. After death of young assailant to eastern civilizations, his army commanders ruled in Iran for 70 years and after getting educated with Persian culture, they all were kicked out efficiently by brave fighters rooting from northern part of Iran.
Thank you for bringing the travels of Alexander to life! 👏