Fall of Civilizations
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- Last post a year ago
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- PhanLo
Really enjoyed the two episodes of this series I've watched so far. The Easter Island one was super heavy, but I thought I'd start with the first one.
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- PhanLo2
I always find it amazing that a society so advanced could just disappear. Interesting that climate change and anti-intellectualism eventually done them in.
-- You might be shocked at just how many of the deserts /arid lands we tend to assume as being natural are in fact man-made. Much of the middle east, for instance.Nairn
- Sahara was full green until about 6000 BCgrafician
- The great Sphinx has water erosion marks, fuelling those ancient aliens conspiracy theoriesgrafician
- grafician0
This is top! Best share this month!
- Salarrue1
Awesome
- Nairn2
I started watching this last night, but within about 6 minutes he'd said two things a bit incorrectly and I got a bit sus (one was just saying a word wholly incorrectly).
I'll try and finish it and if it's any goo, mention it there >
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I'm watching it because as far as I'm aware the whole collapse of the mediterranean bronze-age cultures is apparently a huge mystery, which is fundamental given the reach of these civilisations.
- Oh Christ, yours are all 2+ hours long too! haha - 22 hours of content.
*sets playback speed to 1.75*Nairn - I think that came up in the recommended vids too Nairn, I'll give it a listen. :-)
Seems it takes only a few things failing for the wheels to come off.PhanLo - It's worth a watch.
Possibly better at 1.5x and more focused than I was, mind :)Nairn
- Oh Christ, yours are all 2+ hours long too! haha - 22 hours of content.
- Nairn1
How the fuck have I never heard of the Lycian Rock Tombs?!?!
- Where is Set?Nairn
- https://en.wikipedia…Nairn
- Niiiice!PhanLo
- This place is 3 hours drive from where I live. There's a river right by this mountain flowing into mediter. and a beautiful beach.
https://www.google.c…Beeswax - https://www.google.c…Beeswax
- PhanLo1
Illustration by Frederick Catherwood this book based on his travels.
https://archive.org/details/inci…
Must have been so crazy to find those sculptures and cities, what is sad is that the craftsmen who made them never passed down their knowledge. The style is incredible
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^ Beautiful work. An old drawing illustrating an ancient artifact - layers of time. Heard a few of these podcasts, they're great. Rapa Nui, F. Reminds me of the Dr Jago Cooper stuff on telly.
On topic and in a similar vein, read this recently and was quite interesting: https://aeon.co/essays/revolutio… Discussing ArchaeoGLOBE, archaeologists attempt to combine knowledge in order to assess human impact over last 10,000 years. Plenty of surprises along the way.
- DRIFTMONKEY2
10/10 thread. You just made my weekend. Thanks, bro.
- PhanLo0
Not from the same series, but worth a listen
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