Imperator: Rome has improved across the board - Diadochi of Alexander were fleshed out, the military system has been overhauled and they added a bunch of stuff, including our favorite Wonder Editor. Play it today: rebrand.ly/KingsandGenerals If we can get this video to 10k likes in the first 24 hours, there will be more videos on other wonders, including a K&G list with our favorites. Let's Goooooo!
@@AD-en5dq it'll probably still hold that record for pretty much ever. Since modern tall sky scraper buildings will eventually deteriorate due to being made of glass metal etc
Let’s put the size of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus into context. Think of the impressive Parthenon in Athens. The Parthenon is approximately 70 x 30 meters. At 115 x 55 meters, the Temple of Artemis was about 50% longer and wider. It’s Ionic column were also 25% taller than those in the Parthenon. The Temple at Ephesus would have been massive in the ancient Greek world!
@@aForkfulOfGold I believe that anyone with a brain can understand why I responded; my intention was to pinpoint the magnificence of ancient Greek architecture, since it can be compared to modern grecian constructions.
@@christermi I believe that anyone with a brain can understand that your reply toward me was unnecessarily condescending in tone. You must have interpreted my first response to you way worse than it was intended to come across.
@@sten6216 The sheer amount of knowledge lost due to Christian persecution of pagan religions is heartbreaking. Maybe the Romans of the first two centuries CE made the right call by persecuting them...
@@Gstrangeman96 Also the Islamic conquest of Persia and various temples, ancient universities like the famous Buddhist "Nalanda University" in India were destroyed by some extremists and power hungry sultans.
@@Gstrangeman96 Arab Muslim army also destroyed the famous Medieval White Palace or "Arch of Khosrow Anushirwan" in "Ctesiphon" capital of the Sasanian Persia.
Ironic, but not really surprising. As far as shapes go (interior and construction methods notwithstanding), the Pyramids were the most basic of the seven, but that also made them the most stable.
2:40 Hanging Garden 5:02 Statue of Zeus in Olympia 7:05 Temple of Artemis in Ephesus 9:21 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 12:35 Colossus of Rhodes 14:38 Alexandria 15:26 Pharos at Alexandria 16:59 Giza Pyramid Complex saving these so I can make them in Minecraft
Why isn't angkor wat considered an ancient wonder? Not ancient enough? I bet the temples being built right now shall be considered wonders in the future.
@@rahul17023The "7 wonders of the ancient world"' is a list of sights compelled by the ancient greek tourist and poets in ancient times. Naturally, this list only has the wonders known to the greek world at that time.
@@rahul17023 The origin of the name of Angkor Wat is uncertain, but there is a hypothesis that Angkor comes from Egyptian ankh, "life", even though obviously it is not of any known Egyptian design. Graham Hancock discussed this hypothesis in one of his books that i read, I forgot which, maybe Heaven's Mirror, on the many worldwide ancient to medieval megaliths, most of their designers shrouded in mystery, that align exactly with constellations and suggest the existence of a very ancient global civilization that connected all of these far-flung, beautiful, amazing buildings into a series of landmarks and cosmological stone calendar as well as serving as memorials to past astronomical and earthly events.
Unbelievable graphics. This channel's growth has impressed me a lot, from speculative predictions of future total war videos to stuff like this. Great vid
Except the occasional glitch like the base of the great pyramid's texture tripping out and some of the columns on the ruined Artemisium being hollow, this is one of the best videos I've ever seen in terms of production quality. This is worthy of the History Channel back when they did actual history.
At this point, it is such a Herculean task just to keep the pyramid from falling apart. I don’t think it is even feasible to rebuild the facade anymore.
Not much of a sight, the only thing different is that they would look cleaner and they would be capped with gold, not exactly an explosion of artistic inspiration. They were only tombs after all.
Assassin's Creed origins did that, the pyramids of Giza in that game look clean and brand new. You're talking about real life though, rebuilding over the pyramids would ruin their historical value.
This video was surprisingly emotional. All these amazing wonders of the world, adored in their day, and one by one, they fall to irrelevance and ignorance, destroyed by nature or man. All except one. "Man fears time, yet time fears the pyramids." What a great quote. The enemy of this video is time, and the Great Pyramids were the victor of the story.
Such a shame none of them except for the great pyramid of Giza survived especially the lighthouse and library of Alexandria imagine the knowledge lost in the library
@@Leoforos13 Not really. The main complexes that burnt down housed mainly poetry and literature. A tragic loss for sure, but not one that has set humanity back by any real metric.
@@timotejjedinak649 some philosophers have very unpractical teaching that resulting in no one really pay any attention, but when some did have very useful philosophies their legacy would be everlasting.
@@timotejjedinak649 we can build and build and reach scientific heights humanity couldn't possibly fathom. However, philosophy provides us a platform on which we may orient ourselves in a vast, inconceivable universe, as we must all face the existential "threat" of death one day. The reaper comes for us all no matter how much we accomplish in this life, so I would argue that philosophy has as much utility as any other discipline. Alas, it goes unappreciated most of the time because of its abstract nature despite its importance.
Modern and Classical philosophy are very different, one (Classical) is based in science / psychology and the other (Modern) is based on substance use and neo-psychological / historical / ethical thought (not science and arguably just opinions)
@@yougetonthathorseyougottar6126 it’s because culturally modern societies doesn’t appreciate or understand philosophy, and the society has no interest in anything other than the mechanical wheel.
It's amazing how some of these Ancient Wonders coincidentially transformed their name in the literal definition of all the buildings of their kind. -The king Mausolus building his tomb, later known as the Mausoleum. -And the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was built on the island of Pharos, algo created the word "pharo", or "faro", which means "lighthouse" in spanish, catalan and other latin languages.
Fun fact: Alexander kept naming cities, 70 Alexandrias, 1 Boucephalia and 1 Alexandropolis, after himself, but this time rhyming with his father's Philipopolis.
That's what all megalomaniacs do. There is nothing Great about invading other peoples countires and killing them. Do people consider Hiter to be Hitler the great?
Long long long ago there existed a man called Kings and generals and he would always tell us tails of the ancient world yes my child does were truly the golden days
I remember when this channel was just images and footages from our favourite strategy games. But the dedication has bought them to this stage. Huge felicitations. Of course,miles to go.
I've read somewhere, that the man who deliberately set fire to the temple of artemis must not be named or spoken of, so that he is completely forgotten in history.
I been to the pyramids of Gaza in 2012. If you can go before you leave this earth, please do!! It is something you must see & touch in order to understand our world we live on!!!
Your content is beyond remarkable; I feel very fortunate to have found this. Thank you for all the time and effort that goes into producing these videos and for providing them to the public at no cost.
@@johannesmaximilian848 I like to believe that people who cannot achieve what they admire most, they destroy it or steal it. I mean look at Parthenon. It was still standing and got blown up by Turks, they used a temple as a gun powder vault. Later on British took some marbles and put then in a museum. And the funny thing is that some British tourists visit Greece and say look at how ugly the ruins are. Hmmm maybe it would look better if we had our marbles back, but I’m just saying. Now one reason why we don’t rebuild the Parthenon is because if we do it, it would lose it’s value, plus it’s a great example to show to the world how humans act like wild animals. Parthenon wasn’t destroyed from nature, people who invaded Greece destroyed it.
@@user-iy9ru8tn2o well said. Now the british are enjoying being a minority in their capital. Third most popular baby name in london is muhammad. They can lick our a** now.
@@eggwatch596 most of cleopatra's life (or all of it) was before the establishment of the roman empire. we're talking about a woman born before jesus christ, if that even happened. however, despite that, her existence is closer to our own time than the era of the pyramid's construction.
@Jason Diggs And China is now on track to again become the world's biggest economy and a global technological leader. The only reason they ever fell from the top spot was because the British knew they couldn't compete with a united China's production capabilities so they started the Opium Wars. Long story short, China is now doing better than ever, the British empire is dead and buried while England has self-isolated from the rest of Europe and is about to lose Scotland and Northern Ireland probably this decade. Man, Karma's a bitch huh?
@Jason Diggs Monotheism is by its very nature intolerant, despotic and supremacist. Also, it's easy to see how it lays the groundwork for fascism: once you accept the premise that a single all-powerful entity controls everything, it's only a small step until you get to "one volk, one reich, one fuhrer".
Medes/Medians were Iranian. Media is Iran/Persia. Ecbatana, the capital of the Medes is in Iran/Persia and it is a Persian city. The Medes were related to the Persians. Amytis is a Persian name. And the name of some Persian princesses in the Persian Empire was Amytis as well. I am Lur-Lak Iranian, the traditional clothing of Lur Iranians is similar to the Medes/Median clothing. And the Luri language is a dialect of old Persian.
The day is coming and soon , when ALL of the Ancient Wonders shall be rebuilt . We CAN . As a Brotherhood of Humanity the time has come to shake our apathy , honor those who have given us inspiration by rebuilding their achievements (using modern materials and techniques) and then build our own Wonder as a message of Hope and Purpose across time . Today our lives are so much easier than our ancestors that I fear we are falling victims to shear boredom , creating apathy , hopelessness , entitled attitudes , fear and in extreme cases envy and hatred . These things create chaos and will plunge the world we have into another dark age IF we allow it to . Why should we live in such a manner when there is such a better way ? Come , let us BUILD ! P.S. I cannot thank the creators of the content of this video enough ! Without people such as you inspiration wouldn't exist . Thank you ! Double PS lol , a hypothesis on construction of pyramid : each block was formed and cast using either sunlight to fire the mix or chemical reaction much as we make concrete today . I am a construction worker skilled in different building techniques and an amateur historian with keen interest in architecture . I am not the originator of this theory but with my background I can say that it is not only extremely possible , it is highly probable . Have a great life !
Just the immense sadness I feel whenever a Wonder is discussed, knowing they've all (save one) been destroyed, and usually carelessly by apathetic or uncaring men. Just depressing. Long live the Pyramids!
Absolutely incredible video, please never stop doing what you do. People like you keep these great works alive and allow us to truly honor the effort that was put into their construction (in stark contrast to the belief that the pyramids would’ve been built by aliens). These buildings must have been incredibly awe-inspiring to see and it’s so sad that we can no longer visit them. I truly hope they will at some point be rebuild (I’ve already heard there are plans to build a larger version of the colossus).
340 Idol or more were destroyed in the conquest of Mecca. It would've been cool to see them today but destroying them was the best option at that time.
The Abrahamic religions are the greatest destroyers of civilizations. The Byzantine religious zealots utterly destroyed many wonders of the Greek and Roman civilizations, which was pretty much their own civilizations. The Arabs did also their fair share of atrocities against other great cultures. I mean the destruction and looting of Palmyra was horrific and that happened only 6 years ago.
It'd be interesting to have your take on wonders of the Roman world: The Pantheon, the Colosseum (both in Rome), the Hippodrome, the Hagia Sophia, the Theodosian Walls, the Cisterns (all in Constantinople), possibly the Mausoleum of Theodoric (Ravenna), and I'm sure you could choose a handful of other notable feats of engineering.
@@matthewneuendorf5763 agia sophia is holy wisdom in greek .roman empire divided to west and eastern empire known as Byzantium. The formal language of byzantium was Greek and most of the Emporeres were greeks .colosseumm hippodrome and mausoleum of theodoric are roman. The name hippodrome is also greek from ippos is horse and dromos is road.
@@carios9889 The Roman empire ended on May 29, 1453. The Theodosian Walls were built under Theodosius II. The Hagia Sophia was built under Justinian I. The Hippodrome was built under Constantine I. By the time when all these things were built, the Greek city-states were a distant memory, and even Alexander and his successors had long since fallen away into the dust bin of history. The Mausoleum of Theodoric was Ostrogothic, but since the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy was essentially a Roman successor state with a barbarian aristocracy that only lasted a few generations before being reincorporated into the empire, I give it a pass. Greek wasn't even the official language of the empire until Heraclius, by which point every one of these building projects was already completed. They were in no way Greek, and in every way Roman (excepting the aforementioned Ostrogothic mausoleum).
I've always loved the description of the Great Pyramid by Matthew Reilly in his book Seven Ancient Wonders: (paraphrasing to keep it short) It is perhaps the only structure on Earth known by name to every single member of the human race. It has outlasted pharaohs and kings, tribal wars and worlds wars, earthquakes and sandstorms. It defies time, it defies imagination. It is the only man-made structure in history to defy the ravages of Nature and Time, and indeed the only on of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World known to have survived to the present day. It is a building without equal in all the world.
@@m.a4730 - They are also the reason why we have retained so much information about the ancient world to this day. You must take the good with the bad. Humanity is not perfect.
@@m.a4730 not to mention Roman, Greek, Babylonian, Persian cultures who had their own gods. One might say you should blame human nature rather than religion.
I cant even begine to imagine what The Great Pyramid of Giza has looked like in its pristine shimmering white coat bathed in the desert sun. No wonder people worshipped it and its buillders in the ancient world, as even i probably would have to take a knee if i were to see it as it was originally imagined and completed.
Careful, cuz of Kaepernick taking a knee, taking a knee is no longer a sign of reverence & inspiration, but of protest & hatred. (I am totally just trolling). If it were restored in my life time I would take a knee in its direction just to tell my kids I did.
So glad to see this, have been connected to the Wonders of the Ancient world for a long time, my wife and I sent for a quest to see them all, and we did it well, all but the Hanging Garden, of course the only one standing is the Great Pyramid, but one can feel those places are special even today, and we can sense the relationship with Alexander the Great in the all, of course they were not built by him, but somehow he was part of all of them, either visiting them or in the case of the Colossus of Rhodes, some say it was inspired on his face and the Macedonian Sun. Worth to go to them all.
This video on some of the ancient wonders of the world is fascinating. I like the Egyptian Pyramids, Alexandria Lighthouse, Great Wall of China, Hadrians Wall, and other ancient buildings across the planet.
Kings and Generals! I am forever grateful of all your contents! I salute you for giving us such beautiful and graphically stunning videos. I love you K&G team! I will be a forever supporter! I'm a History Freak by the way.
This had quickly become one of my favourite channels. Love this video. And, watching some of the Roman documentaries, while the sound track from Rome Total War plays in the background was a brilliant touch. I played that game, when it first came out. And, while my P.C is probably incapable of playing the remastered version, I still remembered all the music from it. Keep up the good work. You are wonderful.
Its amazing! Unfortunately you cant really know how many more wonders like these were built in the past. I live in Turkey, Anatolia and near my village there is an ancient settlement found thats from romans. There are sculptures buried underground and lots of stuff yet to be found, a 2500 year old secret passage was found a few days ago near my home, 3500 year old little settlement was found a few months ago. Its just sad its only the 7 wonders we know about.
@@gabrielmanolis5188 Stonehenge is meh if you compare it to more spectacular architecture. However, it was built nearer in time to the Pyramids than to the other traditional 7 Ancient Wonders, required the transport of massive stone blocks 100 miles over land and with no remains of writing or even anything resembling a centralised authority in Britain at the time. In that context, it is spectacular.
Even if modern people decide to reconstruct all of those wonders, it still marvel of engineering and people will admire those structures. Imagine people back then, most people might think that those wonders wasn't even made by "Human".
On a serious and curious note, I would love to know what you would consider a... more comprehensive list? Cuz until you said this I didn't realize there are things I think qualify more than others, so I am curious what specific ancient wonder[s] deserves a top 7 spot, to you; and which should be nixt from the list?
@@chalinofalcone871 The Great Ziggurat of Ur, Abu Simbel Temples, Temple of Luxor, Temple of Karnak, the entire Valley of the Kings really. The early part of Great Wall of China was built around the same time actually, so it can be considered one of the Ancient Wonders. Then obviously, there were probably even greater structures at Persepolis, Ur, Babylon etc. that are all lost to time.
@@tejasmisra9115 Add terracotta army, Chichen Itza and cave temples around India, Central Asia and China to it (Ancient period lasted till 650 A.D. according to some sources). Probably Mahabodhi temple can be called ancient too.
I hope they make another video like this where it is still Ancient Wonders of the World but not the 7, you know those who didn't make it in the 7 but like top 20.
The digital renderings in the very beginning are reaching into the core of my being into my cosmic soul memory. I'm gonna just watch, without narration, and appreciate the reconstructed old world images. I'm already deeply impressed, and moved. Thank you. Glad I stumbled here.
I'm in awe of the incredible works of man. To say that man is a destroyer of the world is ignorant, his achievements reflect the genius of his creation.
Imperator: Rome has improved across the board - Diadochi of Alexander were fleshed out, the military system has been overhauled and they added a bunch of stuff, including our favorite Wonder Editor. Play it today: rebrand.ly/KingsandGenerals If we can get this video to 10k likes in the first 24 hours, there will be more videos on other wonders, including a K&G list with our favorites. Let's Goooooo!
No kailasha temple? Look like the Rashtrakuta needed more rock carving to do in to considered as wonders of ancient world.
10k likes let's goo!!
OK, now you're really close!
Can't wait for that deep dive into Ancient Egyptian history.
Just finished diodochi podcast yesterday, good timing.
Make a video on Nalanda university
Can we just take a moment and admire that despite all the time and effort needed to create this content, this is completely free? ❤
We appreciate your support!
You telling me i can get this for free? 😱
@Geoffry Gifari You never turned on the TV before?
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch..."
It is not, though.
I would agree that kings and generals is absolutely a wonder of the RUclips world 👍
I agree, ever since his Nanman video, the philippines and Vietnam have a humongous unacknowledged land claim in south china 😂
@@solocanaanite4655 da fuk
Who would be the 7 historical wonders of history throughout youtube? K&G would obviously be the pyramids.
True man true
true👏🏻😍
Fun Fact: The Pyramids hold the record for the tallest buildings for the longest period of time.
Yes,it is the tallest building for more than one thousand years!
@@AD-en5dq it'll probably still hold that record for pretty much ever. Since modern tall sky scraper buildings will eventually deteriorate due to being made of glass metal etc
@@aimienurimani2091 actually , for more than 4 thousand years.
@YouveBeenGreeked more than 3800 years to be exact.
As far as we know ofc
Let’s put the size of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus into context. Think of the impressive Parthenon in Athens. The Parthenon is approximately 70 x 30 meters. At 115 x 55 meters, the Temple of Artemis was about 50% longer and wider. It’s Ionic column were also 25% taller than those in the Parthenon. The Temple at Ephesus would have been massive in the ancient Greek world!
@Suðringa o constructed more than two thousand years later..
@@christermi I believe that was part of the joke and you took that comment too seriously.
@@aForkfulOfGold I believe that anyone with a brain can understand why I responded; my intention was to pinpoint the magnificence of ancient Greek architecture, since it can be compared to modern grecian constructions.
And they even rebuilt it! It's so sad that it didn't make it to our time. Just needed to hang on for a few more hundred years.
@@christermi I believe that anyone with a brain can understand that your reply toward me was unnecessarily condescending in tone. You must have interpreted my first response to you way worse than it was intended to come across.
Number 1 rule before building a world wonder: make sure there are no earthquakes
And monotheistich religions aka the abrahamic religions :P
@@sten6216 The sheer amount of knowledge lost due to Christian persecution of pagan religions is heartbreaking. Maybe the Romans of the first two centuries CE made the right call by persecuting them...
@@Gstrangeman96 and yet Christians were also responsible for preserving countless amounts of Greek, roman, and Egyptian knowledge.
@@Gstrangeman96 Also the Islamic conquest of Persia and various temples, ancient universities like the famous Buddhist "Nalanda University" in India were destroyed by some extremists and power hungry sultans.
@@Gstrangeman96 Arab Muslim army also destroyed the famous Medieval White Palace or "Arch of Khosrow Anushirwan" in "Ctesiphon" capital of the Sasanian Persia.
The final quote "Man fears time, yet time fears the pyramids" along with the background music was just so beautiful.
Do you know the name of the song? I've been searching from quite some time!
@@Local_idiot-u8h I think its from the crusader kings ii soundtrack-The Byzantine Empire
@@vassilisgiannakopoulos2651 you're right. Thanks.
@@vassilisgiannakopoulos2651
Your comment it’s almost a year old, still I also want to thank you for telling me where I would fibd that piece of musuc
@@Leo-ok3uj Both CK2 and CK3 have just absolutely wonderful soundtracks
Ironically, the oldest seven wonder, the Pyramids, is the last of those wonders remaining.
Geometry always win
Well I mean, you gotta really really try hard to destroy those lol
Ironic, but not really surprising. As far as shapes go (interior and construction methods notwithstanding), the Pyramids were the most basic of the seven, but that also made them the most stable.
Old is Gold 😉
They sure don't make 'em like they used to...
2:40 Hanging Garden
5:02 Statue of Zeus in Olympia
7:05 Temple of Artemis in Ephesus
9:21 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
12:35 Colossus of Rhodes
14:38 Alexandria
15:26 Pharos at Alexandria
16:59 Giza Pyramid Complex
saving these so I can make them in Minecraft
Why isn't angkor wat considered an ancient wonder? Not ancient enough? I bet the temples being built right now shall be considered wonders in the future.
@@rahul17023The "7 wonders of the ancient world"' is a list of sights compelled by the ancient greek tourist and poets in ancient times. Naturally, this list only has the wonders known to the greek world at that time.
@@rahul17023 The origin of the name of Angkor Wat is uncertain, but there is a hypothesis that Angkor comes from Egyptian ankh, "life", even though obviously it is not of any known Egyptian design. Graham Hancock discussed this hypothesis in one of his books that i read, I forgot which, maybe Heaven's Mirror, on the many worldwide ancient to medieval megaliths, most of their designers shrouded in mystery, that align exactly with constellations and suggest the existence of a very ancient global civilization that connected all of these far-flung, beautiful, amazing buildings into a series of landmarks and cosmological stone calendar as well as serving as memorials to past astronomical and earthly events.
@@rahul17023 It's not ancient.
@@anirudh177 it is?
Unbelievable graphics. This channel's growth has impressed me a lot, from speculative predictions of future total war videos to stuff like this. Great vid
Except the occasional glitch like the base of the great pyramid's texture tripping out and some of the columns on the ruined Artemisium being hollow, this is one of the best videos I've ever seen in terms of production quality. This is worthy of the History Channel back when they did actual history.
Man what a sight it would be to see the Great Pyramids restored to their former glory.
There are continuous restorations going on all over Egypt
At this point, it is such a Herculean task just to keep the pyramid from falling apart. I don’t think it is even feasible to rebuild the facade anymore.
@@fullmontyuk In many places the gathered wear of millennia has been carefully removed and art and paintings restored.
Not much of a sight, the only thing different is that they would look cleaner and they would be capped with gold, not exactly an explosion of artistic inspiration. They were only tombs after all.
Assassin's Creed origins did that, the pyramids of Giza in that game look clean and brand new. You're talking about real life though, rebuilding over the pyramids would ruin their historical value.
This video was surprisingly emotional. All these amazing wonders of the world, adored in their day, and one by one, they fall to irrelevance and ignorance, destroyed by nature or man. All except one. "Man fears time, yet time fears the pyramids." What a great quote. The enemy of this video is time, and the Great Pyramids were the victor of the story.
Cleopatra is closer to us on the timeline than the Pharaohs who built the pyramids.
Cuz she’s Hellenic, Ptolemic Greek
@@hyltoniali257 yup!
@@VeniceQueen1811 Yea it was me
@@VeniceQueen1811 Who said we have better tools? That's a big assumption.
@@VeniceQueen1811 and still they did. The concrete theory is much more plausable.
Such a shame none of them except for the great pyramid of Giza survived especially the lighthouse and library of Alexandria imagine the knowledge lost in the library
Three wonders of the world were in Egypt! Let'gooooo!🇪🇬🇪🇬
thanks, cuckstianity
@@Jeyeyeyey just remember the amount of ancient structures destroyed by the IS and the ottomans
@@bebostrong1 Egypt has an old history like Greece. But two of the wonders were basically Greek. It doesn't matter tho.
History brothers 🇬🇷💞🇪🇬
@@bebostrong1 what's the 3rd you're referring to? The lighthouse of Alexandria and the pyramid of Giza are in Egypt.
I'm curious how exactly 42m statue was transported in antiquity.
By road, obviously.
Very carefully I suposse
May be it was built at that site.
It was further broken down into thousand of parts and shipped separately. Arabs sold the ruined Colossus of Rhodes to one Jewish trader who did that.
as usual, with a fuckton of slaves
In 2017 i travelled to Egypt and saw the Pyramids among many other things. Truly a sight to behold.
It would be awesome to time travel to see how these ancient wonders looked in their day. Great documentary as always!
"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us" Napoleon Bonaparte 1798
(Edit) Omg 200 likes, thank you 😊
Now I get Getafix's quote
More like 50 centuries, since they were built 5000 years ago (the earliest pyramids)
@@hassanabdikarimmohamed2505 Cleopatra to now is a shorter period of time, than when then pyramids were built to when Cleopatra was born!!!
he also allegedly said " history is a lie agreed upon"
I always "start" history in my head from the pyramids. And what a glorious place to start.
Alexandra lighthouse was such a devastating loss for humanity
Which one of those losses isn't
Yea man, all those ships that can't find the harbor... humanity will never recover from that...
@@Leoforos13 thanks to The Romans
@@Leoforos13 Not really. The main complexes that burnt down housed mainly poetry and literature. A tragic loss for sure, but not one that has set humanity back by any real metric.
@@StaleDonutPictures yeah its wayy to exaggerated cause the library survived quite a while after that
"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards"
- Diogenes
Half of the time philosophers are useless ( one of them was Diogenes). And they are getting far more rewards than normal person.
@@timotejjedinak649 some philosophers have very unpractical teaching that resulting in no one really pay any attention, but when some did have very useful philosophies their legacy would be everlasting.
@@timotejjedinak649 we can build and build and reach scientific heights humanity couldn't possibly fathom. However, philosophy provides us a platform on which we may orient ourselves in a vast, inconceivable universe, as we must all face the existential "threat" of death one day. The reaper comes for us all no matter how much we accomplish in this life, so I would argue that philosophy has as much utility as any other discipline. Alas, it goes unappreciated most of the time because of its abstract nature despite its importance.
Modern and Classical philosophy are very different, one (Classical) is based in science / psychology and the other (Modern) is based on substance use and neo-psychological / historical / ethical thought (not science and arguably just opinions)
@@yougetonthathorseyougottar6126 it’s because culturally modern societies doesn’t appreciate or understand philosophy, and the society has no interest in anything other than the mechanical wheel.
The Colossus has always sounded so cool to me
It's amazing how some of these Ancient Wonders coincidentially transformed their name in the literal definition of all the buildings of their kind.
-The king Mausolus building his tomb, later known as the Mausoleum.
-And the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was built on the island of Pharos, algo created the word "pharo", or "faro", which means "lighthouse" in spanish, catalan and other latin languages.
This is beautiful and glorious. Did them all justice.
@Uhtred of Bebbanburg I heared this theory too, but I absolutely don't buy it. If anything those volunteers were slaves in everything but name only.
Fun fact: Alexander kept naming cities, 70 Alexandrias, 1 Boucephalia and 1 Alexandropolis, after himself, but this time rhyming with his father's Philipopolis.
Hey now, credit where it's due! Boucephalia was named for his favourite horse.
@@DarkRaven4649 well said
dude named a city after his horse, now thats a power move right there
That's what all megalomaniacs do. There is nothing Great about invading other peoples countires and killing them. Do people consider Hiter to be Hitler the great?
@@sheezy2526 no, but alexander liberated us from byzantine rule if i am remembering correctly.
Never clicked so fast! Been fascinated with the seven wonders ever since Rome total war 1
haha same
Seconded
Yes! I was a child playing Rome Total War and every campaign tried to capture all of them!
Long long long ago there existed a man called Kings and generals and he would always tell us tails of the ancient world yes my child does were truly the golden days
I remember when this channel was just images and footages from our favourite strategy games. But the dedication has bought them to this stage. Huge felicitations. Of course,miles to go.
I am totally amazed at this, We can all appreciate the effort given to do this, this is just outstanding work!
I've read somewhere, that the man who deliberately set fire to the temple of artemis must not be named or spoken of, so that he is completely forgotten in history.
The animations of the construction and destruction of these wonders are amazing.
K&G you have outplayed yourself yet again.
Kings and Generals is my favourite channel, but this video is above and beyond. Thank you for blessing us with this content.
I been to the pyramids of Gaza in 2012. If you can go before you leave this earth, please do!! It is something you must see & touch in order to understand our world we live on!!!
Giza not Gaza 😂😂
Your content is beyond remarkable; I feel very fortunate to have found this. Thank you for all the time and effort that goes into producing these videos and for providing them to the public at no cost.
Anyone else had to hold back a tear in awe?
You’re a real bleeding heart aren’t you?
The civilisation of Ancient Greece has truly been an unequalled light in the history of mankind !
For some reason everyone be hating on it
@@grpanth1890 How so?
@@johannesmaximilian848 I like to believe that people who cannot achieve what they admire most, they destroy it or steal it. I mean look at Parthenon. It was still standing and got blown up by Turks, they used a temple as a gun powder vault. Later on British took some marbles and put then in a museum. And the funny thing is that some British tourists visit Greece and say look at how ugly the ruins are. Hmmm maybe it would look better if we had our marbles back, but I’m just saying. Now one reason why we don’t rebuild the Parthenon is because if we do it, it would lose it’s value, plus it’s a great example to show to the world how humans act like wild animals. Parthenon wasn’t destroyed from nature, people who invaded Greece destroyed it.
@@user-iy9ru8tn2o well said. Now the british are enjoying being a minority in their capital. Third most popular baby name in london is muhammad. They can lick our a** now.
The ancient Egyptian civilization is much better than it
fathom this: Cleopatra lived closer to our modern day than to the construction of the pyramids... makes you think.
What does that mean
@@eggwatch596 most of cleopatra's life (or all of it) was before the establishment of the roman empire. we're talking about a woman born before jesus christ, if that even happened. however, despite that, her existence is closer to our own time than the era of the pyramid's construction.
Earthqake has always been the bain to many ancient wonders.
And Christians...
All our works are nothing in front of the power of the Earth.
@Jason Diggs And China is now on track to again become the world's biggest economy and a global technological leader. The only reason they ever fell from the top spot was because the British knew they couldn't compete with a united China's production capabilities so they started the Opium Wars.
Long story short, China is now doing better than ever, the British empire is dead and buried while England has self-isolated from the rest of Europe and is about to lose Scotland and Northern Ireland probably this decade. Man, Karma's a bitch huh?
@Jason Diggs Monotheism is by its very nature intolerant, despotic and supremacist. Also, it's easy to see how it lays the groundwork for fascism: once you accept the premise that a single all-powerful entity controls everything, it's only a small step until you get to "one volk, one reich, one fuhrer".
@@tomastakac7027 not cool bro
Medes/Medians were Iranian. Media is Iran/Persia. Ecbatana, the capital of the Medes is in Iran/Persia and it is a Persian city. The Medes were related to the Persians. Amytis is a Persian name.
And the name of some Persian princesses in the Persian Empire was Amytis as well. I am Lur-Lak Iranian, the traditional clothing of Lur Iranians is similar to the Medes/Median clothing.
And the Luri language is a dialect of old Persian.
The script, the animation, the everything is perfect! You are a legend among legends!!
The day is coming and soon , when ALL of the Ancient Wonders shall be rebuilt .
We CAN .
As a Brotherhood of Humanity the time has come to shake our apathy , honor those who have given us inspiration by rebuilding their achievements (using modern materials and techniques) and then build our own Wonder as a message of Hope and Purpose across time .
Today our lives are so much easier than our ancestors that I fear we are falling victims to shear boredom , creating apathy , hopelessness , entitled attitudes , fear and in extreme cases envy and hatred .
These things create chaos and will plunge the world we have into another dark age IF we allow it to .
Why should we live in such a manner when there is such a better way ?
Come , let us BUILD !
P.S. I cannot thank the creators of the content of this video enough !
Without people such as you inspiration wouldn't exist .
Thank you !
Double PS lol , a hypothesis on construction of pyramid : each block was formed and cast using either sunlight to fire the mix or chemical reaction much as we make concrete today .
I am a construction worker skilled in different building techniques and an amateur historian with keen interest in architecture .
I am not the originator of this theory but with my background I can say that it is not only extremely possible , it is highly probable .
Have a great life !
Just the immense sadness I feel whenever a Wonder is discussed, knowing they've all (save one) been destroyed, and usually carelessly by apathetic or uncaring men. Just depressing. Long live the Pyramids!
The same fate awaits the current wonders too. Time will have its due.
It is how it is and how it would be for the men always march forth to progress his own will...
Uncaring? Christians purposely destroyed them. Purposely burnt down the library.monotheism is a cancer.
@@torpenhigalak5909 human beings must persevere history and its wonders or we'll be lost to time
Absolutely incredible video, please never stop doing what you do. People like you keep these great works alive and allow us to truly honor the effort that was put into their construction (in stark contrast to the belief that the pyramids would’ve been built by aliens).
These buildings must have been incredibly awe-inspiring to see and it’s so sad that we can no longer visit them. I truly hope they will at some point be rebuild (I’ve already heard there are plans to build a larger version of the colossus).
I really enjoyed watching the video and learned a lot from it. Much love from an Egyptian 🇪🇬
The engineering, and building of these structures in that time is so incredible, and almost unbelievable.
Marvelous Wonder beyond any monetary value: Exists
Christians & Muslims: It's free construction material.
Idol smashing go brrr...
same with the great wall, it was regularly pilfered for farm houses. This is why you have to pay for upkeep
Yes but Christians did 90% of the job;)
340 Idol or more were destroyed in the conquest of Mecca.
It would've been cool to see them today but destroying them was the best option at that time.
@Your Daddy Of course but in this case Religious people are to blame. Your comment won’t prove those Zealots innocent either.
The Abrahamic religions are the greatest destroyers of civilizations.
The Byzantine religious zealots utterly destroyed many wonders of the Greek and Roman civilizations, which was pretty much their own civilizations.
The Arabs did also their fair share of atrocities against other great cultures. I mean the destruction and looting of Palmyra was horrific and that happened only 6 years ago.
I misread the title as "Stevie Wonders of the Ancient World". *That* would be something I'm interested in seeing.
That interest wouldn’t be mutual though😂
by far the best video from this channel
Fun fact - Pharos is the origin of the word for lighthouse in several languages, eg phare in French and faro in Spanish.
It'd be interesting to have your take on wonders of the Roman world: The Pantheon, the Colosseum (both in Rome), the Hippodrome, the Hagia Sophia, the Theodosian Walls, the Cisterns (all in Constantinople), possibly the Mausoleum of Theodoric (Ravenna), and I'm sure you could choose a handful of other notable feats of engineering.
Pont du Gard aqueduct bridge in France? Don't know if this was the largest, but it still stands even after 2000 years!
Greek not Roman
@@carios9889 None of the mentioned buildings are Greek.
@@matthewneuendorf5763 agia sophia is holy wisdom in greek .roman empire divided to west and eastern empire known as Byzantium. The formal language of byzantium was Greek and most of the Emporeres were greeks .colosseumm hippodrome and mausoleum of theodoric are roman. The name hippodrome is also greek from ippos is horse and dromos is road.
@@carios9889 The Roman empire ended on May 29, 1453. The Theodosian Walls were built under Theodosius II. The Hagia Sophia was built under Justinian I. The Hippodrome was built under Constantine I. By the time when all these things were built, the Greek city-states were a distant memory, and even Alexander and his successors had long since fallen away into the dust bin of history. The Mausoleum of Theodoric was Ostrogothic, but since the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy was essentially a Roman successor state with a barbarian aristocracy that only lasted a few generations before being reincorporated into the empire, I give it a pass. Greek wasn't even the official language of the empire until Heraclius, by which point every one of these building projects was already completed. They were in no way Greek, and in every way Roman (excepting the aforementioned Ostrogothic mausoleum).
Fun fact: in Spanish, all lighthouses are called 'faros', as the first Pharos' lighthouse itself.
My friend took me 48 years to understand that Spanish is transformed Greek in to something else
@@eliaspapanikolaou3563 And yet it's evolved vulgar Latin
the roots of the latin language is the greek
@@cradle_of_western_civilization No, latin is a seperate language, but it copied lots of words from Greek.
This is what the internet is for and it brings me great joy to have watched it.
Awesome video, the most interesting thing is how each monument was made. The diligence needed for such works is admirable.
I've always loved the description of the Great Pyramid by Matthew Reilly in his book Seven Ancient Wonders: (paraphrasing to keep it short)
It is perhaps the only structure on Earth known by name to every single member of the human race. It has outlasted pharaohs and kings, tribal wars and worlds wars, earthquakes and sandstorms. It defies time, it defies imagination. It is the only man-made structure in history to defy the ravages of Nature and Time, and indeed the only on of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World known to have survived to the present day. It is a building without equal in all the world.
Truly ironic, that the oldest "wonder" is the last to stand
Probably the only one that really existed. That's why.
@@miketheyunggod2534 The only one that is doubtful was the Babylon Gardens. The other still had their remnants till this days.
one of the most magnificent famous seven wonders of Ancient World, from my pyramid Giza and Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt.
Somewhere in his dank basement, Giorgio Tsoukalos, dressed in Anunnaki cosplay, is foaming at the mouth.
The New 7 Wonders of the World : 1. Taj Mahal
2. Christ the Redeemer
3. Chichen Itza
4. Great Wall of China
5. Machu Picchu
6. Petra
7.Colosseum
they are so bad compared to the ancient ones though except the colosseum
@@anglo-nord126 No, they are greater than the ancient ones.
The Kaaba. I don't like the Taj Mahal and I don't understand it's significance.
A historical architectural wonder: *exists in pagan
Some Christian guy: "So anyway I started swinging"
I think abhrahmic religions are curse they destroy so many cultures . I hate them
@@m.a4730 - They are also the reason why we have retained so much information about the ancient world to this day. You must take the good with the bad. Humanity is not perfect.
@@m.a4730 not to mention Roman, Greek, Babylonian, Persian cultures who had their own gods. One might say you should blame human nature rather than religion.
Man...I almost got a tear or two when the structures starting crumbling... the inevitability of time...
"Mans fears time, Time fears Pyramids" good quote !!!!
I cant even begine to imagine what The Great Pyramid of Giza has looked like in its pristine shimmering white coat bathed in the desert sun. No wonder people worshipped it and its buillders in the ancient world, as even i probably would have to take a knee if i were to see it as it was originally imagined and completed.
Careful, cuz of Kaepernick taking a knee, taking a knee is no longer a sign of reverence & inspiration, but of protest & hatred. (I am totally just trolling). If it were restored in my life time I would take a knee in its direction just to tell my kids I did.
The Freemasons still worship those builders today
This video was a fantastic journey
What I love most are you the precision of the structure.
This kind of content is what History Channel should make.
Shielding a statue of Zeus from the elements... seems ironic
The two greatest threats to pagan art, earthquakes and Jesus.
So glad to see this, have been connected to the Wonders of the Ancient world for a long time, my wife and I sent for a quest to see them all, and we did it well, all but the Hanging Garden, of course the only one standing is the Great Pyramid, but one can feel those places are special even today, and we can sense the relationship with Alexander the Great in the all, of course they were not built by him, but somehow he was part of all of them, either visiting them or in the case of the Colossus of Rhodes, some say it was inspired on his face and the Macedonian Sun. Worth to go to them all.
One of the best documentaries I've watched. Great content. Keep up the great work!
Finally. A non-cringe documentary on the 7 wonders. You guys show them how it's done.
Finally a new video not about battles
Love you guys❤
They've made a lot of videos that aren't about battles
@@rohitsoni2109 I know
This video on some of the ancient wonders of the world is fascinating. I like the Egyptian Pyramids, Alexandria Lighthouse, Great Wall of China, Hadrians Wall, and other ancient buildings across the planet.
Kings and Generals! I am forever grateful of all your contents! I salute you for giving us such beautiful and graphically stunning videos. I love you K&G team! I will be a forever supporter!
I'm a History Freak by the way.
Wonder of the ancient world: *exists*
Earthquake: I'm about to end this man's whole carreer
We have built structures to rival the gods!
Earthquakes: I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move.
*Poseidon has entered the chat*
*early christianity has entered the chat*
This had quickly become one of my favourite channels.
Love this video. And, watching some of the Roman documentaries, while the sound track from Rome Total War plays in the background was a brilliant touch.
I played that game, when it first came out. And, while my P.C is probably incapable of playing the remastered version, I still remembered all the music from it.
Keep up the good work. You are wonderful.
I love your content and I've been binging it for 2 days straight (literally like 12-16hrs per day) since I've found your channel!
good god you gotta take a break bro
I'm watching this for tbe 3rd time. It's just too good
Its amazing! Unfortunately you cant really know how many more wonders like these were built in the past. I live in Turkey, Anatolia and near my village there is an ancient settlement found thats from romans. There are sculptures buried underground and lots of stuff yet to be found, a 2500 year old secret passage was found a few days ago near my home, 3500 year old little settlement was found a few months ago. Its just sad its only the 7 wonders we know about.
I love these ancient structures were so colourful.
Fantastic music on this video, it really set the mood well; great job on all the 3D models also.
Seven Ancient Wonders: "Exists
Earthquake: I'm gonna end these men's whole career
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The Pyramid: That's cute
From all 7 wonder of the worlds,only 1 survived.
@Benjamin Franklin Stonehenge is really meh compared to the others.
@GoodGirlKate yeah
By virtue of it being just a bunch of big shaped mound of stone and nothing more...
@@gabrielmanolis5188 Stonehenge is meh if you compare it to more spectacular architecture. However, it was built nearer in time to the Pyramids than to the other traditional 7 Ancient Wonders, required the transport of massive stone blocks 100 miles over land and with no remains of writing or even anything resembling a centralised authority in Britain at the time. In that context, it is spectacular.
There can be only one !
I am feeling guilty to see this video as free
Wow this deserve more views
These animations are sooooooo satisfying. Great work
Even if modern people decide to reconstruct all of those wonders, it still marvel of engineering and people will admire those structures.
Imagine people back then, most people might think that those wonders wasn't even made by "Human".
Ancient wonders of 'Mediterranean' world would be more apt. Lol. Magnificent nonetheless.
hahah yeah, list was compiled by the greeks in the mediterranean tho.
On a serious and curious note, I would love to know what you would consider a... more comprehensive list? Cuz until you said this I didn't realize there are things I think qualify more than others, so I am curious what specific ancient wonder[s] deserves a top 7 spot, to you; and which should be nixt from the list?
@@chalinofalcone871 The Great Ziggurat of Ur, Abu Simbel Temples, Temple of Luxor, Temple of Karnak, the entire Valley of the Kings really. The early part of Great Wall of China was built around the same time actually, so it can be considered one of the Ancient Wonders. Then obviously, there were probably even greater structures at Persepolis, Ur, Babylon etc. that are all lost to time.
@@tejasmisra9115 Add terracotta army, Chichen Itza and cave temples around India, Central Asia and China to it (Ancient period lasted till 650 A.D. according to some sources). Probably Mahabodhi temple can be called ancient too.
Love this channel so informative
The renderings on this one are top notch. 😍
Man Fears Time but Time Fears Pyramids ( Has become my fav proverb )
Ancient Wonders: *exist*
Christians: And i took that personally
You do know who's plunder the giant statue of rhodes and striped pyramids from its white marble, Right?
@@magtovi stupid comment.
One of if not the best history channel on RUclips!!
Very Cool Video! LOVE the animations as they really help the imagination to visualize their construction and make-up. Thanks.
I hope they make another video like this where it is still Ancient Wonders of the World but not the 7, you know those who didn't make it in the 7 but like top 20.
Great Greek , Egyptian and Persian civilizations !
@ليندا زيد great additions !
Kings and Generals is the new history channel
I really want to sponsor them by patreon just waiting for my credit card . This channel is the wonder of RUclips
Thats why I am proud to be Egyptian ! Thanks K&G
You are not a descendant Egyptians from era 4.dynasty.
Nobody :
Earthquakes: "I like ya structure g"
The digital renderings in the very beginning are reaching into the core of my being into my cosmic soul memory. I'm gonna just watch, without narration, and appreciate the reconstructed old world images. I'm already deeply impressed, and moved. Thank you. Glad I stumbled here.
I'm in awe of the incredible works of man. To say that man is a destroyer of the world is ignorant, his achievements reflect the genius of his creation.