The ancient world, then and now

All of these places have one thing in common - they were destroyed after becoming infected with islam

Beautiful video!

Constantinople did you mean?

In the old picture is Constantinople. There is no Istanbul there.

Erbil citadel built 8000 years ago and looks like this today.

>the Temples of Our Bureaucracy find a way lol

Lovely slide show James!

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Bysshe Shelley

wow, history feels so alive seeing those ruins now!

Hey @grok is this video is accurate?

So anything the Muslims touched went to shit huh?

That depiction of Babylon with the hanging Gardens is wrong. Babylonian was by far the mightiest and most advanced city in the ancient world especially after the sacking of Ashur and Nineveh, by the hanging garde is now accepted to have been in Nineveh - Assyria!

Make Constantinople Catholic again.

Expectation vs reality

1/21🧵 Utter garbage in music! In images, HERE IS THE TRUE FALL OF THE REAL CONSTANTINOPLE⬇, totally turned into a dusty desert by Turkic Barbarians. It is present-day SOMALIA/SOMALILAND, TRUE BYZANTIUM, land still controlled by their USURPERS FROM TURKEY. That is where THE

Never meant to last. "For the cities which were formerly great have most of them become insignificant..."

Ancient civilizations built great cities, monuments, and writing systems using very limited tools Today, with technology, machines, and science, we can build and preserve things faster and more precisely It clearly shows how much human progress and innovation have advanced over time

Constantinople.

Mari/Syria in the old days looks like the city in attack on titans

Ancient perimediterranean area but not the whole world

Lindo demais !!!!

ngl it hits different seeing it all laid out like that. imagine being a local in 2800 bc just vibing and then history happens 😭

Did you know what moats are? Very integral parts of ancient castles of the ancient world. Bet you didn't know that they were built to be dry not to have water in them! Have a short read 😂 Cheers 🥂 😅

crazy camera quality in 300BC

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Interesting they all build beautiful places then they destroy it all a matter of time and no one will now there ever existed.

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There was no camera in that era so how did you get those pictures? @grok can you enlighten

It’s weird how these cities were abandoned, so many other places just change over generations, but they got up and left altogether.

Numbers are absolutely fake

Istanbul - city of the cats! Where cats on this video?