Archaeologists say they’ve finally uncovered the long-lost city linked to Alexander the Great, and the discovery is blowing everyone’s mind because it matches ancient descriptions that historians chased for centuries. Researchers found massive ruins, fortress walls, workshops, and artifacts that line up perfectly with the period when Alexander’s empire stretched across three continents. The site reveals how people lived, traded, and built their world during one of history’s most powerful military expansions, giving us details textbooks never had. Even more exciting, the discovery hints that other legendary locations tied to Alexander might still be out there, buried and waiting. Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/
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00:00Archaeologists just found the remains of a lost city from thousands of years ago, hiding in southeastern Europe.
00:08They were sure that it was nothing more than an old defense outpost, but new digs are changing that big time.
00:15They now believe the site might actually be the lost capital of an ancient kingdom of Lincestis that has to do with Alexander the Great, the man who changed history.
00:25The ruins are near a small village called Cernobuki in North Macedonia.
00:32You can find mentions of them from 1966, but nobody really dug into them until about 15 years ago.
00:39At first, they found just a few ruins and thought it was a guard post used to spot Romans coming from the west.
00:46But now, a team of scientists went back with high-tech equipment and found proof this place wasn't just a tiny outpost.
00:53Researchers managed to look under the ground and found that the acropolis the ruins sit on, which is a flat hilltop, has enough rooms and infrastructure to host a full-on city inside the fortress walls.
01:06It covers about 2.8 hectares and around 10,000 people lived here at its peak.
01:11Researchers also found a textile workshop and plenty of artifacts, including a coin from the time of Alexander the Great and with his image, axes, game pieces, and an oil lamp, and even a small ceramic with a heart motif.
01:28One of the coolest finds is a reusable clay theatre ticket, which was unique to North Macedonia.
01:35This means there was also most likely a theatre here, and it could be in one of the large buildings.
01:41Experts used to think that the city was from the time of King Philip V, but now, thanks to the coin and especially the ancient tools and broken pottery that were found, they believe people might have lived there during the Bronze Age.
01:55Lincestis and the rest of Upper Macedonia had some pretty intense weather with freezing, rainy winters, and super-hot summers.
02:06Life there wasn't easy, and most of the time, it was all about surviving.
02:10The people who lived in the area were mostly nomadic herders, and they had to move around depending on season.
02:17They traveled with their flocks of cattle, goats, and sheep, always looking for the best pasture lands.
02:24Back then, Macedonia was kind of like the outsider of the Greek world.
02:29It was part Greek, but powerful city-states like Athens and Sparta didn't really accept it.
02:35Thanks to this position on the edge, Macedonia had the chance to mix Greek traditions with local culture.
02:43Eventually, they took over and changed the whole ancient world under kings like Philip II and Alexander the Great.
02:50The new discoveries at Cernobuki show us how connected and powerful ancient Macedonia really was, especially since the city sat along trade routes to Constantinople.
03:02Big historical figures like Octavian and Agrippa might have passed through the area on their way to clash with Cleopatra and Marc Antony.
03:10The place could also be the lost capital of the ancient kingdom of Linchestus or Linchus.
03:17Some experts think that a major city in Upper Macedonia could be where clean Eurydice was born.
03:24That powerful lady gave birth to Philip II of Macedon, who took over Linchestus in the 4th century BCE.
03:30The kingdom of Macedon became independent, and thanks to it, the son of Philip II, Alexander the Great, later became the king of the Macedonian Empire.
03:42That man totally lived up to his name.
03:45In just 13 years, he created one of the biggest empires in history, stretching from Greece all the way to Egypt and India.
03:52And oh, he managed to do all that before passing away at just 32 years old.
03:59Researchers plan to dig deeper into this important site to learn more about the early civilizations of Europe.
04:06This incredible discovery was possible thanks to LIDAR.
04:10This remote sensing tool helps map things like how tall plants are, how thick forests are, and other details across big areas.
04:18LIDAR is an active system, meaning it creates its own energy, in this case, light, to scan the ground.
04:27A laser fires super-fast pulses of light that shoot down to the ground and bounce off things like buildings and tree branches.
04:35The LIDAR sensor then catches the reflected light and records it.
04:39The system measures how long it takes for the light to go from the laser to the ground and back.
04:44This is called the two-way travel time.
04:48That time helps figure out the distance the light traveled.
04:52Then, using that distance, the system can figure out the exact elevation of different spots.
04:59Scientists recently found another lost city using the same technology.
05:04This one, called Guillangola, was hiding beneath the dense jungles of Mexico for 600 years.
05:10All this time, researchers believed there was just an abandoned fortress there.
05:15There was no way to go and see until recently, when they used LIDAR and got a 3D model of the area in just two hours from a plane.
05:23Guillangola was built in pre-Columbian times between the years 1350 and 1521.
05:31It covered 360 hectares and had over 1,100 buildings, two and a half miles of defensive walls, and a whole network of internal roads.
05:41The city had a well-planned urban layout with temples and ball courts and separate neighborhoods for the elites and commoners.
05:50It was a crucially important place for the Zapotec people, a group that had lived in the area since around 600 BCE.
05:57In Guillangola, families lived together in homes with big patios in the middle, surrounded by rooms.
06:06As families grew bigger, they would add more rooms and expand their homes.
06:10Since Guillangola was surrounded by mountains, the locals tried to use every piece of land on the slopes that was good enough to build a house.
06:17They even used natural drainage of the area to have water, and they must have been great at construction, as many of their constructions are still standing today.
06:28But at some point in the beginning of the 16th century, they didn't have enough fresh water and good farmland to grow food, and moved away to nearby Tehuantepec.
06:38Archaeologists plan to learn more about how the Zapotecs were organized, how they ruled their cities, and how they interacted with the Spanish when they arrived.
06:49They plan to study all 1,170 buildings found in the LIDAR scan, and it'll take a few years.
06:56Another recent find, made with the same groundbreaking tech, is a massive city that lay hidden beneath the thick green canopy of the Amazon rainforest.
07:09A whole network of houses, plazas, roads, and canals was hiding in the shadow of a mighty volcano.
07:16Many scientists thought that ancient Amazonian people lived in tiny huts and cleared patches of land to survive.
07:26But this city, built 2,500 years ago and inhabited for nearly 1,000 years, debunked that theory and changed everything.
07:35Now, researchers think tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people lived in complex urban societies.
07:43They scanned the area and found that 6,000 rectangular platforms, each about 66 by 33 feet and 6 to 9 feet high.
07:54These structures were arranged in clusters around central plazas that had straight roads with perfect right angles and paths connecting them.
08:03One of the roads was an impressive 16 miles long.
08:07Building straight roads like this is way harder than just going with the landscape.
08:10Some of these roads may have had great spiritual or ceremonial significance.
08:16The civilization was thriving thanks to rich soil from a nearby volcano.
08:21But the same volcano may have also led to its downfall.
08:25Researchers also found signs of threats to the cities, such as ditches that blocked entrances to the settlements.
08:33Maybe some people living nearby were trying to get in.
08:36The next step for the scientists will be to study the adjoining 116 square miles to know more about this large, complex society that could be bigger than the well-known Mayan cities in Mexico and Central America.
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