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0:00 - Gold and Treasures Beneath the Sea
1:33 - The Uluburun Shipwreck: Bronze Age Connections
6:02 - The Antikythera Shipwreck: Ancient Greek Innovations
9:54 - The Belitung Shipwreck: Tang Dynasty Trade
13:49 - The Flor de la Mar: Lost Empire Treasure
16:59 - The San José: A Deep Sea Fortune
19:20 - The Atocha: The Search for Sunken Riches
22:58 - Heracleion and Reflections on Lost Worlds
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0:00 - Gold and Treasures Beneath the Sea
1:33 - The Uluburun Shipwreck: Bronze Age Connections
6:02 - The Antikythera Shipwreck: Ancient Greek Innovations
9:54 - The Belitung Shipwreck: Tang Dynasty Trade
13:49 - The Flor de la Mar: Lost Empire Treasure
16:59 - The San José: A Deep Sea Fortune
19:20 - The Atocha: The Search for Sunken Riches
22:58 - Heracleion and Reflections on Lost Worlds
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00:00There is more gold beneath the ocean than in all the bank vaults around the world combined.
00:06This is neither a metaphor nor an exaggeration,
00:09but a calculation made by marine geologists in the 21st century.
00:14Every year, because of storms and powerful currents, sunken ships slowly break apart.
00:22The coins scatter across the sand while other treasures are buried even deeper.
00:27However, in a hundred years, they will become extremely difficult to find.
00:33It's almost impossible, because the ocean can bury things better than any gravedigger ever could.
00:41There are seven ships discussed in this video that carried immense wealth,
00:45enough to build several modern cities.
00:48Some of these treasures have already been recovered from the deep, from the sea,
00:53but there were people who paid with their lives just to find them.
00:58Others are still waiting beneath the ocean to this day,
01:01protected by immense water pressure, sharks, and the courts of various nations,
01:07that still can't decide who the true owner of the gold from these sunken ships is.
01:14Let's start with a ship that gives us an idea of how connected the world was 3,300 years ago.
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01:33In 1982, a Turkish diver named Mehmet Chakr dived to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea,
01:39near Uloburun, close to the town of Kash, Turkey.
01:43He was looking for sea sponges, as that was his livelihood,
01:48while at a depth of 40 to 50 meters he spotted something buried among the rocks.
01:53When he resurfaced, he told the archaeologists about the strange metals
01:58that looked like large loaves of bread with handles stacked at the bottom of the sea.
02:03It turned out that these were oxide-shaped copper ingots,
02:07and each weighed approximately 25 kilos.
02:10When the scientists from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology dove down,
02:15they discovered more than just a sunken ship.
02:19They discovered what seemed to be a floating royal warehouse from the Bronze Age.
02:23The excavation spanned 11 seasons.
02:26The divers conducted over 22,000 dives,
02:29and recovered more than 18,000 artifacts from the seabed.
02:33The cargo of the 15-meter-long ship made of Lebanese cedar was astonishing,
02:38even for archaeologists who were accustomed to seeing ancient artifacts.
02:43There were a total of 354 copper ingots,
02:46weighing 10 tons along with 120 ingots of pure tin.
02:51Next to the metals were 175 pieces of cobalt blue, turquoise, blue, and lavender-colored glass.
02:59These are some of the earliest large glass ingots known to science.
03:04This proves that during the Bronze Age,
03:07glass was used as a valuable commodity, not just as decoration.
03:11Deeper inside the ship,
03:13they also found ivory and ebony wood from Africa,
03:16ostrich eggs, turtle shells, gold cups, and jewelry made of carnelian and agate.
03:22Among the gold items was a small pendant bearing the name of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti,
03:27along with a small seal that changed scientists' perspectives on Bronze Age diplomacy.
03:32The cargo of this single ship contained items from 9 or 10 different cultures,
03:38ranging from Nubia to Sardinia and from Mesopotamia to Mycenae.
03:43This means that over 3,000 years ago,
03:47there was already extensive trade and interconnectedness between different parts of the world.
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04:07Analysis of the tin revealed that one quarter of the metal on board originated from a mine in Uzbekistan,
04:14over 1,000 kilometers away from the Mediterranean Sea.
04:18This means that 3,300 years ago,
04:22there was already an extensive trading network connecting Central Asia, Greece, Egypt, and the Middle East.
04:31It turns out this wasn't an era where only primitive people lived.
04:35Instead, it was a world already full of trade routes, treaties, and technological exchanges.
04:43The ship was carrying cargo to a destination mentioned in the Amarna letters,
04:48a collection of clay tablets containing diplomatic correspondence between pharaohs and kings.
04:55Had this cargo reached its destination,
04:58it could have potentially altered the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean.
05:03The copper and tin carried by the ship were enough to forge weapons for approximately 5,000 warriors.
05:10This means that what sank beneath the sea wasn't just an ordinary trade voyage.
05:15It was a strategic resource that could have been vital to an entire empire.
05:21Most likely, a sudden strong wind drove the ship toward the rocks,
05:26and the crew didn't have enough time to save the cargo.
05:30The ship sank, and for over 3,000 years,
05:35its cargo remained virtually untouched until a sponge diver found it.
05:41The ship and its contents were preserved underwater for thousands of years.
05:48If the loss of a single ship could weaken an entire civilization,
05:53this next shipwreck revealed something that would seemingly alter our understanding of the ancient world's knowledge.
06:02In 1900, sponge fishers sought shelter off the coast of a small Greek island called Antikythera
06:09because of a severe storm.
06:11Once the sea calmed down, one of the divers went down to the depths.
06:17Just a few minutes later, he quickly surfaced, visibly panicked.
06:21He said there were bodies down there, so many bodies scattered across the sand,
06:26so the captain immediately went down to see it for himself,
06:30but what he saw wasn't a cemetery.
06:32It turned out to be a sunken Roman ship from the 1st century BC.
06:37The ship was full of marble and bronze statues.
06:41Because of the green patina that formed on the bronze statues
06:44after spending so much time underwater in the dark depths of the ocean,
06:48they really looked like drowned people.
06:51The divers began bringing up the artifacts.
06:54Among the recovered items were 36 marble sculptures,
06:59bronze statues, glass vessels, coins, a bronze lyre, and various pieces of jewelry.
07:05Later on, researchers called this ship a floating museum.
07:10Because it contained a collection fit for a palace,
07:14among the findings were the remains of some crew members and passengers
07:18who died when the ship sank.
07:21But the least noticeable object of all was a small clump of rusty green metal.
07:27It ended up in a drawer at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens,
07:31where barely anyone paid attention to it for two years
07:35until the metal dried out and cracked apart.
07:38And that's when they discovered the gears inside.
07:41Tiny and extremely precise bronze cogs.
07:44Something that shouldn't have been possible based on previous knowledge about ancient Greece.
07:50This was such a massive discovery that it took half a century
07:54before many scientists finally believed what they were seeing.
07:58Some skeptics suggested that a modern watch might have just fallen there.
08:04Meanwhile, some historians believed that the ancient Greeks made temples and statues,
08:10but not this kind of mechanism.
08:12When researchers used advanced x-ray imaging,
08:16they clearly saw the inside of the device and its mechanism.
08:20It turned out there were 30 gears inside,
08:23interconnected as a complex system.
08:25By turning the handle on the side,
08:27the device could be used to predict the positions of the sun,
08:31moon, the five planets known at that time,
08:34and even solar and lunar eclipses in the years to come.
08:39The device also took into account the uneven orbit of the moon around the Earth,
08:44something that modern astronomers only described using mathematical formulas
08:49more than 1,500 years later.
08:53The Antikythera mechanism is called the first analog computer in history,
08:58and today it is considered a priceless artifact.
09:03The entire cargo of the ship has no real market price,
09:07along with the statues, coins, and the mechanism itself,
09:11because no museum in the world would simply sell even a single part of it.
09:16Most of the artifacts found are housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
09:21Many tourists stand in front of its display without realizing that what they are looking at
09:28is a device nearly 1,800 years old that was ahead of its time.
09:34The Antikythera ship proved that the ancient Greeks knew how to build complex computing devices
09:41long before the Industrial Revolution arrived.
09:45If one civilization lost a computer beneath the sea,
09:49another lost something much bigger and far more vast.
09:54Around 60,000 artifacts were on board a single ship.
09:59In 1998, Indonesian fishermen were diving for sea cucumbers
10:03near Bellytongue Island, between Sumatra and Borneo.
10:09At a depth of only 17 meters,
10:12they noticed a large block of coral
10:14with the necks of ceramic vessels protruding from it.
10:18Little did the fishermen know
10:20that their discovery would turn out to be
10:22the largest collection of Tang Dynasty artifacts from China
10:26ever found outside of China.
10:29The ship turned out to be an Arab Tao
10:32built using ancient technology
10:34where not a single nail was used.
10:36It is estimated to have sunk around 826 AD.
10:41On one of the bowls,
10:43researchers found an inscription
10:45with a date corresponding to the 16th day
10:47of the 7th month of the 2nd year of the Baoli era.
10:52This inscription helped determine the period of the ship's final voyage
10:56with an accuracy of just a few years.
10:59The ship was bound from China
11:01to the Persian Gulf during the Abbasid Caliphate,
11:04carrying a cargo of goods.
11:06From the two largest states during the early Middle Ages,
11:11around 60,000 ceramic products
11:13were recovered from beneath the sea.
11:16Of these,
11:1758,000 were bowls from the workshops
11:19in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
11:23Each bowl was hand-painted,
11:26and among the 10,000 artifacts found,
11:29no two bowls had the exact same design.
11:32This showed just how massive
11:34the capacity of China's manufacturing industry was at that time.
11:38It turns out a single ship
11:40could carry such a massive quantity of products,
11:42potentially representing the output of an entire city.
11:45The discovery was truly astonishing,
11:48but an even bigger surprise awaited inside the cargo hold.
11:52Over 30 items made of gold and silver were hidden there,
11:56including a gold bowl engraved with images of musicians and Persian dancers.
12:02This is the largest gold bowl from the Tang Dynasty discovered to date.
12:08There is also a silver flask featuring an image of a pair of ducks,
12:12along with a complete set of gold-coated boxes.
12:15The presence of such luxurious items suggests
12:18that there were people aboard the ship
12:21connected to the higher echelons of society
12:24during the Tang Dynasty.
12:26Later on,
12:27the collection was sold to the Singaporean government.
12:30for 30 million dollars.
12:32Today,
12:33the artifacts are preserved
12:35at the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore.
12:38The true historical value of this cargo
12:41cannot be measured in money.
12:44The Belatung shipwreck proved that
12:46over a thousand years ago,
12:48ships were already sailing regularly
12:50between Baghdad and China for trade.
12:54Arab merchants crossed the Indian Ocean,
12:57entered Southeast Asian ports,
12:59acquired porcelain and gold,
13:01and transported them across thousands of kilometers of open sea.
13:06It was also here that some of the earliest
13:09blue and white ceramics in history were found,
13:12plates decorated with cobalt.
13:15Most likely,
13:16the cobalt used for them
13:18came from the Abbasid Caliphate.
13:20Chinese potters were producing plates for export,
13:24and they specifically tailored the designs
13:27to the tastes of Arab buyers.
13:30This shows that over a thousand years ago,
13:33there was already a kind of globalization.
13:36What do you guys think?
13:38Is our world really more connected now
13:41than it was a thousand years ago?
13:44Or have we just forgotten
13:45how connected the world really was back then?
13:48If the Arab ship carrying Chinese cargo
13:52demonstrated trade during a time of peace,
13:55the next ship carried spoils of war.
13:59And its history is drenched in blood.
14:02In 1511,
14:04the Portuguese naval commander
14:05Afonso de Albuquerque
14:07conquered Malacca,
14:08which was then one of the largest trading centers
14:11in Southeast Asia.
14:13Sultan Mahmood fled
14:14and abandoned his palace.
14:16The Portuguese took the treasures from it
14:18and loaded them onto the ship
14:20Fleur de la Mar.
14:21Its name meant flower of the sea.
14:24The ship was the largest
14:26in the Portuguese fleet,
14:28with a displacement of approximately 400 tons.
14:32Prior to its final voyage,
14:34it had spent nine years
14:35sailing the Indian Ocean.
14:37It had also taken part
14:39in the conquest of Goa
14:40and the Battle of Diu.
14:42Loaded on board
14:43was the Sultan's gold,
14:45silver,
14:46precious stones,
14:47rare artifacts,
14:48and gifts from the King of Siam
14:50for King Manuel I of Portugal.
14:52According to some historical sources,
14:55there were approximately 200 chests
14:57in the cargo hold
14:59filled with diamonds,
15:00rubies,
15:01and emeralds.
15:02There were also
15:03four life-size golden lions
15:05said to be filled
15:06with expensive incense.
15:07In modern estimates,
15:10the value of this cargo
15:11is between $1.5 and $2.5 billion.
15:15But the ship had a big problem.
15:18It had design defects
15:20from the beginning
15:20and was constantly leaking.
15:23In its nine years of service,
15:25it was repaired so many times
15:27that the sailors knew
15:29every repair patch
15:30on the ship's hull by heart.
15:33When the Fleur de la Mar
15:34left Malacca
15:35and sailed into the Indian Ocean,
15:37a fierce storm
15:38met it near the coast of Sumatra.
15:42The ship was fully laden
15:43with cargo
15:44when it struck
15:45a shallow part of the sea
15:46in the Strait of Malacca.
15:48The ship broke
15:49and sank
15:49on the night of November 20.
15:52Albuquerque survived
15:53using an improvised raft,
15:55but more than 400 crew members
15:57died along with the cargo.
15:59More than 500 years
16:01have passed since then,
16:03but countless expeditions
16:04have already attempted
16:05to locate the Fleur de la Mar
16:07at the bottom
16:08of the Strait of Malacca.
16:11American treasure hunter
16:12Robert Marks
16:13spent around $20 million
16:15on the search.
16:16He called the ship
16:17one of the richest ships
16:18ever lost at sea.
16:21To this day,
16:22Portugal,
16:23Malaysia,
16:24and Indonesia
16:24are still disputing
16:26the rights to treasures
16:27that haven't even been found yet.
16:29The Fleur de la Mar
16:30still lies somewhere
16:32at the bottom
16:33of the Strait of Malacca,
16:34and it's also possible
16:36that part of the cargo
16:37was plundered by pirates
16:39after the ship sank.
16:41Even so,
16:42if only a quarter
16:43of the treasures
16:44described in the historical chronicles
16:46were truly on board.
16:49A massive treasure
16:51could be lying beneath the sea,
16:53a fortune so immense
16:55that it could even become
16:56the cause of a war.
16:59But even the Fleur de la Mar
17:01seems small
17:01compared to the ship
17:03considered the holy grail
17:04of underwater archaeology.
17:07On June 8, 1708,
17:10the Spanish galleon San Jose
17:12was traveling from Peru to Spain
17:14through the Caribbean Sea.
17:16Inside its cargo holds
17:18were an estimated 200 tons
17:20of silver, gold,
17:22and raw emeralds
17:23from the colonies of South America.
17:26Near Cartagena,
17:27in the territory
17:28of modern-day Colombia,
17:30it was intercepted
17:31by a British squadron
17:32led by Captain Charles Wager.
17:34In the midst of battle,
17:35the gunpowder magazine
17:37of the San Jose exploded.
17:39The ship quickly sank
17:40to the bottom of the sea,
17:42taking most of its crew
17:43down with it.
17:44Currently,
17:45the cargo on board
17:46is estimated to be worth
17:48around $20 billion,
17:50an amount equivalent
17:51to the budget
17:52of a small country.
17:53And all of this lies
17:55at a depth
17:55of around 2,000 feet.
17:57In 2015,
17:59using an underwater robot,
18:01the Colombian military
18:02discovered
18:03the cargo
18:04of the San Jose.
18:05They saw that it remained
18:07in very good condition.
18:09Through the cameras
18:10of the underwater robot,
18:12they saw cannons,
18:14coins,
18:15and gold ingots
18:16lying on the sand,
18:17looking as if they had
18:18just fallen yesterday.
18:20The place is so deep
18:22that sunlight
18:23no longer reaches it.
18:24Because of this,
18:26the ship's hull
18:26and its contents
18:27were barely affected
18:28by marine organisms.
18:30The exact coordinates
18:32of the wreck
18:32are classified
18:33and were not released
18:34by the Colombian government.
18:36Because of this,
18:37claims immediately arose
18:38from three parties.
18:40Colombia believes
18:41that the ship
18:42is within their
18:43territorial waters.
18:44Meanwhile,
18:45Spain insisted
18:46that the galleon
18:47belonged to the Spanish crown.
18:49Meanwhile,
18:50representatives of the
18:51Caracara people
18:52of Bolivia
18:53say that some of the silver
18:54was mined from Potosi
18:56by their ancestors.
18:58While lawyers argue
19:00over ownership,
19:01an estimated $20 billion
19:02in treasure
19:03is believed to still
19:05lie at the bottom
19:05of the Caribbean Sea,
19:07and every year,
19:08corrosion slowly eats away
19:10at these metals.
19:11If the San Jose
19:12is finally razed,
19:14it could become
19:14one of the largest
19:15and most expensive
19:16underwater treasure
19:17recovery operations
19:19in history.
19:19But New World Gold
19:21wasn't the only victim
19:22of ocean storms.
19:24More than a century
19:25before the San Jose sank,
19:27the sea also claimed
19:28another royal cargo.
19:31On September 5, 1622,
19:34the Spanish galleon
19:35Nuestra Señora de Atocha
19:36set sail from Havana
19:38as part of a fleet
19:39consisting of two ships.
19:41It had been delayed
19:42in port for six weeks
19:44because there was
19:45so much treasure
19:46to be loaded,
19:47it took two months
19:49to load all the cargo.
19:50It carried approximately
19:5224 tons of silver,
19:54including 1,038 silver bars
19:57and around 180,000 silver coins.
20:00There were also
20:02125 gold bars,
20:05582 copper ingots,
20:07and approximately
20:081,000 pounds of silverware.
20:11Aside from this,
20:12the cargo also included
20:14Colombian emeralds
20:15from the famous
20:16Muzo mines,
20:17considered to be
20:18among the finest emeralds
20:20in the world.
20:21The next day
20:22after the flotilla
20:23departed,
20:24a powerful hurricane
20:26struck the ships
20:27approximately 60 miles
20:28off the coast of Cuba.
20:30The Atocha sank,
20:32taking 265 emeralds
20:35with it,
20:35and only five sailors
20:37survived by clinging
20:38to a part of the ship's mast.
20:41For 60 years,
20:42the Spanish attempted
20:43to locate and recover
20:45the treasure.
20:47But just a month later,
20:49another powerful hurricane
20:50hit the area,
20:52scattering the ship's wreckage
20:53in different directions
20:54across several kilometers.
20:57The loss of the flotilla
20:59was a massive blow
21:00to the Spanish treasury.
21:01The Spanish crown
21:02was forced to take out loans
21:04to fund their struggle
21:05in the Thirty Years' War.
21:07In 1969,
21:10American treasure hunter
21:11Mel Fisher
21:12began the search
21:13for the Atocha.
21:14Every morning,
21:15he repeated
21:16the very same line,
21:18Today is the day.
21:20For 16 years,
21:22that was what
21:23he always said.
21:24But during those 16 years,
21:27he got almost nothing
21:28from the ocean,
21:29except for small pieces
21:31of evidence.
21:34His eldest son,
21:36Dirk,
21:37found five bronze cannons
21:38bearing the Atocha's markings.
21:41But just days later,
21:43Dirk died along
21:44with his wife,
21:45Angel,
21:46when a rescue boat
21:47capsized at night
21:48due to a pump problem.
21:49Fisher didn't stop.
21:52He continued his search
21:54despite profound grief
21:56and an eight-year
21:58legal battle
21:58against the government
21:59for the rights
22:00to the treasures found.
22:02In the end,
22:03the Supreme Court
22:04ruled in his favor
22:05and in 1985,
22:07his son Kane
22:08called over the radio.
22:09He said,
22:10Put away the charts.
22:12We found the mother load.
22:14Beneath the sea,
22:15they retrieved a total
22:16of roughly 40 tons
22:18of gold and silver
22:19valued at an estimated
22:20$450 million.
22:23But according to
22:24the ship's manifest,
22:26that was only half
22:27of the expected treasure.
22:28The stern section
22:30of the ship,
22:30where a large portion
22:32of the gold and emerald
22:33reserves is believed to be,
22:35still hasn't been found
22:36to this day.
22:39The story of the Atocha
22:40shows that searching
22:42for underwater treasure
22:43can not only drain
22:44people of their money,
22:45it can also claim
22:46the lives of the people
22:47searching for it.
22:50The line between a dream
22:52and an obsession
22:53can be razor thin
22:54and no one knew that
22:56better than Mel Fisher.
22:58The last treasure
23:00on our list
23:01isn't a ship
23:02because this treasure
23:03is an entire city.
23:05Around 15 kilometers
23:07off the port of Alexandria,
23:09beneath the Mediterranean Sea,
23:12lies Heracleion.
23:13This is no mere shipwreck.
23:15It is an entire ancient city
23:18with temples,
23:19statues,
23:20piers,
23:21and roads
23:21that have been submerged
23:22underwater
23:23for over a thousand years.
23:25The Greeks
23:26knew Heracleion
23:27as Egypt's
23:28primary sea gateway
23:30long before
23:31Alexander the Great
23:32founded Alexandria.
23:34Ships bound
23:35for the Nile Delta
23:36passed through its harbor.
23:38Ships from Greece,
23:39Phoenicia,
23:40and Persia
23:40could also be seen
23:41here back then.
23:42The city was mentioned
23:44in the writings
23:45of Herodotus.
23:46It was also mentioned
23:47by Strabo
23:48and Deodorus Siculus.
23:49But for nearly
23:502,000 years,
23:52the exact location
23:53of the city
23:54remained a mystery.
23:55In 2001,
23:57underwater archaeologist
23:59Frank Godio
24:00discovered the ruins
24:02of the city
24:03at a depth
24:03of 6 to 10 meters.
24:05From the bottom
24:06of the sea,
24:07they recovered
24:08granite statues
24:09standing up
24:10to 5 meters tall,
24:11gold coins,
24:13bronze lamps,
24:14anchors,
24:14and a stone stele
24:16engraved with hieroglyphs.
24:18Over 60 sunken ships
24:20from various eras
24:21were also found
24:22at the site.
24:23Among these
24:24were ancient
24:25Egyptian barges
24:26and Greek merchant ships.
24:28Heracleion didn't sink
24:29just because
24:30of a single storm.
24:31The ground beneath
24:33the city
24:33was soft clay
24:34and when a powerful
24:35earthquake struck,
24:37the soil gave way,
24:38completely submerging
24:39the entire city
24:40into the sea.
24:42This was where
24:43people once lived,
24:44where they conducted
24:45business,
24:47traded,
24:47and prayed
24:48in their temples.
24:49But one day,
24:51the ground
24:52they walked on
24:53turned to water
24:54and everything
24:55they had built
24:56over centuries
24:57became part
24:57of the seabed.
24:59The value
24:59of the artifacts
25:00from Heracleion
25:01is priceless
25:02because this isn't
25:03just a simple
25:04collection of old objects.
25:05It's an almost
25:07complete,
25:07well-preserved
25:08snapshot
25:09of an ancient civilization.
25:11Every statue,
25:13every coin,
25:14and every anchor
25:15tells a story
25:16about trade
25:17that existed
25:18hundreds of years
25:19before the Roman Empire.
25:22The seven underwater
25:24treasures we talked
25:25about have one thing
25:26in common
25:27and it's easy
25:28to overlook
25:28because of the
25:29glittering gold.
25:32all of these
25:33ships and cities
25:34sank along
25:34with people
25:35who were certain
25:36they were in control
25:37of their situation.
25:39The captains
25:41planned the route,
25:42the merchants
25:43counted their profits,
25:44and the residents
25:45of Heracleion
25:46built their homes
25:47on top of
25:48soft clay.
25:51No one thought
25:52that the ground
25:53beneath their feet
25:54was unsafe
25:54and that the sea
25:56could take everything
25:57away in just
25:58a single night.
25:58the ocean
26:00makes no distinction
26:01between gold
26:02and stone.
26:04It doesn't care
26:05whether the ship's cargo
26:06is worth
26:0720 billion dollars
26:08or just 20 dollars.
26:10It takes everything
26:11all the same
26:11and the only thing
26:12it returns
26:13is a reminder.
26:15No amount of wealth
26:17can protect us
26:18against a force
26:18we can neither
26:19measure
26:19nor control.
26:21If you learned
26:22something new
26:23from this video,
26:24let me know
26:25in the comments
26:25of the seven treasures
26:27we discussed,
26:28which one amazed
26:29you the most?
26:30Because true treasure
26:31isn't always
26:32at the bottom
26:33of the sea.
26:34Sometimes,
26:35it's in that moment
26:36when a person
26:36stops constantly
26:38accumulating
26:38and for the first time
26:40looks at the world
26:41around him.
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