Comments by "Frederick Miles" (@frederickmiles8815) on "World of Antiquity" channel.

  1. Have you went to any of the more recent 'Tepe' excavations in southern Turkey? Karahan and Tarla look super complex and impressive, actual settlements. Wouldn't be shocked if 20-30 years from now the Tepe people are considered a proto civilization or a civilization proper. Could you possibly have a expert in the field, who is close to the ongoing discuss the scope and scale of the settlements? Would be most intersted in learning if any form of book keeping / proto language (maybe something along a basic version of the coniform system) has been discovered. Or maybe rope and beads system you find in some modern hunter gathers.
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  2. Great content - I always thought the racial component came much later, post Aryan intermixing (or conquering?). Like logically I couldnt see the racial component being a foundation - given the generations required to intermix (willingly through assimilation or forcefully through conquest and absorption). Also I read a study that said Nuristani's - a large subset of that population - was actually direct descendants from Indo European Aryan folk. Like a small splinter group that stayed lost in a valley. I served roughly a year in Nuristan as an Army officer and this does make since to me - the Nuristani's I met were white and pagan (and not greek pagans as some have mistakenly reported). Could you do a video on this topic, I would love your thoughts on it and given your connections you could bring forward the most up to date info.
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  3. Can you imagine how amazing these sites will look once fully excavated? It is truly amazing - the scale and breadth - I wonder if excavation work will lead to discovery of rudimentary accounting / writing system and adjacent like civilizations (maybe in the levant or north by the sea) that supported a vibrant trading network? The skinny hipster looking kid (who I believe is an archeologist - I forget the name of his channel) did some amazing videos on this area - the sites there are amazing.
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  4. That entire area of south eastern Turkey is littered with sites from the same time period. Its crazy once you start looking into the ongoing excavations - some are much bigger and more in depth. There are also similar sites (time frame wise in levant) near modern Israel on the coast. There is a very good chance there was a primitive but robust trade network, something you need as a precursor to 'civilization'. @twonumber22 
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  5. His vids were amazing, its crazy the sheer scale. @loke6664 
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  6. Couldnt the generic reference to 'Sea People' point to merchants those nations such as Egypt did business with? Maybe (as what you called out) due to systemic collapse from Greece to Italy (climate change, bad harvest, volcanos, new refugees from the north, etc) these former merchants started pirating and pillaging (with families in tow trying to find a better home). Also, any connections to the remnants of the Minioans (post Mycenae rise)? I remember a while back some genetic and pottery evidence tying refuges arriving in cannan to minioans (maybe mycenae/minioan ad mixture).
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  7. Love your content, was curious to get your opinion - where would you look to locate potentially previously undiscovered cities? Nothing tinfoil hattish, but align to your criteria.
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