At night when we are not looking!

Are there any sarcophagi in American museums? It makes more sense that they would be in the part of the world that used sarcophagi for thousands of years. 😊

The NYC Met has several. @@Monkey2ewok

Hello! Something you might find of interest: The Forma Urbis, the 60 by 45 foot marble map of Rome, was a full color map. Maps of the period were in color and marbles of the era were as well. To my knowledge there are no complete color reconstructions, only three fragments held in the upper floor of the Vatican museum that show the original appearance. That would be quite a project to undertake!

It helped that some of them were buried in the ground for the first few centuries of their existence.

Yep aggressive crusaders burned and sacked Constatinople so badly, they even stole bronze and copper statues out of their wicked greed, what a tragedy...

There are literally tens of thousands Roman artifacts in Turkey and entire city is needed to protect them all from outside elements. So what we do is protecting the most valuable ones while keeping the rest outside which is same for Greece and even Italy, they simply don't worth the investment to keep them safe. It is sad but it is what it is unless more tourists visiting them or it is funded we can not protect them..

@@ggoddkkiller1342 Exactly, as you mentioned the same can be said for Italy and Greece, the sheer amount of art (just decoration for the Roman and Greek culture, mostly outside palaces and temples) makes it impossible to house them all in protected areas.

Its not out of disdain, but rather the lack of sufficient space to move everything inside. Then there are countless more relics that are held in storage at a seperate location. What you see in and around the museum is a mere fraction of the entire collection. Occasionally they rotate some of the relics, but as a history enthusiast like me in the city it would be perfect (and a wild dream come true) if the entirety of the collection could be displayed in a building one day.

Please dont spread wrong information without any proof. Ottomans destruction level was low. The most destructive period of Istanbul was 4th Crusade (1204). Most of the valuable monuments destructed or stealed and carried to West Europe.

Constantinople just before the conquest had nearly 50.000 population. After the crusader sack of the city in 1204 and 57 years of Latin rule, the city had lost most of its precious artifacts, religious relics and its population. Turks had nothing to do with it. In fact, it is the Turks that rebuild the city again, made it capital to their empire and thanks to that, the city reclaimed its world center status again. But who am i telling…..

​@@vsgapturkThey rebuilt the city but destroyed Churches and emperors tombs and monuments Turkis museum has nothig from turkis civization bcs not existed We can see the situation in Agia Sofia- Im not speaking for converted to mosque its another story

The ones who burned and sacked Constantinople, even could steal it's bronze statutes out of greed trying to blame it on us, LMAO! Ottoman at least wasn't as cheap as stealing bronze and copper as you crusaders were...

The “swastika” is and was a religious symbol that was stolen and corrupted by the nazis

While the mind picks out the pattern, in this running connected form I am not sure they can really be called swastikas. That said, the Old US Mint in San Francisco built in 1874 has an identical decoration.

I'm leading a Rome tour next May, and have other trips currently in the planning stage.

Except alexander is Macedonian, not greek

No, they will not. Its ownership belongs to these landa conquerors since 1071. You can hand back the Roman era artifacts in Britain back to Italy. Since it has nothing to do with your Anglo-Saxon plus Norman history

Alexander conquered anatolia at 4th cen . Greeks were to M asia after Trojan war( 12th cen ) lol They defeated Louvians and Hittites who assimilated later by Greeks and persians. Today there is no monuments or writing documents by these people Most in museum are Greek as the names untill today- Anatolia Kapadokia Pontos Aegian Mediterranean lol

@@elenilepouri7253 Yes, Achaeans began to "migrate" Minor Asia in the 12th cent. with the Dorian invasion from the north but they did not "founded" a city or "conquered" any in the 12th cent. There are no archeological evidence supporting there were a catastrophically huge "Greek" invasion at those cities, so far, but only their relatively insignificant presences. Those cities began to "rename" after the failed Persian invasion of Greece, like Turks "renamed" them after their invasion. The real invasion have taken place with the conquest of Alexander of Macedon and Rome's conquest cemented it. Today we know they have had their own alphabet, a heavily modified Phoenician alphabet, and their own language. There are numerous written stones and monuments been found and decyripted and keep coming up. So we gotto question those "excavations" maden by Philhellenic-Western plunderers'. Your historical knowledge is out-dated lol. You better upgrade yourself and come to reality :))

​@@MCMLXXXVICCXIIGreek colonies had nothing to do with invations or ruins they created new cities- many of them more famous and biggers than mother cities- for commerce and then inhabided( Italy M asia Pontos Cyprus.) It happened the most after 9- 8th cen. Greek language LINER B originated- exists untill today and the ancestor language was the Minoan LINER A and not Phienician. Greeks were in Cyprus with Phoenicians( Greeks named their country Phoeniki) from 13th cen in Bronze age but today there arent Phoenician writings or language or findings. Even Rome using Greek language and in East Rome( ethnically Greeks) was the main language as the dominator language in M east Anatolia Balkan Biblos translated in Greek and Old - New testanents had been in Greek too And ofc Apostotles their Gospels and epistotles Thats why M asia Anatolia all archaeologicals and epigraphes are in Greek. Temple in Ephessos has 3000 yrs history as many other cities- Byzantio Alikarnassos Pergamos- hundred yrs before Romans

You need to refresh your "history knowledge" I must say... We understand the agony of Turks to establish (if ever though) 'some' Asia Minor identity. They are the dominants there, for sure, but... they are more foreigners than a foreigner can be there... Only the city names Ismir, Manisa, Isparta, Nebolu and so forth reveal the dramatic (actually traumatic) aspect of that so called "Turkic Asia Minor connection". Non sense really... Με τίποτα!😉

@@STELIOSGR65 Funny :))

It's Istanbul, not Constantinople now!

@@ellen4956 Its Occupied land. The Otomans are colonists from Asia

@@KalFulsom We conquered Istanbul before Europeans colonized America. If you're talking about stolen land, leave America to the Indians. Germany, France and England were barbarian tribes that came to Europe with the migration of European tribes. Let these states leave Europe, let's leave Istanbul behind.

@@Emiryldz-li5hb I didn't conquer America, I asked t come in. Your lot didn't. you murdered everyone in your way up to the Armenians, Greeks and Kurds. Some day, your turn will come. And no one will lift a finger to help you

​@@ellen4956constantinople...all Greek...

It's not wrong,if they explain and describe the items accurately...

Because we didn't carve naked statues we didn't have history? Care to explain how exactly we defeated the most powerful empire on Earth then? Ohh yeah, it was ''an inside job'', LMAO! You are good at carving naked statues we are good at carving empires and our work changed Europe forever..

​@@ggoddkkiller1342Nomadic horsemen empires means nothing if they hadnt left something important except of invations and wars. Mongols had the strongest and biggest empire.. so what? Also east rome( byzantine) and Alexanders empire were more important in civilization and culture

@@elenilepouri7253 Sure, then could you explain please why there were more books published about Turkish threat than about renaissance between 15th and 17th centuries?? Comparing Turkic nomads with Mongols is just a joke, Mongol empire couldn't even last a ceuntry while Ottoman more than six centuries, in fact Turks are the only eastern nation who defeated Europeans in their own continent and permanently annexed a good of part of it. This is also why you are so salty about it wasting time by writing such a nonsense :)

@@ggoddkkiller1342 In histiry its well known that europeans had always wars between their countries from middle age untill 20th and turks been profited of this Yes after 15th 16th cen had organized the state but before? Greeks first and romans later had superior states and empires thousands of yrs before and not only 500 yrs

There is another Museum in the same neighborhood for Turkish stuff. And also Topkapı palace museum is very close to this one. According to Turkish heritage rules the term archaeology museum used for those where stuff before medieval id exhibited. At least Turks are not shameless to call it Turkish museum as the Brits call theirs “british”.

@@purushanda fair enough

Most museums in turkey hold Turkish artifacts, this is one is mosty for Greek relics

@@splintercell5551 there wouldn’t be many from before 1453, would there

​@@dionf3858 in other parts of turkey yes, constantinople no, Turks and arabs been in the land of Turkey way before 1453