İSKENDER LAHDİNİN KEŞFİ | Sidon Kral Mezarlığı

There are many sarcophagi belonging to different periods and geographies that welcomed us before we came to the Istanbul Archeology Museum. In this video, we will try to understand the beliefs and lives of people who lived in that period with some examples of Sidon sarcophagi. Sarcophagi are hollow chests that can be compared to coffins. It can be made of chipped stone, as well as from different materials such as clay or metal. Since sarcophagi take a long time to produce and are expensive, they were used only for the wealthy or important people during their time. As there are examples where people from the same family were buried in the same sarcophagus at different times. There are also sarcophagi that were emptied by grave robbers and later used for different purposes. The artifacts we will see were found in a well drilled by workers looking for stones for construction in 1887 .... MORE VIDEODA ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻 Content Producers: Aytaç Dolunay, Dursun Arslan Reading suggestions for the enthusiast: -Ali Sönmez, Sayda Excavation of Osman Hamdi Bey and Its Impact on the Development of the Museum-i Humayun, 2020. -Waldemar Heckel, Mazaeus, Callisthenes and the Alexander Sarcophagus, 2012. Nezih Başgelen, Istanbul Archeology Museum İskender Lahti, 2010. DO NOT FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE OUR CHANNEL! ! FOLLOW TO BE AWARE OF OUR NEW VIDEOS! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 history of art   / sanattarihi     / istanbulsanattarihi     / historyofarcheology   Music used in the content: "Juan Sánchez - Luz de Luna" is under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license Music promoted by BreakingCopyright:    • "Luz de Luna" is already registered in You...   " "Artist: Aakash Gandhi Title: Lifting Dreams " "Artist: Aakash Gandhi Title: Kiss the Sky "