Fortress of the Knights Templar (Full Episode) | Lost Cities with Albert Lin

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When you're talking Templars and gold you need to remember that they took a vow of poverty. They had no personal items. All gold was held by the Templar banks. That's what you need to look for. The templars ran the first international banking system including accounts, writs, and transfers. You could deposit your gold in a Templar bank in Europe, get a Templar encoded writ and take it to a bank in the holy land for reimbursement. That way you aren't caring gold on the road where you can be robbed. That was part of the way they protected pilgrims.

I am from Turkish and eleven years ol. I am watching this channel. I like it.❤❤

Truly living the Indiana Jones dream, Albert. I love this series so much!!

I remember when I looked forward to going to the doctors just so I could read the latest nat geo book

This is why its important for skills and stories to be handed down through generations, in Australia when the first bricklayers built Sydney they would mark their bricks so they would be paid for them, those marks on the stones at @6:00 are from the different stonemasons who would mark their stone to show they made it and get paid accordingly. They are mason marks they are not templar marks.

This is my 3rd documentary watching this guy. I’m all in it at this point! It’s amazing what he’s showing us and kinda taking us back in time. Well done to this Chanel and the guy whole crew that’s showing us this!!

This documentary, videography and overall output just screams EXCELLENCE! This is truly lovely Albert. Well done to the National Geographic team as well.

Never mind the castles. A decent warhorse was HELLISHLY expensive. The monk knights were from noble families, that was the only way to have horse, armor and sword. Ridiculous amounts of gold was needed just to be a wealth renouncing Templar knight.

This is very fine piece of documentary, but it kind of re-dramatized into one the 2 separate, yet intertwined, stories of the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller orders both operating in Acra at the twilight of Crusaders' kingdom in the Holy Land. While the Knights Templar met their demise at the beginning of the 14th century, the Knights Hospitaller, who inherent the Knights Templar wealth, still exists (though they too lost the battle to the Mamluks in Acra). Everyone here knows that the lagoon used to be a mediaeval fortress and there are several descriptions of it in art, like The Siege of Acre by Dominique Papety (1840). It sank as sea level rose over the last 800 years. While, towards the end of this documentary Dr. Lin is moving around the very beautiful site of the excavated Knight Halls, it's a shame he doesn't mention it at all and doesn't tell the most remarkable story of its discovery in the 1990s. This is due to the fact that the Ottomans who established the new Acra after years of abandonment, used to fill the old buildings with sand and build on top of them rather than robbed them out. Thus, on a striking coincidence, a passerby enter a cavity full of sand noticing some remarkable vaults. There were full huge dining hall and other great medieval halls, all well-preserved, in robust Romanesque (and not gothic) style, detected when all the sand was excavated. These are just a few clarifying notes in a much broader subject. But you better come and see for yourself.

Albert Lin really has it down perfectly 🔥

Finally, something good. It's been a while since I've seen a good documentary.

I love the guide! He doesn’t say come with me. He says “LET’S GO!”😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤

Absolutely fascinating. What it would be to be able to travel back in time to visit such places. The medieval world was such an incredible period for great engineering.

- Bro is on an epic mission to uncover Templar history. - Using state-of-the-art equipment. - And doing it in an extraordinary way. . I love this so much, it's like watching a movie.

My fav History Channel.. Albert Lin... Thank you Sir

I am amazed! What an astonishing documentary. I was always interested about the Knights Templar and if may be they were no so saint, they finished so tragically. All for power and money.

The videography is excellent. We’re enchanted with the Knight Templars.

Robyn Young is an excellent historical fiction author, with the fall of the Acre Templars (and the Knights more widely) as the theme of one of her incredible series.

My favorite line: "No secrets can be kept from the archaeologists."