Stari Most: They Destroyed a 427-Year-Old Bridge — Then Pulled Every Stone From the River ⚔️

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[00:00:00]For 427 years, one bridge [music] connected two sides of a city, two religions, two cultures, one bridge.

[00:00:07]>> [music] >> In November 1993, Croatian forces destroyed it in [music] one afternoon.

[00:00:13]The Stari Most, gone in 427 seconds.

[00:00:17]International divers entered the river.

[00:00:19]Every stone recovered by hand. 500 tons of limestone pulled from the bottom, rebuilt using the original Ottoman formula from 1566, [music] stone by stone. The same way it was built the first time. The bridge came back. The 3,000 people who died in the city around it didn't. Subscribe, or keep getting the comfortable version [music] of history.