I toured Jerusalem years ago, and loved it, but walking around I just kept thinking it didn’t feel quite right. Years later I visited Pompeii and the penny dropped. In Jerusalem there are many layers and continual building. When you walk Jerusalem you see , at street level, the point of an archway , which means the entrance is probably 3 or 4 meters below you. In Pompeii, someone walked through a doorway 2000 years ago and you can walk through the same doorway, see the same things they did, touch the same things they did. That’s was makes the experience of Pompeii so profound, it is a snapshot of a moment in time.
How is it I've never run across your channel despite how many times I've searched TH-cam for videos on Pompeii? So glad I found you and I immediately subscribed. Was lucky enough to visit Pompeii almost three years ago, but only got three hours to see a town I've been obsessed with since I was five year's old! I am going back one day soon.
Thank you! We are now posting videos weekly - so you can expect a lot of unique footage of Ancient Rome. Do check out more content on AncientRomelive.org (calendar section) for live seminars as well as TH-cam.com/dariusarya for related content!
These sites - landscaped- are amazing. Surely the root systems are detrimental to the sites- but they are now part of the beautiful reality of most Italian sites.
Thank you for all the incredible tours of these priceless ancient sites. Even if I can xomeday vacation in Rome time would not allow me to see all these places that you show to us. Thank you again.
I wish so much more could be restored. I know not everyone is for restoration. But just the temple of Jupiter would make tne forum look even more spectacular
Absolutely amazing, been there in the 90s and the real sense of literally walking in the past has never left me, can't wait to get back there, I hope they rebuild it and re construct it..
It was the Great Ancient Greek Hero Heracles that founded the two cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, in very ancient times, long before Rome was even conceived.
What happened to all of the marble which would have lined the brick walls of the forum and other areas. Presumably not destroyed in the eruption and not quarried by the Catholic church for other building projects?
Studies of the forum suggest that materials were indeed robbed out after the destruction of Pompeii, including marble veneer and many of the forum statues- our video shows many statue bases - but the statues were never found during excavation … this suggests many things were robbed out initially … way before the period of the rediscovery of Pompeii in the late 16th century.
@@AncientRomeLive That's interesting and I didn't realize it was previously plundered before being rediscovered. Thank for the follow up and interesting content!
@@AncientRomeLive I may be wrong but are you suggesting the roman reighbours robbed all what they could excavating the city after it was destroyed, and maybe before the volcanic material hadn't still solidificated? If that was the case it would be mindblowing, I had never thought of the chance that many people saw in plundering a recently destroyed rich city. Just imagining the possibilities one wonder why there is not a film or a novel about an imperial effort to investigate and rescue the city treasures, or a private enterprise payed by a rich noble or guild.
I saw a man at the amphitheater in white preforming music there and there was speakers and flashing light and he brought out his friends also was singing in autotune one of his songs was Fein Fein Fein Fein and repeated it until the song ended 10/10 would go again
Excellent. I saw the Pompey exhibit that came through St Paul, MN years ago & have two pieces of copied jewelry but due to disabilities will probably never get there in person. This was wonderful. Thank you.
I am a wheelchair user and have dreamed of going since I was little. My dad was there today and told me it was 25% accessible, so I may need to take a trip….
3:11 Time. Some human ideas, to ' keep people out '' never change. Two large stone blocks, blocking the .....hmmm....' driveway '' . WE today, use large rectangular cement blocks, to DO THE SAME. ONE is in front of the food store, here in Alberta Canada ; on the sidewalk, in front of door. TO keep people from stealing things, like the ATM for example....
Every time that I see these ruins, I am left puzzled. Pompeii suffered from volcanic ash overburden. I can understand how the organic materials were burned away, BUT, I can't understand how the non-organic materials have disappeared. Looting can account for gems ot artistry but NOT for the portions of buildings and structures that no longer exist.
Some buildings (such as the forum arcades) always remained above the ash and were looted for marble statues and columns etc. Roof tiles and other building materials could be recycled. In addition, much of the city has now been exposed to the elements for the last 2-3 hundred years, much longer than in the Roman period, so it has been looted, vandalised, collapsed or weathered away, plus some bombing in WW2, etc etc.
I really love the details of your reports. There is plenty of info out there on what Pompeii was like prior to '79. What I don't see a lot of is what Pompeii was like after wards. What did the Empire talk about? What did the first arriving persons find and report? How much of the bay was filled with ash? What did it look like when discovered in the 1700's? How did the excavations progress? What's the future of uncovering this history?
Prof Sigurdsson gives a good account of how the ash fell and its depth in th-cam.com/video/gpv8BK_zgoY/w-d-xo.html (and relates it to Pliny Younger's account which he says was incredibly accurate) ... Pompeii and Herculaneum were completely buried as far as I'm aware - Herculaneum up to a 60 foot depth. I assume it this heavier material falling that altered the coast line.
Great video, but incomplete information. I guess that many people ask themselves what happened to the marble that adorned much of the forum and other places.
We all have a lot of unanswered questions about the loss of certain materials. We've commented elsewhere that the looting (marble veneer, statuary that would have adorned the many statue bases in the forum) would have taken place at some point in antiquity- a common hypothesis pushed forward by a number of scholars...
Why won't the Italian authorities let tourists into the theaters and amphitheater? It would be harmless to be be able to just sit there on one of the stone terraced seats and imagine what it was like 2000 years ago.Thanks for showing the map. It helped a lot with perspective.
These are areas that are regularly accessible. During the summer, there are events held in the large theater. The odeion regularly is off-limits these days- but in past years was accessible to all. The amphitheater is regularly open to the public.
When I went a few years ago, I was able to go into the theater (where some tourists were singing Amazing Grace, and the acoustics were amazing!) as well as the amphitheater (which was basically empty because it's on the far edge of the site). A wonderful experience because both structures are so well preserved.
Not a city of marvel. You really find the paneling in the imperial-age monuments in the forum area- but mostly robbed out in antiquity - as well as the bronze statuary... (We just have the bases).
Some looting already in Antiquity. Pompeii was mostly covered with frescoes. Not too much marble here! (Just the forum area, with Flavian- era monuments.
I’m surprised that more fragments of the forum’s columns weren’t preserved. Was this area part of the original excavations in the 17th C? These digs weren’t archaeological, but just treasure hunts, so many such “uninteresting” items would have been discarded. The first excavators wanted only statues and gold.
Great question. Often it was something like - two houses down from the Apollo fountain or the XX Temple... streets did have names- but few are preserved.
Observation, on humans' building of stone structures : Ancient Architectures : (see Vitruvius' 10 Books on Architecture ). '' Quality, goes in before the ' get 'er done ' mode of thinking."" Modern mode, of architecture thinking : '' Just get 'er done ''. NOW, we'll see which ' mode ' of thinking, produces the longest lasting, most perfect and durable structures......NOT the modern mode, by any remotest of chances. SEE SAN FRANCISCO'S MILLENIUM TOWER. Leaning and sinking allready, and not even 20 years old. Ancient engineers / bricklayers, would be embarrassed, as builders. THANK-YOU MR. ARYA, FOR EDUCATING US, OF THE MODERN, entertainment BS. ( You are a descendant, of what national human race ? Native, to the area that you study ?.....just curious. I am a descendant, of the ancient Scythians. ( Saka )
Many thanks! We will post many more Pompeii videos throughout the year. Of course there is so much going on in ROME - and throughout the Mediterranean- so expect a lot of original content weekly (we are based in ROME!)
I’ve searched many times for videos on new archaeological discoveries at Pompeii/Herculaneum, and this never came up. Then, it suddenly just popped up in my general feed, I’m subscribed.
Awesome, thank you. We are going to share a lot of great, original content. What sets us apart is that we are in Italy and have amazing opportunities. We hope that you can share our videos with other Rome enthusiasts! Do check out th-cam.com/users/dariusarya for related content.
I toured Jerusalem years ago, and loved it, but walking around I just kept thinking it didn’t feel quite right. Years later I visited Pompeii and the penny dropped. In Jerusalem there are many layers and continual building. When you walk Jerusalem you see , at street level, the point of an archway , which means the entrance is probably 3 or 4 meters below you. In Pompeii, someone walked through a doorway 2000 years ago and you can walk through the same doorway, see the same things they did, touch the same things they did. That’s was makes the experience of Pompeii so profound, it is a snapshot of a moment in time.
How is it I've never run across your channel despite how many times I've searched TH-cam for videos on Pompeii? So glad I found you and I immediately subscribed. Was lucky enough to visit Pompeii almost three years ago, but only got three hours to see a town I've been obsessed with since I was five year's old! I am going back one day soon.
Thank you! We are now posting videos weekly - so you can expect a lot of unique footage of Ancient Rome. Do check out more content on AncientRomelive.org (calendar section) for live seminars as well as TH-cam.com/dariusarya for related content!
this ancient architecture and umbrella pine trees all around makes it feel like you woke up in the dream
These sites - landscaped- are amazing. Surely the root systems are detrimental to the sites- but they are now part of the beautiful reality of most Italian sites.
Excellent channel! Please keep up the good work, so informative and well presented 👍🏻
Thank you! Yes we are now posting new videos weekly!
The comparison at the end between the fresco and the amphitheater was stunning!
Thank you - yes it’s great to see how the Pompeians represented a structure we can still explore!
Thanks for sharing the images.
Thank you for all the incredible tours of these priceless ancient sites. Even if I can xomeday vacation in Rome time would not allow me to see all these places that you show to us. Thank you again.
That was really cool and well made. Loved the different perspectives.
Thank you!
I wish so much more could be restored. I know not everyone is for restoration. But just the temple of Jupiter would make tne forum look even more spectacular
Loved being there!
Absolutely amazing, been there in the 90s and the real sense of literally walking in the past has never left me, can't wait to get back there, I hope they rebuild it and re construct it..
Fantastic site. We will keep going back and sharing more!
Awesome doc. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating !!!!!
Outstanding! Great job Darius and the ARL team!
This is excellent - thank you for sharing this with us.
It was the Great Ancient Greek Hero Heracles that founded the two cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, in very ancient times, long before Rome was even conceived.
What happened to all of the marble which would have lined the brick walls of the forum and other areas. Presumably not destroyed in the eruption and not quarried by the Catholic church for other building projects?
Studies of the forum suggest that materials were indeed robbed out after the destruction of Pompeii, including marble veneer and many of the forum statues- our video shows many statue bases - but the statues were never found during excavation … this suggests many things were robbed out initially … way before the period of the rediscovery of Pompeii in the late 16th century.
@@AncientRomeLive That's interesting and I didn't realize it was previously plundered before being rediscovered. Thank for the follow up and interesting content!
@@AncientRomeLive I may be wrong but are you suggesting the roman reighbours robbed all what they could excavating the city after it was destroyed, and maybe before the volcanic material hadn't still solidificated?
If that was the case it would be mindblowing, I had never thought of the chance that many people saw in plundering a recently destroyed rich city.
Just imagining the possibilities one wonder why there is not a film or a novel about an imperial effort to investigate and rescue the city treasures, or a private enterprise payed by a rich noble or guild.
it feels as though i struck a gold mine. wish I had watched them before went to a lot of those sites..... thanks!
Completely superb!
I saw a man at the amphitheater in white preforming music there and there was speakers and flashing light and he brought out his friends also was singing in autotune one of his songs was Fein Fein Fein Fein and repeated it until the song ended 10/10 would go again
Thank you for giving us such a perspective on the city. #SPQR
Excellent. I saw the Pompey exhibit that came through St Paul, MN years ago & have two pieces of copied jewelry but due to disabilities will probably never get there in person. This was wonderful. Thank you.
I am a wheelchair user and have dreamed of going since I was little. My dad was there today and told me it was 25% accessible, so I may need to take a trip….
I really loved it
Thank you!
Been three times now, be a fourth in October!!
excellent content!
Thank you!
3:11 Time. Some human ideas, to ' keep people out '' never change. Two large stone blocks, blocking the .....hmmm....' driveway '' . WE today, use large rectangular cement blocks, to DO THE SAME. ONE is in front of the food store, here in Alberta Canada ; on the sidewalk, in front of door. TO keep people from stealing things, like the ATM for example....
Every time that I see these ruins, I am left puzzled. Pompeii suffered from volcanic ash overburden. I can understand how the organic materials were burned away, BUT, I can't understand how the non-organic materials have disappeared. Looting can account for gems ot artistry but NOT for the portions of buildings and structures that no longer exist.
Some buildings (such as the forum arcades) always remained above the ash and were looted for marble statues and columns etc. Roof tiles and other building materials could be recycled. In addition, much of the city has now been exposed to the elements for the last 2-3 hundred years, much longer than in the Roman period, so it has been looted, vandalised, collapsed or weathered away, plus some bombing in WW2, etc etc.
@@sotony7483 Thank you.
Still seems like a huge load of marble to walk away
Da ritornarci !!
Very interesting. Slows the size . One should spend several days exploring.
So awesome, this was uploaded less than a month after I was there. I don’t understand why they don’t remove the moss from the theatre 13:45
I really love the details of your reports. There is plenty of info out there on what Pompeii was like prior to '79. What I don't see a lot of is what Pompeii was like after wards. What did the Empire talk about? What did the first arriving persons find and report? How much of the bay was filled with ash? What did it look like when discovered in the 1700's? How did the excavations progress? What's the future of uncovering this history?
Prof Sigurdsson gives a good account of how the ash fell and its depth in th-cam.com/video/gpv8BK_zgoY/w-d-xo.html (and relates it to Pliny Younger's account which he says was incredibly accurate) ... Pompeii and Herculaneum were completely buried as far as I'm aware - Herculaneum up to a 60 foot depth. I assume it this heavier material falling that altered the coast line.
@@patrickpaganini Nice Vid, thanks!
Thanks very much! A lot of great questions, which we should address in future episodes!
Why don’t they remove the grass from the amphitheater? It’d look amazing
Great video, but incomplete information. I guess that many people ask themselves what happened to the marble that adorned much of the forum and other places.
We all have a lot of unanswered questions about the loss of certain materials. We've commented elsewhere that the looting (marble veneer, statuary that would have adorned the many statue bases in the forum) would have taken place at some point in antiquity- a common hypothesis pushed forward by a number of scholars...
Good video. So are districts III and IV not excavated yet?
Why won't the Italian authorities let tourists into the theaters and amphitheater? It would be harmless to be be able to just sit there on one of the stone terraced seats and imagine what it was like 2000 years ago.Thanks for showing the map. It helped a lot with perspective.
These are areas that are regularly accessible. During the summer, there are events held in the large theater. The odeion regularly is off-limits these days- but in past years was accessible to all. The amphitheater is regularly open to the public.
@@AncientRomeLive I see, thanks
When I went a few years ago, I was able to go into the theater (where some tourists were singing Amazing Grace, and the acoustics were amazing!) as well as the amphitheater (which was basically empty because it's on the far edge of the site). A wonderful experience because both structures are so well preserved.
How long did the original excavation take? Start to recently.
..as this city was buried, why is there not more of the marble paneling?...
Not a city of marvel. You really find the paneling in the imperial-age monuments in the forum area- but mostly robbed out in antiquity - as well as the bronze statuary... (We just have the bases).
How come soon much of the buildings and structures are missing , its not as if it was plundered seeing it was covered in volcano dust .??????
A lot of the site was pilfered in Antiquity.
Why isn't the marble still covering the buildings or on the ground if it fell off , who removed it or plundered it.
????
Some looting already in Antiquity. Pompeii was mostly covered with frescoes. Not too much marble here! (Just the forum area, with Flavian- era monuments.
Why are pompei's buildings missing parts?
I’m surprised that more fragments of the forum’s columns weren’t preserved. Was this area part of the original excavations in the 17th C? These digs weren’t archaeological, but just treasure hunts, so many such “uninteresting” items would have been discarded. The first excavators wanted only statues and gold.
what happened to all the marble? and how do we know it was covered?
I see an answer below, thanks.
With no street addresses how did citizens of Pompeii locate someone?
Great question. Often it was something like - two houses down from the Apollo fountain or the XX Temple... streets did have names- but few are preserved.
Great video. I have to subscribe
Observation, on humans' building of stone structures : Ancient Architectures : (see Vitruvius' 10 Books on Architecture ). '' Quality, goes in before the ' get 'er done ' mode of thinking.""
Modern mode, of architecture thinking : '' Just get 'er done ''. NOW, we'll see which ' mode ' of thinking, produces the longest lasting, most perfect and durable structures......NOT the modern mode, by any remotest of chances. SEE SAN FRANCISCO'S MILLENIUM TOWER. Leaning and sinking allready, and not even 20 years old. Ancient engineers / bricklayers, would be embarrassed, as builders. THANK-YOU MR. ARYA, FOR EDUCATING US, OF THE MODERN, entertainment BS. ( You are a descendant, of what national human race ? Native, to the area that you study ?.....just curious. I am a descendant, of the ancient Scythians. ( Saka )
I like the maps, the aerial views, and the drawing of the forum. Well done.
Many thanks! We will post many more Pompeii videos throughout the year. Of course there is so much going on in ROME - and throughout the Mediterranean- so expect a lot of original content weekly (we are based in ROME!)
Can you remember Pink Floyd at Pompeii ✌😊
Thought this place was covered over with ash. Seems it would be in better shape. But they may have already look like this before the eruption.
You really gotta quit using auto white balance.
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Welcome aboard!
Very good video, but I think it has a lot more potential.
I’ve searched many times for videos on new archaeological discoveries at Pompeii/Herculaneum, and this never came up. Then, it suddenly just popped up in my general feed, I’m subscribed.
must have been a very col place to live
Truly amazing now!
Darius everywhere you go and you speak of I can't get enough Italy rules 💥
Visited Pompeii in early autumn 1980 as a young student activist attending an activist meeting in Rome. Cherish that memory.
Absolutely amazing.
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We appreciate it!
very good video, thank you.
Awesome! Keep up the great work!
Nice details and efforts. Only the 2nd video Ive watched here; now subscribed, Ill go back and watch as well look forward to future ones.
Awesome, thank you. We are going to share a lot of great, original content. What sets us apart is that we are in Italy and have amazing opportunities. We hope that you can share our videos with other Rome enthusiasts! Do check out th-cam.com/users/dariusarya for related content.