Dougga: the Pompeii of Roman Africa
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- Dougga, Tunisia is arguably the best-preserved Roman town anywhere in North Africa. This video presents a tour of the site's highlights.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:49 Theater
1:19 Square of the Wind Rose
1:54 Capitolium
3:03 Forum
3:52 Arch of Alexander Severus
4:13 Temple of Juno Caelestis
4:49 Licinian Baths
6:11 Cyclops Baths
6:56 House of the Trifolium
7:22 Numidian Tomb
Dougga is one of my favorite sites. I love how you can follow the main road and the different passages winding around and in between the different buildings. I used my picture of the latrines as a background for Zoom meetings at work.
haha thats amazing!
Thank you for sharing this incredible location.
I visited Dougga last year. It is an absolutely stunning site that you can fully explore and beautiful countryside views.
Beautiful.thanks😊 for sharing
It's remarkable how even the smaller communities of the Roman world were still endowed with permanent theatres, entertainment and this particular brand of it being obviously of prime concern to the state. I wonder where the performers came from (local or touring), and what kind of fare they offered to the audiences (high literary classics or lowbrow ephemeral farces, or some mixture thereof).
It's quite the infrastructure for such a small population.
Great video. I know very little about Roman Africa and its non-Roman cultures, and now I know more.
this makes me so hungry for some travelling
I like how you can see the ruts in the road at 6:11, from thousands upon thousands of carts wheeled through that street.
Fantastic! So informative, good camera work. Thank you so much
Super high quality content!
Oooh, the communal sponge-on-a-sticks. Been a while since I heard someone mention those. :P
The experts are actually not so sure they were used the way it's being suggested here😉
My guy. You're filling this Rick Steves shaped hole in my heart. Thanks for that.
Thank you for this very educational video! Great site.
Wonderfull video, thanks
So many interesting conversations must have taken place, with everyone facing each other, pooping.
What was the water source for the city? Any ruins associated with this infrastructure?
Thanks for posting this fascinating video?
There’s an aqueduct coming into the city from the southwest. Arches over a small valley remain.
I found Tunisia to be dripping with ancient ruins.
Just scuffing a flat spot in the ground might reveal a mosaic.
Was there several years ago. Amazing destination.
Wonderful. I really like your videos.
Wow ! Thanks 4 the great video!
Absolutely amazing & cool!!!
Sure wish we could make time travel a reality so we could visit Dougga, as it was.
It's on my list for the Autumn trip
What a lovely environment.
Very cool. Thanks for this.
Wonderful, thanks🙂
That area must be very tectonically stable for those columns or towers to have survived. Or are they "restored" by the Italian or French? I know that the mausoleum was restored after being demolished by an English asshat in the 19th century, but it was apparently intact previously.
Although the site has not suffered extensively from earthquake damage, most of the columns had to be set back up by the French
Hey do you have any videos on Timgad? are you planning on visiting?
One is coming out tomorrow! Stay tuned...
He just did
wow! what a coincidence haha ❤️
Libya also has some amazing Roman and ancient greek cities i wish to visit
Someday....
Thanks. Please make a similar video about Volubulis (Morocco).
wish I'd been able to go
Oh, hi. I knew that voice. Glad to see another video from you. Thank you.
Feel like Roman Africa is not talked about enough. It was super urbanized and the cavalry from the region was super famous.
A very evocative presentation! Thank you!
Wow, fascinating.
Theatres and baths get the best outlooks often.
Very nice .
Super interesting. It looks fantasticly preserved and doesn't appear to have a load of modern development encroaching on it from all angles, unlike pretty much all the rest of Roman cities.
Very comprehensive walk around a fantastic Roman city. North Africa has always been in our interests list to visit, how safe is Tunisia to travel all by yourself? Maybe rent a car?
Tunisia is very safe, though renting a car is not for the faint of heart
Do you ever have 'Ron Swanson in Home Depot' moments when guides approach you to offer a tour at these sites?
7:15 “…said to be a brothel, but there is no evidence for this” .. said as a pool in shape of phallus fills the frame 😂
Great video! I really like the way to cover the placement of the Capitolium. I am starting to become a doubter in the sponge stick for ancient TP. Seems more likely the keyhole, which sort of resembles our current public toilet seats, were more likely to help prevent urination on the seating surface. This is my only contribution to ancient archeology thus far.
Great. Did you go to El-Jem?
Yes - I'll be releasing that video in about a month
@@scenicroutestothepast You will not be far from where I was born lol. Many roman sites in Tunisia.
I can provide pictures and locations of other lesser known roman cities in Tunisia if you are interested.
I often wonder how any of these kind of places survive at all - the urge to use the building materials for new constructions in later epochs must have been immense. Our modern sensibility for the past did not apply in previous times.
Even post-WW2, parts of Hadrian's Wall were being destroyed by quarrying in the search for quality stone . . .
In such a hot climate, how was the frigidarium made to be cold, or was that just relative to other rooms?
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Interesting how the byzantines did quite a bit of damage to ancient Rome, look at many cities and they demolished to build churches , forts etc. And lets not forget the gothic wars, that truly laid waste to Rome and Milan. Its almost a meme, "we are here to save Rome"
High up as it is, some reference to water supply would be useful.
I've never seen such a fine 12-holer! Honest, that's a pretty nice toilet for Arkansas standards!
My guess is that the first "dry wipe" was the best and the rinse-dip would have been for successive wipes or a courtesy equivalent to flushing to toilet if you were leaving the sponge-stick behind.
No doubt there were a few phantom poo-stickers in every town. The misanthrope or comedian, who could guess? Trying to deduce the culprit would have supplied great gossip material.
Remember a healthy diet produces a firm stool so less likely they had runny situations in ancient times again due to their healthy diet also a well-known fact that cavities were rare
Time to restore ! Put in some permaculture, pipes and tech, call the tourists
Ooo .. I'm first! 🤣👍
I have to ask, were the sponges on a stick a one time use thing, or did some poor slave have to clean all the sponges at the end of the day, just saying, that's a shitty job
nothing pertinent to add.
just feeding the algo-deities of the tube-y'all
What can i say....evry where Greeks