The Buried Roman Villas of Bulla Regia

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  • Exploring the subterranean levels (and mosaics) of the Roman mansions in Bulla Regia, Tunisia.
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  • @thetbird69
    @thetbird69 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    It's truly awe inspiring that you can just walk down preserved steps and streets that people would have walked almost 2000 years ago

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Yes it is :) I'll never have the luxury of being able to travel outside of the United States (too poor to do so), so these videos are the only way I can experience something like this. In this particular video I think the area we're being shown looks better than that of Pompeii.

  • @Mabbi54
    @Mabbi54 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Even in ruins these houses are beautiful. They must have been spectacular when they were in use. Thank you for taking us along!

  • @luluandmeow
    @luluandmeow หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    What a treat to see gorgeous and well-preserved Roman archaeological remains without the crowds, you had the place to yourself and thanks to you so did your viewers. Not going to Tunisia anytime soon so thank you for your video, always excellent content

  • @chasbodaniels1744
    @chasbodaniels1744 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Had no knowledge of this place until now. What a wonderful introduction!

    • @barrymoore4470
      @barrymoore4470 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Same here. I had never heard of this site before chancing upon this upload. Very interesting, and with its sunken rooms, perhaps unique among preserved Roman ruins.

  • @mikki3961
    @mikki3961 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    I can imagine how beautiful it must have been in full color with all the fabric and furniture. Thank you!

    • @alexos8741
      @alexos8741 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And slaves, let's not forget the slaves, white slaves in this case

  • @xmaniac99
    @xmaniac99 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    A smart sustainable home from the classic era.

  • @michaeldriskell2038
    @michaeldriskell2038 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Since I will never be able to afford to see these in person, I so appreciate your sharing this video of these sites !!! Amazing and stunning floors and architecture!!! Thank you so much!!!😊

  • @teresadungan6485
    @teresadungan6485 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    The ruin is beautiful. The mosaics make me want to cry the are incredibly detailed and delicate. Yet the walked these floors daily. I dreamed of a home with floors like these. Ah what a sight. Thanks for sharing your visit with us.

  • @josephchandler8358
    @josephchandler8358 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Love to see the red Poppy flowers bloom, just like in Rome right now.

  • @hecker7000
    @hecker7000 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Thanks for sharing a glimpse into this amazing site. 🙂

  • @CampingforCool41
    @CampingforCool41 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Those mosaic floors are so stunning I’m in shock that you are allowed to walk on many of them. I can’t even imagine how beautiful those homes were back in the day.

  • @MikeS29
    @MikeS29 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    What a fantastic discovery. Thanks for sharing!

  • @StarrySGH
    @StarrySGH หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Thanks for sharing this with us! I might never visit that part of the world & would never have known about these awesome ruins!

  • @devoutsalsa
    @devoutsalsa หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Welcome to Tunisia. I've been to Bulla Regia. Loved it! Did you see the "this way to the brothel" sign?

    • @kevinhouse7143
      @kevinhouse7143 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      There was one of those "directional" signs in Ephesus.

    • @solinvictus39
      @solinvictus39 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@kevinhouse7143 Several in Pompeii as well.

  • @timeflysintheshop
    @timeflysintheshop หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Wow! What a cool place! (No pun intended!). Thanks for another great video! 👍😁😎

    • @timeflysintheshop
      @timeflysintheshop หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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  • @charissemnotita2368
    @charissemnotita2368 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    You saved the best for last: House of Venus mosaic is captivating to say the least👍

  • @stepps511
    @stepps511 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    This is an awe-inspiring look into the past, and we are in your debt. I find it truly inspirational that one can see up close and personal how these folks lived and the cleverness of their home design. Thank you!!

  • @owenroche8426
    @owenroche8426 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    What an amazing site! Thanks for sharing

  • @karphin1
    @karphin1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So fascinating to actually see into the living spaces of the past. Wonderful mosaics!

  • @JAdams-jx5ek
    @JAdams-jx5ek หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Thank you!

  • @EllieMaes-Grandad
    @EllieMaes-Grandad หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Gracious living two millennia ago, a beautiful story told in, and by, stone . . .

  • @aldosigmann419
    @aldosigmann419 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I really enjoy these more obscure sites not swarming with tourist hordes.
    Just scratching the surface! Great about the potential as well for future discoveries there to be made as well - one can only wonder what amazing stuff there yet to be found....

  • @raffriff42
    @raffriff42 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is fantastic - I had no idea these features existed. Once again you bring your unique insight into ancient lifestyles. I’m thinking though, they would have had the occasional deluge, just as we do today. Is there any sign of an ancient drainage system? At 3:14, we see what looks like a modern(?) drainage inlet.
    Speaking of low-tech cooling, Arabian wind cooling towers are brilliant, and need to be emulated.

  • @RizzstrainingOrder66
    @RizzstrainingOrder66 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    really beautiful region, thank you for the great video

  • @felipericketts
    @felipericketts หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow, that was quite remarkable. Those mosaics in the house of the fish are so beautiful. Let's hope excavation resumes soon.

  • @DonariaRegia
    @DonariaRegia หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The use of local building materials is strongly evident, as was typical for regions physically disconnected from the empire, unless a city was the birthplace of emperors. Then no expense was spared and no distance too great to import the very best. In their prime those cities would have been nothing less than astounding. We have nothing contemporary to compare with, an entire city built for one man.

  • @Barisxoxo
    @Barisxoxo หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Lovely place!

  • @TheopolisQSmith
    @TheopolisQSmith หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thank you for this. It’s great to

  • @MH-fb5kr
    @MH-fb5kr 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    mosaics have highest level of artistic and technical craftsmanship… just stunning

  • @khalidalali186
    @khalidalali186 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Thanks!

  • @bobfrog4836
    @bobfrog4836 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This was one of the places I didn't go when I was in Tunisia a few years back. Hopefully you got to go to Dougga, Sbeitla and El Djem while you were there! I saw some of the most impressive mosaics in Tunis at the Bardo and Sousse.

  • @darth_yoda
    @darth_yoda 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Roman houses like this truly bring the saying "They ain't making it like they used" to mind. Give it just a little touch up here and there and people could still LIVE in those rooms that are close to 2000 years old.

  • @larsrons7937
    @larsrons7937 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks for the tour. An unusual and interesting site.

  • @markmuller7962
    @markmuller7962 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Incredibile beautifully preserved stuff!

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      @markmuller7962 หลายเดือนก่อน

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  • @kiely4561
    @kiely4561 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What a find that must have been

  • @brianmckeever5280
    @brianmckeever5280 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Interesting! Thank you.

  • @evangelieabs
    @evangelieabs 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    thks,we would otherwise never had heard about these magnificent houses .❤

  • @alm9368
    @alm9368 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Impressive.

  • @wizzardofpaws2420
    @wizzardofpaws2420 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is wonderful! There's still still so much to see and learn about.

  • @ForbiddenHistoryLIVE
    @ForbiddenHistoryLIVE หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    THANK YOU

  • @Lurkzz
    @Lurkzz หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow, this is absolutely amazing! I'm in awe

  • @felixtrapani5646
    @felixtrapani5646 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I actually toured this in 2005, it was impressive to see how they lived in the heat....

  • @patricktheplumber5482
    @patricktheplumber5482 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    They must have mass produced tile amazing the last building had Roman swastika’s tiled in the floor absolutely amazing great video !!!

  • @macpduff2119
    @macpduff2119 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was raised in an Italian section of the NE Bronx. In the 1950's it was common for my Italian neighbors to move to their cooler basements in Summer. They had small kitchens there for cooking, and dinning was done outdoors in their back yards. It was a sensible way to live.. May I add that the light wells in the wonderful villas shown here also served to suck hot air out when the sun went down.

  • @v.britton4445
    @v.britton4445 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beautiful.

  • @johnbrown4568
    @johnbrown4568 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well presented. Thank you for posting...

  • @T_Mo271
    @T_Mo271 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow. That's extraordinary.

  • @levij4
    @levij4 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Amazing. Thanks for sharing.

  • @CraftClash
    @CraftClash 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Those mosaics are incredible

  • @18Ty
    @18Ty หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So this is where the channel is

  • @MarcusAgrippa390
    @MarcusAgrippa390 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Honey, grab the shovel!
    I've got an idea for the house...

  • @MegaLivingIt
    @MegaLivingIt หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Seems like people in desert areas of the USA could try and borrow from this idea of basement rooms with sunlight. Loved the mosaics in the Fish House. Thanks.🌿

  • @sawahtb
    @sawahtb หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'd live there, it's a dream.

  • @kawadashogo8258
    @kawadashogo8258 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So beautiful. Man I really want to visit these places. I hope I can afford to do so someday...

  • @williamlloyd3769
    @williamlloyd3769 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Incredible. It would be interesting to see what the town looked like when it was at its height.

  • @freedomfirst5557
    @freedomfirst5557 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Underground home....extremely smart.

  • @kennj321
    @kennj321 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The quality and quantity of roman construction is amazing. I suspect it was heavily subsidized by the Roman government to get Italian colonists and bureaucrats to settle in these far flung primitive places and not get homesick.

  • @DorothyMarks-Tango17
    @DorothyMarks-Tango17 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Stunning!! thank you for sharing this :-)

  • @paoloviti6156
    @paoloviti6156 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How interesting those ruins, it would have great that un-escavated part would be cleared before it is too late handled by ruthless people destroying irreplaceable artifacts and history. Good job again 👏 👍 👌

  • @munbruk
    @munbruk หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I visited it. Tunisia was a province part of the Roman Empire for several centuries.

  • @Aldopetti
    @Aldopetti 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fantastic, thanks for sharing!

  • @richfancy653
    @richfancy653 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you very much for your wonderful and amazing videos. It would be so awesome to go with you on one of your excursions to Rome!!

  • @Hhbdr
    @Hhbdr 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Pretty cool.
    Thanks.

  • @jamesmiller2332
    @jamesmiller2332 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video

  • @CsStoker
    @CsStoker หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those building keep much better than building that got abandoned like 10 years ago

  • @FoundingStockNZ
    @FoundingStockNZ หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gotta love those typical geometric decorations 😂

  • @Benjaminwolf
    @Benjaminwolf หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow!

  • @hirnlegorush
    @hirnlegorush หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Duuuude...you sound like the Lockpickinglawyer xD

  • @ryanasazaki1291
    @ryanasazaki1291 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oftentimes I find it hard to sense the mass and structure of these settlement ruins, due to most of them have collapsed and/or looted down to foundational rubbles, it is a sight to see such nicely preserved interior. Aside from some weatherings, it looked as though the owner of the property had just left mere weeks.

  • @barrymoore4470
    @barrymoore4470 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This method of designing sunken rooms for relief from the heat of the day is also attested in Abbasid-era Iraq, and may extend even farther back into Mesopotamian history. It's an ingenious idea, and it was fascinating to see these Roman examples (perhaps unique in the archaeological record of that civilization).

  • @ericdavid199
    @ericdavid199 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Unreal

  • @robertYoutub
    @robertYoutub หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always think that it was 2 degrees warmer in the roman period. There was no desert and no higher water level in Europe, but no glaciers in the Alps and the agriculture did run very good,

  • @feridunyunus8187
    @feridunyunus8187 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    it feels weird to think that there were people who once worked and struggled to own these properties and lived with their families for decades. they laughed, cried, ate, fought only to be ruined with dust centuries later.

  • @RickLowrance
    @RickLowrance หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tunisia. You are really getting around.

  • @ivanbarbosa81
    @ivanbarbosa81 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Mediterranean civilizations are amazing, from egypt to greece, carthage to rome or phonecia and turkey

  • @bengraham5699
    @bengraham5699 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the subterranean levels were once above ground. Until the great mud flood buried the city under water and mud.

  • @chanaheszter168
    @chanaheszter168 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, so elaborate. Wonder if they interconnect at all? Would be useful to elude desert raiders.

  • @mano2432
    @mano2432 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In the House of the Hunt, beginning around 2:20 one can see the columns of the peristyle which support an upper level, the span between the column capitals appearing to be flat arches, but ones that look improbably shallow for the weight they carry, which is a stone wall with unusual hexagonal openings. Is there more information on this unusual structural arrangement?

  • @HighWealder
    @HighWealder หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting

  • @anomander-rake
    @anomander-rake 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wow

  • @pelicanus4154
    @pelicanus4154 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Did you notice that it was much cooler in the below ground rooms?

  • @flamencoprof
    @flamencoprof หลายเดือนก่อน

    Around 1997 I visited the archaeological site of the Tombs of the Kings, Paphos, Cyprus. Hellenistic 3rd century BC, but used throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods up to the fourth century, possibly even by early Christians. They were said to imitate the houses of the living, with the burial chambers opening onto a peristyle atrium. There were Doric columns as seen here, and on the whole looked very similar, though there was little decoration, nor nice mosaic floors. I just looked it up and apparently, they are much looted and quarried though.

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  • @edcomedian357
    @edcomedian357 หลายเดือนก่อน

    interesting where there doors or curtains between the rooms?

  • @Chris.Davies
    @Chris.Davies หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    30fps. In 2024.
    Are you serious?
    This video would (quite literally!) be twice as good with the operation of a single switch: "1080p60".
    And it would be twice as good again, if it had that amazing feature we call "optical zoom".
    So, this video , while decent, is literally 1/4 as good as it should be. :(

  • @MichaelVayro
    @MichaelVayro หลายเดือนก่อน

    what is the covered hole in the triclenium at the bottom left at 3:28 ??

  • @axelksb5011
    @axelksb5011 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you should make the videos much longer

  • @GeneralThargor
    @GeneralThargor หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are you the told in stone guy?

  • @emilstanciu6592
    @emilstanciu6592 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Roma victor !

  • @SilurFilur
    @SilurFilur หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And nowadays being called a basement dweller is derogatory.

    • @chanaheszter168
      @chanaheszter168 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Back then no basement internet.

  • @freedomfirst5557
    @freedomfirst5557 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would feel like I was imposing....I would feel that at any instant...the owners will walk in on me and give me the evil eye.

  • @blakemeding7917
    @blakemeding7917 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Low level merchants and aristocrats from a roman backwater province, lived better than the kings of the next 1000 years.

  • @vampirotj
    @vampirotj หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why can’t we build structures that last forever anymore ? We are supposed to be more advanced but we only know how to build weak boxes of sizes

  • @cherylwood5202
    @cherylwood5202 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Who would have lived in these impressive buildings? If Roman aristocratic families, why were they here? Merchants, bankers, government officials? (I guess aristocrats would not have been merchants, actually...or??)

  • @user-nb4ex5zk3w
    @user-nb4ex5zk3w หลายเดือนก่อน

    I will never buy any product advertised on you tube. They cause irritation.

  • @DeyanWell
    @DeyanWell หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is Bulgarian, not Roman.

  • @RJRobertson-fd8xy
    @RJRobertson-fd8xy หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you are American, why are you using metrics? At least convert it into imperial for those of us do not use it. Otherwise, an interesting upload.

  • @seanmccambridge8950
    @seanmccambridge8950 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks!