The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius Pompeii DISASTER (79 A.D.)
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At the beginning of 79 AD the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, situated in Campania, on the Bay of Naples in southern Italy, were both bustling centres of human activity. Pompeii was a busy commercial centre with a population estimated to have been anywhere between 6,400 and 30,000. Herculaneum, on the other hand, was a smaller and more exclusive place, popular with the Roman elite, as is attested by the number of luxurious villas that have been discovered there. By the end of the year, both of them lay buried under metres of volcanic mud and ash, victims of one of the worst geological disasters in recorded history, an event so cataclysmic that it still horrifies almost 2000 years later: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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Lover of the Russian Queen.
How are you simple history?
Can you make a video about the Greco-italian war in WW2 or about the greeks that fought in korea?
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That’s deep man
It's very deep than the Mariana trench
@FrenchFriedPotaters red shadow maggots is a lot better
Deep under meters of volcano lmao
😅😅
Not mankind.
First time I learnt about this disaster was as a kid thanks to one of the books of the Magic Tree House series.
Really?
I learned this by watching
@@mcoyxdking4190 when it happened
Those magic tree house books introduced me to history and cemented my love for the subject
I read about a dog that retrieved a raisin loaf to bring to his young master captured in ash, etc. It was possibly based on an actual find, but I read it in the 70's so I can't vouch for details.
i didn´t even know you could turn organic matter into glass.
that´s just insane, the amount of heat that would be required.
It's a volcano...
Meanwhile Chris Pratt in JWFK: "My brains turning to glass? Nah, I have plot armor because I am the main character."
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@@Illusionyary no i played halo, i'm just talking about real life
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This cataclysmic event is very interesting, yet scary in a way. Let’s hope none of the volcanoes today don’t go off like that for a long time. Those ash mummies surprised me when I saw it in a book
The skeletons in Hercolanium were even worse, even though it is creepy seeing the ash mummies
Yellowstone’s a thing
@@milktea2364
Oh😶……Well there’s that too😅
Yellowstone: don't tempt me
There was an exhibit I went to when I was 12 in a museum in Toronto(?), and one of the things shown was a wall with height markings of ash over the course of the eruption
I was scared for about a week
To think these were real people that went through this, can't even begin to imagine the terror, the suffering, I just hope they all went instantly with no pain.
The narrator said that the heat from the pyroclastic flows killed many people instantly.
@@a_can_of_soda I know, I think they were the lucky one's. Many choked on volcanic ash inside buildings, I can't bare to think of the pain they went through.
Depends on what killed them
So do I!
@@Deruwugen Yeah, neither can I , what a way to go!
Went to Pompeii myself, you want to be careful, not because of the ruins or the ancient structures, but because you’re pretty much forced to walk through a brothel with roman hentai on the walls.
Im not sure if its ancient or current either way
Umbro momento
Or you can say
You are seeing wall of stone people with weird poses
Pretty much, the Romans were people of cultures
It's called *ART*
@@rahadhyanshakty7171 roman hentai
Lets not forget all the erotic art that was recovered from the ashes.
Also Simple history seemed to enjoy animating exploding heads a little too much.
Did their heads actually explode?
@@carronade2456
Yes but not like in the video. The skulls that were found were mostly still intact with the exception of big holes in the top of the head. Still very gruesome
@@johnprotagonist7296 damn
@@johnprotagonist7296 talking about head, I've seen some of the pictures in Pompeii a gay couple gave eachother a a head when it happens 😂😂😂😂😂
@@iggerman6116
I guess their brain wasn't the only thing gettin steamy
Eh eh oh eh oh eh eh oh eh oh
And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Grey clouds roll over the hills
Bringing darkness from above
But if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
Bastille song & movie from the title
Cringe 😬
@@TonyPajamaz ur mom jajajjajajajajjajajajajajajjajajajajajjajajajajajajjjajajjajaja
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@@TonyPajamaz tiny painis tony
@@somedudefromapharmacy sussy baka 😳
Every time I think of Pompeii I just think of the horror of the possibility of doing something sus, getting fossilized doing something stupid and get remembered as “that dude” in history
The Pompeii Masturbator is a great example
@@themadpoet2082 that guy is a legend
@@themadpoet2082 That debunked many times. The guy was holding something else. Not his junk. (You cant get hard while getting poisoned by volcanic gas.)
But I expect a disgusting bleb to do sometjing like that in that situation.
@@hannibalburgers477 I don't think you understand what "link your sources" means😂. He's asking you to post links to substantiate your claims.
@@hannibalburgers477 You underestimate the levels of kinky a human can obtain.
This was always such an interesting event in history, so I'm glad to finally see it on here!
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Only 70s AD kids will remember the destruction of Pompeii.
The Queen
The Queen
@@Lee-yo5cl George Floyd
Aye, it was horrifying
@@CBRN-115 I assume you saw it erupt personally
I’m reminded of my visit to Pompeii on a trip to Italy in 2003. It was perhaps the first site I’d been to where ancient history felt like something that was actually lived in rather than just something you read about in books.
Those exploding head animations were brutal 😅 the curation of this one was like an animated kill bill
Is this a verified comment that hasn't blown up yet i see before my eyes?
@@kikibebe6410 it’s not even that necessary
Funnily enough, TH-cam doesn’t even detect it as brutal. Meanwhile, they demonetize other videos for mentioning certain words.
@@Waddle_Dee_With_Internet You do know that i was just playing off the fact that verified people get more likes that usual?
@@kikibebe6410 depends on the algorithm
In 2016 I went to Pompeii and it was something to behold. Saw a concert there in a 2000 year old Roman stadium. David Glimour ( Pink Floyd)
The 1st public performance to be held in that amphitheater in over 2,000 years. You're absolutely lucky to witness that night.
@@MrTheBaron Yes me and my friends still cant believe we were there.
@@MrTheBaron Oooo A Beatles fan hello there
@@niggato23 You know it! Better add Star Wars too cos General Kenobi!
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Glad that this video discusses Herculaneum. The story of Pompeii frequently overshadows what happens to the other city.
Fun fact : near vesuvius more exactly 10 km away from naples theres another more dangerous volcano : supervolcano campi fregrei
Did it also erupt at some point?
@@somedudefromapharmacy yes , quite a lot . The last "eruption" in 1538 I bellive ended up creating a small mountain called Monte nuovo (new Mountain) it didn't had so much power to cause more damage .
Pompeii: **exists**
Mt Vesuvius: but if you close your eyes
*EH OH EH OH*
@@feeler6670 DOES IT ALMOST FEEL LIKE NOTHING CHANGED AT ALL
@@TypicalUkraine_ And if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
@@thealpha364 How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
@@villana5938 Oh where do we begin?
I recalled of this back in a drama class one of my friends did a play of it giving out our speeches of the event.
Pompeii was pretty lit back then, dang
Quite literally
An earthquake has destroyed every single buildings until the volcano has destroyed an entire population of Pompeii
@@501stClonePilot They partied so damn hard back then that they caused an earthquake AND volcanic eruption!
When I learned about this in high school, I became humbled to the fact that we as humans are simply mortal and are forever bound to the universe.
RIP to those who died in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Lmao
cool
@@javiercarrillo914 lmao?
@@n3493 i mean if it happens recently ok. But that was in 79 A.D.
Wtf does a TH-cam comment gonna do for them 😂😂
@@javiercarrillo914 So you feel "lmao" about millions who died in WW1 and WW2 also then?
The thing is that archeologists have found some animal remains like donkeys that were used to pull grinding stones were in their stalls, tigers that were in their cages for the circuses, and a dog that was chained up. The fact that no other animals or birds were found shows that those creatures fled the area.
The animals would've panicked before the eruption and people kept them inside and/or chained up. People didn't understand the signs of disaster about to happen.
Animals naturally have the ability to sense an incoming disaster so they immediately left weeks before the disaster unfortunately their chained brethren weren't that lucky
I remember reading a book that was based around first hand accounts and personal journals when I was very little. I have to say you brought me back to my past fascination with this disaster. Keep the videos coming !
Do you remember the name of the book? Sounds interesting, I’d like to read it someday :)
“The temperature in Herculaneum was so hot, that it caused the people’s blood to boil and their brains to explode”
*Insert Metalocalypse Brutal meme here
“That’s so metal”
**That is pretty brutal**
BRÜTÄL
I had the opportunity to visit both towns back in 1979 when my ship visited Naples. It was absolutely incredible the things that had been preserved. The villas, the kiosks with food still in the pots, amphorae with wine residue, coins, statuary, paved roads, and the list goes on. it was just like stepping back in time. We even visited the top of Vesuvius and looked down into the crater. If you can ever visit, please do, it is well worth the cost.
*Imagine the walls tumbling down in the city that you love*
Just close your eyes...
*Imagine great clouds over the hills bringing darkness from above*
Welp that's happening now in Afghanistan
@@tired_noticer88 because fally stair man does nothing to help
But if you close your eyes
The story of Pompeii was what founded my interest in history. I remember being on holiday in Spain and going to a charity shop and I found a book with a cool cover that was about Pompeii.
Can you make an episode about the IRA and the Troubles in Northern Ireland?
Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence, caused such silence
Who are we mistaken?
But you see, it's not me
It's not my family
In your head, in your head, they are fighting
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their bombs, and their guns
In your head, in your head they are crying
In your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
What's in your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie, oh
Ni síocháin gan saoirse.
@@kakashihatake1869 The Cranberries
@not #ot thrash
Would just cause fights. Better to avoid the era and move on with our lives.
The animation keeps getting better and better
The song of bastille entitled pompeii with the famous lyrics "but if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing change at all" that song is about this disaster incase some didn't know
All I know about Pompeii are these things: 1)There's a guy named Caecilius here with his wife Metella and his son Quintus
2) Their employee, Grumio, makes it through this
3) Caecilius est in horto
Also, when does a Norse God of Mischief in a suit show up?
Euge! Esne Discipulum latinum?
You, good sir, are cultured. 👍
I'm convinced u have multiple accounts
@@luiscuadras1963 lmao nah idk who this guy is I just take Latin, too
@@Atlas-si2jp in time, you'll see his name in every comment section
Horrible yet fascinating story. Some digs have uncovered evidence/'fossils' of people hugging one another just before the end.
On the other hand, it's awesome to see how this channel has grown and how the animation has become even better. Seriously love the content! Keep it up.
When I was in middle school,, my band teacher had a poster of the disaster, and his last name was Pompeii. He had these little sticker images of himself, and I jokingly told him to put one on the Pompeii part of the poster, so whenever we were leaving his classroom, we would be "Fleeing from Pompeii".
Can’t say I’ve been to many places around the world but been to Pompeii and up Mount Vesuvius and seeing steam coming from it shows that it is still very active. Well worth a visit
The Graffitis are still the best part of Pompeii xD
*🔞🔞🔞*
"There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism"
- Walter Benjamin
I visited a Pompeii exhibit a few years back.. I'll never forget it, but mostly, the haunting image of 2 bodies, one, that of a child, clinging to eachother, the larger person, presumably a mother or father, covering the small body of the child with their own, as the small body's arms also wrapped around the back of the poor soul trying to protect their child... it's absolutely horrifying, and devastatingly sad... I can hardly even imagine the horror that these people went through when witnessing this event unfold...
It’s life. Ain’t no good way to go out really.
@@areyoujelton true, but damn, there's better ways to go out than having your brain turned into glass..
@@areyoujelton although, if I was in my 90's, I'd be happy with witnessing an apocalyptic event. I mean, it's not like I want one to happen, but if it's going to, and I'm dying anyways, I'd like to see it.
I've been to Pompei and Herculaneum today, this is wonderfully accurate - the jugs, plaster castings, the ruins representation as well as the facts.
Definitely worth a visit to both (half day each is enough to get a feel) It's incredibly hot there in the summer as there is no shade!
The casts of people who died holding their children are some of the saddest things ive ever seen.
The same thing is happening in Afghanistan aswell...
@@tired_noticer88 And Palestine
It's a very eerie place. Quite an amazing place to see.
Two Roman cities: (chilling and vibing)
Vesuvius: So anyway, I started blasting...
Do you think this is funny?
@@RaidenTheRipper950 Move along Karen
@@owentrahan2188 Calling me a fucking Karen?
@@RaidenTheRipper950 well you are acting like one
I visited Pompeii with my parents and even after 62 years I remember it clearly. It was an awesome place even in ruins. And the plaster casts...those poor people. From the cast of a dog that couldn't escape one can see that they died in agony.
No matter how short a time it takes to die in a pyroclastic surge it us not entirely pain. See "Pompeii the Last Day (longer version) here at TH-cam.
it's a horse you dingus
I’ve been to Pompeii and climbed Vesuvius, seeing the bodies was a haunting experience
Mt vesuvius:*erupts
Cameraman: tis’but a scratch
Already liked for the near 15 minute length, hope you guys do more videos with this longer style
You guys are doing a smashing job. The quality of your videos continue to improve with time, as does the quality of the information within.
I have visited Pompei on April 2019, just before the pandemic. I would come there again, it is so beautiful to see that it's never too much the time spent visiting it. Even because sometimes, going ahead in the time, always something new comes out trough the discovering.
Probably the earliest time i've seen a simplehistory video! Keep up the good work!
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Pompei:exists
Mt.Vesuvius:I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move
Your City Privilege has expired
@@izakireemsi2783 i live in Naples, and that comment was pretty funny for me even if in our city this is seriously insultive but i'm gonna respect you
@@StaticYTBER oh. I'm so sorry if you might find this offensive
Great video Simple History. I had a lot of fun watching it.
The animations are getting so good! Nice work!
I've seen the casts that were made to mark the cavities where the bodies of the dead laid. The Royal Ontario Museum had an exibit that simulated the marketplace and a surround sound theater that provided what it would have sounded like at the point where the pyroclastic flow would have occured. As many times as I see documentaries that show the casts its nothing like seeing them upclose. Mothers still holding their babies, lovers holding hands, a boy holding onto his dog. Its truely haunting.
My grandfather was a WW2 Vet and told my father that while flying in a hospital plane he passed by Mt. Vesuvius as it was erupting for the last time.
Not really a fun fact:on march 17th 1944 when mt vesuvius erupted the last time some of the b25s got destroyed,their fabric broken,glazed,melted and cracked flexiglass and destroyed a base near and almost all the planes
@@saddamhussein2 I never said it was a fun fact. To me, it is an interesting fact because my grandfather was there. I never understood what being a soldier ment nor did i know what he had been through while he was alive. Only after he pased away did I learn about my grandfathers past in the war and sence he met so much to me and my family I enjoy shareing his stories and learning from them. The storys are also a good way to start conversations and to hear other people's stortes.
I had to reread this because I thought that said “he passed away on Mount Vesuvius”.
So you're telling me it got so hot in Herculaneum that peoples heads exploded and their brains turned to glass? Thats brutal.
I visited Pompeii back in 2007. It was pretty cool I didn't know about Herculaneum until few years later
To all who perished in Pompeii and in Herculaneum, requiescat in pace.
but if you close your eyes...
The Patrons of Pompeii lived like kings. Sleep in, work to noon by showing off your rich domus home, after work go to the bathhouse for a few hours, go to parties, eat dinner, and retire pretty early as well.
Yesterday I was is in Pompei. What a beautiful place! I recommend it to everyone who likes the Roman period!
It's on my Bucket List to go there...which part of your visit was the most interesting, if you don't mind me asking
@@linda10989 Well I personally like the tour with the guide.
I think it is not necessary if you are aware of the romsn history.
I specially liked the forum and the street buildings of pompei
Wasn't there also rumors that Pompeii was the Romen capitol of debauchary, and some even compared such depravity to Sodom and Gomorrah?
It's not a rumors
dunno about that, they are located in well fertilize land for farming making them successful
@@joshuajoaquin5099 well at least in their own concept of "successful"
So it shall appear
How is that alien description bof their culture helpful, useful, or accurate?
As a geologist, hearing them use the correct terms and defining them correctly had me smiling. The honga Tonga eruption of the last year is the closest thing in my lifetime I could relate to an eruption such as this. As of now they both has the same volcanic explosivity index rating as Pompeii’s explosion. The honga tonga eruption completely sank over half of the country into the ocean
Fun fact: This volcano also erupted during World War Two in 1944, and destroyed two American airfields and about 88 B-25 bombers - more than the Luftwaffe were able to get during that particular unit's entire campaign. It also took out a few local villages. No American servicemembers were killed by it. I am not sure how many, if any, Italian civilians were killed.
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A man died there doing what he loved: yanking.
While everything is going dandy Vulcanus was sleeping under the Vesuvius until a sword fell onto to his head woken up he realized it was a gladiatorial sword AKA a slave sword aka filthy slaves have been (explicit) on top on his property, exploding in anger Vulcanus made the Vesuvius erupted in a furious rage
-Dovahhatty
Great animation and commentary, very insightful 👍👍
Thanks for this amazing video!
This disaster happened so many decades ago yet it is still scary to all Geologists and Seismologists out there.
I've been waiting for another vid this channel ngl :D
The ad before this video was pretty interesting.
Ahhh that voice. Fantastic!
This is truly a sight to behold in person, especially if you knew a lot of the history. My teacher couldn’t understand why I looked so pale when I saw the bodies in the cast. I said, reading about this was one thing seeing it is another.
As always, another very interest8ng and informative episode!
Thank you Simple History. I bet the eruption would cause dramatic temperature changes around the world during that time.
"The air was so hot it instantly boiled their blood and the made their heads expolded. One mans brain even turned into glass"... Well, as if volcanoes weren't scary enough. Thanks for that 👍
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What was a horrific tragedy for Ancient Rome has become an archaeologist's wet dream.
I had to watch this in school a few days ago, didn't disappoint
About time you do stuff like this
The city of Naples sits on top of not 1 but *3* active volcanoes with one of them being classified as a Supervolcano.
Despite of it's beauty, Naples may be the last city I would decide to move to...
Dang I've always wanted to go there lol think I'll stick to Florence.
I heard a rumour about this mysterious blue box also being present...
I understood that reference
This is so awesome to learn about. Sad but history tell us many things. Cant wait to visit pompeii
This is a crazy and amazing story thanks
Can we just look closely that simple history animation is improving?
Fun fact, the people who hid in the boathouses were in such a heat that there eyes must have popped and there brains aswell.
There more you know.
One of my favorite channels
Amazing as usual
Top 4 deadliest Volcanic Eruptions in the World
1. Mt. Vesuvius (79 AD)
2. Krakatoa Volcano (1883)
3. Mt. St. Helens (1980)
4. Mt. Pinatubo (1991)
Tambora & Toba aren't on this list, and that's incorrect.
Great video! Can you do a video about the Roman Emperor's royal guards, otherwise known as the Praetorian guard.
But if you close you eyes does its almost feel like nothing change at all!!!
*I love how the animation in these videos is getting better, thanks for all of the efford you put into this.*
Simple history: *posts a video about Pompeii*
Me: ok where's loki at
One is stuck playing the impassioned protagonist in one’s Subjective Narrative of Self 🎈
My parents got to visit it once. So eerie and quiet. It's almost like they shouldn't have built a city near it again
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Could you do video on the battle of narvik in ww2 my great grandad was an engineer during that battle
This is actually dope af, you should do on how the Mayan and Incan civilization disappeared
Disease and surrounding tribes allying with the conquistadors, no?
@@edgarbanuelos6472 For the Incas yes not the Mayans who collapsed centuries before the Spanish conquests.
@@greatsageequaltoheaven8115 Thanks to droughts and social crises.
@@aleksandarvil5718 plus deforestation
This video was very interesting!
hello simple history i love ur videos and u teach me mlre then my school!