I’ve been to Pompeii several times. I’ve seen many staircases leading up to nowhere. Your reconstructions are amazing and informative. They help to visualise the city in its heyday.
Thank you much for this comment. I think the most haunting thing about any archaeological site is a staircase that now goes up to nothing. It just fires my mind! It was probably the most fun for me, researching and then recreating Pompeii's upper stories & upper apartments. I'm really glad you enjoyed that.
Your series are great. It's hard to visualize how things would have been, but your recreations provide a much more substantial way of viewing. Thank you.
Thank you for this note, I really appreciate it! I started creating these because of exactly that reason -- I found it really hard to imagine the space and how it was used.
This is fantastic. Thank you for showing how the different classes lived. Ruins do not give you any idea of how the homes really looked. Your recreation allows us to look back in time.
I'm shocked this amazing video and other videos from this channel have not reached at least 100000 views. I mean this is so cool to see life from 2 thousand years ago as it was.
Neldidellavittoria Thank you for the subscription! I am excited to do more. The game software is being updated, and then I will have some work to update my own objects & pieces. Once that’s all done I hope to get a lot more content out.
This is the first time I've ever heard someone talking about the life of normal people in pompeii. I didnt even know about the upstairs apartments. Thanks.
@@binabina4445 I wanted to make so many more of these! Sadly 5 years ago the developers updated the whole game, broke most of my mods, then released & abandoned it. So I wasn't able to do anymore. A real shame, even today there's still no software that can do what Medieval Engineers was getting close to being able to do.
Pompeii is such a fascinating place, as well as Herculaneum. This reconstruction with narration is so interesting! I'll recall it during my next visit. Thanks!
The residential/commercial upper levels of Pompeii were certainly all mostly wood. These upper stories of buildings were great in number. It is indeed sad we can not see them in deeper reality through current archaeological methods. I do believe this depiction/description here on TH-cam has much merit to it and opens the imagination to the curious. I am not 100% certain but I think the site at Herculaneum retained more wooden content and thus its artifacts and papyrus were greater in number? This TH-cam Video is a wonderful depiction into what may have been. It stirs the imagination and reinforces scientific facts. Bravo!
Great job on the reconstruction. I'm glad you left out certain details that where also a major part of Pompeii. They lived like Sodom and Gomorrah in the biblical days as well documented in a couple of ancient history documentaries. There was a certain symbolic symbol, too many brothels and statues everywhere! What happened to Pompeii echoes what happened to Sodom ad Gomorrah.
I read recently that it snows in Sicily. I am wondering how cold the temperature in Pompeii would get. If it snowed in Pompeii, I wonder how they warmed their homes or their bodies? The bakeries and taverns probably didn't have anything to worry about. Also, in the summer, I wonder how hot those apartments and homes would get and how people were able to retreat from the heat?
Will Mike it snows in Sicily because of the altitude. Pompei’s climate is quite warm. However, cold climates were not alien to Roman civilisation. In more temperate climates like Hispania, Further Gaul, Germania, and Britannia hypocaust flooring was employed for home heating, just as it was used for the tepidarium in bath houses on the Italian peninsula. Romans also knew how to put on warm clothes, which should hardly come as a surprise.
Slaves in Roman society were not always sentenced to eternal suffering as we are expected to believe as per the American experience. Slaves could buy their way out, and quite often became successful in their own right. Many remained clients of their former masters, even taking their former master's names to show their gratitude. Many were liberated by their masters as a gift for good service, or when they got older. Slaves went to the baths, and had designated seats in the Colosseum and theaters. A standard plot of Roman theater was the smart slave who wins freedom from a stupid master. Being a slave was quite often just stage in life, how foreign people from around the empire learned the language and culture of Rome and thus became Roman.
The big difference in Roman slavery is that it was not particularly race-based. Otherwise it resembles slavery through much of history. There were skilled slaves who had a craft or trade, and unskilled ones who did manual labor. They had no identity of their own, but lived and died at the whim of their owner, who had almost total control over their lives. All children born to slave women were slaves themselves, even if the woman had been raped by the owner father. Slaves had (originally) no rights. By the time of Pompeii's end they had the right to be set free if they had been abandoned by their master, and it was attempted not to break up families through sale. Masters who murdered slaves weren't considered guilty of murdering a human until the mid-2nd century. Artefacts found from later (4th C) show that even that late, slaves were still chattel -- one iron collar had been riveted around a slave's neck with a tag reading "I have run away; hold me. When you have brought me back to my master Zoninus, you will receive a gold coin." Another, on a 4th C slave woman in North Africa, was found still wrapped around the neck of her skeleton; it read "I am a slutty prostitute; retain me; I have fled Bulla Regia." So I agree the evidence is good that some slaves could be treated reasonably well, and could buy or earn their freedom. (There's a great huge stone inscription at Herculaneum that shows this.) But I think it was still the luck of the draw, and could easily have been a horrific & hopeless existence.
I'm so thankful I live in the time I live in today.. I think of the bathrooms in the kitchen next to food.I think of no real fresh running water.Except for the wealthy disease, Sickness must have been very prevalent.. And the smell oh my gosh
Acid Cosmos Great question! Most of Pompeii’s graffiti was political ads. Literally “Vote for [Candidate].” Sometimes they were anonymous, other times the owner of the building would add their name, like “I, Publius, ask you to vote for so-and-so.” There was other more typical graffiti too, things literally like “For a good time see Velma” or “Sextus got drunk here.” People were still people :)
@@acidcosmos2001 You should google Roman Graffiti, you will find some very funny ones. My favorite from pompeii is: Atimetus got me pregnant. Or maybe: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity! Or last one: The finances officer of the emperor Nero says this food is poison. It`s great to see they were just people, like we are today. And it makes you feel better knowing that meme culture and all is ancient, and the current generation is not at all different or special... :DD
Would be terrific to see that. I don't have a lot of familiarity with Asian histories or architectures, but I'm hoping someone who knows it well will use the technology in this game/software to do something like that.
Excellent work! One small nit-pick though. Is there evidence for large wooden barrels from Pompeii (or more likely Herculaneum)? I have the impression that the Romans didn't use them until the 2nd or 3rd centuries having learned their construction and use from the Gauls or Germans.
Thank you much! I know they have found large barrel staves at Vindolanda up by Hadrian's Wall, dating to right about AD 100. But your bigger point is definitely valid -- there is certainly some anachronism going on. The building assets are a mixture of original in-game materials (made for a Medieval setting of 12th-13th C), plus a number of "generic" Roman items that I have been making over the past year, plus a couple Roman items that are definitely out of place. The black mugs and bowls are "Black Burnished" ware made in Dorset for Roman Britain, and there's even a bust of Caracalla that shows up in the video. He's there about 140 years too early. :)
I’ve been to Pompeii several times. I’ve seen many staircases leading up to nowhere. Your reconstructions are amazing and informative. They help to visualise the city in its heyday.
Thank you much for this comment. I think the most haunting thing about any archaeological site is a staircase that now goes up to nothing. It just fires my mind! It was probably the most fun for me, researching and then recreating Pompeii's upper stories & upper apartments. I'm really glad you enjoyed that.
Agreed. It’s a beautiful recreation and narration.
Your series are great. It's hard to visualize how things would have been, but your recreations provide a much more substantial way of viewing. Thank you.
Thank you for this note, I really appreciate it! I started creating these because of exactly that reason -- I found it really hard to imagine the space and how it was used.
This is fantastic. Thank you for showing how the different classes lived. Ruins do not give you any idea of how the homes really looked. Your recreation allows us to look back in time.
You absolutely took me back in time! I had the sensation that I was in the houses myself! Incredible work
Atâta eleganță stil și rafinament la o civilizație de acum două mii de ani!Romanii au fost cea mai avansată civilizație din istoria omenirii.
I'm shocked this amazing video and other videos from this channel have not reached at least 100000 views. I mean this is so cool to see life from 2 thousand years ago as it was.
I find these roman style homes really cosy. Why can't they build them like this now? Classy and comforting
I agree. If I ever build my own home it's going to be a roman style villa.
These recreations are pretty cool. Please keep them coming. I'm looking forward to seeing more stuff like this. I'm subscribing.
Neldidellavittoria Thank you for the subscription! I am excited to do more. The game software is being updated, and then I will have some work to update my own objects & pieces. Once that’s all done I hope to get a lot more content out.
STORI3D PAST Productions Please keep up the good work. ;) Saludos!
This is the first time I've ever heard someone talking about the life of normal people in pompeii. I didnt even know about the upstairs apartments. Thanks.
Your comment made my day, thanks for it! These videos were a lot of fun to do.
@@Stori3d_Past keep it up! I've watched all your Roman videos. I would love to see one about villa san marcos and the other villas in stabiae.
@@binabina4445 I wanted to make so many more of these! Sadly 5 years ago the developers updated the whole game, broke most of my mods, then released & abandoned it. So I wasn't able to do anymore. A real shame, even today there's still no software that can do what Medieval Engineers was getting close to being able to do.
@@Stori3d_Past oh man what a loss. Maybe you need to take up game design yourself lol
Such a cool city!
Era una muy bella ciudad, se ve que era relajante vivir ahí!
Terrific video. Thanks!
Pompeii is such a fascinating place, as well as Herculaneum. This reconstruction with narration is so interesting! I'll recall it during my next visit. Thanks!
Thank you much for this note, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Well done - thank you!
enjoyable to watch a little history , would love to see ancient Egypt or Persia
Fascinating giving dimension and life to the city, thanks so much. J
That really was awesome showing homes and typical layout of everything I love it really do I know alot on Pompeii and Herculaneum and thier residents
Keep up the good work
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed.
The residential/commercial upper levels of Pompeii were certainly all mostly wood. These upper stories of buildings were great in number. It is indeed sad we can not see them in deeper reality through current archaeological methods. I do believe this depiction/description here on TH-cam has much merit to it and opens the imagination to the curious. I am not 100% certain but I think the site at Herculaneum retained more wooden content and thus its artifacts and papyrus were greater in number? This TH-cam Video is a wonderful depiction into what may have been. It stirs the imagination and reinforces scientific facts. Bravo!
Thanks for adding skin to the bones of Pompeii. Well done. Friends and I toured the site in '74. Subscribing.
Great job on the reconstruction. I'm glad you left out certain details that where also a major part of Pompeii. They lived like Sodom and Gomorrah in the biblical days as well documented in a couple of ancient history documentaries. There was a certain symbolic symbol, too many brothels and statues everywhere! What happened to Pompeii echoes what happened to Sodom ad Gomorrah.
This is a great channel
Thank you for your amazing videos. I am waiting for 3 D reconstruction of Ostia Antica
I enjoyed a look at the classy minimalist tiny house ... still keeps up appearances, but thriftily. :)
Amazing job
Very Good from Brazil
I read recently that it snows in Sicily. I am wondering how cold the temperature in Pompeii would get. If it snowed in Pompeii, I wonder how they warmed their homes or their bodies? The bakeries and taverns probably didn't have anything to worry about. Also, in the summer, I wonder how hot those apartments and homes would get and how people were able to retreat from the heat?
Will Mike it snows in Sicily because of the altitude. Pompei’s climate is quite warm. However, cold climates were not alien to Roman civilisation. In more temperate climates like Hispania, Further Gaul, Germania, and Britannia hypocaust flooring was employed for home heating, just as it was used for the tepidarium in bath houses on the Italian peninsula. Romans also knew how to put on warm clothes, which should hardly come as a surprise.
Bellissimo!
Slaves in Roman society were not always sentenced to eternal suffering as we are expected to believe as per the American experience. Slaves could buy their way out, and quite often became successful in their own right. Many remained clients of their former masters, even taking their former master's names to show their gratitude. Many were liberated by their masters as a gift for good service, or when they got older. Slaves went to the baths, and had designated seats in the Colosseum and theaters. A standard plot of Roman theater was the smart slave who wins freedom from a stupid master. Being a slave was quite often just stage in life, how foreign people from around the empire learned the language and culture of Rome and thus became Roman.
The big difference in Roman slavery is that it was not particularly race-based. Otherwise it resembles slavery through much of history. There were skilled slaves who had a craft or trade, and unskilled ones who did manual labor. They had no identity of their own, but lived and died at the whim of their owner, who had almost total control over their lives. All children born to slave women were slaves themselves, even if the woman had been raped by the owner father. Slaves had (originally) no rights. By the time of Pompeii's end they had the right to be set free if they had been abandoned by their master, and it was attempted not to break up families through sale. Masters who murdered slaves weren't considered guilty of murdering a human until the mid-2nd century. Artefacts found from later (4th C) show that even that late, slaves were still chattel -- one iron collar had been riveted around a slave's neck with a tag reading "I have run away; hold me. When you have brought me back to my master Zoninus, you will receive a gold coin." Another, on a 4th C slave woman in North Africa, was found still wrapped around the neck of her skeleton; it read "I am a slutty prostitute; retain me; I have fled Bulla Regia." So I agree the evidence is good that some slaves could be treated reasonably well, and could buy or earn their freedom. (There's a great huge stone inscription at Herculaneum that shows this.) But I think it was still the luck of the draw, and could easily have been a horrific & hopeless existence.
I just want to say that I miss your videos
Playing Home by Ed Sharpe in the background - nice touch
the house at nr 10 seems way more cosy...probably also inhabited by cosy people...
I just noticed the first pizza oven! 💕🍕
i have to watch this video for online learning in my Latin class
I hope it was helpful! It makes me happy that this is being used in classrooms.
I'm so thankful I live in the time I live in today.. I think of the bathrooms in the kitchen next to food.I think of no real fresh running water.Except for the wealthy disease, Sickness must have been very prevalent.. And the smell oh my gosh
Okay, I gotta ask. What's the writing on the outside walls? Is it the family name of whoever lives there or owns the shop?
Acid Cosmos Great question! Most of Pompeii’s graffiti was political ads. Literally “Vote for [Candidate].” Sometimes they were anonymous, other times the owner of the building would add their name, like “I, Publius, ask you to vote for so-and-so.” There was other more typical graffiti too, things literally like “For a good time see Velma” or “Sextus got drunk here.” People were still people :)
@@Stori3d_Past That's not at all what I was expecting! Was this a common thing in Roman cities? Or just Pompeii?
@@acidcosmos2001 You should google Roman Graffiti, you will find some very funny ones. My favorite from pompeii is: Atimetus got me pregnant.
Or maybe: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
Or last one: The finances officer of the emperor Nero says this food is poison.
It`s great to see they were just people, like we are today. And it makes you feel better knowing that meme culture and all is ancient, and the current generation is not at all different or special... :DD
The beds are raised up from the floor, like the ones in the sauna nowadays.
Serious pun potential was missed here in the title. You should have gone with There's no place like *Rome* xD
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Your videos are awesome. Be cool to see some Japanese or Asian videos of these time periods.
Would be terrific to see that. I don't have a lot of familiarity with Asian histories or architectures, but I'm hoping someone who knows it well will use the technology in this game/software to do something like that.
Excellent work! One small nit-pick though. Is there evidence for large wooden barrels from Pompeii (or more likely Herculaneum)? I have the impression that the Romans didn't use them until the 2nd or 3rd centuries having learned their construction and use from the Gauls or Germans.
Thank you much! I know they have found large barrel staves at Vindolanda up by Hadrian's Wall, dating to right about AD 100. But your bigger point is definitely valid -- there is certainly some anachronism going on. The building assets are a mixture of original in-game materials (made for a Medieval setting of 12th-13th C), plus a number of "generic" Roman items that I have been making over the past year, plus a couple Roman items that are definitely out of place. The black mugs and bowls are "Black Burnished" ware made in Dorset for Roman Britain, and there's even a bust of Caracalla that shows up in the video. He's there about 140 years too early. :)
I figured that was probably the case. And totally missed Caracalla :-)
Are you mr Johnson that worked for the airlines in PHL
No, I’m sorry, not me.
The crazy thing is people STILL LIVE THERE. I hope history does NOT repeat itself in this situation.
Five stones opposite adreason
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"Keeping up with the Jones's" went on even then.
Lets see the reconstruction of the Brothals! Lol
Great work move slower like Schwarzenegger said do it doucemant