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Hi, Alberto Angela writes in his book about Pompeii that all the copies that have survived from the letter of Pliny the Young do not have the same date, then there is a possibility that a monk messed it and made an error while copying it. He also writes that as the previous eruption was more than thousand years before, there was no written knowledge of being a volcano, and the mountain didn't have the form of one. It was rounded by the erosion, full of forest and terraces for agriculture (Pompeii had good wine, but suffered the competition of wine from other places ). The mountain was much more higher than the actual Vesubio and it was arid on the top. Today there are some rests of that mountain and it is called Somma. Looking at it we can have an idea of how big was the mountain then, before the top collapsed. As the historian in the video notes, there were some records of fires on the top that were then related to giants ( gas, smoke? therefore probably to volcanos) but they do not seemed to have trascended enough to alarm anyone.
I like these videos with a great expert more than your debunking ones. Her explaining and you adding helps me to focus an the history and to learn better (just me, I don’t want to talk formally of your audience). Great vid, thanks
The lady is an excellent history communicator. She doesn't speak in an arrogant way, scolding the listener how they don't know shit and she'll be the one to "bring the wisdom" (unlike many other so-called "experts" on HH and elsewhere do). She is factual and unbiased.
Dear Metatron, no lava (most likely) as in Vesuvius' eruptions are much like the one seen at Mt St. Helens. The magma mentioned is what swells the mountain until gaseous pressure blows the mountain top off. The magma in such instances is too viscous to flow like lava... Love the channel. Yesterday was amazing. Proud to be among the thankful Noble Ones... Veni Vidi Pompei
Correct. Vesuvius is a felsic end member volcano which contains lots of volitiles (h20, co2) and explodes with violence, unlike the mafic (basalt) end members which have flowing molten rock like Hawaii or Iceland.
Yeah id have to agree. And from what I've heard of the Pompeii/Vesuvius eruption there wasn't much actual lava flow. That any magma would not have become lava and flowed like we imagine lava flowing. There would have been some, but it would have been very little, and the magma would have mostly been blasted out into the air in "chunks" with the gases and ashes. If actual lava flowed over and covered Pompeii, rather than being buried in ash and rock and everything else that was blown into the air, it would have essentially erased the city almost entirely, and it wouldn't have been preserved the way that it was.
Yeah, most geology teachers in WA where I grew up said there was no magma, just pyroclasts in the Mt. St. Helens eruption, so this could just be a description from geology.
These are some of my favorite videos of you, I love seeing you light up at seeing an expert get things right, gives you the impression not all historians are injecting their own personal modern politics in to ancient society, and i'm someone who's personal politics probably clashes with a bunch of yours. But I live by a different creed, that we can only change eachother's minds if we're friends, if we reach our hands out rather than scream and exile people for the smallest things.
The ash plume would have been discharging static electricity in the form of lightning, and the entire mountainside would have been on fire from the pyroclastic flows. There could have been plenty of glowing going on even without lava.
Let's also not forget that just by virtue of something being very hot, it will begin to glow. Above approximately 1000ºF (~550ºC) materials will begin to emit a dim red color, increasing toward orange, yellow, and white if they become hot enough. While it's eerie to think of a cloud of rock & gas glowing, they can, in fact, dimly glow.
17:20 "Why would people settle near a volcano?" People LIVE in Florida. They suffer hurricanes making landfall almost every year. Not to mention New Jersey. They have Thunderstorms, Hurricanes, Floods, Winter Storms, Wildfires, Earthquakes, and Landslides regularly... regularly as far as natural disasters go which is about once every other year. But Texas has the most natural disasters, it's just that big.
For scale, it's over 1200 km between Houston and El Paso, and there are further distances you can travel in the state. In terms of area, it's about as big as Italy and Germany. Combined.
Volcanic ash makes for incredibly rich and fertile soil, they thought the Mount was long dormant (hence Mount and not volcano Vesuvius). Pompeii was incredibly rich because of its farming and export of volcanic rocks and the like. Unfortunately its blessing was its curse as well.
The romans didn't know that it was an active volcano, now that we know is active we still live there, Naples is one of the biggest city of Italy, today almost 1 million people live just under the Vesuvio, clearly the benefits of the rich and fertile land are bigger than the risks... (It used to be smoke coming out of Vesuvio but it stopped in 1944)
Japan has been continuously occupied for an absurdly long time despite earthquakes/tsunamis and Typhoons being regular events, and vulcanism in numerous locations as well. People will live anywhere.
I live in Tokyo and was there during the 2011 Earthquake, and oh boy, that redefined my view of earthquakes! Up until then they had been a kind of fun curiosity for someone from the UK with no experience of them, as they had all been relatively low magnitudes. That one was something else and we still weren't anywhere near the epicentre. Truly a terrifying experience.
35:59 I'll be pedantic for a moment as well... I hope he meant "food & WATER"... as someone trained in survival, it grinds my gears seeing or hearing people worry about food as their first checklist in a survival preparation. WATER is what you need above all, NOT food. The average human will die in 3 days without clean water. The average human can survive 27 days before dying of starvation. My personal go bag is mostly filled with WATER, not food. I carry only small amounts of food in contrast to water. I also have a filtration straw (life straw) which enables me to drink from rivers and even partially contaminated idle water sources. You will perish without water LONG before you starve to death. Keep enough water lets you live long enough to find sources of food. 1) Water. 2) Shelter 3) Food. Those are the most important things for survival in order of importance.
@@giokun100 Not enough to sustain your daily water needs and fresh fruit and vegetables are a TERRIBLLY inefficient source of both water and calories when it comes to carrying food. You want to FORAGE fresh fruit and vegetables, NEVER pack or carry them. That weight is far better utilized carrying dehydrated fruits for carbs, dehydrated meats for protein and then packing bottled water. You will dehydrate and starve if you're filling your backpack with fruit and vegetables. You won't get enough calories and you won't get enough water. Eat fruit you find, never carry it over more efficient foods (dehydrated / dried foods plus bottled water).
@@giokun100 but not the needed ammount for survival - ie. on average a human should drink 2L per day, so how many fruits/veggies is that (unless it´s a cucumber)
@@CLeo-ku3lk 2L per day is a good amount of whater, not the "needed ammount for survival", otherwise a man need around 2000 calories per day and a can of fruit is 100 calories, but 2000 is also a good amount, not the minimum for surviving a couple of day.
I can't believe we've come this far and you still haven't reacted to History Hit with Roel Konijnendijk either his coverage of Troy or the movie 300 are both fantastic. Or even any one of the 20 or 30 videos he has on various channels at this stage. His focus is Ancient Greek History which I feel would be quite interesting to you and also to hear your opinion on.
As a londoner born in Torre del Greco and raised in Ercolano, I'm very grateful for you reacting on this video. Personally it has been a nostalgia tour, and I'd be very happy if anyone taked the initiative of visiting those places because of your video. Grazie caro Metatron!
I was born in a volcano city. My parents still there. It fumed 28 years ago and many people left. Some people were smart and bought those cheap properties.
Pyroclastic flows are one of the coolest, and deadliest, natural phenomena. Their destructive power is absolutely incredible. Looking back on history, we too frequently forget that the remains that are discovered archaeologically were real people, just like you and I. They lived, they suffered, and they died, quite often in agony--the lucky ones were vaporized or at least rendered catatonic by sudden shock before their death. The ones who tried to shelter in place and were suffocated by ash and noxious fumes...those break my heart thinking about. What would I have done in those circumstances, were I alive to witness it?
Hi Metatron, I’m so fascinated by Pompei and Ercolano! Another people that are very mysterious and preceded the romans are the Etruscans, someone from Arezzo told me that the way they worked gold can’t be reproduced today. Could you do a content about them? Thank for the interesting subjects and the care you put on your work. Buone Feste.
I think the distinction she makes about lava is that there was no lava FLOW from the eruption as in a continuous stream, but there were magma bombs as lumps of lava were thrown great distances from the erupting mountain. These would certainly be very dangerous to the roman fleet trying to rescue people on the shore.
Quite a few years ago I went to a Pompeii exhibition here in Australia that had a number of those plaster casts. I found the most poignant one to be that of a dog whose leash had been tied to a post, the leash had been stretched as high as it could go as the dog climbed the rising layers of ash and pumice until he could climb no more.
Magma: molten rock that's still underground (in her explanation, magma rising was what caused the earthquakes preceding the eruption). Lava: molten rock that's reached / is flowing freely on the surface. It's entirely possible for eruptions to not have ANY "lava", but they are ALL caused by "magma" in one way or another.
Info on 33:30 I think the history hit historian means that there was most likely barely any lava that came down the mountain to destroy pompeii itself. Vesuvius is an explosive volcano, meaning its lava is extremely viscous and unlikely to get very far before cooling down. Of course it is very possible that there was some in the city itself through projection from the mountain, but it was most likely not a flood of lava that hit the city, it was rather the nuées ardentes, dust roils at boiling temperatures that engulfed the city, some hot enough to pulverize people. Just a detail I guess
Tbf he lost his only battle against pompey when pompey had full authority over his army - Dyrrachium. He only won at Pharsalos because the senate forced Pompey to engage when he didn’t need to
@S.P.Q.Rrespublicas Both generals were the best of their time and arguably the best in Roman history but lets be fair to Caesar about Dyrrachium Pompey had Caesar outnumbered at both Dyrrachium and Pharsalus and at Dyrrachium it was a very close won battle and not a major victory for Pompey as he failed to finish off Caesar and his army and yet even with a superior supply chain and a massive advantage in numbers especially cavalry Pompey failed to destroy Ceasar and then was himself catastrophically defeated at Pharsalus.
There's no denying that Julius Caesar was a great general. He was energetic, he was good at figuring out what his opponent's goals were and what he would do next, he was great at seeing the strengths and weaknesses of his and his opponents' positions, he excelled at incrementally building on the strengths of his position while amplifying his opponents' weaknesses, and he was great at getting the men under his command to love and respect him.
We had the pleasure and privilege to walk Pompeii last November ’23 and it made us understand how our cities and towns are built pretty much around this planning. It’s a wonderful and beautiful place to tour, especially the big villas.
I had no idea it was called like that in english. In portuguese we divide the 2 types of eruptions into what would be translated literally as an explosive eruption and an effusive eruption
The lands around volcanos are quite fertile, or so i heard. I mean, they didn't know it was a volcano at the time, but then it excluded and everyone knew. And yet, people kept living in the area to the present day. Napoli is for over 2800 years one of the most populated cities in the Italian peninsula
Until what filming? I'm not being ass! , I am serious wanting to know🤘 I was in Eastern Washington State when Mt St Helens erupted in 1980 and we were absolutely covered in ass....looked midnight at noon✖️But separate from that there was her pyroclastic flow. I'm just serious interested in the first filmed pyroclastic flow filmed, if not Saint Helens
@GreatSageSunWukong I think he wanted to know if that footage is available anywhere to check out, from curiosity. I found what might be it by searching 'mt st helens pyroclastic flow' in yt.
Fun Fact: I've got my name (Glauco) after a character in the 80's "The Last Days of Pompeii" miniseries. In brazilian portuguese the city is "Pompeia" and the General is "Pompeu"
@@ce8354 Yeah, the name is of greek origin, I believe from the Pantheon (a minor water God). The name here is not popular but is common, in my case my mom fell in love with the name because of the miniseries...
@@darthmelkor2 There was a Cypriot Prime Minister who was your namesake Glaukos Kliridis-Γλαύκος Κληρίδης in Greek. Γλαύκος means light blue or light colored in general.
35:00 I am not sure if it's still cleared out, but I loved 2 hours from where the Tsunami hit. A couple of years later I got to see the area where it had hit. It was mostly cleared out and looked more like a large field with very few buildings. We saw the city building and the clock on the building was frozen in time. I was told that when that earthquake rolled through it was as if the ground was sinking and rising. The Earthquake happened while I was in South Dakota but I was to work in Japan two years later.
It's worth recognition that the ad-hoc rescue effort at Pompeii by citizen volunteers, at great peril to themselves, managed to save 80-90% of the population. They don't get enough credit for their heroism.
I really appreciate the way you make your reaction videos. You always add something of value and make sure to not include the entire video so that the viewers will actually want to watch the original
Besides being very knowledgeable, I really like how compassionate she is when speaking about the victims. You can tell she really cares not only about the history but about the actual people that were caught in it, realizes that while it was fortunate for archeology it was also a tragedy .
You must watch Andrew Wallace-Hadrill then. He is even better showman yet he also drives escavations on Hercullanum and he is ( or at least sounds to me) very competent.
14:58 like I said before, the volcano i was born under fumed 25 years ago and some people left but now the City has grown to half million from 400k. It’s hard to know when a volcano will really explode
For reference the speed of reaction to pain is about 200-400 ms. Pain is actually one of the slower nerve signals in the body. Physical response, sight, and sound signals actually travel and are processed in around half the time; sometimes a bit less. So in general unless you were completely vaporized, there would have been some moments of excruciating pain.
The romans didn't know that it was an active volcano, now that we know is active we still live there, Naples is one of the biggest city of Italy, today almost 1 million people live just under the Vesuvio, clearly the benefits of the rich and fertile land are bigger than the risks... (It used to be smoke coming out of Vesuvio but it stopped in 1944)
I'm really glad you discussed the notion of skills when it comes to comprehension and explanation. When it comes to academics or attaining skills, I've been constantly praised throughout my life. The same people would then barrage me because I was unable to teach them the same skills. It's just something that clicks and so I cannot teach you my own understanding. There are things I genuinely don't understand but can still do/use. It just makes sense and that's all that matters to me. Thus, despite my academic background, I'm well aware that I would be a bad teacher. People need to understand that having one set of skills does not mean you're automatically great at other related things
I am mesmerized by her beauty, the way she talks and how she holds herself. She is like a Celtic Goddess. Looks + brains + regal behavior do really turn people into something special. I could listen to her talk for days.
Pliny does mention the waters in the harbor receding, doubling the size of the beach, and water animals laying on the revealed ground, and seas so violent they couldn't launch boats. It's not definitive, but it does sound a bit tsunami-esque.
Speaking of Volcanoes, a Fire Mountain, I just remembered I always wondered why the Greeks called Pyramids Pyramids cuz it means Fire Mountain, or just Pointy Mountain?
I was listening to a podcast of a historian who has tried to trace people who evacuated from Pompeii. He managed to find evidence of a fish sauce making family who did get out. He said that a lot of people did evacuate, the volcano sis have minor eruption for a while before the main one.
glad i am not the only one that kept thinking she looked like her. would have made my history class so much more interesting and would have learned more in them than I did by myself.
Also for why people didn't evacuate, as far as I remember one of the wealthiest families didn't because the daughter was heavily pregnant and obviously couldn't have. But they were found with vials of poison, clearly they knew it was a death sentence
Raff, great comment on how being knowledgeable does not necessarily mean being able to teach that knowledge. This is why I hate the phrase, "Those who can't, teach". Not everyone who "can" can teach. There are many people who are very good at what they do but can't teach, and others who may not be as good but can teach anybody. A good example of this, in my opinion, is with athletes. You can have a star athlete who's a natural, but they'd make a lousy coach or teacher because their skill comes so naturally to them that they can't explain it, they just know how to do it. Whereas, on the other hand, you have someone who is not quite so gifted or is talented but had to work at it to get as good as they are would make a far better teacher or coach because they had to work at it they can better explain and pass on their knowledge.
House of the Vettii. Ah yes, the one with the Fresco of Priapus weighing himself. The entire Domus does sort of give you the impression that the Vettii were the local Phallus dealers.
I laughed out loud when you said, "Don't you mess with Pompi!" Yeah, it sounds way less intimidating when you pronounce his name as if he were some sort of Care Bear.
Metatron, ”Harbor Wave” makes perfect sense because the wave in deep water is only a few inches high and practically unnoticeable. You don’t get a devastating wave until the tsunami bottoms out in shallow water.
Yeah I watched the History Hit video a few days ago and I thought it was really good. Metatron's called them out several times when it was warranted, but History Hit _does produce_ good work.
Yeah, that's History Hit in a nutshell. A part of their stuff is great (among them everything Joel "Ditch-Guy" does). And other stuff is just absurd. That's why I don't like them, because I need to know quite a lot about a topic already before I watch them - otherwise I can't spot if it is a History Hit or a History Miss. I only watch channels where I can be quite sure that the stuff they make is good, even if I have no idea about a certain topic they talk about.
@@wedgeantilles8575 I definitely don't watch them automatically, for all the same reasons you list here. As Metatron has pointed out, they combine ideology and history a little too much for my taste. It puts me on guard. I basically proceed according to interest- if I see they've uploaded something I'm interested in, I'll watch. But only if. They put out a video about a month ago about Viking invasions in the UK. I thought it was really interesting and well made.
Curious: while studying Arts & Culture, we actually had quite an elaborate course and discussion on the influence of someone like Johann Joachim Winckelmann (German archeologist & art theorist 1717-1768) who 'researched' Herculaneum, and was probably one of the main figures responsible for early (what we'd now call) classicism, and the very idea that Greek and Roman civilization, arts and specifically their statues were this higher ideal to strive for, and had these very basic 'white and bronze' colours - even though the man never even visited Greece. Though many scholars and those interested know that this idea of the 'white columns and statues' is untrue, it's quite scary how big of an influence this idealistic view on 'the ancients' (also a concept of that time) still pervades many books, writings and movies. Was wondering what your thoughts were on this topic, and if you've perhaps already talked about it in a video? (haven't watched them all..... yet ;) )
My wife is Japanese, and she has said many times over the years that Japan is one of the most geologically and meteorlogically active places on the planet, in regards to earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes/typhoons, tropical storms, etc. She says that you pretty much just get used to nature doing its thing, and just becomes a normal fact of life that is simply accepted. Ive been there many times during typhoon season, and my mother-in-law always gets a kick out of my uneasiness during bad storms. Once you see a bad typhoon, and see how angry it makes that ocean, its pretty easy to understand how easily the fleets of Mongol invaders were wiped out.
Speaking about visiting Pompeii, one needs to know that, for many reasons, most of mosacis and artefacts found there, were moved to National Archelogicall Museum in Naples. It is a pitty that it is not possible to watch them in their original location and context. As a turist, I visited Pompeii twice. I recommand first to visit old town and fish market in Naples to grasp "the vibe" that could be some how simillar to Pompeis back on the days. Then visit Pompeii, to get general overview of the city, then visit Museum in Naples and try to imagine all artifacts in their original location, finally visit Pompeii once again. Last tip, don't go in high season due to tempreature, crowds and prices. May is perfect.
The fukushima disaster was actually preventable to some extent, as TEPCO (the company owning the powerplants) chose not to listen to a report advising to build a higher seawall, to cut costs (which would have been taller than the tsunami). Additionally, they had been falsifying maintenance and repair reports since the 1980’s. It was a lot more of a man-made disaster than a natural one due to negligence.
It was also preventable if the weather reporting were accurate. From the report I read about issues which happened, one of them was the waves reported on the news were significantly smaller than would have been an issue for the seawall. Put another way, the waves needed to be at least 3x the size of those reported to be an issue.
Yeah....no sirens for a enormous Pyroclastic Explosions. I'd assume they would've seen clear signs, just like Mt. Saint Helens, but even with Saint Helens they decided it wasn't severe enough warn people. Even though geogrpahers on site were telling them how bad it was going to be.
35:39 a tsunami warning came on my tv screen one morning. I packed some stuff and prepared to leave town, the eta came and went and i thought, “just a bloody false alarm to scare everyone”. Turns out it did hit, it raised the average swell by 3”.
When I was in Pompeii five years ago I found a small bronze coin on the ground in one of the taberna. It was very corroded and attached to a pot shard by solidified ash (Perhaps the shopkeeper kept small change in a jar?). Anyway, I gave it to one of the workers there who didn't seem to find it interesting at all.
"Was there lava?" Magma Lava. I live near Mt. St. Helens and remember its eruption in 1980. There is magma under every non-extinct volcano. The kind of eruptions they have depends on its viscosity. Hawaii has the flowy kind. We have the super sticky kind that builds huge amounts of pressure before exploding all at once. After the Big One, a magma dome began growing in the center. It sometimes got called a "lava dome" but there was no gurgling Mt. Doom stuff. It was red-hot, very solid-looking rock.
It always puzzled me when the description was a “Pine Tree”. Where I live Pine Trees are shaped like Christmas trees. Finally someone brought out a picture of an Italian Pine Tree which has a round top!
4:07 We don't pronounce Pompey that way to differentiate him from the city, we pronounce his make like that because that's how words ending in - ey are pronounced in English. Honey, chimney, Riley, etc. 11:35 One other interesting thing about Pompeii is that it has one of the largest and most prosperous Jewish populations in the western Mediterranean. 15:29 And the were eldorado people who couldn't escape. They excavated a bakery where they found two women or girls who were in a room that they couldn't have left. 33:25 My suspicion is that she just means that no lava would have survived to encounter people. It sounds like mama built up in the volcano, but when the pressure burst, most of what escaped que gasses, and any mama that left the volcano quickly cooled into carotid forms of volcanic rock, like the pumice. So it was a big gas explosion carrying a bunch of dispersed droplets of mama that cooled and hardened once they left the volcano.
25:15 - It is standard to use coins as proof that something didn't happen before a date on the coin. However, that's normally about years or even centuries, not months. Can we be sure that they didn't sometimes (or perhaps even often) start minting and distributing a coin before the event it commemorates? I would have thought the coin could have served (initially) as a prior announcement. So it seems to me that the coin is a weaker argument for a later eruption than the other findings.
25:19 what I e always wondered having visited Pompeii multiple times and hurculeum, was what did the ancient foreign traders think happened. Like they show up the next year, say a new captain or merchant leader and be like on my map there were towns here, pop-pop must be crazy.
"I just can't say Pompii" You just did. 😛 On a side note, I remember my father, born in 1935, saying that the ashes of the eruption of Vesuvius happened in 44 reached as far as where he lived, the town of Manocalzati near Avellino, and very likely even farther, and the eruption during war time wasn't even comparable to the one that erased Pompei in the first century AD. This is why the duration of the main eruption event and its after-effects due to various variables, not last the wind and the weather, aren't quite comparable.
“Who would be afraid of “Pompey” 😂😂😂 my thoughts exactly! “Pompey” sounds like a general of gummi bears or marshmallows 😂😂 Gnaeus Pompeius sounds like someone to be concerned about if his army is marching in your direction
They didn't know how bad it would get when they made the decision to leave or not. Same thing happens today with hurricanes and potential flooding. North Carolina is a perfect example. Rare unpredictable natural disasters don't play any role in peoples' decisions on where they live. 600,000 people live within a seven kilometer radius of Vesuvius today (called the Red Zone), and it is still considered and active volcano.
I had seen this before your reaction video and loved it. The thing I like most about this presentation is the empathy to people - thousands of years in the past - that died in a tragic and horrible event. A lot of contemporary society is tone-deaf to the suffering of people that may well be their actual neighbours. Or (to use another example) people that may belong to an ethnic group that are not “friends” of their own ethnic group or group they perceive as the “good/righteous guys”. I have had the immense privilege of a lot of international travel in my life. Most of it for professional reasons which, honestly, is probably the best form of travel. I got to interact with local people of many cultures as peers. I learned so much about people but the most important lesson I learned is that people are people; whereever you happen to be. There are good and bad, and everything in between but the majority of people are good people just trying to get along in life, raise their families, and be good citizens and neighbours. I really don’t think there is a set of people (however you care to define that) that is inherently good or evil. Loved your video.
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Hi, Alberto Angela writes in his book about Pompeii that all the copies that have survived from the letter of Pliny the Young do not have the same date, then there is a possibility that a monk messed it and made an error while copying it. He also writes that as the previous eruption was more than thousand years before, there was no written knowledge of being a volcano, and the mountain didn't have the form of one. It was rounded by the erosion, full of forest and terraces for agriculture (Pompeii had good wine, but suffered the competition of wine from other places ). The mountain was much more higher than the actual Vesubio and it was arid on the top. Today there are some rests of that mountain and it is called Somma. Looking at it we can have an idea of how big was the mountain then, before the top collapsed. As the historian in the video notes, there were some records of fires on the top that were then related to giants ( gas, smoke? therefore probably to volcanos) but they do not seemed to have trascended enough to alarm anyone.
Rest of the world: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus is setting forth on an epic military campaign.
British people: Pompy is out for some Rompy Stompy.
Northerners: poompeh's out fer sa roompeh stoompeh
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The great pompee has been released for some pompeeing and stompeeing
@@its_clean aye lad.
He probably was wearing some lee-vai jeans on his raut to Airek.
Damn, Nicole Kidman's kid sister sure knows her history.
As soon as she came up, I looked for this comment.
Well spotted.
Ditto.
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Weird? Weird.
"She was giving context and I was being a muppet. Let her speak, Metatron!"
I love you.
I like these videos with a great expert more than your debunking ones. Her explaining and you adding helps me to focus an the history and to learn better (just me, I don’t want to talk formally of your audience). Great vid, thanks
Hey Metatron, it's so refreshing to watch you actually enjoy a video of a history expert.
The lady is an excellent history communicator. She doesn't speak in an arrogant way, scolding the listener how they don't know shit and she'll be the one to "bring the wisdom" (unlike many other so-called "experts" on HH and elsewhere do). She is factual and unbiased.
Unlikely the owner of this page.
I like very much that you lately have brought in historians that enlightent the viewers and you. It brings so much knowledge to all of us
Dear Metatron, no lava (most likely) as in Vesuvius' eruptions are much like the one seen at Mt St. Helens. The magma mentioned is what swells the mountain until gaseous pressure blows the mountain top off. The magma in such instances is too viscous to flow like lava...
Love the channel. Yesterday was amazing. Proud to be among the thankful Noble Ones...
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Agreed. I think she meant that lava did not destroy the city.
Correct. Vesuvius is a felsic end member volcano which contains lots of volitiles (h20, co2) and explodes with violence, unlike the mafic (basalt) end members which have flowing molten rock like Hawaii or Iceland.
Yeah id have to agree. And from what I've heard of the Pompeii/Vesuvius eruption there wasn't much actual lava flow. That any magma would not have become lava and flowed like we imagine lava flowing. There would have been some, but it would have been very little, and the magma would have mostly been blasted out into the air in "chunks" with the gases and ashes. If actual lava flowed over and covered Pompeii, rather than being buried in ash and rock and everything else that was blown into the air, it would have essentially erased the city almost entirely, and it wouldn't have been preserved the way that it was.
Yeah, most geology teachers in WA where I grew up said there was no magma, just pyroclasts in the Mt. St. Helens eruption, so this could just be a description from geology.
"I came, I saw, Five."
These are some of my favorite videos of you, I love seeing you light up at seeing an expert get things right, gives you the impression not all historians are injecting their own personal modern politics in to ancient society, and i'm someone who's personal politics probably clashes with a bunch of yours.
But I live by a different creed, that we can only change eachother's minds if we're friends, if we reach our hands out rather than scream and exile people for the smallest things.
In Mexican Spanish, POMPI, the way she pronounces it, is slang for “butt cheek”😂
Buttcheek The Great! Be very afraid indeed! (he might fart!)
@@tinkerwithstuff Or dare I say; Erupt?
@@JL.T. So that is the way Pompeii went? gruesome.
@@tinkerwithstuff I think that is against the Geneva convention
In Spanish in general. Although in Spain "POMPIS" with s is more common.
I watched that video a few days ago & even said out loud to myself “I bet Metatron will react to this”. Thank you! Excellent video, as usual!
The ash plume would have been discharging static electricity in the form of lightning, and the entire mountainside would have been on fire from the pyroclastic flows. There could have been plenty of glowing going on even without lava.
Let's also not forget that just by virtue of something being very hot, it will begin to glow. Above approximately 1000ºF (~550ºC) materials will begin to emit a dim red color, increasing toward orange, yellow, and white if they become hot enough. While it's eerie to think of a cloud of rock & gas glowing, they can, in fact, dimly glow.
17:20 "Why would people settle near a volcano?"
People LIVE in Florida. They suffer hurricanes making landfall almost every year. Not to mention New Jersey. They have Thunderstorms, Hurricanes, Floods, Winter Storms, Wildfires, Earthquakes, and Landslides regularly... regularly as far as natural disasters go which is about once every other year. But Texas has the most natural disasters, it's just that big.
For scale, it's over 1200 km between Houston and El Paso, and there are further distances you can travel in the state.
In terms of area, it's about as big as Italy and Germany. Combined.
Volcanic ash makes for incredibly rich and fertile soil, they thought the Mount was long dormant (hence Mount and not volcano Vesuvius). Pompeii was incredibly rich because of its farming and export of volcanic rocks and the like. Unfortunately its blessing was its curse as well.
The romans didn't know that it was an active volcano, now that we know is active we still live there, Naples is one of the biggest city of Italy, today almost 1 million people live just under the Vesuvio, clearly the benefits of the rich and fertile land are bigger than the risks...
(It used to be smoke coming out of Vesuvio but it stopped in 1944)
Me, also living near one thaf exploded several times recently
Japan has been continuously occupied for an absurdly long time despite earthquakes/tsunamis and Typhoons being regular events, and vulcanism in numerous locations as well. People will live anywhere.
I knew when I saw this video that Metatron would have to respond to this!! Especially the fact Ms. Dunn uses the traditional BC/AD terminology.
I live in Tokyo and was there during the 2011 Earthquake, and oh boy, that redefined my view of earthquakes! Up until then they had been a kind of fun curiosity for someone from the UK with no experience of them, as they had all been relatively low magnitudes. That one was something else and we still weren't anywhere near the epicentre. Truly a terrifying experience.
35:59 I'll be pedantic for a moment as well... I hope he meant "food & WATER"... as someone trained in survival, it grinds my gears seeing or hearing people worry about food as their first checklist in a survival preparation. WATER is what you need above all, NOT food. The average human will die in 3 days without clean water. The average human can survive 27 days before dying of starvation. My personal go bag is mostly filled with WATER, not food. I carry only small amounts of food in contrast to water. I also have a filtration straw (life straw) which enables me to drink from rivers and even partially contaminated idle water sources. You will perish without water LONG before you starve to death. Keep enough water lets you live long enough to find sources of food.
1) Water.
2) Shelter
3) Food.
Those are the most important things for survival in order of importance.
Non-zero chance those shelters have access to clean water, but the point is well made.
Food contains water. Especially fruit and veggies.
@@giokun100 Not enough to sustain your daily water needs and fresh fruit and vegetables are a TERRIBLLY inefficient source of both water and calories when it comes to carrying food. You want to FORAGE fresh fruit and vegetables, NEVER pack or carry them. That weight is far better utilized carrying dehydrated fruits for carbs, dehydrated meats for protein and then packing bottled water. You will dehydrate and starve if you're filling your backpack with fruit and vegetables. You won't get enough calories and you won't get enough water. Eat fruit you find, never carry it over more efficient foods (dehydrated / dried foods plus bottled water).
@@giokun100 but not the needed ammount for survival - ie. on average a human should drink 2L per day, so how many fruits/veggies is that (unless it´s a cucumber)
@@CLeo-ku3lk 2L per day is a good amount of whater, not the "needed ammount for survival", otherwise a man need around 2000 calories per day and a can of fruit is 100 calories, but 2000 is also a good amount, not the minimum for surviving a couple of day.
One of the best things has to be very calm, poised English historians talking about something this horrific
Calm poised yes. Damnably attractive too by jove!
@@MrSphandorhot people talking about something they're knowledgeable and passionate about is the best thing
I can't believe we've come this far and you still haven't reacted to History Hit with Roel Konijnendijk either his coverage of Troy or the movie 300 are both fantastic. Or even any one of the 20 or 30 videos he has on various channels at this stage. His focus is Ancient Greek History which I feel would be quite interesting to you and also to hear your opinion on.
Metatron giggling at Pompee always gives me life.
Also, not me looking suspiciously at Mt St Helens every time I go to work…
Yes but that is his English name.
It's not St. Helens that will get us. It's Rainier. That's our Vesuvius.
As a londoner born in Torre del Greco and raised in Ercolano, I'm very grateful for you reacting on this video. Personally it has been a nostalgia tour, and I'd be very happy if anyone taked the initiative of visiting those places because of your video. Grazie caro Metatron!
'Londoner' 😂
I don’t see wtf nostalgia has to do with anything in this video.
@@SnailHatanthey literally wrote that it is “personally” nostalgic. Idk how to help you figure that out, it seems pretty obvious to me
I was born in a volcano city. My parents still there. It fumed 28 years ago and many people left. Some people were smart and bought those cheap properties.
Pyroclastic flows are one of the coolest, and deadliest, natural phenomena. Their destructive power is absolutely incredible.
Looking back on history, we too frequently forget that the remains that are discovered archaeologically were real people, just like you and I. They lived, they suffered, and they died, quite often in agony--the lucky ones were vaporized or at least rendered catatonic by sudden shock before their death.
The ones who tried to shelter in place and were suffocated by ash and noxious fumes...those break my heart thinking about. What would I have done in those circumstances, were I alive to witness it?
Hi Metatron, I’m so fascinated by Pompei and Ercolano! Another people that are very mysterious and preceded the romans are the Etruscans, someone from Arezzo told me that the way they worked gold can’t be reproduced today. Could you do a content about them? Thank for the interesting subjects and the care you put on your work.
Buone Feste.
I think the distinction she makes about lava is that there was no lava FLOW from the eruption as in a continuous stream, but there were magma bombs as lumps of lava were thrown great distances from the erupting mountain. These would certainly be very dangerous to the roman fleet trying to rescue people on the shore.
Quite a few years ago I went to a Pompeii exhibition here in Australia that had a number of those plaster casts. I found the most poignant one to be that of a dog whose leash had been tied to a post, the leash had been stretched as high as it could go as the dog climbed the rising layers of ash and pumice until he could climb no more.
You can't blame them for not being able to know about it though - after all a plinian eruption is named after the event at pompeii!
Magma: molten rock that's still underground (in her explanation, magma rising was what caused the earthquakes preceding the eruption). Lava: molten rock that's reached / is flowing freely on the surface. It's entirely possible for eruptions to not have ANY "lava", but they are ALL caused by "magma" in one way or another.
Info on 33:30 I think the history hit historian means that there was most likely barely any lava that came down the mountain to destroy pompeii itself. Vesuvius is an explosive volcano, meaning its lava is extremely viscous and unlikely to get very far before cooling down. Of course it is very possible that there was some in the city itself through projection from the mountain, but it was most likely not a flood of lava that hit the city, it was rather the nuées ardentes, dust roils at boiling temperatures that engulfed the city, some hot enough to pulverize people. Just a detail I guess
04:50
_Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus that is a general you don't want to mess with._
Except if you're Gaius Iulius Caesar, of course.
Tbf he lost his only battle against pompey when pompey had full authority over his army - Dyrrachium.
He only won at Pharsalos because the senate forced Pompey to engage when he didn’t need to
Don't even need Cesar, just grab a few Roman legionnaires paid by the Egyptian court
@S.P.Q.Rrespublicas Both generals were the best of their time and arguably the best in Roman history but lets be fair to Caesar about Dyrrachium Pompey had Caesar outnumbered at both Dyrrachium and Pharsalus and at Dyrrachium it was a very close won battle and not a major victory for Pompey as he failed to finish off Caesar and his army and yet even with a superior supply chain and a massive advantage in numbers especially cavalry Pompey failed to destroy Ceasar and then was himself catastrophically defeated at Pharsalus.
IVLIVS, FFS!
There's no denying that Julius Caesar was a great general. He was energetic, he was good at figuring out what his opponent's goals were and what he would do next, he was great at seeing the strengths and weaknesses of his and his opponents' positions, he excelled at incrementally building on the strengths of his position while amplifying his opponents' weaknesses, and he was great at getting the men under his command to love and respect him.
We all knew Metatron would react to this video. The question wasn´t if he would, but when. Men of culture, we meet once again.
Hehe
Do not tell his wife.😂
We had the pleasure and privilege to walk Pompeii last November ’23 and it made us understand how our cities and towns are built pretty much around this planning. It’s a wonderful and beautiful place to tour, especially the big villas.
1:02 not only A Plinian eruption, THE Plinian eruption. It's called Plinian because of Pliny the Younger, after all.
I had no idea it was called like that in english.
In portuguese we divide the 2 types of eruptions into what would be translated literally as an explosive eruption and an effusive eruption
@@Prata304 no Imagination the Portuguese.
The term is used in the literature to include any eruption with the characteristic "pine tree" pyroclastic cloud.
The lands around volcanos are quite fertile, or so i heard.
I mean, they didn't know it was a volcano at the time, but then it excluded and everyone knew. And yet, people kept living in the area to the present day.
Napoli is for over 2800 years one of the most populated cities in the Italian peninsula
And everyone thought the accounts were BS exaggerations until a pyroclastic flow was finally caught on film.
Mount St. Helens.
Until what filming? I'm not being ass! , I am serious wanting to know🤘
I was in Eastern Washington State when Mt St Helens erupted in 1980 and we were absolutely covered in ass....looked midnight at noon✖️But separate from that there was her pyroclastic flow. I'm just serious interested in the first filmed pyroclastic flow filmed, if not Saint Helens
@@jamesleyda365 dude up there already said it, obviously it was documented several times but they didn't really believe it until they saw it.
One man was too close to get away and recorded it as it hit him@jamesleyda365
@GreatSageSunWukong I think he wanted to know if that footage is available anywhere to check out, from curiosity.
I found what might be it by searching 'mt st helens pyroclastic flow' in yt.
Fun Fact: I've got my name (Glauco) after a character in the 80's "The Last Days of Pompeii" miniseries. In brazilian portuguese the city is "Pompeia" and the General is "Pompeu"
It s a name from the Iliad, I remember from a beautiful episode of him and diomedea exchanging gifts in the middle of battle raging around them
@@ce8354 Yeah, the name is of greek origin, I believe from the Pantheon (a minor water God). The name here is not popular but is common, in my case my mom fell in love with the name because of the miniseries...
@@darthmelkor2 There was a Cypriot Prime Minister who was your namesake Glaukos Kliridis-Γλαύκος Κληρίδης in Greek.
Γλαύκος means light blue or light colored in general.
We also say Pompeia and Pompeu in Portugal 🇵🇹
35:00 I am not sure if it's still cleared out, but I loved 2 hours from where the Tsunami hit. A couple of years later I got to see the area where it had hit. It was mostly cleared out and looked more like a large field with very few buildings. We saw the city building and the clock on the building was frozen in time.
I was told that when that earthquake rolled through it was as if the ground was sinking and rising. The Earthquake happened while I was in South Dakota but I was to work in Japan two years later.
It's worth recognition that the ad-hoc rescue effort at Pompeii by citizen volunteers, at great peril to themselves, managed to save 80-90% of the population. They don't get enough credit for their heroism.
I really appreciate the way you make your reaction videos. You always add something of value and make sure to not include the entire video so that the viewers will actually want to watch the original
Besides being very knowledgeable, I really like how compassionate she is when speaking about the victims. You can tell she really cares not only about the history but about the actual people that were caught in it, realizes that while it was fortunate for archeology it was also a tragedy .
You must watch Andrew Wallace-Hadrill then. He is even better showman yet he also drives escavations on Hercullanum and he is ( or at least sounds to me) very competent.
I am soo happy with this. Metatron satisfied and all the British quirks I like present with this YT er.
14:58 like I said before, the volcano i was born under fumed 25 years ago and some people left but now the City has grown to half million from 400k. It’s hard to know when a volcano will really explode
Where abouts do you live? I don't have any live volcanoes near me, think the closest us probably edinburgh but that's been dead for years
@@nickd9757 I no longer live there. It was in south Colombia.
Watched it this morning and was waiting for your response👍🏼
For reference the speed of reaction to pain is about 200-400 ms. Pain is actually one of the slower nerve signals in the body. Physical response, sight, and sound signals actually travel and are processed in around half the time; sometimes a bit less.
So in general unless you were completely vaporized, there would have been some moments of excruciating pain.
You can see it in their faces
The romans didn't know that it was an active volcano, now that we know is active we still live there, Naples is one of the biggest city of Italy, today almost 1 million people live just under the Vesuvio, clearly the benefits of the rich and fertile land are bigger than the risks...
(It used to be smoke coming out of Vesuvio but it stopped in 1944)
To add insult to injury, Vesuvius erupted during WWII.
I'm really glad you discussed the notion of skills when it comes to comprehension and explanation. When it comes to academics or attaining skills, I've been constantly praised throughout my life. The same people would then barrage me because I was unable to teach them the same skills. It's just something that clicks and so I cannot teach you my own understanding. There are things I genuinely don't understand but can still do/use. It just makes sense and that's all that matters to me. Thus, despite my academic background, I'm well aware that I would be a bad teacher.
People need to understand that having one set of skills does not mean you're automatically great at other related things
Just tuned in and gotta say Herculanium better get mentioned!! The forgotten town that got wiped alonside Pompei.
Yeah some people seem to forget about that city too but we are the real ones lol.
The inhabitants took the subterranean rumblings "philosophically" which in English means "stoic" or "fatalistically"
I am mesmerized by her beauty, the way she talks and how she holds herself. She is like a Celtic Goddess. Looks + brains + regal behavior do really turn people into something special. I could listen to her talk for days.
Psittacus intergalacticus inter et intra galaxias iter facit.
lmao
Down bad astronomically
Heed not these fools, brother! Let us commune with those of like-mind, and simp together! 🙌
Lol! Imperator Simpius Sitientus...
Pliny does mention the waters in the harbor receding, doubling the size of the beach, and water animals laying on the revealed ground, and seas so violent they couldn't launch boats. It's not definitive, but it does sound a bit tsunami-esque.
She pointed out the understanding is it was caused by the deformation of the sea bed around the bay rather than a precursor to a Tsunami
Speaking of Volcanoes, a Fire Mountain, I just remembered I always wondered why the Greeks called Pyramids Pyramids cuz it means Fire Mountain, or just Pointy Mountain?
I was listening to a podcast of a historian who has tried to trace people who evacuated from Pompeii. He managed to find evidence of a fish sauce making family who did get out. He said that a lot of people did evacuate, the volcano sis have minor eruption for a while before the main one.
I would have loved to have young Nicole Kidman as a history teacher. 😊
glad i am not the only one that kept thinking she looked like her. would have made my history class so much more interesting and would have learned more in them than I did by myself.
But can she make a sandwich?
Also for why people didn't evacuate, as far as I remember one of the wealthiest families didn't because the daughter was heavily pregnant and obviously couldn't have. But they were found with vials of poison, clearly they knew it was a death sentence
Raff, great comment on how being knowledgeable does not necessarily mean being able to teach that knowledge. This is why I hate the phrase, "Those who can't, teach". Not everyone who "can" can teach. There are many people who are very good at what they do but can't teach, and others who may not be as good but can teach anybody. A good example of this, in my opinion, is with athletes. You can have a star athlete who's a natural, but they'd make a lousy coach or teacher because their skill comes so naturally to them that they can't explain it, they just know how to do it. Whereas, on the other hand, you have someone who is not quite so gifted or is talented but had to work at it to get as good as they are would make a far better teacher or coach because they had to work at it they can better explain and pass on their knowledge.
There is a lovely video about the eruption and aftermath from Invicta.
0:41 very nice indeed.
More experts like that please!!! Not only extremely knowledgeable, but also very pleasing to the eye!
Military towns tend to have many more men than civil settlements, so the presence of families can be important
Don't ask a historian ask a geologist about lava. By the way, she is correct.
History crosses over with every discipline.
House of the Vettii. Ah yes, the one with the Fresco of Priapus weighing himself. The entire Domus does sort of give you the impression that the Vettii were the local Phallus dealers.
I laughed out loud when you said, "Don't you mess with Pompi!" Yeah, it sounds way less intimidating when you pronounce his name as if he were some sort of Care Bear.
Metatron, ”Harbor Wave” makes perfect sense because the wave in deep water is only a few inches high and practically unnoticeable. You don’t get a devastating wave until the tsunami bottoms out in shallow water.
Yeah I watched the History Hit video a few days ago and I thought it was really good. Metatron's called them out several times when it was warranted, but History Hit _does produce_ good work.
Yes. Dr Eleanor Janega is fantastic . I never miss her videos
Yeah, that's History Hit in a nutshell. A part of their stuff is great (among them everything Joel "Ditch-Guy" does).
And other stuff is just absurd.
That's why I don't like them, because I need to know quite a lot about a topic already before I watch them - otherwise I can't spot if it is a History Hit or a History Miss.
I only watch channels where I can be quite sure that the stuff they make is good, even if I have no idea about a certain topic they talk about.
@@wedgeantilles8575 History hits are good for random facts, rather than in depth in the weeds exploration of a topic
@@wedgeantilles8575 I definitely don't watch them automatically, for all the same reasons you list here. As Metatron has pointed out, they combine ideology and history a little too much for my taste. It puts me on guard.
I basically proceed according to interest- if I see they've uploaded something I'm interested in, I'll watch. But only if.
They put out a video about a month ago about Viking invasions in the UK. I thought it was really interesting and well made.
Curious: while studying Arts & Culture, we actually had quite an elaborate course and discussion on the influence of someone like Johann Joachim Winckelmann (German archeologist & art theorist 1717-1768) who 'researched' Herculaneum, and was probably one of the main figures responsible for early (what we'd now call) classicism, and the very idea that Greek and Roman civilization, arts and specifically their statues were this higher ideal to strive for, and had these very basic 'white and bronze' colours - even though the man never even visited Greece. Though many scholars and those interested know that this idea of the 'white columns and statues' is untrue, it's quite scary how big of an influence this idealistic view on 'the ancients' (also a concept of that time) still pervades many books, writings and movies. Was wondering what your thoughts were on this topic, and if you've perhaps already talked about it in a video? (haven't watched them all..... yet ;) )
I watched this last night and was already looking forward to seeing your reaction.
When I saw the Pompeii History Hits video I have been 'patiently' waiting foe you to do a reaction!
My wife is Japanese, and she has said many times over the years that Japan is one of the most geologically and meteorlogically active places on the planet, in regards to earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes/typhoons, tropical storms, etc. She says that you pretty much just get used to nature doing its thing, and just becomes a normal fact of life that is simply accepted. Ive been there many times during typhoon season, and my mother-in-law always gets a kick out of my uneasiness during bad storms. Once you see a bad typhoon, and see how angry it makes that ocean, its pretty easy to understand how easily the fleets of Mongol invaders were wiped out.
Speaking about visiting Pompeii, one needs to know that, for many reasons, most of mosacis and artefacts found there, were moved to National Archelogicall Museum in Naples. It is a pitty that it is not possible to watch them in their original location and context. As a turist, I visited Pompeii twice. I recommand first to visit old town and fish market in Naples to grasp "the vibe" that could be some how simillar to Pompeis back on the days.
Then visit Pompeii, to get general overview of the city, then visit Museum in Naples and try to imagine all artifacts in their original location, finally visit Pompeii once again.
Last tip, don't go in high season due to tempreature, crowds and prices. May is perfect.
I love that she says AD79 instead of 79CE!
The fukushima disaster was actually preventable to some extent, as TEPCO (the company owning the powerplants) chose not to listen to a report advising to build a higher seawall, to cut costs (which would have been taller than the tsunami). Additionally, they had been falsifying maintenance and repair reports since the 1980’s. It was a lot more of a man-made disaster than a natural one due to negligence.
It was also preventable if the weather reporting were accurate. From the report I read about issues which happened, one of them was the waves reported on the news were significantly smaller than would have been an issue for the seawall. Put another way, the waves needed to be at least 3x the size of those reported to be an issue.
So good mate. Saved.
Very respectful to someone deserving of respect.
26:41 I feel like after the first day of raining. Ash, if I wasn't already wanting to get the hell out of there I would definitely be starting to pack
I hope someone can send her a link to this video. I would love to see you two chat about it in real time.
Yeah....no sirens for a enormous Pyroclastic Explosions. I'd assume they would've seen clear signs, just like Mt. Saint Helens, but even with Saint Helens they decided it wasn't severe enough warn people. Even though geogrpahers on site were telling them how bad it was going to be.
One of my good friends got to do some archeology digging in Pompeii years ago he said it was amazing experience.
35:39 a tsunami warning came on my tv screen one morning. I packed some stuff and prepared to leave town, the eta came and went and i thought, “just a bloody false alarm to scare everyone”. Turns out it did hit, it raised the average swell by 3”.
When I was in Pompeii five years ago I found a small bronze coin on the ground in one of the taberna. It was very corroded and attached to a pot shard by solidified ash (Perhaps the shopkeeper kept small change in a jar?). Anyway, I gave it to one of the workers there who didn't seem to find it interesting at all.
Never change Metaron, love your edge
I’m loving these (and the language learning) videos!!!
Yep you don’t want to mess with Pompeii unless your name is Julius Caesar 😂
"Was there lava?" Magma Lava. I live near Mt. St. Helens and remember its eruption in 1980. There is magma under every non-extinct volcano. The kind of eruptions they have depends on its viscosity. Hawaii has the flowy kind. We have the super sticky kind that builds huge amounts of pressure before exploding all at once.
After the Big One, a magma dome began growing in the center. It sometimes got called a "lava dome" but there was no gurgling Mt. Doom stuff. It was red-hot, very solid-looking rock.
The September coin may have been deposited during excavation. There were attempts after things settled down to salvage some material from the ruins.
Maybe but she mentions some charcoal writing that would have washed away
It always puzzled me when the description was a “Pine Tree”. Where I live Pine Trees are shaped like Christmas trees. Finally someone brought out a picture of an Italian Pine Tree which has a round top!
4:07 We don't pronounce Pompey that way to differentiate him from the city, we pronounce his make like that because that's how words ending in - ey are pronounced in English. Honey, chimney, Riley, etc.
11:35 One other interesting thing about Pompeii is that it has one of the largest and most prosperous Jewish populations in the western Mediterranean.
15:29 And the were eldorado people who couldn't escape. They excavated a bakery where they found two women or girls who were in a room that they couldn't have left.
33:25 My suspicion is that she just means that no lava would have survived to encounter people. It sounds like mama built up in the volcano, but when the pressure burst, most of what escaped que gasses, and any mama that left the volcano quickly cooled into carotid forms of volcanic rock, like the pumice. So it was a big gas explosion carrying a bunch of dispersed droplets of mama that cooled and hardened once they left the volcano.
Excellent episode. I really enjoyed it. Thank you
This was fantastic, great HH content with deep dive by Metatron. Great work to all concerned.
Woohoo. One love from Scotland. 💙 🦁 🏴
I also wanna show you some love from Bainbridge OH USA, hope you are having a great weekend.
@rustycaplinger8036 I hope your Sunday is wonderful! One love! 💙
I mean, people didn't evacuate NO for Katrina. The barrier Islands in Tampa Bay for Helene.
25:15 - It is standard to use coins as proof that something didn't happen before a date on the coin. However, that's normally about years or even centuries, not months. Can we be sure that they didn't sometimes (or perhaps even often) start minting and distributing a coin before the event it commemorates? I would have thought the coin could have served (initially) as a prior announcement. So it seems to me that the coin is a weaker argument for a later eruption than the other findings.
25:19 what I e always wondered having visited Pompeii multiple times and hurculeum, was what did the ancient foreign traders think happened. Like they show up the next year, say a new captain or merchant leader and be like on my map there were towns here, pop-pop must be crazy.
"I just can't say Pompii"
You just did. 😛
On a side note, I remember my father, born in 1935, saying that the ashes of the eruption of Vesuvius happened in 44 reached as far as where he lived, the town of Manocalzati near Avellino, and very likely even farther, and the eruption during war time wasn't even comparable to the one that erased Pompei in the first century AD. This is why the duration of the main eruption event and its after-effects due to various variables, not last the wind and the weather, aren't quite comparable.
“Who would be afraid of “Pompey” 😂😂😂 my thoughts exactly! “Pompey” sounds like a general of gummi bears or marshmallows 😂😂 Gnaeus Pompeius sounds like someone to be concerned about if his army is marching in your direction
"Pompey" is an informal name for the city of Portsmouth in particular it's football team.
They didn't know how bad it would get when they made the decision to leave or not. Same thing happens today with hurricanes and potential flooding. North Carolina is a perfect example. Rare unpredictable natural disasters don't play any role in peoples' decisions on where they live. 600,000 people live within a seven kilometer radius of Vesuvius today (called the Red Zone), and it is still considered and active volcano.
Too bad you put your window over her face…
Go watch the original video if you need to see her face clearly lol
She has a pretty face, doesnt she? :)
Maybe this is a tactic to make you watch the original
Agreed. She's gorgeous.
Lol, I was thinking the same thing
I was told that my family, Serrano were the people from the hills
I had seen this before your reaction video and loved it.
The thing I like most about this presentation is the empathy to people - thousands of years in the past - that died in a tragic and horrible event.
A lot of contemporary society is tone-deaf to the suffering of people that may well be their actual neighbours. Or (to use another example) people that may belong to an ethnic group that are not “friends” of their own ethnic group or group they perceive as the “good/righteous guys”.
I have had the immense privilege of a lot of international travel in my life. Most of it for professional reasons which, honestly, is probably the best form of travel. I got to interact with local people of many cultures as peers.
I learned so much about people but the most important lesson I learned is that people are people; whereever you happen to be. There are good and bad, and everything in between but the majority of people are good people just trying to get along in life, raise their families, and be good citizens and neighbours.
I really don’t think there is a set of people (however you care to define that) that is inherently good or evil.
Loved your video.
Love the reaction video! Please move your screen so that it doesn't cover the speakers face next time please :)
Her smile is infectious, great video. The 48 min flew by