Mount Vesuvius Eruption (79 AD): The First 24 hrs - Survival and Rescue DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- Witness the first day of the Aftermath of the Vesuvius eruption! Go to my sponsor aura.com/Invicta to get a 14-day free trial and see if your personal information has been leaked online.
In this history documentary we bring the Aftermath of Vesuvius to life be recreating the first 24 hrs of the infamous 79 AD eruption and the ensuing Pompeii Disaster.
We begin by exploring what the ancient Romans knew about Volcanoes. It turns out that they were quite familiar with them, especially with the nearby active volcano of Etna in Sicily. As such they developed many explanations for their causes ranging from the religious to the scientific. With regards to Vesuvius itself, the Romans did in fact have records of it having erupted in the distant past but in more recent times it was believed to be dormant.
We then explore the region immediately around the volcano before following the unfolding events when it erupted on one afternoon in late 79 AD. Our story follows the reactions of those in the immediate vicinity, their escape, and the daring rescue efforts which ensued. This is the first 24 hours of the Vesuvius eruption. We will follow up the episode with the events of the following day and conclude the series by looking at its later re-discovery with the Pompeii Ruins and Herculaneum Ruins.
The Mount Vesuvius eruption stands as one of the worst ancient natural disasters of Roman history and is among the top 10 most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in terms of casualties.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:18 Ancient Views of Volcanos
06:09 Ancient Explanation of Volcanos
08:44 Lead up to the Eruption
10:27 Eruption
12:12 Escape
13:56 Rescue
17:50 Doom of Pliny
Works Cited:
"The Eruption of Vesuvius in A. D. 79: Reconstruction from Historical and Volcanological Evidence" by Sigurðsson, Haraldur; Cashdollar, Stanford; Sparks, R. Stephen J.
"Letter LXV. To Tacitus" by Pliny the Younger
"Letter LXVI. To Tacitus" by Pliny the Younger
"Aetna" by Anonymous
"The Complete Pompeii" by Joanne Berry
Credits:
Research = Chris Das Neves
Script = Chris Das Neves
Narration = Invicta
Artwork = Penta Limited
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Looking forward to your next video! You should put a patreon link into the description tho.
I really like the art style for the imagery of this ancient accounting of one of the most tragic events of the roman world. Also, is there ANY remote chance you would continue "Evolution of the Roman Legions" documentary? It has been 7 years & even now ppl are asking if it will continue or at least why it stopped?
This was cool, I appreciate the effort and the video.
Now this is a great damn topic
I can certainly appreciate the point of your video. Can't wait for a part 2 one day.
Everybody asks how Pompeii got destroyed.
Nobody asks about Herculaneum.
They were vaporized by the plasmatic flow of the volcano, so there are no human remains, except in the port. is the new theory about it
Archeologists: "While excavating Herculaneum, we found a lot of exploded skeletons..."
The Public: "OK that's quite enough, we're out of here."
@@yesterdaysrose5446 it's a theory and it's logical because they were closer to volcano, so they didn't have time to escape, excetp the ones who were at the port close the sea, thtat's how they explained why they found human remains at the port but not at the city, like at POmpeii
Pretty much the same way
I hear you, even though Herculaneum is far better preserved
Aside from all the suffering, there is a fact that always makes emotional for some reasons.
The city walls actually stopped the first pyroclastic flow. Those stone walls filled their duty one last time before being submerged by the following flows and buried for eternity.
I think humans have a soft spot for standing against inevitable forces, as part of our ability to go on day to day in defiance of the various other inevitabilities like the ravages of time and death.
Roman walls :)
Yeah wow that actually made me well up
@@westrim It's probably ingrained in our DNA. That particular quality of being able to self-sacrifice helped us survive and thrive throughout the millennia. That mythical individual(s) being left behind to stand and stop an incoming threat, so the rest of the group has a chance to escape, shaped a section of our values and defined what we consider ''heroic''.
Most will feel sorry for the slaves, not for the Romans.
Only 100s kids can remember those good old feisty times
You know the date of Volcano day?
Right! It's getting so hard to find a good garum these days. . .
Before, we held real wax tablets ~ none of these fake apple things...
Ah times when posca was real posca, not the watered down shit today's kids drink these days...
Yoooo mista White
When I went to Pompeii, I found it to be both amazing and depressing to witness. It almost seems unreal that what you are seeing are actually preserved individuals. I also recall a story about a little boy in Herculaneum dying with his arms around his dog. It just goes to show that people are the same all throughout the world and throughout history.
Everything except the bones are just 19th and 20th century casts of the void that remained when the bodies under the ash decayed
Pliny the Elder died a heroic death. I hope the rescue fleet managed to evacuate at least some of the survivors.
My house is about 5 km from the crater of Mount Vesuvius and 5 km from Pompeii. The story of Pompeii really fascinates and scares me simoultaneusly, but despite everything I'm glad I live in this area
Super cool. Everyone should be proud and interested in their homeland
I really recommend the 2003 BBC docu film on the eruption of Vesuvius, called "Pompeii: the Last Day". It was quite heartbreaking how the characters, despite the great confusion they are experiencing by the events, try to survive the disaster, only to stoically accept their end once they realize there is no escape possible. The most tragic thing is that, as soon as a character dies, we see their real-life remains preserved in ashes thousand of years later
Love this docu movie. Sent it to my hubby and mom to watch, as it is so good. Idk if they watched it, but I had to pass along. I listen to it & other documentaries while I sleep.
the fact that they found Pliny the elder later and we know this first hand story about his daring rescue op proves that there were survivors of Pliny's expedition and later rescue operation. I hope his friend and his friend's family lived fulfilling life after the eruption.
also they were mostly nameless and disappear from the historical records I can't help but to pity them and empathize with their fear and grief.
Just imagining what the inhabitants of Pompeii went through gives me chills.
They were charred tho
That’s a whole lot of Ukraine you got there.
@@Devin7Eleven ...would be a shame when we use your own corruption against you. Hehe
@ralphrogerflora6895 ukraine corrupt! Oh color me shocked! Lol.
This was quite humanizing of an event that often gets glossed over as "volcano erupted, people died." Can't imagine how terrifying it must have been to quite frankly from their point of view see the world end.
Let the gods bless Pliny the Elder for he was a hero!
That's why, although I want to finally visit Pompeii and see Naples before I die ;), I couldn't live there.... looking at the smoking Vesuvius every day!
Wow so that's how pliny the elder died I never knew how he died.
me neither, pretty crazy to think he dove into the final moments of that first day
@@InvictaHistory He died in a blaze of glory!
Imagine thinking the volcano you live near is just a harmless mountain only to find out that those frequent earthquakes were the prelude to a massive eruption.
Living next to a volcano is a gamble. It could never erupt during your lifetime or the next day
Titus: "Now that I am the Emperor, I guarantee Rome will have with me an unprecendented golden a..."
Messenger: "Excuse me, Caesar, but I bring you some news about Pompeii pretty...curious...By the way, a great fire and disease are destroying Rome right now..."
Titus: 😢
That's crazy! Just returned from Rome yesterday. I visited Pompeii, and standing in the forum you can imagine seeing the plumes of smoke rising from Vesuvius with the ground shaking around you.
Bet it was petrifying!
Your pun rocks!
I'd like to point out that when I visited Mount Vesuvius last year, a geologist-guide told us that the current double peaked look is exactly due to the eruption that destroyed Pompeii, before that it was a single peaked mountain with a considerable height (about double or more the current one).
Then the explosion blew up the mountain and reduced it roughly to its current look. (The caldera collapsed, removing the old summit and leaving two smaller summits to the crater's sides)
Please Invicta, look up the old images and correct the representation in the video as I think it might be misleading.
I was about to say the same, learnt it a month ago while visiting the area around Napoli
The Vesuvius itself grew inside the caldera left by a much larger strato volcano, mount Somma, that collapsed after a huge eruption around 18000 years ago.
For how courageous and brave he was, Pliny failed the first rule of rescue.
Never make two victims of one. If rescue is impossible, don't try it. Still, it was admirable that he tried to upheld his duty.
Vesuvius: *erupts*
The son of the Vigile in Pompeii: "Ha ha ego sum in periculo"
This was an absolutely riveting video. Great detail particularly about the recounts of those impacted.
Your channel is always the best out there in this regard.
Thank you Invicta.
Pliny, who had been appointed PRAEFECTUS CLASSIS
in the Roman navy by Vespasian, was stationed with the fleet at Misenum at the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius!
I actually went to Pompeii in august last year on a cruise - it was stunning. Mount Vesuvius looked amazing and I genuinely didn’t think I was there. It really is amazing to see all of these bodies preserved from nearly 2000 years ago (I was actually scared when we were there the volcano would blow 😂😭)
Great work i love ancient disasters.
Great video . Can't wait for the next one ❤
Great video!
Thank you for the video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
These are my favorite - the everyday life ones- So unique and absolutely one of the most illuminating!
Thank you for this video
Great, video. Now I cant wait to revisit Pompeii again!
Matt Damon: "Four simple words that have been whispered since the time of the Romans. Fortune favors the brave"
So it was from Pliny the Elder where Damon got that quote, when he made his crypto pitch.
Great video. Very entertaining & informative
Excellent production. I'll be seeing it in person this summer. Can't wait! Hope it doesn't decide to erupt!
great video
Why is this video of yours not getting any views?? It’s amazing! UA-cam is really screwing you over
Thank you for this documentary. I have heard numerous times that they most likely didn’t know what was going on. And, that not everyone knew what a volcano even was- I questioned that theory, due to conflicting accounts. At least you clarified it finally here ❤
Ah yes, it was also at Pompeii where the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) rescued Peter Capaldi, who would later go on to become the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who.
Gotta admit, Pliny the Elder was quite brave, maybe not that wise, but brave nonet
Gotta give the younger some lesson to learn
Hwell, this is a new-ish sensation for me. Getting to see something just as it is released. Here's hoping it's a blast.
This account of Pliny the Elder is just one of many. If you look at wiki , there are more various versions of how he died .
Always crazy to hear this story, no matter how many times.
Pliny the Elder had honor, wish we could have a president like Pliny the Elder !
Great video on a terrible disaster.
Pliny The Elder living the "Everything Is Fine" meme
❤ love channel. If i could make a suggestion: invest in some sound baffling or record under a blanket.
I have been lucky enough to visit both sites. Pompei and Herculaneum, do not go through a tour agency you will get much more from your day and have a better experience and save a load of money in the process. The trains are good from napoli centrale/ Garibaldi-🏴🇬🇧
I am at the moment planning a trip to Pompeii next year.... I really hope to get there myself to see what history uncovered for us :)
Nevertheless.... as always...an amazing video :D
Good timing since the World War II channel just got done with a full 24 hours of content about D Day.
Here's something I just discoverd and am sharing around to the history buffs I know:
Around the 17min mark of Dragon Ball Episode 44 (not Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball) the characters are hanging out at a sculpture garden and in that sculpture garden is a pink replica of the "Serpent Column" !!O_O!!
Rip guy who didn't even get to finish his flap before death
nice
Thank you for humanizing history...
Beyond numbers, characters of history were people🥲
This is what school teachers should do...
Volcano erupts are fantastic so everyone watches first runs second.
Can you please do a video on persan and later sassanet navil ships and conflict,
And mabey something on there army too
As this was being posted today. I actually went to Pompeii for the first time. So much phalic art to showcase the wares of the city.
They weren't as hypersexualized as we are today. Back then it was possible to have phallic art without everybody immediately thinking of "SEX! SEX! SEX!"
Every time this guy hires the British dude to do the voiceover the quality of these videos jumps up %1000 nothing personal to the creator he does a good job too. These are still really cool too though.
Should have more views
I loved the way the eruption was depicted at the end of the Anthony Burguess' novelnovel "The Kingdom of the Wicked", which recounts the beginnings of Christianity after the death of Jesus. In the last chapters, a decrepit Saint Matthias is the only remaining living apostle of Jesus, who takes refuge in Pompeii with his family to spread the word of God throughout the area. To his bad luck, Domitian, the immature and sociopathic son of the Emperor Vespasian, is also sent to Pompeii to be disciplined, so the young man decides to pay his frustrations with the Christians. After discovering the identity of Matthias, Domitian arrests and executes him for his ideas, thus ending the story of the 12 apostles of Christ. As soon as the last disciple died, Vesuvius explodes and horribly killes all the inhabitants of Pompeii, the future Emperor Domitian being the only one who managed to escape, thus ending the novel in a very miserable and nihilistic tone
The last apostle was John, who was boiled alive but survived and eventually died of old age
F for the poor guy who was immortalized clutching his crotch.
Poor guy?! The dude is a legend!
I think it's important to note that it is more likely he died in a different position and the heat caused it to move that position. It is very unlikely he died giving one last stroke before the end.
wow, such a delicate topic. thanks
First time ive seen your face, you look like the son of ToldInStone hahaha, i think its appropiate. Good video
There is a manga about Pliny the Elder, its fantastic for those who love history! The name is PLINIUS or Plinivs
"Quite literally frozen in time"
The exact opposite, actually.
Pliny the Elder: This is fine ☕
79 AD: Ahhhh!
Fortune did not favor the Bold.
Classical disaster-prepping? Okay, I'll bite.
R.I.P. to the people
The Romans may have attributed Etna erupting to Vulcan, but the Greeks had a far more profound myth to explain why that volcano was constantly erupting…
Typhon, born of Gaia, was a vicious and cruel monster, who vowed to free the Titans and to take down the Gods themselves; he challenged Zeus for rulership over the Cosmos! Even though he nearly succeeded, ultimately, Zeus emerged victorious. Typhon was defeated and imprisoned underneath Mount Etna, where he is said to remain to this day.
🎉
Tossing in a Unit vote on MACV-SOG
They're more like us than different.
Pliny the Younger told TACITUS, not Plutarch
What are the odds that the Pliny the elder story is a puff piece?
Sounds like a horror movie
Rome should've declared war on Vulcan.
Didn't empedocles of Akragas throw himself into mount etna to prove he was a god? Perhaps vesuvius needed a similar human sacrifice...
Tacitus not Plutarch!
For the algorithm
“Oh no he’s hot”
Loki and Mobius escaped the carnage. I saw it on a documentary about Loki....
Jon Snow did not
Damn... i was the 999th like! Love being the one that turns the stile!
Next time, Loser... next time.
I tell you the eruption of mount Vesuvius was pretty explosive. It must have blown a lot of peoples minds. The situation definitely got pretty heated didn’t it? It was pretty lit though if you ask me 🔥
Blood for the algorithm god
Roman Lover
Can you make it so that notifications are for new uploaded videos, not shorts? I don't watch shorts and it's becoming more and more aggravating that I get notifications for this channel but there are no new uploads, just another short. I really like you guys but I have to unsubscribe if shorts are going to be treated like regular uploads leading to repeated disappointment when I check a notification. I'll just look you guys up and check on you whenever I think about it and see if you have new uploads, I'm not clicking on anymore pointless notifications. I'm still a fan,, just not a subscribed one. Take care!
Thanks to crypto, "Fortune favors the bold" is forever tainted.
People of Pompeii were Black!
Fake news
😐You should create a vedio on Hindu mythology (Mahavarat) & (war of kurukhetra). Then you will have discover a great historical war of ancient India.