Roman Houses Still Inhabited Today
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Not all ancient Roman houses are ruins. In the badlands of central Turkey, on the edge of the Syrian desert, and beneath a quiet monastery not far from the Colosseum, Roman houses are still used and lived in today.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:36 San Gregorio Magno
2:04 Cave Houses of Cappadocia
3:09 Late Roman Houses of Syria
4:40 Sassi di Matera
5:35 Split, Croatia
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You see that in Italy all the time. Old roman buildings becoming houses or apartments two thousand years old and still inhabited. Everywhere!
I've always been fascinated by how the ancient Roman buildings of Italy have been used and re-used over the centuries. I explored a few of them in my "Roman Buildings Hidden in Plain Sight" videos, and I hope to make another video soon about the "Hidden Roman Buildings of Italy."
Hi Aldo! Do some of the families still know their roman clan/family names? Have there been instances of a family inhabiting the same house for hundreds of years? Are you allowed to add air conditioner units?
@@yuriythebest no, no and probably you have to ask the local "Soprintendenze per i beni culturali" (=Superintendence of cultural heritage)
@@pietrozaccherini8837 thanks! BTW what will happen if someone decides to just put up an air conditioner/ glass the balcony ( not sure of the correct term, basically when the balcony is turned into a room with windows) without asking anyone / if someone from the Soprintendenze knocks not letting them in?
@@yuriythebest nah, they are not the ones checking this kind of things, instead, if someone sees it and reports it the Carabinieri show up to check if you asked permission.
But in most cases only really old houses (like the Sassi di Matera) are preserved by the authorites, if you’d like to put up an air conditioner in a 300 years old house, you can do it no problem (just avoid destoying frescos or somethin like that)
I used to live in a small house in a Hansestadt in the Netherlands. Nobody knew how old it was, but due to how the foundation was build, it was at least 500 years. I was visiting an old lady who lived near me and was sitting in her kitchen drinking coffee and remarked I really admired the beams in the ceiling. She said, oh this is the new part of the house, from the 14th century, come to my living room, that part is from the eleventh century.
I was amazed to see it, the beams in the ceiling must have been at least 60-70 cm square and the ceiling was about 6-7 meters high.
In the old cities in the Netherlands there are loads of houses like these, lovingly restored and kept in shape. If you visit the Netherlands, don’t just look at Amsterdam, go visit the old Hanze towns like Zwolle, Kampen, Deventer and Zutphen
Cities where the have parts that are called new city because they were build after 1300.
Maybe not as old as Rome, but hundreds of years older than Amsterdam and with inner city’s that have houses to match, lived in continuously, and in great shape.
As an American, living in a part of the country that was settled in the nineteenth century, I'm always amazed to see streets of houses from the Middle Ages.
@@toldinstone
Last week I visited the rest of a broken cave where neanderthal or maybe homo erectus stone tools have been found. Ok, that's not a house one would like to live in, but interesting though. At least the site gives a feeling for the criteria at that times (around 300 000 years ago) to choose a place to live...
The Netherlands haven't been bomed in WW2, have they?
I'm glad you're old buildings still exist, it is a pity how much has been destroyed in Germany and elsewhere :(
Luckily I live near a smalltown that has only lost a handfull houses in bombings.
We even have some "Schwibbögenhäuser" left, houses that are like 1,5m deep and integrated into the bows of the citywall, as space within the walls was full.
Sadly I saw one or two houses that are left without repair, as their owners hope the one day must be teared down, so they can build new houses on this premium spots and cash in.
(Hope my english was understandable)
@@aramisortsbottcher8201
Ich verstehe auch Deutsch, aber dein Englisch ist in Ordnung
@@KokkiePiet Beim ersten Teil bin ich mir sicher, aber am Ende wird es ein wenig merkwürdig :D
when I lived in Australia one of our jokes was that one of my friends from Portugal grew up in a house older than the founding of Australia.
Y'know one of the things I like best about Australia? Your peerless film industry. At least the samples that make it stateside have always been the pinnacle of perfection in my very particular eyes and heart.
The other side of that is before Australia was founded, the previous social structure on the land existed long before Rome was even perceived.
50,000-60,000 years predates all known history.
That's 10 times older than the pyramids.
@@yt.personal.identification we are talking about the beginning of civilization and the construction of big buildings. Native people of Australia had nothing such like that, and even if that is the case, there were people in Africa and Europe for over 100,000 years
@@jamesboth3785 No.
We are talking about time and perspective and human habitation, with a mention of Australia
You, on the other hand, appear to just need a hug.
Are you OK, bud?
@@yt.personal.identification I can clearly see that you have a phobia for facts😂. I'm really sorry for that. I hope you are not offended by the facts.
I am from Lincoln,England and we use the Roman arch everyday to travel along what was a Roman road.
dont forget Bath
Watling Street?
Yeah right. Nice try bub
Damn you guys haven't made new roads in 2000 years?
@@mr.rodgers3745
What? Why's that hard for you to believe? There are hundreds of Roman structures or other engineering projects that still function. You think the idea that a Roman road is still used is bullshit? You ain't too bright.
Part of me kind of wanted to see a Roman house that still just had a family living it like with a husband, wife, kids, and a dog.
There is one in rome. The upper floors are more recently built but the ground floor was built in imperial times iirc. Don't know much more, read about it years ago.
And they don't know that the empire fell
There's a few on UA-cam
Roman houses were bigger than your American nuclear family dwelling though, they had a whole “house” or extended family and servants etc
Sounds racist bro
Back in 1995, some of my brothers and I went to the town of Herculaneum in Italy. This town had been buried, along with Pompey, when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. We entered someone's home that had been preserved by the volcano and had been recently excavated. It was very surreal to be inside someone's home from about 2000 years before.
Pompeii 👍
wow I wish
@@triciasomogyi5431 Herculaneum was buried in the same eruption as Pompeii.
@@musashidanmcgrath I think he was correcting the spelling of Pompeii in the OP.
Is that not the coolest place!
it is amazing what survives! Just in our little southern Italian village, we have a Roman aquaduct, the baths of a Roman villa that are still bubbling fresh spring water, and a Roma era "motorway service station" with baths, stables and brothels....
Every time I visit Italy, I'm amazed by how much the Romans left behind
Where is that?
@@joelrebollar7055 I would love to know also. Gods willing, I will make it to Italy soon.
I’m interested in the brothel part...
US motorway service stations only include brothels in Nevada :(
Honestly some of the best preserved uninhabited Roman houses I’ve seen are the Herculaneum villas, a lot of the original frescos still look freshly painted and some houses still have a lot of their original wooden second floors, roofs and furniture
Very cool I wish I could see it.
Imagine getting evicted by a time traveling Roman
A frequently overlooked hazard of living in a 2,000-year-old house
Relinquam haec proprietas!!!
well, dont blame the roman, blame the jew in jerusalem who told them to do that 100 times in big red letters, but forgot to specify when to do it ...
Thanks Crassus
“Hey, Roman! You also got a time traveling army of angry legionnaires with you?” “…” “I guess I will stay then. Now get off my property! For in this century, we have smartphones, and cops with firearms!”
It's almost never mentioned, but in Napoli, my hometown, there are some roman buildings (a famous one is a theater now embedded in the narrow streets of the center) that were occupied after the iv century and lived in ever since. It's common in the historic centre of Napoli to have cellars and basements built in those typical roman bricks, because those underground constructions are literally roman. Not only, but underground tunnels made by the greeks were also commonly used by the citizens over the centuries with different functions, and are still possible to visit nowadays.
Fascinating, we're lucky time and fate treated these structures so well. This video reminds me of the saying "If only walls could talk"
These walls would have a very long story...
Oh, the narrator wasn't the wall? :)
Mexican saying says walls talk and I guess they do in their own way.
You know what I appreciate? How often you say “we have no way to know for sure”
So many youtubers out here makin crazy claims. It’s refreshing for someone to be so honest
Aliens!
My house was built in mid 1800s and is considered downright ancient in my part of Canada.
As a native of the American Midwest, I know the feeling
@@erikjj235 Yep - Chicago born and bred
@@toldinstone I'm native American too from Arizona. What tribe are you with?
@@erikjj235 My apologies - for some reason I read your first comment as "you're a native of America" (as opposed to a Canadian or something.) I'm not a member of any tribe.
@@toldinstone There should probably be some point in time where the word "native" should just mean that - born in this land.
My family came from Nola, a suburb of Naples.
It is one of the continuously occupied cities in Italy. Over 2000 years.
Augustus died in his villa there.
I appreciate knowing there is a place in Italy known as Nola. Stateside that's what we call New Orleans, Louisiana: NOLA.
Know it well... 'Nolagans/Nolagani' ... Amalfitan people made jokes about Noligans all the time.. all good natured of course ,but they said they were a bit 'Primitivo'... i fpund this a bit rich as the town i lived in had a guy with wooden Hands .... i kid you not
Was at Split a few years ago. It was fun to walk through what had once been Diocletian's villa, and it's amazing to see it preserved and inhabited this entire time. However, that entire region is beautiful and I recommend going there to anyone who gets the chance.
Split is absolutely amazing. Highly recommend a visit. Walking the ancient hallways (now alleys) gives the place has an enchanting quality. It's also very beautiful.
if you go in an ancient Roman building or walk amongst the ruins of ancient Rome, you can hear the echoes of Rome: its rise, its dominance and its downfall, and if you touch the stones you can feel a whole LOT of stuff that cant be put into words
its a unique experience and theres nothing else like it, nothing even comes close
Cappadochia wasn’t built by the Roman’s or the Turks, the Armenians built it
I have some things that survived from ancient Rome. I have a glass beaker that sometimes is referred to as a chalice that dates from ca 250-350 CE. I have a few dozen Roman coins mostly bronze but a couple are silver and I have an assortment of metal items including rings, amulets and spear and arrow heads dating variously from 50 BCE to 400 CE.
I have a small collection of Roman coins, and I still get a thrill out of looking at them and thinking about their stories.
What awesome items you have collected. Amazing that the glass beaker has survived. So beautiful.
Split is incredible.
I’ve visited twice and it’s so worth it. Your are quite conscious of walking inside a Roman villa.
It's a sign of truly timeless architecture when even the ruins are beautiful.
It might be cool living in a House that People were living in when Julius Caesar was alive!!
None of these qualify. Caves aren't houses.
@@wiscgaloot I find you 'it's not a house' mission quite funny. Would you be more comfortable if we called them 'homes'?
I disagree: “What do you mean the carpenter did not care to fix that squeaky floorboard?!” “Well, he said, it is actually an ancient artifact and needs to be preserved, so he can't fix it.“ “But … that's what they said about the missing roof tile and the crack in the stairs!” “Were you not the one who said how great it was to live in an ancient house?”
@@wiscgaloot Home, House, same thing.
It reminds me of where I grew up.
That last example was Split in Croatia. I've been there a number of times on my way to or from Greece on my motorcycle.
I've only visited Split once, but I was extremely impressed.
Have you been riding through Albania or taking a ferry to Patras or cutting through Serbia? Thinking of doing something like that myself.
@@harryfloros8796 I've been to Serbia (highly recommended), but never Albania.
@@harryfloros8796 You've asked the right guy. I've done all those routes, once through Austria, Czech Republic, Serbia, Rumania and Bulgaria and a number of times along the coast through Croatia, Montenegro and Albania. Also once via Ferry from Ancona, Italy over to Patras and once via Ferry from Bari to Durres, Albania. The route via Serbia is the most adventurous, Serbs are not used to tourists on motorcycles and the roads can be sometimes a bit iffy, but it's a good ride.
Ferries from and to Italy are cheap for motorcycles if you don't take a berth, but travel time can be up to 24 hours. Most passengers just hunker down for the night on deck with a camping mattress and a sleeping bag. I've done that and had no problems. The Euro is readily accepted everywhere, even in countries with a different currency. Camping is my preferred form of over night stay, but hotels and hostels are cheap. A room for a night in Rumania cost me 20 euros with breakfast, but I think they were overcharging. Border crossings are a pain in the ass, it took me 2 hours to get into Serbia and 2 hours to get out again although there was hardly any traffic. The border crossings into and out of Albania are nearly always congested with traffic, waiting times easily 2 hours. But motorcycles have their own lane and can drive passed the congestion.
There is a motorway, which will take you through most of Croatia within less than a day, but I prefer the B road along the Adriatic coast with it's many curves.
Most people can speak a few words of English, Albanians often also speak Italian and French. The only counties where I had slight language problems was Serbia and the Czech Republic.
Next year I'll be somewhere on one of those routes again.
A testament to how sturdy, well thought out and well built Roman structures were. Hadrian’s wall is still standing in England.
@Etruscans civilization
oh look an Afrocentrist insulting Barbarians,
The Hadrian wall was built by Hadrian, not Severus.
and you're not Etruscan
To be fair, a lot of it was er, 'restored' in the 1830s and 40s by the Town Clerk of Newcastle, who was immensely wealthy in his own right.
@@Tourist1967
the wall was built by African legions of the African Roman emperor Septimus Severus
@@OtaBengaBokongo he was Berber he had no connection to blacks like you
No offence
There weren't African legions, only auxiliares.
I've been in the Roman houses of Cappadochia. The "furniture" was hand chiseled as one piece with the house. Some where turned into Christian Churches, with icons painted on the ceilings and are someone's home now. Very hospitable people.
Recently, a farmer wanted to renovate his barn, but he had to stop, because it turned out to be 500 years old and in excellent condition. Back then, I thought that was ancient...
One of the most interesting things I saw in Cappadocia was when you walked through an old house carved into a cave. One of the things still there was the manger. A stone 'tub' thing, carved into the rock that had been in the kitchen, one of the warmest rooms of the house.
I believe the best thing I can say about Garrett's work is, it makes you want to get out and explore Europe and the
middle east, I will do so in September .
I'm delighted to hear that. Happy travels!
@Constable Odo But then he would never be able to visit, would he?
My sister-in-law has a family home near Gubbio which is one of many Roman houses in her little town, connected by underground tunnels for miles in all directions. I have stayed there a few times, exploring, sleeping surrounded by walls typically about four feet thick. We live near Matera, and I have participated in the excavation of Greek tombs and sites from 700 bce. But my hobby is looking for lithics in the fields after a rain...They are as new as 5000 yrs old, but some are as old as 75,000, or older, many made by neanderthals. We are squatters on this Earth.
That's fascinating
Remember to report any findings to archaeologists if possible
@@toldinstoneI agree.
Very cool. You must really love your job. That's the only way to be.
These videos are the stuff dreams are made of. Seeing the historical continuity in these precious surviving buildings is both fascinating and intoxicating. A real time machine right in plain sight…
Very glad you enjoy my videos!
The so called "Dead Cities" in Syria are amazing! They look like the people only just left recently, which is eerie. The interesting thing about these settlements was that they were stupendously wealthy, and then the residents abandoned the area when a real fundamental and protracted economic disaster occurred. Basically rich farmers that had the wealth to surround themselves with all the best that the Roman empire had to offer. Given what has happened since in Syria I would be surprised if they haven't been damaged or destroyed entirely.
The real story in the fall of the Roman Empire is not political as much as it is economic. The total collapse in economic specialization that happend with the fall of the Roman Empire is the real story. Per-capita GDP collapsed and did not even begin to recover in Europe until 1000 AD to 1200 AD with such improvements as 3-field agriculture, the padded horse collar, the mouldboard plow, and the iron horse shoe. Some of the Roman lead, copper, tin, iron, and coal mining and smelting endeavors were not surpassed in scale until the mid-1800s, well into the industrial revolution.
Some of them, I know, have been badly damaged by the fighting. Fortunately, however, they lay outside ISIL's area of control, thus avoided the sort of cultural vandalism that wreaked such havoc on Palmyra.
We're witnessing a similar cultural collapse right now. The pillars that supported our modern world (free speech, public education, science) have crumbled and we are in free fall back into another dark age, just like the dark age that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
@@Skandalos The dark age after Rome's fall was one of literary paucity, whereas the new dark age is one of malevolent culture.
@@gregorymalchuk272 many syria historical site, ancient building, temple, church, mosque, city wall, city gates, old palace, old fort, castle, tower, monument, tomb, ancient and medieval era house, roman road, bazaar/old market, old roman, umayyad and ottoman building are destroyed. 80 percent of syria heritage are damage, while small part of syria/levant today in turkey like gaziantep, antioch/hatay, mardin, batman, siirt, saliurfa and kilis are still in good condition because since ww1, no war in these region. palestine/gaza and west bank, lebanon, iraq, syria, libya war and civil war destroyed many heritage site, mostly old arabic style house and ornament.
When I was in Bostra (Bosra) twenty years ago, I saw inhabited houses along the main street of the town made of the same stone as the ruined ancient houses. I don't know if that houses was erected in modern times using ancient materials, or renovated ancient buildings. Great channel btw.
I've never been to Bosra, but I've seen pictures of those houses, and I'm fairly sure that at least some are Roman houses with modern repairs and roofs. The Syrian houses in this video stood in villages not far from Bosra; and like Bosra, those villages were Roman towns that were largely resettled in the nineteenth century.
Glad you enjoy the channel!
@@toldinstone I remember goats walking on the main street covered with authentic cobblestones just behind the city gate. Just like 2k years ago. Greetings and best wishes, Doctor!
@@lechtwardowski7520 I hope to visit Bosra someday. It sounds like a unique place.
Thank you!
I don't know it, but they could be much younger. The local type of stone would be used in in the medieval period too, wouldn't it?
@@aramisortsbottcher8201 A lot of stone will have been stolen from old buildings and repurposed. Some of those buildings may have been repurposed as well at a later date. A lot of those stone buildings are pretty indestructible for anything but a severe earthquake.
I’d remark also the Pantheon, which still serves to the purpose it was built for, only the deity changed.
Not a house.
@@wiscgaloot House of god.
@@pawelpap9 churches aren't homes.
@@wiscgaloot they are homes for gods
@@prod-nene which gods? No gods exist.
I grew up in South Texas we still have the old Missions. Still in use and an old stone canals that carry water from the river to the missions. I'm happy people realized the historical value and invested in fixing them and upgrading the surroundings.
I have been in split, and the cellars of Diocletaian's palace were many olympic swimming pools in volume
They really are enormous. Although their scale was partly obscured by a temporary exhibition during my visit, I came away very impressed.
Great video, love historic places, been to Matera twice, it is full of tourists but the best way to avoid them is to get up early in the morning and see what you can before about 10am when the tour groups start arriving, then again late in the afternoon/evening when they leave, so its best to stay in Matera rather than try to day trip like most everyone else.
Diocletian's Palace in Split is *really* something to behold. I was completely blown away by it. It's so much better - and larger - to see it in real life.
There's even underground sections of it that are complete Roman shopping malls not mentioned in this video.
The *whole* place is *fully* functional.
There's even a Game of Thrones shop there that's *in* an actual Roman shop!
It's complete time travel - "blown away."
All of Split is worth seeing...and nearby Trogir...and the islands...
The island of Hvar has an actual Roman town (Hvar town) on it that's just as good (nearly) as Diocletian's Palace but with the addition of fantastic Italian Renaissance architecture - pristine and massively chic, with a nightlife to match centered around the harbour.
Next time(if you come) you should visit the ancient ruins of Salona(next to Split) where Diocletian was supposedly from. And Hvar(Pharos) and Vis(Issa) were already Greek colonies by the time the Romans came :D
@@nijakuzmic8816 Oh I'd happily go again - and fit in the bits I missed for sure.
Trogir, Split/Diocletian's Palace, the islands of Brač, Hvar, Korčula and back to Split (in that order) is a World class holiday!
You've even got on Hvar Island that Carp Diem nightclub you fast boat to on *its* *own* *mini-island!*
How James Bond is that!
You couldn't make it up 😄
World Class.
@@j.johnson3520 Don't forget the little pirate town of Omiš :D
@@nijakuzmic8816 it looks charming, thank you Nija. Having checked it out, I can guess why it's a pirate town from the massive rock-formations guarding the entrance to the other inner village - easier to protect; very clever.
I also noticed the large block design of some of the old houses...
I've seen that design in the Greek cyclade islands - specifically the buildings in Antiparos town/port on Antiparos island (next to Paros).
So...it's Greek architecture!?
I've also seen it in Croatia, but can't think where. Must've been either Trogir or one of the islands.
Ah, man I need a holiday...😄
@@j.johnson3520 it's always fascinating to me when i hear someone fall in love with my town and country, it's easy to forget what you have when you see it every day :D. And yes the pirates terorised the Adriatic in the 12th and 13th century :D
In Malta, due to the local sandstone building materials, the wall of a modern apartment bloc, currently under construction, looks as ancient as the oldest buildings on the islands.
I've never been to Malta myself, but I've heard that from those who have visited. I think of downtown Santa Fe in New Mexico, where every new building is coated in adobe.
You knock it out of the park with every production. Excellent work sir, thank you.
That's very kind of you. You're very welcome
Hard to believe that building from 2000 years ago sometimes hold longer than shut be built today
Diocletian's Palace in Split, (Dalmatia) Croatia was built from 295 AD to 305 AD. The Roman Emperor Diocletian was born nearby ( in Salona, 6 km from Split) and decided to retire there in 305 AD to grow cabbages.
Wonderful video! Must have been well made to have stood that long. Keep them coming!
Very interesting; thanks. Your presentation is easy to listen to and easy to retain, because no obnoxious music has been added. As well, the straightforward and well versed sentences cause one to focus on the information/knowledge given. Thank you, profoundly! I'm sorry to be critical of anyone else's videos since most of them are well put together (except for the obnoxious music and other distractions.)
Very glad you enjoyed the video. I try to emphasize content above all else.
i have visited Split. more than worth the journey! fantastic explore of the palace, the ancient markets in and nearby. absolutely fab!!!
Thank you for this channel.👍. You're teaching something most UA-cam channel doesn't talk about, usually it's always about war or conflict.
Another great video I love the relaxed vibe and short runtime as a small dopamine snack between large hour long videos. I'd also watch longer videos by you as well. have a beautiful day!
Very glad you enjoyed it!
In my little town they just moved a house to a living history museum because the house was actually a tavern (bar) in 1900. I has been continually lived in for a 100 years. Somehow after watching this it seems so much less impressive. But then that’s for American settlers history, there is Native American history here with arrowheads etc.
very interesting format and subjects!
Another fascinating tale, told in stone! I am really enjoying my subscription!
I know it is likely people have admired the architecture and have successfully duplicated those made a millenia ago. Its truly amazing that these have lasted so long.
Something I occasionally like to ask myself is "What would qualify as ancient to ____________."
It is always interesting and frequently amusing being to look at what was already 2k years old during whatever period of time one is talking about. Take the classic (yes yes, bad pun) example of Cleopatra being closer in time to us, than she was the Great Pyramid.
I know. Around my region in Texas old is 50 years. 100 years is ancient.
This was a fabulous video, absolutely stunning! Thank you.
Amazing channel. Glad I found this!
Makes my 62 year old house look pretty pathetic. Thank you for your wonderful and informative videos.
You're very welcome
As an American, it is amazing to hear about Europe's history. Thank you for your videos.
You're very welcome
your channel is highly underrated , i'm going to push this channel is every direction but down sir , cheers man , USA, Tennessee saying i love and want some more , thanks for your interesting videos .
Matera is where my Italian ancestors come from so it was cool to see that little part on the dwellings in Matera.
Very nice presentation on the lesser-known aspects of ancient Rome that still survive to the present day.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That intricate woodwork design at 01:34 just made my face hit the floor. That's probably the most beautiful ceiling design I've ever seen. On video or real life.
Good research and data collections!
All of your videos are interesting but this one is really the bee's knees! Fascinating. Thanks very much indeed.
You're very welcome
Love old buildings still being inhabited and taken care of.
Near where I live is a 7th century church (Brixworth, England), it has a lot of Roman, building materials in it, including a lot of their tile type bricks.
This is such an underrated channel. Fantastic video.
Looking at these buildings I wonder how the wealth of ancient Romans compares to today's billionaires.
As it happens, my very next video (which will appear on Tuesday) will try to answer that question...
I think at one point in the empire period the roman emperor outright owned Egypt as their perosonal property.... like all of Egypt and their inhabitants....boggles the mind.
@@pinecactus9672 You're right. The wealth of the emperors really doesn't have any modern equivalents.
i guess that depends on how you measure it. the ancient super rich bankrolled games and festivals for the people, while even jeff bezos needs to charge you money if you wanna play his pc games...
In very many ways, in the west, even the poor have access to them levels of information, food, commodities, and services, that were in the literal realm of emperors or even the gods. Even just running water, hot or cold and on-demand, is something even some royals dreamt of and only a few achieved prior to modernity.
awesome man. keep it up, im just starting from your first videos and going all the way! also if its financially viable, videos in 4k would be stellar! 720p just doesn't do you justice ;)
Thank you!
Starting around the end of next month, I'm going to be doing a series of on-location videos, which will be shot in 4k.
I’m so delighted that you Channel was recommended by UA-cam, l really enjoyed your video. I immediately subscribed. 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This video is amazing with incredible information. And the comments are so informative!! Enjoyed the comments just as much as the video! Ancient objects are so beautiful
WHen i was in primary school in 80s we went to school exursion to Split and Diocletian palace and toor guide sad that 100 familes live in Dioclatian palace...they probably live today also
I was lucky enough to visit Croatia a few years ago, but Diocletian's Palace was nothing more that an overcrowded flea-market.
@@jonathankelly7430 It already was in the mid-nineties. But - this thing has never been a palace - in the first place... maybe secondary, but it was never been build as a palace.
But it was mostprobably a warehouse....
Served in a similar way like the City of London, originally. Where goods could be stored and re-directed, toll-free.
@@karstent.66 Yeah, you're probably right but I was very dissapointed when I visited. I was hoping to actually see the building, although all there was were thousands of tourists and shops selling cheap souvenirs. Very underwhelming. If I was ever going to Croatia again, I'd steer well clear. To be fair, I did go in August which probably made it both busier and a lot hotter.
@@jonathankelly7430 Been there many times. The city of Split was built around the palace. It was monumental. It was Diocletian's retirement home. After he died, it was used by the people who lived around the palace for various purposes. Summer is not the best time to visit since it is always crowded. Winter or late fall. I actually saw quite a bit of the palace. The courtyard that you saw, the church and especially the cellar was very interesting.
@@karstent.66 it was built as a palace. During Diocletian's lifetime it served as a home. A private home. Now I don't know if he had any descendants, but the palace probably ended up in the hands of the state which in time used it as an administrative center for this region and slowly in time became a city.
Great video, it's so true that I think of ruins when I think of Roman houses/buildings. Those Cave houses and the Sassi di Matera are amazing. So cool
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Love your series ! Amazing !
This is truly incredible! Thanks for making this video!
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Diocletian will be pissed if he eventually comes back and sees his villa as a tourist trap.
Love your channel. Always wanted to go to Europe and since I just graduated college I might use your videos to guide me. In a previous video “7 Roman buildings still around today” you mentioned the Roman road - the villa Apia. I was wondering where was that picture taken? I’d love to walk on that road.
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The first few miles of the Via Appia Antica are one of my favorite places on the planet. I took that picture about two miles beyond the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, not far - if memory serves - from the tomb of Marcus Servilius Quartus. When you visit, rent a bike (there are a few places); it's a bumpy ride, but you can see much more than on foot.
Another excellent and evocative video, these are becoming regular must watches!
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Your videos are incredible. Thank you.
Staying in the Cappadocia hotels were so freaking awesome - I can't wait to go back
Türk have living there for thousands of years until,romans invade it
@@iSyriux I'm Turkish & I didn't ask bro
I've always wondered this since I wandered the ruins of Pompeii
Thank you ! Very interesting. It’s amazing how elaborate these houses were !! 👍👌👍❤️
Great idea for a history clip topic. I'll be checking out your uploads in the future.
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I remember when I was younger I was reading a history book that had an illustration of medieval farmers tearing down a Roman villa to recycle the stone, and I was kinda pissed, I basically thought "nah I don't want to live in these large luxury palaces with access to water, proper toilets, sturdy walls, beautiful decorations, central heating and plenty of rooms for the family, I'd much rather live in my tiny, dismal, thatched, one-room, insect infested mud-hut with my 10 kids".
"...with my 10 kids AND my incontinent livestock."
@@toldinstone lol, can't believe I forgot that little unsanitary detail.
@@kevinrwhooley9439 Consider that the toilets require water from an aqueduct to keep the water from being stagnant and to pay servants to unblock any poop dams, that when you live in the villa you still need to keep your animals with you, and that the central heating requires huge quantities of wood to heat the entire house, so every room not utilized is wasted resources.
It's like buying a house with a swimming pool and you don't have time to clean it. After a few months all you will have is a mosquito breeding pen.
And when they were recycling the stone for their own homes, the old Roman houses had virtually none of those things. I mean seriously, what an ignorant comment, lol.
@@ev6558 Villas like Villa Pappaea and the one at Chedsworth had flushing toilets.
The Romans used a constructive method called opus quadratum to make their walls sturdier and able to last longer
Most Roman villas, like one at Vieux-la-Romaine, France, had central heating systems called hypocausts.
The Lullingstone villa had access to aqueducts and cisterns.
According to Dartford town archives, most medieval homes were timber framed wattle-and-daub houses.
I remember reading somewhere that structures like Hadrian's Wall were torn apart brick by brick mainly for reuse as farm boundary walls. it goes without saying that opulent Roman homes were decorated with elaborate mosaics and frescos.
And even if villas stone were repurposed for homes, even the the best medieval castles didn't compare to a Roman villa in aesthetics, functionality, sohphisticasy, etc.
Please don't act condescending and derisively towards other people, nor assume that an archaeology student is ignorant in the field that their studying.
The Mel Gibson movie "The Passion of the Christ" was filmed at Matera,Italy.
and the recent Ben Hur...
Hollywood
Beautiful work as usual @toldinstone ! Keep it up!
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this was such a tease.. thank you.
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Imagine being the construction company (slaves) who built some of the buildings that have lasted centuries... thats work to be proud of and also a great marketing point
and also an easy way to go bankrupt...
Been to Sassi di Matera and it’s crazy (like many things here). There’s a literal valley and on the other side of the valley there’s nothing except…cave churches. They were inhabited from 5000 years until the ‘60 since it wasn’t hygienic anymore (people living with animals and such).
trippy seminar man. nice graphics. good artworks
Great episode. Thanks
Respectfully, you didn't mention some of the best known and most stunning examples of Roman buildings that are still occupied today, like the Theater of Marcellus.
My aunt lives in a house that at least has foundations of a roman house and may actually be a roman house. My family has lived in that house for at least 1000 years, the records go back 800 years. I also lived for a time in a house in town that had roman basements.... It's not that unusual IMHO.
So well explained and a lot of info! Thanks!
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Wonderful video- very interesting, thank you for posting❤️
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i was hoping to see an ancient structure with modern people living in it especially if it was some regular family that inherited it and was living it with current furnishing and appliances. i think because when i see the ruins or the floor diagrams it looks so sterile and reminds me of concrete structures for the public at beaches, large and barren, sort of functional but hard and not inviting. i'd wonder how people could add soft touches to turn these square spaces into comfy places. or maybe the idea that a comfortable living space is soft at all, with carpets and upholstered furniture and throw pillows are more of a modern expectation. it seems like everything in the ancient world was cold and hard. that throne did not look like something i'd want to lounge in...but i guess it'd be better than the ground...but they must have had comfortable things their craftsmen could have made.. some well shaped wood chairs have felt really nice to me.
My house was built 100 years ago this year. Although I know almost nothing about the previous inhabitants, I like to imagine things that might have happened here in the various decades. But these Roman houses really put things in perspective. My house is still a newbie!
My grandparents house has just turned 100. At least the cottage part. The rest of it has various extensions and add ons from different decades and you can really see it.
My mates however come from a line of feudal lords. The family owned one the 13 colonies of the US. Their ancestral family manor is 900-1000 years old and ever even left the bloodline. Whilst most of it is newer, much of it being medieval, there is a central tower that is on it's way to a millennia. It could well be already, just written history of the land/property doesn't go that far back.
My grandparent child house was around 200 years, the past decade collapsed, to this day is left like that...
3:45 gives some serious fallout vibes.
thank you for your remarkable channel and all your kind work!
We are new to your channel. This was very interesting.
Great video. Maybe you could talk about the benefits of Roman citizenship of the era? I would be really interested in better understanding the privileges that the empire bestowed upon their citizens.
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My mother married a French man some years ago and he lived in a small village on a hill called Pugyron and his home was built in the 1100s and was a bakery originally, apparently. Still fully in use today..the whole village. As an American the stone construction (and the age, of course) always blows my mind. Completely alien to us with our hollow sheet rock walls hung on wooden studs. Some are modernized really nicely with wood flooring over the stone etc. I'll never forget going and staying for a couple weeks there in the French countryside. You also see the old rock quarries on the side of the road. These aren't large industrial operations but it looks like a small team of men literally picked the spot and got the rocks for the home they were building and that was that..I don't know why but seeing these sites used for construction of such old homes and villages was really interesting to me.