How Herculaneum Is Better Preserved Than Pompeii | Herculaneum Uncovered | Timeline
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- Exploring what really happened at Herculaneum following the eruption of Vesuvius.
Pompeii, the lost Roman city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD, has long been a source of fascination to archaeologists. But its sister city Herculaneum, buried in the same eruption but to a much greater depth than Pompeii, reveals far more detail of how the Romans lived.
For many years the city appeared to have been abandoned and it was assumed the inhabitants had managed to escape in the hours before Herculaneum was engulfed by the volcano. Then in the 1980s a macabre discovery was made. Burrowing through the volcanic mud, archaeologists found hundreds of bodies huddled pitifully together. Vesuvius is still active and is on course to erupt again. The lure of its rich volcanic soil and the delights of the Bay of Naples have attracted a far greater population than lived there in Roman times. And while civil servants at the Vesuvius observatory express confidence that there will be ample warning and time to evacuate the surrounding population, many geologists disagree. Evidence from an eruption in 4000 BC reveals that the volcano is capable of destroying Naples, a cataclysm far greater than that of 79 AD. If that were to happen today it could engulf 3 million people. On that scale, in an area where motorway traffic jams are a fact of daily life, present evacuation plans are completely inadequate.
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Me too. In the background instead of music. Even if I’ve seen/heard it before!
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Me too…
My Grandpa was born and grew up less than a Mile from Pompei..He would tell us stories about how he played amongst the ruins..at the age of 17 he left Italy for the USA..He arrived in NYC with 3 Lira in his pocket..He didn’t have a family..but after meeting my Grandma...they had 9 children and later 24 grandchildren..He was so happy having such a big family..after starting life all on his own.
He was probably a descendant of a survivor/someone smart enough to depart Pompeii early.
That's a beautiful story, thank you for sharing it :)
Such a lovely story about your Grandpa and wife establishing a large family together.
That's what it's all about. Too bad it's lost on the newer generations.
Cool story! Would make a great book/movie to know how he managed to make such an incredible journey at that age and how he survived in the U.S.
I pay for tv apps and yet I always find more interesting things on UA-cam.
I was stationed in Naples in the 90s, and visited both Pompeii and Herculaneum (Ercolano) several times. Without a doubt, Herculaneum was in better shape, and had far less tourists, which made it a better place to visit overall.
That's a very useful tip in case anyone is planning to visit the Bay of Naples. Thanks!
There’s a lot historical sights that are open to tourist but aren’t visited nearly as much which is a good thing with less human interference to destroy those sights but also bad because people don’t go. It’s pretty much because so many ancient sights are glamorized more then others by historians and history books.
Thank you, that’s good to know. I’m thinking of also visiting Herculaneum after Pompeii.
I agree completely. Herculaneum was far less ‘touristy’.
@@malcolmwilkinson4449 I went and it was unbelievable. I‘ve filmed it, too. I can’t wait to edit it and relive the experience.
The richness of the soil is the bait the volcano uses to lure its prey.
Might as well be.
..decomposition of its former citizens
the city that's left as well as the art on the walls and artifacts showed they lived pretty luxuriously for ancient times
Most Roman built cities were luxurious. There was a reason that people came from all over to become a Roman citizen. They were at another level compared to the rest of antiquity. Imagine a city of over 1 million people when the entire planet had a population under 500 million at the time. That's insane!
Pompeii and Herculaneum were basically vacation resort towns of wealthy Romans. These were swanky posh towns.
A elite moravam bem, já o povo era pobre.Nao mudou nada até hoje.
And for our times as well.
@@marciamiranda1068,
In fact the Romans had a middle class much as developed countries today have.
Absolutely incredible. Preserved structures, basically a door into 79 AD. Absolutely astonishing
look this
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Well said!
The Romans were very smart people. Are we saying there are not descendants of them today? The volcano was very very horrible them.
When I visited Pompeii I was a teenager. It was an experience I'll never forget. Incredible. An entire Roman city perfectly preserved.
I visited the Berlin wall in the 80's. I would rather have visited Pompei, but the guards were nice to me. Not for the right reasons, but nice nonetheless.
The destruction of this city reminds me of these verses from Quran
Al-Mursalat 77:19
وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe, that Day, to the deniers.
Al-Mursalat 77:16
أَلَمْ نُهْلِكِ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
Did We not destroy the former peoples?
Al-Mursalat 77:17
ثُمَّ نُتْبِعُهُمُ ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ
Then We will follow them with the later ones.
Al-Mursalat 77:18
كَذَٰلِكَ نَفْعَلُ بِٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ
Thus do We deal with the criminals.
Al-Mursalat 77:19
وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Woe, that Day, to the deniers.
@@servantoftheexpander9688 why do Muslims feel the need to love the death of anyone not Muslim. Like chill y'all tf 😂 I'm not praising the forces that be that the ottomans we're destroyed for not believing Jesus 💀 no sense
@@probjoe2215 Are you a native speaker or a learned english speaker.
if You are a native then why are you butchering the grammar.
If you learnt it then i think you learnt a distorted version of it.
Didn't you?
Speak in your native tongue because Even if i may not understand it.I still may understand it better then your English.
@@servantoftheexpander9688 His English is fine. Yours, however.....LULZ
These poor people I couldn’t imagine what was racing through their minds and their hearts as they clung to each other in horrible agony. Terrible tragedy that even after centuries still fascinates us today
Its a horrible strike from above because of their idolatry and abominations that God abhorred from the people He created! Just like Sodom and Gomorrha completely destructed from the face of the earth! But these people want to excavate and relive these abominatons!
Probably thinking they wish they didn't behave the way they did...they were discusting..God just created a better place for all of us...nz
So people live on the coast in California they disappear to
@@tamaracardon2562 bull💩
I heard that they were going through a gender identity issue... God destroyed them.
Oh my goodness the story and evidence they found about the painters @ 11:39 is incredible. Even finding the paint?? Crazy! I hate that this terrible tragedy befell the ancient people but it's so incredible how it preserved so many things for us to see now that would never survive normally.
I wonder if the paint dried?
@@bunzeebear2973I think they used dry powder to paint at the time and mixed it with water oil or eggs right before painting. Beacause paint didn’t even exist they used also minerals to make colours like blue
I really love history shows. can't get enough of them.
Thats why people should buy them other than watch them on youtube. lol. Just saying. I love the material too, and I also own a copy of this very documentary. lol
Then you must not want to watch "History" Channel; which only transmits TV shows about ancient aliens presented by attention-seeking ignorant creeps and reality shows that revolve around some random hicks and their daily lives.
History is good becuase it makes you say Cool
Only subject I’ve ever been interested in school was history. And I still want to know more today and I’ve been out of school for a few years now lol.
I hear ya there
I was almost 6 when Mt. St. Helens erupted in May 1980, 40 years ago in just a few days. It was a Beautiful sunny cloudless day. I was at Church with my Dad & Brother. It was a Beautiful yet quiet Spring Day. Later when we evacuated it looked like it could have been near midnight and it was snowing, grey silky ash. I live in Spokane Washington. I have a bottle of ash from the eruption on my nightstand. My dad picked up a homeless old hitchhiker on the way home. Poor man was near suffocating from all the ash. I remember wearing masks outside for the next week or so cause we had a few inches of Ash. Now we're suppose to cause of Covid-19 Virus. My dad helped clean our neighborhood & decided to try cleaning our pet cats with the vacuum. He was tore up from the floor up LOL! What a still very vivid memory!
I was 10 years old I still asked my mother once in a while if she remembers watching live on TV
He was tore up from the floor up
Beat up from the feet up
And needed a check up from the neck up
I'm the same age as you and was also in Spokane that day... but we were visiting grampa and grampa that day and driving back to the Tri Cities... The things I saw on that drive still haunt me to this day... South of Ritzville, all the dust devils filled with ash and looked like giant tornados... and the winds that whipped down the gullies sucked up the ash and looked like giant worms from the movie Dune... between the ash devils and ash worms, the drive to the Tri Cities looked like an unearthly hellscape... To this day I've never seen anything like it, the things of haunting dreams.
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Death cult dingbat
@@contendingforthefaith9897 Yes, those were the events leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem, which happened within the generation of the apostles that Jesus was talking to in Matthew 24.
I visited to Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius in 2016 and it was a great experience to visit there but to be honest I felt so saddened and heart broken by seeing the lost city of Pompeii which took lives of so many people !
Prayer and love from Tibet !
Wishing never ever such disaster happen again !
So, this visit was on a typical ``world tour/cruise'' package?!
@@quickchris10 I travelled there by myself as well as to most of the Europe countries
@@himalayanprinces9022 Good idea; I think the tours bypassing Pompeii helped drive the restoration process; to attract tourism. Since we have Bavarian relatives, we have been able to go there and stay w/them, is the only European touring we've done; but I appreciate the down-home perspective.
Nice to read that someone has wrote about feeling sorry for the Pompeii people. Vast majority see this as an "interesting" or "extraordinary" city
If the people will not violate nature's way of living and dont cross the red line then there will no punishment from God as Pompeii suffered so.
I just went here this weekend. It's really amazing how well the paint colors and structures were preserved. The skeletons were also quite interesting to look at. You can practically see the fear and pain in some of the faces.
How do a skeleton make a facial expression? Oh, you use your imagination.
Roman Bread-I can survive 2000 years!!
Twinki-Hold my Milk...
I don't see anyone arguing. What _can_ you even argue about here?
@@contendingforthefaith9897 did you watch the documentary??? They explained it in there...
That must have been amazing!!
I have to go there someday, it is so amazing to walk around in all that history.
Only if I can dig freely
Within a years time it won t be there , vesuvius will again erupt soon, .....
Yes, indeed a great historical place. I walked in these walls like looking at at ghosts. 😐😐😐
You wouldn't be the first one. Already Goethe (1749-1832) has visited Pompeii.
October 24 79 AD Mt Vesuvius erupted and October 24, 2019 is my 60th birthday and I will make it memorable by going to Pompeii for my birthday holiday.
It actually erupted on August 24 79 ad
Happy early Birthday 🎂! Stay safe and enjoy your trip!!
Was at Pompeii in July this year - amazing site - even left a bit of my DNA there - scraped arm on a pumice wall tripping around the cobblestones - lol - just a graze but bleed like a stuck pig!
Happy birthday!
@@VesuviusGaming-um5yn They have proof now that it was October. The people were wearing heavy woolen winter clothing, fruits and vegetable's had been harvested and stored for winter, writing in on a wall mentioned it was September, it was written in slate and could have been easily rubbed away so would not have stayed for long on the wall, and there were translation difficulties with Pliny's writing. So all the evidence points to around October.
How great it is that we have people who dedicate their lives to preserve history for all.
To be fair to people complaining about the whole Herculaneum/Pompeii thing, it's technically not exclusively about either city, rather the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius, which destroyed both cities.
*curtsy* 💓
And it can be argued that Herculaneum should be the star, in any case, considering they got the brunt of the disaster before it swept over to Pompeii...
@@nette9836 Why? Disaster is disaster to all and death to all. No one was spared, so no differentiation between any one place than the other!
@Derrick Bridges You speak Tiberius Kirk, I see.
@@vivians9392 what do you mean no one was spared? Thousands escaped both cities
Fabulous footage. Always amazed at the artwork: paintings, murals, statues, frescos... These ancient history docs give me a feeling I don't think there is a word for. A mixture of wonder, wistfulness, and connection to the past. I imagine the camera operators were a bit overwhelmed on this assignment. How could you not be?
I feel the exact same way when looking at anything from the past. Especially seeing how a lot of it survived thousands of years later.
Was fortunate enough to visit both sites(and the volcano), it’s really is almost beyond comprehension how deep Herculaneum was buried, and the frozen in time horror of Pompeii. A true time capsule, and demonstration of how we are humbled before the power of nature.
Those poor locked up animals who couldn’t even run, my heart breaks 😭💔
my mother's family is from Herculaneum, while my father's family originates from a village on the slopes of Vesuvius, about 4 km from Herculaneum, which was heavily damaged by the eruption of Vesuvius in 1944. My grandparents survived the eruption, but two neighboring towns were completely razed to the ground by the lava of Vesuvius
it doesnt make sense to live near the energies of disaster
Perhaps 5G is going to boil us to death !
@@Light-Shift I know milion of people live there since Roman times, so around the Vesuvius were born centuries ago many important cities with a long history, great culture and good economy. There are almost 1 milion people in the Vesuvius area and it would be impossible to make them leave their own land
It makes you wonder how many other tiny towns were lost in the eruption that nobody remembers. At the time, you know people must have thought the area was cursed and nobody wanted to rebuild in case it happened again.
I remember reading about Pompeii and Herculaneum. At that time no number of skeletons had been found in Herculaneum. The belief was that it seemed to have been engulfed by a huge mudflow which must have moved slowly, the people had time to get out safely. Then the old beach and boat sheds were found and it’s story changed completely.
I just imagine the people’s beliefs that if they just got to the seaside, and the boats, that they could get away from the apocalypse going on “behind” the town.....then getting to the shoreline and seeing the water impossible to navigate, boats possibly burning or gone, water churning and boiling, so you seek the boat houses, the only shelter there, and hope you can ride out the storm.....and eventually realizing , no. There was no escape. Then dying in agony from ash and gas suffocation, or the quick but more painful of being boiled in the flow.🥺
My grandmother had a little brother who died in the 1944 eruption, she always told us the story.
Please accept my deepest condolences 😢 🙏
So sad; but the 1944 eruption was just 1/50th the size of the 79 one; imagine that! 79 eruption equaled 100 Hiroshimas. Did your grandmother say animals fled/ran away days prior/were there tremors/rumblings beforehand, as w/an earthquake?
@@quickchris10 u are a Moran he's speaking
Apple and u are speaking orange 🍊
U Moran
@@quickchris10 You will always see animals taking refuge no matter how small or big event is dayse before it happends.
@@Sun_flower4321 it's spelled, MORON, Jiminy Christmas, get it right!
It just makes me wretch to know that sites like this are violated by people seeking riches. The antiquarians of the past have done so much damage, it makes me wonder how much of what we have learned has been deflected by the activities of historic grave robbers. Context is so critical to archaeology so it breaks my heart to see these kinds of activities.
Sadly, even today in ancient sites around the world it’s a race against robbers to locate & excavate new treasures because people can easily sell them on the black market.
It’s a particularly huge problem in Latin America where people hope to find gold. So much was already lost at the hands of the Spaniards, the treasures we find today are priceless to our cultures but people remain selfish & short-cited.
Well said.
The frescas and mosaics are absolutely gorgeous. I can only imagine what is buried underneath. That volcano leering nearby would scare me to death. I'd love to visit, but I'd always be wondering. Archeologist's have the most phenomenal career's! 🌋🇮🇹🍝
It's beautiful....you should go!
We visited both Pompeii and Herculaneum in 2017 and both sites are truly awesome, but both myself and my wife found Herculaneum the most interesting, and most importantly more moving. Those poor people must have been absolutely terrified.😢😢
Dr Hadrill is a very good historian indeed I really like the way he explains everything to the point
Touring Italy and Mount Vesuvius is near the top of my bucket list. I hope I make it some day.
This is one of the best history videos I've enjoyed, and the commentator made it the Best video on the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius, giving life back to the victims of that eruption.
It's contradictory when the narrator says they didn't even know it was a volcano. Other documentaries have stated they very well knew and there had been volcanic activity. They were celebrating the holiday Vulcanalia so this was considered a good sign and in fact MORE people were in the city (Pompeii) than would normally have been because of the celebration.
I recall hearing something about Vesuvius being seen as a symbol of Jupiter due to its volcanic nature.
Yes but that exactly supports what he said. They didn't interpret those signs as bad or dangerous but as good omens for thier festival.
There's also evidence, thanks to the Romans being excellent record keepers, that a bunch of people made it out of the two cities alive - putting aside that the believed death toll was nowhere NEAR the actual population living there, there are records in other Roman cities talking about the provisions they needed to care for refugees from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Which definitely implies that a significant number of people escaped the eruption.
Then there's that one skeleton - a man who clearly made it out of the eruption zone, only to be killed by a falling rock.
If they didn't even know it was a volcano, they wouldn't have had time to flee. But they DID. The evidence suggests that plenty of people fled.
I believe I heard it that way also, in a different video😉
I interpret it as like the people knew what a volcano is but not in the sense that we do now. Unless it has errupted recently enough for them to know what happens when it erupts, I don't see a way of them knowing the potential danger in it's entirety.
Imagine just stumbling upon Herculaneum one day
I am so sorry people and animals that you all had to die in such nightmarish fright and pain.
In 79 AD people in Pompeii and Herculaneum were not discussing Italian politics in the square as Italy just didn't exist as a Nation in those past years. They were probably talking about things regarding Neapolis and Rome and maybe Athens, Egypt and Jerusalem. This documentary is well done as a whole.
Just imagine the pure terror and fear coming from the people as they tried to get to shelter not knowing there was no chance of survival..
It's very sad. Specially the skeleton of the baby moved me. I had tears in my eyes when I saw that. I feel very bad for all the people who lost their lives. Wish that catastrophe would never have happened. We would have had highly developed and beautiful cities but I guess God wanted the two cities to meet their fatal end
@Maria Kelly what do you mean
So horrible so sad.
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@@SunayanaSB1998 sad statement😢😢😢😭
They were probably more confused than knowing there was no chance.
I just climbed this historic volcano today!! It was an amazing experience.🌋
That is amazing! I bet the view was too! I was lucky enough to see the Pompeii exhibit in L.A. a few years back. Truly beautifully done. Yes, I did see the plaster casts of the bodies but, I really liked how they lived their daily lives more than how they died.
Lolol can you imagine?
*climbs the volcano*
Volcano: BYE BYE TINY MAN! *spontaneous eruption*
WOW! That must have been great!
I climbed it too it was so cool you could even look into the mouth of Vesuvius
Damn I'm jelly 😂😂
It's so sad that kings of old desecrated historical sites for selfish reasons..
If only everyone respected history.
Your profile makes that statement all the better.
Nothing lasts forever. From one perspective they are just rocks.
What history? There was no history until people started digging -- Herculaneum was nothing more than a dim legend. True, the treasure hunters weren't archaeologists, but then archaeology did not exist then, and it probably would never have existed if there had not first been the interest in the past shown first by treasure hunters and then the leisurely, but still largely unscientific speculations of antiquarians. In fact, there arguably would not be a modern world if not for the Renaissance, and no Renaissance without the desire of people very much like the Bourbons to recapture what was wise and beautiful (and, alas, much of what was stupid and ugly) of the ancient world.
Mortified Potato yes but where ever people are living and is just studying to live their lives in paganism just living only for pleasure and not praying or Thanking God for life and so on.... things like that happens.....the Romans was making people fight and killed each other in gladiatorium and doing all kinda wickedness so a stopping came.
Some things never change. The Bourbons are now doing the same thing to Catalunya.
Finding where the painter spilled his paint against the unfinished paintings sketched out wall is amazing. He was right in the middle of another working day. It is Scary too. Makes me feel like I was there.
How beautiful the Roman architecture was, a fascinating documentary, thank you, shared ! ♥️
i believe that the artisans from long ago were so creative that we can never touch their greatness.
@@geraldmiller8973 I believe we could if we wanted to, but these days everything has to be built cheaply and quickly, and that usually means boring boxes of glass, steel and concrete.
I live in Portland Oregon and remember Mt Saint Helens on 5 / 18 / 80 . We were up wind of its eruption but high atmospheric winds did bring ash to the city . We could watch the eruption and glad we were not in danger like this city .
I live in Portland too. I was a toddler when it happened but I remember bits and pieces.
I was almost 6. It was a Beautiful sunny cloudless day. I was at Church with my Dad & Brother. We arrived on a Beautiful Spring Day. When we evacuated it looked like it could have been near midnight and it was snowing, grey silky ash. I live in Spokane Washington. I have a bottle of ash from the eruption on my nightstand. My dad picked up a homeless old hitchhiker on the way home. Poor man was near suffocating from all the ash. I remember wearing masks outside for the next week or so cause we had a few inches of Ash. Now we're suppose to cause of Covid-19 Virus. My dad helped clean our neighborhood & decided to try cleaning our pet cats with the vacuum. He was tore up from the floor up LOL! What a still very vivid memory!
Safe until the wind direction changes ...
@Maria Kelly I read your response to the comment I posted about Mt . Saint Helens . I also read the other comments . I don’t know where politics of any kind was introduced into those comments . You have me at a disadvantage Miss Maria . For the life of me I don’t follow your logic . So if you feel it advantageous to elaborate please feel free too .
@tony biddle What ? I’m all ears , please tell me what the heck you are talking about . How does what happened on 5/18/80 have anything to do with your comment .
It would be cool if they could completely uncover the whole city and cover it with a dome to protect it. People could walk through a 2000yr old city and really see what it was like then.
If only that could be done! But I think the people living on top might raise a few objections ...
@@franl155 only a matter of time before they end up as archeological artifacts waiting to be discovered a few millennia’s in the future when Mount v erupts again.
@@MisterMister5893 - I've got a documentary on that - what happens when Mt V goes again, as it surely will. Only this time there's more than a million people living inside the possible pyroclastic flow area, and there's no telling how much warning can be given - useful warning, false alarms will do more harm than good.
A very good documentary on Herculaneum, thank you.
My word! the painted fresco is unreal..... Artists caught up in the disaster... 11:39 onwards...
The guy from the British Museum saying that the Bourbons didn’t share our values evidently has a deep sense of irony or has never heard of Lord Elgin…
For Herculaneum, I suggest the archaeologists look at areas that used to be the Ancient Sea, that is now Land. Maybe digging in those areas will yield remains of ships... that didn't make it out.
Most likely those areas are now occupied by modern buildings and roads.
Good idea.
Believe me these grave robbers have pick through everything.
Not all the land had been checked because buildings and roads are on top. Every now and than they find remains of people a good distance from both cities who they believe were trying to get away. Very sad.
@@gregb6469 Most likely.
That was utterly chilling, but also utterly fascinating. I've got a few documentaries on Pompeii, and one on Herculaneum, which seems to be vastly under-rated by comparison. Thank you so much for this.
What gets me is that the people of Pompeii were taken utterly by surprise, caught in the open, going about their usual daily lives. Yet the people of Herculaneum had some warning; they had enough time to try to escape, or to hide at the waterfront. If it happened at night, what was the warning?
the AD 79 eruption is a sort of lesson for the current crisis: when disaster hits, it hits everyone. People don't get spared just because they're specially pious.
It took 3 days before the lethal eruption came. Most people in Pompeii escaped some stayed for some strange reason.
What’s the documentary on Herculaneum; I know of one other, and that’s from the Mummies Alive series, as one episode titled ‘Hero of Herculaneum’ talks about a soldier who was found on the beach of Herculaneum with the famous three hundred.
Same reason people stay during hurricanes and other tragedies. It's home..@@raymondbjelvin674
Some people say they didn’t suffer that they died instantly and others say they suffered. I think both happened some died instantly and other suffocated
More like cooked and suffocating at the same time
I agree
I went to both. I actually liked Herculaneum more.
Did anyone notice there appears to be a house on the side of the volcano at 8:19?
I remember reading in my uni history class that one of the Roman Generals had a fleet of boats in the harbour and was only able to save about 300 people.
Wendy Beacall, well, a tsunami happened.
Pliny the Elder was killed during the eruption .A great philosopher and orator .
His last words have rung down through the Ages ;
" what the f##k was that !?'
Thank you. I've quoted him often without knowing who to contribute the origin to.
Obviously he said it in Latin.
Sounds classier.
this is me ↑↑↑↑
He was Admiral of the fleet and died on the beach at Stabia while directing rescue of refugees by boat. It's thought he died of heart attack rather than the heat itself. On that day the wind direction hampered efforts to get people off by boat.
Thank you for this wonderful trip into history! Amazing! I cannot imagine what the people of either city must have experienced. It breaks my heart. Especially for the innocent children and unborn children.
Eh....it was that or a tumble down the stairs. The unborn know nothing. The people knew nothing.
I went to Pompeii in the Navy. It was amazing what they had. That we think is new. If you ever get the chance. It is well worth the visit to see both towns. I am sure they have uncovered more since I was there. In 1970.
and Herculaneum too 🙂 x
Thanks for sharing everything. Soo informative. 💜💜
I'm here because I am so fascinated with the Colloseum, Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvius, Ancient Roman empire, Gladitorial games, Spartacus and their beautiful culture.
Me too
Spartacus, beautiful culture and the Colloseum🤔
I pray I get there in my life time im such a history lover its my favorite thing to read about ,watch anything about history ,I truly feel if we don't know our history we are screwed cuz we will definitely relive the same things cuz we don't know better .we might still do that but at least if we know we can learn something. I grew up in a poor home were I work wk to wk for my pay check in USA but ive been so lucky to learn so many things I just hope I can save enough money to visit a WHOLE TOWN FROM 2000 YRS AGO!!! Sry I had to yell its soo exciting. To be able to walk a city that its the exactly the way it was 200 yrs ago is crazy .and if we do go soon it will be gone.people are touching the walls (I cant believe this is happening they with destroy this gift of history we have) ..I hope everyone who truly wants to learn from this gift we have been given gets a chance to visit this scared place..I feel like their could possibly been people their that might of seen Jesus Christ!! Wow blows my mind..please God let me get the chance to go there and everyone who wants to..sry for a novel lol
The preservation of the paint and work in progress that the painters were doing is amazing
I still find it amazing, even that far back....if you experience the rumblings, see smoke, then see it building up day by day, where there was none before, a little ground shaking from time to time.... they still stayed. Even if they thought it to be work of their gods, the thought of those gods being angry etc. surely would have told some we need to leave from their wrath of anger....why didn't the people leave ? On that note however, some would have just stopped at Herculaneum thinking they were safe. So many men, women and children lost. I remember pictures and one man hugging his donkey as if to protect it. Another of a dog with a loaf of bread still in it's mouth, several mothers covering their babies...all in vain. I cannot begin to imagine the horror
I'm sure we're not given the complete picture. We look at the hundreds of bodies and ask "why didn't they get away?" but you'll never find the bodies of those who *did* escape, since they died peacefully and their bones will never be found.
And in general, I think only a few of those who survived wrote about their experiences, and only a sliver of writings from antiquity survived; so all in all, it makes sense that we don't hear accounts from the survivors or see anything about them; only the dead in Pompeii and Herculaneum are left for us to see
Many people did flee and manage to survive before the eruption. Others stayed behind either because they were too poor or perhaps even slaves. I’m sure there were also some who were skeptical of it’s destructive nature.
@@DarthDragmire Maybe there were not enough boats. A part must have been evacuated. But it is possible that the boats did not dare to return because the people on it would have seen from a distance how fast the pyroclastic cloud was coming to the sea.
"What do you do for a living?"
"Why, I sift though piles of 2000 year old human excrement looking for kernels of corn and fig seeds."
Isn't that called being an archeologist?
He said they were the wealthier class and regarded as the effluent of society."
"Don't you mean 'affluent?"
"No 'effluent.'' they were 'stinking rich.":-)
LoL!
He said they were the wealthier class and regarded as the effluent of society."
"Don't you mean 'affluent?"
"No 'effluent.'' they were 'stinking rich.":-)
Well, corn wouldn't be present since corn is a "new world" crop
The mosaics and wall frescoes are breathtaking.
As an American I am amazed at how the Italians live on top of centuries of history
As an Italian, I'm amazed at how Americans live on top of centuries of Native American history and either don't realize it or don't care.
@@Robruz I realize it but it's never interested me
@@Robruz Tell us all about the Native American history that you know Neon!
@@Robruz They didn't really build anything of historical significance. They lived in huts and longhouses, which decayed and vanished centuries ago. There are some ruins of tribes that lived in the Southwestern United States, who built their homes into the sandstone hills, but besides that, most lived a Paleolithic existence. They certainly weren't as advanced as the ancient Romans, not even close.
I’ve been to Herculaneum and this is a good representation of what it’s like. The boat houses are eerie.
What an excellent documentary---absolutely fascinating
This was so extraordinary .
Thank you for sharing !
Timeline has so many great documentaries that interest me that I could watch for hours at a time, and this is one of them! I had just re-watched one about Pompeii, and was happy to see that this one about Herculaneum was still here to watch again. Mary Beard also has an excellent documentary out about Pompeii, and I don’t get tired of watching her excellent videos, either….such a wealth of excellent material to watch and listen to on YT (although I detest all the commercials).
I visited Herculaneum in 1988 (Pompeii as well). It wasn't as well evacuated nor as much to see but still amazing. I will have to go back sometime to see it again.
yes i visited it in 2019,cant imagine what that awful days of their doomed time without any warning
i visited both places in 2004
would love to go bak.. 🙂
Very interesting and informative documentary
55 years ago, I was able to visit Pompeii for a few hours! And this just adds to the fascination and information for mre. THANKS SO MUCH!
This video is fantastic! I've watched other videos about this fascinating area, but was always left wanting much more detailed information and visuals, and your video gives this spectacularly. I was especially wishing to see and find out more about the art and everyday objects and it's preservation, from furniture and architectural details to food, and this provided a very rich feast of this and so much more.
I thought that Pompeii was more preserved than Herculaneum. Thanks for showing me that I was wrong.
Excellent documentary.
A very sad tragedy due to The extremely beautiful Vesuvius.
Antique Romans believed that Vulcan was the divine blacksmith whose fire and hammer were responsible for the earthquakes and eruptions, not Poseidon (Neptune) who was the god of the seas.
Vulcan originated the word volcano.
I have been to the area many times, what surprises me is how people manage to live there without thinking of the risk. I saw on the local television that one of the largest hospitals in Capania had been built something like 8km from the volcano yet as it was in a different administrative district then Vesuvio was not considered. I appreciate the volcanic soils are very rich so that explains the farmers but not many other people!
Where do you live?
@@someopinionateddude2039 No fixed address - I travel around in a motorhome.
Before the eruption, Vesuvius was quiet for at least 300 years. Nobody knew Vesuvius was an active volcano, it was covered in forests to the summit until August 79 A. D.
How history repeats..
Thousands of years have passed, but we are not one bit wiser. Rather we are even less wise.
I visited Pompeii and Herculaneum a few years ago; absolutely fascinating.
Also,as one does, visited Naples.
Underr Naples is a huge network of cavernes hacked into the cemented volcanic ash.
Vesuvius is a raised cinder cone of a much larger volcanic field.
Just for fun; has anyone else wondered why the Bay of Naples is roughly circular?
I recently stayed in a hotel at Sorrento overlooking the bay.
At night the silhouette of the bay and Vesuvius masked the underlying geologic activity. Yes, the bays shape and surrounding cliffs maybe, indicate other, close by past eruptions, I think so too.
Love history but this is so heartbreaking. One can only hope those in the furthest parts didn't have a very long death. Herculaneum is more fascinating than Pompeii for me, but goodness ...
I remember when Mt. St. Helens blew in Eastern WA state over 40 years ago. I was living on the West Coast in Bellingham, WA and was relaxing on the couch with my then-husband that Sunday morning, when we heard a loud, “BOOM!” We thought it was gunshot or dynamite, but found out later that it was the eruption of the volcano on the other side of the state- so loud it was heard even across the mountains! Since the wind was blowing from west to east, we didn’t see any ash in Western Washington. But later that year I was in Southeast Florida, where the Mt. St. Helens ash created spectacular sunsets! Fortunately there had been warnings to Mt. St. Helens residents so there were few deaths.
So much detail in paintings, and still there
Thanks for posting
Thank you for an excellent documentary.
when I was in Turkey in the late 1950's, I saw mosaics in ditches on the base, I even saw the aquaduct of Valens...Not part of this situation in Italy.
I visited Herculaneum in late May 2022... and it is simply amazing.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us all
Well, the preword is inaccurate. For Herculaneans, it was not anything like a surprise with no forewarning, volcano did not burst all of sudden. There were plenty of disturbances and earthquakes, some people even evacuated and more were considering whether to follow... but indeed vast majority did not expect a major disaster to end up with.
They had no idea of what a volcano is and what destruction it can cause. They never knew that earthquake is a warning of a future disaster
Enjoy history the more ancient the better. Distasters happen and death, pain are frightening also interesting & worthy of study.
Great post. Simply fantastic relating archeology to where and how I live today.
I went to both Herculaneum & Pompeii in 2010. Herculaneum had a lot of work that still needed to be done and I really liked it a lot. The wood balconies and structures were amazing. I just found that a lot more wood items survived and are at a palace not far from there! It is buried very deep. Lots of steps to get down to its street level.
If only Herculaneum and Pompeii were discovered and excavated by people who actually cared about the history and significance of the cities, like what modern archaeologists do
Even in this day and age there are still people who wouldn't hesitate to stoop to looting ancient artefacts if they could find a market for them - and there's also people who wouldn't hesitate to pay high for stolen/looted ancient artefacts.
Probably the best documentary I have seen.. Timeline is outstanding in its thorough attention to detail.. Bravo
História interessante, a conheci lendo o livro "Herculanum" do Conde Rochester.
Absolutely utterly awesome and fantastic video and information!!
Better than school ever was.
That aqueduct in Naples, which was neglected and overgrown with weeds, would be seen as a national treasure in most big cities of the world. The Italian locals who have ancient buildings all around them seem to treat it with indifference. Many locals probably see it as a nuisance.
Not all italians think like that many italians love history. I think it’s Like the people Living in Rome they don’t Care about the colosseum anymore
My wife and I went to Italy for our 40th wedding anniversary. We went to Pompeii. What I found amazing was houses built up on the side of the obviously still active steaming volcano. I hope they have good insurance!
I found I live about 100 km away from a supervulcano, (Laacher See in Germany), that I never knew about. I have looked into this, to see where would people be safe. It is not really possible to be safe on this Earth. You find earthquakes, vulcanoes, tornadoes, floods, landslides, avalanges, and what ever else that nature can throw at us. Today we also have tons and tons of nuclear plants that can be as dangerous as a vulcano, if not worse, if you look at what already happened, if you know that many of those things are broken and should be shut down, (like in Tihange in Belgium), and that many issues can cause a lot of trouble like if electricity would go down over a longer time, what could happen over our Sun alone. So much is hanging over our head, no matter where we are, we may as well just enjoy every moment we are here, and be the best we can be. Much love!
It seems to be foolish ignorance, or denial that it will happen again in our time. Why tempt fate?
Insurance companies not required to cover in certain zones, *because* of the risk
Outstanding. Thank you so much 💫✨⚡️
Excellent video. One of the most exciting places to visit.
This will sound very strange but for years I've had dreams I died there, in a cellar type area with another woman, where we watched the black come towards us... It's strange to see this as there's those building with those half circles? That's what I dreamt we were at right before it hit us...
Memories of a past life perhaps
Eerie and heartbreaking for both areas
Thank you for the wonderful documentary
Its amazing that Naples was untouched despite being closer to the volcano. When I was on top of vesuvius and saw naples, I assumed it was a new town and hadn't been built at the time of the eruption, so I was surprised to read it was there at the time! I guess the wind was in the wrong direction!
Fascinating.
Just so interesting, all the things that have happened and continue to happen to this day. Beautiful insight of how people lived and unfortunately died. Reminder, every day special no matter what happens.
That's a great maxim to be inspired here, indeed.
The saddest thing is when it blows in the future all the buildings and everything that's been unearthed that can't be hauled away will be destroyed, and all that will be left is pictures. This is an amazing find!
So very interesting, thank you once again.