🇯🇴 Roman Hippodrome in Jerash, Jordan: World’s Best Preserved Circus Maximus | Full Exploration
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- In Jerash, Jordan, the ancient Roman Hippodrome was built during Roman Emperor Hadrian's reign. Adjacent to the Chariot Racing Stadium is the beautiful and best-preserved Hadrian's Arch.
Date of Videography: June 15, 2021
Time of Videography: 2 pm (Jordanian Time)
Camera: Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max
Filmmaking by: Yazan Alshame
Film Location: Ancient Roman City of Jerash, Jordan - Middle East
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Not even the Circus Maximus in Rome survives, but the Jerash Hippodrome gives you an idea of just how grandiose it and other such venues were. Just imagine being one of the thousands of spectators in attendance, cheering for your preferred charioteer, the sound of your shouts being drowned out by the solid wall of noise that surrounds you...I get chills just thinking about it.
And what’s mind blowing is the civilisation that created these wonders was vanquished and destroyed
I had no idea this existed !! So much of it still visible, it was easier than many to visualize what it originally looked like. I also liked your showing us the site signage. Extraordinary, thank you for your time and effort.
At 5:32 I thought this was a modern concrete building with rough cut stone work stuck into it.
But no, it is precisely cut stones with the middle left with a rough cut appearance.
That unfinished stone work gives the building an interesting appearance.
I am always amazed at the high quality of work from 2,000 years ago.
Did anyone else suck in their mental breath at the visual vastness of the actual racing course ? Damn, I almost heard hooves pounding..
incredible should be restored
I agree, the hippodrome should be restored to its original seating capacity for up to 15,000 spectators.
This site is such a treasure the way it is, I am all for doing our best to maintain the site in its current state.
@@JP-su8bp You have an excellent point in maintaining the site in its present state.
If those ancient ruins can talk, imagine the stories they'd tell
You can stand where emperors once stood…amazing
Amazing site, thanks.
You are very welcome, thank you!
How did they get the chariot up the steps?🤔
There must be a storage place for the chariots in the vicinity of the Hippodrome. Somewhere in the back.
At the very end of this video, you see the series of arches crossing the field, this is where the chariots would start from. This is the only hippodrome where these stating blocks are so well preserved and gives you an idea as to how many teams of horses were involved.
What an amazing place i have just discovered thanks to your video, thank you and congratulations!
Great to see, as i doubt will ever be able to go in person, thank you!
they need to.have some races there
Thank you for the upload!
Awesome condition. Not like the the circus Maximus in Rome
Great video. I never knew this Hippodrome existed in Jordan. Thanks for the video.
Amazing video overall! Subbed!
This is amazing! Just added it to my bucket list. In awe of having such access to history. Thank you.
You are welcome, thank you very much!
That's where the Romans raced hippos? Cool!
yeah, they filled the arena with mud.
Hippo is Ancient Greek for Horse😉
That loud speaker is annoying
So all this amazing stone work and structures were probably created by slaves with Roman supervisors and overlords. They only had the most basic hand tools, working that way it is astonishing they achieved such high standards of dimension and finish.
Actually skilled artisans like stone masons and especially the kinds that created detailed work were usually highly paid professionals. They even had guilds like in the middle ages. But it likely varied somewhat by region and century. Most likely they were not slaves though.
We know they weren’t technologically advanced since they were horse and chariot racing when they could have been racing machines instead. However considering the scale and complexity of ancient constructions, that could not have been viable to build without a flourishing economy facilitated by huge mass population that needed to be entertained and who could afford to be entertained because they either had time on their hands or they were extremely young and energetic, they must have at least had good medicine. Horses would need to have been vetted also. Or perhaps it’s just all that good civil engineering for the prevention of disease and malaria via insect and rat bites, that enabled populations of people to stay healthy and grow. But then one wonders how people could have been so robust to build such voluminous buildings without the aid of some sort of technology. We can assume that the Romans achieved industrial revolution at least and that at least one fossil fuel such as coal, was being used for steam production and for smelting metals and poly stone. Had they discovered oil yet? If so, how was it being extracted? For example what interest did the Romans have in the Middle East if it weren’t for oil? Next question is, did Rome ever achieve a technological revolution just before it’s downfall, since no evidence has been found to suggest it. That is the question. Had they discovered uranium yet?
They used cranes
After watching this you might be interested in this video, that shows a reproduction of the actual chariots used and not the Hollywood versions. Copy and paste into the UA-cam search engine. The brutal truth behind ancient Rome's chariot races
Release The Lions ! I see a Christian . Joking.
So much acoustic pollution. How can people live with all those cars honking and the dudes constantly spamming with their megaphones? How can people live getting trashed like this daily? FFS!
Yes, I know about the mosques, but does one need to have dudes with megaphones driving around with their cars trying to sell fish and cookies too?
The video is great but it's a shame that we are not given the time to read the available information displays.
Pause the video.
Shouldnt this all be torn down since it was build using slave labour ;)