Pompeii, the lost Roman city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, 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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I am very interested to this places that hold a secret.
The Holy Roman Empire never fell
The Empire Strikes Back
Every government today is Roman
You live in the Holy Roman Empire now
The rulers lie and change history
for their own wealth and rule
Religion will never be real
They didn’t know the mountain was a volcano…. Yeah right-
250 years of destruction happened. Read “ A General Chronological History Of The Air, Weather, Seasons, & Comets” Scholar Select/ Thomas Short.
Another irrelevant infomercial interrupted my viewing this video.
Irrelevant YouTube infomercial once again
Pompeii gets all the attention. Many people have never heard of Herculaneum, yet what it suffered was simply horrible.
The soil… Why people keep coming back… edit: 7:26 confirmed
How and why are the teeth still white after thousands of years? lol
Would be so interesting to actually be there
No it wasn't- ANY Pompeiian.
People had no idea Vesuvius was about to erupt, despite of all the warning signs. Until it was too late. Now we ignore the warnings of climate changes across the world.
I had the privilege of living in Naples Italy from 1970 thru 1976……..been to both Pompeii and Herculaneum as well as walking down in the mouth of Vesuvious. I was born in 1963. Awesome experiences. Then I went to Athens Greece where i finished high school in 1981. So was there from 76 to 81. I could see Mt. Vesuvius from my bedroom window.
No one is upset by their terrible end. Their history is interesting!
Thank you for this wonderfully informative video ! I had never heard of Herculaneum and it's tragic fate, much less the amazing work involved in the recovery and preservation of this marvelous town. Now I do know, thanks to this video and channel .
Both cities had the same fate.Death by volcanic pyroclastic flows.
Youtube putting on that Demonrat ad with the lying Shiffty Shieeet.is too much trash to watch,couldt wait to close it.
I get goosebumps seeing and then I start thinking there is so much I'll never get to see and then I get a sick filling in my stomach about not being there to see it and to touch it in my life
Carbonized turds, that’s nice
Oh my God the British guy they got to do an Italian accent was too much. I had to stop.
What a waste of Roman babes.
You can eat that bone marrow…
Excellent!!!!!
I can not understand why people built on top”knowing”
Edgar Cayce predicted that this volcano would erupt again soon…. and not long after….. Yellowstone will also go.
They are on the same channel (so to speak)… when both of them go…
Bad times
It's turning to dust you say, hmmm.
https://youtu.be/UG5Ew4OnALM
There is an excellent book written for school aged children about Herculaneum, The Secrets of Vesuvius, by Sara Bisel. It is a great starting point with plenty of photographs and illustrations.
0:28….the woman with the red hat. Super gorgeous!!!!
I wonder if there are any contemporary accounts of people who were going here and Pompeii, but couldn't find it.
If wood has been preserved at this site, there is a reasonable chance that if a library is found, its scrolls might be readable. How amazing that could be, it could teach us so much! The Bourbons were nothing but criminal looters, looking to enhance the decor of their personal palaces with priceless treasures from the past, to their eternal shame.
I don’t like them showing human remains, even in those filled-void molds. It’s disrespectful, these were real human beings like us, with hopes, fears and dreams, and their remains deserve better.
Is modern day Naples actually built on top of Herculaneum? Could Naples one day suffer the same fate?
“Neglect “ !? Italian government?
19:14 you would of thought with the pyroclastic flow the coastline would of been increased rather than pushed back. Doesn't make sense.
This is a repeat zzzzzzzzz
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I hope those poor people didn't suffer. It's horrifying what happened to them.
Question. How did you determine that the pyroclastic flow came at midnight?
Wow 🤩. Great presentation 🙌🏼
heads exploding!? what the fuck!
makes me wonder if there's a boat or boats under the water. if they were being evacuated, surely the pyroclastic cloud could have caught up with the ships.
Hopefully there will be a new ground penetrating radar or new kind of technology one day soon
"They made holy offerings and prayed for their survival." Proof that prayer is just something we turn to when scared, even though it's completely useless.
Modern day synchronized looters called, "Archeologists", skillfully go about their whisking away artifacts in which further fund even more professional looting.Looting is big business and they're angered by past treasure seekers even so much so as to brand them as looters, even so too, with their little scrapers and dust puffers go about ahhmmm, looting?I wonder if the bank has been imbelished?