Pompeii Explained 4K

What's your favorite ancient city?

What fascinates me about Pompeii is how for all intents and purposes life wasn't so different 2000 years ago.

Imagine all the other lost Roman cities, this is only one of many

I was in Pompeii a few weeks ago. Watching this video gives a lot more insight into what I actually saw. Sadly looks like I missed a few things in my visit, but my feet were just giving out by the end. It's not easy to walk around in those very rough stone roads.

Its so crazy to walk where people walked 2100 years ago and think of things like "well it was a Wednesday for someone, someone else was out after getting in a fight with their wife" etc

This was one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on Pompeii! Everything about it, the discussion the expert and knowledge and narration, and the actual video along with the video reconstruction of what the city once looked like. It all worked out so well in this video. Thanks.🙏❤

Love all the detail. Better than anything you'd find on TV. We will never tire of these videos on ancient Rome! Please make as many as you can, thank you!

It would be cool if a virtual reality experience of the entire Pompeii tour could be made. That way people can tour what it used to look like when it was bustling before the volanic eruption. They could experience it with the people moving around, enter their living and business areas but without interaction. I would pay 💰 to experience that.

Just before eruption of the Vesuvius in 79AD, people in Pompei could enjoy incredibly wealthy and modern living standard. Probably their standard of living was much better than most of the world in the 19th century. I admire people in Pompei for their miraculous achievement.

Great video ! The reconstructions of ancient Pompeii are beautiful in all the detail you have put into them . I have thoroughly enjoyed this video . Please keep up the good work .

This is the information I have always wanted to know! My understanding of Pompeii has increased tenfold. What a work of art!

This is one of a handful of docos I have seen that are relay worth watching . The quality is out standing .

The state of preservation is just so amazing, it must be the ultimate experience to actually be there.👍👍

The beauty fills me with so much emotion

This was very well put together. Super professional, informative, and fascinating. Bravo!!

You are an artist and a genius producing these very high-quality, interesting, enrapturing videos. Thank you so much.

Yourself and Darius are my favourite historians on YouTube regarding Rome. It’s great seeing both of your insights on this fantastic ancient site

I was just in Pompeii one month ago (had a similar interest in ancient Roman life) and your video does a great job presenting it! I think the CG renderings are great, they give a sense of what the city would have been originally. Also I also liked the complex houses that were built over time, often joining multiple properties. Also don’t miss the Archaeological Museum in Naples - that houses a lot of the original pieces from Pompeii. You can spend a whole day there as well!

This video was dazzling! Everything about it was great—just the video and the editing are outstanding—but I especially liked the focus on the houses of Pompeii 15:46 with the description of interior features, e.g., the peristyle and the atrium, and how they hold together the invisible “craziness” of the perimeter. The Pompeiians, it seems, had no concept of “curb appeal” whatsoever—not that that’s a bad thing. Every aspect of their homes that mattered—their social spaces, their status markers, their art—took place on the interior. It’s something that had not occurred to me before. Also, I really appreciated that you respect the original languages enough that you include them in the etymologies (e.g., Περι and Στυλος 18:48) and in the historical texts (the accounts in Latin of Pliny the Younger 26:38). I don’t know Greek or Latin but I’m very roughly “familiar enough” with each one that having the actual language is meaningful.

Your video never fails to impress! I’ve been to Pompeii ten years ago and you film is a good refresher of my memory. It looks much more rejuvenated now compared to ten years ago. Good work, well done and a big applause!