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Recycling in Ancient Rome ♻️
The ancient Romans excelled in recycling materials, driven by practicality and economy rather than environmental concerns. They repurposed stone and marble, as seen in Emperor Justinian's Basilica Cistern in Constantinople, which used columns from crumbling buildings and pagan temples. Structures like the Pyramid of Cestius in Rome were incorporated into defensive walls by Emperor Aurelian, transforming a tomb into fortification. Monuments, such as the Arch of Constantine, were cannibalized for quick, cheap construction by reworking elements from other emperors' works. Bronze statues were also recycled, with heads recast to represent new emperors, exemplified by the statue of Emperor Nerv...
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The Ancient Romans loved the swastika
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The Romans loved the swastika, using it to decorate their houses in fancy mosaics, putting on their cups and plates, and even using the symbol on the soles of their shoes! But to the Romans, it meant something entirely different to its more recent use in 20th century Germany. This video will explore the history of the swastika and what it meant to the Romans. Music: Celtic Impulse by Kevin McCl...
Ancient Roman Life Expectancy Was Just 25 Years
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Ancient Roman Life Expectancy Was Just 25 Years
Crucified Dogs and Sacred Chickens: 9 Facts About Animals In Ancient Rome
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Crucified Dogs and Sacred Chickens: 9 Facts About Animals In Ancient Rome
Lead poisoning in Ancient Rome - did they know?
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Lead poisoning in Ancient Rome - did they know?
Asbestos in Ancient Rome
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The Romans gave British people bad teeth
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Rome DID Conquer Scotland
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The Ionian Revolt 499-493 BC

Комментарии

  • @softgreen
    @softgreen 4 часа назад

    I thaught it was an very beautiful boxingsack...😂 SORRY....❤

  • @akaTangible
    @akaTangible 23 часа назад

    every letter is ab moneys pretty much!

  • @SockAccount111
    @SockAccount111 День назад

    amazing how well decorated it is for something meant to be slashed and hits with all sorts of blunt objects and flying projectiles and debris

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts День назад

      Yeah quite! Roman soldiers spent their days training (with different equipment), building, repairing, doing domestic chores, eating and getting merry. Not occasionally did they actually have to fight in battle, which possibly explains the good nick of this shield

  • @scoper04
    @scoper04 День назад

    So how do you know that it would have been much flattered if it's the only one that has ever been found?

  • @BrianJ1
    @BrianJ1 2 дня назад

    What is an "ear of corn" referenced in 3:52?

  • @zippymufo9765
    @zippymufo9765 2 дня назад

    These letters and the Roman graffiti found on walls in Pompeii prove that people haven't fundamentally changed at all. Especially the graffiti, where guys are bragging about all the women they've slept with and shop owners are posting warnings like "Whoever keeps shitting here is going to get their ass kicked when we catch them"

  • @rafaelalbuquerque324
    @rafaelalbuquerque324 2 дня назад

    I click because I thought it said "scrotum".

  • @samparkerSAM
    @samparkerSAM 3 дня назад

    Excellent... Now time for jokes... What a TACITUS LABOR PERHAPS THE ANNALS NEED A DIALOG ON ORATORY 😅

  • @serhiydubenko7927
    @serhiydubenko7927 4 дня назад

    Corn was introduced in Europe by Christopher Columbusin 1493. 😂

  • @tacidian7573
    @tacidian7573 4 дня назад

    Dude's everywhere 😂

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 3 дня назад

      I only go to places formerly occupied by the Romans 😂

  • @user-wi6cz4hh5b
    @user-wi6cz4hh5b 4 дня назад

    YOU should have mentioned that the symbol/the design was never intended for wicked deeds, very POOR commentry from you I will NOT be subscribing!

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 4 дня назад

      @@user-wi6cz4hh5b Good. I don't want people like you subscribed to my channel

    • @user-wi6cz4hh5b
      @user-wi6cz4hh5b 4 дня назад

      @TopRomanFacts Do you mean people who tell you how to PROPRELY comontate?

    • @user-wi6cz4hh5b
      @user-wi6cz4hh5b 4 дня назад

      @TopRomanFacts You're a man. Where's your backbone? Speak facts NOT the "Romans used it." Why did THEY use it? What was the significance of the symbol back then? Speak up!

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 4 дня назад

      @@user-wi6cz4hh5b how about you learn to properly spell before you comment?

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 4 дня назад

      @@user-wi6cz4hh5b I have a whole video about the Roman use of the swastika and about 6 shorts. You won't have been notified, because you proudly are not a subscriber

  • @MartinNicol-bk7ny
    @MartinNicol-bk7ny 5 дней назад

    Tht wiz kl

  • @jonlannister345
    @jonlannister345 6 дней назад

    Now they can just do this with computers so nobody ever has the physical evidence that they are being scammed by the money printers.

  • @christopherneufelt8971
    @christopherneufelt8971 6 дней назад

    Today they do the same thing with Hedge Funds and new economy.

  • @lunarmodule6419
    @lunarmodule6419 6 дней назад

    Interesting thx

  • @orbitalslingshot2206
    @orbitalslingshot2206 7 дней назад

    _"Where is your scutum? Don't have any? You expect me to believe that, amentis? The truth is you lost an expensive piece of copiae-issue equipment. That shield is going to come out of your salarium, and you will remain in this roman legion until you are D hundred and X years old, which is the number of years it will take for you to pay for a fine painted, leather crafted Scutum you have lost!!!"_

  • @paulmccormack8963
    @paulmccormack8963 7 дней назад

    Funny told by and English man were is the proof

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 7 дней назад

      Where is the proof? Did you not watch the video? English and Scottish didn't even exist as identities then, so there is no need to get offended about your perceived history

  • @ikad5229
    @ikad5229 7 дней назад

    Did you get permission to enter the enclosed area? I've visited Pisa countless of times and it was not open to the public. Just curious 😂 Anyways, great work mate. I don't know if you are an Historian or not, but as one recently graduated, I approve and appreciate your content. New sub :)

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 7 дней назад

      It's now totally open to the public via a fairly obscure staircase! Thanks for your comment 👌 I am a professional archaeologist but I work in the UK, so this video is just me enjoying ancient Rome whilst on holiday

    • @ikad5229
      @ikad5229 7 дней назад

      @@TopRomanFacts How you talk in your videos was enough to know you are a very knowledgeable person. The UK is still in my bucket list, so many interesting places to discover. I'm more focused on Medieval History, but anyone enjoys Ancient Rome. Cheers 👍

  • @davidhollins870
    @davidhollins870 7 дней назад

    This is from the fort at Vindolanda - check out their site for much more. You can even join the excavations - and they are great people there too!

  • @lukeevans1945
    @lukeevans1945 8 дней назад

    Actually visited this myself good video👍

  • @Bruhkake
    @Bruhkake 8 дней назад

    Love this, they'd scrape themselves with sticks to get clean as they sat in the laconium, I think?

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 7 дней назад

      @@Bruhkake yes!! I'm tempted to get a replica strigil for my videos 😂

    • @Bruhkake
      @Bruhkake 7 дней назад

      @@TopRomanFacts yesssss!!! I've just found you today and you're right up my street so bring on the strigils!! 😂🙏🏼

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 7 дней назад

      @@Bruhkake haha you've convinced me now

  • @elishh8173
    @elishh8173 8 дней назад

    That sock looks just about new. I dont believe it 1600 years old. Also ancient Egypt was not a civilization in the middle of a desert. Something happened that changed the environment to its unlivable condition it is now.

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 8 дней назад

      Have you forgotten about the river Nile?

  • @dylanjones7485
    @dylanjones7485 8 дней назад

    Still feeling bad about Heraclius 😢😢

  • @Alienalloy
    @Alienalloy 8 дней назад

    the concept of the written word is one of the most over looked inventions i hold dear, how it can take a thought, an idea, an emotion, and place it on paper, then transport that thought, emotion, thousands of years in to the future ...still amazes me

  • @user-nj1ob8ht3p
    @user-nj1ob8ht3p 9 дней назад

    actually there is much more roman stuff, it is enough to dig...and when they do for ex for utilities works, they stop the site and inspect it, make records and then cover it again w special geo fabrics 😂😢 in verona instead for ex they put glassy pavements

  • @jonlannister345
    @jonlannister345 9 дней назад

    Bro, some translation advice is to use the equivalent modern word rather than a direct literal translation. We still have all those rooms in modern spas :L

    • @Bruhkake
      @Bruhkake 8 дней назад

      He's making it authentic to Rome, otherwise he might as well take you into a spa or not bother at all 🙄

    • @jonlannister345
      @jonlannister345 8 дней назад

      @@Bruhkake Haha, on what planet?

    • @Bruhkake
      @Bruhkake 8 дней назад

      @@jonlannister345 are you okay?

    • @jonlannister345
      @jonlannister345 8 дней назад

      @@Bruhkake What are you even talking about? This is basic transliteration technique, and you're here objecting to it. What are you talking about?

    • @Bruhkake
      @Bruhkake 8 дней назад

      @@jonlannister345 god someone pissed in your cornflakes - my point is it doesn't matter that there are modern words; it's nice to discover the Latin names and their direct translations. Chill out, relax. Let him do his own thing 👍🏼

  • @thomasng1816
    @thomasng1816 9 дней назад

    Was it written in classical Latin or something else?

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 9 дней назад

      @@thomasng1816 they were written in cursive irregular Latin, which made it incredibly tough to decipher even for the best Latin scholars. Certain words were entirely unique and had never been seen before in classical scripts

  • @angelcamarena2312
    @angelcamarena2312 9 дней назад

    Even Romans had a c*m sock

  • @WellSwolen69
    @WellSwolen69 9 дней назад

    This is very interesting seeing so many different classes of people writing in Ancient Rome. Many countries after were limited in those who could read and write.

  • @user-tp4ii6hs3l
    @user-tp4ii6hs3l 9 дней назад

    Strikes me that all of these soldiers were literate...when widespread literacy wouldn't appear in Europe again until about 1840.

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 9 дней назад

      It should be noted that the vast majority of soldiers were illiterate. But there were around about 300,000 soldiers at any one time, and even allowing for a conservative 10% literacy rate that's 30,000 soldiers who could read and write at any given time

  • @aquariusfriar
    @aquariusfriar 10 дней назад

    Cheugy conquered the ancient world.

  • @giorgio9731
    @giorgio9731 10 дней назад

    this is the Arminio end afetr only 9 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanicus

  • @joshuawyatt4737
    @joshuawyatt4737 10 дней назад

    Roman soldiers didn't write in old proper English. Scholars are prudes. They disguise the true nature of these men behind their squeamish sensibilities.

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 10 дней назад

      How do you know? Can you read cursive vulgate Latin?

  • @evanredd8163
    @evanredd8163 10 дней назад

    That bookshelf though

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 10 дней назад

      The library of Alexandria had nothing on me

  • @sebastiangelbert3637
    @sebastiangelbert3637 10 дней назад

    interesting , love the video !

  • @HaraldHofer
    @HaraldHofer 10 дней назад

    They will not stop an army but they will prevent a thief from climbing over...? Read "Commentarii de Bello Gallico" and find the part about the battle of Alesia. Two walls were pretty significant...

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 10 дней назад

      I never said walls were insignificant. I said they didn't stop ancient armies. At Alesia, the walls didn't stop either the army inside the city, or the relieving army from going over. It did stop supplies from going into the city, and helped stop the relieving army from harassing Caesar's army. But let's not forget that Caesar had an active field army of thousands defending and patrolling the walls in an active siege. In general, the Romans did not defend their linear barriers with entire armies. They were patrolled and the gatehouses were garrisoned, but they did not and could not stop an army from climbing or breaking down a section of the wall

  • @brinta2868
    @brinta2868 10 дней назад

    There are some silly mistakes in the subtitles.

  • @gmo.86
    @gmo.86 10 дней назад

    Now sold at Patagonia. One socks at a time.

  • @CalMullen90
    @CalMullen90 11 дней назад

    The walls weren't that height 2000 years ago. They were higher alot higher

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 10 дней назад

      Yes I know, but they still could not stop an ancient army

    • @CalMullen90
      @CalMullen90 10 дней назад

      @TopRomanFacts the picts and gaelic tribes were hit and run ...gurrila warfare. The romans uses to go missing in the Highlands mass graves still being found today

  • @thecocktailian2091
    @thecocktailian2091 11 дней назад

    I find it most curious that the letters are all so very formal and plainly matter of fact. No embellishments, and the only warmth being at the end wishing the receiver good fortunes. I wonder if this was uniform way of writing in the era, or if it was simply these were soldiers letters?

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 10 дней назад

      That's true, but I suspect a lot of it is due to how formal Latin sounds when it's translated into English

  • @Shintenpu
    @Shintenpu 11 дней назад

    The washing sponge!!!

  • @StevenT-33
    @StevenT-33 11 дней назад

    Not just the romans. Someone decided that thousands of years of use by every European culture didn't matter because of a war

  • @user-oe9fs2fr7h
    @user-oe9fs2fr7h 12 дней назад

    This man is wrong on nearly every level.

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 12 дней назад

      @@user-oe9fs2fr7h there's a reason why I'm out here doing archaeology and you're behind a computer screen being a hater. Stay in your lane

  • @handleisGG
    @handleisGG 12 дней назад

    Syria huh... what were they doing over there? I wonder...

    • @hyperpony4865
      @hyperpony4865 7 часов назад

      Conquering?

    • @handleisGG
      @handleisGG 5 часов назад

      @@hyperpony4865 colonising** you can't conquer people who can't fight back tf is wrong with you

  • @Psychebane
    @Psychebane 12 дней назад

    Those are some pretty nice asses. 😂

  • @handleisGG
    @handleisGG 12 дней назад

    This drip is CRAZY

  • @Lubomir_Drinka
    @Lubomir_Drinka 13 дней назад

    You can't easily take a horse or war machines.

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 13 дней назад

      No you can't, but an army with cavalry and war machines won't take too long filling in a defensive ditch and tearing down a section of a wall. The Roman army was quick to mobilise by ancient standards but not quick enough to respond in real time to any army that attempted to cross their linear barriers, whether that be in Britain, German, or Africa

    • @Lubomir_Drinka
      @Lubomir_Drinka 12 дней назад

      @@TopRomanFacts I run in amateur Kysucký cited hromnický and he said the Slovan's tribes as quads, markomans... beat roman empire, the roman build for defending quick robbery. But it's looks like they don't want to slaves takes a machinery in or out or loot on horse cart easily through the fence.

  • @Pavia1525
    @Pavia1525 13 дней назад

    How could a Roman be writing about corn, when corn wasn’t cultivated in Europe until after Columbus made his journey to the Americas in 1492?

    • @TopRomanFacts
      @TopRomanFacts 13 дней назад

      The English word corn predates Columbus and refers to the most common grain of a region. Maize is the crop you are thinking of

  • @alistairjamesheaton9155
    @alistairjamesheaton9155 13 дней назад

    Also in front of those walls would be a set of ditches with unpleasant things in them so anyone trying to attack the wall would then have to cross a ditch