Did you know that the Romans collected and stored rainwater inside their homes?
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Did you know that the Romans had an impressive system for storing rainwater inside their homes? 🌧💧
In addition to ensuring water supply, the impluvium played an essential role in climate control within Roman residences. This system not only provided water for daily activities and gardens but also helped keep the interior of the houses cool during scorching summers. The collected water went through a filtration process with sand and stones, making it cleaner and safer to use. 🏺🌿
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My house unintentionally has a few of these
Best comment ever!
😂😂😂😂😂 Dont worry!!!! Nothing lasts forever. Things will get better one day, BUT you will miss these times !!! Trust me!!!
Instead of a pool,we use plastic buckets
@@joannephilbert7793How can you say things will definitely get better for him without knowing his circumstances? He could lose his job or rent could go up and he loses his house entirely. I don't think he would then miss the times of having a house
Well, now when you have visitors.. you can sound fancy with the roman name for it 😂😂😂
As an HVAC guy, this is sick. That was literally their plumbing and hvac system. History is so damn cool.
The rich homes also had a heater stone floor system and better isulation than a lot of buildings from past decade
"cool"
The mosquitoes though! Horrible!
You should look up their heated public baths system. Incredible engineering in which the entire setup would heat up the entire building, each room getting warmer and warmer as he head to the heated pool.
How the accomplished this underground would blow most people's minds.
I have a link to give you starters view.
ruclips.net/video/vAuJsd0HYWE/видео.htmlsi=jZCXgM9Rs6u2qXin&t=1372
@@maolmhuire got anything you're passionate about? Or are you as basic as you sound
Courtyards in the middle of homes are SO pretty
And exist since way before the Romans. Africans Did it thousands of years before Romans.
In traditional Yoruba homes that's extremely common.
@@velhotomcosta7925Oh yeah, African empires and tribal communities have very unique and beautiful architecture
@@velhotomcosta7925 courtyards in the middle of their mud huts?
@@Luckingsworth,
normal person: googles Yoruba
You:
@@Nortarachanges Hahaha
Just a heads up, there are still homes in Italy that have this system. My uncles family is one of them. It’s absolutely amazing.
What is so amazing about a slope to make water slide?😂😂
And what if it rains too much? Won't the little indoor pond overflow and cause inundation?
Indian ancient house (South Indian) house holds had these as a standard practice. Both my grandmas house had this. We used sit around n enjoy the rains with hot bajjis, bondas, etc
Do they ever overflow during a monsoon, and if so, how do you deal with it?
Yes, I have seen in pictures. Don't you get mosquitos?
@@witchhazel4135 The part will about one or two feet below the floor level so that we can on the floor and have our legs in that area. It will have drain hole at one corner(preferably NE corner) and all water will drain through that hole.
@@alankritakaushal Mosquito problem is very real now, but it was not a problem even in recent past like 10 years ago. Our ancestors enjoyed the natural air-conditioning by sleeping outdoors..
Not just south India, even rajput forts and castles had this
man, i would love to see some modern, sustainable homes designed with these! mixing ancient and modern technologies to try to build more self sufficient communities!
"Stop, my penis can only get so erect" -Krieger
The best modern concept i know of is called an earth ship
@@udoheinz7845 earth ships are dope!
sustainable and self-sufficient often go against each other. This is bad for communities facing drought because you're essentially "stealing water" that would flow through the ground to natural reservoirs.
@@renato360a in germany we have a problem with too much water in the rainy season. you have to pay rain tax depending on how big your property is
They should bring this back in arid areas of the US
Me. I was today years old when I discovered what I'm building on my ranch
Certain jurisdictions will fine you for storing water.
@@Krolic5.
Because Government By the people For the people
has been handed to the governing. It's the people's fault.
@@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 time to take it back, it's We The People, not Us The Government.
I wish, they are trying to demonize rain water collection. And now they want to tax you for your well water
I was able to work on a house like this it was the coolest 😎 house I have ever worked on.
In Arid Zone A?
@@makeamericagreenagain8511 in Seminole, FL right on the water.
No pun intended? 😁
Oh god wow please tell us more
@RenaissanceEfarCandy f
Would love a more in depth video and maybe how the concept can be worked into contemporary sustainable homes
I would like a house like that, having flowers in my courtyard watching the the rain fill my reflection pool, watching it calm and the full moor fill it and my house with light.
Sightseeing 🤩🤩🤩
only if you were rich though.
Many higher income houses built in the US in the 60s and 70s had an “internal garden” or “garden room”, typically surrounded by glass or windows to allow for A/C in the rest of the house. That, and the sunken “conversation pit” living room, are some of the hallmarks of that area that have fallen out of favor since.
@@rogerbritus9378 I have never lived an expensive of enough area to even see a house like this, outside of the courtyard houses of the French quarter and Saint Augustine.
One word - mosquitos.
When i toured/visited Pompei, there was evidence of this design/architecture. The "wealthier" homes also had internal gardens/green areas. The Romans utilized gravity in keeping the "basement" of the coliseum. Pretty amazing to see IF you ever get the opportunity.
Used gravity for what?
@@Void-Null-Panda as an italian born in Rome, who lived most of his life there, i have no idea whatsoever what hes talking about.
I guess its some garbage he saw in a short, or he made it up for attention
There is a water source that naturally flows under the location of the Rome Coliseum. The area under the area was designed to utilize the natural flow of water to carry away sewage from the site.
@@ottoschwandt6527why did you capitalize "if"? As if others might not be as "fortunate" as yourself to go see Pompeii?
@@PiXie232is this a rhetorical question?
Fyi even today we simply filter water through sand and stone. It's not necessary to use complicated cleaning when your groundwater isn't contaminated.
There's a book man wrote about 30 years ago about how they cooled homes down during the Middle Eastern and other times they faced the house towards the wind blowing. They had a fountain outside so as the water flowed the fountain the windwood flow across that into the door and out the back. It's not a cheap bug but explains how they cooled homes down centuries ago
Ancient technologies.
i beg you to tell me the name of that book
It's amazing how much has been forgotten
@@schneemann-fy6gi It wasn't forgotten. It was ignored because people have the hubris and arrogance to think we modern peoples with our tech could do better.
Wind only blows one way?
Lol
Worth mentioning this no longer works in Italy, during roman times Italy was significantly dryer during the summer, which much lower humidity levels. Much closer to an arid climate than today. These days the humidity during summer has risen making this feature less effective.
Yes humidity everywhere just kills any activity for me
I can’t live in south without AC by midMay
Not really! I’ve seen these things all over the world, many in places that are very humid and wet all the time.
@@YeshuaKingMessiahif people were used to the heat without AC, there’d be less need for it, not more. The reason why so many have a hard time with it is because they spend so much time in doors with it. Then they get smacked in the face with humidity when they step outside and with the AC when they go inside. People and animals have lived on this planet for hundreds of thousands of years without AC and survived just fine without it.
Not familiar with science behind it. Could you tell me why humidity prevents it from being as effective?
@myhandlehasbeenmishandled water is convective, it can draw heat out of the air and cool it faster than ambient air. That's why a breeze feels cooler if you're sweating or soaked in water.
If the humidity is really high, the heat transfer will not work as well, because there's already a lot of water in the air. It's why swamp coolers don't work in a humid environment, they make the local environment even more humid and muggy which can be worse.
I took a tour in Hong Kong and turns out they did this too! The houses looked very similar to these Roman ones. Wasn't expecting to see it again in Rome!
*John 4:10*
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
I believe they have old box mansions called “四合院” with a centred leisure area much bigger. In some cases in Penang They're much smaller and similar to the impluvium
Well, the Romans had to -steal- get the idea from somewhere..,
They definitely were amazing builders .
This house design is what my father and my ancestors grew up in India.. it's very traditional... I feel soo connected whenever I visit my ancestral home.
It's very common in India and feeling great the ancient civilizations had so much in common
Same problems -> same solutions. Even in areas not connected.
A spoon has to be a spoon and look like it to be used as a spoon to put it simple. 🤗
I was looking for this comment. I don't know much about India but I have been watching a lot of Indian movies recently and I was wondering why there were so many houses like this in them and what it's use was (other than looking pretty of course)
Yes. And they are called 'Wada' in Maharashtra and 'Nalakettu' in South.
Yes. U r right
yeah my grandma's house had thus
Traditional tamil houses also had this. It is called "Muttram"
In Malayalam, it is nadumuttam
Not only Roman's but all the ancient civilizations made their homes more efficient than we ever will because our system is in place to support the industrial complex.
these homes were overall vastly inefficient compared to yours today. All because the industrial complex makes your like so much more streamlined that you're able to achieve exponentially more with less. Just in order to have a computer in their home to mimic what you're doing here writing a comment on Yotuube they would have to have a whole damn water mill in their house to produce electricity.
@@renato360a What do you mean by ''inefficient''
@@renato360a I mean you can stick a computer in one of those homes pretty easy
And having passive cooling is more efficient than active cooling in terms of energy consumption so
@@RobotronSage what I mean is this: we outsourced our entire way of life to centralized third parties. And we did that because it's more efficient. We don't tend to the house anymore like we did in ancient times. Our daily jobs are highly specialized and affect people far away from our local community. This is all because a group of people with high skills doing a specific job for everyone does the job better (less resources, less time, higher quality) than everyone having to do it themselves from the ground up. This logic goes all the way up to the transnational level: globalization is based on the fact that it's overall more efficient for countries to make only what they're best at and trade it for everything they need.
You cannot stick a computer into a house like that. Let me ask you: how the hell are you going to provide electricity to it? Or even plug it into a standardized outlet? You need an industrial complex in place that produces electricity on the cheap in order to plug it in. And you could very inefficiently dam a nearby river yourself and produce your own electricity, but don't even dream about producing an entire laptop yourself. You need the combined industries of dozens of countries in order for a computer to exist. And without it you can forget about Microsoft Excel which allows you to run your small business keeping track of finances and client's tabs and whatnot.
What I'm pushing back against is the notion that the industrial complex is evil or wasteful. Our homes depend on it for even the most frivolous things like flushing a toilet and we're all the better for it.
Sure you can design a home that keeps itself passively cool in the summer to save on electricity. You can hire an architect right now to design it for you. There are some tricks here and there that will indeed make your home passively more efficient. But my point is that the failure to adopt those measures is not the industrial complex's fault and that complex is what allows our comfortable lives with as little overhead as possible.
I direct rain water from my home roof gutters to large water containers. Its simple and helps offset water yard consumption.
That’s illegal in some places
@@ganymedehedgehog371 ,not illegal where I live.
Places where its illegal are creating scenarios that force people to become dependent on the government.
owning chickens, growing a food garden, making a well. Anything that involves personal independence or survival, the dems will make illegal. Or have already.
Even in India mainly in south India have similar houses
But they are not used to store water right? Quite a waste of resource.
@@kittygirl_thetortie498No that’s where they shit in the water and dump deceased people.😊
@@kittygirl_thetortie498not they were originally used to send the rain directly to garden on need, I have one inside my ancestoral house, but those are very difficult to maintain and extremely expensive.
Yes true... lot of old south indian traditional houses same like this techniques. But I not sure whether they save water or not.
But nowadays nobody builds houses like this....
@@kittygirl_thetortie498 it's not a waste of resources. It keeps the house cool and stores water. And the water goes back to the ground after being used or it evaporates back to the clouds like rain water on the surface.
No waste.
I saw this in the wealthy homes of Pompeii
Ancient and medieval Indian houses also have a courtyard, with a basil plant in its centre.
Reasonably, because the Greeks also had them and had a shortlived empire stretching into India.
@@AAA-xe7yd yes, I think they were called the Bacterian empire.
@@prasadsawant4153bactrian empire yes
@@AAA-xe7ydYes, Greeks must've learnt from the ancient Hindus. Afterall, it was a polytheist society
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Thank you so much for taking the time to write an interesting narrative, then actually narrating it (I do not like synth voices), and splicing relevant images. I wish that more shorts creators were working this hard.
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE ROMAN ARCHITECTURE!!! BEAUTIFUL
Brilliant this will be built into my new home❤
You can still see this architecture in Tamil Chettinad houses.
Yes because ancient Greeks brought this style with them to India & surrounding countries in there empires. The Romans learnt this from Greeks as well.
Yes the architecture is key in vastu sashtra literature in India. Ancient Greeks used to work as gate keepers in royal palaces in Tamil kingdoms. They probably took it to Europe.
@@StarkIller-df7gw Greeks didn't even exist then. 😂
How did Romans keep the impluvium water from becoming stagnant?
By... Using it?
Like.... What?
Slaves probably maintained it like a pool boy.
@@HaloNeInTheDark27 Cleaning it. Down on their knees, scrubbing. A lot. OK when young if they/u have good knees.
This was not an average Roman house. These were in very wealthy homes, the wealthy have servants. It is not difficult to cycle water out and replace it with fresh. One of the many things not mentioned here is that this was NOT the water supply for the home but more like a water feature at a mansion of today. The Romans were rather famous for their running water and aqueduct systems after all.
Very good question. Anyone who collects rainwater notices right away that it turns green with algae within a couple days and insect larvae swim in it almost immediately. I can scrub and rinse a bucket for rainwater, place it on the shady side of the house, and two days after a storm it’s already green. 😢
Top tier engineering and sustainability..... 2 thousend and so years after I can even sleep without hearing all my neighbours thru the thin walls
This is another prove that races do exist
Compare romans vs most of africans and from thousands of years ago are still ahead of africans now and many others
India also has these in some traditional homes and havelis
Try doing that in Florida.
Such a great idea! Looks like we need to bring this back!
The basic courtyard and rain water cistern layout was common to not only Roman villas but middles Eastern Indian and Asian architectures however, the Asian cultures tended to grow fish in their rainwater ponds thereby ensuring it had not been poisoned and having a source of fresh fish. The two courtyard format with a formal section to the front of the house for visitors and a rear section for family only was also common from Roman to Asian villas. Of course, the homes that the average citizens lived in were far more constrained, even so, Asian houses had a long home design that followed the formal forefront to rear family areas though far less opulently, these long homes were in packed city centres and were mostly for wealthy merchants.
One more practical reason to keep fish in those open water filled structures, be it an indoor tank or an outdoor pond, is to reduce the number of mosquitoes as a lot of Asian mosquitoe species lay eggs in water. These fish tanks/ ponds usually include aquatic and semi aquatic/ hydroponic plants for cleaning up and oxygenating the water as well, especially in hot and humid climates. Thus, keeping a water collecting pond with a fish pond with aquatic and semi aquatic plants is the best combination that give one's home both food, clean water, and a beautiful scenery while keeping the risks factors low. Adding a fence is needed to keep people, especially children, from accidentally fall into the ponds and drown (several cases have been reported).
@@Phillia_crochet how can the water be clean with fish excrement in it?
@@yankeecitygirl Snails & plants.
Rural Chinese homes had these as well, including the one my mother grew up in and I visited a few times as a kid. I never knew what the purpose of it was other than that it looked really cool and brought a touch of nature indoors. Ours didn’t have the smart filtration system but had evergreen plants growing within the small pool.
I have ALWAYS wanted an atrium thing like this in the center of my home, here's confirmation of what a great idea that is (for me). Just didnt know about the cooling and water storage system but would love to include that into the home design as well!
Love to hear this kind of thing...not sure why exactly but bring more on!
Humidity I'd the opposite of what you want
Not in a dry area which most of Rome was probably quite dry
Roman times Italy was much less humid
@@YeshuaKingMessiah The idea of increasing humidity to deal with hot summers is nonsense.
Please come to SOUTH INDIA as well 😊
Various cultures have built houses like this for similar purposes. Culture as old and a few older then the Romans. History is facinating, particularly when you learn about the worlds history and not just one peoples portion of it in one specific time and place.
We had something similar in Algeria, Tunisia and Morroco. In door courtyards are the best🥲
But not for drink.... Nobody drinks stagnant water these days. Rome had 12 acueducts for a 1 million cubic meters per day.
The vacant rectangular area is used mostly for drying the clothes, and syn dry any pickles.. a part of that is also used to wash feel while entering home from outside directly. However during rains season the water collected would directly go down the pit underneath
This was a style used throughout the Greek world it was invented long before Rome even existed! Examples of this have been found in Greece thousands of years old. Santorin & afew other islands had 4-7 story houses 🏘 with glass windows. Ceramic pipes for water & sewage 4 thousand years old. Also in Greek Minoan Crete. Where they founding flushing toilet. Also roads that are still so perfect they are still instact today 4K years later. They invented the grid pattern for towns. Emiserries who visited Knosos in Crete would be shocked the palace had cooling system to keep it cool in summer. They even had pipes under marble floors that would run water that would be boiled & make the marble tiles warm keeping the whole palace warm in winter. Truly ingenious having your marble floor heated! 😂😂😂
Honestly no one cares who did it first.
@@davidcraig7771 everyone cares. It's knowledge instead of ignorance.
Fascinating. 🤔
Wow! I didn't know that!
Greeks are so insecure lmao.
This is very cool and convenient thinking and design, love it!
Yeah👍 in South Spain it’s very common building, Roman design.👍 I love it
It's nice to know they had a way to cool down between all the f***ing 🥵
That would be super cool to have nowadays, but I don’t think you can drink the water from this sky anymore
They would'nt. They only drink from natural fountains with constant flow. Rain and constrained waters where used to all kind of needs neither drinking or cooking.
@@Cardelous ya
I tried melting some snow. It tasted like car exhaust.
@@Matthew_Loutner Just as I suspected
Mosquitoes?
Only in standing marshes, not underground cisterns used daily. I'm sure if it got dirty there'd be some, though.
Don't be silly, skeeters were invented in the 1900s
Pretty much a quarter to half of Rome was a seasonal marsh, I'm sure if mosquito larvae managed to survive in these, it hardly made a difference
So algae and mosquitoes and most other insects need still water. From what I found the impluvium mainly only stored water for a day or so. The impluvium would have a slow train through a sand filter that went to the cistern. They also had an overflow and manual drain that went to the outside/street.
As shorter daily rain is pretty common in that area the water never sat there long enough to be a problem.
@@br3dw1nn3rBy the Moses clan😂
I just saw a video of how they collected water in Venice too. It would be cool if people could live like this more now.
I would actually design my dream home like this. Water conservation is a must nowadays.
If the rain water was fall into the pool from the roof, how was it filtered before being stored?
It... Wasn't?
Like... What?
@@HaloNeInTheDark27 that was the assertion made in the video, which is why I am asking the question. It does not makes sense to me to state both that the rainwater was collected in the pool in the courtyard and yet was also "filtered before being stored".
"The water was *often* filtered with sand and stones." The illustration you are seeing in the video is simplified. It is not one using filtration. Otherwise, it would have been routed to pots and cisterns filled with sand stoness. Guttering and terra cotta tubing/pipes would route the water into the filtering cistern. They often built their guttering systems into the inside bodies/walls of their structures so you would not even be able to see them.
@@hugoh.9694 the water probably passed throung filters using gravity before reaching an exit in the back of the structure where the slaves would prepare the meals.
@@charlesco7413 YES! I totally agree. It would all happen behind the scenes.
In the heat of the Roman summer, they wanted more humidity??? Huh. Doesn’t sound right to me.
Italian summer heat is mostly dry. Also, the sunlight isn't hitting the pool directly, so there wouldn't be a massive amount of humidity. Just enough to cool the surrounding air and induce air flow.
In the heat of Roman summer, healthy people wanted fresh water to wash themselves?
Doesn't sound right to me.
It's crazy how little understanding of reality this generation has, and how proud of it everyone is
@@HaloNeInTheDark27 what does your retarded comment have to do with wanting more humidity when it’s blistering hot out??? People are dumb as rocks. Fuck.
@@HaloNeInTheDark27This water was likely used in the garden and for livestock/animals more than it was used for bathing. Roman bathhouses were open to the public for bathing. Those were supplied by fresh river/spring water brought in by their elaborate aqueducts.
The Alhambra had toilets with running water
It must have created mold and excessive humidity at times as well.
No
That's why everything was made from lime, it's antimold. Lime-washed walls, lime plaster, limestone foundation. It's crappy modern materials that mold. Roman buildings will be here for another 2000 years. Most American houses won't make it for the next 25
@@Bl4CKDevil5 correct as it was cleaned through filtration like old systems in India to the present day.
People are so ignorant today, they don't look for solutions, instead they look for problems as excuses to do anything that would make it better overall.
@@richard--s Saying that you can fight hot summers by increasing the humidity is also ignorant.
Arabs in Northern Africa and Iberia absolutely loved this and embraced this constructive technique, hence the pittoresque Andalusian patios and Cármenes, and the Moroccan riads.
Thank you!
I really love the info and all the designs! 😊
The ancient romans were more advanced than Africa today.
Not even debatable!
Absolutely.
Rich romans had better houses than many italians today. Generally people seemed to care more about building beautiful long lasting things instead of industrial boxes.
We need to go back to these old ideas.
I've read that they had pits filled with sand in which rainwater collected that they drew from via a small well in the center.
This was a system present in Ancient Indian houses as well. Some of the houses nowadays also have this kind of design, especially in South India. Somehow, this makes me feel like all the ancient cultures were connected….being miles apart yet connected with heart….
Southern India traded with Ancient Rome through the Arabian Sea.
I'm amazed at ancient architecture in general. Both functionally and aesthetically.
다른 댓글들이 하는 얘기가 재밌지만, 요즘 비는 (전세계에서 일부 청정 지역만 제외하고) 해로워서 옛날과 달리 더 철저한 정수 시스템을 구축해야 할 거임, 아마도.
기계가 필요할 거 같은데. 이걸 구축하고 유지하는 데 비용이 엄청 많이 들 거 같음.
그냥 현존하는 수도를 연결하는 비용이 훨씬 저렴하고 쉬울 거라 다른 댓글들이 상상하는 집은 나타나지 않을 거 같음.
게다가 비가 많이 자주 오는 지역이 아니면 매일 실생활에 사용하는 물의 양을 다 충족할 수도 없으니 어차피 수도 연결은 필요한데 굳이 많은 돈을 들여 저런 시스템을 구축할 필요가 없음.
고대 로마에는 수도 시설이 있어도 저런 보조적인 시스템을 통해서도 물을 추가로 공급할 필요가 있었겠지만 현대에는 불필요.
Was there anything in place to keep the bird poop and bugs out? I would imagine mosquitoes would LOVE these standing bodies of water!
Traditional south Indian homes were built with courtyards exactly like this
Venice also directed rain from roofs into courtyards where the water was filtered through sand and accessed by a well.
*I remember learning about this. It's a cool system!*
Ancient Indian Houses and Temple also have these
I learned this a few years ago in Latin classes!
I remember learning about this in highschool and I always thought it looks so aesthetic on top of being useful. Imagine there's a comfy rainstorm and you can just read a book sitting next to your impluvium enjoying the nice sounds and smell. I also wondered why we don't include this in modern houses, but I guess it's because there are so many toxic pollutants in the atmosphere these days you'd have to filter the rainwater with more than just sand probably to make sure it's safe to drink sadly. I still like the idea generally though, I'm sure with a few modifications to how the water is filtered it could still work today.
It's nice in theory, but isn't really unless you have screens. During a rainstorm, insects will seek shelter, so you have open air atrium, that is swarming with mosquitos and flies while you're trying to relax.
My childhood home used to have a courtyard in the middle with a small cistern for the rainwater, we never used it because we had regular plumbing but it was kinda cool to know it was there.
This is awesome. I love homesteading and this is perfect!
Great story! Thanks for sharing it with us! 🙋🏽♀️
Traditional houses in south India still have this. Its called naalukettu
Almost like old Damascene houses❤
In INDIA We are using it more earlier..
call it "आंगन" or "बावड़ी"
The impluvium made my head explodium 🤯
thank you for this, i've been researching different rain water catchment systems and this one has given me so many ideas!
Very smart engineering for their time and that's what gave us what we have today
The filtration system consisted of layer of fine sand at bottom then layer of crushed charcoal then top layer of sand to filter/ compress buoyant charcoal down by weight of wet sand above. You can make a model of this system by taking a 2 liter plastic soda bottle cut off bottom, melt with hot needle tiny holes in bottle screw cap. Invert bottle third of sand then third of crushed charcoal then third sand. Pour silty suspect water through cut open bottom and you can see how it works! Still need to boil the water though before drinking!
Thanks! 👍
It still amazes me how inventive and forward-thinking people of the past were; we tend to think of them as our less intellectual distant relatives, but a lot of the philosophies and practices we have today came from them. Even medical practices. Sushrutaa Samhita was ahead of his time and created tools that surgeons still implement today. And the Ancient Greek and Roman astrologists who charted the planets without even a telescope. Or Leonardo Da Vinci, who drew diagrams of the mesentery and understood the human muscular system better than the physicians of his time. It really is amazing how many great minds are scattered within our collective past.
Wow, practical, useful, and beautiful. Awesome history
Wonderful information! Thank you for sharing! ❤️👍❤️
I bet the first guy asking for an impluvium in his house just loved listening the rain drops sounds while meditate during his daily otium
Beautiful and so serene
The Less Materialized Folks JUST BATHED IN A RIVER STREAM Etc..✨💙✨
Wow! Learn something new every day! Roman homes had atriums! This would fascinate most Eichler / Rummer fans MCM Architecture
In Tamilnadu Southern part of India , had all the houses built with these same type only called “ Thotti kattu veedu “ , In Tamilnadu we have the oldest dam built and still in use which is 2000 years old “ Kallanai “. Just check your county history may be this system might have brought by Tamil people…
Traditional architecture in Kerala (in South India) is set up the same way.
Just watched an episode of Spartacus, the wife complained the fountain was dry and he said it hadn't rained in a long time. I figured it was filled it was filled similarly or by run off. Very cool to see actual historical info! ❤
Zelim jos ovakvih videa. Arhitektonska rjesenja za skladistenje vode. Kako su to radili stari rimljani? Cisterne i ostali nacini
South Indian homes have had this kind of architecture hundreds of years ago... Now the patterns are more modernised but such homes still exist down south... These houses have a cool and breezy atmosphere even during summer days... ❤️❤️
It’s also a gorgeous water feature
I love the concept, it should make a comeback
That section was really good
So very well explained!
Honestly those stuff were pretty fine really if only everyone can afford to have one in each home it'd be one hell of a sight
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Even in ancient southern parts of india
We had this system for storing water
I really dislike the way the black boxes flash over the text. Very distracting from the video.
Beautiful idea and images.
My house is this ... made of limestone... beautiful home