How ancient Rome was excavated in Italy in the 1920s. Unique rare videos and photos.
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- How ancient Rome was excavated in Italy in the 1920s. Unique rare videos and photos.
Photographs taken during archaeological work in the Italian capital in the late nineteenth century also include photographs from the excavation of the main harbor of Ancient Rome and presumably its first colony - Ostia, also at the Villa Nero in Anzio and at Villa Adriana in Tivoli.
The most extensive excavations of the ancient port began in 1938 on the orders of Mussolini and lasted until 1942. For five years, a significant part of the city was dug up and about 600,000 cubic meters of land were recovered.
In some places to get from the level of modern streets to the streets of the Roman periud had to go 12 meters deep.
Villa Adriana - Imperial Villa in Tivoli, from where the Emperor Hadrian ruled the Roman Empire at the end of his life.
Excavations in the Plaza Torre Argentino in 1926 - 28 years and the construction of the avenue Via dei Fori Imperiali in the thirties.
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After the 6th Century Gothic War, the destruction inflicted by the various sieges and of the aqueducts, maintenance of the ancient public buildings that were not converted to churches ceased, the city,s grain supply had ceased when the vandals captured North Africa and Romeo was drastically depopulated, ending in a small city around the Vatican, a surrounding belt of massive buildings gradually becoming ruins. Then a wide expanse that became farm land inside the walls of the Roman city. The ruins were used as rubbish dumps, the marble facades stripped to burn to produce lime for the fields, and were used as a quarry to reuse the stone over the subsequent centuries.
Pretty good snyopsys
Thanks
Another ‘ they’ don’t want you to know that.
The Byzantine empire finally removed the invaders from the city, at great cost. The city of Rome was completely destroyed. There was no Vatican left after the destruction of Rome, of several invaders. People lived in hovels with weeds growing everywhere.
In the end Rome was defeated by Romans. They dismantled and destroyed their own civilization. It’s a reminder that glory and power without sustainability is literally self-defeating.
Wow! I had no idea ancient Rome was excavated only about 100 years ago!
@MrSupernova111 I am Italian, after the situations of those years it was decided to proceed with extreme caution with the excavations. Current Rome is built on top of the old one. The Romans are afraid of digging a simple hole in their garden for fear of finding some archaeological find and in this case they would immediately rush to rebury everything so as not to incur the bureaucratic inconveniences that would follow. :D
I had no idea it was in Italy.
Not exactly. Excavations took place also in past centuries and began to be frequent around 1500 (Renaissance). That you have see are massive excavations for example freeing ancient monuments from other Middle Age constructions.
@@centurion5210 how
that's a bummer, They're afraid to lose their land tho vs some roman piece
It still baffles Me, as time progresses, newer civilization builds on top of the old one. To excavate structures , they dig down. Life went on people went about being busy, 1,000 years later, some of it's still there, buried
No new civilizations would have reason to or the ability to cover large cities in dirt and then build new ones. The scenes in the video, like all other similar scenes the world over, depict a world wide event that destroyed just about everything and left vast civilizations under 6 feet or more of mud. Nothing in our supposed historical chronicles can explain why everything was covered. Only the Bible, and only when you realize Jesus Christ has already returned and lived the 1000 reign with the Saints, as he said he would do. Once you study the mud-flood, you can no longer see the world thru the lens they hope everyone looks thru. Everything is a rich man's trick.
Fantastic photogrphic records. Thank you for finding and assembling them
This work is still being done to an extent. When I studied there in 2001 my art history teacher took me to an excavation site he was working on. We walked down what felt like 20 feet below ground into this ancient room and he blew our minds telling us this was the original street level.
If you'll get to Rome you cannot help it but you'll be blown away by history..it's actually all there! Caesar statues,the Senate, temples,terme...just go! 👍
Meh, is to crowded. Visit Prague, never bombarded, never destroyed, you'll love it.
@@AITreeBranches Rome wasn’t bombed
Meh? Rome? Ooh how sophisticated we are lol !! 😂
@@AITreeBranchesRome was not destroyed at all by war, luckly. You should study history more. Then...Prague is really beautiful, but you cannot compare it with Rome, which is a city with thousand of years of history, cub of western culture (togheter with Greece), and full of monuments known all over the world. Probably in Czech Republic you envy a lot all italian beauties. I can understand this.
@@CarolFremel-my4hs What's the joke here? That you're ignorant and uneducated?
Stunning collection of photos. Thanks for posting.
Looting was probably unprecedented.
It’s no wonder many buildings were built in the Neo-classical style. Ancient Greek and Roman architecture is so beautiful, especially compared to the ugly modernist buildings we have now, some of which are very good but not a lot. I went to the British Museum in London and the Ancient Persian stuff was incredible too. A few days earlier I was in the Louvre in Paris, awesome!
Their is no such thing as Ancient greek !
@supermavro6072 yeh there is,Spartans were Ancient Greeks
This is Sparta! @@supermavro6072
Helens u mean? @@Bobbythebuilder789
@@supermavro6072 Yes there is lol what are you on
This channel is like buried treasure that the RUclips algorithm just dug up. He has been uploading for years and most of his videos only have a few hundred views
Excavations nearby Marcellus' Theatre were really unbelievable
Although these images are incredible, a narrator explaining what I was looking at would have been more interesting than reading a few paragraphs and listening to the crazy 60's era bongo music. Sorry, don't mean to be critical.
I kinda agree !
Same
Pictures are worth a thousand words, beyond any kind of explanation. Thank you!
It would be interesting to see the same pictures as much as possible in their current status today, and in relationship to the entire excavation. I wonder too what happened to the soil that was removed? Hard to believe that was 100 years ago…
There will be information and I will add a new photo
@@worldtreasures5307 But much is now again under the earth as I remember. Nowadays they could create an underworld museum. Rome has as well problems at some places with sinkholes, maybe they should excavate and built an underworld museum and so stabilize the ground onto.
There are enough unemployed. ;)
Some is of course already open to go down and some is hidden for that purpose. But it is just a tiny part.
Better than in some middle east cities, that took, reused, steal too much of the ancient buildings for building cheap residentials. Here it happened not so extreme.
The best part is is smoke a joint and jump inside coliseum at night time back in the 1990s and play with my cousins inside the coliseum oh miss those times but as Italian citizen we need take care our history and respect the monuments am 44 years old and stupid things we do when we are kids now living almost 30 years here in New York dammit I miss my Italy 🇮🇹
Italy is a cool country. And childhood is what you need to do thoughtless things.
Thanks , great video good music for this too.
Great old photo's. It would've been great to know what each photograph is.
Wow, Fantastic thx for sharing 👍👋
More captions would've enhanced enjoyment. But fascinating collection of images. Thank you!
How in the world does it get buried so deeply? Total and utter abandonment. What a powerful video 😮
Dust, debris, leaves, pollen, neglect. I goes fast!
Flooding mostly
@@HarmanRobotics Flooding? Absolutely not. Do you know nothing about the climate there?
Mudflood
@@robertlandin40 dumbest and least informed take
I've been fortunate in that my wife and I have been to Rome a few times. I never knew that so much of this had been buried. I find it amazing that so much can get buried by nature in just 2000 years. I have to wonder what is buried beneath us everywhere. We spent an afternoon on one of our trips about 80 feet below Naples in an ancient Greek structure (pre Roman). We had to go through someone's apartment and then down a very long stairway to get to it. On another trip we went to Nero's palace across the street from the Colosseum in Rome. This is a place that Nero himself never lived in. It is still in the process of being excavated. Reservations have to be made at the site and weeks in advance.
I once suggested to my mother and father that they visit Italy for a holiday, he said he'd already been there and didn't like it. He was captured at Anzio and marched into Rome for transport to a POW camp in Germany.
Well, your dad survived it, thank God! And, I'm sure he was a better man for having had the terrible experience.@@boblordylordyhowie
silly man fought the wrong side
2000 years of earth piling up - do you really believe in this???? Never heard of mud fluds ? Rome was not covered by natural evolution, but by an artificially caused cataclysm (as many many other cities in the world. Look for „fake basements“ in much younger cities all over the world. Most of our history is unfortunately fake. Rome was probably totally different to what they tell us.😊
It's funny how scientists date soil levels by millions of years. Rome, Jerusalem, both 30 feet underground after 2,000 years. They should be hundreds of millions of years old.
I like how what looks like modern apartments (curtains in the windows) are built directly above Roman structures and are obviously using the buried walls as foundations for the new. They follow the same lines of the walls.
That’s exactly why it’s called foundations. Those original structures have been “found”.
Thanks to the man that did so much, pictures are worth a thousand words, beyond any kind of explanation or political reason
Love this. I've been to Rome and to all of these sites, never thought of when they discovered all of this.
wow so artfully trippy, not sussing out even half of these images -- its mystic accompaniment well-paced too 🍸
Was just there recently. They're still excavating almost on every street.
It's mind blowing to me that Rome must have been almost abandoned since it's collapse for it to be how it is today. I'd think such a magnificent city would have been occupied throughout the centuries even if it wasn't the center of the world as it once was.
It's probably twice as populated today as it was in ancient times. But by 600ad Rome's population was 1/10th what it once was, less than 100,000 people. It was a shadow of itself. What were dug up and revealed to be amazing ruins were for long times pastures and cattle fields @@mcfahk
No there's an extensive history of Rome and greek Parthenon the coliseum etc throughout the middle ages during the Renaissance it started gaining immense popularity. We're actually destroying these incredible places that they had preserved much better. Look at the Sphinx the oldest on Earth it was pristine until just 300 years ago now it's unrecognizable.
@@mcfahk I know Rome is a large and populated city today lol. I'm just questioning how it got so buried while being occupied. No one over the years said these expensive and architectural wonders are kinda getting buried in inches to feet of dirt lets clear them out. Or even lets acquisition them for our purposes.
The Romans rebuilt the Sphinx. Notice the brick work added by the Romans. The Sphinx was covered in water and badly eroded.
@@danmc2678It was covered in sand not water 😂
Fascinating. I think more graphics describing exactly what we were seeing would have been helpful.
Rome was always prone to flooding but after the fall of the empire, infrastructure preservation ceased and that’s why so much ended up underground the current city.
How did Ancient Rome ended up buried way down current street level, did the ground sink or was there a big mud flood which covered the entire ancient city or some unrecorded volcanic activity dumping ashes and dust over the city ?
@@timsmith2279 Right!! I went to Turkey and they have the same thing.
floods also bring soil in the water after each flood over the centuries it slowly raises the ground level and slowly buries the buildings, in the dark ages and middle ages no one bothered cleaning up the soil and mess after the floods so the soil just built up and slowly buried the buildings, also storms and wind blow in soil, which adds up over the centruries if no one is cleaning up and maintaining the place
@@timsmith2279huge buildings crumbled, earth was put above to make farm land. It’s not that whole Rome was 12 meters below but parts, for example forum romanum UP TO 12 meters deep but most of it around 5-6 meters which totally makes sense thinking about these insanely huge buildings standing there before.
But there are more reasons like flooding and earth quakes.
Merci du partage! Et d'où est venu cette terre qui a recouvert l'ancienne ville? C'est aussi important que le reste des fouilles! Stéph.
Thanks for sharing! And where did the earth that covered the ancient city come from? It's just as important as the rest of the excavations! Stéph.
Nice photos
Surprised the video is still on RUclips
Ancient Romans were very smart to build them.
Fascinating.
1:03 incredible how western dressed before and how they did 100 years ago
Amazing discoveries! Enuff said ❤
JUST MID NUMBING, YOU CAN ALMOST FEEL THE PRESENCE OF THE ROMAN CITIZENS IN THE PICTURE
Photos could do with more captions/labels.
Wow.
So it looks the present Forum Romanum is modern reconstruction,not fully genuine.They moved up some structures 6-10 meters from the ancient level of Rome.Thanks to being buried in "rubbish" they survived and we can admire today.Mussolini played positive role in this case.
The structures weren't "moved up", they were excavated. Which is to say, dug out. There wasn't all that much reconstruction. That's why the majority of structures are still in ruins. Most of the structures that survived intact, where those that became Christian churches. This is why the Pantheon, thankfully, is so well preserved. Mussolini did do some positive things for Italy. This was one of them. The best thing he did was outlawing Freemasonry in 1924. This is something every country in the world should do.
tout ce travali à coups de pelles de pioches et à la brouette ! Chapeau !
Wish the video had a voice over narrating the information.
this proves how important it is to sweep the streets
Did you do the drums with your hand???
Incredible footage, now I want to watch Russell Crowe's Gladiator movie
incroyable !! quels changements !
Did it ever get forgotten about. Was it recorded for history. Something that big slowly disappears - so slowly that hundreds of generations later, people didn't believe it was ever there.
Imagine what lies beneath millions and billions of years of earth.
Not much. Earth was a boring place for most of its existence.
Integrated circuits.
Most of the oldest stuff was too fragile because most people used plant materials or earth. Stuff made out of stone would survive, but most everything else breaks down.
I wish I had become an archaeologist 😢
It’s not too late to volunteer. Lots of digs use short term volunteers who are on vacation.
It's rarely resembles the vision people have when they are outsiders. Even if you are just a volunteer (and don't participate in the endless work at the labs, libraries and faculty. Numbering the field work by at least 10:1) the main routine would be spent in doing various tasks of removing earth, brushing, cleaning and polishing the "benches" (soil and earth made "walls" left to separate the dig squares. They have different names in different countries). You may travel long way (and pay much) to excavate "a Roman Temple", ending up working 3 weeks digging into 13th century leftovers of medival horse stables, built into the Roman ruin....
@@galshaine2018killjoy
don't be a grave digger
If digging 12 meters takes you 2500 years into the past, then wouldnt you need to dig 60 meters, or almost 200 feet, to hit 12,500 year old structures like Gobleki Tepi? These dating methods for ancient sites are completely fabulous.
The sediment deposits are almost never the same in quantity due to all sorts of factors, you date these monuments based on materials used building techniques or maybe carbon dating.
Most of the burial in inhabited places like Rome is the result of human activity. Some of it is from people dumping trash. Most is from rubble, not only from the ancient structures, but from all the subsequent structures built on top of them. Gobekli Tepi was deliberately buried, for some (unknown) reason, which is the only reason it's underground. If you really want your mind blown, look in parts of the Middle East. They have these big, flat-topped hills called "Tells". They can be 30-40m tall and are artificial. They are composed entirely of the ruins of ancient cities, stacked one on top of the other, on top of another, etc. This is one of the reasons the 19th century archeological excavation of the famous city of Troy was so destructive. The site of Troy consists of the ruins of 9-10 different cities stacked on top of one another. The Troy of legend probably corresponds to the second or third one, and the 19th century archeologists were .... less than gentle with the later ruins in their zeal to uncover that particular one.
we have a critical thinking bingo. you sir are a winner!
So these people that think the world is billions of years old or whatever, they need to explain:Why are dinosaurs found? They should be hundreds of miles below the surface. And why isn’t this planet much bigger?
@@westaussie965 And why do we find soft tissue still clinging to those dinosaur fossils? And where are the billions of intelligent ape fossils that would have to exist if the Evolution scenario is correct? The Bible is true and the secular worldview is a satanic lie.
Love for those humans that preceded me , both those who built the city and those that excavated it ❤
Sadly in the early days of archeology, it was mostly about finding museum worthy pieces and tons of less valuable artefacts, such as shards of pottery, parts of buildings, chunks of marble, small iron or bronze implements from everyday people...etc was just tossed in the trash.
There was an entire field of re-excavation in many archeological sites that were excavated prior to the 1950s that was just going back through the old dirt piles, sifting through the dirt, and finding thousands of artefacts that the people who dug it up a century earlier thought were worthless.
But even with those efforts, much of these more mundane artefacts are gone forever.
Can you imagine, all the trucks you see in these pictures filled to the brim with tons of dirt…. What that dirt had inside of it…
So did they preserve all this somehow? I only recognize a few that remain. Or was it destroyed for an overpass?
No, sadly a lot of this was demolished to "tidy up" the centre...
@@agillan2930 that's sad. I wonder how we would handle it today if we unburied such treasure. I guess we'll see
I think I spotted Rick Steves in one of the later shots!!!!
9:23 Are those ancient roman insulae that were excavated or were they built during the renaissance? Difficult to tell.
I figure it was just the latest buildings before the excavations. Probably 1900-century flats.
Kool
I wish they would rebuild the monuments with new material so u could see how they where suppose to look. But they could use a completly different material just to show the difference with new and old
It would be wonderful to see how Rome looked when Julius Caesar was around. The city should be rebuilt specially The Baths of Caracalla and Diocletian.
One day we will build like that again. Perhaps within our lifetime.
i had no idea that rome was even excavated. i thought the ruins were just there
Wow
Compliments of the Duce.
Looks like wheel barrels and shovels were the only tools of choice back then.
One of my favorite scenes from any film is from "The Life of Brian". John Cleese is trying to stir up a revolt and says "What have the Romans ever given us?" whereupon, Eric Idle proceeds to list twenty or thirty things the Romans gave the world. All Cleese can say is "Oh yeah, there is that of course." All the funnier because it's true.
Don't forget Biggus Dickus!
Roads, agriculture, education, medicine, aqueducts, public order and the wine.
@@m.dewylde5287 What's so funny?
@@peternesbitt and peace
Without the Romans we still be running around semi-naked in pig skins, living in caves or holes dug in the ground.
How did all that soil got accumulated there?
Mudflood
It wasn't excavated, the Colosseum and the rest was always there, it wasn't "buried" or anything like that.
pretty crazy this ONLY happened 100 years ago. wtf
Hard to believe Rome built a HIGHWAY around one of the world’s treasures, the Coliseum. All that traffic, pollution HAS to have some affect on the structure🤷♂️
It was only pedestrians. There were no vehicles.
It's not a highway, it's a boulevard.
You can thank Mussolini for that hideous monstrosity.
Where did all the dirt come from that was used to bury these Roman period structures? Is it really that dirty there?
It's amazing to think the city of Rome and it's inhabitants simply ignored over 2000 years of history and just built over it. Throw a little dirt on it and put up something new must have been the prevailing attitude. I wonder what has changed in people to make them care now?
I love seeing these images, but at the same time they makes me sad. The amateurism of these almost violent excavations, carried out for political gain and false grandeur, have cost us such a wealth of knowledge. The amount of details, now forever lost, would have massively contributed to what we know about construction and living conditions in those areas.
That dictator Mussolini is believed to have vandalised, destroyed many important ancient Roman sites and remains to make way for his personal design on the city !
Just like those in the future will bemoan what we do today because we don't have their technology and knowledge. Should we just leave everything in the ground indefinitely?
@@obsidianjane4413 Not indefinitely, but the decision cannot be made lightly, and it certainly must not be made by politicians.
I think Egypt had it worse, treasure looters and vandals... There was at least some care in excavating Rome.
@@stiffrichard2816 Pretty much both in equal measure. Rome got picked over constantly for centuries by the armies that sacked it, down to its own inhabitants for the stone until there was pretty much only concrete and brick. The only stuff left was that which was buried by mother nature and forgotten.
What I'd like to know is, what caused these structures to be covered with 12 meters of dirt?😳
Mostly the River Tiber and its periodical floodings, before they built the walls to contain it
@@giovannil8244 ok. That's a possibility. Thanks!🙂
That Mussolini must have been one hell of a guy. Where can I find out more about him?
Probably not on Wikipedia
Rome would still be great if I was around and people listened to me.
video from the 1920's must be really rare...
Long and rich history is one side of the proud, on the other side, is the rock chained on the wings from flying. Italian is grounded.
i for some reason expected it was always uncovered
What did people of Italy 500 ad to 1900 think of Colosseum?
Probably the same as most italians think of the ruined castles and baroque palaces left to rot all over the country presently.... Irrelevant.
They used to do the station of the cross inside. People remembered the martyred of the Coliseum. It was free to go in .Today it just a tourist attraction.,you must pay to get inside.
@personalelorenzo6922 try walking out on a plane with a piece of that " rot" and see what the Italian police will do to you .
How did it get covered up?
what is this great music?
Looks about right
Notice they demolished some apartment buildings that were on the land of the Forum. Notice the "Wedding Cake" in the background.
Mud Flood, it is true..........
One of the many good things made by a certain italian politician.😊
Can you imagine metal detecting the spoil heaps back then. Hundreds of thousands of coins, brooches and artefacts would of been missed by the excavators.
In general ist s horrible thought how much they probably missed
If im not wrong, there were building above the old rome that they had to demolish in order to bring back the city.
was the city buried under the ground before the excavation?
Yes, the new rome was build on top of the old rome
how on earth all this went underground (up to 12m) after only 2k years?
Erosion
Mud flood
mmm... it´s really weird that all those constructions were about 12 meters below the surface. Something great happened in 19th century and you can see the same in many countries of Europe and America, but official history say nothing about it.
@@adrianolmedo3816 surf up
Mud flood lots of pictures Tarters
War
Top of the buildings collapsed down, erosion brought soil on top of it, later generations built on new surface. Rome is in a pretty hilly area so there is a natural tendency to "fill holes" by eroded material
Lables of what we're looking at (if known) would have made it more interesting
why cities are buried with building standing and so deep is beyond me.
appears to have been in ruins for a long time before it was covered in the mud flood event
I wonder what it looked like before the excavation. What was Rome before directly this
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The question I always have, is what caused it to get covered up?
Sediment from floods. Lots of 'em over the years.
Digging up all these ruins helped fuel Italian propaganda which drove them deeper into fascist imperialism. Of course then because these places were exposed, a lot of them were destroyed during the war.
Colosseo, Foro Romano, Circo Massimo and other ladnmarks area located in pretty central area in Rome. I suppose that there were buildings in these areas, a lot of them.
What happened 100 years ago? They demolished the moderno buildings? The whole area was empty?
Likely cleared and demolished.
Oh that big landfill over there? That’s where our ancestors used to watch sea battles and men fight each other to the death.
*Crazy to think that since the end of the empire until 1920, ancient Rome was mostly underground.* How did all the dirt get there and were there homes built on top of the ruins?
that's apparently classified
@@SilverBullet93GTNo it isn’t?
Wow, It's almost as if en entire ocean basins worth of mud and sludge suddenly washed over the entire area, and if this is the case, there must be obvious evidence of this throughout the entire planet.
No.
@davidhoward4715 Uh, Ok?
be careful, yt is listening, can't say anything against "science"
Why is Rome buried under 30 feet of mud??
The annual flooding of the river Tiber caused the buildup of sediment.
@@ldm6752 that is the official narrative…..but as we know….Most cities are located on rivers….and they do not disappear under 30 ft of mud….
@@MultiBrad777Volcanic activity, similar to Mount Vesuvius burying Pompeii ?
Londinium, also known as Roman London is beloved to be buried even deeper.
@@timsmith2279 Rome is Buried in mud …not lava….
Where do think mud comes from. The river…
Imagine what lies beneath our own feet!
why everything is so deep underground ???
Because of flooding
In addition to soil carried away by the Tiber flooding (as mentioned by the previous reply) do not forget that Ancient Rome was built from an enormous amount on non recyclable or perishable materials: cement,plaster, bricks and even stones and marble burned into lime. Up until modern times people didn't have, generally, the technical capability (or will) to carry away debris, like done after the 2nd World War in bombed cities in Europe. They would remove stones, if they needed to flatten the surface , but otherwise often just used the existing ground level, after some reshaping work. In the near East this is how the "Tel" (mound) phenomena was created. But it is also the case in Rome even in places not affected by flooding.
Yes flooding , also fires , they just torn buildings down and built on top .
Because during centuries the land has moved above layers of dirt because new people built new buildings on top of the old ones... that's why the ancient cities are underground.
Erosion
Would be better just to have the Colosseum in this video