The Worst Part Of Pompeii's Destruction Isn't What You Think
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is one of the most horrifying events in human history, as it wiped out multiple towns, including Pompeii. However, not everyone knows the whole story of the buildup and aftermath of the eruption, and it paints an even more disturbing picture than we already have.
Despite what you may assume, there were warnings about the coming eruption, but they were most likely viewed as signs from a god instead of an actual weather warning. From the horrifying remains of the incident to the ways in which neighboring towns had it worse, let’s take a look at why the worst part of Pompeii’s destruction isn’t what you think.
#Pompeii #Volcano #NaturalDisasters
Unheeded | 0:00
Weird weather | 1:47
Frozen in time | 3:05
Screaming death | 4:33
Beyond Pompeii | 5:49
Defiled | 6:57
Neglect | 8:18
The future | 9:40
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If you had been in Pompeii during the eruption, what do you think you would have done?
If I had the money, bribe to get into a boat or rode a horse to get the heck out of there!
Run away
run in circles
Prevented it
Err.... Died
Many people forget that other towns were affected as well. The town of Herculaneum was destroyed much quicker and much worse then Pompeii, but people forget because they weren’t buried and able to be made into casts. There skeleton literally melted and burned to pieces within seconds, so there isn’t much left.
I wonder why I’ve never heard this
I did not even know the town existed ^^
I actually visited Herculaneum and not Pompeii because it was rumored to be more well preserved but smaller. There aren’t casts like Pompeii but there are skeletons in these hollow docks of sorts. People had tried to flee in small boats but had wound up pushed back in and handfuls of people died in the holes. It’s really unnerving too since a lot of them have their mouths still parted open in cries out for help.
it kinda was preserved, the skeletons are still there. it’s just not as cool tbh
Ive been there when your leaving the city you get shown some big holes in the side of a cliff by an old dried up river they had prison like bars covering them and at first i thought they were actual prisons but they were actually were the victims had attempted to hide and died huddled together where there bones had melted into each other but they were just repkica so it wasnt too bad
Well, that was depressing as hell. I don't mean just the tragedy either, I mean how the remains were destroyed and violated over time. And still are being robbed! I had no idea it was that bad.
Yeah
🤦🏽♀️
Forget history, it more like playing with people's grave. They didn't even respected for the deads, you can't expect from such a people to give a damn about history.
Humans suck, we are smarter than animal but act worse than some
@@vinayr395 So right
5:40 - Pliny the Elder _did_ save lives. Not mentioned here: He was a big deal. Personal friend of the Emperor. Fleet commander of the Navy at Misernum. Pliny took off on his own to rescue his friend's family across the bay - but first, he sent the *fleet* over to rescue victims. Hundreds if not thousands were likely saved by this ancient-world 'Dunkirk." (The first recorded disaster relief rescue effort in History.)
Notably - His personal friends he went to rescue did not die with him. His idea of protecting their heads from rock rain with pillows and mattresses enabled their escape by land. He himself collapsed in the fumes as an asthmatic.
He was considered a living-legend, a rock-star general/admiral/author/early scientist who invented the concept of a wikipedia...but he did not have any egotistical "I'm more important than others" mindset like much of the brat nobility.
In fact, Seutonius implies he told everyone to go on without him; perhaps because he'd slow them down, needing to be carried. He only asked a slave kill him first to spare him from death by the heat. (To the Romans, suicide as sacrifice to save others was noble.)
He was 100% hero. Just like Pliny the Younger says.
Thank you for this information, I found it very interesting.
There are few possibilities that Plinius the Young/er did write those letters, which contains all the information about eruption, but as a rhetorical exercise. So, you shouldn't believe that much what he said
@@letiziavercelli2245 Pliny the Younger wasn't believed at first. His reports seemed fantastical. He reported the column, and flows so accurately, that it took modern scientists / observations to vindicate him. You are likely hearing that old rumors that he was wrong somehow.
I believe they recovered his remains
Wow, thank you for that.
I've been to Pompeii. It's one of the eeriest places I've ever visited. Although it was hot, I had goosepimples all the time I was there. The casts of the people killed there are very upsetting and sad. I would love to go back and see it again.
I have been there too but I weirdly didn’t get an eery feeling.
@@taryntimms3787I also was there and found it to be very interesting…not eerie at all.
@@taryntimms3787 maybe you’re the chosen one
That until you find the cast of a guy jackin off
I found it eerie too Annette. I'll never forget it.
“This volcano tends to sit perfectly quietly for a long time and then suddenly let off a massive, deadly eruption” *why can I mildly relate to Vesuvius*
Looks like we're walking volcanoes then.
Cosmi Prunes will do that to a person
*WHY CAN I FULLY RWLATE TO VESUVIUS?*
We used to call my dad Vesuvius and my brother Aetna
Senor Frijoles
But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing's changed at all.
And if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
OMG I LOVE THAT SONG
‘Oh, where do we- begin?...’
‘The rubble, or our sins?..’
‘Oh, where do we- begin?...’
‘The rubble? Or our sins?...’
I feel like that lyric represents the attitude of the people of Pompeii towards the warning signs. “Oh it’s just another tremor”
OMG!!! I REALLY LOVE THAT SONG!!! IVE KNEW THAT SINCE MY DAD ALWAYS PLAYS THAT ON THE CAR!
When Vesuvius erupted in 1944, there was actually a camp for Battle-fatigue sufferers at the base! Imagine the trauma of those soldiers, driven to a breakdown by shelling etc. sitting at the bottom of an active volcano!!
What an awful turn of events
Made the job easier for allied troops.
Not really, the people in the camp WERE allied troops! It didn't help their recovery apparently.
Yeah - didn't the USA or Allies - have a base there? That would mean at least 2 bases have been destroyed by eruptions. The other famous one, Pinatubo in the Philippines.
8:03 My friend's mother did this. She visited Pompeii and stole a chunk of floor tile. I remember her showing it to my friend and I when we were younger. I remember thinking it was cool to see, but feeling like her taking it was disrespectful. Not only to the victims of the tragedy, but to the researchers who are trying to preserve their history.
That's horrible! Stealing the history of our past is NOT cool
Your friend’s mother was a common thief. 👎👎👎👎
A person like that, we call a thief. And stealing from an archeological site is a crime, it's very far from being cool. It's a demonstration that she didn't understand culture and history at all.
@Zed2205 u watch too many movies
@Zed2205 that's called guilt
Shout out to Pliny the elder for trying to go to Pompeii to rescue people but ended up dying. Hero !
I know the poor guy i wish he survived and saved someone
Then again, there's great wisdom in the saying "don't bring another victim to the scene."
"Hero" implies success.
@@skipwatson1951 you are correct in a way but at least he was the one who tried it , when no one else would even think about doing so . At least some person's in that teribble situation , desperately wishing for someone to come and help , that wish did come true , didn't it ? . Maybe he saved none but still he was coming with the intention to help
@@itsyaboychipsahoy.7989 Nah, the hero has to die.
Bless that uncle he risked his life trying to save people. He failed but at least he tried.
Ya may he rest in peace :')
bless him, names Pliny the Elder
@@laarnib.monterola7028 ill pray for him ^^
He really wasn’t trying to save people. His nephew stayed back. It was more about curiosity. Pliny the younger wrote the lasting account.
Why do you have that flag on your profile picture
The most disturbing scene was when we visited Herculaneum. At the docks were the sea shoreline used to be (now kilometers away to the West) the skeletal remains of mainly women & children huddled together in dock warehouses in the process of attempting to flee the destruction. Trying to protect each other. This is a scene of death I never had experienced before. It shocked me more than I thought it would!
"They really outdid themselves with this year's volcano festival!" - Tourist, 79AD
"Even worse, the day before the eruption was Vulcanalia, the festival of the god Vulcan - otherwise known as the god of fire and volcanoes" If that's not irony, I don't know what is!
Supposedly, the Romans didn't know about volcanoes until Vesuvius blew her top.
A Ahmed No, it’s not capitalized. Stop trying to be a wannabe grammar snob and learn grammar first before correcting anyone.
Maybe they knew
@@Jocelyn_Jade Sorry its a name and so he is quite correct it's a capital, not lowercase. Show a bit more respect.
Matthew Farrell sorry, the name is already present in the word after “god”, so “god” is not the title in this case, especially in a pantheon of multiple gods. It should be lowercase. I’m going to respect a god by using proper grammar.
Me: about to sleep
RUclips: Pompeii
Biggest fact ever right now
But if you close your eyes
In the same fetal position
Here to ruin 669 likes
mt. vesuvius is actually an inspiration for my username XD
Even if some people of Pompeii had made it to boats, they still couldn't have escaped the pyroclastic flow, because the flows can travel across water up to 80 km/50 miles away from shore. Nobody can row or paddle fast enough.
I heard you had to leave days to a week ahead of time and some did leave
Wow, you read a book, or you probably saw it on tic tac. Now, use critical thinking.
@@foodforthesoul1326 "Ah yes, let me use my high IQ critical thinking skills to ascertain historical events" -🤡
@@foodforthesoul1326 ikr, brother. When will those morons realise Pompeii was bombarded with nuclear weapons???
There were rumblings and quakes for days before the big eruption, but many ignored these warnings. Certainly some people did take ship and leave before the major eruption. On the day, remaining ships were overwhelmed by people wanting to escape, but wind, weather and the rain of hot material that burned sails and pummeled people were all against them.
the cast of the dog 😢 it would be horrible to witness that. “writhing in pain” you could see the way it was completely distorted, feeling totally helpless
And the children😪
So the dog is what important for you? What about your own kind, smh disgusting 😤
@@alien9179 the reason why people feel more bad for dogs death than an adult humans death is because while a dog is an animal, they have the intrinsic value of being innocent. humans are flawed, and we're all often quite evil, but a dog can do no wrong because it is not given the gift of choice and sentience. a dog is completely innocent and blank, and so its death is comparable to the death of perhaps another innocent life, such as a baby.
Satan (devil) glamorise the sins of humen beings.
Pompeii residents were vulgar and indecent. This surely was their punishment.
@@kamranmisri2366 What about the dog, children, and other animals though? They surely weren't indecent.
So let me get this straight, people still live at the base of some of the most dangerous volcanos in the world and it’s called prime real estate!
Malana Hariss Yep, three million people and proud to be part of history all over again.
I know it's sounds strange, but the best soil is at the base of a volcano 🌋
Most of the people who live near volcanos are farmers (as far as I know) and the soil near volcanos are great for farming
*humans have never known to be all that intelligent after such events...they make it a tourist attraction and sell over priced cheaply made trinkets and serve food at highly inflated prices and expect tips afterwards for subpar'rude service*
@@humanperson1835 under the volcano there is a huge city too, Naples, a lot of people live there , not just farmers , and Pompei thecnically Is still "lived" today, there are houses just next the ruins....yeah the fire can kill us any moment but hey....the pizza is hella' good!
*town gets wiped out by volcanoe*
People: let's build a civilisation here, maybe 2nd times the charm
But if you close your eyes does it almost feel like nothing changed at all
@@burt3303 but if you die in tehre does nothing change at all
California 🔥
First Natives warned the people on New Orleans that the waters were angry and not to build their town there. NOLA was wiped of the face off the planet with the first hurricane within the first few years and yet, they stupidly keep building it back up.
@@gaiawolfson4416 Hey, we can't leave New Orleans. If New Orleans is a thing, might as well make damn sure it stays and holds as New Orleans.
I lived right down the road from Pompeii as a child and could see Mt. Vesuvius from our back porch. We went down to see the casts and the energy there was so overwhelming heavy. Very erie
I'm so upset to hear of the looting and deterioration of Pompei. I was very fortunate to visit twice. I found it a wonderful and special place. It really is hard to know that people are not being respectful and very careful when visiting. After all, a town where people lived, worked and died.
7:08 Some things never change. I was living in a village in France w/ my girlfriend at the time and it was struck by a massive flood. Most of us evacuated after and in the months since, there's been cases of people coming from outside the village to rob houses because there's so few people around. It's sickening that people would stoop so low.
In the London Blitz in 1940 robbery was rampant as was crimes of violence ! We only get the myth !!
During the flooding from hurricane Katrina, many people stayed behind refusing to evacuate, because they feared looters. Unfortunately, they had no idea what they were about to experience.
Wouldn’t an animal attack a weaker animal that’s eating a tasty corpse? Exactly, nature happens, robbing is natural we would do everything to survive and that includes pirates
futurehistory, people are despicable. I was working as a truck driver and out of state. I had a medical event so I didn't come home for a while. When I came back both of my mobile homes on my property had been dismantled and carted off along with everything else including both of my well electric pumps. They left me homeless. I had some irreplaceable items that didn't mean anything to anyone but me. You don't have to be dead to be robbed. I am disabled and these animals stole everything from me. I am just happy that I had asked my daughter to keep my collections family photos and music albums and 45s at her house or that too would be gone.
You've clearly never been dirt poor
"fortune tellers" - the worst job done that day
Just like at the start of 2020
THE HAD ONE JOB, ON SINGULAR JOB!
We should blame the fortune tellers
I've been to Pompeii twice and Herculaneum once. It's very moving and also surprising just how big Pompeii is! Herculaneum is smaller but better preserved with even 2 storey buildings. The skeletons of the victims in Herculaneum are really sad. They fled to the beach to hide in boat sheds
The children being shown just broke my heart. Even the dog was painful to see.
1st Citizen: What's that noise? Where's the smoke coming from?
2nd Citizen: Not to worry. It's just the volcano sputtering. Happens all the time.
These are Vulcan bowel movements. Nothing to worry about.
This was actually said by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's character Atticus in the 2014 film Pompeii:"It[the earthquake] is the mountain, it happens from time to time."
Good video. You might want to watch "The Riddle of Pompeii" if you decide another video on Pompeii, as the documentary accurately establishes the final hours of the town including the pyroclastic surge sequence, the distribution of the bodies and - most disturbingly - why there are still scores more to be found.
I love that they just stuck bits of doctor who in there-
*_yes_*
🤣 Yes!
Straight up, if I was in Pompeii in AD 79, I would just scream, cry and die.
In that order.
I would die scream and walk away
in that order
ByFab1 Ne - You have style and talent
I wouldve used the Joestar secret technique
Fanatica - You're a very ordered person, aren't you?
... ah none of you carry the Uno reverse card.
This volcano spewing hot lava rocks at us is a good omen. Definitely
their logic is totally perfect and un flawed.
Didn’t spew lava until it erupted.
Imagine being a tourist in pompeii when the volcano erupts and a native next to you just says "Ah, the gods smile upon us once again :)"
Alex that’s not what happens the signs were tiny earthquakes and smoke in the sky. ash and gasses and the lava only came when the volcano actually erupted and also they didn’t have the technology or anything we had today, their beliefs were completely different so yes they were a little dumb but they didn’t know any better
We went and saw the ruins last year. Very very surreal
I can't even imagine this devastation. I went to Mt. St. Helens a few years after the blast and it was easily one of the most unsettling places I've been in my life. The landscape was flattened. Trees were sheered at the base and bent over in 90-degree angles. Everything was gray and dead, and you knew that nearly 60 people died from instant burying or slow ash-choking deaths while their skin melts. A good reminder that while we're top of the food chain, mother nature is still ultimately in charge.
Been in Pompei few weeks ago. The place is still deteriorating, the ancient fresks are being "protected" by tin roofs, which looked pathetic. I'm not an archeologist, or specialist in that matter, but I left the place with two thoughts: emotion of closeness of those people, their lives and tragedy, and also the sadness that the city survived being hidden in volcanic ash iterally thousands of years, and now by our neglection it seems it would be destroyed by weather conditions and not well planned preservation from touristic activity. I am serious- finely decorated pieces of columns are piled up on the boardwalk, between garbage.
As a lifelong student of history that is incredibly sad.
Sadly funds are missing.
The money paid by tourists as entrance fees seems to have walked. It could have funded so much.
Italy is riddled by corruption, ineffective governance, crime, neglect of its ancient sites and its people. This is unlikely to change. Ever.
Basically this video is “the destruction wasn’t the worst part of Pompeii, destruction was.” 🤦🏻♂️
Or maybe you're just being petty. Pretty sure all humans are guilty of not chosing the most perfect choice of words 24/7. Or even interpreting words the correct way... Get over yourself.
He prob meant it was horrible what happened. But more horrible bc of what the ppl went through. Although from what I've studied, they say they can't really predict that volcanoes eruptions. So it could possibly happen again.
@@ahhwe-any7434 Or maybe you need to shush my guy
@@komiea7682 or maybe we need to shush my guy
@@futbol5554 you were never part of this get your anime pfp looking ass out of here
@@komiea7682 bruh you just randomly joined the argument
I visited Pompeii a few years ago and what an incredible visit it was! To see Mt Vesuvius in the background gave me chills to think how fast the ash showered down and killed the city and occupants. To also see how the Roman's lived, their houses, brothels, pools, "fast food" places, it really was a sight to see. I recommend you take a few days to get through the entire city. Enjoy every moment of history.
Not "should another eruption occur", it is WHEN the eruption WILL occur.
Pliny the Elder may not have saved anyone, but he sailed into a nightmare knowing what he was getting himself into. He should be remembered as a hero.
Actually he did not know. Nobody knew what was going on back then. He only wanted to witness it to later write about it.
If he were an American he would have been a Republican. They're the nicest people.
@@mrbojangles9841 Republicans have told me I shouldn't be able to get married
He DID save many people! Please read the account of Pliny the Younger and stop believing what this inadequately researched presentation tells you!
@@cherryhwanwoong exactly like most of us today, in other words.
“Let’s cross the bay!!!!”
Mother Nature:
“I think not..”
Spent Brass helps water grass 0331/USMC LMAO but rest in please.
Mother nature : So you have chosen.....Death.
Not todaaaaay
@Abel Desalegn yeah god punished baby tho, sound legit.
im the 1k like
Excellent video - very thorough and touched on all the perfect facts
There was an exhibit on Pompeii at a museum in my state that had the casts there including the dog one, no glass cases or anything. The dog one is very detailed, you can make out the details on its collar and you can make out the details on their shoes in the casts. One of the casts of someone on their knees was interesting because one of their ribs was poking out of the cast. There was also a tall bar that detailed each layer of ash and soil as well as how deep the ash and volcano gunk really went. Out of all the casts, the dog one made me the saddest though and I think it had the most detail. I think the placard by one of the bodies said it was of a pregnant woman, not heavily pregnant but still showing some bump. I couldn't really tell, as she was laying on her front. Almost all of the casts had a visible bone just peeking through if not poking out entirely.
Well, after seeing that the volcano offerings had no effect, Pliny the younger walked away from the experience Pliny the wiser
*buh-dum-che*
Tai Coyote See my channel on how bad others walked from Pompeii.
What puzzles me is why some people would still want to live there *_now._*
I mean, people still live in Hawaii but yeah Hawaii volcanos arnt as violently explosive
They gonna put a cap on the volcano so it never spill everywhere ever again
@@Entei707 but that type of volcano is already capped.
That's why Vesuvio's eruptions are so rare but at the same type so destructive,because the volcano's power stores inside it for years and years and it emerges when it has enough of it.
Probably capping it with a stronger material could be useless,it would just stop the volcano for how much longer?
Mostly the land. Near volcanos is such good soil and an amazing place for farming
As long as the volcano doesn't kill you, then it's perfectly safe to live there. The same way driving is perfectly safe as long as someone else doesn't hit you.
I went to NYC in 1979 to see the Pompeii exhibition. It was very moving, the dog writhing in agony dying still chained to his guard post is very moving. The people could attempt to run away but the dog could not.
I have to do a 5 page essay on Pompeii. thank you for making this!
i feel bad for the dude who was beating his meat
Andre bruh, imagine just beating your meat to a portrait but then [insert explosion here] *oh shit, oh fuck* I gotta nut. *fapping faster*
*ash is falling*, *going faster*. Ash, everything is covered in ash but wait. He did it.
Dead Channel I’m glad the story had a happy ending
I cant breathe 🤣
Where?
@@fork_film3291 11:15
HBO should make this event into a miniseries like they did with Chernobyl.
Omg YESSS
You really wanna see so many deaths??😐
Yes, agreed
@@aditisk99 its already in movies and tv shows so why not?
That is a terrible idea there is no happy ending to hope for ,everyone has to die at the end.
They made a movie is hard to sit through a story you all ready know what the end has to be.
I lived in Naples for about 6 months. Sunday lunch was often cheese with freshly baked bread at a bakery on the slopes of Vesuvius. Great memories😷
Fun Fact: A Norse God Showed Up To Pompeii Right Before Its Destruction
Thanks for the fact.
Yeah I think it was some god of mischief or something
Wow
Fun fact.
Norse "gods" are weak.
"And the problem is that Vesuvius tends to get very angry, very quickly." I feel personally attacked...
lolcano
Mad Hatters in jeans this is gold
Hahaha
when they found the dog "twisted in great pain" i'm just like:
my dog does that when he plays..
OMGOtterz want me to call ceasar millan😂
my dog does that, too... she's not in pain, she's scratching her back where her paws can't reach
Dog: IT HUUUUURTS! I'M DYIIIIING!!!!
Owner: jeje, cute dogi
@@teutonicorder6284 yes loll
I had a few dogs of my own, when in pain they don't usually "twist" in pain, they just finde a quit spot and curl up
Everyone in Pompeii didn't knew that was a volcano. Just saying
😶
Excellent and very informative video. I was always fascinated by the plaster filled corpses of the victims which captured the moment of their deaths. So depressing.
Sometimes hearing about history gives me a weird disconnection because of the time passed but it's the events and excavations of Pompeii that reminds you of how human it is, if that makes sense. Actual tangible evidence of people holding their families and friends. No matter how much time passes, humans are still humans and sometimes people forget that.
Even in this panic there were some who were helping others. I wanna be like that.
That sort of character makes me think of Deku from My Hero Academia
I was learning about the book escape from Pompeii a few years ago and I can’t stop remembering about it and it gives me chills to think about what happend
The fact that they wailed that no gods were left, was a terrifying thought ngl.
I've been there once. A pretty cool place. Didn't try to steal shit though.
I would lmao
Why didn't you
Why would you steal shit
@@shannarafryer3111 I generally don't take things that aren't mine. But also, I don't want anyone haunting me. 😅
@@Hnzuu That's fine, you sound like a very good person. It still would've been cool have a souvenir from there but you did the right thing
i visited pompeii in 2017. There was a dog there that was very friendly. highlight of the entire trip to europe.
edit: nvm it was when a cat sat on my lap in delphi, greece.
yeah i was there too this year and the dog was still there! it followed my group for a long while actually
OMG I too met a cat in Delphi that was really friendly! It was probs the same ahaha
Humm, I fed kitties in Jerusalem. So cute and friendly.
All cats go to hell.
Stefan Veenstra people with anime profile pictures opinions doesnt count
Visited Pompeii back in 2017, and for me the eeriest part of it wasn't the ruined buildings, or the people covered in pyroclastic flow, it was the volcano, just sitting there, in view pretty much at all times. That thing did all that I saw in front of me, and it was a pretty foreboding sight seeing Vesuvius just there, waiting.
Archaeologists certainly make a grand contribution to life unearthing our past and discovering so much about us and gaining new knowledge of how our ancestors coped with the challenges in how we have survived as a species!
**earth shaking, smoke building, heat rising*
Romanians: *GOD IS GREAT*
Scientists just recently discovered about this myth, this was mentioned 1400 years ago, Allah (God) says: Indeed, We sent upon them one blast from the sky, and they became like the dry twig fragments of an [animal] pen. {Quran 54:31}
Im romanian. I dint get it . What do u mean
@@countryhumansromania9692 in muslim holy book every detail of disaster effect on human is described 100% same as vesuvius tragedy
@ k
@@countryhumansromania9692 they probably meant romans
“Plinian eruptions” are named after Pliny’s nephew who described and sketched the venting columns of gas, ejected obsidian and pumice, and volcanic ash jettisoned into the stratosphere. I’ve visited Pompeii twice and am still swept up into the horror of that event, yet find the time capsule of humanity an unending wonder. It’s but an earlier Titanic tragic-romance.
The reason Vesuvius is considered prime real estate is because it's flanks are so fertile, and grapes and other crops (including olives) grow so well there. Ironically, the soil is fertile because of the volcano. Italy's best wine grapes and gourmet olives come from there, and the wine and olives from there frequently go for three or four times standard world market value.
One other thing worth mentioning is that the poses people were found in is not necessarily how they were at the moment they died. High heat causes muscles to contract, and many of the contorted positions we see were caused by that very response. People who were in areas where they were protected from the heat probably are in the positions they died in, but many who have their arms, hands, legs and faces came to be in those poses because of muscle contracture after death. That is also almost certainly the case with cast of the little dog which is on display there, and is shown in this vid
Another interesting fact to come out of Pompeii is one concerning disease. For many years, Western European cultures (including the United States and Canada) blamed syphilis on Native Americans. Solid evidence of syphilis has now been shown to have existed among a large portion of the population in Pompeii, proving that syphilis was brought to the Americas and the Caribbean as early as Columbus' first voyage, not the other way around.
I had not realized the shapes were made of plaster, I thought the bodies were encased in hot ash after impact from rocks. So scary and sad.
The volcano could explode tomorrow
2020: and add that to the list.
Why you wanna tempt fate like that?
Oops I climbed that volcano
@Galaer *dies*
@@Katie-B *buries*
@@c_elia bones
I think they knew it was a volcano. They weren’t that clueless. They were probably watching it smoke for years, along with small quake swarms. More like a pot in boiling water versus not knowing.
meron wheeler that makes sense. But Ive read that you can see lava when you go to the right spot on Vesuvius, and had read some history on how they knew that earthquakes and the mountain didn’t mean good news. It would be good to know for sure.
It wasn't smoking until right before the eruption. That's why the eruption was so violent. The gasses had been blocked from escaping for centuries and pressure had built up.
Yep! In fact they used the smoke to determine the weather!
D Clifford they didn’t know what a volcano was back then . How sad.
@@druidriley3163 : as I understand it, Vesuvius had been apparently dormant for centuries before that eruption, so there wouldn't even have been folk tales about it.
Great video.
great video
Nobody:
Me: THE POOR HORSES
I can tell you play Star Stable 😂
Or the cast of the poor dog😭
April SeaHawk okay why are you me
OMG horses are my fav animal!! That’s so sadddd!!😰😰😭😭😢😢
Hi fellow star stable player 🐴🐴🐴😭😭😭😭😭😭
also me: THE DOGS AND BIRDS
I think Pliny's dating of the event is accurate as he would also have been celebrating these two festivals. It's hard to forget something like that.
It was also the day he lost his uncle and ran for his life. Pretty sure that would mark it in his memory.
It's just are we 100% accurate in how they marked time
@@Sewingbee23 right. Time is the biggest issue we have with everything because we don't know how they or anyone from those time periods marked time.
I agree that Pliny got his dates right. I wonder if the volcano was severe enough to create its own weather locally like the bushfires in Australia do when they get hot enough? Interesting that Australian researchers didn't consider this.
@Ella Frood - The eruption did cause strange weather phenomenon, several of the ships that sailed from Misenum under orders of Pliny the elder didn't even make it across the bay.
I had a book assigned in school recently called the secrets of Vesuvius and it actually has pliny the elder in it and even includes his death
I used to be obsessed with the history of Pompeii. The ride Escape From Pompeii at Busch Gardens was my favorite ride.
It has just recently been confirmed that the eruption did take place later than originally thought . Graffiti was found dated some time in Oct of that year !!!! They are finding new artefacts and buildings every year , that have disproved original theories. Amazing place .
"We're in Pompeii, and it's volcano day" I love that they're using Doctor Who clips.
Is Doctor who on Hulu because I would love to see a some episodes, especially after seeing the Van Gogh clip from here on RUclips.
They do that to hook the simple minded among us. Works like a charm, half of you "SMASHED THAT SUB AND LIKE BUTTON"
Thats wonderful getting to see how they looked.Sad this happened.
Great content 👍 fantastic...l would love to visit one day x
I went to Pompeii in 2017 and it was amazing. They have only excavated a small portion of the town but it was so cool what a time capsule. If you ever make it to Italy I highly recommend seeing Mt Vesuvius and Pompeii.
You should not visit were the Almighty's wrath cane down on.
Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Mt Vesuvius are definitely on my places to visit list
1:42~1:47 *”We’re In Pompeii, And It’s Volcano Day!”* 😂🤣
Bars
Wat movie is that?
It’s a Doctor Who Episode, I don’t know which one though.
-;Penelope Coman;- fires of Pompeii 🤔
Lmaoo
I love the way you’re casually including clips where The Doctor from Doctor Who is strolling around in the background 😂
new subscriber here to thank you for the content
I like how the subtitles aren’t including words like killed or death. 😂😂😂 you gotta get that monitization.
Yup
way to *offend* them volcano
RUclips 🙄
Demonetization pls give pewdiepie some ads PLEASE
I noticed that too. Like they said "passed" instead of "died".
0:21 so you got the footage by getting "the Doctor" to travel back in time for you ?
This comment might be a r/Whoosh, Buuuut.....
*No stupid, its a movie.*
@@sderoz40 what movie is it
San Lay it’s the doctor who revival series (not a movie)
*Where else would you get the facts?!*
Bobby Kids yes it’s a bad wooosh
I enjoyed my tour of Pompeii and I’d like to go back again to explore more of the area. It’s fascinating and sad at the same time.
That place is fascinating. Impossible to not focus on the disaster as the residents must have experienced it.
Actually, pyroclastic flow can move anywhere between 60 mph (100 kmh) to 430 mph (700 kmh). That means since the ruins of Pompeii are 5 miles (8 kilometers) from Mt. Vesuvius, they could have had anywhere from 5 minutes to get out ( at 60 mph) to 1/10th of a second (at 430 mph) or anywhere in between. Personally, I think the horrible earthquakes had everyone hiding and then the Pyroclastic flow came so fast that they didn't even know what hit them when they were buried.
Back in 2000 my 5th grade science teacher did a lesson on Pompeii and I’ve been in love with learning about their history ever since. I was 10 years old and I promised myself one day I will take a tour there...
Let's take a moment to appreciate there are captions, time stamps, *and* the script in the description
Thanks!
I think the heat and cooking alive would have been awful, over quick though! I read the positions of the bodies are not from trying to protect themselves from ash etc but due to muscle contraction as they cooked.
cooked 💀
I would rather freeze to death instead of burn to death.
@@candacepalmer6283True that. At least people who freeze will just feel numb. Some even feel warm before they die!
I guess now they know that the next time a volcano erupts, it’s not vUlCaN
Emery Brigham I would use Hephaestus, but it’s the same person.
@@asynir1886 Right, with Vulcan being the same god as Hephaistos - Vulcan being the name that Romans gave to the originally Greek god - I'd usually go for the Greek name, too, unless I were referring to him in a particular context. So here I'd probably call him Vulcan, too.
Good history love it thanks for sharing bring more Roman Empire ❤🇬🇭
It's been 3+ years since this video aired. I hope restorative methods have been effective and the efforts still on-going. Another point I found interesting was the question of the exact date of eruption. There have been several calendars and other date adjustments since that time.
Just have a potion of fire resistance
Don't come at me with that pfp
And night vision so u can see through the dark clouds and a bucket of milk to take of the poison effect and golden apples
but they got crushed by the ash, what you doing next, box yourself in with cobblestone?
Dude JUST 4Heed
It's big brain time.
They turned Augustus into a deity and the real God dropped a volcano on them.
Loving and jealous God, I will serve him all the days of my life!
RoyalRoxanne Amen to that!
lol Vulcan was like hell nah
i Randy Ah yes the "all loving god" fucking nukes a city
That's what I was thinking! Wasn't it Augustus to whom God said, you think you are a god but you are merely a man?
*This was literally a perfect storm... Wow.*
I remember being taught about Pompeii at school in the 5th grade (1994) and having nightmares for several weeks.
The volcano god was angery they were celebrating another god Straight after his day 😔
There's only one God
Gacha Movie Queen And I’m pretty sure he doesn’t dress like that
Gacha Movie Queen that’s called an opinion
@@pogoz2005 no there is multiple
@@pogoz2005 there are many and it's not believe that means you believe in a false deity
There is another town near Pompeii, Herculaneum, which had more of a firestorm that managed to preserve wooden architecture and furniture. It adds a clearer sense of daily life such as two story buildings, a baby's crib, sofa, railings, screens, etc.
Thank you.
I visited Pompei in 1972 and walked the perimeter of the Vesuvius crater. There were wisps of smoke visible inside.