Finally, someone explains that Roman roads were not cobblestone nor were they made by simple peasants, but skilled laborers working on plans from skilled engineers, building a multi layer road that was smooth on top.
I dont understand why it must be one or the other. they mustve had a skilled engineer who knew the secret to building a road, but the rest is just hard labor that can be directed at anyone to be done
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the ability they had to adopt conquered peuples technics and technologies. they always preferred amphoras, but barrel was still a brilliant adding to Roman technologies..
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Finally!! A video that shows that the surface of Roman roads was SMOOTH!! Today, they are always bumpy, but rarely does anyone bother to explain or show that when they were constructed the top layer was flat and smooth. Thank you!
Friend, really in the universities it is studied that the rolling surface is made of slabs and not of fine materials. Else, don't expect to see anything.
Ehm no, they dus copy most of there work from the greeks, genocide on the Francs by Julius Caesar, all there wealth stolen and build with lots of slaves.
Only incredible if you think that people today are any smarter than people thousands of years ago. Where do you think we get our inventions and culture from. History bro.
I live in the NW part of the UK where some of these roads have been covered in tarmac and used as main roads. Extremely long straight roads. One is actually called "Roman road" running through Blackburn to Greater Manchester/Bolton. The Roman geographical selections were that good the roads are still used today.
Same here in Belgium, all roads here that aren't motorways that don't have a change of name between city borders (dunno how it is in other countries but that's a thing here) are built straight on top of old roman roads.
@@intermilan9731 no they didn't there was no such thing as "roman rising" there was roman empire, the entire thing is historical lies. in latin books, including mixed old english tells such a tale of a great empire that rules a large part and they were the builders, England was "rediscovered" when EU explorered "re ventured" out and discovered england, and its castle, roads and fine statues, including in CA, USA, MX, South america, and evrywhere else in the world where already build. there is no logical way romans went back in time and the future, to build everything across the globe. The same hoax as chinese build the wall when the chinese wall entrance are facing North/West /West/South entrances are out side where " enemies" were allegedly are. history is all a lie, including this video. I suggest you block their propaganda and start reseaching mud flood theory and Tartarians from Far East. when working with an art and map collector, we found photographies from US in Omaha where they were " digging cities" out not building them. using trains to clear out debry and ruble, dirt to expose a city under it.
@@phoenix1453 Not in the same period they didn't. The Teutons (proto Germans) were still living in forests and wearing fur loin cloths when these roads were being built. I am interested though - what time period are you suggesting the Germans were doing better?
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My mind was blown away at the fact that Romans had road rollers in the same way we have today. It really is true some tech is so advanced, not much changes even after millennia.
Grain Mills? Waterwheel moves gears that move stone in a circle. Steam engines? Fire heats up water which pushes gear/turbine to turn wheels. Combustion engine? Fire makes controlled explosion to turn pistons to turn wheels. Nuclear power? Radiation turns water to steam, which turns turbine to produce electricity. Making power a bunch of different ways, but still transfer that energy via wheels hundreds of years later.
Excellent short video which gets to the issue. When the Romans left England (UK) around the year 410, they left a network of roads equivalent to today's motorways. Wonderfully straight roads which we can use to get around the country. Marvellous!
Many of these roads were so good that they were still being used in the Medieval times and rather than abandon them when they wore out, people built new roads directly on-top of the old Roman road surfaces. Even today in England, there are a lot of modern roads which if you dug down deep enough, you would find that they are built on the same surfaces and lines as the ancient Roman road systems.
@Storm Shadow you said we don't have history like that here and it's just copy and paste, you didn't specify Roman specifically. A good example of roads with history in the US are from my home city of San Antonio. The roads in the city actually closely follow old cattle trails that fed into the city from all the surrounding towns, cities, and ranches giving San Antonio it's distinctive wagon wheel shape. A few once major roadways followed ancient Native American trails that existed long before the country. The history is there and it's fascinating. You just have to look for it since it's not as popular to teach tragically.
Excellent presentation. It's astonishing how knowledgeable the Romans were about different types of aggregate, and how the aggregates worked structurally in a system. Your attention to the detail of crowning the road for surface drainage is a CRITICAL element is construction of strong, long lasting roads.
I was stationed in Spain back in 83-85. We did a lot of sightseeing, just pick a direction and drive until half of our money was spent then turn around and head back. We ran into a lot of Roman ruins in town, the woods, out in the middle of nowhere. It amazed me that they were still standing, and some still used to this very day.
i live in Spain and my city is built above a Roman settlement and every time they dig to build the foundation of the building they find more and more ruins, to the point nobody cares anymore
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@@Girtharmstrong69 OF course it did but the skeleton was roman, ther roads, the politics, the military, the religions, calendar, the language, the written, laws, almost everything is the foundation of the modern west civilization. Of course we had better materials now, we have +2000 years of evolution
What city / village my friend? Roman architectures were stunning though! Im an Australian studying in UK and I got to see the remnant of Hadrians Wall in Wallsend England. Some parts of the wall werent intact anymore but some of them are still visible 👍👍
Always been fascinated how how well civilized the Romans were. There is also evidence of aqueducts and even fire heating water before delivery. A type of modern water heaters.
I always thought it was weird that Roman roads were surfaced with big lumpy stones. There was even one BBC documentary that showed a cart bouncing up and down while rolling down the road, and their conclusion was that the road must've been used mostly for soldiers walking on the road, not for wheeled travel.
Aceptan disparates aún mayores por desconocer que las carreteras romanas nunca estaban cubiertas de losas. Eso sólo ocurría en las calles de las ciudades y en las salidas proncipales mientras duraba el cemeneterio.
@@IsaacMorenoGallo that’s a lie. And we see that evidence in Pompei where wheel ruts have ground into the flag stones by frequent use making indentations . They did not have gravel on.
Wow! I have been to Italy three times and saw many Roman ruins. Never in my wildest dreams thought how smooth the roads really were. Excellent content thank-you! Carpe diem!
@@科学诺尔 What about the Renaissance period? You seem to select what you want to see and not the whole of history. Very sad. All empires are build on war, blood and bones of the the conquered. So get over it and so is yours.
@@rey6708 Plenty of corporations engage in wage slavery worldwide. Sure paying someone just enough to not die of starvation is not what we traditionally think of as slavery, but it still creates similar conditions of dependency on those who own everything. Whether it be plantation owners in 19th century America or multinational conglomerates, the laborers are helpless in the face of what seems like endless capital.
I was about to comment that the wide margins to either side were for improved security against bandits and dangerous animals but you covered it. Well done. However the wide margins also meant that falling trees would not block the road, and that large herds of livestock could be driven down the road, and that large bodies of soldiers could match in rank and file down the road, in wider columns, with less hazard of ambush by hostiles.
@@Kenzofeis Modern roads have many an ass using them today as well. Perhaps we should build them with a spot for them to take a break and rest. Might improve their attitude.
Yes, their infrastructure was built to last because their focus was on efficiency. Modern day united states is focused on purposefully building things cheaply, to ENSURE that they will break down overtime. if you construct anything with the foresight to make sure that it will last for centuries long, you cannot profit from the majority's reliance on it through raising taxes. They manufacture obsoletion so that they can form an extortion racket, rooted in the dependence on the infrastructures in place.
@@jareddyer3142 That's a load of crap. Their infrastructure was built to handle horses and wagons. One 80,000 lb semi trailer would rip it to shreds in one pass. The US has engineering marvels that will last for a century or more. Get out of your house more.
Some old Roman roads are still being used near Pisa. They had to be widened since nobody drives chariots, of course, but it was nice to drive along that little bit of history. The Roman roads also sent a message to the surrounding city-states that might think of resisting or even attacking Rome. Those smooth roads allowed Rome to send its armies and horse-drawn vehicles quickly and smoothly, ie, don't resist us because we can be on top of you faster than you can second guess yourselves.
@@bigrig4385 That's because there's 25-ton heavy semi trucks that drive over them daily. Constant heat cycling can also cause roads to crack, and with the weight, friction and heat caused by the weight of modern vehicles, that's nearly inevitable.
The similarities between Roman road construction and modern road construction are truly remarkable. We've improved the materials used, but the techniques have changed relatively little.
@@lolapanola282 That's not the point they're making. Romans didn't have any special or secret technology - they found an incredibly effective method that we've only managed to improve slightly since then, despite exponentially more advanced technology. We can do it faster, sure, but we haven't re-invented the road.
u r definitely small brainer, My father is DPWH Engineer and I just asked 1 min ago if theres little difference... he said theres massive difference with modern road
Esta serie de documentales de Ingeniería Romana son lo mejor de lo mejor. La calidad del contenido, el rigor histórico, y la propuesta visual levantando modelos 3D sobre imágenes actuales son sencillamente brillantes. Se nota la pasión que hay detrás. Y son producción española, que deja a la altura del betún al canal de historia y al national geographic con sus aproximaciones a la historia infantiloides.
The 20m gap between the road centre and the ditches is also consistent with roads which can still be seen in rural Lincolnshire. Cattle and sheep were also herded and walked down the sides of the roads. So the rich well drained verges provided safe grazing for the livestock which sometimes was moved 100s of miles to cities, garrisons and outposts.
Yeah, I am not so sure the ditches were for a deterrent either. Proper drainage demands a place to go. The sides of the road would be a swamp if the ditches were not there. It also defines a border for properties along the route. Trees and shrubs that grow along it would make for a good "fence" as well. I didn't think of the fact it would basically become a meadow for moving livestock. :)
@@denniswoycheshen There was actually an ancient law in England that these inter-city routes had to have a verge, overseen by a verger. This was specifically for allowing herds of sheep, cattle and goats to be 'droven' from the farms where they were raised to the cities where they were consumed. 8 miles per day was considered ample mileage for cattle that would avoid the actual road surface and forage/graze on the verge.
Bien dicho, son unos documentales con recreaciones en 3D nivel Spielberg como mínimo, e Isaac nos ha llevado a ver así muchas maravillas irreconocibles a simple vista. Saludos!
I grew up in a village between Ceuclum and Mosae Trajectum and there was a Roman road still there, or at least the road plan. I now live in Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum where there are also still some roads that follow the Roman plans.
When it comes to construction, a lot of ancient knowledge has been lost. The Pyramids and the Parthenon are perfect buildings that still stand, millennia after they were built. Will any modern building be standing a thousand years from now? i don't think so
@@vacantplanet Do not compare a pyramid made of pieces of stone, like a mountain, and complex buildings made of steel and concrete, someone has the ability to degrade. You compare the processor and abacus, the simpler, the more durable.
@@vacantplanet making piryramid is ez. But the labour is hard. To make perfect cube blocks use nail and hammer technic, then carry blocks. It was made by very skilled works and a huge work force was required.
Thus was very interesting and educational. I always thought Roman roads were just flatten dirt roads but the amount of engineering and labor that went into building these roads are highly impressive.
Roads were key to the Roman empire development and durability. Just a quick look at all the things they left us is a good illustration of what they knew in terms of building. They knew what they were doing. You don't dominate unless your technology is better than everybody else's.
The romans were highly advanced in logistics, mobility and engineering. Thats why their empire spread so far and lasted so long. Even after Rome fell. The eastern half lasted another 1000 years under a different name untill they were wiped out by turks with bigger guns
the historical texts suggests this technique wasnt for roads at all, it was described as being used for house foundations hence the depth, and the person who discovered the texts confusing pavīmentum for the french pavee, which means paved road. pavīmentum means floor, and the technique itself was described in relation to building a house, not a road.
@Jamie W 😁😁. Around this area the roads were resurfaced some years ago but the layer of tar breaks up leaving sharp edged potholes. The “repair” involves patching the holes with a dollop of tar which lasts a few months at the most. People drive along the road like it is a slalom course trying to avoid the potholes! The local garages make a fortune replacing broken springs etc. The Romans would not be impressed!!
@Jamie W Don’t be silly! Directors of Public Works Depts. are given a Dollar to do Twenty Dollars worth of work. However in California with the high taxes. The Roads should be paved with Gold. Lol.
@@nor0845 do you srsly think roman roads could handel 20 ton trucks as good as our roads do? The reason the lasted so long was they were only used by carriages pulled by horses, not even close to the same wear and tear today's roads have to handle
I, like everyone else, was taught that roman roads were really bumpy in school. When I asked my teacher why they weren't smooth, he said the romans "just didn't have the technology." It wouldn't be until many years later that I figured out that is a go-to lie that instructors use when they don't know, or can't say.
I really enjoyed the fascinating information provided regarding the building of Roman Roads , the straight line's are still existing today in uk thousands of year's later !
@Faylum1 Calling them "Roman" roads also degrades them in many places. The video implies roads were built in complete wilderness when often the pre-existing peooles such as the Greeks, Egyptians and even Celts already had their own road systems. The Romans often took these and made some improvements to them (and made some of them worse, by redirecting them up steep hills). The Romans liked to denigrate their neighbours... the Romans' engineering achievements were impressive, but they were not the first to provide an infrastructure in many cases.
Don Isaac, ayer estuve recorriendo la via romana de Numancia a Osma por el páramo de Villaciervos resultando en una formidable y mágica aventura, yo solo, sin cruzarme con nadie durante dos horas recorriendo una autentica calzada romana. Pude ver los dos cortes transversales realizados a la calzada algo ya deteriorados por el paso del tiempo (muy recomendables los estudios sobre las calzadas romanas en Castilla y León que se pueden visitar en tu pagina web viasromanas) . Sumo a esta visita las ya realizadas a Tiermes y a Clunia-Sulspicia también motivadas por tus documentales. Solo puedo decir, gracias por difundir el mundo romano desde un punto de vista científico muchisimo mas realista que el tradicional humanista.
Merci for this. I used to work on surveying teams and my first job was building an interstate exchange. Too bad American's didn't learn quality control from the Romans. BTW there is an old roman bridge in Portugal near a stone quarry. They built a new bridge for the 75 ton trucks. It was unsafe after several years, and they started using the Roman bridge and it's doing fine.
I’ve been to Pompeii and seen the tracks on their urban roads used for ease of travel for chariots and other wheeled forms of transport. Did the Roman highways you describe have similar tracks? Interesting fact that the wheel distance used by the Romans was then applied to British railroad tracks!
Fine work! Clear, crisp, short and to the point, with a clear descriptive structure and nice clean imagery. I learned more of this basic info than from probably any other source. And I concur with the commenter who praised your showing the smooth surface. Looking at the things today, they look like knee and ankle crackers. Kidney rupturers if one is in a cart.
Sounds remarkably modern. I've heard of a scheme that uses worn out rubber tires that had their respective side walls mostly removed. Then they are partially filled with fine gravel and then a top layer of concrete. Something like the presentation. Increases the usefulness of the road by 20%, if memory is serving well enough? It seems that the tiers flex a tiny bit under load and because of that the top layer does not crack as fast as it might under similar conditions, but without those tires.
@@jiri-korinek One way would be looking into how to take those tires apart again. Use the raw materials. But I guess burying them and calling the product a road is better. Not that we do already have way too many of those anyways. Rail is better.
@@jiri-korinek I don't think so. It just postpones the problem, and adds one of rapidly deteriorating streets later down the line, since those tires are going to not keep their traits that made them useful for road building in the first place forever. It would be better for less wealthy nations to ship around freight on rail. Also is true for wealthy nations. Trucking and excessive personal car use needs to stop.
The guy coming up with the graphics: “This will be an educational video showing how Roman roads were made.” The guy coming up with the music: “DRAGONS FIGHTING CENTAURS AND SHIT!”
It's just so amazing how much thought went into roads back then, I always figured that the land was cleared by soldiers or scouts and got compacted down after decades of use and they threw stones around main roads to make them more stable during flood seasons, I was unaware of the fact they had such sophisticated techniques
They often took road systems which pre-Roman peoples had already created, straightened them up and added a better surface. But in much of the Empire, the road systems were not brand new at all. Gaul had an extensive pre-Roman road system for example.
My father had a job building roads in a rural area. It's amazing that the process of building roads in Rome isn't that different from today! However, the foundation seems to be much stronger than the current asphalt road. In the 21st century, the road paving process is very simple, so all you need to do is to use a roller to compact the ground with soil several times and then lay the asphalt. Although the construction is easy and the road is smooth, the road is easily damaged by heavy vehicles, or sometimes a sinkhole occurs when an empty space is created under the ground.
+1 I was sure it was just that ugly stones which I saw during excursion. Guide said it is Rome road 😂 Looks like it was road which built wild europeans centuries later.
The same with Roman buildings.The bath house in the town of Bath here in England at 2000 or so years old is the oldest continually occupied building in the world and is still perefctly safe and usable.Council houses are falling apart after less than twenty years.
@@chrisplunkett2814 lol comments like these make me laugh, road wear is caused proportianal to weight, if cars drove every day on a roman road it would be in pieces in a month (not to mention semi trucks)
@@timgoodliffe This is true but paved roads of today are also extremely susceptible to weather, especially asphalt. Cold temps combined with moisture can damage roads very quickly, I've worked on asphalt crews before and have had to make major repairs to roads we paved less than a year prior due to excessive weather damage. I'm sure the Romans were out there making repairs to their roads as well but I highly doubt they were doing it as often as we do. Sometimes when you're working on road crews it feels like you're always taking 2 steps forward and 4 steps back, getting farther and farther behind schedule and missing out on the money that comes with building new roads.
@@timgoodliffe So how do you explain cobblestone roads in Europe that are used every day by heavy vehicles? Some have been around for at least 50 years with no repairs.
@scott foster Bruh that's a cobblestone bro it's not like asphalt or paved road where there would be holes formed and I'm sure even that have some cobblestone that cracked from degradation and when some cobblestone are gone you can simply just put another on or two in
@Thierry Verhoest It's precisely heavy traffic what damages roads the most. We live in different worlds, today everything has to be quick, that's why roads and other infrastructure is designed to be easily constructed and repaired at the cost of shorter lifespans. Plus our roads are designed for modern fast motor vehicles, not slow carts.
@Thierry Verhoest I agree in the sense that we lost the majority of that culture as the world changed, shrunk and spinned faster. Everything we build has a purpose or an idea behind it. Back then, the changes were slower: grandsons lived more or less like their grandfathers, wars took longer, travels were slower, empires lasted hundreds if not thousands of years, and landmarks were expected to last as long as they did, because they were a show of power. Nowadays, just 10 years is a huge amount of time in some areas, everything is constantly changing, we no longer build things to show power but to generate it. Bigger ships to carry more goods, better planes to reach more destinations, efficient buildings to maximize the space usage, more powerful power plants to push the industry, longer bridges and tunnels to connect cities and countries, etc. We still have the knowledge to build beautiful and long lasting structures (look up the Akshardham temple for example) but now that function precedes form, they're very few. It's just the world that we live in, but there are still many wonderful modern works of art and engineering feats worth checking out all around the world. I think the most valuable characteristic of those old buildings is not their looks but their history. That's why we try to keep them as original as possible, like fine wine it's the pass of time what gives it it's flavour. Sorry for the essay 😅
@Thierry Verhoest Of course, my only "disagreement" or at least what I perceived as such, is that old structures are better just because they last. We have the same skills they had back then, plus thousands of years of technological advances on top of it. It's just that today we build things with different purposes. But I agree with you overall, consumerism is one hell of a drug. Our society is so connected and dependant on technology that it has became very fragile and vulnerable. There's nothing inherently bad with progress, but it should always serve the people and not the other way around. I hope we can reach an equilibrium someday, and quit the rat race. A pleasure reading you too.
I'm a geotechnical engineer. This is almost exactly how roads are still built today. Obviously we use asphalt in roads, but asphalt is just gravel mixed with sticky tar instead of sand silt and clay. Preparing firm subgrade, removing topsoil, layering different aggregate sizes, these are all practices still used today.
Here in El Paso, I have seen the same section of road repair 6 times in the past 15 years. In Germany I drove over road that the Romans had built 2,000 years ago.
Modern roads are crap made cheaply and quickly. Roman roads were well made, and some still survive and are used by modern people thousands of years later.
@@Ivan_Berni Logging trucks go up worse than this every day. The same in open pit mines. Any un-metalled road built today is constructed exactly like this.
Working in construction industry. This is exactly how we build roads highways. Only difference is there’s no horses involved. It’s mind blowing Roman’s came with this genius thought 2000 years earlier
Today I learned that the Romans drove on the left side of the road while traveling in England. Didn't know that. Joking aside, this is a well made video. My compliments!
This process was extraordinarily labor intensive! It must have taken many years to create such a road system. The end result was excellent, but getting there had to be backbreaking!
Have you ever had to work with concrete or rebar that’s used to reinforce the concrete it’s backbreaking work and it’s requires manual laborers not slaves not much has change the skilled workers then were paid just as workers now are paid. Only difference is ancient workers had to spend a majority of their. Wages on food and lodging
The engineering for that era was remarkable, by the way. To think these roads were used by everyone from simple wayfarers to the Roman Legions and their wagon trains themselves and to still be in marvellous condition today are a testament to the skill and expertise that went into it.
@@rcengineer Indeed. But the maintenance they performed was enough to keep the roads themselves operational for centuries after the Roman Empire was gone.
@@swedhgemoni8092 indeed they are very impressive engineering for the time. The issue is when people start claiming that modern roads should be built like roman roads because "they lasted 2000 years without maintenance." I think those people also overestimate the wear due to even entire legions compared to frequent 100kph semi trucks.
@@rcengineer si comparas la carga que soporta un carro de mulas y la de un camión, suele ser la misma. La diferencia es que actualmente no ponen piedras de cimentación, y con el tiempo se hacen baches.
They really were very impressive engineers weren't they! I have such massive respect for their accomplishments, many of which can still be seen today. I spent 30 years working as a carpenter so I have some idea how much effort this took. I also doubt any of the massive industrial projects that I worked on will still be around in 1500 years, even partially. Roman invention of concrete was so important too but to me their best works were their aqueducts. They could do amazing things with water. Whoever claims that ancient people were not smart is just showing their ignorance.
@Yang Wen Li Ya, they knew enough people that died from eating it so they eventually figured it out. It was because they weren't cooking it fully if I had to guess. Bear meat can do the same, since bears are closely related to pigs. My grandparents were from Norway and they ate some codfish soaked in wood ashes at Christmas called Lutefisk. Its horrid looking shit and very odd tasting but was basically jellied boiled cod. They probably made it earlier in the year and preserved it and knew the ashes did something that helped avoid sickness. I wish I had asked them before they both passed on. I did learn though to not take past knowledge lightly.
Today we still use the Roman Method for road paving much of the machines you see have been replaced with their modern counterparts. Tippers were the first dump trucks, spreader plows were the first pavers, water wagons were the first sprayer trucks, and rolling wagons were the first rollers. The Romans were also the first to invent tar roads which we still use today.
That is an enormous amount of very heavy rock/sand/aggregates to move around without combustion engines....extremely impressive. And the concept of the layers still holds true as the best way to do it today! So impressive
@JZ's Best Friend "fortifica" means "Strengthen" and "Custodire" means "to guard" so the closest meaning to "Build" in Latin is "aedificare" or "construere", and that's why in Spanish you also have "Edificar" and "Construir".
Imagine how satisfying it must have been to be traveling on the road home, the sky is grey, the fields and Forrest is as green as can be and it’s raining. That sounds like heaven
@@A-A-RonDavis2470 Id say the empires that never actually became Christian would have to be considered the most anti Christian empires ever. Yes the Romans have some ancient history of persecuting them but Constantine still happened
@@CautiousDavid perhaps you just have a different world view but that does. Not too heavy of rain but just enough for you to feel it. The fresh air with open fields of beautiful Italian countryside and nature. Does sound like a good time to me. Just being able to take in the scenery and enjoy yourself
@@A-A-RonDavis2470 that’s debatable. I know of one Roman emperor that adopted Christianity and made it the official religion of the Roman Empire at one point.
look around you and you see people working physically just like they did back in the day. there aint no big difference to that. stop being such a suprised and amazed baby for no reason. as if today is more amazing because of the technology, as if today people do not do physically hard work... not the info has made your mind blowing up, but your naive stupidity
I think a small stretch of road built to these standards would be an excellent University Study Project. It would of course be time and personnel intensive, but could run on for several years as sort of a graduate project in Civil Engineering.
Why, this is basically how modern roads are already made.. feels like you can just throw a civil engineer on any road side project and probably learn something that applies to modern times, that they'd be doing... and actually do it right.
@@cornyxxx16 that's correct too. People in charge don't want them to be of highest quality because then it'll last very long and they won't get the chance to take the project again, which makes so much profit.
As an engineer, I can tell you that the ditches on the side of the road are designed to carry rainwater away from the road. This is standard practice today. I built plenty of roads like this during my time in the army.
Very interesting, and a well produced video too. Many thanks. I’m not sure if the ditches were really to prevent unauthorised access, but were really for drainage instead.
La orografía en muchos sitios no permite que las cunetas alejadas sean para drenaje, las pendientes no lo permiten. No tienen sentido como drenaje. Además, tienen otras cunetas junto a la carretera cuando se necesita el drenaje
@Kevin L - distance is distance, and a ditch is a ditch. They are not the same thing. A clear area between you and the woods would prevent robbers and animal attacks, or at least give you warning as they are forced to run into the open to attack you. But a ditch that is big enough to slow them down as they run through it would be big enough to hide in. A ditch small enough to prevent hiding, they would just step over.
This is how all such videos should be. Straight to the point, no bs, no long intros, no history of the topic etc. Great work.
"When on Roman Road Construction, Do as Roman Constructors Did . . . "
Have a Plan and proceed with skilled brute force efficiency ! B-)
Right! Imagine if all videos were like this no bs no earbud advertisers nothing but what you actually want to see. Its refreshing for sure
Yes to that!
I never understand the intro. It’s one we clicked the video because of the title now you’re giving me a 30 second intro? Bug off
because its a clip from a TV show and not some youtuber making it
Finally, someone explains that Roman roads were not cobblestone nor were they made by simple peasants, but skilled laborers working on plans from skilled engineers, building a multi layer road that was smooth on top.
And slaves
@@GeraldWeinand While the Romans definitely used a lot of slave labor, let's not undersell the use of soldiers to build roads.
@@GeraldWeinand 😂😂
I dont understand why it must be one or the other. they mustve had a skilled engineer who knew the secret to building a road, but the rest is just hard labor that can be directed at anyone to be done
And lots of slaves. Why is any of this a shock to you?
gets right to the point, no obnoxiously drawn out intros and sponsor reads. great work
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I thought the same too. Very good informative clip.
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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with sponsor reads. These people hardly make any money on RUclips, monetization is as hard as ever and sponsors help with that. And only a little. You people just want free content from these guys that spend days/weeks/months of their lives to make videos like these. Such an entitled bunch.
Roman engineering never ceases to amaze me what they were able to do for the time
the ability they had to adopt conquered peuples technics and technologies. they always preferred amphoras, but barrel was still a brilliant adding to Roman technologies..
Look up the helepolis. Fair warning: It'll take you a while to pick your jaw back up.
They were not human
Slave labor makes things a lot easier.
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Finally!! A video that shows that the surface of Roman roads was SMOOTH!! Today, they are always bumpy, but rarely does anyone bother to explain or show that when they were constructed the top layer was flat and smooth. Thank you!
Friend, really in the universities it is studied that the rolling surface is made of slabs and not of fine materials. Else, don't expect to see anything.
Ikr if only I could walk on that smooth Road
I am doing this and I am only 10 yrs
today remain only the stones foundations....
Así es. Y cuando queda entera, que muchas veces ocurre así, no se sabe identificar bien porque la superficie de áridos pequeños no llama la atención.
The Romans were so much more than a war machine. Incredible engineers and builders. I now understand the saying " all roads lead to Rome"
Dont forget all the public baths with hot springs..
@@9iht6ihgt43rzhijj or even proper sewage and water plumbing, including heated floors in some buildings
they just didn't want to live like savages... anybody desiring a more comfortable and civilized life would figure out what's needed to make it so
Ehm no, they dus copy most of there work from the greeks, genocide on the Francs by Julius Caesar, all there wealth stolen and build with lots of slaves.
@@I_dont_know-wx2bo Everyone has an opinion.
Huge props to the cameraman for filming this thousands years ago!
Shut up
As a kid I'd watch "the Ten Commandments" and thought it was video from 3000 years ago.
@@anonymousiswatching you get no bitches
@@anonymousiswatching touch grass, for the only woman you get is your mom
And didn’t even have shakey hands. People can’t do that now
the most acurate and informative 2minutes and 28 seconds video ever
Same, first I've heard of the ditches. Though it makes sense, l would say it's more for drainage than anything else.
Fun fact: the ditches are for the utility company that would bury their cable 2000 years later. The Romans thhought of everything ☝️
lol yes they made perfect roads, such greatness only if nobody else was there.
Yes, they were big into fiber optics......😚
Aquafibers they used to call them.
@@will7its for CNG/LNG pipeline....Also ???
@@sandesh9240 Sure, why not.....
Incredible how the Roman Roads in their heyday so closely resembled the paved highways that crisscross the land today.
Only thing missing is the asphalt on top
Only incredible if you think that people today are any smarter than people thousands of years ago. Where do you think we get our inventions and culture from. History bro.
Like the wheel. We're very advanced in some areas but generally we have the same tech from thousands of years ago, just very refined.
@@m0r73n Some Roman roads are still in use today but with modern asphalt, I've driven over them but they looked like normal roads with line-markings.
Because there's a way to build roads. It's basic engineering. Why would it differ that much.
I live in the NW part of the UK where some of these roads have been covered in tarmac and used as main roads. Extremely long straight roads. One is actually called "Roman road" running through Blackburn to Greater Manchester/Bolton. The Roman geographical selections were that good the roads are still used today.
@@intermilan9731 “and laid blue prints for newer cities” wait so they were going to build more has they stayed?
@@Luke_05 most likely. They didn't plan on giving up the empire. No empire ever does.
Same here in Belgium, all roads here that aren't motorways that don't have a change of name between city borders (dunno how it is in other countries but that's a thing here) are built straight on top of old roman roads.
@@intermilan9731 no they didn't there was no such thing as "roman rising" there was roman empire, the entire thing is historical lies.
in latin books, including mixed old english tells such a tale of a great empire that rules a large part and they were the builders, England was "rediscovered" when EU explorered "re ventured" out and discovered england, and its castle, roads and fine statues, including in CA, USA, MX, South america, and evrywhere else in the world where already build. there is no logical way romans went back in time and the future, to build everything across the globe. The same hoax as chinese build the wall when the chinese wall entrance are facing North/West /West/South entrances are out side where " enemies" were allegedly are.
history is all a lie, including this video. I suggest you block their propaganda and start reseaching mud flood theory and Tartarians from Far East.
when working with an art and map collector, we found photographies from US in Omaha where they were " digging cities" out not building them. using trains to clear out debry and ruble, dirt to expose a city under it.
@@tsijr915 Please indulge us all with your little theory we could do with a laugh.
Really appreciate the guy that made this animation.
They really were remarkable feats of engineering, especially for a pre-combustion engine age.
roman's tecnology is overrated. Germans did better
@@phoenix1453 Not in the same period they didn't. The Teutons (proto Germans) were still living in forests and wearing fur loin cloths when these roads were being built. I am interested though - what time period are you suggesting the Germans were doing better?
In the 1900s
@@TheRafark That's hardly a fair comparison then is it? Roman roads are still here 2000 years later. I'd say that deserves some respect.
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My mind was blown away at the fact that Romans had road rollers in the same way we have today. It really is true some tech is so advanced, not much changes even after millennia.
Thats called the “Lindy effect”
Grain Mills? Waterwheel moves gears that move stone in a circle. Steam engines? Fire heats up water which pushes gear/turbine to turn wheels. Combustion engine? Fire makes controlled explosion to turn pistons to turn wheels. Nuclear power? Radiation turns water to steam, which turns turbine to produce electricity.
Making power a bunch of different ways, but still transfer that energy via wheels hundreds of years later.
@@randzopyr1038 yeah technology is truly fascinating
And the lasted longer too
@@randzopyr1038 as the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it
Excellent short video which gets to the issue. When the Romans left England (UK) around the year 410, they left a network of roads equivalent to today's motorways. Wonderfully straight roads which we can use to get around the country. Marvellous!
Many of these roads were so good that they were still being used in the Medieval times and rather than abandon them when they wore out, people built new roads directly on-top of the old Roman road surfaces. Even today in England, there are a lot of modern roads which if you dug down deep enough, you would find that they are built on the same surfaces and lines as the ancient Roman road systems.
@Storm Shadow That's because you are only paying attention to history that was written down. What about prehistory?
@Storm Shadow you said we don't have history like that here and it's just copy and paste, you didn't specify Roman specifically. A good example of roads with history in the US are from my home city of San Antonio. The roads in the city actually closely follow old cattle trails that fed into the city from all the surrounding towns, cities, and ranches giving San Antonio it's distinctive wagon wheel shape. A few once major roadways followed ancient Native American trails that existed long before the country. The history is there and it's fascinating. You just have to look for it since it's not as popular to teach tragically.
@Storm Shadow anyone who uses kiddo as a derogatory word has very little self confidence
See Monty Python - "What did the Romans ever do for us?"
Excellent presentation. It's astonishing how knowledgeable the Romans were about different types of aggregate, and how the aggregates worked structurally in a system. Your attention to the detail of crowning the road for surface drainage is a CRITICAL element is construction of strong, long lasting roads.
I was stationed in Spain back in 83-85. We did a lot of sightseeing, just pick a direction and drive until half of our money was spent then turn around and head back. We ran into a lot of Roman ruins in town, the woods, out in the middle of nowhere. It amazed me that they were still standing, and some still used to this very day.
You also unkowingly drove on a Roman road or two. Most of the European road network, including highways dates back from the Roman Empire
Roman roads are cool! I like the bumpy Roman roads although many tounge biting incidents happened….
i live in Spain and my city is built above a Roman settlement and every time they dig to build the foundation of the building they find more and more ruins, to the point nobody cares anymore
I read that as year 83 lol
Not 1983. Hah how our minds work.
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Fascinating! The Roman's were so incredibly advanced with their engineering.
Truly brilliant. Not a whole lot has changed in 2,000 years. We've added more layers and reinforcing materials, but the overall shape is the same.
@@scatterbrainart um a lot has changed wtf you smoking
Yet they still insisted on using lead pipes.
@@Girtharmstrong69 definelty mot! layers, ditches, avoiding rain ... its nearly the same!
@@Girtharmstrong69 OF course it did but the skeleton was roman, ther roads, the politics, the military, the religions, calendar, the language, the written, laws, almost everything is the foundation of the modern west civilization. Of course we had better materials now, we have +2000 years of evolution
Interesting video. I live very close to a Roman road where only the large rocks are left. Makes sense that there'd be a top layer.
What city / village my friend? Roman architectures were stunning though! Im an Australian studying in UK and I got to see the remnant of Hadrians Wall in Wallsend England. Some parts of the wall werent intact anymore but some of them are still visible 👍👍
Bincherster County Durham has a good view of deer Street with Bath House too
Brilliant video! I learnt more about Roman roads in two and a half minutes than I did in the whole of my school days. Well done to everyone involved.
Always been fascinated how how well civilized the Romans were. There is also evidence of aqueducts and even fire heating water before delivery. A type of modern water heaters.
They had central heating in their homes in Britain. When they abandoned Britain the locals literally regressed back in time to mud and wattle huts.
I think you mean technologically advanced. Civilized? I beg to differ.
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when did the sewer system start? was that Middle Ages?
Saw it on the history channel years ago. Ancient water heaters about 2000 years ago. Somewhere in old Ephesus. The concept was there.
I always thought it was weird that Roman roads were surfaced with big lumpy stones. There was even one BBC documentary that showed a cart bouncing up and down while rolling down the road, and their conclusion was that the road must've been used mostly for soldiers walking on the road, not for wheeled travel.
Aceptan disparates aún mayores por desconocer que las carreteras romanas nunca estaban cubiertas de losas. Eso sólo ocurría en las calles de las ciudades y en las salidas proncipales mientras duraba el cemeneterio.
@@IsaacMorenoGallo that’s a lie. And we see that evidence in Pompei where wheel ruts have ground into the flag stones by frequent use making indentations . They did not have gravel on.
AndyRob No lies, only truths.
You're trusting the BBC?
@@andyrob3259 my guy that shit got blown up and covered by lava of course there wouldn’t be gravel still
Wow! I have been to Italy three times and saw many Roman ruins. Never in my wildest dreams thought how smooth the roads really were. Excellent content thank-you! Carpe diem!
All the civilizations of the time were pretty barbaric. Slavery was also pretty normal.
@@PrinceDolos So what is your point?
@@科学诺尔 What about the Renaissance period? You seem to select what you want to see and not the whole of history. Very sad. All empires are build on war, blood and bones of the the conquered. So get over it and so is yours.
@@科学诺尔 tbf the only "modern" country that uses slaves thsoe days is china so europe does pretty good lol.
@@rey6708 Plenty of corporations engage in wage slavery worldwide. Sure paying someone just enough to not die of starvation is not what we traditionally think of as slavery, but it still creates similar conditions of dependency on those who own everything. Whether it be plantation owners in 19th century America or multinational conglomerates, the laborers are helpless in the face of what seems like endless capital.
Where I live there are still some small parts of Roman roads and bridges as well.. they still stand. They did an amazing job.
I was about to comment that the wide margins to either side were for improved security against bandits and dangerous animals but you covered it. Well done.
However the wide margins also meant that falling trees would not block the road, and that large herds of livestock could be driven down the road, and that large bodies of soldiers could match in rank and file down the road, in wider columns, with less hazard of ambush by hostiles.
Free "fuel" it was, too, as long as it was green season, it also provided space to stop and rest for the traveler as well as the ox, horse or ass
@@Kenzofeis Modern roads have many an ass using them today as well. Perhaps we should build them with a spot for them to take a break and rest. Might improve their attitude.
@@DavidLayman
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@@DavidLayman Doubtful......
@@DavidLayman I agree.
Frequent rest stops are an hour excellent idea.
Especially in areas prone to dangerous weather.
The amazing thing about Roman roads, is that they got stronger the more people used them, as they compacted all the little stones closer together.
Yes, their infrastructure was built to last because their focus was on efficiency. Modern day united states is focused on purposefully building things cheaply, to ENSURE that they will break down overtime. if you construct anything with the foresight to make sure that it will last for centuries long, you cannot profit from the majority's reliance on it through raising taxes. They manufacture obsoletion so that they can form an extortion racket, rooted in the dependence on the infrastructures in place.
@@jareddyer3142 "A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit"
The Romans were those people.
Marvellous engineering
@@jonbaxter2254 getting strong ecclesiastes vibes from that quote 😅
@@jareddyer3142 That's a load of crap. Their infrastructure was built to handle horses and wagons. One 80,000 lb semi trailer would rip it to shreds in one pass. The US has engineering marvels that will last for a century or more. Get out of your house more.
Some old Roman roads are still being used near Pisa. They had to be widened since nobody drives chariots, of course, but it was nice to drive along that little bit of history.
The Roman roads also sent a message to the surrounding city-states that might think of resisting or even attacking Rome. Those smooth roads allowed Rome to send its armies and horse-drawn vehicles quickly and smoothly, ie, don't resist us because we can be on top of you faster than you can second guess yourselves.
All roads lead to Pisa!
Excelente como lo imaginaba: ruedas de igual tamaño, sin dirección, y circulación a izquierdas. Me parece soberbio.
Enhorabuena
It's remarkable that many of these and other types of Roman roads (stone/brick layered) are actually still usable.
And it's basically the technique we still use to build roads today.
I'd say that judging on this, "stone\brick" is basically the foundation layer surviving to this day, while the rest has crumbled away
@@Lummerbummer115 Except today they only last a couple years before getting pot holes or big rifts.
@@bigrig4385 That's because there's 25-ton heavy semi trucks that drive over them daily.
Constant heat cycling can also cause roads to crack, and with the weight, friction and heat caused by the weight of modern vehicles, that's nearly inevitable.
Yes they are !!! I lived in Italy and walked the entire country 2x
The similarities between Roman road construction and modern road construction are truly remarkable. We've improved the materials used, but the techniques have changed relatively little.
einstein
@@billhosko7723 eh?
Because modern day construction derives from Romans?
@@lolapanola282 That's not the point they're making. Romans didn't have any special or secret technology - they found an incredibly effective method that we've only managed to improve slightly since then, despite exponentially more advanced technology. We can do it faster, sure, but we haven't re-invented the road.
u r definitely small brainer, My father is DPWH Engineer and I just asked 1 min ago if theres little difference... he said theres massive difference with modern road
Esta serie de documentales de Ingeniería Romana son lo mejor de lo mejor. La calidad del contenido, el rigor histórico, y la propuesta visual levantando modelos 3D sobre imágenes actuales son sencillamente brillantes. Se nota la pasión que hay detrás. Y son producción española, que deja a la altura del betún al canal de historia y al national geographic con sus aproximaciones a la historia infantiloides.
The 20m gap between the road centre and the ditches is also consistent with roads which can still be seen in rural Lincolnshire. Cattle and sheep were also herded and walked down the sides of the roads. So the rich well drained verges provided safe grazing for the livestock which sometimes was moved 100s of miles to cities, garrisons and outposts.
Yeah, I am not so sure the ditches were for a deterrent either. Proper drainage demands a place to go. The sides of the road would be a swamp if the ditches were not there. It also defines a border for properties along the route. Trees and shrubs that grow along it would make for a good "fence" as well. I didn't think of the fact it would basically become a meadow for moving livestock. :)
@@denniswoycheshen There was actually an ancient law in England that these inter-city routes had to have a verge, overseen by a verger. This was specifically for allowing herds of sheep, cattle and goats to be 'droven' from the farms where they were raised to the cities where they were consumed. 8 miles per day was considered ample mileage for cattle that would avoid the actual road surface and forage/graze on the verge.
the ditches maybe stopped the cattle etc going off the route.
That makes more sense than the ditches providing protection. Last thing you want cruising along in your new chariot is a bovine traffic jam.
Vídeos de tal excelencia han de ser traducidos para que el público extranjero pueda verlos y disfrutarlos. ¡ Bien hecho; calidad española, esta sí !
Bien dicho, son unos documentales con recreaciones en 3D nivel Spielberg como mínimo, e Isaac nos ha llevado a ver así muchas maravillas irreconocibles a simple vista. Saludos!
I grew up in a village between Ceuclum and Mosae Trajectum and there was a Roman road still there, or at least the road plan. I now live in Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum where there are also still some roads that follow the Roman plans.
I've always wondered how people constructed quality roads and buildings in old times without sophisticated tech. This one answered my question.
When it comes to construction, a lot of ancient knowledge has been lost. The Pyramids and the Parthenon are perfect buildings that still stand, millennia after they were built. Will any modern building be standing a thousand years from now? i don't think so
@@vacantplanet Do not compare a pyramid made of pieces of stone, like a mountain, and complex buildings made of steel and concrete, someone has the ability to degrade. You compare the processor and abacus, the simpler, the more durable.
By having functioning brains. Now extinct
To be fair, they WERE using what was considered to be sophisticated tech for the time...
@@vacantplanet making piryramid is ez.
But the labour is hard.
To make perfect cube blocks use nail and hammer technic, then carry blocks.
It was made by very skilled works and a huge work force was required.
Thus was very interesting and educational. I always thought Roman roads were just flatten dirt roads but the amount of engineering and labor that went into building these roads are highly impressive.
Roads were key to the Roman empire development and durability. Just a quick look at all the things they left us is a good illustration of what they knew in terms of building. They knew what they were doing. You don't dominate unless your technology is better than everybody else's.
Go and see the Old Appian Way in Rome, you'll be amazed.
The romans were highly advanced in logistics, mobility and engineering. Thats why their empire spread so far and lasted so long. Even after Rome fell. The eastern half lasted another 1000 years under a different name untill they were wiped out by turks with bigger guns
the historical texts suggests this technique wasnt for roads at all, it was described as being used for house foundations hence the depth, and the person who discovered the texts confusing pavīmentum for the french pavee, which means paved road.
pavīmentum means floor, and the technique itself was described in relation to building a house, not a road.
The romans were absolutely extraordinary engineers
And, apparently drove on the correct side of the road
@@barrymartin3813 lol
The only thing they couldn’t build very well were tall buildings. Especially for residents.
They stole tech from African kings and queens.
@@intermilan9731 i can belive that
Good stuff! I learned this at school, sadly the local road maintenance department around these parts never did 😉😁
@Jamie W 😁😁.
Around this area the roads were resurfaced some years ago but the layer of tar breaks up leaving sharp edged potholes. The “repair” involves patching the holes with a dollop of tar which lasts a few months at the most. People drive along the road like it is a slalom course trying to avoid the potholes! The local garages make a fortune replacing broken springs etc.
The Romans would not be impressed!!
@Jamie W Don’t be silly! Directors of Public Works Depts. are given a Dollar to do Twenty Dollars worth of work. However in California with the high taxes. The Roads should be paved with Gold. Lol.
Yet you didn't learn your real name?
@@nor0845 do you srsly think roman roads could handel 20 ton trucks as good as our roads do? The reason the lasted so long was they were only used by carriages pulled by horses, not even close to the same wear and tear today's roads have to handle
@@fabianekstrom1102 Yes, they built roads to last according to the needs of the day; that indicates intelligence.
This is how you make videos. Straight to the point and short. And no surprise ads.
I don’t know why but I’ve always thought these Roman road building animations were so satisfying!
I, like everyone else, was taught that roman roads were really bumpy in school. When I asked my teacher why they weren't smooth, he said the romans "just didn't have the technology." It wouldn't be until many years later that I figured out that is a go-to lie that instructors use when they don't know, or can't say.
Esas enseñanzas han provocado que muchas carreteras romanas hayan desaparecido destruidas por ignorancia.
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Just try to imagine how our present developed roads will be in 2k years. Bumpy? I don't know if there will be any trace of them.
@@paulojrg Considering how much asphalt roads deteriorate just in 50 years if not maintained, I think you are correct.
@@paulojrg
How do you think roman roads would of coped with thousands of 40 ton plus artics running on them every day ?
Unbelievable. I continue to be amazed at how advanced they were. That was very cool. Thank you!
rather how lottle the tech changed over many thousands of years (i include the egyptians in there too)
Bruh human brains have stayed relatively the same for 50,000 years, we arent smarter than they were today
quick, to-the-point, detailed and accurate. this is the best kind of learning material.👍
Very cool… as an engineer i find this fascinating! Thank you for the hard work in putting this together. Glad I found your channel.!
I didn't know this documentary had an English dub. I watched the series in Spanish and they were such a joy to watch.
Thank you for your fine video. I remembered immediately your excellent article on Roman surveying.
Bien hecho, un documental tan bueno como el suyo se merece proyección internacional.
I really enjoyed the fascinating information provided regarding the building of Roman Roads , the straight line's are still existing today in uk thousands of year's later !
OMG thank you, I always found it weird how media depictions of Roman roads were always bumpy cobblestone when they were engineering masters.
@Faylum1 Calling them "Roman" roads also degrades them in many places. The video implies roads were built in complete wilderness when often the pre-existing peooles such as the Greeks, Egyptians and even Celts already had their own road systems. The Romans often took these and made some improvements to them (and made some of them worse, by redirecting them up steep hills). The Romans liked to denigrate their neighbours... the Romans' engineering achievements were impressive, but they were not the first to provide an infrastructure in many cases.
Don Isaac, ayer estuve recorriendo la via romana de Numancia a Osma por el páramo de Villaciervos resultando en una formidable y mágica aventura, yo solo, sin cruzarme con nadie durante dos horas recorriendo una autentica calzada romana. Pude ver los dos cortes transversales realizados a la calzada algo ya deteriorados por el paso del tiempo (muy recomendables los estudios sobre las calzadas romanas en Castilla y León que se pueden visitar en tu pagina web viasromanas) . Sumo a esta visita las ya realizadas a Tiermes y a Clunia-Sulspicia también motivadas por tus documentales. Solo puedo decir, gracias por difundir el mundo romano desde un punto de vista científico muchisimo mas realista que el tradicional humanista.
Gracias por compartir tu experiencia.
En pocos meses se podrá recorrer un tramo de 7 km musealizado desde la Venta Nueva en dirección a Osma.
@@IsaacMorenoGallo alli estaré, sin lugar a dudas.
Merci for this. I used to work on surveying teams and my first job was building an interstate exchange. Too bad American's didn't learn quality control from the Romans.
BTW there is an old roman bridge in Portugal near a stone quarry. They built a new bridge for the 75 ton trucks. It was unsafe after several years, and they started using the Roman bridge and it's doing fine.
Typical. Modern people are lazy, cheap, and build crap despite our technology.
That was amazing how well the Roman Roads were built.I am definitely subscribing to this channel.
I’ve been to Pompeii and seen the tracks on their urban roads used for ease of travel for chariots and other wheeled forms of transport. Did the Roman highways you describe have similar tracks? Interesting fact that the wheel distance used by the Romans was then applied to British railroad tracks!
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@@Ssstaby shut up
Also it was applied to the width of the wheels on a Conestoga wagon.
You learn something new every day. For me, the ditches. Thank you!
Youre welcome
Thanks for sparing us your opinions and feelings. Well done.
Apart from the tar, we've been building roads the same way for more than 2000 years. Amazing.
but our roads don't live that long...
@@666like616 drive some trucks over the roman roads and they are done for aswell.
@@thetaomega7816 cars are really terrible for wear and tear
Well our roads would last longer too if we study older techniques as romans were moving heavy machineries too.
mum said once that tarmac stands for something like a tarred macdonald. and a macdonald being some scotish guy who did ~what the romans did?
Fine work! Clear, crisp, short and to the point, with a clear descriptive structure and nice clean imagery. I learned more of this basic info than from probably any other source. And I concur with the commenter who praised your showing the smooth surface. Looking at the things today, they look like knee and ankle crackers. Kidney rupturers if one is in a cart.
Short, sweet and excellent! Love that their roads had a grade for rain. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
Sounds remarkably modern. I've heard of a scheme that uses worn out rubber tires that had their respective side walls mostly removed. Then they are partially filled with fine gravel and then a top layer of concrete. Something like the presentation. Increases the usefulness of the road by 20%, if memory is serving well enough? It seems that the tiers flex a tiny bit under load and because of that the top layer does not crack as fast as it might under similar conditions, but without those tires.
Sounds like another excuse to bury trash and naming that recycling.
@@M--001 Ah yes, let's just not try to find a useful way to reuse our trash, I agree
@@jiri-korinek One way would be looking into how to take those tires apart again. Use the raw materials.
But I guess burying them and calling the product a road is better. Not that we do already have way too many of those anyways. Rail is better.
@@M--001 I agree that using raw materials would be better, however this could be a good solution for less wealthy nations
@@jiri-korinek I don't think so. It just postpones the problem, and adds one of rapidly deteriorating streets later down the line, since those tires are going to not keep their traits that made them useful for road building in the first place forever.
It would be better for less wealthy nations to ship around freight on rail. Also is true for wealthy nations. Trucking and excessive personal car use needs to stop.
What a great video, straight to the point and did not waste any time!
Qué grande, Don Isaac. Debería plantearse subir más de estos vídeos cortos (con doblaje en inglés) desmontando mitos romanos.
The guy coming up with the graphics: “This will be an educational video showing how Roman roads were made.”
The guy coming up with the music: “DRAGONS FIGHTING CENTAURS AND SHIT!”
its amazing how this footage was found thousands of years later and managed to retain its quality
Sad to say, but I believe this footage is a late 18th century hoax that was buried in a clay jar next to an already 1000+ year old road.
Zzzz. Yes, the footage is fresh but the joke is antiquated, stale and decrepit.
@@cacambo589person exactly, not funny anymore!
Shame we lost the original audio though.
It's just so amazing how much thought went into roads back then, I always figured that the land was cleared by soldiers or scouts and got compacted down after decades of use and they threw stones around main roads to make them more stable during flood seasons, I was unaware of the fact they had such sophisticated techniques
They often had enslaved people to do the back-breaking labor for all their endeavors.
They often took road systems which pre-Roman peoples had already created, straightened them up and added a better surface. But in much of the Empire, the road systems were not brand new at all. Gaul had an extensive pre-Roman road system for example.
menos mal que lo vi en español, todos y cada uno de los programas de la vida romana, un grandisimo trabajo.
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In 2.5 minutes I watched more road construction than I've seen in South Carolina in ten years.
My father had a job building roads in a rural area. It's amazing that the process of building roads in Rome isn't that different from today!
However, the foundation seems to be much stronger than the current asphalt road.
In the 21st century, the road paving process is very simple, so all you need to do is to use a roller to compact the ground with soil several times and then lay the asphalt.
Although the construction is easy and the road is smooth, the road is easily damaged by heavy vehicles, or sometimes a sinkhole occurs when an empty space is created under the ground.
Excellent video.
Those roads were more complex and well planned than I expected, no wonder how they last so long.
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I was sure it was just that ugly stones which I saw during excursion. Guide said it is Rome road 😂 Looks like it was road which built wild europeans centuries later.
Amazing how the Roman roads are still around and some are still being used when we can't make a road here in Texas that lasts one season.
The same with Roman buildings.The bath house in the town of Bath here in England at 2000 or so years old is the oldest continually occupied building in the world and is still perefctly safe and usable.Council houses are falling apart after less than twenty years.
@@chrisplunkett2814 lol comments like these make me laugh, road wear is caused proportianal to weight, if cars drove every day on a roman road it would be in pieces in a month (not to mention semi trucks)
@@timgoodliffe This is true but paved roads of today are also extremely susceptible to weather, especially asphalt. Cold temps combined with moisture can damage roads very quickly, I've worked on asphalt crews before and have had to make major repairs to roads we paved less than a year prior due to excessive weather damage. I'm sure the Romans were out there making repairs to their roads as well but I highly doubt they were doing it as often as we do. Sometimes when you're working on road crews it feels like you're always taking 2 steps forward and 4 steps back, getting farther and farther behind schedule and missing out on the money that comes with building new roads.
@@timgoodliffe So how do you explain cobblestone roads in Europe that are used every day by heavy vehicles? Some have been around for at least 50 years with no repairs.
@scott foster Bruh that's a cobblestone bro it's not like asphalt or paved road where there would be holes formed and I'm sure even that have some cobblestone that cracked from degradation and when some cobblestone are gone you can simply just put another on or two in
Looks like modern asphalt roads construction minus the asphalt liquid asphalt. Nicely done!
@Thierry Verhoest ...Roman roads wouldn't last one month with modern traffic. Plus they had to repair their roads also.
@Thierry Verhoest It's precisely heavy traffic what damages roads the most.
We live in different worlds, today everything has to be quick, that's why roads and other infrastructure is designed to be easily constructed and repaired at the cost of shorter lifespans. Plus our roads are designed for modern fast motor vehicles, not slow carts.
@Thierry Verhoest I agree in the sense that we lost the majority of that culture as the world changed, shrunk and spinned faster. Everything we build has a purpose or an idea behind it. Back then, the changes were slower: grandsons lived more or less like their grandfathers, wars took longer, travels were slower, empires lasted hundreds if not thousands of years, and landmarks were expected to last as long as they did, because they were a show of power.
Nowadays, just 10 years is a huge amount of time in some areas, everything is constantly changing, we no longer build things to show power but to generate it. Bigger ships to carry more goods, better planes to reach more destinations, efficient buildings to maximize the space usage, more powerful power plants to push the industry, longer bridges and tunnels to connect cities and countries, etc.
We still have the knowledge to build beautiful and long lasting structures (look up the Akshardham temple for example) but now that function precedes form, they're very few. It's just the world that we live in, but there are still many wonderful modern works of art and engineering feats worth checking out all around the world.
I think the most valuable characteristic of those old buildings is not their looks but their history. That's why we try to keep them as original as possible, like fine wine it's the pass of time what gives it it's flavour.
Sorry for the essay 😅
@@moteroargentino7944 smart feller 👍👍
@Thierry Verhoest Of course, my only "disagreement" or at least what I perceived as such, is that old structures are better just because they last. We have the same skills they had back then, plus thousands of years of technological advances on top of it. It's just that today we build things with different purposes.
But I agree with you overall, consumerism is one hell of a drug. Our society is so connected and dependant on technology that it has became very fragile and vulnerable. There's nothing inherently bad with progress, but it should always serve the people and not the other way around. I hope we can reach an equilibrium someday, and quit the rat race.
A pleasure reading you too.
Me encanta su programa en la 2, didáctico y muy bien explicado. Ahora tmb en youtube. Gracias y saludos.
I'm a geotechnical engineer. This is almost exactly how roads are still built today. Obviously we use asphalt in roads, but asphalt is just gravel mixed with sticky tar instead of sand silt and clay.
Preparing firm subgrade, removing topsoil, layering different aggregate sizes, these are all practices still used today.
There is no used of large rock at bottom
Here in El Paso, I have seen the same section of road repair 6 times in the past 15 years. In Germany I drove over road that the Romans had built 2,000 years ago.
Nothing much has changed over all these years. Roads are still made basically the same way now as then. Great video.
Modern roads are crap made cheaply and quickly. Roman roads were well made, and some still survive and are used by modern people thousands of years later.
@@robinlillian9471 yeah, sure, try a 26000 Kg Truck on those and see how better they are.
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Logging trucks go up worse than this every day. The same in open pit mines. Any un-metalled road built today is constructed exactly like this.
Working in construction industry. This is exactly how we build roads highways. Only difference is there’s no horses involved. It’s mind blowing Roman’s came with this genius thought 2000 years earlier
Wow, so much work. Those people deserve respect!
Today I learned that the Romans drove on the left side of the road while traveling in England. Didn't know that.
Joking aside, this is a well made video. My compliments!
The Romans sure knew how to build things that would last. Very impressive
Great video 😊😊
Except their own empire.
@@donaldducko6580 It lasted pretty long?
@@donaldducko6580 Yes, and that should be a reminder to us.
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@@donaldducko6580 Their empire lasted well over a thousand years lil bro
Fragmento del excelente programa "Ingeniería Romana". Lástina de los pocos capítulos que hay. Isaac, te felicito por tu admirable trabajo.
This process was extraordinarily labor intensive! It must have taken many years to create such a road system. The end result was excellent, but getting there had to be backbreaking!
Go slaves!
Slave labour get shit done and quick. Just ask the Egyptians
Have you ever had to work with concrete or rebar that’s used to reinforce the concrete it’s backbreaking work and it’s requires manual laborers not slaves not much has change the skilled workers then were paid just as workers now are paid. Only difference is ancient workers had to spend a majority of their. Wages on food and lodging
@@martinmatassa5120 They also had many many workers working on several sections at a time
Takes PennDOT longer to fix a pothole.
The engineering for that era was remarkable, by the way. To think these roads were used by everyone from simple wayfarers to the Roman Legions and their wagon trains themselves and to still be in marvellous condition today are a testament to the skill and expertise that went into it.
I'm pretty sure they still had to perform maintenance.
@@rcengineer Indeed. But the maintenance they performed was enough to keep the roads themselves operational for centuries after the Roman Empire was gone.
@@swedhgemoni8092 indeed they are very impressive engineering for the time. The issue is when people start claiming that modern roads should be built like roman roads because "they lasted 2000 years without maintenance." I think those people also overestimate the wear due to even entire legions compared to frequent 100kph semi trucks.
@@rcengineer Indeed, you are correct. Romans didn't have to account for 18 wheelers lugging tonnes of cargo on a regular basis.
@@rcengineer si comparas la carga que soporta un carro de mulas y la de un camión, suele ser la misma.
La diferencia es que actualmente no ponen piedras de cimentación, y con el tiempo se hacen baches.
Pretty much the same principle today just with less sophisticated technology. Roman engineering was truly ahead of its time
Great video! Thanks a lot! I am really interested in ancient engineering.
They really were very impressive engineers weren't they! I have such massive respect for their accomplishments, many of which can still be seen today. I spent 30 years working as a carpenter so I have some idea how much effort this took. I also doubt any of the massive industrial projects that I worked on will still be around in 1500 years, even partially. Roman invention of concrete was so important too but to me their best works were their aqueducts. They could do amazing things with water. Whoever claims that ancient people were not smart is just showing their ignorance.
@Yang Wen Li Ya, they knew enough people that died from eating it so they eventually figured it out. It was because they weren't cooking it fully if I had to guess. Bear meat can do the same, since bears are closely related to pigs. My grandparents were from Norway and they ate some codfish soaked in wood ashes at Christmas called Lutefisk. Its horrid looking shit and very odd tasting but was basically jellied boiled cod. They probably made it earlier in the year and preserved it and knew the ashes did something that helped avoid sickness. I wish I had asked them before they both passed on. I did learn though to not take past knowledge lightly.
I loved the video and learning the history of how the roads were made. Very impressive.
thank you
Gracias Isaac Moreno por tus vídeos!
Doy por hecho que muy bien documentado. La exposición es excelente, sencilla y muy fácil de entender. Gracias.
I remember walking on a Roman road in the North Yorkshire Moors when I was a boy. It was magical.
Today we still use the Roman Method for road paving much of the machines you see have been replaced with their modern counterparts. Tippers were the first dump trucks, spreader plows were the first pavers, water wagons were the first sprayer trucks, and rolling wagons were the first rollers. The Romans were also the first to invent tar roads which we still use today.
and let's not forget their important contributions to making concrete... the world's most important building material
@Alexander Ratisbona Do a little research on Germany's Autobahn
I wonder did the Roman's invent "potholes" too?...LOL
@@drcornelius8275 most.
That is an enormous amount of very heavy rock/sand/aggregates to move around without combustion engines....extremely impressive. And the concept of the layers still holds true as the best way to do it today! So impressive
Instead of engines, the Romans used slaves.
@@PeterLawton But mostly animals, to drive these carts and implements.
There is no use of heavy rock in bottom and there is no drainage system roman road
This is why in Latin the phrase for building a road is "to fortify a road."
@JZ's Best Friend Aedificare viam
@JZ's Best Friend "fortifica" means "Strengthen" and "Custodire" means "to guard" so the closest meaning to "Build" in Latin is "aedificare" or "construere", and that's why in Spanish you also have "Edificar" and "Construir".
Imagine how satisfying it must have been to be traveling on the road home, the sky is grey, the fields and Forrest is as green as can be and it’s raining. That sounds like heaven
Slowly journeying home (likely after a grueling trip of some kind) in your wooden cart with grey skies and rain coming down sounds like heaven? 😅
Until the bodies of burning Christians line the roads as lights to the cities. They were the most pagan and anti-Christian empire ever.
@@A-A-RonDavis2470 Id say the empires that never actually became Christian would have to be considered the most anti Christian empires ever. Yes the Romans have some ancient history of persecuting them but Constantine still happened
@@CautiousDavid perhaps you just have a different world view but that does. Not too heavy of rain but just enough for you to feel it. The fresh air with open fields of beautiful Italian countryside and nature. Does sound like a good time to me. Just being able to take in the scenery and enjoy yourself
@@A-A-RonDavis2470 that’s debatable. I know of one Roman emperor that adopted Christianity and made it the official religion of the Roman Empire at one point.
The amount of manual labor to complete those roads with the technology they had is mind-blowing.
Thats what the Legions did when they weren't out on a military campaign
slaves
@@xshadow2042 sometimes, but not really. The chances of a slave running away were too high, so they mostly used the legions
look around you and you see people working physically just like they did back in the day. there aint no big difference to that. stop being such a suprised and amazed baby for no reason. as if today is more amazing because of the technology, as if today people do not do physically hard work...
not the info has made your mind blowing up, but your naive stupidity
Had no idea! Even cooler than previously thought. Thank you!
I think a small stretch of road built to these standards would be an excellent University Study Project. It would of course be time and personnel intensive, but could run on for several years as sort of a graduate project in Civil Engineering.
Why, this is basically how modern roads are already made.. feels like you can just throw a civil engineer on any road side project and probably learn something that applies to modern times, that they'd be doing... and actually do it right.
This ancient road is literally smoother than the roads (especially ones that connect cities) in my country.
It's easy to maintain smooth road when theres no trucks.
Because that system was focused more on quality than profit.
@Alzack
Hmmmm. Does it snow in the part of the country where you live?
@@MistahUnknown it's not. I live in tropical country.
@@cornyxxx16 that's correct too. People in charge don't want them to be of highest quality because then it'll last very long and they won't get the chance to take the project again, which makes so much profit.
"The road had sloping sides to allow water to be drained outwards"
Something Russia still didn't learn to do 2000 years later.
Neither has Ireland Buddy
In Chihuahua: are roads supposed to last until rainy season?
@@shanelynch7757 tf you on about, all of the major roads have that drainage slope
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@@soulextracter , India is even worse with roads, as is Thailand.
As an engineer, I can tell you that the ditches on the side of the road are designed to carry rainwater away from the road. This is standard practice today. I built plenty of roads like this during my time in the army.
yeah i dont get how it would prevent vehicles it can easily be filled with soil in a couple minutes
Just think. All done by hand. Gravel,hauling stones,removing the trees. All by hand. Amazing!
Very interesting, and a well produced video too. Many thanks. I’m not sure if the ditches were really to prevent unauthorised access, but were really for drainage instead.
La orografía en muchos sitios no permite que las cunetas alejadas sean para drenaje, las pendientes no lo permiten. No tienen sentido como drenaje. Además, tienen otras cunetas junto a la carretera cuando se necesita el drenaje
I agree
Existen otras cunetas junto a la carretara para el drenaje. Éstas NO son para el drenaje, porque además la orografía no siempre es horizontal
Agreed, and how is that ditch going to stop robbers or wild animals?
@Kevin L - distance is distance, and a ditch is a ditch. They are not the same thing. A clear area between you and the woods would prevent robbers and animal attacks, or at least give you warning as they are forced to run into the open to attack you.
But a ditch that is big enough to slow them down as they run through it would be big enough to hide in. A ditch small enough to prevent hiding, they would just step over.