Scenic Routes to the PastAn introduction to Herculaneum, buried and preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. This video surveys the site and some of its public monuments.
Part II explores Herculaneum's incredibly well-preserved houses: youtu.be/5y6g0G-X60s
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Highlights of Herculaneum (Part I)Scenic Routes to the Past2024-07-09 | An introduction to Herculaneum, buried and preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. This video surveys the site and some of its public monuments.
Part II explores Herculaneum's incredibly well-preserved houses: youtu.be/5y6g0G-X60s
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesThe Roman Reconstruction of the SphinxScenic Routes to the Past2024-10-11 | The Roman emperors sponsored several restorations of the Great Sphinx, already more than two millennia old. This video explores the surviving traces of their work.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesExploring Egypts Oldest PyramidsScenic Routes to the Past2024-10-04 | The Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid at Dahshur, both commissioned by the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Snefru, were the first true pyramids ever built. In this video, I enter both pyramids and discuss their significance.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesThe Strangest Roman Ruin in AfricaScenic Routes to the Past2024-09-13 | Kbor Klib, located in a remote part of north-central Tunisia, is an imposing Roman monument. But nobody knows who built it, or why.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesLambaesis: the Best-Preserved Legionary FortScenic Routes to the Past2024-08-30 | A tour of the Roman legionary camp at Lambaesis, Algeria.
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Check out my other channels: @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesThe Spectacular Mosaics of Roman AfricaScenic Routes to the Past2024-07-25 | A quick tour of the Roman mosaics in the Bardo Museum, Tunis.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesFollowing the Longest Roman AqueductScenic Routes to the Past2024-07-19 | Tunisia's Zaghouan Aqueduct, built to serve Carthage in the second century, is among the longest and most impressive of all Roman aqueducts. This video follows the aqueduct from the monumental fountain at its source to the grandiose baths at its terminus.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesHighlights of Herculaneum (Part II)Scenic Routes to the Past2024-07-12 | This second part of my survey of Herculaneum explores some of the site's incredibly well-preserved houses. Part I: youtu.be/RYtwJDU-wu0 To learn more about the tours I lead to ancient sites in Italy, visit toldinstone.com/trips
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesEl Jem: Africas ColosseumScenic Routes to the Past2024-06-28 | The Amphitheater of El Jem, Tunisia is the best-preserved Roman arena in North Africa. My upcoming tours: toldinstone.com/trips
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesAvoiding the crowds in RomeScenic Routes to the Past2024-06-21 | Rome is more crowded than ever before. Fortunately, it's easy to avoid the lines... To find out more about the tours in lead in Rome, check out: toldinstone.com/trips
My other channels: @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesThe Only Roman Bath Still Used TodayScenic Routes to the Past2024-06-07 | A visit to Hammam Essalihine, Algeria, site of the world's only functioning Roman bath. To learn more about the trips I lead to historical destinations, visit toldinstone.com/trips
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Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:52 Hammam Essalihine 1:41 Getting there 2:14 Entering the baths 3:52 History of the complex 5:13 A tour of the baths 6:49 Toldinstone toursRomes Hidden Medieval CastlesScenic Routes to the Past2024-06-04 | Medieval Rome was dominated by the towering castles of noble families. A surprising number of these strongholds have survived to the present.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesThe Oldest Buildings in PompeiiScenic Routes to the Past2024-05-28 | By the time Pompeii was buried by Vesuvius, some of its buildings were many centuries old...The Ruins of CarthageScenic Routes to the Past2024-05-21 | Exploring the remains of Punic and Roman Carthage
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Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:56 Military harbor 1:41 Salammbo Tophet 2:58 Magon Quarter 4:06 Antonine Baths 5:35 The ByrsaDougga: Africas Best-Preserved Roman CityScenic Routes to the Past2024-05-14 | Dougga, Tunisia is arguably the best-preserved Roman town anywhere in North Africa. This video presents a tour of the site's highlights.
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Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:49 Theater 1:19 Square of the Wind Rose 1:54 Capitolium 3:03 Forum 3:52 Arch of Alexander Severus 4:13 Temple of Juno Caelestis 4:49 Licinian Baths 6:11 Cyclops Baths 6:56 House of the Trifolium 7:22 Numidian TombThe Buried Roman Villas of Bulla RegiaScenic Routes to the Past2024-05-07 | Exploring the subterranean levels (and mosaics) of the Roman mansions in Bulla Regia, Tunisia.
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Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesChicagos Roman ColumnScenic Routes to the Past2024-03-22 | The strange story of the Balbo Column, the only Roman column in Chicago (or anywhere else in the American Midwest).
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesA Roman Amphitheater Carved from LavaScenic Routes to the Past2024-03-15 | The Roman Amphitheater of Sutri is one of Italy's most fascinating and overlooked ancient sites. Carved from volcanic tufa at an unknown date, it is still virtually intact - and deserted.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesA Roman Senators Tomb (in Baltimore)Scenic Routes to the Past2024-03-08 | Baltimore's Walters Art Museum contains a series of sarcophagi from the so-called Licinian Tomb, the mausoleum of an aristocratic Roman family.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesRoman Architecture in Washington, D.C.Scenic Routes to the Past2024-03-01 | A brief tour of some of the most remarkable neoclassical buildings in Washington, D.C.An Egyptian Temple in New York CityScenic Routes to the Past2024-02-23 | Exploring the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Check out my other YouTube channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesAncient Rome in Central ParkScenic Routes to the Past2024-02-16 | If you know where to look, the classical world is everywhere in New York's Central Park.
Check out my other YouTube channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesA Temple Tomb for a Robber BaronScenic Routes to the Past2024-02-09 | The Gould Mausoleum in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the most opulent survivals from America's Gilded Age.Americas Mausoleum of HalicarnassusScenic Routes to the Past2024-02-02 | Grant's Tomb in New York City, the Western Hemisphere's largest mausoleum, was modeled on the ancient Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesThe Roman Concrete Houses of Gary, IndianaScenic Routes to the Past2024-01-26 | During the years before the First World War, in the industrial boomtown of Gary, more than a hundred houses were built of Roman-style poured concrete. Today, virtually all of these remarkably durable structures are empty.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesA Roman Temple in ChicagoScenic Routes to the Past2024-01-19 | Exploring the Palmer Mausoleum in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.
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Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesSerdica: the Roman city under SofiaScenic Routes to the Past2024-01-05 | The ruins of Roman Serdica lie beneath Sofia, Bulgaria. An innovative project recently exposed a large part of the city center.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesTrajans Victory City: Nicopolis ad IstrumScenic Routes to the Past2023-12-29 | A short tour of Nicopolis ad Istrum - not far from Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria - a city founded to commemorate Trajan's victories in the Dacian Wars.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesSarmizegetusa: Capital of Roman DaciaScenic Routes to the Past2023-12-22 | A short tour of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, the first and - in many ways - most important Roman city in Dacia.
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Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesThe Roman Palace at SirmiumScenic Routes to the Past2023-12-08 | Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia) was a capital of the Roman Empire during the tetrarchic period. This video surveys the partially excavated remains of the imperial palace.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesThe Last Roman City: Justiniana PrimaScenic Routes to the Past2023-11-30 | Justiniana Prima (Caričin Grad, Serbia) was a planned city constructed in the mid-sixth century near the birthplace of Justinian.
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Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesFelix Romuliana: a forgotten Roman palaceScenic Routes to the Past2023-11-17 | A short tour of the palace and tomb of Galerius at Felix Romuliana (Gamzigrad), near Zaječar, Serbia.
Check out my other channels: @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesThe Lombard Temple: A Mysterious Dark Age ChapelScenic Routes to the Past2023-11-09 | The so-called Tempietto Longobardo in Cividale del Friuli, Italy is one of the very few early medieval buildings to survive virtually intact. Its beautiful stucco decorations are unique.
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Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesA historical tour of the Pula ArenaScenic Routes to the Past2023-10-27 | The Roman amphitheater of Pula, Croatia is the only arena with a fully-preserved circuit wall.
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Chapters: 0:00 Palace of Galerius 1:16 Arch of Galerius 2:15 Rotunda 2:43 Panagia Acheiropoietos 3:09 Hagios Demetrios 4:44 Panagia Chalkeon 5:30 Hagioi ApostoloiThe Mysterious Trophy of TrajanScenic Routes to the Past2023-10-13 | The Tropaeum Traiani at Adamclisi, Romania bears witness to one of the bloodiest forgotten battles in Roman history.
Check out my other channels @toldinstone and @toldinstonefootnotesHighlights of Diocletians Palace in SplitScenic Routes to the Past2023-10-06 | A Roman historian's tour of the Palace of Diocletian in Split, Croatia.
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Chapters 0:00 Diocletian and his palace 0:59 Overview and layout 2:37 South facade 3:07 East facade 3:39 Porta Aurea 4:09 Peristyle 4:48 Temple of Jupiter 5:49 Reception rooms (vestibule and substructures) 6:23 Mausoleum of Diocletian / CathedralExploring an Overgrown Byzantine CityScenic Routes to the Past2023-09-29 | Walking through the overgrown ruins of the Byzantine city of Anastasiopolis on a windy day.
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Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:09 Masonry Obelisk 2:03 Serpent Column 2:57 Obelisk of Theodosius 5:28 Final panoramaHighlights of the Istanbul Archaeological MuseumScenic Routes to the Past2023-09-08 | The Alexander Sarcophagus and other highlights of Turkey's finest museum of antiquities.
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Chapters 0:00 Sculpture Garden 0:34 Porphyry sarcophagi 1:28 Garland sarcophagus 2:17 Royal necropolis of Sidon 4:05 Alexander Sarcophagus 5:57 Two portraits of Alexander 6:39 Ephebe of Tralles 7:19 Sappho 7:40 Tyche and Ploutos 8:13 Valentinian IIA Tour of the Excavations at VindolandaScenic Routes to the Past2023-08-04 | This spring, Dr. Andrew Birley gave me a tour of the ongoing excavations at Vindolanda, a Roman fort near Hadrian's Wall.
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Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to Vindolanda 4:41 The wooden underworld 7:13 Layers of history 9:03 Becoming part of the story