7 Lost Roman Wonders
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- The longest ancient bridge and the tallest ancient dam. An imposing pyramid. A statue the size of a skyscraper. These are some of the Roman wonders that have vanished.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:12 Trajan’s Bridge
2:19 Subiaco Dams
3:34 Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus
5:05 Church of the Holy Apostles
6:21 Column of Justinian
7:27 Pyramid of Romulus
8:46 Colossus of Nero
Thanks for watching!
I get the feeling that the renaissance brought more devastation to the Roman architecture then a 1000 years of neglect. Ironic given that the renaissance was all about ''Roman revival''.
If you haven't seen it, you might be interested in my video "The 5 Greatest Roman Buildings Demolished during the Renaissance"
I think what's even more sad is Constantinople. The Ottomans practically left nothing standing after they took over the city, except the Hagia Sophia. But even that they completed defaced. Rome at least has it's ancient blueprint & ruins intact so that we can appreciate & admire the ancient glory to this very day.
@@SoulEternalPeaceWarrior77 one reason i unironically support the british museum havilng pilferred everything they could get their hands on is exactly that reason, the current rulers in those lands often have no respect for the history and just demolish thinks, on everything from taking pyramid facing stones to build palaces, to daesh blowing up ancient assyrian ruins for shits and giggles
@@MajesticSkywhale Yeah, I totally agree. The BM has many contested items, but would those priceless artifacts even be here today if they weren't in those museums? I think the likelihood would be very, very low.
LOL !
"melted down for scrap" My understanding is that the biggest threat to bronze items was that they would be converted into cannons
That, in practical terms, is what "melted down for scrap" came down to - Mehmed II and his successors had a ravenous appetite for big bronze guns.
A waste is what it was..
@@edwhatshisname3562 yeah but the thirst was real ( for blood that is)
@@Fractal_blip the Popes as well, some part of the Pantheon used to be covered in Bronze but was removed to make cannons during the Era of the Borgia.
Dr. Bill Warner gave a me a perspective on that subject, it was not taught in school. I wonder why.
The word "demolished" in this context infuriates me to a level of blind rage.
@@megenberg8 Wow! The Romans were horrible. Can I have the sources for further reading?
Agree.The greed and corruption of the Roman church was limitless.The Vatican is simply a monument to the Great Nothing.
@@megenberg8 The legacy of the US will be the same. Evangelicals would like no better then to tear down the past.
@@td9250 There's no sources, the Romans were not depraved sadists, they were not morally ''better or worse' than other civilizations. The person above has very warped views of Roman Society.
@@tolrem not Catholic but the Roman Empire had nothing to do with Catholicism. They were cruel long before the Church arrived and every society that they conquered hated them.
It blows my mind to think how these people built all these huge things.
Ya I can’t imagine life without the internet.
They had plenty of time
We're witnessing the collapse of our civilization right now.
It blows my mind that some of these things were just demolished
Ponder what it will feel like to live in the ruins of a superior civilization that existed only decades earlier.
(A thousand years from now) - "There was said to have been a spider web encircling the earth that allowed all peoples to converse with each other, but the gods became displeased, and none of it survives."
What's this from?
@@gregtees9995 The interweb
@@gregtees9995 Legend suggests Elder White Feather of the ancient Hopi Bear clan predicted events, which lead up to the apocalypse, and #5 is: 5. "The land shall be criss-crossed by a giant spider's web" (The creation of the World Wide Web?). This Fifth Sign could have meant our electric power and telephone lines, but in any case his prophecies remind us of the transitory nature of civilizations. I'm reminded of a related reference in the 1984 British movie "Threads" which compares society to a spider's web that can easily be torn apart, in this case by nuclear war (100% rating on the Tomatometer in Rottentomatoes.com)
And the massive palladium surface deposits from the catalytic converters of our cars will be a hotly debated topic regarding the existence of this spider web. With the plastic deposits, long since becoming buried brittle husks and water-borne particulates, will be used as evidence of the spiders who spun this web. "Google" they called it, for it was largest of the spiders and could span the web in great strides, searching hungrily for the attention of it's worshipers.
@@33Donner77 Nerd
thank you for doing more than merely recounting battles or retelling mythologies as many many channels dedicated to Rome do. No point in studying the wars and deities without any understanding of the culture or society.
You're very welcome. I feel the same way.
One of the best history channels out there, keep it up!
Thank you!
1991. I was living in northern Greece. I often took the bus from Orestiada to Alexandroupolis on the coast. The two lane highway sort of went around a bend where an arched wall was reputed to have been built by Trajan when he marched up the Evros Valley to defeat the Dacians in Romania. This campaign is celebrated on Trajan’s Column. It was over a small steep sided ravine where there was at least in 1991 a deep kind of whirlpool at the bottom. I once tried to climb down the slope to the whirlpool then chickened out and changed my mind. The city of Alexandroupolis wanted to widen the highway……..I don’t have to tell you the rest of the story.
Medieval Rome must have been one hech of a city, imagine if the popes had tried to save as many ruins as possible
@@ericvosselmans5657 I think Rome could have few extra ancient sites without it becoming “one giant ruin”. Such a shame so much has been torn down, and I’m certain modern Italians would happily exchange a few blocks of apartment buildings for an extra Roman building on a par with the colosseum or the pantheon.
Some popes did try to save some structures, but then their successors would destroy them, it was a long period of selective preservation and destruction.
They did save the City.
@@pierren___ yeah many times, and many major buildings too, but i was thinking about even more
Some Pope's worked to save the monuments. Interestingly in the Middle Ages there was a organization of noble families in the cities who worked to preserve them. The Renaissance took a serious toll as many of Rome's monuments were torn down for building material.
So many instances of Wonders being torn down for scrap, to us it's sacrilege, to the people tearing them down it was progress. Really makes me think.
Today they are taking down churches in Europe
@@republicradio431 Yes. Christianity & islam will die off like the roman & Greek religions did. There are polls from Islamic regions and it shows that religion is dying off like in the west. I bet in 30 years honor killing will be as backwards as lobotomy is seen today for Islamic youth. Indians use to burn widows until the British made them realize how backwards that is.
A lot of people want to shake their fists in the air for the death of religion causing the low birth rates but people don't realize or are unwilling to admit that people had so many children in the first place because they were subsistence farmers. You had lots of kids and sent them to work in the fields, coal mines or factories.
Japanese rural farming villages on top of mountains are dying off because those farming homseteads are completely obsolete to mechanized farming technology. A single American rice farm can have higher outpouts than several rural Japanese farming villages put together. Thousands of individual laborers replaced with a few tractors & other equipment.
It's getting to the point that a corporation can remotely farm with technology such as robotics to basically run several towns from a central location. Eventually technology such as diesel tractors will be replaced with more reliable battery powered tractors which will make that scenario more of a reality.
Farmers could adopt technology such as robotic milking parlors that make the cows happy & increase milk production but that's a multi million dollar investment right now, eventually the price will come down where it's more worth while to have the robotic technology than to employ migrant farm labor.
Cows like the robots because they can waltz into a building to get milked when ever they feel like it.
@@jmd1743 In your dreams
@@catholicracialist776 about what?
@@republicradio431 I'm living in Europe. It's a continent, you know, it's a big place, in which countries and what churches are being torn down?
my dopamine levels went from 0 to 100 when I heard "I'm the told in stone guy"
I took your advice!
Ugh.....the fact that we've lost so many Roman wonders makes me sad.
@dev null you have to see it the other way around aswell. if we were to preserve everything, inevitably we would run out of room for new things. understandably, things we deem more interesting now, may have been less interesting back in the day, so they did not survived. and it will propably be the same thing for future generations too.
How does the loss of 60% of the world’s living creatures and countless habitats in just 50 years of our era strike you?
@@judeirwin2222 just tell the rest to procreate more, god willing.
@@judeirwin2222 Animals don't build great wonders. We're the only life forms that matter.
St. Mark's Basilica in Venice is a copy of Holy Apostles in Constantinople and was designed, built & decorated by Greeks from the Byzantine Empire hired by the Venetians.
Later, St. Mark's was filled with plunder from Constantinople.
Holy Apostles was destroyed by order of the Sultan.
just found your channel and binge-watched everything, even as a history major studying something entirely different, you still have me interested in all these videos!
I'm very glad to hear it!
Thank you for making these vids. Absolutely love this channel *) History is truly fascinating.
You're very welcome!
I appreciate your inclusion of later eastern Roman works with the older western empire. So often a strange and arbitrary distinction is made between the two. If there’s any proof of the continuity of Romes legacy, it’s in the beautiful craftsmanship of the eastern Roman Empire and all its wonders.
I completely agree. Any distinction between the Roman Empire of Constantine and the Roman Empire of Justinian is arbitrary.
Other than the fact that the eastern "Romans" completely hated the earlier pagans and destroyed all that they could.
you are right...i took history classes at university and it was never impressed upon us the eastern empire being "roman" - in fact more like the opposite w/the eastern empire always called the Byzantine Empire so as to imply it was a totally different unique entity with no connection to the western empire...wonder why that whole thing developed with historians?
@@julianciahaconsulting8663 because they were different
@@AbpedmOu can say on a cultural basis they were different certainly with the eastern romans being Greek and all but it was still the Roman Empire
How about the giant sundial Solarium Augusti, built by Augustus of course, using an ancient Egyptian Obelisk as the pointer and the dial a marble pavement in the Campus Martius inlaid with a gilded bronze network of lines and numbers? The locaton of some of the dial with the bronze letters was theorized then re-discovered under some cellars in houses in the 20thC.
The Solarium is a great example (I've heard you can still see some of the symbols in the basement of an apartment building). I may have to make a sequel to this video...
@@toldinstone super. that would be stupendous!
@@toldinstone make it... You are a perfect teacher
interesting - never heard of that before
Man, I've been getting super interested in ancient Rome lately and have absolutely loved your channel. A lot of other "top X" videos are extremely obnoxious and without substance. I appreciate your knowledge and insight!
I love your videos, they cover topics I had always wondered about as a child. Can you make one about the roman catacombs? Thanks for your great work
This is both incredibly fascinating and heart breaking
Garrett has kind of my favorite narration voice ever. It's creamy...and I'm straight 🤣
So creamy and i'm gay
@@N0R3M4C ❤️🤙🏻
As usual, very good indeed.
I'm slightly surprised that Caligula's Lake Nemi Barge didn't get a mention, though.
This huge floating palace was excavated by Mussolini and, in pretty good condition, survived until shelling in WWII set the museum containing it on fire. Only a few parts of it, anchors, bronze fittings, etc., survive.
Great job! I’am a Roman and I say:
”congratulations”
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Much appreciated!
There is no more roman. Its Italian now.
Isnt it true Romanians are the descendants of the Roman's? Hence the name Romania
@@pavitashergill8308 Italians are acclimatized lombards at best and have almost no legitimacy to the title of Rome.
@@999mi999 I no that and so do you. But like every ware else you are descendents of the ruleing empire are you not?? Britain was congerd by the Romans for 400 hundred years. There must be a roman blood line in some one's family but does that make them roman? We are what we are only human but congerd by empires. Story of the people. God bless you friend.
I read a fabulous book "The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundevile KT" copyright 1895. Traveling Missionaries of the 14th Century took me on a tour of the Middle East at the time. They even gave me a description of Aristotle's Tomb that we recently discovered :) I like the history of Natural Catastrophes, it explains many destroyed or repurposed buildings and population movements.
I love your videos!! Thank you for providing all the information and old photos
Fabulous video!!! Bravo! Please do more on this topic.
Another really interesting video. Your narration is second to none you've a really soothing voice! Looking forward to your next instalment.
Very glad to hear it!
you are incredible and deserve a lot more attention as a pedagogue in Roman history! most wonderful information about things not heard elsewhere! wow!!!
Thank you!
Thanks Toldin Stone. Interesting fragments presented well and no distraction by music. Well done.
I’m very glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing it with us. You always find so interesting roman buildings.
Great video, with a lot of examples I'd never heard of. Fascinating. Liking the list approach, it's a good way to grow subscribers for those more in depth videos. Also you keep it genuinely interesting and varied. I'm sure you're bound for a 100,000 subs soon, glad I was early this time!
Very glad you enjoyed it. Yes, people seem to like the listicles. I'll have to keep 'em coming. (And I sure hope you're right about the 100k subs!)
Really love your channel Garrett. Thanks for diving into the details on so many of these buildings, I love ancient architecture and always want to see what’s still there untouched.
P.S. would love to hear or see a vid if you know much about ancient Carthage? Punic wars, etc.
Very glad to hear it! I visited the site of Carthage a few years ago, but I would need better footage to make a really satisfying video. Stay tuned...
Walked along the Ponte du Garde and was so amazed by this wonder of Roman genius built over 2000 years ago.
That really is a wonderful structure
Funny because I love your videos and content and have watched so much but I’m just now realizing how amazing of a narrative voice you have.
Hello toldinstone guy, fantastic videos. I love to learn.
That was a great video, and a good one for CZcams to have recommended. Subbed.
Such a well preserved video
Another great video for us Roman buffs love how you look for the obscure and interesting well done
Very glad to hear it!
Thank you for your efforts in making these videos. Roman wonders are very fascinating.
You're very welcome
Informative, calming voice, I've found my new content to fall asleep to. Love your content, Garret(t)!
I finally subscribed. Your videos are too good.
Your videos are great!! I'm addicted to them.
Thanks for making and sharing these!
You're very welcome!
Thank you for your research and wonderful presentation of the information.
You're very welcome
fast becoming my fav channel thanks for all the info
Delighted to hear it! You're very welcome
ANOTHER fantastic video
Need a lost "Greek Masterpieces" video
Stay tuned...
I have walked these streets in Rome several times over a few trips, but never knew what I was seeing - or not seeing.
I tell you tears were in my eyes all these beautiful marvels just pulled down to make way for a road or a river course, complete lack of any respect for Roman brilliance.
Thank you for all your efforts
You're very welcome
Congratulations for the awesome video,thanks for the material regarding the pyramid,
I expect the Septizonium to be in the next video!👍
Very glad you enjoyed it! As it happens, I talk about the Septizodium in this older video:
toldinstone.com/the-5-greatest-roman-buildings-demolished-during-the-renaissance/
👑toldinstone👑
Thanks again. Hope you have a great weekend.
Really appreciate your channel.
You are way better then the Professor I had for Art History.
Cheers.
You're very welcome!
Good one, loaded with nostalgia, thank you.
My pleasure
Your content is excellent sir. I appreciate your work.
I'm very glad to hear it!
Thank you for this interesting video. I found out that the Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus was build in honor of Zeus (Hadrian was hellenist, fond of greek culture). It was probably the largest roman temple ever build. What a shame that it was broken down for its marble. 😔
You're very welcome. Yes, it's a terrible shame that the temple was torn to pieces. Even the fragments are beautiful.
Very unique and interesting channel mate
i would like a video on YOUR history! what made you decide to seek higher education in greek/roman history? you've taught at universities, which one had the best environment for what you were teaching? what's your favorite aspect about rome? how often do you travel there? is there a secret society for those with history doctorates?
Doctor Ryan, I appreciated seeing you in the introduction. Your historical knowledge is impressive, and I LOVE your programs! I hope it won't hurt your feelings if I say your speaking pattern, consisting of pauses separating rushes of hurried words is often difficult for me to understand. I don't wish to miss any part of your excellent programs. Would it be possible for you to slow down? Many, many thanks.
It is always amazing to me how simple random chance allows some things to continue standing into our time, while other things just vanish.
This is a grait topic and your voice is nice to hear too.
Thanks
I'm very glad to hear it!
A not so lost Roman building is the Rotunda in Thessaloniki (Salonica for you). I learned the original and authentic name of the city as /thes-SAL-oh-nee-kee/. It was a gift by Alexander to his sister Thessaly for her wedding similar to cities you may have got as gifts for your wedding. The Rotunda is not a ruin. It’s a round building ,hence the name, that is intact and still being used today. At a distance you might think it’s a modern building at least in the last 100 years. I think it’s three storeys with arched Windows around each level. Up close you see it’s made of concrete and iron bars have been placed in ground level windows. It’s been a long time and I don’t remember in detail. There seem to be offices in there. Not far away is a Roman triumphal arch covered with bas reliefs of Roman figures in military clothing ,tunics and breastplates and all. It’s just standing beside a busy city street fairly unnoticed. It’s always been there or at least 2000 years. What is important is McDonald’s is across the street.
the arch of Galerius... just a little to the south are remnants of his house.
These are some really great videos. Thank you!! I've always been interested in Roman history, it's just utterly fascinating. I've got a few content-generating questions for you, that I some what know the answer to but also not really, (listicles are awesome and easy to digest btw!).
Why are all the noses of emporer busts gone?
What was the roman's relationship with ancient civilizations of China??
What are some of the most preserved ships from Rome?
What are the biggest mining sites for rome?
What are some experiments that have been done to test and prove that something is roman, or, that rome was capable of doing which necessitated further research? (For example, what's the story of roman concrete? Have scientists reproduced it yet?)
Thank you - and thanks also for these excellent questions! I'm adding all of them to my "Short Answers" list.
nice examples! The nemi ships always fascinated me. I was hoping for an appearance
yay!
Love your content.
Great content!
I love this channel so much.
Fascinating, as always!👍
Thank you!
Hello, and thank you for the wonderful video. As a painter, I would be interested to hear about Roman painting materials and methods, if you can do a video about that.
The writing and narration of these videos are excellent.
I'm very glad to hear it.
Amazing video, please make more videos like this!
Glad you enjoyed it! Perhaps I'll have to wrangle up a sequel.
Hi Garrett ! My favorite is a broken tablet found in some rubble that translated said, Gods spare us from those who would do us good. They break our backs. Thank you for your time and effort on our behalf. Pat
Can you do a video on the lost Greek buildings or statues ? It makes a nice companion to this video.
Fascinating that the Romans used 24 elephants to move that statue in one piece.
you certainly have a customer for your book right here. thanks for the amazing videos.
Thank you! I deeply appreciate it.
I like it when Garret is on camera. If his voice doesn't put you to sleep, his face will, haha. Great series, thanks for all the great videos.
Great video, I learnt a lot from it!
“Garret, the told in stone guy” Who?
“The fat gladiator-naked statue book guy” Ah! I know him!
Great content once again
Excellent work... Can you mention the Castrum Drobeta next to the Trajan bridge on the Romania side?
Your channel is fantastic. I love Roman anything. Thanks.
You're very welcome
Dr Ryan, Have you been to all these places? This is so cool. I would love to go see all this some day.
Almost all - I've never visited Subiaco or the site of Trajan's Bridge.
@@toldinstone It would be amazing if you could share it alongside your own recordings of the site! Maybe I could help you with that!! 🤙🏽
Thank you .Very interesting.
Great videos! Keep it up
@toldinstone Following your asking for suggestions, I have some: a video about roman aquaducts in general, or one specifically about the siphon of Aspendos? Or about the roman roads? Or their fortifications (anywhere)? A video about roman concrete?
I love this guys voice. I want my phone to talk with his voice
Well, I do have a Patreon account now. Perhaps we could arrange something...
Thank you for your work
You're very welcome
Do more time travelling tips videos!!! More cultures and times aswell
Love this channel
There was a stone Roman bridge in my home town though it had disappeared by the Viking period. There's not even a single stone known from it and no Archaeological survey of the river bed has been made, it's probably quite silted up but I'd love to see that excavated. They know exactly where it was due to the Roman street plan and the fact that it was on the main road through the UK though there are Medieval buildings on either side that would need to be dug through to investigate.
Mr Garrett it would be amazing if you could make a video about what happened to all the Greek libraries during the 4rt 5th and 6th century and how they got destroyed !
Thanks for these informative video's ❤🙏
You're very welcome
The cut from the painting to the traveler's illustration at 6:36 had me dying
So many great videos. 🎯🇸🇪
No 'working from home' back then! True craftsmanship on a massive scale. Beautiful.
So crazy to me all of these wonderful things existed at one point and are now gone.... and these are just the things we know about. Really makes me wonder about stuff even older then this
Brilliant video!
So amazing!!!
Very interesting Learnt a good deal Thanks
You're very welcome!
Very interesting. I didn't know about the Danube Bridge, Roman engineering was amazing.
Glad you enjoyed it. I hope to do a whole video on Roman highways and bridges in the relatively near future.
Hey told in stone guy. If you could brush up on your Latin, load up on spices and use your time machine to travel back to the roman capital, which capital would it be and in what year?
I would go to Rome in the summer of 247, when Philip the Arab threw a gargantuan series of games to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Rome's foundation.
@@toldinstone Now that sounds like a good time.
@@Metroidkeeper I would go to Constantinople in 1452 with lots of 303's
At the time of the foundation of Rome. When Lupa with the suckling Romulus & Remus were brought in as their reason to form Rome. Who were the originators of Rome. Were the Phoenician really there? Who were the boat people? Who were the outsider influencers, if any? Or was it the Lati of Latina (the forbearers of the Latin language, the vulgar Latin before the official Roman state Latin) who moved northward to found a new city to escape the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Being around the seven hills of the Palatine valley. Who were the seven tribes of Rome? Why was there runic scripts in the cave wall near Rome? Why did they change Gods from Lupa to Mars to Querino (root word for Oak tree, since speer staves were made of oak wood), to Apollo, to Jupiter, and lastly to Venus with Hercules sprinkled in here and there. The first four Gods all had a common thing, being adept at 'war'. Except Jupiter and Venus. Romans believed that peace only came with war, but invoking Mars for war was never a first choice but jovial Jupiter was preferred as first choice with the speer ritual by the priest. The speer was their sacred image at this time. Why was the ship rudder an important symbol? And how and what way, ritual wise, was the rudder used to encourage a good direction in life?
love this dude