How 300 Skeletons Ended Up Near a Beach in Naples
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2015
- In 1982, more than 300 skeletons were found near a Naples beach. Evidence suggests they were killed by the Mt. Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago.
From: MUMMIES ALIVE: Hero of Herculaneum
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I like the topics on this channel but the shorts are way too short.
Shorts are way too short lol
@@jr3437 Lol
Yeah, that's why it's called "shorts" because it's short. Get it?
This place is well worth a visit. In some ways it’s even more remarkable than Pompeii. You can also drive/hike up to the crater of Vesuvius and see inside.
Look at the guy just casualy sitting next to the skeletons
They were just dying to go to the beach.
Elizabeth McKinley wow
Dam
Elizabeth McKinley maybe you're the one who wants to go to the beach
thats dark..
Wow 😅😒
They probably thought running to the beach avoiding the city and the heat from the volcano would save them knowing there would be boats on the water
If I'm not mistaken, many left by boat and those who perished were the ones who weren't able to get on a boat....they were waiting for boats to arrive. :(
So short and I want to see more!
They died quickly, it took them 2 seconds to pass. Source: another Smithsonian channel video.
Thanks for the video. 💚💚
an inspiration for a movie.
fiery shendu yessss! I can totally see that
300: Rise of the skeletons
Why did it take so long (nearly 2,000 years) for these skeletons to be discovered?
+bronzerat012 Several feet of ashes.
Herculaneum also took the brunt of the heat and fire, so it suffered from more than just the ash raining down and encasing the city
Herculaneum was first discovered in 1709 by accident during the digging for a water well and for most of the next two centuries, the excavations that were made were via underground tunnels only.
It took until 1982 for modern era archaeologists to finally unearth the boathouses (and what was the former shoreline of Herculaneum) as a result of the 20-25 meters of ashes that had covered the town in the volcanic destruction that took place in 79 AD.
Half of Herculaneum still remains buried or out of reach.
Today's current shoreline/beach-front is actually many hundreds of meters further out into the Bay of Naples which gives one a sense of the immense land-altering power of that volcanic eruption.
The skeletal remains of the people shown in this video are what's left after the super-heated pyroclastic surges incinerated them instantly.
bronzerat012 because archeology and all that wasn’t a job or commodity to be studied
Huge amount of ash deposited over a large area, and archeology work is slow to avoid damage and to leave some discoveries for when technology is more advanced in the future.
They say that the romans in Pompeii and Herculenum did not know what a volcano was but if you ask me they knew exactly what it was its only that they didn't figure it out untill it erupted .
While some volcanos have small fumerols coming out of it periodicly some really old volcanos that rebuild themselve to the point that they just look like a normal mountain dont have any of the features of a volcano aftermany millenias of rebuilding themselves and their pressure release ports are blocked by gigantic bolders preventing those small fumerols from occuring and when they do decide to have them normally its fallowed right away by a gigantic eruption pretty much like krakatoa did in 1883 except that krakatoa did have those periodic fumes getting out of it . But Vesuvius did not . Its only when it started to erupt that people saw what was coming and i'm pretty sure they knew what they were facing otherwise all those people wouldn't have taken shelter in those bunkers near the sea side . Its only that they never thought that it would reach that far .
You dont have so many people taking shelter that far from a volcano on the sea side in the same day that a volcano awakes without knowing first hand that something really bad will occur . Maybe the people from Pompeii who died there burried in ash did not know what they were facing but the ones taking shelter on the sea side surely did .
To think that no one knew what they were facing is a pretty far fetched theory if you ask me . Some of them surely knew from history transmitted by their ancestors . Like history showed us no volcano event had been recorded before that event but it doesn't mean that becasue it wasn't writen that it wasn't transmitted from one generation to another
En español,, por favor, gracias
spooky as heck
Skeletore from He-Man
This... is... VESUVIUS!
Yeah?
maybe trying to escape
This is sparta
LORD PEPE thats what I was thinking
Wrong city
Awesome
It's Leonidas & his army
Third
-insert jojo meme here-
Azaab e ilahi
The mountain was just giving you more minerals and better soil, and forming larger and deeper land. Stop blaming the Mountains. you actions is to blame.
Sadly they didnt make to the beach