Vesuvius Reconstructed: How The Eruption Annihilated Pompeii | The Riddle Of Pompeii | Real History
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- By using the latest evidence from volcanology, this documentary attempts to reconstruct the 24 August 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius hour by hour.
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I don't understand why this channel is not more popular? Very well researched and extremely educational. Thank you!
I'll tell you why. 90% of their videos are unwatchable due to the music's volume waaaaaaaay overpowering the narrator's voice. Do your homework you'll find that out by yourself
Wonderful documentary. Being a geology buff, I enjoyed the information supplied by Prof. Sigurdsson since it made me able to understand that aspect of the tragedy better. Thankfully, we also have the account of Pliny the Younger, which was not fully believed unti modern times.
What worries me about Vesuvius is that the 1944 eruption has pretty much blocked the volcano, Next time may be worse, far worse, than 1944.
Yes. Professor Sigurdsson's contribution was uniquely fascinating! --- Especially the actual deposition evidence, _shown so clearly, and explained so well,_ of how the terrifying eruption progressed through hours of day, and into fatal night. --- Through him, also brought-home, the poignancy felt by viewers with him, --- of the human tragedy, evident in suffocated human and animal remains of eruption-slain.
Special effects not Oscar-winning, but still gives us sense of the real-horror of the darkness-unfolding, lightning-booming, and pyroclastic-flow engulfing catastrophe!
It's crazy to think that now Naples surround it all of Pompeei and Herculanum.
@@joaquinescotoaleman4320 It rally is crazy. If my memory serves me rightly, that area of Italy is some of the most densely populated in Europe.
If it blows again today it is likely to affect millions. Plus the Naples area contains another volcano named Campi Flegri so either way it won't pay to live in Naples!
I really love all this videos of by-gone eras and by-gone people of times past. Thank you 🌹
Tragic end for both cities of that time. Hard to get over the size and destruction of the volcano.
What a fantastic and truly interesting documentary! I hope one day I get to go to Pompeii and see it for myself!
I think you will find it fascinating and hope you will be able to see for yourself.. I visited with my parents when I was a child but still remember it clearly after more than 60 years. Since then, the city has been 75% excavated--in the 60s it would have been perhaps half. My father was fascinated by ancient history, one of his areas of special interest being the Romans.
Yeah, never take tour busses but did while staying in Rome. Highly recommend it. The closest thing to time travel. Add to your bucket list.
It's something that I'm curious about. My entering assumption is the people that fled would tend to go south to Stabia but it would have been dark and difficult and the road crowded with people and perhaps carts. How many people that fled made it far enough away to survive the pyroclastic surges? Have the roads leading out of Pompeii, especially the road to Stabia been investigated along it's length? Could it be the final resting place of a large portion of the towns population?
I've always wondered that too. Any ancient roadways that would've lead away from Pompeii & Herculaneum would probably hold a treasure trove of new information.
That is something that archeologists should look into!
Some may have left by boat. I recall from Pliny the Younger's account that his uncle went by boat to the area near Vesuvius to investigate the eruption. They had trouble landing, I think. A lot of the skeletons found at Herculaneum were at the seashore but they may have been using the archways there as shelter rather than trying to leave by sea.
Problem with trying to find this out is the highways, homes and commercial property in the way of exploring.
@@katrinaprescott5911 According to another Vesuvius video, the Elder was driven away from Pompeii by the pumice clogging the water so he couldn't reach that city and sailed on to Stabia.
I wonder when this was made. For years I've heard that massive death was caused by pyroclastic cloud. But I enjoyed watching this excellent video. Thank you!
Judging by the computers, especially the egg-shaped iMac, this would have been filmed between 1998-2001. EDIT: the vulcanologist talks about an eruption in Mexico from 2002. He doesn't say "this year", or "last year". Therefore, I'd say this video is from at least 2004. The end credits do not provide a copyright date.
@@PaulVandersypen I thought later that I should have checked credits but didn't go back. Thank you for letting me know!
This is an old documentary.
.Thanks for so much information about the survivors.
There were also other cities/towns besides Herculaneum and Pompeii that were destroying in the 79Ad eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
Why isnt Herculaneum talked about as much as Pompeii?!
They put one out on Herculaneum several weeks ago.
Yeah, I would think Herculaneum would be talked about more because it’s in a lot better shape than Pompeii.
Because they couldn't spell it, or they all died 😂
There weren't as many body imprints found of those who were vaporized. However, there was recently found a shelter/ cave along the shoreline that contains skeletal remains
Pompeii sounds cooler
One of the best! Thank you and like 🙂
Does anyone know the source of the eerie music in the beginning and elsewhere in the video? Really haunting music.
Those poor people of Pompeii who died during the eruption of Vesuvius that buried the city died horrific but exceedingly fast deaths. It would be impossible to imagine the suffering they endured however brief. What an awful way to die. They must've been terrified but, it seems resigned to their fates.
The same documentary keeps getting reposed under different titles it's kind of annoying
I've never seen this one, so glad it was "reposed".
Frustrating
I was just thinking I had seen this one before but it was a different title....
I remember Mt St Helen's in the 80's
When visiting Pompeii a few years ago my guide surmised, given the massive final pyroclastic surges, nearly all evacuees perished, even 10 or 15 miles away. Only the very early evacuees who kept moving survived. This would explain why so few first hand accounts were documented. Thousands of bodies must lie buried under the urban sprawl fron Erculano to Sorrento.
Nice documentary.
What I never liked in the documentaries is the background semi horror music. Why does one have to put such a depressing music is beyond me.
I’m guessing that Vesuvius was a perfect stratovolcano like Mt. Fiji in Japan. This was until 79 AD. It blew off its top and the people were asphyxiation victims. That’s the message I’m getting. These types of eruptions are now called Plinian eruptions.
Pyroclastic flows are NOT rare and that eruption was NOT one of the largest "ever" - it was a big eruption and being caught in a pyroclastic flow is probably a horrific way to go but overstating and misrepresenting basic facts cheapens the actual event and makes you guys look like idiots or liars, or both.
Tough crowd.
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I would love to retire on the bay of Naples but I'd live right on the coast, speed boat forever idling at my dock. Just sayin.
ok i understand learning the history and what not but we should give them a propper burial not put them on display i feel the same about mummies we disturb their resting spots and put them on display for all to see they had beliefs and ceremonies things that were placed a certain way with them when they were laid to rest some of these beliefs were objects they needed in the next life all of this put a certain way i just feel its wrong to disturb all that and seperate it move it to where we see fit the funny thing is we describe their rituals and what they believed and yet we disturb all of it and dont honor the deads last wishes how would you feel if your grandma was dug up and put in a glass case for all to gawk at
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Reposted under different click bait titles. Points for the person who posted the channel. 😮
Yeah. Have seen it before but it's a well done documentary.
Maya's mom here: againnn.... We all need PEACE in the world...Pray for it! And Honesty in our government!!!
Such crap. Does no one know what Flash Freeze Dried is? A volcanic explosion does NOT cause that to happen. The dome collapsing suddenly, does.
Thank you. It's known as fountain collapse, since the ash column collapses, triggering a pyroclastic surge.