Archaeologists In Pompeii Broke Into A Forbidden Room And Then Froze At The Sight Within 

As a former Archaeologist, I never "Broke into anything" a room or item is carefully excavated with the utmost care & professionalism. Certainly not in the manner of your Heading/Title.

I suppose that computer voice-over is getting better, but it really is disconcerting and this whole presentation would have been MUCH better had a real person who understood the inflection in the language had been the narrator.

We forget that for almost all of history almost everyone's life was very hard , very uncomfortable, and very short compared to the present time.

As an archaeologist, we don't "break in" to "forbidden rooms"

I my husband visited the place in 1978 during a thunderstorm. The rain came in cascades, lightning lit up the almost black sky and the rainwater ran like small rivers through the streets. It all gave us an impression of how terrifying the volcanic eruption must have been for the poor people who couldn't escape. For us nowadays, an unforgettable experience. p.s. I have been there several times since.

There was plenty of people living in cold , crammed and uncomfortable places less than a hundred years ago , and there still is.

"A mere 170' sq of space" TIL: Pompeii slaves had twice the living space as me!

It's a must thing I have to do, before leaving this world and returning to dust. I have always since a child been fascinated by Rome, Pompeii and the history.

Such an interesting story, but the presentation is not good at all. It starts already with a headline that has nothing to do with the story, but made up to make the video sensational. There is no forbidden room they went in. It is a newly discovery room, that’s all.

You waited until the last few seconds to show the figure in a kneeling position and then never addressed it. That's pretty bait and switch bogus "documentary".

I had to laugh when he said they found objects that were ceremonial. To an Archaeologist everything they find they generally claim it to be ceremonial. Two thousand years from now an Archaeologist will find a McDonald's happy meal toy and it will be displayed in a museum as being ceremonial.

I visited Pompeii in 1970 and it was emotionally overwhelming.

So fascinating to see a lifestyle frozen in time.

“A forbidden room?” Sounds like some teenager screaming “STAY OUT OF MY ROOM.”

I've heard that for the majority of people during this period indoors was basically for sleeping. Life was lived in the outdoors. Yes this so-called slave room was tiny and didn't have any amenities but they most likely did not hang out here like we do in our living rooms they went down there to sleep. I'm sure being a slave was a hard life but this is not a cell that they lived in like a prison.

The room obviously wasn't so "forbidden".

Very interesting. We never know how quickly our lives can change.

Very interesting of course, but drawing broad conclusions from a single example is shaky.

I feel that the kind of people that are going to watch videos on archeology, don't need a clickbait title. Just sayin.

The voice on this is awful. I live about an hour from Pompeii and I can attest to a lot of this as being inaccurate. If you want to understand Pompeii, you really have to visit. About 2 thirds of the site are still buried beneath the modern city of Pompei ( note the spelling difference). Sadly, there seem to be far too many ' experts' giving opinions on what is essentially a very human tragedy.

Lived near there for a few yrs.. the amount of Artefacts i was offered was unreal,i was even offered vases and figurines on consignment if i could get them to northern Europe ,i visited some guys house and he had a beautiful mosaic which had been broken up and made into a coffee table ,a sin in itself... locals treated it as a business opportunity

Seeking subterranean shelter in Pompeii was a fatal mistake. The toxic gases emitted by the volcano were heavier than air, so it would have become a gas chamber.

It looks like my son’s college dorm room. But cleaner. Probably smelled better, too.

Visitei Pompeia em agosto de 2022 e fiquei extasiada e emocionada por percorrer esse museu arqueológico a céu aberto, fiquei 6 horas andando por Pompeia e ainda quero voltar, é muita história q essas ruínas podem contar …

The computer voice narration is just intollerable

Warms my heart to see historians and archaeologists wanting to tell the story of slaves. To the ancients, slaves were just tools and could be disposed of. (Yes their treatment varied greatly, as all things do) But now they're at the very least seen as people by us.

Very good presentation - I have been interested in Pompeii since I was a kid (I'm 65 now) and this information was completely new to me. I found the discovery of the small room that apparently housed a family rather poignant.

they lived in luxury those rooms were for sleeping they had a whole city at there feet the volcano was no place to build a city

Even then they treated fellow humans like shit. Oh, when will we ever learn.

I'm surprised at how well the Lambo was preserved (at 7:32). Some time back the body of a young woman, probably a teen with a baby in her hands was discovered. She had a spine that was somewhat twisted and a leg that showed she walked with a limp. It was assumed that she was a slave who was probably trying to save herself and the infant.

This channel is now a 5 minute video stretched out with pure waffling nonsense... each sentence being stretched out with as many words as possible to make the video longer. Enough... I'm unsubscribing... 🙄

I get so angry when the damn looters steal things from these kind of sites. Imagine some of the things we will never see because of them.

All the sob story about the slave's room! There is slavery today! There are people who sleep on sidewalks in winter, who freeze to death. So I 'm not crying a river for slaves who had food and lodging 2000 yrs ago!

Why were they forbidden and who forbid it

Inconvenient takeaway: there has always been wealth inequality. In the US, in the Soviet Union, all the way back to the Roman Empire and beyond.

A new fad is starting, let's attack the archeologists. Without them we wouldn't know much about our past. Hmm, the new "wokism" attack anyone that moves.

What makes this small spot a forbidden "something". ????

Poor horses!!!

Went there in 2013ish. Wish I appreciated history the way I do now... But it was going there & seeing it, then I appreciated it, but didn't have the knowledge of today. Would love to go back & thanks for the great video

So slavery didn't start in 1619!!??? Let me put my shocked face on.....

At 8:28 you mention NPR. Throughout the millennia, slavery has existed in one form or another. These days, it's more on the order of Economic slavery which at one point was called "the Company Store".

They also had running water that went to public drinking fountains and they've found Lead pipes ALONG the roads that lead to the drinking fountains and houses

Loved the report!! Hate the robotic sounding narration....

The dorm room size could have been used mainly for sleeping. All other duties would have been outside. One room had rich people on one side and others 'slaves?' on the other; likely. The rich group had semi-precious stones in their possession and on their person that had deteriorated under the extreme heat. From this rich group 3 women were found to have syphilis.

The fact that the younger man had been a slave forced to hard labor in the past doesn't necessarily mean that the older man was responsible. For one thing, people tend to think of slavery in terms of the horrific way slaves were treated in the Americas between 16th-19th centuries. Slavery has not always been that way: there have been instances of slavery when the slave is just paying either an economic or criminal debt for a determined amount of time similar to the way today people have to perform community service. Also, slaves were exchanged and bought. The older man could have payed the younger man's debt to have him as a servant for the remainder of his slavery term. Remember Matthew 8:8 when the centurion asked Our Lord to declare him healed as he knew it would then be so? The way I see it, if these two men were together at such a catastrophic incident, they trusted one another and we're trying together to escape death

"Systems have passed away before you. Do but travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for those who did deny (the messengers)"

Take out all the redundancy and this video is 2 minutes.

@10:29 these are amphorae not containers.

So, we are never told why this room was "forbidden"? Why did they supposedly freeze in shock? We are also never told that either -- if it even happened. Click bait titles and robot-narration.

Archeology is soo educational, especially for our future generations. We may learn a lot from the lessons in history. Humanities and Cultural education are vital in our rapidly shrinking world. Aren't we all human? Have heart.💜

Thermal shock ... Baked almost instantly

As a student in this field the facts in this video are no accurate! Careful viewers

I am much more interested in the villa library in Herculaneum found to house hundreds of scrolls scientists and technicians have only recently developed a system with which to 'unroll' and read.

For that time that sleeping area was most likely considered normal to pretty good. Again a bad case of Present-ism, judging history by today's standards and then making ignorant opinions based on it. 170SQ ft I wonder how much an apartment in Hong Kong would cost that size?

The idea of an archaeologist freezing at the sight of archaeology is quite frankly absurd. Most archaeologists I know would be high-fiving and heading to the pub for a celebratory drink.

The bias of the archiologist that the room absolutely has to be the room of a slave(s) is overwhelming. There is no proof for that belief. He might be correct but has no proof and never will short of a time machine so don't be so emphatic about it. Just say we suspect it could have been quarters for one or more slaves. By the same token, It also could have been simply a storeroom for equipment and extra beds. Throughout most of history humanity has lived in small cramped rooms with few amenties. Not all slaves were the result of prisoners captured in wars or as a punishment for indebtedness that could not be paid(No bankrupty laws back then) . Many people sold themselves into slavery becuase slavery was in many cases better than being free, poor, and starving. By law a slave had to be taking care of plus they were an investment Slavery was a social safety net for thousands of years.

How do they know who the slaves are? They assume a ton of things that reinforce their preconceived beliefs. They simply need to say they don’t know.

Camera moving too fast….making me dizzy 😞

So what exactly makes the room "forbidden"? Were they not allowed to go there but went anyway? Was there a law that forbid this kind of room? Does yellow mustard taste better with sugar in it?

I wonder how many bodies they found when they uncovered Pompeii,death for these people must have been terrible .

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE COLUSEUM

I had been wondering what this video was going to reveal. This is truly a unique perspective. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

Roman slavery (and many other examples through history in fact) is widely accepted and known about - however the ethnic demographic of those slaves does not fit with the current hysterical narrative hence it is tragically almost ignored.

It is soooo annoying with the phone ringing sound in the background. Had to go check my phone several times! DO NOT DO THAT!

Word to the wise... ONLY ARCHEOLOGISTS GET TO STEAL ARTIFACTS! Two men? Master and Boy-toy!? Father and Son?

They froze at the sight of what?

Alice Beards voice would show enthusiasm and add interest to this topic. This robotic, computerised voice is aggravating, imo.

ceremonial function means either we dont know or we dont want you to know

Wait, I thought all historical slaves were only black? 🤔

The one question you haven't answered was why this room was "forbidden" per your deceptive title

The Roman's had very advanced techniques 2000 years ago Looking at the ROADS and HOUSES of POMPEII

We saw crews painstakingly excavating Juliana recently. I would think they would be dismayed by this clickbait headline. Pompei imparts an aura of reverence. There is so much to see, and the breadth of devastation would make even the dullest of us reflective.

Strange how the Past is never past. 🤔

It SEEMS they stayed in the city..... They died there, they stayed there!

a lot of people live still like this the sad thing is that they don't realize they are modern slaves

This city is marinated in a massive tragedy that led to the entire city being devastated. Just leave those people alone and let them rest.

Who exactly forbade entry into the room?

Even today millions of families live in rooms smaller than this. I don't know what is so shocking in this? 🤔 Its a fascinating find and a treasure indeed. But by telling that the past was brutal, doesnt make the present something worth living in.

This is truly the other side of history.

Was that narrated by a robot pretending to be a man or a man pretending to be a robot? I am unsure, we should be told!

AT 5:55 them dudes were playing the ancient Roman game ride the pickle good slave boy!

I don't think those 2 men were looking for shelter. Looks to me like they had looked for privacy. ♂️❤️♂️

Impressive statement by the Italian Archaeologist, most impressive statement, (the History Story fact). Perhaps he's an Authentic Academic, rather than Mainstream Academic. Pleases me.

while the " headline " is misleading , i can understand the need to say " broke " as it grabs. your attention and hopefully gets people to watch and learn something and may inspire them to want to learn more 😉😁.

Why isn't this site being watched and video, Security Guards, I mean such a famous site, Makes no sense.

Even to this day the poor everywhere live in poor conditions. Has not changed in thousands of years......

Oh my how shocking they found horses 😳😳😳

The military have underground motion detectors --- they should install them to prevent looters

Slavery then, before then and even now... All that aside, what a "cool" and informative documentary video!

Romans didn’t save the young it was their belief older people had the wisdom.

Who forbid them????

I don't accept robo-voice. Either you care enough to read the text correctly or don't bother me with trash.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Do you not know anyone with a real voice?

Let us learn from our mistakes and history and try not to repeat the mistakes made.

Amazing!

I really hate computer generated voices. The lack of inflection and emotion makes the subject entirely lifeless.

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*Nice To Hear You're Voice Again Sir* 💖

A forbidden room 😂 WtF