Highlights of Herculaneum (Part I) 

Fantastic look at Herculaneum. I'm anticipating part 2.

The view at 1:02 is a jaw-dropper, when you realize how much volcanic material was deposited!

You could make these videos like twice as long! I just love to soak up all the details and image how it used to look!

Bravissimo. Ercolano (Herculaneum) is an amazing site. Vorrei parte seconda!

The Hydra fountain is like no other piece of ancient sculpture I have ever seen. Remarkable

When I was there you could buy a three day pass and see up to three places along the Circumvisuvius (sp?) train route. We chose 2 days in Pompeii and one in Herculaneum. I found Herculaneum to be the best choice. It was actually possible to see the entire thing in one day. It appeared to me to be the best preserved. Also, it was very cool to see how the ruins area was recessed below the surrounding city which came right up to the edges of the historic site.

Your videos are THE BEST. Can't wait for part 2!

I’ll be here in October. Can’t wait, and a great introduction. I’ve been to Ostia antica and Pompeii. Very curious about Herculaneum. Also the video about the Villa close to Pompeii led me there to explore it. This channel and the creator are a treasure trove.

So happy you are around Napoli, there is also the Anfiteatro in Pozzouli and also Lago D'averno with the Cave of the Sibyl you once made a video about :))

We brought a visit there this year. Absolutely stunning location.

Great content as usual

Good video. I was amused by the fake stone columns that were actually brick covered with concrete shaped to look like carved stone. I wonder if it was common to paint pillars red. I'm also impressed by the amount of work it must have taken to remove all that overburden carefully enough not to destroy what's underneath. Volcanic ash often sets like concrete so it can't have been easy. It would be interesting to see how they work.

Great video, was there last year and now I'm kicking myself for missing the tunnels 😆

I’ll be going to Herculaneum for the first time in August I can’t wait!!

I have been to Pompeii, but I understand Herculaneum to be much better preserved. Is there any impetus to continue excavations?

This is so cool. I get to see it in advance of when I go and explore for myself, with my very best friend (my husband) in March of next year 😁

Super interesting ! The tunnels are crazy!

I am glad I added a Herculaneum visit after Pompeii on a driving tour in 1996. I thought the state of preservation at Herculaneum was marvellous. I understand that many building contents have been removed to museums, but the wall decorations were a sight to behold. It was a sad commentary on the local culture that the tourist parking area was at the back of the local police station premises.

This is amazing. It feels like I am actually there, love it!. Thank you for sharing this with us. May you and all the viewers here be blessed with good health, peace, happiness, wealth and success. 🙏

Such an amazing video. I am so grateful that you can travel to these places. These sites are just too far away for me at the moment. If I understand this correct, the eruption was 79CE and there are so many visuals of the entire city having issue with disrepair / lack of mortar / tuck pointing maintenance. I always wonder how such large stone work can be constructed, but then paused in time, you can see all of the places that were just missing their maintenance upkeep guys not getting funding or time to keep things looking "fresh". You could argue the pyroclastic flow may have dislodged or eroded some spots if it was in the "wind" of it, but the whole place appears to be, "Not kept up". I have always found this fascinating.

Mind blowing! Thank you for the tour and the description. I watched Part 2 first but it really doesn't matter because every detail of everything is beyond fantastic. Oh how human standards of beauty have devolved over the millennia...so sad really.

Thank you!

I wish I could have gone into the suburban baths. The building is so well-preserved that it's like a time machine.

Jaw on the floor - amazingly well preserved. I recently visited York (Eboricum). They have a nice Roman column. Singular. I read "Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants" on the plane. Informative and fun with great footnotes. I highly recommend.

I read an article today about a Greek(?) coin depicting a hydra such as this fountain. I have never seen the hydra depicted this way before. Fascinating

Herculaneum is amazing, such great preservation! Much harder digging for the archaeologists, though. I look forward to all new finds from Herculaneum and Pompeii. Thanks, Dr. Ryan🙂

I like how they marked off where the water line was originally.

Easy to imagine how beautiful it was...

Love the content and the format. Many thanks !

Pompeii and Herculaneum are both incredible. Why people pit them against each other, I don't know. Why visit one or the other? Visit both, they are so near. Each has its own incredible insight into an incredible time in history.

It must be incredible to able to live in a region so richly endowed with easily accessible ancient history, I am so jealous.

You have two channels! Great!!!!!

This was well done Garrett! I just wish your video’s were 3x longer.

I love the thumbnail! I visited a few years ago and tseeing that piece was the highlight for me.

Love these videos. Very calm and interesting. Makes it feel like I'm actually there! Perfect since I don't hsve enough money to travel right now

Really enjoyed this, looking forward to more.

Thank you, that was very informative and interesting.

Amazing, thank you!

Great images, thanks.

That paved area was a swamp when I visited before the pandemic.

Great.

You sound like the doctor from Star Trek Voyager which makes this video much more enjoyable.

Love it! Keep them coming!

Thank you very much, indeed. Your camera work is very nice, your natural voice is euphonious, and your speed of speech is perfect, in my view. Your subject matter is fascinating, and your presentation is captivating. I enjoy your videos very much, except for one thing, sadly. The 25fps (& 30fps Premium Bitrate) make my stomach churn in just seconds, every time the camera pans. This happens when a camera shoots video at a very low framerate without Motion Blur enabled in the camera settings. To completely resolve the issue, please switch to pure 60FPS shooting and rendering, so that everyone in the future can enjoy jitter-free video. Thank you.

That hydra fountain: wow!

The pyroclastic flow that covered this city is called a “Nue’e Ardente”, French for burning cloud, by us geologists. These are so hot that they’re not survivable, sadly and they can move downslope incredibly fast. I hate the thought of the desperate people sheltering in the boat sheds, waiting for rescue by sea, which didn’t come in time. According to Pliny, some from the area were rescued this way, others, including him, were able to escape on foot from Pompeii, but still, many lives were tragically lost. I don’t think I could handle seeing the plaster casts of the trapped human and other animal bodies. I hope the Italian government has top-notch evacuation plans for this region, Vesuvius is still a quite active volcano.

When I visited Herculaneum last spring, I saw what looked like preparatory drawings scratched underneath the plaster. My tour guide said they were original but I’m not too sure. Are they ancient?

seeing that same style of counter in Pompeii is really interesting. Was it a popular style of the time? Was it the same artisan who built them in the region? Were there many artisans making these?

I was impressed by Herculaneum, less so by Pompei.

Praetor is pronounced PRY-tor in Latin. The ae sound is that as in the English I, or eye.

They paved the sea floor?! It looked so much better before.

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Better than Pompeii

Was the part of Herculaneum from the video's beginning built on a steep hill or was the city built so densely in height? I see three different layers with terraces and houses connected with ramps and stairs

They had asfalt roads?

wow they were taller? i always thought the stereotype was in the past people were shorter. that's kinda neat..they really were just like us (well, better teeth i suppose 😀) it's strange to think of treasure hunters existing centuries ago too....i thought that was a modern thing...but then i remembered the pyramid robbers..but those seemed like they must have been big organized projects given the size of the stones to move/destroy. how did they not get caught...were they so devoid of tourists that no one saw large efforts like that?

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The level of ash seems like cliffs

I liked Herculaneum much better than Pompeii. It's much more conzentrated, while Pompeii can be a little bit of a slog.

The boathouses bodies reconstruction was the highlight of Herculaneum for me. Reconstruction is a problem in any video of this type; what to show? I cannot help but think that American censorship or self-censorship is part of the back-story with this video (as seemingly & effectively corporations are sovereign in the US).

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and women wonder why men think about the roman empire atleast once a day.