A point about ancient houses

[@lindybeige]

It's just that certain kind of brown, That seems to have been watered down, I may go out and paint the town BEIGE

[@hannibalburgers477]

Hey, it looks better now. And if you want I can share bunch of photos. I especially took photos of textures on stones. At least what I could photograph in a limited time.

[@AvrahamYairStern]

2:37 was one of my favorite Lloyd moments, a very good colour indeed sir!

[@lindybeige]

@ This is a USA/British English confusion. When we say 'corn' we refer in the main to crops like wheat, whereas Americans mean maize, which we Brits normally call 'sweetcorn'.

[@0ia]

@@lindybeige Interesting, I never knew that it was spoken differently elsewhere.

[@juggernaut7_]

@Last One Hey, this just randomly popped up in your recommended too?

[@BronzeTheSling]

...Beige.

[@TvConfusionn]

Beitch

[@jesusgotthatdrip4552]

“Or perhaps they prefers camping” Had me rolling

[@orlock20]

Like the plain tribes of North America.

[@suniashea137]

Haha.. me too! I love this way of wrapping up the video.

[@jubuttib]

2:36 proves something I've been suspecting for years. It's not that Lloyd prefers beige as a colour, it's just that he's evolved that way to better blend into his surroundings, when in his natural environment of ancient ruins.

[@linkxsc]

That smirk. "... beige."

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

Brilliant! ... but 969...

[@mandero88NAFO]

Possibly my favourite KZbin comment ever

[@NarraJoker12]

Beige indeed.

[@stvp68]

Oh, it would have painted

[@stvp68]

Oops-didn’t catch his name before watching

[@pinkdlophin9337]

No a modern estate agent would refer to that as "homely" or "lived in"

[@CottonPanzer]

+Pinkdlophin Right. Their job is selling... not providing accurate data.

[@jierdastormcrow]

+Pinkdlophin Are you sure that they wouldn't call it "A renovator's dream"?

[@pinkdlophin9337]

most likely

[@foxymetroid]

+Pinkdlophin Don't forget "rustic" and "a handyman's dreamhouse'.

[@bentoth9555]

A fixer-upper. A handyman's dream.

[@nervozaur]

I can't get enough of these stories, why isn't History taught like this in school?

[@jerk1921]

Because schools are government indoctrination centers, they dont care about making smart people, that's not what they do.

[@metro3041]

+Tella Mosis The 4rd grade teacher in my old school gave 1st grade work to the kids so he didn't have to print extra copies of what he was supposed to print.

[@praisekek6634]

Theyd rather talk about how Nazis where most terrible people ever to have existed.

[@JohnyG29]

Praise KEK they were

[@MycketTuff]

Because most teachers are mediocre and so are most schools.

[@yugimuto9763]

Beige, the colour of history.

[@AveSequoia]

Very common color I guess

[@tokojose8774]

the coulor of the universe. its true, sagan says so in cosmos

[@AchronTimeless]

Well that's interesting about growing crops on the roof. Something I keep seeing, and there's a state park where the visitor center has one near me, is the whole "green roof" thing. Basically they're layering dirt and growing stuff out of it as a form of natural insulation to cut the expense of heating/cooling and roof maintenance. Funny how sometimes we end up going back to things we've abandoned.

[@Marper8]

Alot of old houses in Norway (and also some new ones) have roofs covered with grass.

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

how was it spelt?

[@PoliticusRex632]

Homes in the 1800's on the Great Plains of America were made of sod.

[@budmccaff550]

Sod roofs r for people who love cutting grass

[@KarstRats]

A lot of those examples were the houses just being so dog on old in wet climates that moss took over. Some sod houses have been remodeled into stone houses but the roof has been kept sod. Look up settlers and sod houses. It’s pretty daunting. I’d rather sleep in a cave myself.

[@lindybeige]

Yes, I went once to Turkey in 2011. I have been meaning to return ever since, but circumstances have prevented me. I still have enough material for quite a few more videos. This recent burst of old footage use has been brought on by my continuing inability to get my new computer to work, but - who knows? - another week of hitting it with a mallet and swearing a lot might get it going.

[@cageybee7221]

in my experience, swearing and violence are great motivators!

[@mainepants]

A good right jab followed by a left hook is one solution. Although when I did that I ended up with a laptop that was in two parts and still non functional. Damn satisfying though!

[@froogoo19]

Did you try turning it on?

[@mysterycrumble]

@@froogoo19 and off again?

[@cellarman1223]

You wait years for a reply and suddenly you get three in next to no time.

[@lindybeige]

I have a little more footage of Diarmuid. I stayed with him one night. He's married to a Turkish lady and sometimes works as a tourist guide.

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Ooo, a rare Lindybeige comment.

[@AntifoulAwl]

Glory hole at 3:10. Must be for the Phallus of Phellos.

[@oakey03]

Underrated comment.

[@Helvetorment]

Bump.

[@kaiserwigglesiii2369]

Antifoul Awl kek

[@James-jg7kv]

*The more you know...*

[@frankteng]

Or bigus dickus

[@daniilpapilin4844]

2:37 Beige city - Lloyd's happy place, heaven

[@lindsaycole8409]

Good point. The Victorian working class houses were exactly the buildings torn down and replaced with brutalist council estate towers in the 60s (now many of which are being pulled down). That process of continual renewal of low-class housing has been happening since the first house was built.

[@mfreyhanw1488]

He smiled and said "beige.." He knew he was in heaven.

[@RevJamesCostello]

They probably weren’t as poorly made as modern films would suggest.

[@PongoXBongo]

Not if people wanted to actually live in them, no.

[@AngryKittens]

Same thing with clothes. Modern films always depict ancient clothing as ragged, haphazardly made, and dirty.

[@pyroparagon8945]

Angreh Kittunz even medieval people want to be clean, it's just nice, and more safe

[@ColasTeam]

It might be my XXI century brain speaking nonsense here but I can't help but think that it doesn't matter how much water you use, you won't get rid of the smell without soap.

[@ekner]

Soap isn't a modern invention though. It can be made easily from many oils and bases, such as olive oil and lye.

[@lindybeige]

Plenty of reasons: expense; damage to original/loss of or obscuration of evidence; tourists like ruins. It does happen, though, such as at South Shields Roman fort.

[@MuletTheGreat]

As someone making video games that will contain a lot of medieval villages, and weapons, I greatly appreciate and value your videos for their informative clear content. Keep it up!

[@faknugget92]

Did you ever make the game?

[@nickbazant9587]

Ah yes, the KZbin algorithm brings us together once again.

[@ellederberryblue8377]

Sup?

[@leFoodeater]

It's currently 1 am. Of course I wanted to learn more about ancient houses

[@davidm2031]

"When's he going to get to horses?" *reads title again* "Yep this checks out"

[@nicknick6127]

Haha dude I did the same thing

[@emilybarclay8831]

Holy shit this is the SECOND time I’ve clicked on this vid thinking it was about horses lol

[@AlexMckillmore]

"BEIGE" HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHA

[@PongoXBongo]

A whole beige-opolis even.

[@ryanhouk3560]

Alex Mckillmore I was confused. I watched the video and... youre right!

[@standaeik3054]

Alex Mckillmore Beigepolis

[@anarchyantz1564]

Well at least it wasn't "Magnolia" :)

[@lorib1696]

Real estate agent: Here we have a quaint amphitheater. Tons of charm. Note the classic, open, airy design. A real fixer upper.

[@NotTrustedSource]

“got good bones”

[@tyree9055]

Yes, definitely needs some new seating arrangements! 😄

[@lindybeige]

It may also be that most people did not value their homes as places of entertainment. If they wanted to meet people they went to some public place. A bit like New York today.

[@aguspuig6615]

Lloyd must be one of those british explorers from the 1900 that found some way to time travel

[@AngryKittens]

Maybe they were hobbitses.

[@AmrothEldarion]

Angreh Kittunz haahahaha you. i like you.

[@jayejaycurry5485]

Yeah, Hobbitses who like to eat poe-ta-toes with their conges.

[@kylewhitehead1684]

Nassty little Hobbitses.

[@HomesteadForALiving]

Historians call everything they don’t understand “Tombs”

[@jorgemiguel2641]

@@HomesteadForALiving Or "ritual sites".

[@NathanRW]

He sounds like a disappointed father, as if he's personally offended by the lack of homes. I love it!

[@Digephil]

Interesting that you mention holdovers from woodworking being preserved in stone in the tomb. You see this a lot in architecture, the triglyphs in classical Greek temples are similar in that they represent the ends of the long wooden beams which crossed the span of the temple. These were preserved aesthetically even though the temples no longer were made of wood. You could probably argue that the façade of any modern building has a lot effect of this as well, with non load-bearing pillars made of foam and cement or concrete stamped to look like cobblestones.

[@rowanmelton7643]

Walking around ancient cities is such a fascinating experience. Knowing these old ruins were once grand and a great metropolis filled with 1000s of people going around their daily business just like us. Really flares up the imagination. Really puts your mortality and unimportance on full display

[@Ardithel]

Misread title as "ancient horses"- now really want to see that video.

[@Ashcombeguy]

+Ardithel Watch Lindy's chariot video, it's close enough lol.

[@blob5907]

ancient horses are dead

[@theeddorian]

That slight offset between two pieces of trim around a door or window is still used and is called a "reveal."

[@somepixelynerd]

Growing wheat on your rooftop? Wow, there's an idea that never would have occurred to me. (BRB, redoing my minecraft house.)

[@alicecrypt]

My partner watches Skallagrim and I found you when he was watching the video about sword shapes. I bloody love history and I am really enjoying your videos! Thank you so much!

[@davidstokes1149]

Yes, it doesn't take long for a wooden house that's not being lived in and maintained to deteriorate.

[@Mike-ij4rq]

Really though, we like to think of houses as a permanent structure but I think of a house on my street that the owner died when I was 5ish. By the time I was 15 the house was destroyed due to the roof caving in after only 10ish years

[@darksl1de]

Why has this only been recommended to me just now, this is absolute internet gold.

[@zacharycrosswait1704]

That’s what I’m sayin 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rosemarielee7775]

I wonder how much ancient DIY there was. I can imagine a lot of people could do a few fancy patterns round their living room, or a pebble mosaic hallway.

[@mryellow6918]

Nobody that has the time to do that probably couldn't afford the place.

[@roguesheep3083]

Yeh, probably just a "live laugh love" sign.

[@BoleDaPole]

It's amazing what those Neanderthals could do with their tiny monkey brians.

[@Mr1337sheep]

I get that the quality is probably way worse than you'd like but it actually gives it a cool lo fi quality! It makes me nostalgic for the documentaries the history teacher would put on in class, love that grainy VCR/CRT look

[@BuftyFufties]

I LOVE those videos! Thanks again! Beige!

[@gloriahoulihan8717]

Turkey is such a beautiful country,as is the coastline. I loved riding on the mountains there and visiting the historic sites. Thank you for your video.

[@davidelkinsUN3379]

"in need of some attention" , "immense potential", "a fixer uppers dream"

[@Theidmet]

Flower of life on the floor at 2:28. Damn symbol is everywhere.

[@zanobi]

Is that because it is the everywhere

[@TheDetonadoBR]

In a hole in the ground there lived a Necropolitan. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a necro-hole, and that means comfort.

[@MakeAllThingsBeautiful]

I love ancient architecture and more than content with old, but I seem to have a problem, maybe an illness, that gets cured by beautiful architecture but becomes pronounced by symptoms of distress when realising all 'modern' architecture is generally varying degrees of grotesque, will multi storey car parks ever be inundated with tourists even in 10,000 years? Appealing is maybe the blend of time, quality, even tenderness and thought and proportions with a hint of quirky?

[@ohrats731]

Came here for “Ancient Horses.” Thanks dyslexia, I guess I’ll stay

[@buttercxpdraws8101]

Love it! That’s very cute and funny 😁

[@seanflanagan3940]

"Or perhaps the preferred camping" LOL Lindybeige continues to bless me with knowledge.

[@falcons1988]

Amazing, how mankind builds tombs more splendid than the houses of the living.

[@belongaskip]

+falcons1988 -Gandalf

[@rubenmanssens]

+belongaskip That profile picture, i see it everywhere, what is it from?

[@belongaskip]

Ruben Manssens Emote from twitch.tv called the kappa face.

[@221b]

+falcons1988 A house is going to have someone living inside who can regularly clean it and do any necessary repairs. A tomb has to be a much lower-maintenance construction.

[@beaconrider]

Noticed that.

[@allangardiner2515]

Lovely to see Xanthos again and I appreciate your perspective.

[@PongoXBongo]

Urban farming and green roofs in olden times!

[@mrjojo1995]

I learn so much from these videos, I really love watching them

[@HelenaOfDetroit]

we should bring back roof gardens...

[@Gogglesofkrome]

a bit dangerous, but I'm sure it could be done. Depending on where you live, it might also be a bit dry.

[@dsadik666]

Yes

[@gickygackers]

We should bring back earth-integrated building

[@rongants6082]

LOL. I've built houses all my life, several for my family. Roof gardens require some massive support. And, it's all fun and games until the roof leaks.

[@MIKE-TYTHON]

So glad I found this channel it’s right up my alley. Thanks for the video dude x🙏

[@brokentombot]

A point about ancient houses: In places with high precipitation, they would have made the roofs pointy so it runs off.

[@Snaake42]

Besides the Pompeii mentions I noticed when scrolling a little way down, I can recommend a visit to Ostia, on the coast just outside Rome. It was a major port in republic/imperial times, and besides also having a necropolis, also has ruins remaining of regular housing, both domus and insulae i.e. rectangular single-storey houses with atriums, and multi-storey apartment buildings.

[@aric7726]

2:35 "....Beige!" i re-watched it so many times hahaha

[@slinky6481]

I've seen this video in my recommended feed for months, if not years, and this whole time I thought the title was "A Point About Ancient Horses"

[@dpskiriko]

"beige :D" made me laugh quite a lot

[@grrrimgrumpy12345]

I love your work, buddy. I would tell you to keep it up, but you have so many videos that I haven't seen yet. Thanks for making them. Have a good one. And all the best in every one of your endeavours.

[@pixselious]

.... KZbin: No 2021 KZbin: Yes

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

I have no idea how this got recommended to me but I watched it fully through and what a great video lol

[@seth1047]

2:35 Ah yes, the glory of his namesake.

[@Sean-sn9ld]

I know this is really old, but I'm watching this after watching the Ancient Forests video.. really interesting content , subscribed straight away

[@the1andonlytrollface]

You'd love Tulsa, even the grass is beige.

[@Gorboduc]

We've got lots of "hut of Romulus" type stuff, plus Trajan's column has Dacian houses in the background. (Usually on fire, alas, and hence "in need of some attention".)

[@Wattershed93]

2:26 - how did they slice these marbles?

[@ciananmortem3127]

+Wattershed93 With fine toothed saws presumably, then they polished the facade by hand as well.

[@Wattershed93]

thanks

[@WhatsTheMeaningofMySuffering]

it is very soft in the firstplace when marble first quarried, it hardens over time

[@kaiserwigglesiii2369]

Theo de Raadt heh

[@DJSbros]

Aliens

[@JanHoos]

We should make a kickstarter campaign so we can send Lindy all over and let him educate and entertain us ^_^ Really love these video's. The ones (I guess) at your home are very nice as well. But it seems when you are in another country you somehow find all these interesting places (and people). Tried doing that my last holiday on Corfu but there were not that many area's that I could find beforehand.

[@truongcahanh8915]

Survivor bias. I’m surprised you didn’t mention.

[@FreakyMonkei]

It is like watching some old VHS-tapes at school when watching your old videos. Not so great visual quality but very interesting stuff you talk about

[@marcfiliuta]

The youtube algorithm has had one drink too many during new years eve I suppose

[@wendys390]

I liked this video very much! I've never seen such old ruins, they don't exist in that form where I am. Fascinating, thank you!

[@IronGirl666B]

"Beige!"

By all the Gods known to man I beg you to continue with this kind of videos. Of course a rant about how swords where never wider than they were long once in a while can be fun as well, but these are wonderful.

[@icedragon9097]

Nice

[@rodtheworm]

If you are interested in ancient Greek houses, Akrotiri on Santorini is worth looking up. It was preserved by volcanic ash in ~16thC BC similarly to Pompeii, and includes three-story buildings, indoor toilets that emptied down pipes to street-level collection points, preserved negatives of the wooden furniture (which has then been plaster-cast) and frescos preserved in remarkable colour. The houses seemed to be brightly decorated, too, which I think is something that frequently gets lost over time.

[@ss11733]

aight who else did youtube send here in 2021?

[@jerryjou]

Me, from Taiwan

[@MrGuyJacks]

Me

[@ferinzz]

I quite liked this one. So laid back. Was a nice chill watch.

[@Alex_Plante]

Also sun-baked bricks tend to crumble over time

[@mryellow6918]

@Tiberius I'mserious ok

[@HF7-AD]

@Tiberius I'mserious example?

[@Kaleb-wu6hg]

7 years later I get this recommended

[@christopherlawley1842]

me too.

[@Haphazardization]

Was that rain I heard? Hope you had your cloak on!

[@pcpjames]

Dang, I thought this was gonna be one of those inspiring Alan Watts videos...

[@rich1051414]

2:37 LindyHeaven

[@stephenbrand5661]

As an American I feel fortunate to have a Confederate cemetery at the end of my street along with a plantation house that was used as a field hospital, complete with blood stains still on the floors. I visited Europe as a high school student and that trip totally changed the way I see the “ancient” ruins in my own neighborhood.

[@Tiberiotertio]

This is sort of like Herculaneum or Pompeii, all the fancy stuff is shown, but things of everyday life and common people, seem to be for Museums and the people responseble for restoring these historic site, not worth the bother? Wonder why people think that the life of common people in ancient times would interest no one? Only the bling stuff?

[@juliandunn8412]

Not much has changed, has it?

[@TheVino3]

That isn't true at all. Historians are hugely interested in the lives of the poor people in these periods. It is just a fact though that poor people couldnt afford durable housing, and so it therefore hasn't lasted long enough for us to study. The whole idea of no-one being interested in the poor is utter crap. And actually, in Pompeii you can see a large amount of everyday housing and shops - at least every day for a city liver.

[@Tiberiotertio]

***** Sure when you are in Pompeji yourself you get to see the ordinary stuff, but how many books about Pompeji have you looked at where you see that, and where the main focus is not on the bling stuff?

[@futrettamer]

that's why I enjoyed Mary Beard's BBC series on the ordinary people of Rome so much

[@neutronalchemist3241]

Pompeii was a relatively rich city, there were not much real "poors", more wealthy and middle class. A poor urban family in Roman time would have lived in a single room in an insula, where they would have spent only the night, and would have had very few belongings (only the necessary to cook, some pottery, an oil lamp and beds of wood and straw). There are several insulae left (Ie at Ostia), but only the lower floors (made of bricks), while the upper ones (made mainly of wood) simply collapsed with time.

[@maxkaufmann833]

My dude, holy hell it's nice to see older videos of you. Interesting.

[@vivaloriflamme]

Deathstyles of the Rich and No Longer Famous

[@kernnus39]

I really like the aesthetics that the quality of the camera causes in your videos, reminiscent of the early 2000s

[@Mr400babies]

Heard no mention of cob. U never heard of cob?

[@lindybeige]

Kieran Moore Cob - wattle and daub etc. yes, but one short video will not deal with all building techniques.

[@yogsothoth7594]

Not ancient I know but talking of Wattle and Daub I ones helped out with some digging of fairly well preserved Viking houses in York with were while in pieces had been burnt to some extent but the fire was just large enoughough to preserve the wood structures which root far slower in that state but not hot enough so as to actually fully destroy the buildings. As the houses had been effectively rapidly buried soon after being burnt down the pieces of timber which is what survived best were in almost the same position as that they fell in giving us a good idea of what the houses looked like.

[@ItsJustaGame.]

Kieran Moore The cobs I'm thinking about are the corn cobs the guys at the end claims people grew on their roof. Even though corn came from the Americas! Then he did correct it to wheat.

[@57WillysCJ]

+HatePlough Corn was the original term for all grain. Indian corn was the term for the Americas grain. Later it was shortened to corn. You might have heard of John Barleycorn. A character Jack London used to represent alcohol. It was a popular term pre-prohibition.

[@ItsJustaGame.]

57WillysCJ Hmm. Very interesting. Thanks for that :)

[@jameshorn270]

If you want to see how the lower classes lived, try Ostia, a suburb of ancient Rome. Ostia was the seaport of ancient Rome, and got covered in flood debris toward the end of the Roman Empire/beginning of the Dark Ages. The typical building has shops on the ground floor, and two or three floors of apartments above. The Agora, in Athens was the market area, and has one reconstructed building. We do also have some excavations of the areas the workmen on the pyramids lived in. These are still skilled artisans, if not of the upper class, but a step or two above the farmers. And that brings up another issue. In a number of societies, most people lived out on the farms. The cities were the homes of the merchants, artisans and rulers and their servants/slaves (look at the slave quarters in Pompeiian mansions for where the near bottom of the social scale lived (the bottom being rural and mining slaves.) The majority of the people would live in the city only in emergencies, such as invasions.

[@mrmegahousefly]

I live in a house built in 1842. It is cold and damp and noisy yet our government thinks it is worth preserving.

[@gardensofthegods]

Nobody Important Do you mind telling us where it is located

[@hspurr5922]

@@gardensofthegods Probably anywhere in England, I take it you're not from the UK? It's incredibly common to get stuck in Edwardian and victorian housing (1830s onwards), especially renting as a student or young professional, because they're in such bad condition they are rented cheaply.

[@sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287]

I've lived in an old New England colonial house from the 1700s. Old houses can get cold. We had the fireplaces plastered over because we couldn't afford to fix them as the bricks cracked. Lighting a fire could burn the inside of the walls through the bricks, and there isn't a point in having an opening to the cold in every room without a fire. Took a lot of propane to heat it. The plumbing is a boiler in the basement with brass pipes going straight upwards through a pantry in the kitchen. There are old pressure readers and valves on the pipes. Then, there's chipped lead paint and old door knobs with keyholes beneath them that have the locking mechanisms missing. You can peak into all the rooms through the keyholes.

[@dennismitchell5276]

....and a house built in 2019, will not last 75 years, let alone 150.

[@diceman199]

When I was in school we lived in a cottage built in 1640 something. Located in a tiny village called Dallas in scotland

[@RogersMgmtGroup]

You tell great stories. Thank-you.

[@VitorEmanuelOliver]

What's the deal with the beige colour? Yes, I realise he wears beige quite often.

[@ryanhouk3560]

Vitor Emanuel Oliveira watch more of his blog stuff, and you'll realize it's his favorite color by... far to say the least.

[@FunnyDwarf]

yo! this looks so cool! post covid trip for sure.

[@PinacoladaMatthew]

I misread it as "ancient horses"

[@johanmetreus1268]

Why, oh why wasn't least a still of the contemporary roof Hanley spoke about included for comparison?!

[@algaedrone1833]

I thought the title said "horses"

[@yraco1232]

Thank you now I know I'm not the only one that saw that

[@rouge5140]

search for "horse fissile" on Google image

[@artemirrlazaris7406]

400 men... 4 years could rebuild the entire city... just need concrete, engineer, and planner and examiner and a historian get the pans up and then go.. Boom instant house, revitalized, the a gardens crew that also cleans up all the grave yards an resurface it. We have such a interesting time where, revitalizing ancient cities is a simple process, and since most people are not doing anything but working for slave food shops... it would be a better expressive use of time... and intriguing and even would encourage tourism, ancient sites restored to their former glory, and could even make the town come back with a modern life in the area.

[@Gool349]

"beige" hahahaha

[@andrewSmith-ix1ot]

Is it possible to get a video on how ancient archers carried their bows when not in use.

[@mr.randomgamer888]

neat, I am here before the modern twats and can read all the 7 year old comments

[@samdavenport4604]

That entire video was fantastic, and was made even better by the final frame 😂😂👌

[@stankolodin5586]

"A point about _" is translated to layman's terms as : "I saw someone say something so stupid that I'm going to make a video proving them wrong in more than one way".

[@ShipwreckedMonki]

That 'beige' comment was *chefskiss perfection. Well done you sir.