Explore the Suburban Baths of Herculaneum!

[@robertlee3]

Thank you. I am disabled and could never go there, but I can vicariously go there through you. I love ancient spaces. I love ancient history. Especially Roman, Etruscan, Mediterranean history. If you live in the western world you are living in the Roman empire. Think about it. Thank you again.

[@ericastier1646]

He is, isn't he good at passing his sensory experience. I like his immediacy and simple directness, very pleasant.

[@maydanlex]

T he fact that you're watching this video makes you one of the very few that are able to enjoy the beauty of things past. Most wont make it to this place nor even know it exists...but you (and a few others) do.

[@silva7493]

I'm right here with you, Robert, albeit a couple years later. Though I was a Travel Agent, I could only dream of traveling to see this for myself. I used to say I lived vicariously through my clients, but this is so much better. These are spectacular video tours. You are right, these buildings are ancient, yet so familiar.

[@danstoye3902]

What Darius does not discuss but what I found interesting when I visited the baths years ago is what happened in the final room. In the final scenes of the video to Darius's right is a large round concrete looking object. To Darius's left is the huge bowl that had fresh running water to cool off with. When the pyroclastic flow reached the baths, it flowed in through the window that was above this bowl, it was so powerful that it lifted this heavy bowl off its foundation and carried it to the spot where you see the image of it upended against the wall. When the archeologists eventually entered and cleared this room, they moved the bowl back to its original position and left the imprint and solidified mass in place to show what happened.

[@chrisdinsmore1665]

I was wondering what that large round concrete object was while watching the video. Thank you for explaining!

[@danstoye3902]

@@chrisdinsmore1665 You are most welcome! Happy New Year!

[@johnvonundzu2170]

I was very surprised Darius didn't mention it. Embedded in the mass are many shards of glass from the window through which the pyroclastic flow entered the room with massive force.

[@skwalka6372]

Thank you so much for explaining this. On a related note, it is fascinating to see that the wooden door construction follows exactly the same guidelines as modern wooden doors, fascinating.

[@bl6797]

How would they clean the pools of water if someone soiled it?!!

[@drsmith9536]

a gorgeous complex!)

[@heycarrieanne]

Herculaneum was one of my favorite experiences in Campania a year ago. I truly did fall in love with the history, culture and food of Italy. I can’t wait to return!

[@DariusArya]

Couldn't agree more!

[@ericastier1646]

If you came from N.A. then it would be quite odd to react in any other way, since you're from a continent that is missing the greatest things in life : architecture, the art of living, the culture of knowing how to live a good life, all those things that may sound empty but are extremely important.

[@fuferito]

​@@ericastier1646, What a hasty (even silly) assumption to make about an entire continent with nearly half a billion inhabitants.

[@TheByteknight]

I visited Herculaneum in Dec 2018 and was shocked at the 100 foot wall of ash where the beach front was..

[@larsrons7937]

Thank you Darius, very interesting, it has opened a new horizon for me. I was twice in Pompeii, 10 years ago and as only 9 years old in 1977, and I am very eager to return and explore more. Your video has shown me that should also include Herculaneum and probably with a lot of emphasis and time on me.

[@airingcupboard]

This was closed when I visited, so it's incredible to see just how well preserved and complete this is. Incredible. Thanks for the tour.

[@cherylwood5202]

That was a wonderful experience! Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

[@user-ge4uk9ui8y]

And this is a town, imagine how huge and colorful did cities look like

[@metasudans]

I was in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Extraordinary experiences. To be able to see it all with my own eyes. Touch some things...

[@Pandolcee]

Roman baths have been my main focus for a while now, I love dissenting them and looking at recreations of blue prints to figure out how they worked, it was truly a marvel of engineering at the time, and the hypocaust system was ingenious for the hot caldarium and warm tepidarium. Also I am staring a mosaic class soon so I can Re-create historical mosaics of the baths and roman villas!

[@Pandolcee]

Every time I see wood preserved from Roman times it blows my mind because wood would usually have been disintegrated after this long period of time, but due to the eruption it was carbonized and therefore preserved, its insane, it reminds me of this roman villa I saw (cant remember the location) and they had a persevered wooden shutter to block off rooms for privacy and it was still perfectly preserved.

[@lyndahall5702]

Fascinating! Sure gives me regrets that I’ll never be able to go visit

[@unojayc]

Amazing preservation!.. Thanks for showing us this gem!

[@DariusArya]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dancinglatino3967]

Gracias, Darius. I was studying at Bath, England where there was an accident Roman Bath. It was gorgeous. However, these Baths at Herculaneum were magnificent.

[@ericastier1646]

I am a fan of your show probably because we are the same generation and i like the classical honest spontaneous presentations and history of architecture. I dislike the younger generation selfishness and egocentrism that our generation did not have. I could feel you're like my generational brother, i could get along with.

[@reggitano]

Darius you really successfully give us that feel of what it was like 2000 years ago. I'm even more inspired to learn more and to visit again to spend a full day in Herculaneum to analyze all these little details you have mentioned. I jut had a question about the 'jacuzzi' and little pools in the baths. How was the water cleaned and filtered in those days? Modern hot tubs need weekly filter changes with chemicals so the water does not produce algae. Thank you, Odysseus

[@DariusArya]

I appreciate that! You are absolutely correct. Water had to be changed frequently; that was the issue. Of course we don't know about the frequency of change, but there are many comments on the condition of the water. Many people note how dirty the water could be. Just think of the average person, sweaty from the hot rooms, and just having been oiled up and scraped off, then plunging into these pools. Not the prettiest picture!

[@motoguzzigriso]

Fantastic! Spent a month on Capri last September and we had a helicopter connection from Naples that flew us right over Herculaneum. Neat to see it.

[@DariusArya]

Awesome! I’d love to do that!!

[@eugeniofranciscodesaboya9378]

Wonderful architecture, video and chanel. Regards

[@DariusArya]

Thanks for visiting

[@lesliea7394]

Wonderful , wonderful video!

[@DariusArya]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@dancinglatino3967]

Lastly, I have visited Pompeii in April this year. Certainly, I will visit it again together with Herculaneum

[@fredyair1]

Gets me really emotional just from watching the video, we visited Pompey a few years back back didn't have the time to visit Herculaneum, we need to go back for more.

[@BrendanTripp]

Amazing!

[@soniaperret1802]

BUONA SERA, COMPLIMENTISSIMI

[@brianholihan5497]

Thanks for the tour. That building was closed to the general public when I visited Herculaneum in 2010. I read that it was probably exclusive back in the day, thus the little rooms, general elegance, prime location (right by the beach, which windows overlooked), and small entrance (which could be tightly controlled). It might have been like a modern country club, which elite men could enjoy. That basin at around 4:45 was found on the floor when the building was first excavated. The volcanic eruption shattered the window and blew the basin of its stand.

[@Kosmonooit]

That later hot room is more of a sauna than a jakuzzi I'd say. Jakuzzi is generally just a tub with warm aerated water circulating, nothing too taxing. . Are those baths open to the public? Dying to get back to Napoli, not only for the pizza and beer

[@ashavelani8340]

Heated pool! 😲. Fascinating architecture and purpose built!! Modern day sauna on a larger scale

[@DariusArya]

Truly amazing - and at Herculaneum you don’t have to imagine it, you see it!

[@louisebean9428]

How did the plumbing work? We’re the pools drained and refilled regularly?

[@moesypittounikos]

Your video's are much more authentic than all the cgi crap they have on KZbin. Actually looking at a 2000 your old column and to think other eyes, 2000 years ago looked at that same column in takes you to the past more than any technology ever can.

[@williamgeorge8308]

It is so great to have your tutoring. ***smile***

[@DariusArya]

Thanks 😊

[@njm3211]

Amazing. Thanks

[@jz8963]

Thanks! As always ..your work Inspire to explore more.

[@rubenfranco8373]

Wow! Awesome!

[@carleslazaro6117]

I hope the baths are opened to public, I'm going to napoli next month.

[@marilynmills2273]

Really enjoyed this. Visually beautiful and very informative thank you

[@fuferito]

Darius, Great job in showing us the amenities of this do it yourself renovation home project abroad, but what is the overall price of the real estate?

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

It would be so incredible to be able to go back in time to see these places at their peak. But I wouldn't go in the water, I don't think it was very sanitary.

[@fredyair1]

It was running water, better than any public or private pool of today.

[@69waveydavey]

Would I be right in assuming that what looks like a dome shaped piece of concrete in the caldarium is the ash that was in the large marble bowl that has been removed in one piece?

[@Kol1950]

Love all your programmes

[@DariusArya]

Thanks so much! Lot more content on the way!

[@irenepotapova5137]

Darius, thank you for showing me this amazing place. I thought that in such historical interiors it would be possible to arrange a performance, as if a historical reconstruction. However, maybe it is forbidden, the monument is under protection?

[@fuferito]

08:05 Darius doesn't mention here that the oval impression left of the doorway was stamped onto volcanic ash when the stone basin beneath the window sill was violently blown into it by the pyroclastic blast during the truly deadly phase of the eruption.

[@pitusent]

Very nice class. Thank you very much.

[@DariusArya]

Thank you!

[@tommedlin297]

Incredible engineers

[@sflorio]

I did not see this one when I was there. I must have seen a smaller bath which also had fabulously detailed marble and stucco walls and ceiling.

[@DariusArya]

Yes, usually closed to the public. A magnificent building.

[@rynolemons3671]

I wish I had your job! That would be such an amazing experience

[@DariusArya]

Maybe one day!

[@marthaarya167]

I want to go there next time I am in Italy

[@brunoantony9257]

Herculaneum or Pompeii, which is better to visit if I can only go to one?

[@RazFromMars]

Wonderful!!!!

[@DariusArya]

Many thanks!!

[@ckdanekfan3397]

Sir, where did the water come from?

[@karenmalovani5507]

I was there last month and the baths were closed! : (

[@michaelashcraft8569]

I wonder what the well dressed Herculanean wore in that time period, all I can envision is a Toga...

[@Breakfast_of_Champions]

Man they had to burn piles of wood to heat all this space and water. I wonder what the entry fee would have been. Was public hygiene run by the state in Rome?

[@neilpeartspurplenose8739]

All baths were free to every Roman Citizen.

[@guyfawkesuThe1]

Are those roofs modern additions for the tourists?

[@DariusArya]

Original - the ones I am walking through in the baths.

[@guyfawkesuThe1]

@@DariusArya Do they install additional steel supports?

[@KommentarSpaltenKrieger]

This architecture. Herculaneum wasn't even a big city, which speaks for the notion that this was common. I mean, there are classical elements within later architectural styles, but they don't compare to the original.

[@conniecharley9092]

Did any of them make it out to safety.

[@fredyair1]

Yes, many people took to the boats and sailed to the Sorrento coast, the nearby islands of Procida and Ischia and others just flee by land beyond the Napoli area.

[@SJam491]

Take note, the baths are not always open to the public.

[@DariusArya]

Yes, it was special access from the archaeological park on the occasion of a shared exhibit at Getty in LA.

[@donaldmartin4980]

In two thousand years people will be doing this same inquiry about life in ancient Washington DC. If we don’t create our own extinction before then.

[@skwalka6372]

Imagine where we would be today as a civilization if Christianity and then Islam hadn't interrupted human civilization!

[@alexandreintouch1847]

please slower , more details , longer videos , thanks ...

[@AmberMartinOfficial]

I love your videos, but your videographer needs to pan out and show the actual rooms and tubs and objects. Like actually explore the space and all its sides. If I were there, I'd be looking at every corner, the ceiling, the bottom of the rubs, where the drain is. Close up on the fixtures. This person stays too close up on you the entire time. You're handsome and a great host, but seriously, while you're talking, they should be panning the room and actually showing us the space. Thank you for your interest and wonderful teaching.

[@adyanuddin9109]

mmm yes latin noises intensify

[@sagidasyed6314]

Pupu

[@medhat4B]

Could have done better with sound and image quality. Interesting video.

[@vikingsong2068]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the sound or image quality of this video. It cost you nothing. Unbelievable entitlement.

[@tal-ux8fu5he6l]

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