Pompeii 3D Reconstruction: Theres No Place Like Home

While in Pompeii few could reach the elite, many tried to recreate "the good life" in their own ways. Some more successfully than others. From grand urban villas, to small private homes, to smaller apartments, see all the different things "home" could mean in ancient Pompeii.
This build created with "Medieval Engineers" software and a number of mods. If you own Medieval Engineers, you can download my Virtual Pompeii build and walk through all of these homes yourself: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Great Pompeii resources are available at "Pompeii in Pictures":pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiii...
Music used in this video:
-- The Old Apartment (cover) • Old Apartment - Barena...
-- Burnin for You (cover) • Burnin' For You by Blu...
-- Home (cover 1) • Home - Edward Sharpe (...
-- Home (cover 2) • Home by Edward Sharp |...

[@ant697]

I’ve been to Pompeii several times. I’ve seen many staircases leading up to nowhere. Your reconstructions are amazing and informative. They help to visualise the city in its heyday.

[@Stori3d_Past]

Thank you much for this comment. I think the most haunting thing about any archaeological site is a staircase that now goes up to nothing. It just fires my mind! It was probably the most fun for me, researching and then recreating Pompeii's upper stories & upper apartments. I'm really glad you enjoyed that.

[@Insectoid_]

Agreed. It’s a beautiful recreation and narration.

[@fieracarmen4713]

Atâta eleganță stil și rafinament la o civilizație de acum două mii de ani!Romanii au fost cea mai avansată civilizație din istoria omenirii.

[@robertjahn4190]

Your series are great. It's hard to visualize how things would have been, but your recreations provide a much more substantial way of viewing. Thank you.

[@Stori3d_Past]

Thank you for this note, I really appreciate it! I started creating these because of exactly that reason -- I found it really hard to imagine the space and how it was used.

[@flickerish09]

I'm shocked this amazing video and other videos from this channel have not reached at least 100000 views. I mean this is so cool to see life from 2 thousand years ago as it was.

[@CaptainGrimes1]

I find these roman style homes really cosy. Why can't they build them like this now? Classy and comforting

[@binabina4445]

I agree. If I ever build my own home it's going to be a roman style villa.

[@melbaerstrada9037]

You absolutely took me back in time! I had the sensation that I was in the houses myself! Incredible work

[@kennethconnors5316]

enjoyable to watch a little history , would love to see ancient Egypt or Persia

[@alperrin9310]

Terrific video. Thanks!

[@rocker76m88]

This is fantastic. Thank you for showing how the different classes lived. Ruins do not give you any idea of how the homes really looked. Your recreation allows us to look back in time.

[@Neldidellavittoria]

These recreations are pretty cool. Please keep them coming. I'm looking forward to seeing more stuff like this. I'm subscribing.

[@Stori3d_Past]

Neldidellavittoria Thank you for the subscription! I am excited to do more. The game software is being updated, and then I will have some work to update my own objects & pieces. Once that’s all done I hope to get a lot more content out.

[@Neldidellavittoria]

STORI3D PAST Productions Please keep up the good work. ;) Saludos!

[@cathykristensen4440]

Such a cool city!

[@barcalonga]

Well done - thank you!

[@elsaalvarez8076]

Era una muy bella ciudad, se ve que era relajante vivir ahí!

[@bobby49ist]

That really was awesome showing homes and typical layout of everything I love it really do I know alot on Pompeii and Herculaneum and thier residents

[@jamesroeber]

Fascinating giving dimension and life to the city, thanks so much. J

[@mikebaginy8731]

Pompeii is such a fascinating place, as well as Herculaneum. This reconstruction with narration is so interesting! I'll recall it during my next visit. Thanks!

[@Stori3d_Past]

Thank you much for this note, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@kaarlimakela3413]

I enjoyed a look at the classy minimalist tiny house ... still keeps up appearances, but thriftily. :)

[@binabina4445]

This is the first time I've ever heard someone talking about the life of normal people in pompeii. I didnt even know about the upstairs apartments. Thanks.

[@Stori3d_Past]

Your comment made my day, thanks for it! These videos were a lot of fun to do.

[@binabina4445]

@@Stori3d_Past keep it up! I've watched all your Roman videos. I would love to see one about villa san marcos and the other villas in stabiae.

[@Stori3d_Past]

@@binabina4445 I wanted to make so many more of these! Sadly 5 years ago the developers updated the whole game, broke most of my mods, then released & abandoned it. So I wasn't able to do anymore. A real shame, even today there's still no software that can do what Medieval Engineers was getting close to being able to do.

[@binabina4445]

@@Stori3d_Past oh man what a loss. Maybe you need to take up game design yourself lol

[@adamorlowski4886]

Keep up the good work

[@Stori3d_Past]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed.

[@cristinabarberis4279]

Amazing job

[@sian2337]

This is a great channel

[@capefear3297]

Thanks for adding skin to the bones of Pompeii. Well done. Friends and I toured the site in '74. Subscribing.

[@maestrahamsa2085]

Thank you for your amazing videos. I am waiting for 3 D reconstruction of Ostia Antica

[@biljanamilanovic1682]

Bellissimo!

[@shawnhayden6674]

The residential/commercial upper levels of Pompeii were certainly all mostly wood. These upper stories of buildings were great in number. It is indeed sad we can not see them in deeper reality through current archaeological methods. I do believe this depiction/description here on KZbin has much merit to it and opens the imagination to the curious. I am not 100% certain but I think the site at Herculaneum retained more wooden content and thus its artifacts and papyrus were greater in number? This KZbin Video is a wonderful depiction into what may have been. It stirs the imagination and reinforces scientific facts. Bravo!

[@joaobatistadeoliveiraolive5316]

Very Good from Brazil

[@pennypiper7382]

I just noticed the first pizza oven! 💕🍕

[@algray1195]

I just want to say that I miss your videos

[@newhorizonslifecoachcheers]

Great job on the reconstruction. I'm glad you left out certain details that where also a major part of Pompeii. They lived like Sodom and Gomorrah in the biblical days as well documented in a couple of ancient history documentaries. There was a certain symbolic symbol, too many brothels and statues everywhere! What happened to Pompeii echoes what happened to Sodom ad Gomorrah.

[@user-um5ox2ce4b]

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[@BloodMoonASMR]

Serious pun potential was missed here in the title. You should have gone with There's no place like *Rome* xD

[@rowdyrod7870]

Your videos are awesome. Be cool to see some Japanese or Asian videos of these time periods.

[@Stori3d_Past]

Would be terrific to see that. I don't have a lot of familiarity with Asian histories or architectures, but I'm hoping someone who knows it well will use the technology in this game/software to do something like that.

[@hognigk96]

Playing Home by Ed Sharpe in the background - nice touch

[@Will4fun]

I read recently that it snows in Sicily. I am wondering how cold the temperature in Pompeii would get. If it snowed in Pompeii, I wonder how they warmed their homes or their bodies? The bakeries and taverns probably didn't have anything to worry about. Also, in the summer, I wonder how hot those apartments and homes would get and how people were able to retreat from the heat?

[@barcalonga]

Will Mike it snows in Sicily because of the altitude. Pompei’s climate is quite warm. However, cold climates were not alien to Roman civilisation. In more temperate climates like Hispania, Further Gaul, Germania, and Britannia hypocaust flooring was employed for home heating, just as it was used for the tepidarium in bath houses on the Italian peninsula. Romans also knew how to put on warm clothes, which should hardly come as a surprise.

[@itsjerry_7933]

i have to watch this video for online learning in my Latin class

[@Stori3d_Past]

I hope it was helpful! It makes me happy that this is being used in classrooms.

[@hyekang3850]

The beds are raised up from the floor, like the ones in the sauna nowadays.

[@karenfromfinasse8430]

The crazy thing is people STILL LIVE THERE. I hope history does NOT repeat itself in this situation.

[@glendahawkins3227]

"Keeping up with the Jones's" went on even then.

[@charleskeefer9030]

Five stones opposite adreason

[@landontakeamericaback2106]

Are you mr Johnson that worked for the airlines in PHL

[@Stori3d_Past]

No, I’m sorry, not me.

[@acidcosmos2001]

Okay, I gotta ask. What's the writing on the outside walls? Is it the family name of whoever lives there or owns the shop?

[@Stori3d_Past]

Acid Cosmos Great question! Most of Pompeii’s graffiti was political ads. Literally “Vote for [Candidate].” Sometimes they were anonymous, other times the owner of the building would add their name, like “I, Publius, ask you to vote for so-and-so.” There was other more typical graffiti too, things literally like “For a good time see Velma” or “Sextus got drunk here.” People were still people :)

[@acidcosmos2001]

@@Stori3d_Past That's not at all what I was expecting! Was this a common thing in Roman cities? Or just Pompeii?

[@MrFinnboy69]

@@acidcosmos2001 You should google Roman Graffiti, you will find some very funny ones. My favorite from pompeii is: Atimetus got me pregnant. Or maybe: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity! Or last one: The finances officer of the emperor Nero says this food is poison. It`s great to see they were just people, like we are today. And it makes you feel better knowing that meme culture and all is ancient, and the current generation is not at all different or special... :DD

[@WilliamC0323]

Excellent work! One small nit-pick though. Is there evidence for large wooden barrels from Pompeii (or more likely Herculaneum)? I have the impression that the Romans didn't use them until the 2nd or 3rd centuries having learned their construction and use from the Gauls or Germans.

[@Stori3d_Past]

Thank you much! I know they have found large barrel staves at Vindolanda up by Hadrian's Wall, dating to right about AD 100. But your bigger point is definitely valid -- there is certainly some anachronism going on. The building assets are a mixture of original in-game materials (made for a Medieval setting of 12th-13th C), plus a number of "generic" Roman items that I have been making over the past year, plus a couple Roman items that are definitely out of place. The black mugs and bowls are "Black Burnished" ware made in Dorset for Roman Britain, and there's even a bust of Caracalla that shows up in the video. He's there about 140 years too early. :)

[@WilliamC0323]

I figured that was probably the case. And totally missed Caracalla :-)

[@RobinHood1969]

Lets see the reconstruction of the Brothals! Lol

[@ArquitectoChile]

Great work move slower like Schwarzenegger said do it doucemant

[@NelsonClick]

Modern people like us would not like to live in an ancient Roman home. No matter how nice they were it was like living in a barn. They lived in them and liked them because they didn't know any better. We know better now and the contrast would not seem luxurious or comfortable to us. They were rife with mold, mildew, lice and terrible smells.

[@Stori3d_Past]

Oh yes. No doubt in modern times we've gone farther in terms of comfort & sanitation. Being able to keep an interior dry, and flush away nearly 100% of waste & germs are huge improvements. It's an interesting point about the mold & terrible smells though -- I do wonder if, simply because of how wide open a Roman house was, there would always be outside air circulating in and out to carry away the damp & the stink. Would be an interesting experiment.

[@NelsonClick]

STORI3D PAST Productions thank you. You totally got my point. That's very rare on KZbin. I have given this stupid topic a lot of thought. Romans had no concept of germs or bacteria. But people always perceived Rome as being clean then and now. It's all speculation on my part but I always thought the Coliseum smelled like Farm feces and death.

[@howtubeable]

Yes and no. Ancient people must have had some idea of how science works, because they were able to make bread, wine, concrete and other complex things that require chemical reactions. They didn't have our modern understanding, but they knew enough. Personally, I think the modern world is a little too sterile. Sterility is not always healthy. Likewise, the terrible smells might have been rather comforting. These were the smells of a functioning society. In fact, many ciites in the modern world stink. I remember one visit to New Orleans where I woke up early and ate breakfast at a restaurant on Jackson Square. I watched the shop owners hosing off the sidewalks and tidying up. What makes you think ancient shop owners didn't do something similar to make their shops more appealing?

[@Stori3d_Past]

This makes me think of traveling to farm country, where the air can be heavy with the smell of manure. Rather than being revolting, it smells -- for lack of a better term -- "healthy." Like, this is how life works. It sometimes smells and sometimes is mucky and, like you say, that's a sign of it all functioning. I do think that Romans, when they could, took pride in their surroundings. And they of course valued having bathing and having sources of clean, running water. But I agree, they probably were much more comfortable with the smells (and sights) that we have sanitized away. Pompeii is in some ways a difficult story to tell. It had really declined in the last 15 years or so before the volcano. A huge earthquake in AD62 destroyed a lot of the city. Before that, in AD59, there had been a massive riot at the amphitheatre, and the city was forbidden from holding games for a decade, so it lost a lot of trade & income. Even by AD79 a lot of buildings were still unrepaired. I bet it was a wide mix of well-kept, tidy streets and houses, and other streets that were strewn with rubbish and filth (more or less).

[@ProfezorSnayp]

Has anyone noticed that most rooms including bedrooms had no windows?