Roman Ruins in Strange Locations

[@fishy_fish1355]

This was so fun to watch evolve in real time on twitter, and even better when expertly crafted into a new Trey video

[@TREYtheExplainer]

Aw thank you so much :) that really means a lot I hope to make more travel log videos like this. It's a lot of fun to talk about things I've actually seen with my own two eyes!

[@belisarius6949]

​@@TREYtheExplainerYour midrif awakened me

[@alabastrowe7988]

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[@ctenophoractenophora]

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[@therealmarcher]

You and I like Trey's Twitter for very different reasons

[@cyberbully1678]

Considering La Berta is from the late Roman Empire, and the fact that the tower is made from cobbled stones, I would guess that she was looted from some other building and then just simply used as a cheap impromptu building stone. During the end of the classical period and in to the early medieval era, it wasn't uncommon for old roman structures to be cannibalized for construction.

[@fredericksmith7942]

True, but I’m a bit more inclined to believe the Medusa on the city wall theory. A statue doesn’t make for a good building block, and I feels as though it would have been quarried into stone for a smaller project. I get the sense that it was already there in ancient times, and placed there very intentionally. Medieval Florentines would also probably have broken off it’s nose and ears.

[@scaevolaludens679]

people up to the 1800s had no concept of preserving antiquity, so a lot of ancient sites were used as quick sources of building material. Ever wondered why the colosseum is so asymmetrical?

[@remilenoir1271]

​@@fredericksmith7942 Why would medieval florentines have broken off its ears and nose ?

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@remilenoir1271 Could have been the affects of acid rain, considering how long that's been there.

[@luismijangos7844]

Perhaps used like a joke from the builders!

[@AyubuKK]

I love real life historic easter eggs.

[@Zenocius]

A lot of easter eggs in the British museum

[@Abominatrix650]

​@@Zenocius Easter Egg Hunt time?

[@Sinsmoke_]

Earth lore?!?!🤯

[@Eyeling]

My Mum was worried you had died when you posted that picture of yourself in that gutter thing. She loves your videos.

[@TREYtheExplainer]

Omg haha I'm sorry to have scared her

[@Eyeling]

@@TREYtheExplainer My Mum was stoked that you replied to this. She accepts the apology too. You and Whang! are her favourite youtubers.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

​@@EyelingYour mom watches Whang???? Oh my god, she is so different from my mom

[@PyroFTB]

​@@Eyeling lmao my mom would not be able to handle the gross stuff Whang covers

[@Matthewcoxinsidetruecrim.e]

​@@PyroFTBI can barely handle it half the time idk how people get through some of those videos 🤮

[@shinyagumon7015]

Your explanation for La Berta is a lot cooler than my first thought: My mind immediately went to the idea of them using old stones while constructing the tower including a broken bust.😅

[@obad7633]

Noth are probably true tbh

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

Mine as well.

[@gube2358]

your idea is cool too!

[@Yuric_INC.]

Little fun story, back when I lived in Italy, in the region of Liguria. There was a Hospital me and my family went. But the thing about the hospital is that it was built on top of a Roman mosaic. So the Hospital itself was on top of a platform and below it you could see the Mosaic. also across the road there was a Theatre (the semi-circular ones). but that's a very common problem with the Italian government trying to build new stuff

[@EchoOfMe-z2c]

Yeah, building a new building is sure to be hard when one moment you could find ruins where you want to something. Making it even slower

[@Kiwi-fl8te]

I can imagine Italian workers just trying to build a road and having it end up a zig zaggy mess trying to dodge all the ruins

[@EchoOfMe-z2c]

@@Kiwi-fl8te yeah that problably happened

[@calogerohuygens4430]

@@Kiwi-fl8te a lot of artifacts were destroyed by building enterprises in order to avoid any interference by italian archeological authority. When archaeological site are unearthed works are blocked for longtime.

[@luigi1606]

Yes I fucking hate Roman ruins all the fucking time new infrastructure gets delayed because OH YOU MADE A 1 METER DEEP HOLE YOU FOUND THE PLACE WHERE EMPEROR TRAIANUS WIPED HIS ASS PORCO DIO

[@nicolmiller5641]

You would probably enjoy Evora in Portugal. People lived in the region for 3000 years and it has everything from stone circles, Roman temples, Moorish tiles, medieval buildings and modern construction. Incredible city.

[@concept5631]

Interesting

[@dianabriggs1032]

I've been to Evora! It was lovely- we had one of our favorite vacations in the Alentejo region. We saw Medieval churches, Roman temples and neolithic stone circles in the same afternoon, almost like traveling throught time in just a few hours. The food and wine in that part of Portugal are some of the best I've had in my travels. Also Evora had a cool arts district. Highly recommend as a destination.

[@concept5631]

@@dianabriggs1032 Nice

[@pannkale9259]

It's so nice that people from outside of Europe (especially southern Europe) seem to be really excited about this kind of things, because we southern Europeans tend to dismiss these peculiarities since they are part of our everyday life, and seeing your video makes me realize how cool they actually are :)

[@pekvanc5354]

I love small interesting places like this. I live in Hungary, and study archeology. On a trip to Budapest's Castle our professor stoped us at every single archeological age brick and told a mindblowing story about it. It's also kinda morbid, on an other trip we went into someone's backyard and there was a a bunch of roman graves with skeletons behind glass. Love your videos, you partially inspired me to study archeology.

[@Pollicina_db]

Omg I study art history in Croatia and when we went to see the ancient ruins of the city of Salona we also went through someones backyard😂

[@dysphoria-chan]

This is something fascinating to me. What we consider ruins of an ancient civilization, an untouchable museum piece, it wasn't for people from 1000 years ago. They probably seemed like garbage to them, something to destroy and rebuild on top of. As you say, many people pass by there without taking it into account, unaware that those ruisn have been there for thousands of years. It's like we see abandoned buildings or shopping centers today, they're old places that no longer have meaning for us. Sometimes are demolished to build other malls, or remodel them by destroying the original structure. But if the buildings were preserved for another millennium, they would become an important source of information for people of the future. How many of our city landscapes will be the same in a few centuries? Something similar happens in Mexico City where there are still some remains of Tenochtitlan.

[@nikitahichoii482]

I remember in some part of Mexico, theres a pyramid, I dont remember if it was a maya or mexica pyramid, but the point is that it has a house built on top, I remember the story was that a landowner destroyed the top of the pyramid and then used the stones to build the house so he could better watch his lands, I dont remember where the pyramid was but the story stuck with me

[@nicholasproductions237]

@@eliegbert8121it’s actually very similar, most buildings today wouldn’t last but there are still structures constructed recently that definitely will, just like back in ancient times 90% of structures were wood, mud, clay ect and didn’t last to today, while a small amount of grander structures did, the same is likely to happen to our modern buildings

[@dysphoria-chan]

@@nikitahichoii482Maybe you're refering to Cholula? At that time there was a huge pyramid (the largest in volume in the world), but the Spaniard built a cathedral on top. Today, you can visit the ruins at the foot of the pyramid (there is a museum there, and you can even climb part of the structure), while local people walks to the top to go to the church.

[@vlt-NEXT]

​@@dysphoria-channo, esa no es, la verdad si existe una pirámide con una casa encima, lo de construir catedrales encima de las pirámides mexicas era normal pero no construir casas JAJAJA

[@hedgehog3180]

@@nicholasproductions237 Also modern buildings will leave foundations that'll stay around for much longer than the building itself and foundations made in earlier times. It is unlikely that any skyscraper will stand for a millennium but their foundations are likely to stick around for thousands of years because they're built so deep into the earth. Anyone who found said foundations in the future would be able to extrapolate a lot about the building itself based on the foundation.

[@Stoneworks]

Awww ye. An upload from TREY makes a great day.

[@OrbitalLizardStudios]

I'm gonna do some archeology on this video itself! At the time of around 6:09, a strange artifact is visible climbing up the far right of the screen. This is the remnant of a more ancient draft of the video, still peeking through the cracks of this present day version.

[@qwertydavid8070]

wait what how did you notice that

[@grimus8266]

I’d imagine a lot of these rulers would feel humbled to know just how far their kingdom and then empire went even after they died and how much of it is still around and recorded even after it fell

[@shenanigans2877]

If there's anything a Roman emperor would not be its humble

[@monbec_sigrym]

"This lump has quite the story" - Only a handful of channels can deliver such a statement with such authenticity.

[@InvadeleYogurt]

It's crazy that the many invading tribes saw those walls, perhaps Hannibal himself knew of the walls despite just barely seeing the city from afar.

[@spaghettimkay5795]

Now some guy looks at those same walls with a big mac and a large diet coke

[@hedgehog3180]

Hannibal wouldn't have seen those walls as they were built much later.

[@Shatterverse]

That repurposed hunk of wall theory makes sense. Here in Chicago, after The Great Chicago Fire, materials and even parts of brick walls were reused and integrated into replacements. You can even see a few such places where the bricks radically change in an uneven line on a wall, or very old bricks made into sidewalks. And after the fall of Rome there was all this old ruined stonework just laying around doing nothing, so they would have every reason to just use that.

[@doctorwinston7767]

Things like La Berta bring me to tears in a way I can’t explain. I don’t know why I experience emotion like that at the mere thought of all of history’s potential little secrets and unknowns like that. An ancestral thing maybe, like it’s in my DNA to feel connected in that way. It brings me back to the first time my interest was sparked to human history (particularly in the way of common everyday life back then) which oddly enough was when I first played Assassin’s Creed II (by which time I was already about to graduate high school - as a historian I bloomed late) and interestingly enough, features that very same building in-game, a church I thought I knew everything about but had never heard of La Berta until you mentioned it here. As a likewise queer aspiring historian with a particular interest in late antiquity your channel has been my latest obsession. Your content has made being stuck at home for the last year with a disabling injury bearable in a way that nothing else has. Sorry for over sharing but I really geek out on history and archaeology. Thank you so much for sharing your unique wealth of knowledge. You are a gem!

[@doctorwinston7767]

Btw thank you for referring to the “coliseum” as “the [amphitheater] in Rome” instead of the modern misnomer. And omg a Sephora containing a chunk of the Servian Wall? Heaven.

[@rubix7449]

Hey! I'm from Lucca, really happy to see you visited! Also the walls surrounding the city are in part built upon the roman ones, it can be seen in some places

[@hopefulbloom]

Trey really reignites my love for history with each upload

[@billiam]

That’s an interesting looking McDonald’s 👀

[@Antiling_the_Squidkid]

ʜᴏʟʏ sʜɪᴛ dude I love your content, especially your "the future is wild" one, so if you want to do more reviews of sinalar stuff may I recommend "after man" the work that partially inspired it?

[@jam-etc]

ahhh this is so nice and chill. I love la Berta, she's beautiful. we have actually cracked the code for roman concrete, I do hope that it can be used again for its amazing self-repairing powers when rained on- mineral deposits dissolve in the rain, fill the cracks as a liquid, then becomes solid rock again as the water evapourates, perfectly repairing any crack the water can get into. brilliant tbh

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

Really? That’s wonderful!

[@Guruc13]

Between the funny and slick editing, cool architecture, amazing stories, And the over the garden wall ending? This may be my new favorite video made by you. Thank you ❤🎉

[@zergling2621]

Hey Trey, nice to see you again on KZbin! 🎉 This was actually very entertaining to watch. I think most of us will look forward to more history vlogs from you!

[@lazchurchyard1229]

Listen to you, all smooth and smarmy. I remember when you were just a wee channel with a wee boy voice. You're doing so well, and we're all proud.

[@robertaperoglio]

A couple other places: there are some places in the parking lot under via Roma in Turin where you can see roman walls ruins. The second is better known: Siracusa's cathedral was once a greek and roman temple and it is very evident from the columns inside of it. PS: if you need help with the translation you have but to ask! 😊 Great video as always!

[@blakedurrant9399]

Love Garrets videos and all things Roman, thanks for the upload! Ancient Rome Live is another great channel for all things ancient Rome

[@Temtatork]

Honey wake up! Trey finally uploaded again!

[@elliottedwards2094]

Fantastic to have you back TREY! Such an interesting video, never throught a random head in a wall and a monument in mcdonalds could be so engaging

[@dba750]

Told in stone, another authentic channel to subscribe too

[@poughkeepsieblue]

This was the best thing ive watched all week. Ancient history is fascinating, and im glad you took me along to show me what youve found. Good show as always. Be safe brother.

[@fluffyyote]

I like that i can tell that you’re happy with the way you talk :) good to have you back!

[@sillybeanthing]

I'm glad you enjoyed your adventure in Greece! I'm very glad to see you're back as well :D

[@kesorangutan6170]

Yooo I love Told in Stone! Thank you for shedding some light to that channel Trey!

[@christinepefley5312]

Welcome back! I cant wait to see all about your adventures in Greece. Thanks for the video!

[@nasrac23852]

Always a good day when Trey uploads

[@fuffboi7570]

This is so cool! I've seen many videos of the Italian and greek streets where ruins are littered about and countless news articles discussing construction companies' wishes to completely destroy ruins because they're in the way of construction after discovery, but it makes me happy seeing all the buildings that incorporate the ruins into their construction. Like living history, only made to fit contemporary use!

[@Boretheory]

The issue is in Rome constructing anything is absolutely impossible and it’s seriously harming the city’s growth and maintainability

[@Neronova888]

I was literally about to finish a marathon of all your videos and then I see this one, perfect timing

[@stevekovoc3939]

I love the way that medieval people in a way preserved Roman history while still adapting it to modern use by keeping the same shape and even building blocks of the old coliseum.

[@maebae5350]

Great timing! I was just thinking about you the other day and wondering where you disappeared to. Plus I've been watching Told In Stone due to Tarnished Archeologist shouting him out in a video a while ago, and I was just watching his lesser known Roman ruins videos the other day. Glad you're back!

[@noswad7898]

Over the garden wall is such a banger

[@alexrexaros9837]

I live near another village in northern France (Normandy, Basse). In this part of the country, we assumed the romans never really built anything significant there. However, three decades ago, they discovered a whole city right under a village. It started with a merchant's house, some therms, a few pillars here and there. But my favourite one is that time when some rich couple who worked in the bank industry were building their house, a lifelong project I was told, because they found remains of a roman vase while digging there. Turns out they've found the house of an acient bloke and they had to stop everything for YEARS just to unearth the damn thing.

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

That’s hilarious. I mean it probably wasn’t fun for the couple but hilarious in that it proved scholars wrong.

[@AchyParts]

Should've just moved into the old house then

[@AuntBibby]

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE RECOGNIZED YOUR END-OF-VIDEO SONG!!!!!!!!!!!

[@xkumanekox]

A little off topic here, Trey, but I noticed on your Twitter recently that you were also a kaiju fan. It was super cool to learn that my favorite history youtuber is also in kaiju and Japanese tokusatsu stuff. Much love.

[@metaclownfish5921]

Man, your videos always improve my day. Thank you!

[@Erufailon42]

I've been subscribed to you for probably a decade now. Congrats on 1M subscribers 🎉

[@darkmatterburger]

Today is a good day! 3 of my favorite channels randomly posted!

[@tuxedo-fish3148]

KZbin has stopped alerting me to new videos from channels I'm subscribed to, so I generally only check things once a week at most. Today, I logged in, saw that blue dot next to your channel, and had a little "!" pop up somewhere above my head. Your vids always make my day.

[@Fr.O.G.]

I'm a long time watcher, but I just subscribed yesterday, and bang, new video!

[@TREYtheExplainer]

like magic ;)

[@amandasackman7723]

OMG I'm so happy to see a new video of yours!

[@antlerbraum2881]

This video is a testament to all the cool historical stories that exist right under our noses.

[@juliusnepos6013]

Great to see you back!

[@ThatGurlSabrina]

I do love me some TREY the Explainer! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

[@TREYtheExplainer]

Aww, thank you so much for watching my content :) I really love making it for you all

[@owellafehr5191]

The McDonald's wall reminds me of a place I visited in Tallinn, Estonia, where there was a modern McDonald's inside a possibly 18th/19th century building, across from a medieval fortification. Also, part of a crumbling Roman wall next to a very modern shopping mall in Exeter, England. Really neat!

[@HistoryofAztlan]

Wait till bro finds out about all the ruins beneath Mexico City and the whole valley of Mexico area 😄 So much spolia used in some of the buildings like La Berta, some of the most interesting are the ones with Aztec glyphs denoting dates.

[@TREYtheExplainer]

I've wanted to visit Mexico City for a longgg time I'll visit some day

[@diegoestrada56]

In Guatemala there is a whole area of the city just FULL of mayan ruins. Where my grandma lives there is multiple stone structures around and there is a park built around some, take in mind that it's a full on city and not a village, there is modern buildings and streets everywhere around the ruins. My grandma also has a massive stone chunk that clearly has mayan markings in her garage, she says she found it in the terrain of her house when she started building it.

[@PhoenixMoth]

Me too

[@nnand6997]

Trey upload! I’m so happy

[@shriggs55]

Thanks! Interesting.Things hidden in plain sight are fascinating fun to see and know about. Good to hear from you again.

[@samuelbedsole5089]

I've been following your travels on Twitter and what you've shared really goes to show how much the modern world is built on the foundations of the old. It also goes to show the engineering prowess of ancient Rome, that nearly 2000 years after their original architects and masons have died their work lives on in one form or another, and will probably outlast us in the modern age.

[@Liboo52]

I love when he sings at the end of his videos

[@Tramp0-lin3]

Any day that Trey uploads is a good day 🙂

[@picklerick8785]

I missed La Berta when I visited Florence years ago. What I thought was super cool was going underneath the cathedral to the medieval and earlier layers of archaeology, to the Roman layers.

[@murilo7794]

Thing like this makes it evident why living in the shadow of an ancient, collapsed empire is such a common trope in fiction.

[@BrodieTV]

New Trey? Colour me gay. LOVE YOU TREY KEEP UP THE FANTASTIC VIDEOS ❤

[@maxime1776]

I have officially watched every video of yours. 🎉

[@shinglemcdingle4093]

My school, a classical gymnasyum in Zadar, Croatia, has the remains of a roman sewage in its' basement. It is also located just north west of where the ancient roman forum used to be. Love my city so much

[@angelakozell5939]

I am so happy you are back! Easily one of my top 3 channels 😊

[@thewoogs]

And when the world needed him most... he returned! 😃

[@marybeiter3568]

obsessed w this video and then as i type this comment "over the garden wall" starts playing??? best vid ever 10/10 i wish u had shown inside the sephora tho

[@BOIZADAS]

I love doing this, despite the fact that I also live in a country full of archeological sites in the middle of more modern things (I should be accustomed to it, like my fellows countryman, but I insist on it). Come to Portugal one day, and please keep with this type of videos.

[@justhereforcats9183]

love a new episode of Trey's bizarre adventures

[@DariusLeac]

In vacation in greece right now and was watching your videos on repeat. Blessed with this gem now :)

[@Kyranox]

Welcome back Trey! Can’t wait to see what you have for us. Great video as always.

[@sylveonsupremacy8371]

Awesome cover of Into the Unknown Trey! Gotta be one my favorite shows ever, keep up the great work! 🙏

[@aidansouder6048]

i nearly shit my pants when i heard it, of course he'd love OTGW with all of its Dante allusions and whatnot

[@sylveonsupremacy8371]

@@aidansouder6048 IKR, I was very surprised at first, but then, it all made sense!

[@janosbalazs41]

Awesome video! In Szombathely, Hungary, there is an archeological dig going on right underneath a bank in the city center. The floors of the lobby in the bank are transparent, so you can look straight down to see some Roman ruins!

[@EloiFL]

Many late roman and medieval structures are built using older ruins, statues, tombstones, etc. If you ever go Barcelona, look closely at the old roman walls near and around the city cathedral. It's littered with roman inscriptions and reused columns. Previous to the Chrisis of the III Century many cities lacked walls, but with the growing civil wars and external attacks, emperors and local governors rushed to fortify the economic and popularion centers.

[@josephhernandez5922]

It’s always a good day when Trey posts a video, thank you for your hard work brother.

[@compatriot852]

It would be interesting to do a follow-up video on Roman frontier ruins given they were strange since their inception fusing the local culture with that of Rome, having their own currency, etc. Crimea and the Amber road to modern day Lithuania is a good example of this as roman currency and goods are still being found as north as Estonia to this very day

[@Elora445]

If so many of that those things are found in Estonia, it's no wonder some of those found their way up to us in the Nordics.

[@robertneilson2780]

Yes!! I’m glad you enjoyed the time you were gone. I love your content!

[@swat6591]

Love your stuff, even the shorter videos. Hope to see a recap of the Greece trip aswell. Almost 1million!

[@budnrobots2968]

Glad you’re back!!! Don’t let us pressure you too much, love is true !!

[@someguy34]

always a good day when trey uploads

[@NORTH02]

Wonderful video, I got to live in Florence in the past year and walked by la Berta to get to class everyday 🎉

[@LOTLore]

Love that you shouted out toldinstone, he is one of my favorite KZbinrs along with you, keep up the amazing work Trey ❤

[@BongoThe]

my history teacher is gonna get a kick outta McDonald's Servian Walls. great and fascinating video as always, Trey! quick question: would you ever see yourself doing a paleo profile on the Monolophosaurus?

[@Illuminatic]

Wow, that's so cool! I live in Florence and passed that church many times, but I never noticed the bust 😂😅

[@mskleftwich]

This was awesome! Thanks, Trey. Can’t wait to hear more about your travels.

[@redactedz6146]

This is the sort of historical content that I've been pondering and have been intrigued with for a while now. The many mundane things that have stood with longevity are amazing glimpses of what once was. From things like layouts of streets and blocks, to that stone arc we have at our current campus, which used to be the entryway/gate/door of the school's old campus in a different location

[@mageovoid9145]

what a treat to wake up to a new trey video! i am hungover but so delighted

[@therainbowwillow4453]

I needed a short post-rehearsal watch to get me ready to sleep and stumbled upon this gem! What a lovely video! Well done!

[@Treva]

looks like a great vacation, toldinstone is one of my favorite roman/antiquity youtubers.

[@wakey_wakey_]

the over the garden wall outro is the cherry on top for this video, cheers trey

[@redspec01]

There swims in a swirl of golden memories, the loveliest lies of all.

[@Bmx2live2008]

4 Trey videos in a year. Good lord.

[@TREYtheExplainer]

I think I can make it 5...

[@Bmx2live2008]

@@TREYtheExplainer we are truly through the looking glass now

[@DDSForbbiden]

It is so good to have you back, Trey!

[@armandotrujillo856]

6:18 Imagine going to this alley in the middle of the night, touch the boulder, and then look up to see Trey's silhouette ready to attack

[@tinylol]

TREY IS BACK!!!

[@Crimson-kt7fd]

Some pretty convenient timing man. Was binging some of your old videos for fun, my favorite being the 10,000 BC one's. Speaking of do you still plan on doing A Quest For Fire or maybe a review on the depiction of prehistoric societies in FarCry Primal?

[@Alexwww21]

Thanks for making these Trey, it's awesome when a new video drops!

[@henriquejambu]

5:01 giggling at the way trey said "anfiteatro"

[@salmonchutoy3009]

welcome back trey, always love learning about roman architecture

[@joeryan1514]

Huge congrats on 1 mil. You undoubtedly deserve it