The Spectacular Mosaics of Roman Africa

[@BatchelderPatrick]

I have lived in la marsa, Tunisia for six years and the Bardo museum and it's mosaics are without compare. They alone are worth a trip to Tunisia.

[@barrymoore4470]

Though I've never visited, the Bardo has been cited before as one of the two truly world-class museums on the continent of Africa, the other being the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

[@canelo1728]

​@@barrymoore4470In the arab world***** We have nothing to do with sub saharan africa.

[@barrymoore4470]

@@canelo1728 Both Tunisia and Egypt are nonetheless situated on the continent of Africa, and museums found anywhere in Africa, regardless of any other variables, comprised the scope of my comment.

[@canelo1728]

@@barrymoore4470 And Saudi Arabia, Lebanon are Located in Asia. I wonder if we call them "Asians" and "Asian museums" and put them together in the same category as the Japanese and Chinese and just lump them together. We arent africans. We dont refer ourselves to that. You can say the Maghreb to highlight Morocco, algeria, tunisia and lybia. Thats our term. Not africa. Dont try to associate our history with sub saharans, which we have nothing to do with. Just like you dont go to Lebanon and say this "Asian museum". Not to mention that we are located on the Medditeranean.

[@barrymoore4470]

@@canelo1728 The purview of my comment was the entire continent of Africa, upon which Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt are sited. I wasn't taking any other variables, such as ethnicity and culture, into consideration.

[@PeculiarNotions]

Those are some incredible mosaics. Thank you for sharing them.

[@hakon5873]

Such an underrated channel, i will never get tired of these videos.

[@atlantic_love]

It doesn't really add anything to say that a channel is underrated, especially when everyone is posting that on every channel. Keep that in mind. I'm glad you like the videos.

[@christopherparker6451]

@@atlantic_lovejust a compliment, no need to be high and mighty about nothing

[@atlantic_love]

@@christopherparker6451 It's not a compliment, I literally stated what it was.

[@muslimresponse103]

@@atlantic_loveeveryones a critic these days. you remind me of the the spelling polic on joutube. stop nitpicking and enjoy the video!

[@atlantic_love]

@@muslimresponse103 Learn to spell. Now go away bozo.

[@PetterNyman]

The quote from Picasso about the cave paintings from Lascaux feels fitting about these mosaics: "we have invented nothing". Truly amazing.

[@johnreynolds5407]

The Bardo contains an exceptional collection of mosaics alone worth a trip to Tunisia. At the beautiful American Cemetery of North Africa in Tunis, in the small reception room and office, there is also a beautiful - albeit smaller - mosaic of Neptune similar to the one you show in the Bardo.

[@525Lines]

Amazing how they got the baptistry and the roof into a museum. And this is how ALL mosaics should be displayed. I could spend all day in this museum.

[@rickb3078]

That is spectacular

[@johnspizziri1919]

Unbelievable!

[@Peter1999Videos]

¨Sweetest daugther¨ says that tomb picture 5:28, and the other in left says ¨Us and God¨

[@ludo9234]

Absolutely fantastic, i never knew these existed. Thank you so much for this.

[@JohnDoe-tv4zf]

This is way cooler than anything on Tik-Tok

[@atlantic_love]

Tik Tok is irrelevant to everything, so not sure why you felt the need to inject it here.

[@juliamacdonald3767]

Very nice video. No filler, nice voice, great visuals. Thank you.

[@stepps511]

Thank you so very much for yet another intriguing video. These mosaics are indeed treasures! I'm grateful to you for sharing them.

[@michel.montreal]

It looks like they renovated the Bardo extensively since I was there: it seems there is much more light and better presentation of the artefacts. Nice !

[@andyroo9381]

Without this video, I would NEVER have known this museum, or mosaics, existed. Thank You so much for this.

[@Fevebblefester]

Mosaics always have amazed me. The amount of work is incredible.

[@paulkoza8652]

These are spectacular. When I was in Arles, France, last fall and went to Musee de l'Arles Antique, I thought I had seen some spectacular Roman mosaics, but this museum far surpasses it. Thanks Garrett for enlightening me.

[@JAdams-jx5ek]

Thank you for taking us along to the Bardo

[@mnossy11]

Wow! 🤩 these are stunning! I can’t believe how well preserved they are.

[@kidmohair8151]

we are lucky that the art of so many of our ancestors has survived. from 50,000 year old cave paintings to Egyptian bas-reliefs to Roman mosaics to renaissance frescos. here's to out of the way places!

[@davidmajer3652]

That looked like one amazing museum.

[@diannewheatleygiliotti8513]

Thanks!

[@scenicroutestothepast]

Always appreciated!

[@RickLowrance]

Awesome video.

[@hhvictor2462]

Thx for the tour. next best thing to being there.

[@feffe4036]

Im in Sicily at the moment and plan to go se the villa romana delcasale and its mosaics. :)

[@RobertaFierro-mc1ub]

These mosaics are simply Awesome! Breathtaking, actually!

[@RF_Micrwave]

Thank you

[@QuantumHistorian]

I don't know why, but I find mosaics simply enthralling. Maybe it's the combination of the expressiveness of painting combined with the timelessness of stone? Or the underlying, almost subliminal, geometric patterns at their heart? I genuinely wish they'd come back into fashion as architectural decoration.

[@barrymoore4470]

One tremendous asset mosaic has over painting is that the original colors are preserved much better over time in a mosaic as opposed to most paintings.

[@atlantic_love]

It's the messages and recording of the time the creator lived in that appeals to me.

[@QuantumHistorian]

@@barrymoore4470 Yes, I was wondering whether they fade at all? Presumably they do but, as you say, orders of magnitude slower than paintings.

[@mnossy11]

Interestingly, the Soviet Union brought back mosaics for a time. There are Soviet mosaics still scattered randomly across the former union countries.

[@skyworm8006]

@@mnossy11 Yea I was gonna mention there's some great Soviet mosaics all over

[@wesley907]

Wow, I had no idea this existed. Thanks so much.

[@ИринаГуськова-и3з]

Потрясающе! Спасибо за видео! С удовольствием посмотрела.Живу в Сибири

[@Sheppo42]

Wow the mirror at 5:50 is so cool.

[@lulubelle0bresil]

WOW! I had never seen these!!!! I wonder if the style and shape of the tomb decorations from 5:14 on influenced Gustav Klimt - if it didn't he would have loved them!

[@77heraclitus]

Wonderful. Thank you. 😊

[@d.l.l.6578]

I appreciate your well thought out, articulate, coherent presentations of things we were not aware of. Can you tell us more about Tunisia. Thanks.

[@canelo1728]

Its home of ancient carthage

[@yvettemarshallTWN]

I wasn’t ready for it to end. 💖

[@bobfrog4836]

One of my favorite mosaic motifs I saw when visiting Tunisia was Neptune with crab claws growing out of his bearded head which made him look like something out of the movie The Thing. The ruins at Sbeitla have a bunch of those baptismal baths in situ, each completely covered in mosaics.

[@artofmusic303]

What a spectacular collection.

[@antewaso8876]

Wow, these are spectacular! Many thanks for sharing. What an amazing museum,, so beautifully displayed works.

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

Thanks for this video of art and archaeology I would never see otherwise. On the mosaic with tiles missing where a building in Bethlehem was intended, there is what looks like a scratched outline to guide the workers laying the tiles. Do you suppose it's original?

[@scenicroutestothepast]

I think that's a modern restoration of a missing section

[@muslimresponse103]

what a great museum. I hope to visit soon!

[@eclecticx]

The mosaics featured here are incredible. The only ones I have seen which rival these are in Merida's museum.

[@teslaoliveira2195]

Super!

[@barrymoore4470]

It is humbling to reflect that Apuleius and Augustine conceivably could have seen and trod upon some of these splendid mosaics. The Late Antique Christian mosaics were quite interesting, as I had never before seen reproductions of these specific works, and was unfamiliar with the custom of using mosaics as funerary decorations.

[@uydagcusdgfughfgsfggsifg753]

I was just at Cyrenaica in Libya earlier this month, had the whole place to myself! Temple of Jupiter was beautiful, seemed like horses lived in the ruins Saw a few mosaics in the town itself, but nothing too crazy

[@T_Mo271]

That is fascinating.

[@samahdi6972]

Great viewing, Cheers.

[@ArtLectures]

Nice explanation

[@canelo1728]

🇩🇿🇲🇦🇱🇾🇹🇳 used to be the breadbasket of the Roman Empire

[@sockstarnik]

The spectacular Roman mosaics in Africa

[@unknown81360]

So sick ! Without modern technology I would have probably never seen any of this

[@Shotzeethegamer]

Original pixel art

[@Anil18834]

I've lived in Italy. Though I've never been to Tunisia, I always make it a point to visit Roman ruins and museums in the countries I visit. To me, Leptis Magna, in Libya, is the best Roman city I've ever seen. It's better than Rome and Pompeii put together

[@vickilindberg6336]

Wish there were rugs featuring some of the mosaics. Copying should be much easier with miders technology.

[@D.S.handle]

Thumbnail: hey that’s the cover of my Latin textbook.

[@Arete1]

Were these mosaics more clorful back then? They seem pretty greyish

[@shostakovich99]

Garrett could have mentioned if they've improved security since 20 tourists were massacred in the museum in 2015.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Unusual clothing shown 3:50 > 4:30 as a woman wearing a 'modern' style of flared-out skirt on her dress. Does anything like this appear anywhere else . . . ?

[@elleanna5869]

Indeed they look rather common as "style" "models" maybe the colour nuances of moisaic art give the "outfits" a more modern allure

[@Oldsmobile69]

Good vid. Could have been longer.

[@monsvillerailways5736]

So these mocaics from ancient floors were torn up and stuck on a wall in a museum?? Is that archeology?

[@marcdeschatre1870]

Unpardonable subtitles words covering the beautiful mosaics

[@WarDogMadness]

Any vandal kingdom period stuff

[@arjunocalmiridoirobi6280]

Young Rick Steves

[@AnimeSpark-ls8qf]

The Carthaginian Mosaic

[@aldo_heHim]

it looks like the muses are fed up with vergil's bs

[@SeanHH1986]

when we watch anthropology and history videos and someone mentions "were the same animal, we have the same brain as they did"....this is kinda proof among other things

[@martinlennon4673]

Early Pixels 🤓

[@chirhoaten3220]

That Sixt century Jerusalem mosaic clearly shows the massive degradation that Christianity caused in the Roman Pagan world. It is haunting...

[@Gaheku]

Degradation that continues to this day. The further in time we go the further away we are from the light that was Rome.

[@SubTroppo]

How are mosaics lifted(?). My staff usually looks up stuff on the interweb for me but during a recent aquatic outing on my floating gin-palace they were mistaken for pirates and were turned into dolphins. ps My pet leopard can be seen in funny cat videos on KZbin but he has been found to be too heavy for robot vacuum cleaners.

[@moeabdullah6434]

So are we just going to ignore the fact that Virgil looks Black in the tile artistry?? Whoever was the artist(s) that put that together made Virgil's skin brown for a reason cuz you can see that they deliberately made him darker than the women next to him

[@fernalicious]

A skill I'd love to learn. 🪨⛏️👍

[@clairejohnston2461]

I took a mosaic class one time. We did small scale projects, like covering a old, plain ashtray with a mosaic. It’s fun, messy and the art you make is near indestructible.

[@luciuscornelius4037]

that museum is not safe

[@bobfrog4836]

LOL...OK. No place is safe.